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Development of 3-D J-Integral Calculation Method for Structural Integrity Evaluation (기기 건전성 평가를 위한 3차원 J-적분 계산 전산코드 응용평가 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.11b
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    • pp.450-454
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    • 1999
  • In order to evaluate the integrity of nuclear power plants, J-integral calculation is crucial. For this purpose, finite element method is popularly used to obtain J-integral. However, high cost time consuming preprocess should be performed to design the finite element model of a cracked structure. Also, the J-integral should be verified by alternative method since it may differ depending on the calculation method. The objective of this paper is to develop a three-dimensional elastic-plastic J-integral analysis system which is named as EPAS. The EPAS program consists of an automatic mesh generator for a through-wall crack and a surface crack, a solver based on ABAQUS program, and a J-integral calculation program which provides DI(Domain Integral) and EDI(Equivalent Domain Integral) based J-integral calculation. Using the EPAS program, an optimized finite element model for a cracked structure can be generated and corresponding J-integral can be obtained subsequently.

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Combustion Instability Modeling in a Hydrogen-Natural Gas Mixed Fuel Gas Turbine Combustor using a 3-Dimensional Finite Element Method Approach (3차원 유한요소해석 기법을 사용한 수소-천연가스 혼소 가스터빈 연소기에서의 연소불안정 해석)

  • Hong, Sumin;Kim, Daesik
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.36-41
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    • 2022
  • In this study, the combustion instability characteristics according to the change in the hydrogen ratio in the fuel in the single nozzle system of the hydrogen-natural gas mixed gas turbine for power generation was analyzed using a three-dimensional finite element analysis-based Helmholtz solver. This combustor shows the instability characteristics in which mode transition occurs from a mode having a low amplitude near 70 Hz to a mode having a high amplitude of 250 Hz or higher as the hydrogen fraction in the fuel increases. The current modeling results are found to reasonably predict the main characteristics of the change in measured instability frequency and growth rate with the change in fuel composition.

A PARALLEL FINITE ELEMENT ALGORITHM FOR SIMULATION OF THE GENERALIZED STOKES PROBLEM

  • Shang, Yueqiang
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.53 no.3
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    • pp.853-874
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    • 2016
  • Based on a particular overlapping domain decomposition technique, a parallel finite element discretization algorithm for the generalized Stokes equations is proposed and investigated. In this algorithm, each processor computes a local approximate solution in its own subdomain by solving a global problem on a mesh that is fine around its own subdomain and coarse elsewhere, and hence avoids communication with other processors in the process of computations. This algorithm has low communication complexity. It only requires the application of an existing sequential solver on the global meshes associated with each subdomain, and hence can reuse existing sequential software. Numerical results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the parallel algorithm.

Nonlocal finite element modeling of the tribological behavior of nano-structured materials

  • Mahmoud, F.F.;Meletis, E.I.
    • Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.267-276
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    • 2010
  • A nonlocal finite element model is developed for solving elasto-static frictional contact problems of nanostructures and nanoscale devices. A two dimensional Eringen-type nonlocal elasticity model is adopted. The material is characterized by a stress-strain constitutive relation of a convolution integral form whose kernel is capable to take into account both the diffusion process of nonlocal elasticity and the scale ratio effects. The incremental convex programming procedure is exploited as a solver. Two examples of different nature are presented, the first one presents the behavior of a nanoscale contacting system and the second example discusses the nano-indentation problem.

Detection of a Crack in Beams by Eigen Value Analysis (고유치 해석을 이용한 보의 크랙 탐색)

  • Lee, Hee-Su;Lee, Ki-Hoon;Cho, Jae-Hoon
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2016.03a
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    • pp.195-202
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, crack detection method using eigen value analysis is presented. Three methods are used: theoretical analysis, finite element method with the cracked beam elements and finite element method with three dimensional continuum elements. Finite element formulation of the cracked beam element is introduced. Additional term about stress intensity factor based on fracture mechanics theory is added to flexibility matrix of original beam to model the crack. As using calculated stiffness matrix of cracked beam element and mass matrix, natural frequencies are calculated by eigen value analysis. In the case of using continuum elements, the natural frequencies could be calculated by using EDISON CASAD solver. Several cases of crack are simulated to obtain natural frequencies corresponding the crack. The surface of natural frequency is plotted as changing with crack location and depth. Inverse analysis method is used to find crack location and depth from the natural frequencies of experimental data, which are referred by another papers. Predicted results are similar with the true crack location and depth.

