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Estimation of critical speed and running performance for swing motion bogie of railway freight car (화물수송용 스윙모션보기의 임계속도와 주행성능 평가)

  • 함영삼;오택열
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.215-220
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    • 2003
  • In this paper the dynamic characteristics of a Swing Motion Bogie, such as a critical speed and a carbody vibration, are investigated in reply to the request of the Meridian Rail Corporation in the United States. Also described are experimental results of the maximum speed, the derailment coefficient, the lateral force, the vertical force, the vibration acceleration and steady state lateral acceleration measured from main line tests.

Generation of critical and compatible seismic ground acceleration time histories for high-tech facilities

  • Hong, X.J.;Xu, Y.L.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.687-707
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    • 2007
  • High-tech facilities engaged in the production of semiconductors and optical microscopes are extremely expensive, which may require time-domain analysis for seismic resistant design in consideration of the most critical directions of seismic ground motions. This paper presents a framework for generating three-dimensional critical seismic ground acceleration time histories compatible with the response spectra specified in seismic design codes. The most critical directions of seismic ground motions associated with the maximum response of a high-tech facility are first identified. A new numerical method is then proposed to derive the power spectrum density functions of ground accelerations which are compatible with the response spectra specified in seismic design codes in critical directions. The ground acceleration time histories for the high-tech facility along the structural axes are generated by applying the spectral representation method to the power spectrum density function matrix and then multiplied by envelope functions to consider nonstationarity of ground motions. The proposed framework is finally applied to a typical three-story high-tech facility, and the numerical results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.

Evaluation of critical speed & running performance for Swing Motion Bogie (스웡모션보기의 임계속도와 주행성능 평가)

  • 함영삼;허현무;오택열
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2002.10b
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    • pp.892-897
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    • 2002
  • The research was requested by Meridian Rail Corporation in United States. The Swing Motion Bogie can application by Korea style if synthesize study result of bogie strength evaluation, bogie dynamic characteristics analysis, actual test(maximum speed, derailment coefficient, lateral force, vertical force, vibration acceleration, steady state lateral acceleration) etc..

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Critical earthquake loads for SDOF inelastic structures considering evolution of seismic waves

  • Moustafa, Abbas;Ueno, Kohei;Takewaki, Izuru
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.147-162
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    • 2010
  • The ground acceleration measured at a point on the earth's surface is composed of several waves that have different phase velocities, arrival times, amplitudes, and frequency contents. For instance, body waves contain primary and secondary waves that have high frequency content and reach the site first. Surface waves are composed of Rayleigh and Love waves that have lower phase velocity, lower frequency content and reach the site next. Some of these waves could be of more damage to the structure depending on their frequency content and associated amplitude. This paper models critical earthquake loads for single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) inelastic structures considering evolution of the seismic waves in time and frequency. The ground acceleration is represented as combination of seismic waves with different characteristics. Each seismic wave represents the energy of the ground motion in certain frequency band and time interval. The amplitudes and phase angles of these waves are optimized to produce the highest damage in the structure subject to explicit constraints on the energy and the peak ground acceleration and implicit constraints on the frequency content and the arrival time of the seismic waves. The material nonlinearity is modeled using bilinear inelastic law. The study explores also the influence of the properties of the seismic waves on the energy demand and damage state of the structure. Numerical illustrations on modeling critical earthquake excitations for one-storey inelastic frame structures are provided.

A Numerical Analysis of Transonic Flows in an Axisymmetric Main Nozzle of Air-Jet Loom (에어제트직기 주 노즐내 천음속 유동의 수치 해석적 연구)

  • Oh T. H.;Kim S. D.;Song D. J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1998.05a
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    • pp.168-173
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    • 1998
  • A numerical analysis of axisymetric backward facing step main nozzle flow in air jet loom has been accomplished. To obtain basic design data for an optimum main nozzle for an air-jet loom and to predict the transonic/supersonic flow, a characteristic based upwind flux difference splitting compressible Navier-Stokes method has been used. The wall static pressure of the main nozzle and the flow velocity changes in the nozzle tube were analyzed by changing air tank pressures and acceleration tube lengths. The flow inside the nozzle experiences double choking one at the needle tip and the other at the acceleration tube exit at tank pressures over $4kg_f/cm^2$. The tank pressure $P_t$ leading to the critical condition depends on the acceleration tube length; i.e, $P_t$ is higher for longer acceleration tubes. The $P_t$ value required to bring the acceleration tube exit to the critical condition is nearly constant regardless of acceleration tube length. The round needle tip shape might lead to less total pressure loss when compared with step shape.

