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In situ horizontal stress effect on plastic zone around circular underground openings excavated in elastic zones

  • Komurlu, Eren;Kesimal, Ayhan;Hasanpour, Rohala
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.783-799
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    • 2015
  • In this study, effect of horizontal in situ stress on failure mechanism around underground openings excavated in isotropic, elastic rock zones is investigated. For estimating the plastic zone occurrence, an induced stress influence area approach (Bray Equations) was modified to define critical stress ratio according to the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion. Results obtained from modified calculations were compared with results of some other analytical solutions for plastic zone thickness estimation and the numerical modelling (finite difference method software, FLAC2D) study. Plastic zone and its geometry around tunnels were analyzed for different in situ stress conditions. The modified equations gave similar results with those obtained from the other approaches. However, safer results were calculated using the modified equations for high in situ stress conditions and excessive ratio of horizontal to vertical in situ stresses. As the outcome of this study, the modified equations are suggested to use for estimating the plastic zone occurrence and its thickness around the tunnels with circular cross-section.

Wave scattering among a large number of floating cylinders

  • Kashiwagi, Masashi
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.53-66
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    • 2005
  • When a large number of identical cylinders are placed in an array with equal separation distance, near-resonant phenomena may occur between cylinders at critical frequencies, and cause large wave forces on each element of the array. In this paper, 64 truncated circular cylinders arranged in 4 rows and 16 columns are considered to check occurrence of near-resonant phenomena and performance of theoretical predictions based on the potential flow. Experiments are conducted in head waves to measure the wave elevation along the longitudinal centerline of the model, and measured results are compared with numerical ones. Attention is focused on the spatial variation of the wave amplitude around the first near-trapped-mode frequency.

Circular cylinder drag reduction using piezoelectric actuators

  • Orazi, Matteo;Lasagna, Davide;Iuso, Gaetano
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.27-41
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    • 2014
  • An active flow control technique based on "smart-tabs" is proposed to delay flow separation on a circular cylinder. The actuators are retractable and orientable multilayer piezoelectric tabs which protrude perpendicularly from the model surface. They are mounted along the spanwise direction with constant spacing. The effectiveness of the control was tested in pre-critical and in post-critical regime by evaluating the effects of several control parameters of the tabs like frequency, amplitude, height, angular position and plate incidence with respect to the local flow. Measurements of the mean static pressure distribution around the cylinder were used to estimate the pressure drag coefficient. The maximum drag reduction achieved in the pre-critical regime was of the order of 30%, whereas in the post-critical regime was about 10%, 3% of which due to active forcing. Furthermore, pressure fluctuation measurements were performed and spectral analysis indicated an almost complete suppression of the vortex shedding in active forcing conditions.

Time Mean Drifting Forces on a Cylinder in Water of Finite Depths -Direct Pressure Integration Method- (유한(有限)깊이의 물에 떠있는 주상체(柱狀體)에 작용(作用)하는 시간평균표류력(時間平均漂流力) -직접압력(直接壓力) 적분법(積分法)-)

  • K.P.,Rhee;K.K.,Lee
    • Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 1985
  • In this paper, the second order time mean forces acting on the circular cylinder floating on the free surface of a finite water depth are calculated. Under the assumption that fluid is idea and the wave the linear gravity wave, the velocity potential is calculated by the source distribution method, and the second order time mean lateral and vertical drifting forces are calculated by the direct integration of fluid pressures over the immersed body surface. The comparison of the lateral drifting forces with Rhee's results by momentum theorem shows good agreements. And it is shown that the second order time sinkage forces of a floating circular cylinder cross zero for all water depths.

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Theoretical Consideration on Influences of Cavity or Pillar Shape on Band Structures of Silicon-Based Photonic Crystals

  • Ogawa, Yoshifumi;Tamura, Issei;Omura, Yasuhisa;Iida, Yukio
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.56-65
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    • 2007
  • This paper describes physical meanings of various influences of cavity (or pillar) shape and filling factor of dielectric material on band structures in two-dimensional photonic crystals. Influences of circular and rectangular cross-sections of cavity (or pillar) arrays on photonic band structures are considered theoretically, and significant aspects of square and triangular lattices are compared. It is shown that both averaged dielectric constant of the photonic crystal and distribution profile of photon energy play important roles in designing optical properties. For the triangular lattice, especially, it is shown that cavity array with a rectangular cross-section breaks the band structure symmetry. So, we discuss this point from the band structure and address optical properties of lattice with a circular cross-section cavity.

