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Bridge flutter control using eccentric rotational actuators

  • Korlin, R.;Starossek, U.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.323-340
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    • 2013
  • An active mass damper system for flutter control of bridges is presented. Flutter stability of bridge structures is improved with the help of eccentric rotational actuators (ERA). By using a bridge girder model that moves in two degrees of freedom and is subjected to wind, the equations of motion of the controlled structure equipped with ERA are established. In order to take structural nonlinearities into consideration, flutter analysis is carried out by numerical simulation scheme based on a 4th-order Runge-Kutta algorithm. An example demonstrates the performance and efficiency of the proposed device. In comparison with known active mass dampers for flutter control, the movable eccentric mass damper and the rotational mass damper, the power demand is significantly reduced. This is of advantage for an implementation of the proposed device in real bridge girders. A preliminary design of a realization of ERA in a bridge girder is presented.

Six-axis Biodynamic Response to Vertical Whole-body Vibration (수직방향 진동에 대한 인체의 6축 방향 반응특성분석)

  • Jeon, Gyeoung-Jin;Kim, Min-Seok;Ahn, Se-Jin;Jeong, Weui-Bong;Yoo, Wan-Suk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.218-223
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    • 2011
  • Seated human subjects have been exposed to vertical vibration so as to investigate six-axis biodynamic response. Sixteen males were exposed to random vertical vibration in the frequency range(3~40Hz) at one vibration magnitude(0.224m/$s^2$ r.m.s.). Forces were measured in the vertical, fore-and-aft, lateral, roll, pitch and yaw direction on the seat. The median of cross-axis apparent mass magnitude in the fore-and-aft direction could reach up to 20% of the apparent mass magnitude at resonance frequency. And the median of apparent eccentric mass magnitude in the roll direction could reach up to 15% of the apparent eccentric mass magnitude in the pitch direction at resonance frequency. But cross-axis apparent mass in the lateral direction and apparent eccentric mass in the yaw direction showed very small.

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Study of Apparent Mass and Apparent Eccentric Mass to Vertical Whole-body Vibration by Using Strain-gage Type Six-axis Force Plate (6축 힘측정판을 이용한 수직방향 전신진동에 대한 겉보기질량 및 겉보기편심질량에 대한 고찰)

  • Jeon, Gyeoung-Jin;Kim, Min-Seok;Ahn, Se-Jin;Jeong, Weui-Bong;Yoo, Wan-Suk
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.21 no.10
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    • pp.897-904
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    • 2011
  • When whole-body is exposed to vertical vibration, asymmetry shape of human body affects the response on the translational(fore-aft, lateral, vertical) and rotational(roll, pitch, yaw) motion. While the translational motion has been studied with various titles, it has been rare to study the rotational motion of human body exposed to vertical excitation because of lack of experimental equipment. This study was performed by using a 6-axis force plate installing strain gage type sensors for the rotational response. Sixteen male subjects were exposed to vertical vibration on rigid seat in order to investigate apparent mass of three translational motion and apparent eccentric mass of three rotational motion. Random signal was generated to make excitation vibration which was on an effective frequency range of 3~40 Hz, and magnitude of 0.224 m/$s^2$ r.m.s. The frequency range and magnitude used was selected for the vibration of passenger vehicle on idling condition. As the result, cross-axis apparent masses of fore-and-aft and lateral direction were not significant showing 20 % and 3 % of vertical apparent mass relatively. And apparent eccentric mass of pitch motion was dominant when compared to that of roll and yaw motion, which is reasoned by asymmetry direction of human body sitting on a seat.

Performance analysis of scroll compressor considering eccentric mass of orbiting scroll (선회스크롤의 편심질량을 고려한 스크롤압축기의 성능해석)

  • 박승철;이진갑
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.605-614
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    • 1999
  • Orbiting scroll mass center is different from the basic circle's for the normal involute profile. As for the orbiting scroll balanced conditions, the dynamic modeling are set up. The influences on sealing, reaction forces between the moving elements and forces from the moving elements to the compressor frame are analyzed in this paper. The simulation and experiment results are presented.