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A Study on the Flow Characteristics in Double Coaxial Pipe Jets (동축이중원관 분류에 있어서의 유동 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, C.H.;Kim, K.H.
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.46-53
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    • 1996
  • The present study is aiming at improving the performance of main nozzle of an air jet loom with a modified reed and auxiliary nozzles. The double coaxial pipe jets consisting of a central air jet and an annular air jet have been experimentally investigated. The duter jet has a potential core and a constant velocity. The inner jet through an inner long pipe is induced by the subatmospheric pressure near the inner nozzle edge, and the jet velocity of an inner pipe is always lower than that of a outer pipe. The static pressures of the main nozzle over a wide range of the nozzle tank pressure were measured, and the nozzle velocity and Mach numbers were analytically calculated. Experiment81 results indicate that the critical condition of Mach number of unity to occur at the two positions in a main nozzle; one of them is the needle tip and the other is the acceleration tube exit An increase in the tank pressure causes the critical throat condition to occur at the two positions above. The velocity of acceleration-tube exit is maximum at the critical length L* and flow patter in acceleration-tube over critical lengh remains unstable.

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Acceleration Techniques for Cycle-Based Login Simulation (사이클 기반 논리시뮬레이션 가속화 기법 연구)

  • Park, Young-Ho;Park, Eun-Sei
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.45-50
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    • 2001
  • With increasing complexity of digital logic circuits, fast and accurate verification of functional behaviour becomes most critical bottleneck in meeting time-to-market requirement. This paper presents several techniques for accelerating a cycle-based logic simulation. The acceleration techniques include parallel pattern logic evaluation, circuit size reduction, and the partition of feedback loops in sequential circuits. Among all, the circuit size reduction plays a critical role in maximizing logic simulation speedup by reducing 50% of entire circuit nodes on the average. These techniques are incorporated into a levelized table-driven logic simulation system rather than a compiled-code simulation algorithm. Finally, experimental results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed acceleration techniques. Experimental results show more than 27 times performance improvement over single pattern levelized logic simulation.

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Buckling analysis of structures under combined loading with acceleration forces

  • Wang, Wenjing;Gu, Randy
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.52 no.5
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    • pp.1051-1067
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    • 2014
  • The structures of concern in this study are subject to two types of forces: dead loads from the acceleration imposed on the structures as well as the installed operation machines and the additional adjustable forces. We wish to determine the critical values of the adjustable forces when buckling of the structures occurs. The mathematical statement of such a problem gives rise to a constrained eigenvalue problem (CEVP) in which the dominant eigenvalue is subject to an equality constraint. A numerical algorithm for solving the CEVP is proposed in which an iterative method is employed to identify an interval embracing the target eigenvalue. The algorithm is applied to four engineering application examples finding the critical loads of a fixed-free beam subject to its own body force, two plane structures and one wide-flange beam using shell elements when acceleration force is present. The accuracy is demonstrated using the first example whose classical solution exists. The significance of the equality constraint in the EVP is shown by comparing the solutions without the constraint on the eigenvalue. Effectiveness and accuracy of the numerical algorithm are presented.

Cycle-life Test Time Reduction in Secondary Rechargeable Batteries by Combining Different Types of Acceleration (서로 다른 가속기법의 결합을 통한 2차 전지 사이클 시험 시간의 단축)

  • Park, Jong-In;Park, Jung-Won;Jung, Min-Ho;Huh, Yang-Hyun;Bae, Suk-Joo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.153-161
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    • 2008
  • 신뢰성 평가 시험은 종종 성능 평가에 장기간의 시간이 요구되며, 전체 생산비용까지 증가시키는 문제점을 안고 있다 스트레스를 이용한 가속수명시험은 제품의 신뢰성 고장과 밀접한 관련이 있는 고장 메커니즘의 촉진을 통해 고장에 이르는 기간을 단축함으로써 신뢰성 평가의 효율성을 도모할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 스트레스 가속 시험에 빈도가속(Usage-Rate Acceleration) 또는 판정가속(Tightening Critical-Values) 등을 결합하여 한층 높은 가속효과를 도모하는 방법을 제안하고, 국내에서 생산되고 있는 2차 전지 제품에 대한 실제 시험 사례분석을 통해 결합된 가속방법의 효과를 실증적으로 보여주고 있다.

Determination of critical excitation in seismic analysis of structures

  • Kamgar, Reza;Rahgozar, Reza
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.875-891
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    • 2015
  • Earthquake can occur anywhere in the world and it is essential to design important members in special structures based on maximum possible forces that can be produced in them under severe earthquake. In addition, since the earthquake is an accidental phenomena and there are no similar earthquakes, therefore the possibility of strong earthquakes should be taken into account in earthquake-resistant design of important structures. Based on this viewpoint, finding the critical acceleration which maximizes internal forces is an essential factor in structural design. This paper proposes critical excitation method to compute the critical acceleration in design of important members in special structures. These critical accelerations are computed so that the columns' internal shear force at the base of the structure at each time step is maximized under constraints on ground motion. Among computed critical accelerations (of each time step), the one which produces maximum internal shear force is selected. A numerical example presents to show the efficiency of critical excitation method in determining the maximum internal shear force and base moment under variety of constraints. The results show that these method can be used to compute the resonant earthquake which have large enough effective duration of earthquake strong motion (between 12.86 sec to 13.38 sec) and produce the internal shear force and base moment for specific column greater than the same value for selected earthquakes in constructing the critical excitation (for different cases about 2.78 to 1.29 times the San Fernando earthquake). Therefore, a group of them can be utilized in developing the response spectrum for design of special structures.