Design for High Gain Spiral Antenna by Added Conical Cavity Wall

  • Jeong, Jae-Hwan;Min, Kyeong-Sik;Kim, In-Hwan
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.165-172
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    • 2013
  • This paper describes a design for a spiral antenna with a conical wall to obtain the high gain. The gain and the axial ratio of the spiral antenna were improved by a new design that included a conical wall and an optimized Archimedean slit on the ground plane in a conventional antenna with a circular cavity wall and a 4.5-turn slit. A gain improvement of 9.5 dBi higher and a good axial ratio of 1.9 dB lower were measured by the added conical wall and the newly designed slit from the current distribution control on the ground plane, respectively. The measured return loss, gain and axial ratio of the proposed antenna showed a good agreement with the simulated results. The proposed antenna will be applied to a non-linear junction detector system.

Finite Element Analysis and Experimental Verification for the Drawing Characteristics Through Drawbeads (드로오비드 인출특성에 관한 유한요소해석 및 실험적 검증)

  • 김창만;임영석;서대교
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.19 no.8
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    • pp.1844-1853
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    • 1995
  • Theoretical and experimental drawing characteristics for the single circular and square drawbeads are discussed. During the blank holding process, the strain distributions of upper and lower skins of specimens, and the die reactional forces are analysed by F. E. M., and they are compared with the experimental results. The drawbead restraining forces and strain distributions for the drawn specimens by the various drawing length are also analysed and compared with the experimental results. It is concluded that the theoretical simulations and results could be very useful for the prediction of real cases.

A Study on the Wake Flow behind a Circular Cylinder with a Spinning Control Cylinder (회전하는 제어원주가 설치된 원주후류의 유동장에 관한 연구)

  • 부정숙;류병남;심정훈
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.58-69
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    • 2000
  • An experimental study was conducted to investigate the influence of the spinning control cylinders which was set on the surface of a fixed circular cylinder in uniform flow, $Re=1.24\times10^4$. The measurements of velocity vectors and pressure distributions are carried out in various spin parameters and angles of spinning control cylinder. The results show that velocity profiles and pressure distributions are different with angles of control cylinder and spin parameters. When the control cylinder angle is $100^{\circ}$, there is more effect in increasing the velocity and the pressure distribution than other cases. In this case, the vortex shedding frequency was increased as increasing spin parameter.

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Axisymmetric deformation in transversely isotropic thermoelastic medium using new modified couple stress theory

  • Lata, Parveen;Kaur, Harpreet
    • Coupled systems mechanics
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.501-522
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    • 2019
  • The present study is concerned with the thermoelastic interactions in a two dimensional axisymmetric problem in transversely isotropic thermoelastic solid using new modified couple stress theory without energy dissipation and with two temperatures. The Laplace and Hankel transforms have been employed to find the general solution to the field equations. Concentrated normal force, normal force over the circular region, concentrated thermal source and thermal source over the circular region have been taken to illustrate the application of the approach. The components of displacements, stress, couple stress and conductive temperature distribution are obtained in the transformed domain. The resulting quantities are obtained in the physical domain by using numerical inversion technique. The effect of two temperature varying by taking different values for the two temperature on the components of normal stress, tangential stress, conductive temperature and couple stress are depicted graphically.

An Experimental Study on Enhancement of Laminar Flow Heat Transfer in a Circular Pipe with Inserts (삽입물에 의한 관내 층류열전달 증진에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 권영철;장근선;정지환
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.12 no.7
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    • pp.667-673
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    • 2000
  • In order to understand the laminar flow heat transfer enhancement by the swirl flow, the effects of heat transfer in a circular pipe with a twisted tape insert were investigated experimentally. In the present study, the uniform heat flux condition was considered. The laminar heat transfer correlations were developed using the least-square-fit from the surface temperature distribution of an electrically-heated pipe and flow property data. Average Nusselt number correlations with the twisted tape insert were expressed as a function of swirl parameter, Reynolds number and Prandtl number. In the case of the twisted ratio y = 6.05, the mean Nusselt number increased approximately 500% and the friction factor increased approximately 300%, compared to the case of the empty pipe, respectively.

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