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Dynamic Behavior of an Electric Sun Visor for Automotive Windshields (차량 윈드실드용 전동 선바이저의 동특성 연구)

  • Lee, Suk Woo;Kim, Kwon Hee;Kim, Jung Hoon;Han, Jae Woong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.33 no.10
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    • pp.857-864
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    • 2016
  • In this study, we proposed a novel concept of electric sun visor comprising a dark, see-through sun shade material that ensures unimpaired driver's vision with continuous control of the shade position. The shade extending from the windshield base along its surface may be subjected to severe vibration during driving unless the design parameters are carefully selected. A prototype was tested to collect acceleration data during driving. Based on the test data, an ADAMS dynamics model was validated. The mechanism of sun visor was optimized to minimize vibration based on the dynamics model, experimental design, and response surface method.

Designs and Tests for the Vibration Control of Full-Scale Steel Frame Structure with Added Viscoelastic Dampers (실 구조물 진동제어를 위한 점탄성 댐퍼 설계 및 적용 실험)

  • Jeoung, Jeoung-Kyo;Kim, Doo-Hoon;Kim, Young-Chan;Park, Jin-Il
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.11b
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    • pp.687-692
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    • 2002
  • In order to verify the effectiveness of adding visooelastic dampers to full-scale steel frame structure on the reduction of their seismic and wind response a experimental work was carried out. First, The test was conducted on the VE dampers subjected to sinusoidal excitations under a variety of ambient temperatures, frequency, and the damper strain. Results from these tests showed that the viscoelastic dampers have high energy dissipation capacity. Second, The vibration tests was conducted of the full-scale steel frame structure with md without added VE dampers at different temperatures. Viscoelastically damped full-scale structure test result on the effect of ambient temperature show that viscoelastic dampers are very effective in reducing excessive vibration of the structure due to sinusoidal excitation over a wide ringe of ambient temperature.

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Bending analysis of FGM plates using a sinusoidal shear deformation theory

  • Hadji, Lazreg;Zouatnia, Nafissa;Kassoul, Amar
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.543-558
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    • 2016
  • The response of functionally graded ceramic-metal plates is investigated using theoretical formulation, Navier's solutions, and a new displacement based on the high-order shear deformation theory are presented for static analysis of functionally graded plates. The theory accounts for a quadratic variation of the transverse shear strains across the thickness, and satisfies the zero traction boundary conditions on the top and bottom surfaces of the plate without using shear correction factors. The plates are assumed to have isotropic, two-constituent material distribution through the thickness, and the modulus of elasticity of the plate is assumed to vary according to a power-law distribution in terms of the volume fractions of the constituents. Numerical results of the new refined plate theory are presented to show the effect of the material distribution on the deflections, stresses and fundamental frequencies. It can be concluded that the proposed theory is accurate and simple in solving the static and free vibration behavior of functionally graded plates.

Development of computational software for flutter reliability analysis of long span bridges

  • Cheng, Jin
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.209-221
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    • 2012
  • The flutter reliability analysis of long span bridges requires use of a software tool that predicts the uncertainty in a flutter response due to uncertainties in the model formulation and input parameters. Existing flutter analysis numerical codes are not capable of dealing with stochastic uncertainty in the analysis of long span bridges. The goal of the present work is to develop a software tool (FREASB) to enable designers to efficiently and accurately conduct flutter reliability analysis of long span bridges. The FREASB interfaces an open-source Matlab toolbox for structural reliability analysis (FERUM) with a typical deterministic flutter analysis code. The paper presents a brief introduction to the generalized first-order reliability method implemented in FREASB and key steps involved in coupling it with a typical deterministic flutter analysis code. A numerical example concerning flutter reliability analysis of a long span suspension bridge with a main span of 1385 m is presented to demonstrate the application and effectiveness of the methodology and the software.

Estimation of slamming coefficients on local members of offshore wind turbine foundation (jacket type) under plunging breaker

  • Jose, Jithin;Choi, Sung-Jin
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.624-640
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, the slamming coefficients on local members of a jacket structure under plunging breaker are studied based on numerical simulations. A 3D numerical model is used to investigate breaking wave forces on the local members of the jacket structure. A wide range of breaking wave conditions is considered in order to get generalized slamming coefficients on the jacket structure. In order to make quantitative comparison between CFD model and experimental data, Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) is employed for obtaining net breaking wave forces from the measured response, and the filtered results are compared with the computed results in order to confirm the accuracy of the numerical model. Based on the validated results, the slamming coefficients on the local members (front and back vertical members, front and back inclined members, and side inclined members) are estimated. The distribution of the slamming coefficients on local members is also discussed.