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Human Response to Idle Vibration of Passenger Vehicle Related to Seating Posture (승용차량의 아이들 진동을 고려한 착석자세에 따른 인체의 반응특성 분석)

  • Jeon, Gyeoung-Jin;Kim, Min-Seok;Ahn, Se-Jin;Jeong, Weui-Bong;Yoo, Wan-Suk
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.20 no.12
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    • pp.1121-1127
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    • 2010
  • Human characteristic responding to idle vibration on passenger vehicle was studied to find if affected by seating posture of passenger. When twelve male subjects are exposed to moderate vertical vibration of 0.224 $m/s^2$ r.m.s. at frequency range from 3 Hz to 40 Hz, it was found that seating posture significantly affects to biodynamical characteristics, apparent mass and apparent eccentric mass, at most range of idle vibration frequency(20~40 Hz). The supported thigh contact on rigid seat showed bigger values in the two biodynamical characteristics than the average thigh contact. The bigger apparent mass and apparent eccentric mass in the seating posture of the supported thigh contact can be assumed more strengthened muscle at the frequency range.

Formulae for the frequency equations of beam-column system carrying a fluid storage tank

  • El-Sayed, Tamer. A.;Farghaly, Said. H.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.73 no.1
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    • pp.83-95
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    • 2020
  • In this work, a mathematical model of beam-column system carrying a double eccentric end mass system is investigated, and solved analytically based on the exact solution analysis. The model considers the case in which the double eccentric end mass is a rigid storage tank containing fluid. Both Timoshenko and Bernoulli-Euler beam bending theories are considered. Equation of motion, general solution and boundary conditions for the present system model are developed and presented in dimensional and non-dimensional format. Several important non-dimensional design parameters are introduced. Symbolic and/or explicit formulae of the frequency and mode shape equations are formulated. To the authors knowledge, the present reduced closed form symbolic and explicit frequency equations have not appeared in literature. For different applications, the results are validated using commercial finite element package, namely ANSYS. The beam-column system investigated in this paper is significant for many engineering applications, especially, in mechanical and structural systems.

Study on Flow Characteristics for Eccentric Shaft in the Butterfly Valve System (축편심 버터플라이 밸브의 유동특성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, S.M.;Choi, H.K.;Yoo, G.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.587-591
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    • 2011
  • To improve the performance of the control butterfly valve seals are used to eccentric shaft. In this case, vertical opening gas of the butterfly valve is non-symmetrical, which will change the flow pattern around the valve. In this study, the eccentric drive shaft of the butterfly valve to change flow characteristics are performed numerically. Flow pattern and pressure drop are investigated as the valve opening angle increases for a given mass flow rate. The valve flow coefficient is compared to the without eccentric shaft.

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Tidal Disruption Flares from Stars on Bound Orbits

  • Hayasaki, Kimitake;Stone, Nicholas;Loeb, Abraham
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.60.1-60.1
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    • 2013
  • We study tidal disruption and subsequent mass fallback process for stars approaching supermassive black holes on bound orbits, by performing three dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations with a pseudo-Newtonian potential. We find that the mass fallback rate decays with the expected -5/3 power of time for parabolic orbits, albeit with a slight deviation due to the self-gravity of the stellar debris. For eccentric orbits, however, there is a critical value of the orbital eccentricity, significantly below which all of the stellar debris is bound to the supermassive black hole. All the mass therefore falls back to the supermassive black hole in a much shorter time than in the standard, parabolic case. The resultant mass fallback rate considerably exceeds the Eddington accretion rate and substantially differs from the -5/3 power of time. We also show that general relativistic precession is crucial for accretion disk formation via circularization of stellar debris from stars on moderately eccentric orbits.

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Biomechanical Alternation of the Elderly Depending on the Type of Gait Termination (멈춤 유형에 따른 노인 보행의 생체역학적 변화)

  • Yi, Jae-Hoon;Ryu, Ji-Seon
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.189-196
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to verify the difference in biomechanical variation and pattern of the lower limb between planned and unexpected termination, which is related to the prevention of fatal fall in the elderly. Therefore, selected twenty subjects for each group which composed of females(age: $73.5{\pm}4.63$ year, height: $153.2{\pm}6.46$ cm, body mass: $58.98{\pm}5.82$ kg) and women(age: $23.4{\pm}2.5$ year, height: $164.65{\pm}3.9$ cm, body mass: $58.47{\pm}5.53$ kg) in their twenties. As a result, lower limb's extension moment and power were increased significantly in statistics(p<.05). Also, knee joint power showed instant changes from concentric contraction to eccentric contraction and hip joint power from eccentric contraction to concentric contraction. During unexpected termination there were dramatical increase in eccentric contraction and power(p<.05). In both planned and unexpected termination, ankle joint moment were higher in young group, but the moment of the hip joint were higher in the elderly group(p<.05). In contrast to younger group, there were no changes in knee extension moment in elderly group(p<.05). but showed relatively higher hip joint extension moment and power(p<.05).