• Earthquakes and Structures
• /
• 제9권1호
• /
• pp.127-143
• /
• 2015

In conventional seismic design, structures are assumed to be fixed at the base. To reduce the impact of earthquake loading, while at the same time providing an economically feasible structure, minor damage is tolerated in the form of controlled plastic hinging at predefined locations in the structure. Uplift is traditionally not permitted because of concerns that it would lead to collapse. However, observations of damage to structures that have been through major earthquakes reveal that partial and temporary uplift of structures can be beneficial in many cases. Allowing a structure to move as a rigid body is in fact one way to limit activated seismic forces that could lead to severe inelastic deformations. To further reduce the induced seismic energy, slip-friction connectors could be installed to act both as hold-downs resisting overturning and as contributors to structural damping. This paper reviews recent research on the concept, with a focus on timber shear walls. A novel approach used to achieve the desired sliding threshold in the slip-friction connectors is described. The wall uplifts when this threshold is reached, thereby imparting ductility to the structure. To resist base shear an innovative shear key was developed. Recent research confirms that the proposed system of timber wall, shear key, and slip-friction connectors, are feasible as a ductile and low-damage structural solution. Additional numerical studies explore the interaction between vertical load and slip-friction connector strength, and how this influences both the energy dissipation and self-centring capabilities of the rocking structure.

• Tribology and Lubricants
• /
• 제35권2호
• /
• pp.114-122
• /
• 2019

High-speed rotating machinery requires low cost and reliable bearing elements with low friction, stable rotordynamic characteristics, and a simple design. This study experimentally evaluates the effects of bearing-support elements on the vibrational characteristics of a small-sized, high-speed permanent magnetic motor. A series of coast down tests from 100 krpm characterize the vibrational behaviors, rotor displacement, and housing acceleration of motors supported by ball bearings, ball bearings with a metal mesh damper, and gas foil bearings, respectively. Two eddy-current sensors installed in the horizontal and vertical directions measure the displacement of the rotor at its front nut, and a 3-axis accelerometer attached to the motor housing measures the housing acceleration. The test results reveal that synchronous (1X) vibration components most significantly affect the rotor displacement and housing acceleration, independent of the bearing-support elements. The motor supported by the deep-groove ball bearings results in the largest rotor vibrations increasing with speed; this is due to the absence of a damping mechanism. Additionally, the metal mesh damper effectively reduces the rotor displacement, housing acceleration, and sound-pressure level in the high-speed region (i.e., above 40 krpm), thus implying its substantial damping performance when installed on the outer race of the ball bearing. Lastly, the gas foil bearing supported motor yields the smallest rotor displacement, housing acceleration, and lowest sound-pressure level because of its hydrodynamic airborne operation, which does not require rolling elements that may cause mechanical friction and vibrations.

• Smart Structures and Systems
• /
• 제8권5호
• /
• pp.501-524
• /
• 2011

Recent studies have discovered that a conventional passive isolation system may suffer from an excessive isolator displacement when subjected to a near-fault earthquake that usually has a long-period velocity pulse waveform. Semi-active isolation using variable friction dampers (VFD), which requires a suitable control law, may provide a solution to this problem. To control the VFD in a semi-active isolation system more efficiently, this paper investigates experimentally the possible use of a control law whose control logic is similar to that of the anti-lock braking systems (ABS) widely used in the automobile industry. This ABS-type controller has the advantages of being simple and easily implemented, because it only requires the measurement of the isolation-layer velocity and does not require system modeling for gain design. Most importantly, it does not interfere with the isolation period, which usually decides the isolation efficiency. In order to verify its feasibility and effectiveness, the ABS-type controller was implemented on a variable-friction isolation system whose slip force is regulated by an embedded piezoelectric actuator, and a seismic simulation test was conducted for this isolation system. The experimental results demonstrate that, as compared to a passive isolation system with various levels of added damping, the semi-active isolation system using the ABS-type controller has the better overall performance when both the far-field and the near-fault earthquakes with different PGA levels are considered.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
• /
• 제29권6호
• /
• pp.369-381
• /
• 2017

쇄파역에서 흔히 관측되는 왜도된 비선형 파랑은 정현파에 비해 상대적으로 큰 관성력을 지녀 투과율에 미치는 영향이 상당할 것으로 추정되어왔다. 본고에서는 이러한 추론을 확인하기 위해 왜도가 1.02에서 1.032에 분포하는 총 여섯 개의 파랑을 대상으로 한 수치모의를 수행하였다. 수치모의는 OpenFoam 기반 Tool box인 ihFoam을 사용하여 수행하였으며, 왜도된 비선형 파랑은 경사가 1:30인 천퇴를 이용하여 유도하였다. 투수층에서의 유동은 Navier Stokes Eq.에 추가 항력을 도입하여 해석하였으며, 모의결과 왜도된 비선형 파랑은 정현파에 비해 큰 관성력으로 인해 상대적으로 큰 투과율을 지니는 것으로 모의되었다. 또한 Porous층에서의 Damping으로 인한 파속변화 여부를 살펴 보기위해 Damping이 반영된 천수방정식으로부터 분산관계식을 새로이 유도하였으며, 그 결과 투과성 방파제에서의 파형과 마찰력 사이의 위상차가 파속에 영향을 미치는 것으로 보인다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
• /
• 제14권4호
• /
• pp.181-191
• /
• 2006

The most common kind of vehicular accident is the low-speed rear-end impact that result in high portion of insurance claims and Whiplash Associated Disorders(WAD). The low-speed collisions have specific characteristics that differ from high speed collisions and must be treated differently This paper presents a simple continuous contact force model for the low-speed rear-end impact to simulate the accelerations, velocities and the contact force as functions of time. A smoothed Coulomb friction force is used to represent the effect of braking, which was found to be significant in simulating low-speed rear end impact. The intervehicular contact force is modeled using nonlinear damping and spring elements with coefficients and exponents. This paper presents how to estimate analytically stiffness and damping coefficients. The exponent of the nonlinear contact force model was determined to match the overall acceleration pulse shape and magnitude. The model can be used to determine ${\Delta}Vs$ and peak accelerations for the purpose of accident reconstruction and for injury biomechanics studies.

