• Wind and Structures
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.471-485
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• 2021

Onshore wind turbines may experience substantially different wind loads depending on their working conditions, i.e. rotation velocity of rotor blades, incoming freestream wind velocity, pitch angle of rotor blades, and yaw angle of the wind-turbine tower. In the present study, aerodynamic loads acting on a horizontal axis wind turbine were accordingly quantified for the high tip speed ratio (TSR) at high yaw angles because these conditions have previously not been adequately addressed. This was analyzed experimentally on a small-scale wind-turbine model in a boundary layer wind tunnel. The wind-tunnel simulation of the neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) developing above a flat terrain was generated using the Counihan approach. The ABL was simulated to achieve the conditions of a wind-turbine model operating in similar inflow conditions to those of a prototype wind turbine situated in the lower atmosphere, which is another important aspect of the present work. The ABL and wind-turbine simulation length scale factors were the same (S=300) in order to satisfy the Jensen similarity criterion. Aerodynamic loads experienced by the wind-turbine model subjected to the ABL simulation were studied based on the high frequency force balance (HFFB) measurements. Emphasis was put on the thrust force and the bending moment because these two load components have previously proven to be dominant compared to other load components. The results indicate several important findings. The loads were substantially higher for TSR=10 compared to TSR=5.6. In these conditions, a considerable load reduction was achieved by pitching the rotor blades. For the blade pitch angle at 90°, the loads were ten times lower than the loads of the rotating wind-turbine model. For the blade pitch angle at 12°, the loads were at 50% of the rotating wind-turbine model. The loads were reduced by up to 40% through the yawing of the wind-turbine model, which was observed both for the rotating and the parked wind-turbine model.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.655-662
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• 2013

최근 화석 연료의 사용에 따른 문제들로 인해 다양한 그린 에너지들이 주목 받고 있다. 그린 에너지의 한 종류로써 풍력 발전의 원동력인 바람은 육상에서 보다 해상에서 양질의 값이 관측된다. 또한, 부지확보, 소음, 전자파와 같은 육상 풍력 발전의 문제점을 해결할 대안으로써, 또한 더 효율적인 풍력 발전을 위해 해상 풍력 발전의 개발이 주목받고 있다. 이에 따라 해상 풍력에 대한 많은 연구들이 수행되고 있다. 풍력 타워가 해상으로 진출함에 따라 해상 풍력 타워는 점차 거대해지고 있다. 따라서 풍력과 파력을 견뎌내기 위한 안정성이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 p-y 관계를 이용해 다층 지반의 기초에 작용하는 외력을 계산하였다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.383-398
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• 2007

The paper describes a study of the effects of structural coupling on the wind-induced response of twin tall buildings connected by a skybridge. Development of a dual high-frequency force balance used in wind tunnel investigation and background information on the methodology employed in analysis are presented. Comparisons of the wind-induced building response (rooftop acceleration) of structurally coupled and uncoupled twin buildings are provided and the influence of structural coupling is assessed. It is found that the adverse aerodynamic interference effects caused by close proximity of the buildings can be significantly reduced by the coupling. Neglecting of such interactions may lead to excessively conservative estimates of the wind-induced response of the buildings. The presented findings suggest that structural coupling should be included in wind-resistant design of twin tall buildings.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.1413-1417
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• 2004

The environmental elements which naturally occur can result in structural damages and operating faults of vessels under the navigation and mooring. These primary factors are considered as wind, waves and tide. In order to investigate wind shielding effects with respect to wind load conditions between two ships which face the wind directly or slantingly to the wind direction, this numerical simulation was preferred in terms of the variation of wind loads according to different distances, wind velocities and wind directions between two ships. The results were proved to be quite reasonable, comparing with experimental data from Danish Maritime Institute, and the report, "Environmental Conditions And Environmental Loads" published by Det Norske Veritas.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.77-84
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• 2017

Vortex-induced vibration and instability vibration of tall buildings are very important fluid-structure interaction phenomenon, and many fundamental questions concerning the influence of body movement on the unsteady aerodynamic force remain unanswered. For tall buildings, there are two experimental methods to investigate the characteristics of unsteady aerodynamic forces, one is forced vibration method and the other is free vibration method. In the present paper, a free vibration method was used to investigate the unsteady aerodynamic force on tall building whose aspect ratio is 9 under boundary layer simulating city area. Wind pressures on surfaces and tip displacements were measured simultaneously, and the characteristics of tip displacements and generalized forces were discussed. It was found that variation of across-wind displacements showed different trend between the case when wind speed increases and wind speed decreases, and the fluctuating generalize forces in across-wind direction of vibrating model are larger than that of static model near the resonant wind speed and approach to the static value. And for higher wind speed range, there were two peaks in across-wind power spectra of generalize forces of vibrating model, which means that two frequency components are predominant in unsteady aerodynamic forces.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.393-409
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• 2013

