• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.129-136
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• 2002

Electric vehicle body has to be subjected to uniform load and demand auxiliary equipment such as air pipe, electric wire pipe and gas pipe. Especially, lightweight vehicle body is salutary to save operating costs and fuel consumption. Cross beam supports the weight of passenger and electrical equipments and account for the most of weight of vehicle body. Therefore this study performs the size and the shape optimization of crossbeam for electric vehicle using GENESIS 7.0 and presents the effect of mass reduction and the shape of hole in cross beam.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.137-145
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• 2002

Electric vehicle body has to be subjected to uniform load and requires auxiliary equipment such as air pipe and electric wire pipe. Especially, the cross beam supports the weight of passenger and electrical equipments. a lightweight vehicle body is salutary to save operating costs and fuel consumption. Therefore this study is to perform the size and the shape optimization of crossbeam for electric vehicle using the method of topology optimization to introduce the concept of homogenization based on optimality criteria method which is efficient for the problem having the number of design variables and a few boundary condition. this provides the method to determine the optimum position and shape of circular hole in the cross beam and then can achieve the optimal design to reduce weight.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.570-579
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• 2011

This paper deals with free vibrations of the circular curved beams with constant volume, whose cross sectional shapes are the circular solid cross-sections. Volumes of the objective beam are always held in constant regardless shape functions of the cross-sectional radius. The shape functions are chosen as the linear, parabolic and sinusoidal ones. Ordinary differential equations governing free vibrations of such beam are derived and solved numerically for determining the natural frequencies. In numerical examples, the hinged-hinged, hinged-clamped and clamped-clamped end constraints are considered. As the numerical results, relationships between frequency parameters and various beam parameters such as rise ratio, section ratio, elasticity ratio, volume ratio, slenderness ratio and taper type are reported in tables and figures.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.85-93
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• 2004

Electric vehicle body has to be subjected to uniform load and requires auxiliary equipment such as air pipe and electric wire pipe. Especially, the cross beam supports the weight of passenger and electrical equipments. This need to use adaptive design in initial design stage to gain economy through interchangeability between many kinds of components. This study performs the topology optimization by the concept of homogenization based on optimality criteria method which is efficient for the problem with a number of boundary condition and design variable. Therefore this provides the method to determine the optimum position and the shape of circular hole in the cross beam and then can achieve the weight minimization of electric vehicle body.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2003

W-beam guardrail system has been the most popular roadside safety device around the world. Through large plastic deformation and corresponding energy dissipation, a W-beam guardrail system contains and re-directs out-of-control vehicles so as to reduce the impact damage on the vehicle occupants and the vehicles themselves. In this paper, our recent experiments on 1 : 3.75 downscaled W-beam and the beam-post system are reported. The static and impact test results on the load characteristics, the global response and the local cross-sectional distortion are reveled. The effects of three different end-boundary conditions for the beam-only testing are examined. It is found that the load characteristics are much dependent on the combined contribution of the local cross-sectional distortion and the end-supporting conditions. The energy Partitioning between the beam and the supporting Posts in the beam-Post-system testing were also examined. The results showed that the energy dissipation partitioning changed with the input impact energy. Finally, a simple mass-spring model is developed to assess the dynamic response of a W-beam guardrail system in response to an impact loading. The model's prediction agrees well with the experimental results.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2006년도 정기 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1033-1039
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• 2006

To overcome the drawback of currently available curved beam theories having non-symmetric thin-walled cross sections, a curved beam theory based on centroid-shear center formulation is presented for the spatially coupled free vibration and elastic analyses. For this, the elastic strain and kinetic energies considering the thickness-curvature effect and the rotary inertia of curved beam are derived by degenerating the energies of the elastic continuum to those of curved beam. And then the equilibrium equations and the boundary conditions are consistently derived for curved beams having non-symmetric thin-walled cross section. It is emphasized that for curved beams with L- or T-shaped sections, this thin-walled curved beam theory can be easily reduced to tl1e solid beam theory by simply putting the sectional properties associated with warping to zero. In order to illustrate the validity and the accuracy of this study, FE solutions using the Hermitian curved beam elements are presented and compared with the results by previous research and ABAQUS's shell elements.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.102-108
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• 2010

Projection microstereolithography is a process of fabricating a micro-structure by using dynamic mask such as digital micromirror device(DMD). DMD shapes the beam into cross-sectional image of structure. Photocurable resin is cured by the beam and stacked layer on top of layer. It is difficult to deliver the beam from the DMD to the photocurable resin without any distortions. We assume that the beam exposed to the resin by 1 pixel of DMD has Gaussian distribution, so the shaped beam reflected by the DMD affects its neighboring area. Curing pattern corresponding to a cross-sectional images is predicted by superposition of pixels of Gaussian distribution and it is similar to cured shape.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제29권3A호
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• pp.227-234
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• 2009

최근 강박스거더교량 가로보와 박스거더 연결부에 니브레이스(Knee-brace) 설치가 일반화 되어있다. 니브레이스는 가로보-박스거더 연결부의 응력완화 및 횡변형 방지를 목적으로 설치되는 보강재나, 구조적 보강효과에 대해서는 아직 명확하지 않다. 본 연구에서는 유한요소해석을 통하여 니브레이스의 보강효과를 검토하였다. 가로보-박스거더 높이비와 니브레이스 유무를 변수로한 구조해석을 통하여 부재별 응력흐름, 응력수준과 가로보 처짐을 검토하였다. 그리고 수치해석결과의 비교를 통하여 니브레이스의 보강효과를 평가하였다. 유한요소해석 결과는 니브레이스가 박스거더-가로보 연결부의 보강재로서 응력완화 및 구조적 보강효과가 매우 낮음을 보이고 있다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제3권6호
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• pp.555-567
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• 1995

Design curves have been prepared for prestressed rectangular beam section based on BS 8110, for determining area of steel for any given cross section, for stresses in concrete and steel and for the design moment. The design moment and the area of steel have been expressed in dimensionless form in terms of cross sectional dimensions and the characteristic strength of concrete. The choice and combination of design parameters result in considerably less number of curves as aid for design of rectangular prestressed beam sections, than those reported in CP 110 (Part 3).

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2012

비대칭 H형강이 콘크리트에 매립되어 화재에 노출되는 일반 합성보에 비하여 내화성능이 높은 슬림플로어 공법에 대한 화재거동특성을 분석하고, 이를 기반으로 내화성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 최적 단면형상 조건을 도출하고자 연구를 수행하였다. 단면형상은 휨 성능을 증진시킬 수 있는 웨브 보강과 화재에 직접 노출되는 하부플랜지의 보강 방안에 대하여 화재실험을 진행하였으며, 무 보강조건과 형상변화시에 발생하는 합성플로어의 처짐을 비교 분석하여 효과적인 단면형상 설계조건을 도출하고자 하였다. 실험결과 웨브 보강방안에 비해 하부플랜지 보강시 내화성능 향상효율이 더 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 이는 화재에 직접적으로 노출되는 하부플랜지 부분에 보강을 하는 것이 급격한 온도상승으로 인한 강도저하로 인해 발생하는 변형을 보다 효율적으로 제어하기 때문으로 판단된다.