• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.319-334
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• 2023

Localizing damages is an essential task to monitor the health of the structures since they may not be able to operate anymore. Among the damage detection techniques, non-destructive methods are considerably more preferred than destructive methods since damage can be located without affecting the structural integrity. However, these methods have several drawbacks in terms of detecting abilities, time consumption, cost, and hardware or software requirements. Employing artificial intelligence techniques could overcome such issues and could provide a powerful damage detection model if the technique is utilized correctly. In this study, the crack localization in flat and folded plate structures has been conducted by employing a Backpropagated Artificial Neural Network (BPANN). For this purpose, cracks with 18 different dimensions in thin, flat, and folded structures having 15⁰, 30⁰, 45⁰, and 60⁰ folding angle have been modeled and subjected to free vibration analysis by employing the Classical Plate Theory with Finite Element Method. A Four-nodded quadrilateral element having six degrees of freedom has been considered to represent those structures mathematically. The first ten natural frequencies have been obtained regarding healthy and cracked structures. To localize the crack, the ratios of the frequencies of the cracked flat and folded structures to those of healthy ones have been taken into account. Those ratios have been given to BPANN as the input variables, while the crack locations have been considered as the output variables. A total of 500 crack locations have been regarded within the dataset obtained from the results of the free vibration analysis. To build the best intelligent model, a feature search has been conducted for BAPNN regarding activation function, the number of hidden layers, and the number of hidden neurons. Regarding the analysis results, it is concluded that the BPANN is able to localize the cracks with an average accuracy of 95.12%.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.201-208
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• 1991

본 연구에서는 균일 열유동이 접합면에 수직으로 흐르고 접합 경계면 균열의 열경계조건이 단열되어 있는 경우에 균질 및 접합재료 모두에 적용될 수 있는 열응세 기계수를 복소해석방법을 이용하여 구하고자 한다.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 1999년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.321-326
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• 1999

In this study, fatigue crack propagation problem of plate under multi-axial loading is mainly considered To analyze this special problem, recently developed technique called EFGM(Element-Free Galerkin Method), one of the Meshfree Methods, and general fatigue crack growth raw herein Paris law are used Using the Implemented scheme, paths of fatigue cracks by constant-amplitude load fluctuation and multiple-crack growth behavior are examined. The failure mechanism of steel plate due to crack propagation is studied. As a result, an algorithm that treats multiple fatigue crack problems is proposed. A numerical example shows that the prediction of growing paths can be achieved successfully and efficiently by proposed algorithm.

• 열처리공학회지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.19-26
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• 1989

Fundmental fatigue crack propagation tests with C-T type specimens were conducted at various load ratios (R) such as 0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 in T6 and Thermomechanically treated (TMT) conditions of 7039 Al alloy. Better mechanical properties from monotonic test as well as fatigue crack propagation were obtained by TMT process owing to uniform distribution of fine microstructures and non-existence of precipitation free zone (PFZ). Through the measurement of Kop and ${\Delta}K$ at various R the concept of effective stress intensity factor range ratio, U was reviewed to asses the load ratio effect on fatigue crack propagation. A relationship between U and variables such as ${\Delta}K$ and R was obtained empirically. This may enable us to predict ${\Delta}K_{eff}$ that is of critical importance for prediction of fatigue crack propagation rate.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.27-38
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• 1997

The effect of geometry factors on the combined mode stress intensity factor behaviors of a slant crack in a non-uniform thickness material was analysed by 2-dimensional theoretical analysis. The analysis is based on the Laurent's series expansions of complex potentials where the complex coefficients of the series are determined from the compatibility and the equilibrium conditions of the thickness interface and the stress free conditions of the crack surface. In numerical calculations the perturbation technique is employed. The expressions for the crack tip stress intensity factor are given in the form of power series of dimensionless crack length $\lamda$, and the function of crack slant angle $\alpha$ and thickness ratio $\beta$. The results of numerical calculations for each problems are represented as the correction factors F($\lamda$, $\alpha$, $\beta$). The results clearly show the following characteristics : The correction factors of the combined mode stress intensity factors for a non-uniform thickness material can be defined in the form of F($\lamda$, $\alpha$, $\beta$). The stress intensity factor values for a given crack length are decreased with increase of thickness ratio $\beta$.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.293-299
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• 2009