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Domain Decomposition Method for Elasto-Plastic Problem (탄소성문제 적용을 위한 영역분할법)

  • Bae, Byung-Kyu;Lee, Joon-Seong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.8
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    • pp.3384-3390
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    • 2011
  • This paper describes a domain decomposition method of parallel finite element analysis for elasto-plastic structural problems. As a parallel numeral algorithm for the finite element analysis, the authors have utilized the domain decomposition method combined with an iterative solver such as the conjugate gradient method. Here the domain decomposition method algorithm was applied directly to elasto-plastic problem. The present system was successfully applied to three-dimensional elasto-plastic structural problems.

Displacement-Load Method for Semi-Analytical Design Sensitivity Analysis (준해석 설계민감도를 위한 변위하중법)

  • Yoo Jung Hun;Kim Heung Seok;Lee Tae Hee
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.28 no.10
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    • pp.1590-1597
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    • 2004
  • Three methods of design sensitivity analysis for structures such as numerical method, analytical method and semi-analytical method have been developed for the last three decades. Although analytical design sensitivity analysis can provide very exact result, it is difficult to implement into practical design problems. Therefore, numerical method such as finite difference method is widely used to simply obtain the design sensitivity in most cases. The numerical differentiation is sufficiently accurate and reliable fur most linear problems. However, it turns out that the numerical differentiation is inefficient and inaccurate in nonlinear design sensitivity analysis because its computational cost depends on the number of design variables and large numerical errors can be included. Thus the semi-analytical method is more suitable for complicated design problems. Moreover, semi-analytical method is easy to be performed in design procedure, which can be coupled with an analysis solver such as commercial finite element package. In this paper, implementation procedure fur the semi-analytical design sensitivity analysis outside of the commercial finite element package is studied and the computational technique is proposed for evaluating the partial differentiation of internal nodal force, so called pseudo-load. Numerical examples coupled with commercial finite element package are shown to verify usefulness of proposed semi-analytical sensitivity analysis procedure and computational technique for pseudo-load.

The General Comparison between Direct Matrix Solvers (직접 행렬해법에 대한 일반적 비교)

  • An B. K.;Park Y. B.;Kim J. H.;Yang D. Y.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.113-116
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    • 2001
  • Finite element analysis programs have been for metal forming process design They will become more and more important in understanding forming process For large-scale forging analysis problems, the performance of a linear equation solver is very important for the overall efficiency of the analysis code. With problem size increased, the computation time needs to be reduced, which is spent on setting the system of algebraic equations associated with finite element model Many matrix solvers have been developed and used usefully in finite element program for this purpose.

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Development of finite element numerical simulation for three-dimensional oxidation (3차원 산화 공정을 위한 유한요소법 수치 해석기 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 이제희;윤상호;송재복;김윤태;원태영
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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    • v.34D no.3
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    • pp.74-86
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    • 1997
  • With continued miniaturization and development of new devices, the highly nonuniform oxidation of three-dimensional non-planar silicon structures plays an increasingly important role. In this paper, the three-dimensional finite element numerical simulator. Grwoth of oxide is a coupled process of diffusion of oxidant and deformation of oxide. Because boundaries of oxide are moved in each time step and LOCOS structure is formed three-dimensional shape of sruface, it is necessary to develope an efficient node control algorithm that can locally generate and eliminate the node. Therefore we have developed the optimized three-dimensional mesh generator which is cpable of refining and eliminating the meshes at the moving boundary of oxide, and hve developed three-dimensional finite element oxidation solver.

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HIGH-ORDER ACCURATE SIMULATIONS OF BLADE-VORTEX INTERACTION USING A DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD ON UNSTRUCTURED MESHES (비정렬 격자계에서 고차정확도 불연속 갤러킨 기법을 이용한 블레이드-와류 간섭 현상 모사)

  • Lee, H.D.;Kwon, O.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.57-70
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    • 2008
  • A high-order accurate Euler flow solver based on a discontinuous Galerkin finite-element method has been developed for the numerical simulations of blade-vortex interaction phenomena on unstructured meshes. A free vortex in freestream was investigated to assess the vortex-preserving property and the accuracy of the present flow solver. Blade-vortex interaction problems in subsonic and transonic freestreams were simulated by adopting a multi-level solution-adaptive dynamic mesh refinement/coarsening technique. The results were compared with those of other numerical and experimental methods. It was shown that the present discontinuous Galerkin flow solver can preserve the vortex structure for significantly longer vortex convection time and can accurately capture the complex unsteady blade-vortex interaction flows, including generation and propagation of acoustic waves.

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