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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.

Dynamic Responses of the TRU-loaded HYPER System

  • Kim, T.K.;Oh, Se-Kee;Kim, Y.H.;Park, W.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.127-137
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    • 2000
  • Accelerator Driven System (ADS) named HYPER(Hybrid Power Extraction Reactor) is being developed for the transmutation of nuclear waste in Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute(KAERI). The concept of the HYPER is using 1GeV proton to drive a subcritical core. HYPER system is believed to have much more stable dynamics than the critical system in terms of neutronics. However, the HYPER system is supposed to have some drawbacks for the cooling system accidents. Loss of Flow(LOF) and Loss of Heat Sink (LOHS) cause a strong damage. As results, those accidents would stop the power production in the critical system. On the other hand, the negative reactivity feedback could not stop the HYPER system because the HYPER is driven by an accelerator rather than reactivity.(omitted)

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Resonant Frequency Modulation of High Temperature Superconductors Subjected to Optical Pulse Energy and Temperature (광학 펄스 에너지와 온도 변화에 의한 고온 초전도체의 공명 진동수 변조)

  • Cho, Shin-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.1061-1067
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    • 2005
  • The resonant frequency modulation of $YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-x}$ meander lines has been investigated as functions of optical pulse energy and temperature by using a network analyzer. The frequency-domain measurements are performed by controlling both the resonant frequency and the frequency width. The meander lines, configured in a microstrip geometry, are illuminated by optical pulses from an actively mode-locked Nd:YAG laser. The variation of the resonant frequency shows a quadratic dependence on the reduced optical pulse energy $P/P_c$, where $P_c$ is defined as the critical optical pulse energy at which resonance signal has disappeared. As for the dependence on temperature, the results are in good agreement with the previously reported data.

Verification of HELIOS-MASTER System Through Benchmark of Critical Experiments

  • Kim, Ha-Yong;Kim, Kyo-Youn;Oh, Cho-Byung;Lee, Chung-Chan;Zee, Sung-Quun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1999.05a
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    • pp.22-22
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    • 1999
  • The HELlOS-MASTER code system is verified through the benchmark of the critical experiments that were performed by RRC "Kurchatov Institute" with water-moderated hexagonally pitched lattices of highly enriched Uranium fuel rods (8Ow/o). We also used the same input by using the MCNP code that was described in the evaluation report, and compared our results with those of the evaluation report. HELlOS, developed by Scandpower A/S, is a two-dimensional transport program for the generation of group cross-sections, and MASTER, developed by KAERI, is a three-dimensional nuclear design and analysis code based on the two-group diffusion theory. It solves neutronics model with the AFEN (Analytic Function Expansion Nodal) method for hexagonal geometry. The results show that the HELIOSMASTER code system is fast and accurate enough to be used as nuclear core analysis tool for hexagonal geometry.ometry.

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Rotordynamic Analysis and Experiment of Superconducting Magnetic Bearings-Flywheel System (초전도 자기베어링-플리이휠 시스템의 회전체 해서 및 실험)

  • Kim, Jong-Soo;Lee, Soo-Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.16 no.9
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    • pp.104-109
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    • 1999
  • The flywheel energy storage system using superconducting magnetic bearings is a device to store electrical energy as rotatioal kinetic energy by motor and to convert it to electrical energy by generator when it is necessary. The rotordynamic analysis should be performed with an adequate analytical model and equations of motion to identify the stable driving condition and the dynamic behavior. The critical speed and the unbalance response of superconducting magnetic bearings-flywheel system are studied in this paper. The analytical results show that the system has one forward whirling mode and two backward whirling models below 500rpm. The maximum displacement 0.75mm is detected at the first forward mode (385rpm)through unbalance response analysis. The analytical results are compared with the experimental result by the spin-down test. The experimental result shows that the maximum displacement is 0.7mm at 370rpm.

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Survey for the Trend of Demand Response Program (Demand Response Program의 동향 분석)

  • Kim Hyeong Jung;Son Hag Sig;Kim In Soo;Im Sang Kug;Park Jong Bae;Shin Jopng Rin
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • summer
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    • pp.671-673
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    • 2004
  • Demand Response Programs (DRP) are critical to the operation of efficient and competitive energy markets. and provide critical market improvements to Independent System Operators (ISO). To all energy market Participants, they Provide savings and cost reductions when end users have the ability to respond to wholesale prices. Now, in the competitive electricity market, DRP is classified by Emergency and Economic DRP to reduce costs and maintain reliability. In this paper, we survey the trend of Demand Response Program over the world and compare the practical performance among the markets in US.

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Diffraction of water waves by an array of vertical barriers and heterogeneous bottom

  • Mondal, R.;Alam, Md. Mahbub
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.33-41
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    • 2019
  • The interaction of head waves with an infinite row of identical, equally spaced, rectangular breakwaters is investigated in the presence of uneven bottom topography. Using linear water wave theory and matched eigenfunction expansion method, the boundary value problem is transformed into a system of linear algebraic equations which are numerically solved to know the velocity potentials completely. Utilizing this method, reflected and transmitted wave energy are computed for different physical parameters along with the wave field in the vicinity of breakwaters. It is observed that the wave field becomes more complicated when the incoming wavelength becomes smaller than the channel width. A critical ratio of the gap width to the channel width, corresponding to the inflection point of the transmitted energy variation, is identified for which 1/3 of the total energy is transmitted. Similarly, depending on the incident wavelength, there is a critical breakwater width for which a minimum energy is transmitted. Further, the accuracy of the computed results is verified by using the derived energy relation.