섬유판을 이용한 탄화보드의 제조에 있어 무할렬 탄화법 및 탄화온도에 따른 수축률, 중량감소율 및 밀도변화에 대해 검토하였다. 섬유판을 두께별(3, 4.5, 6, 18 mm)로 준비한 후, 실험실용 탄화로를 사용하여 $400^{\circ}C{\sim}1,000^{\circ}C$의 온도조건에서 탄화보드를 제조하였다. 무할렬 탄화법은 시험편에 상하 눌림판을 설치하여 압체 탄화하는 방법을 적용하였다. 압체 탄화법에 의해 섬유판의 갈라짐과 뒤틀림 현상이 발생하지 않는 무할렬 탄화보드의 제조가 가능하였다. 탄화보드의 수축률은 길이방향 10~25%, 폭방향 12~25%, 두께방향 28~48%로 두께방향이 가장 크고 탄화온도가 상승함에 따라 커지는 경향이 나타났다. 탄화보드의 중량감소율은 섬유판의 두께에 따른 큰 차이는 나타나지 않았고 탄화온도가 상승함에 따라 커지는 경향이 나타났다. 탄화보드의 밀도는 두께 3 mm의 경질 섬유판에서 가장 컸고 탄화온도가 상승함에 따라 커지는 경향이 나타났다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.14-19
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• 2000

Seed crystal 로 bare (0001) 사파이어 기판을 사용하여 hydride vapor Phase epitaxy (HVPE)법을 이용하여 free-standing GaN 단결정기판을 성장시켰다. 일정한 두께의 GaN막을 성장한 후 사파이어 기판을 mechanical polishing 작업으로 제거하여 두께 200 ㎛, 10×10 ㎛ 크기의 free-standing GaN 기판을 얻을 수 있었으며, 성장 전 GaCl 전처리를 수행함으로써 crack이 없는 기판을 제작할 수 있었다. 이렇게 제작된 free-standing GaN 기판의 특성을 SiO/sub 2/ patterned sapphire위에 LEO (Lateral Epitaxial Overgrowth) 방법으로 성장된GaN박막과 double crystal x-ray diffraction (DC-XRD), cathode-luminescence (CL) 및 photoluminescence (PL) 방법으로 특성을 비교하였다.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.143-168
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• 2015

Initiation of crack and its growth simulation requires accurate model of traction - separation law. Accurate modeling of traction-separation law remains always a great challenge. Atomistic simulations based prediction has great potential in arriving at accurate traction-separation law. The present paper is aimed at establishing a method to address the above problem. A method for traction-separation law prediction via utilizing atomistic simulations data has been proposed. In this direction, firstly, a simpler approach of common neighbor analysis (CNA) for the prediction of crack growth has been proposed and results have been compared with previously used approach of threshold potential energy. Next, a scheme for prediction of crack speed has been demonstrated based on the stable crack growth criteria. Also, an algorithm has been proposed that utilizes a variable relaxation time period for the computation of crack growth, accurate stress behavior, and traction-separation atomistic law. An understanding has been established for the generation of smoother traction-separation law (including the effect of free surface) from a huge amount of raw atomistic data. A new curve fit has also been proposed for predicting traction-separation data generated from the molecular dynamics simulations. The proposed traction-separation law has also been compared with the polynomial and exponential model used earlier for the prediction of traction-separation law for the bulk materials.

• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.31-44
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• 2009

While the classical theory of Griffith is the foundation of modern understanding of brittle fracture, it has a number of significant shortcomings: Griffith theory does not predict crack initiation and path and it suffers from the presence of unphysical stress singularities. In 1998, Francfort and Marigo presented an energy functional minimization method, where the crack (or its absence) as well as its path are part of the problem's solution. The energy functionals act on spaces of functions of bounded variations, where the cracks are related to the discontinuity sets of such functions. The new model presented here uses modified energy functionals to account for molecular interactions in the vicinity of crack tips, resulting in Barenblatt cohesive forces, such that the model becomes free of stress singularities. This is done in a physically consistent way using recently published concepts of Sinclair. Here, for the consistency of the model, it becomes necessary to allow for crack reversibility and to consider local minimizers of the energy functionals. The latter is achieved by introducing different time scales. The model is solved in its global as well as in its local version for a simple one-dimensional example, showing that local minimization is necessary to yield a physically reasonable result.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.449-462
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• 2020

This work aims to study effects of the crack and the surface energy on the free longitudinal vibration of axially functionally graded nanorods. The surface energy parameters considered are the surface stress, the surface density, and the surface Lamé constants. The cracked nanorod is modelled by dividing it into two parts connected by a linear spring in which its stiffness is related to the crack severity. The surface and bulk material properties are considered to vary in the length direction according to the power law distribution. Hamilton's principle is implemented to derive the governing equation of motion and boundary conditions. Considering the surface stress causes that the derived governing equation of motion becomes non-homogeneous while this was not the case in works that only the surface density and the surface Lamé constants were considered. To extract the frequencies of nanorod, firstly the non-homogeneous governing equation is converted to a homogeneous one using an appropriate change of variable, and then for clamped-clamped and clamped-free boundary conditions the governing equation is solved using the harmonic differential quadrature method. Since the present work considers effects of all the surface energy parameters, it can be claimed that this is a comprehensive work in this regard.