• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.697-711
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• 2021

In this work, a simple quasi 3-D parabolic shear deformation theory is developed to examine the bending response of antisymmetric cross-ply laminated composite plates under different types of mechanical loading. The main feature of this theory is that, in addition to including the transverse shear deformation and thickness stretching effects, it has only five-unknown variables in the displacement field modeling like Mindlin's theory (FSDT), yet satisfies the zero shear stress conditions on the top and bottom surfaces of the plate without requiring a shear correction factor. The static version of principle of virtual work was employed to derive the governing equations, while the bending problem for simply supported antisymmetric cross-ply laminated plates was solved by a Navier-type closed-form solution procedure. The adequacy of the proposed model is handled by considering the impact of side-to-thickness ratio on bending response of plate through several illustrative examples. Comparison of the obtained numerical results with the other shear deformation theories leads to the conclusion that the present model is more accurate and efficient in predicting the displacements and stresses of laminated composite plates.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.587-614
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• 2014

In recent years the interest in online monitoring of lightweight structures with ultrasonic guided waves is steadily growing. Especially the aircraft industry is a driving force in the development of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. In order to optimally design SHM systems powerful and efficient numerical simulation tools to predict the behaviour of ultrasonic elastic waves in thin-walled structures are required. It has been shown that in real industrial applications, such as airplane wings or fuselages, conventional linear and quadratic pure displacement finite elements commonly used to model ultrasonic elastic waves quickly reach their limits. The required mesh density, to obtain good quality solutions, results in enormous computational costs when solving the wave propagation problem in the time domain. To resolve this problem different possibilities are available. Analytical methods and higher order finite element method approaches (HO-FEM), like p-FEM, spectral elements, spectral analysis and isogeometric analysis, are among them. Although analytical approaches offer fast and accurate results, they are limited to rather simple geometries. On the other hand, the application of higher order finite element schemes is a computationally demanding task. The drawbacks of both methods can be circumvented if regions of complex geometry are modelled using a HO-FEM approach while the response of the remaining structure is computed utilizing an analytical approach. The objective of the paper is to present an efficient method to couple different HO-FEM schemes with an analytical description of an undisturbed region. Using this hybrid formulation the numerical effort can be drastically reduced. The functionality of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by studying the propagation of ultrasonic guided waves in plates, excited by a piezoelectric patch actuator. The actuator is modelled utilizing higher order coupled field finite elements, whereas the homogenous, isotropic plate is described analytically. The results of this "semi-analytical" approach highlight the opportunities to reduce the numerical effort if closed-form solutions are partially available.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제75권1호
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• pp.33-47
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• 2020

In this paper the dynamic behavior of an isolated building subjected to idealized near-fault pulses is investigated. The building is represented with a simple 2-DOF model. Both linear and non-linear behavior of the isolation system is considered. Using dimensional analysis, in conjunction with closed form mathematical idealized pulses, appropriate dimensionless parameters are defined and self-similar curves are plotted on dimensionless graphs, based on which various conclusions are reached. In the linear case, the role of viscous damping is examined in detail and the existence of an optimum value of damping along with its significant variation with the number of half-cycles is shown. In the nonlinear case, where the behavior of the building depends on the amplitude of the excitation, the benefits of dimensional analysis are evident since the influence of the dimensionless 𝚷-terms is easily examined. Special consideration is given to the normalized strength of the non-linear isolation system that appears to play a complex role which greatly affects the response of the 2-DOF. In the last part of the paper, a comparison of the responses to idealized pulses between a linear fixed-base SDOF and the respective isolated 2-DOF with both linear and non-linear damping is conducted and it is shown that, under certain values of the superstructure and isolation system characteristics, the use of an isolation system can amplify both the normalized acceleration and displacement of the superstructure.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.547-557
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• 2009

LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) is an active remote sensing technology which provides 3D coordinates of the Earth's surface by performing range measurements from the sensor. Early small footprint LIDAR systems recorded multiple discrete returns from the back-scattered energy. Recent advances in LIDAR hardware now make it possible to record full digital waveforms of the returned energy. LIDAR waveform decomposition involves separating the return waveform into a mixture of components which are then used to characterize the original data. The most common statistical mixture model used for this process is the Gaussian mixture. Waveform decomposition plays an important role in LIDAR waveform processing, since the resulting components are expected to represent reflection surfaces within waveform footprints. Hence the decomposition results ultimately affect the interpretation of LIDAR waveform data. Computational requirements in the waveform decomposition process result from two factors; (1) estimation of the number of components in a mixture and the resulting parameter estimates, which are inter-related and cannot be solved separately, and (2) parameter optimization does not have a closed form solution, and thus needs to be solved iteratively. The current state-of-the-art airborne LIDAR system acquires more than 50,000 waveforms per second, so decomposing the enormous number of waveforms is challenging using traditional single processor architecture. To tackle this issue, four parallel LIDAR waveform decomposition algorithms with different work load balancing schemes - (1) no weighting, (2) a decomposition results-based linear weighting, (3) a decomposition results-based squared weighting, and (4) a decomposition time-based linear weighting - were developed and tested with varying number of processors (8-256). The results were compared in terms of efficiency. Overall, the decomposition time-based linear weighting work load balancing approach yielded the best performance among four approaches.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.451-465
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• 2015

주변 해역을 포함한 한반도 일원에서 측정된 중력자료로부터 상층중력의 고도이상(free-air anomaly)을 계산하였다. 주변 영역에서는 인접국가가 발표한 중력자료가 있는 경우 발표된 자료를 이용하였으며, 없는 경우 EGM2008(Earth Gravitational Model 2008)로부터 계산한 고도이상을 이용하였다. 중력의 상향연속은 Dragomir가 제안한 방법으로 계산하였다. 상층중력 고도이상 계산의 정확성과 계산 속도를 고려하여 적분반경은 계산 고도의 10배로 하였다. 적분에 필요한 측지선의 거리는 Bowring이 개발한 공식을 사용하였다. 위도 $33^{\circ}N{\sim}43^{\circ}N$, 경도 $124^{\circ}E{\sim}131^{\circ}E$에서 계산된 고도이상은 고도 1 km에서 -41.315에서 189.327 mgal까지 변화하고 표준 편차는 22.612 mgal이다. 고도 3 km에서는 -36.478에서 156.209 mgal까지 변화하고 표준 편차는 20.641 mgal이다. 고도 1,000 km에서는 3.170에서 5.864 mgal까지 변화하고 표준 편차는 0.670 mgal이다. 3 km 고도에서 계산된 고도이상을 같은 높이에서 측정한 항공 중력 고도이상과 비교하였다. 이들의 rms 오차는 3.88 mgal로 나타났다. 항공 중력 측정 교차점오차가 2.2 mgal 임을 고려하면 이들 오차에 의미를 부여할 수 없으며, 원인으로는 이번 연구에서 발생한 계산상 오차와 함께/또는 발표된 항공중력의 보정오차에 기인하는 것으로 사료된다. 상층중력 고도이상에 완전식으로 계산한 지구타원체 외부의 정규중력을 더하여 상층중력을 예측하였다. 이번 연구에서 국내 최초로 계산한 고도에 따른 상층중력 고도이상은 한반도 일원의 상층중력장을 잘 표현하고 있는 것으로 보이며, 상층중력장은 관성항법장치의 정확도 향상 등에 이용될 수 있을 것이다.