This paper uses ten years of on-site monitoring data for the Confederation Bridge to derive wind loads and investigate whether the bridge has experienced its design wind force effects since its completion in 1997. The load effects derived using loads from the on-site monitoring data are compared to the load effects derived using loads from the 1994 and 2009 wind tunnel aerodynamic model tests. The research shows, for the first time, that the aerodynamic model-based methodology originally developed in 1994 is a very accurate method for deriving wind loads for structural design. The research also confirms that the bridge has not experienced its specified (i.e., unfactored) wind force effects since it was opened to traffic in 1997, even during the most severe event that has occurred during this period.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.135-154
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• 2014

Aerodynamic characteristics of crescent and D-shape bundled conductors were measured by high frequency force balance technique in the wind tunnel. The drag and lift coefficients of each sub-conductor and the whole bundled conductors were presented under various attack angles of wind. The galloping possibility of bundled conductors is discussed based on the Den Hartog criterion. The influence of icing thickness, initial ice accretion angle and sub-conductor on the aerodynamic properties were investigated. Based on the measured aerodynamic force coefficients, a computationally efficient finite element method is also implemented to analyze galloping of iced bundled conductors. The analysis results show that each sub-conductor of the bundled conductor has its own galloping feature due to the use of aerodynamic forces measured separately for every single sub-conductors.

• 천문학회보
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.46.3-47
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• 2016

We construct a solar eruption model with a background solar wind by performing three-dimensional zero-beta magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation. The initial configuration of a magnetic field is given by nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) reconstruction applied to a flux emergence simulation. The background solar wind is driven by upflows imposed at the top boundary. We analyzed the temporal development of the Lorentz force at the flux tube axis. Based on the results, we demonstrate that a solar eruption is caused by the imbalance between magnetic pressure gradient force and magnetic tension force. We conclude that this imbalance is produced by a weak but continuously existing solar wind above an active region.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2004년도 한국우주과학회보 제13권2호
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• pp.258-261
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• 2004

Numerical simulations are made to predict the axial force coefficients of a two-stage launch vehicle, and the results are compared with those by wind tunnel tests. It is found that the forebody axial force is not affected by whether the base of the body is modeled or not. Modeling the sting support used in wind tunnel tests reduced the base axial force compared to the results without it. The present calculation shows that the forebody axial forces are underestimated while the base axial forces are overestimated. The total axial force, therefore, compares with the experimental data with better accuracy by cancelling out the errors of opposite signs. Modeling of the sting support in numerical simulations is found to be necessary to get a better agreement with the experiments for both base and overall axial force coefficients.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.223-228
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• 2007

최근 선박의 대형화와 전용화가 현저하게 진행됨에 따라 갑판 상부의 구조물이 비교적 큰 컨테이너선, LNG 운반선, 자동차운반선, 여객선 등이 출현하여 운항되고 있다. 이러한 선박들이 부두에서 접 이안 또는 항내에서 저속으로 운항할 경우 바람, 조류 등과 같은 외력의 영향을 받기 쉬우며, 외력이 과도할 경우에는 압류나 회두 현상으로 인해 선박 운항에 지장을 초래할 수 있으므로 특정 외력 하에서의 선체 거동에 대한 분석은 선박의 안전운항에 있어서 매우 중요한 자료라 할 수 있다. 본 연구는 수면 상부의 구조물이 상대적으로 큰 실습선 한나라호를 대상으로 정상풍 하에서의 선체에 작용하는 풍압력 및 풍압모우멘트 영향을 분석하였다. 또한 정상풍 하의 선박 운항에 있어 주요한 정보인 표류각과 대응 타각을 상대 풍향과 풍속을 기초로 산출하였고, 풍속 선속비에 따른 조종 한계 풍속, 선속별 풍향에 따른 조종 한계 풍속, 최대 풍압력에 의한 횡경사각 등을 정량적으로 산출하여 제시하였다. 이러한 자료는 한나라호의 입출항 조종 및 태풍 피항을 위한 운항 현장에서 직접 활용될 수 있고, 실선에서 해당 결과를 비교 평가할 수 있으므로 향후 이론식에 대한 수정 및 보완과 함께 교육 자료로 이용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.