• Tribology and Lubricants
• /
• 제30권1호
• /
• pp.1-8
• /
• 2014

In this study, a three-pad gas foil journal bearing with a diameter of 40 mm and an axial length of 35 mm was modeled to predict the static and dynamic performances with regard to an increasing mechanical preload. The Reynolds equation for an isothermal and isoviscous ideal gas was coupled with a simple elastic foundation foil model to calculate the hydrodynamic pressure solution iteratively. In the prediction results, the journal eccentricity, journal attitude angle, and minimum film thickness decreased, but the friction torque increased with the preload. A quick comparison implied a lower load capacity but higher stability for a three-pad gas foil bearing compared to a one-pad gas foil journal bearing. The direct stiffness coefficients increased with the preload, but the cross-coupled stiffness coefficients decreased. The direct damping coefficient increased in the horizontal direction but decreased in the vertical direction as the preload increased. These model predictions will be useful as a benchmark against experimental test data.

• 소음진동
• /
• 제7권5호
• /
• pp.861-869
• /
• 1997

An approximate analytical method has been developed for estimating hydrodynamic forces acting on oscillating inner cylinder in concentric annulus. When the rigid inner cylinder executes translational oscillation, fluid inertia and damping forces on the oscillating cylinder are generated by unsteady pressure and viscous skin friction. Considering the dynamic-characteristics of unsteady viscous flow and the added mass coefficient of inviscid fluid, these hydrodynamic forces including viscous effect are dramatically simplified and expressed in terms of oscillatory Reynolds number and the geometry of annular configuration. Thus, the viscous effect on the forces can be estimated very easily compared to an existing theory. The forces are calculated by two models developed for relatively high and low oscillatory Reynolds numbers. The model for low oscillatory Reynolds number is suitable for relatively high ratio of the penetration depth to annular space while the model for high oscillatory Reynolds number is applicable to the case of relatively low ratio. It is found that the transient ratio between two models is approximately 0.2~0.25 and the forcea are expressed in terms of oscillatory Reynolds number, explicity. The present results show good agreements with an existing numerical results, especially for high and low penetration ratios to annular gap.

• 물과 미래
• /
• 제24권2호
• /
• pp.81-95
• /
• 1991

본 연구는 조석과 하천류의 상호작용을 살펴보기 위해 지배방정식을 섭동근사댑을 이용하여 해석 해를 구하였다. 또한 여기에 이류항과 비선형 마찰항을 포함 하였다. 하천류와 조석분조들과의 복잡한 상호작용을 각각의 분조와의 상호작용으로 단순화 시키기 위해 조화분석을 실시하였다 조석의 무차원 매개변수, 특히 감쇄율을 각각의 해에 대하여 구하였다. 평가결과 해석해로부터 구한 감쇄율은 조화분석으로부터 구한 측정치보다 낮게 평가되어 그들의 상관관계를 설정하여 보정 하였다. 해석해를 금강의 감조구간에 적용하여 관측치와 비교한 결과 잘 일치하였다.

• 한국재료학회지
• /
• 제4권7호
• /
• pp.817-822
• /
• 1994

비슷한 역학적 특성을 갖는 단면의 형상이 C형인 탄소섬유와 전형적인 원형탄소섬유를 에폭시를 모재로 하여 상호의 단면 형상이 강화 효과에 미치는 영향을 실험하였다. 실험결과 C 형 탄소 섬유 강화 복합재가 굴곡강도(218%), 굴곡탄성률(223%), 충간전단강도(157%), 충격강도(227%), 횡굴곡강도(184%)등의 모든 기계적 특성 부분에서 우수한 성능을 보였으며, 또한 재료의피로수명, 마찰/마모계수와 같은 기계적 특성과도 많은 상관을 보이는 것으로 알려진 제진(damping)특성에 있어서도 약 185% 정도의 높은 값을 보였다. 본 연구팀은 이와 같은 비원형 탄소섬유(C형)의 강화 효과및 가능성을 확인하여 제시하는 바 이다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
• /
• 제12권1호
• /
• pp.127-134
• /
• 2008

내진설계기준이 점차 강화되고 다경간 연속화에 대한 시도가 증가됨에 따라 기존의 내진설계로는 지진력의 처리가 곤란하여 다점고정장치와 감쇠를 통해 지진에너지를 소산시키는 장주기화, 분산, 감쇠를 통해 지진력을 효과적으로 감소시키는 면진장치의 사용이 날로 증가하고 있다. 그러나 내진장치 적용에 대한 다양성 부재와 장치를 적용한 설계경험의 부족 등의 이유로 특정교량에 적절한 내진장치를 선정하는데 상당한 어려움이 따르고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 다양한 내진장치가 적용된 교량의 지진시 거동특성에 대한 연구를 수행하여 받침장치 선정시 활용할 수 있도록 하였다.