Human Comfort Criterium for Horizontal Vibration of High-Rise Buildings (초고층 건축물의 수평진동 사용성 평가기준)

  • Cho, Kang-Pyo;Hong, Sung-Il;Jeong, Seung-Hwan;Jo, Su-Yeon
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.105-108
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    • 2006
  • should be in This paper presents review on human comfort criteria in major codes and standards for tall buildings. In general, human comfort criteria of tall buildings have been used by magnitude of wind-induced acceleration response. Two different indexes in determination of the magnitude have been used: the peak value which occurs during a period of time and the rms value averaged over this same period. These distinctive acceleration indexes are discussed in detail and each criterium was reviewed and compared. The distinctions arisen because of the different wave forms, or acceleration signatures were addressed. It is described that which index of acceleration should be adopted in establishment of Korean human comfort criteria. In addition, some arguments from a technical standpoint that favor the use of each index are presented.

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Determination of Design Parameters of Stockbridge Damper (스톡브리지 댐퍼 설계 파라미터 선정)

  • Kim, Chan-Jung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.814-819
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    • 2016
  • The Stockbridge damper is used to control the aeolian vibration of a overhead transmission line due to the natural wind under a low velocity, between 1 m/s to 7 m/s. The damper model can be simply derived with several design parameters and the location of eigenvalues of design parameters are important to determine the efficiency of energy dissipation by excitation itself with two counterweights. First, the importance of resonance frequencies of Stockbridge damper was reviewed through the analysis of frequency response function of damper system. Then, the best selection of design parameters was investigated with the introduction of objected function that minimize the distance between the calculated eigenvalues and target frequency points. The best choice of design parameters was reviewed using the simulated results from the objective function and the effectiveness of selected design case was discussed at the point view of practical implementation.

Experimental Study on the Active Control of Building Using Sliding Mode Control Method (슬라이딩 모드제어 기법을 적용한 건물의 능동제어 실험)

  • 김성춘;박정근;민경원;정진욱
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.431-435
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    • 2001
  • The active structural control has emerged as structural safety of structures against natural loadings such as earthquake and wind loadings. Of many control algorithms, Sliding-Mode Control (SMC) can design both linear controller and nonlinear controller. The robustness against parameter variations as well as excitation uncertainties that is imparted to the SMC due to its nonlinear control action, could make SMC an attractive control algorithm when dealing with structures where the external excitation constitutes the main uncertainty in the system. This paper demonstrates experimentally the efficacy of the SMC algorithm based on the active mass driver system in reducing the response of seismically excited buildings. The SMC control strategy is verified with the experimental study on the one-story building model equipped with the active mass driver.

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Study of Finite Element Analysis of Tuned Liquid Damper for Seismic Design of High-Rise Building (고층건물 내진설계용 TLD의 유한요소 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Park Seoung-Woo;Cho Jin-Rae;Lee Jae-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.597-602
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    • 2006
  • Many researches have been studied several vibration control device such as TMD and TLD to reduce the influence of wind or seismic waves for high-rise buildings. TLD provides some advantages such as easy installation and low maintenance cost. However, because of the difficulties in evaluating the characteristics of TLD, the dynamic characteristics of TLD must be investigated by experiment or analysis. In this study, the dynamic response analysis of structure with TLD was carried out to verify the vibration control ability of the proposed TLD for high-rise building with about 60 stories. A real seismic wave was used, and the parameter of interest was chosen by the height of water level in the same shape of water tank. From the numerical results, the responses of structure with water tank were confirmed to be safer than those of structure without water tank.

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Modeling and Control of Three-Phase Self-Excited Induction Generator Connected to Grid

  • Chandrasekaran, Natarajan;Karthikeyan, A
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.265-272
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    • 2017
  • This paper presents the dynamic modeling, analysis, and control of an AC/DC/AC-assisted, self-excited induction generator connected to the grid. The dynamic model includes wind turbine models with pitch control, gear boxes, self-excited induction generators, excitation capacitance, inductive load models, controlled six-pulse rectifiers, and novel state-space models of a grid-connected inverter. The system has been simulated to verify its capabilities of buildup voltage, stator flux response, stator phase current, electromagnetic torque, and magnetizing inductance variation during both the dynamic and steady states with a variable-speed prime mover. The complete setup of the above dynamic models was simulated using MATLAB/SIMULINK.