• Wind and Structures
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.249-265
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• 2017

An efficient and accurate algorithm is proposed to estimate flutter safety factor of suspension bridges satisfying prescribed reliability levels. Uncertainties which arise from the basic wind speed at the bridge deck location, critical flutter velocity, the wind conversion factor from a scaled model to the prototype structure and the gust speed factor are incorporated. The proposed algorithm integrates the concepts of the inverse reliability method and the calculation method of the critical flutter velocity of suspension bridges. The unique feature of the proposed method is that it offers a tool for flutter safety assessment of suspension bridges, when the reliability level is specified as a target to be satisfied by the designer. Accuracy and efficiency of this method with reference to three example suspension bridges is studied and numerical results validate its superiority over conventional deterministic method. Finally, the effects of various parameters on the flutter safety factor of suspension bridges are also investigated.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2005년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.929-929
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• 2005

In this study, computational demonstrations for the flutter suppression are presented for the 3-DOF airfoil system with oscillating flap. Advanced computational methods such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational structural dynamics (CSD) are used and a simultaneous coupling method has been developed to accurately conduct flutter analyses. In addition, optimal control theory is integrated into the CFD based flutter analysis method to construct the coupled aeroservoelastic analysis system for the airfoil with oscillating flap. For a well-defined typical section model, fundamental unsteady aerodynamics and flutter characteristics are investigated. Finally, to show the effectiveness of flutter control the physical aeroelastic responses are directly compared between the open loop and the closed loop systems.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.407-422
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• 2002

Passive control of the flutter condition of suspension bridges using a combined vertical and torsional tuned mass damper (TMD) system is presented. The proposed TMD system has two degrees of freedom, which are tuned close to the frequencies corresponding to vertical and torsional symmetric modes of the bridge which get coupled during flutter. The bridge-TMD system is analyzed for finding critical wind speed for flutter using a finite element approach. Thomas Suspension Bridge is analyzed as an illustrative example. The effectiveness of the TMD system in increasing the critical flutter speed of the bridge is investigated through a parametric study. The results of the parametric study led to the optimization of some important parameters such as mass ratio, TMD damping ratio, tuning frequency, and number of TMD systems which provide maximum critical flutter wind speed of the suspension bridge.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.41-49
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• 1999

The flutter of a bridge is induced by self-excited force factors such as lift, drag and aerodynamic moment. These factors are associated with flutter derivatives in the analysis of wind engineering. The flutter derivatives are the function of structure configuration, wind velocity and response circular frequency. Therefore, the governing equations for the interaction between the wind and dynamic response of the structure are complicated and highly nonlinear. Herein, a numerical algorithm through graphical technique for the solution of wind at flutter is presented. It provides a concise approach to the solution of wind velocity at flutter.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.518-527
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• 2016

이 연구는 패널 플러터 시뮬레이션을 위한 집중 하중의 사용을 연구한다. 이러한 구상은 날개 구조의 아음속 플러터 연구에 대해서는 검증된 바 있으나 초음속 영역에서는 그렇지 못하다. 따라서, 4면 단순 지지 경계 조건의 패널에 공기력과 등가의 집중하중을 가하여 초음속 패널 플러터를 연구한다. 분포된 공기력은 수치 적분 계산을 통해 집중 하중들로 근사된다. 선형 패널 플러터에 대한 공탄성 방정식은 고전적인 small-deflection theory와 piston theory를 이용하여 세워지는 반면, 모방된 패널 플러터에서 플러터 방정식은 분포 공기력에 의한 압력을 집중 하중에 의한 압력으로 대체함으로써 유도된다. 최종적으로 플러터 주파수, 임계 동압, 그리고 그에 상응하는 모드형상이 모방된 패널 플러터에 대해 구해지고, 그 결과를 선형 패널 플러터로부터 얻은 결과와 비교하여 검증하였다. 또한 두 가지 중요한 파라미터인 집중 하중의 개수와 위치는 수치적 예제들과 최적화 과정을 통해 각각 논의되었다. 이 연구에서 얻어진 플러터 결과는 집중하중들을 이용하여 패널 플러터를 재현하는 가능성을 논의하는데 타당한 것으로 생각된다.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제45권7호
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• pp.928-932
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• 2002

저자들은 재태 연령 $38^{+6}$주에 태아 심초음파 검사에 의해 태아 심방 조동이 발견되어 산모에게 digoxin을 투여하였으나 효과가 없어 제왕 절개술을 통해 분만한 후, digoxin, 전기적 심율동 전환에 의해서도 치료되지 않아 propafenone을 복용하여 정상 동율동으로 회복된 1례를 경험하였기에 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.61-82
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• 2007

