• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.20-28
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• 2016

In this study, an efficient method of designing laminate composite radar absorbing structures (RAS) is proposed with consideration given to the structural shape so as to improve aircraft stealth performance. The calculation of the radar cross section (RCS) should be decreased to enhance the efficiency of the stochastic optimization when designing an RAS. In the proposed method, RAS are optimized to match up the input impedance of the minimal RCS, which is obtained by using physical optics and the transmission line theory. Single and double layer dielectric RAS for aircraft wings are employed as numerical examples and designed using the proposed method, RCS minimization and reflection coefficient minimization. The availability of the proposed method is assessed by comparing the similarity of the results and computation time with other design methods. According to the results, the proposed method produces the same results as the stochastic optimization, which adopts the RCS as the objective function, and can improve RAS design efficiency by reducing the number of RCS analyses.

• 한국표면공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국표면공학회 2015년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.102-133
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• 2015

Nature, such as plants, insects, and marine animals, uses micro/nano-textured surfaces in their components (e.g., leaves, wings, eyes, legs, and skins) for multiple purposes, such as water-repellency, anti-adhesiveness, and self-cleanness. Such multifunctional surface properties are attributed to three-dimensional surface structures with modulated surface wettability. Especially, hydrophobic surface structures create a composite interface with liquid by retaining air between the structures, minimizing the contact area with liquid. Such non-wetting surface property, so-called superhydrophobicity, can offer numerous application potentials, such as hydrodynamic drag reduction, anti-biofouling, anti-corrosion, anti-fogging, anti-frosting, and anti-icing. Over the last couple of decades, we have witnessed a significant advancement in the understanding of surface superhydrophobicity as well as the design, fabrication, and applications of superhydrophobic coatings/surfaces/materials. In this talk, the designs, fabrications, and applications of superhydrophobic surfaces for multifunctionalities will be presented, including hydrodynamic friction reduction, anti-biofouling, anti-corrosion, and anti-icing.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.297-311
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• 2018

Plate and shell structure is widely applied in engineering, i.e. building roofs, aircraft wings, ship platforms, and satellite solar arrays. Its vibration problem has become increasingly prominent due to the tendency of lightening, upsizing and flexibility. As a new smart material with great actuating force and toughness, macro-fiber composite (MFC) is composed of piezoelectric fiber and epoxy resin basal body, which can be directly pasted onto the surface of plate and shell and is suitable for vibration control. This paper deduces the actuation equation of MFC coupled plate in different boundary conditions, an equivalent finite element modeling method is proposed which uses MFC actuating force as the applied excitation, and on this basis the active control simulation and experiment of MFC over plate and shell structure vibration are accomplished. The results indicate that MFC is able to implement effective control over plate and shell structure vibration in multi-band range. The comparison between experiment and simulation proves that the actuation equation deduced herein, effective and practicable, can be applied into the simulation calculation of MFC vibration control over plate and shell structure.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제59권5호
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• pp.73-81
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• 2017

The improved movable weir supplements the advantages and disadvantages of the rubber weir and the conduction gate. It consists of a stainless steel gate, air bags, and a steel clamping plate. The stainless steel gate is the main body of the weir, and the inflatable rubber sheet serves to support the steel gate. The steel clamping plate is typically in direct continuous contact with water, but this leads to corrosion issues that can reduce the life of the entire movable weir. In this study, a panel-type glass-fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) clamping plate was designed and fabricated. The test results showed that the flexural load of the panel-type GFRP composite clamping plate was over twice that of the wings type GFRP clamping plate. The lowest moisture absorption value was obtained upon exposure to tap water, and exposure to other solutions showed similar values. Additionally, flexural load testing after exposure to an accelerated environment found the lowest residual loads of 80.51 % and 78.50 % at 50 and 100 days, respectively, for exposure to a $CaCl_2$ solution, while exposure to other environments showed residual failure loads of over 80 % at both 50 and 100 days.

• Composites Research
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.139-144
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• 2018

장섬유강화 복합재료는 기존의 연속섬유강화 복합재료에 비해 우수한 생산 효율성과 복잡한 형상의 성형성에 대해 장점을 가지고 있다. 하지만 지나치게 복잡한 복합재료 형상을 제작하거나 서로 다른 재료로 제작된 부품들을 조립/체결해야 하는 경우 다양한 접합 방법들이 필요하다. 일반적으로 LFPS(Long Fiber Prepreg Sheet)는 성형 후 탈형을 쉽게 하기 위해 LFPS안에 이형제가 포함되어 있다. 그러므로 적절한 접합 강도를 위해 접착법과 더불어 기계적인 체결이 요구된다. 본 연구에서 열성형 공정을 통해 LFPS를 경화하고 스테인레스 강 인서트를 접착하는 동시경화 접착을 위한 스테인레스 강 인서트를 제안하였다. 성형공정 동안 펼쳐지는 스테인레스 강 인서트의 날개는 접착력과 기계적인 고정(Mechanical wedging)의 효과를 유발하여 인발력에 저항할 수 있는 갈고리 역할을 한다. 복합재료에 삽입된 인서트 날개들의 펼쳐진 상태를 확인하기 위해 소각 방법을 사용하였다. 그리고 접합 강도를 정량적으로 평가하기 위해 인발시험(Pull-out test)을 수행하였다. 이러한 실험들을 통해 가장 적절한 접합 강도를 보장하는 조건을 도출하였다.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.122-128
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• 2018

A compound drone that combines a fixed wing and a rotary wing is an aircraft that can take off and landing vertically, and can increase flight time and fly faster with fixed wings. The compound drones are divided into many types depending on the method of adding the thrust vectoring or the lift fan and the position of the rotor. In this study, we designed and fabricated a composite drone with four V-TOL motors in a fixed-wing, and assigned missions to the aviation body, hence judged mission accuracy using the actual flight test. The design process and the mission evaluation process employed in this study can be utilized on the development of various unmanned aerial vehicle.

• 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.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권9호
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• pp.46-51
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• 2013

본 논문에는 무인항공기에 장착된 UHF 안테나의 최적 위치 및 형상이 다양한 위치에서 EM 시뮬레이션을 통하여 분석되어져 있다. EM 시뮬레이션을 위하여 FEKO를 이용하였다. 시뮬레이션의 복잡도를 줄이고 분석시간과 메모리 이용도를 최소화하기 위하여 비행체의 복합체 구조를 레이돔 구조를 제외하고 PEC 모델로 간략화 하였다. 시뮬레이션은 무인항공기의 날개와 Ventral Fin 위치에서 수행되어 졌고, 안테나 형상은 모노폴, 다이폴, 굴곡형 모노폴 안테나들을 이용하였다. 모노폴 안테나가 비행체 날개에 장착될 경우, 오른쪽 날개와 왼쪽 날개에 각각 장착되어지기 위하여 두 개의 안테나가 필요하고, 이 두 개의 안테나들은 가시선 데이터링크 지상 안테나에 대한 무인항공기 날개 방향에 따라 전환되어져야 한다. 모노폴 안테나가 Ventral Fin에 장착될 경우, 가시선 데이터링크 지상 안테나에 대한 무인항공기 날개 방향에 상관없이 하나의 안테나로 운용 가능하다. 또한, 안테나 이득도 비행체에 의한 Blockage 감소로 개선되어진다. 안테나 이득은 굴곡형 모노폴 안테나를 이용하여 더욱 더 개선되어 진다. 결론적으로 무인항공기에 장착된 UHF 안테나의 최적 위치 및 형상은 굴곡형 모노폴 안테나를 Ventral Fin 아래에 장착하는 것이다.