This paper presents a novel finite element (FE) model for analyzing coupled flutter of long-span bridges using the commercial FE package ANSYS. This model utilizes a specific user-defined element Matrix27 in ANSYS to model the aeroelastic forces acting on the bridge, wherein the stiffness and damping matrices are expressed in terms of the reduced wind velocity and flutter derivatives. Making use of this FE model, damped complex eigenvalue analysis is carried out to determine the complex eigenvalues, of which the real part is the logarithm decay rate and the imaginary part is the damped vibration frequency. The condition for onset of flutter instability becomes that, at a certain wind velocity, the structural system incorporating fictitious Matrix27 elements has a complex eigenvalue with zero or near-zero real part, with the imaginary part of this eigenvalue being the flutter frequency. Case studies are provided to validate the developed procedure as well as to demonstrate the flutter analysis of cable-supported bridges using ANSYS. The proposed method enables the bridge designers and engineering practitioners to analyze flutter instability by using the commercial FE package ANSYS.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.115-131
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• 2017

Classical flutter of wind turbine blades indicates a type of aeroelastic instability with fully attached boundary layer where a torsional blade mode couples to a flapwise bending mode, resulting in a mutual rapid growth of the amplitudes. In this paper the monitoring problem of onset of flutter is investigated from a detection point of view. The criterion is stated in terms of the exceeding of a defined envelope process of a specific maximum torsional vibration threshold. At a certain instant of time, a limited part of the previously measured torsional vibration signal at the tip of blade is decomposed through the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method, and the 1st Intrinsic Mode Function (IMF) is assumed to represent the response in the flutter mode. Next, an envelope time series of the indicated modal response is obtained in terms of a Hilbert transform. Finally, a flutter onset criterion is proposed, based on the indicated envelope process. The proposed online flutter monitoring method provided a practical and direct way to detect onset of flutter during operation. The algorithm has been illustrated by a 907-DOFs aeroelastic model for wind turbines, where the tower and the drive train is modelled by 7 DOFs, and each blade by means of 50 3-D Bernoulli-Euler beam elements.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2009

In this paper, the airflow around an ideal thin plate (hereafter referred to as ITP) with various ratios of central slot is simulated by using the finite-difference-method (FDM)-based Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian descriptions for the rigid oscillating body. The numerical procedure employs the second-order projection scheme to decouple the governing equations, and the multigrid algorithm with three levels to improve the computational efficiency in evaluating of the pressure equation. The present CFD method is validated through comparing the computed flutter derivatives of the ITP without slot to Theodorsen analytical solutions. Then, the unsteady aerodynamics of the ITP with and without central slot is investigated. It is found that even a smaller ratio of central slot of the ITP has notable effects on pressure distributions of the downstream section, and the pressure distributions on the downstream section will further be significantly affected by the slot ratio and the reduced wind speeds. Continuous increase of $A_2^*$ with the increase of central slot may be the key feature of the slotted ITP. Finally, flutter analyses based on the flutter derivatives of the slotted ITP are performed, and moreover, flutter instabilities of a scaled sectional model of a twin-deck bridge with various ratios of deck slot are investigated. The results confirm that the central slot is effective to improve bridge flutter stabilities, and that the flutter critical wind speeds increase with the increase of slot ratio.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.525-533
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• 2001

교량의 내풍 안전성을 평가하기 위해서는 플러터 계수(Flutter Derivatives)의 안정적 추정이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 풍동실험에서 얻어지는 시간영역에서의 데이터중 변위 시계열데이터를 이용해서 플러터 계수를 구하는 동특성 계수 측정기법 2가지를 검토하였다. 검토된 MITD(Modified Ibrahim Time Domain) 방법과 AKF(Adaptive Kalman Filtering) 방법은 2차원단면모형 실험으로부터 동시에 8개의 플러터 계수를 산출할 수 있는 유용한 방법이다. 제안된 방법의 실제상황에서의 적용성을 검토하기 위해서 Bandlimited Gausian white noise을 가상의 데이터에 첨가하여 수학적 시뮬레이션으로 잡음에 대한 안정성을 검증해 보았다. 그 결과 교량의 플러터 해석에서는 본 연구에서 검증된 MITD 방법을 통한 플러터 계수의 산출이 추전된다.