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Development of Force Measuring Device in Learning Wind Tunnel Used for Transportation Technology Class (수송 기술에 적합한 학습용 풍동의 힘 측정 장치 개발)

  • Choi, Jun-Seop;Lee, Sung-Gu
    • 대한공업교육학회지
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.117-133
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to develop the force measuring device of learning wind tunnel, teaching-learning materials in order to enhance understanding of flight principle and give interest about aviation technology in secondary school. The content of this study was consisted of the development and experiment of force measuring device for learning wind tunnel. The main results of this study were as follows: This device developed here is simple structure applying lever principle instead of the comparatively expensive load cell used in engineering college or a aviation research institute and so on. Measurement of lift and drag as well as the comparison experiment of a fluid resistance is possible with only one device developed here. The lift coefficient with angle of attack has shown the same tendency in both of theoretical and experimental values. And the stall phenomenon was found under the larger angle of attack of experimental rather than expected theoretical values. The drag coefficient with angle of attack has shown the same tendency in both of theoretical and experimental values. And drag coefficient the rate of increasement of the experimental values increased more gently than its theoretical values.

Aerodynamic behavior of supertall buildings with three-fold rotational symmetric plan shapes: A case study

  • Rafizadeh, Hamidreza;Alaghmandan, Matin;Tabasi, Saba Fattahi;Banihashemi, Saeed
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.407-419
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    • 2022
  • Many factors should be considered by architects and designers for designing a tall building. Wind load is one of these important factors that govern the design of tall building structures and can become a serious challenge when buildings tend to be built very tall and slender. On the other hand, through the initial stages of a design process, choosing the design geometry greatly affects the wind-induced forces on a tall building. With this respect, geometric shapes with 3-fold rotational symmetry are one of the applied plan shapes in tall buildings. This study, therefore, aims to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of 8 different geometrical shapes using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) by measuring the drag and lift forces. A case study approach was conducted in which different building shape models have the same total gross area and the same height of 300 meters. The simulation was an incompressible transient flow that ran 1700 timesteps (85 seconds on the real-time scale). The results show a great difference between wind-induced force performance of buildings with different plan shapes. Generally, it is stated that the shapes with the same area, but with smaller perimeters, are better choices for reducing the drag force on buildings. Applying the lift force, the results show that the buildings with plan shapes that have rounded corners act better in crosswind flow while, those with sharp corners induce larger forces in the same direction. This study delivers more analytical understanding of building shapes and their behavior against the wind force through the parametric modelling.

Prediction of Peak Back Compressive Forces as a Function of Lifting Speed and Compressive Forces at Lift Origin and Destination - A Pilot Study

  • Greenland, Kasey O.;Merryweather, Andrew S.;Bloswick, Donald S.
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.236-242
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    • 2011
  • Objectives: To determine the feasibility of predicting static and dynamic peak back-compressive forces based on (1) static back compressive force values at the lift origin and destination and (2) lifting speed. Methods: Ten male subjects performed symmetric mid-sagittal floor-to-shoulder, floor-to-waist, and waist-to-shoulder lifts at three different speeds (slow, medium, and fast), and with two different loads (light and heavy). Two-dimensional kinematics and kinetics were captured. Linear regression analyses were used to develop prediction equations, the amount of predictability, and significance for static and dynamic peak back-compressive forces based on a static origin and destination average (SODA) backcompressive force. Results: Static and dynamic peak back-compressive forces were highly predicted by the SODA, with R2 values ranging from 0.830 to 0.947. Slopes were significantly different between slow and fast lifting speeds (p < 0.05) for the dynamic peak prediction equations. The slope of the regression line for static prediction was significantly greater than one with a significant positive intercept value. Conclusion: SODA under-predict both static and dynamic peak back-compressive force values. Peak values are highly predictable and could be readily determined using back-compressive force assessments at the origin and destination of a lifting task. This could be valuable for enhancing job design and analysis in the workplace and for large-scale studies where a full analysis of each lifting task is not feasible.

Flowing of the System the Underwater Vehicles Hull the Nozzle of Pump-jet Propeller with Angles of Attack (잠수선형의 영각 펌프노즐 프로펠러 유동 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kwi-Joo;Joa, Son-Won;Kim, Kyoung-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.149-154
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    • 2004
  • Results of a numerical simulation of a flowing of the underwater vehicles hull with the pump-jet nozzle are presented. It was calculate velocity distributions coefficients of the lift force the longitudinal moment of the hull with the pump-jet nozzle and isolated hull for some values of angle of attack. It was shown that the area of the influence of the nozzle on the velocities distribution of the hull and character of changing of coefficients of the lift force and the longitudinal moment and their derivatives depending on angle of attack.

Numerical Simulation of Flow around Variable Pitch Helically Elliptic Twisted Cylinder based on the Biomimetic Flow Control (생체모방 유동제어 기반 가변 피치 나선형 실린더 주위 유동 해석)

  • Moon, Jahoon;Yoon, Hyun Sik
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.57 no.2
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    • pp.96-103
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    • 2020
  • The new geometric disturbance is proposed to control the flow around the bluff body. The new geometry is characterized by the variable pitch which is applied on the Helically Elliptic Twisted (HET) cylinder. The performance of the HTE geometry as a biomimetic passive flow control was confirmed by Jung and Yoon (2014). The Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is used for the evaluation of the flow control performance of the Variable Pitch HTE (VPHTE) cylinder at Reynolds number (Re) of 3000 corresponding to the subcritical regime. The circular and HTE cylinders are also considered to compare the performance of the VPHTE cylinder at the same Re. The VPHTE cylinder gives the smallest values of the force coefficients than the circular and HTE cylinders. The drag and lift coefficients of the VPHTE cylinder are about 15.2% and 94.0% lower than those of the circular cylinder, respectively. Especially, the VPHTE cylinder achieves about 2.3% and 30.0% reduction of the drag coefficient and the root mean square of the lift coefficient than the HTE cylinder, respectively. Furthermore, The VPHTE cylinder forms more elongated and stabilized separated shear layer than the circular cylinder, which supports the reduction of the force coefficients.

Optimal Shape of Blunt Device for High Speed Vehicle

  • Rho, Joo-Hyun;Jeong, Seongmin;Kim, Kyuhong
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.285-295
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    • 2016
  • A contact strip shape of a high speed train pantograph system was optimized with CFD to increase the aerodynamic performance and stability of contact force, and the results were validated by a wind tunnel test. For design of the optimal contact strip shape, a Kriging model and genetic algorithm were used to ensure the global search of the optimal point and reduce the computational cost. To enhance the performance and robustness of the contact strip for high speed pantograph, the drag coefficient and the fluctuation of the lift coefficient along the angle of attack were selected as design objectives. Aerodynamic forces were measured by a load cell and HWA (Hot Wire Anemometer) was used to measure the Strouhal number of wake flow. PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) was adopted to visualize the flow fields. The optimized contact strip shape was shown a lower drag with smaller fluctuation of vertical lift force than the general shaped contact strip. And the acoustic noise source strength of the optimized contact strip was also reduced. Finally, the reduction amount of drag and noise was assessed when the optimized contact strip was applied to three dimensional pantograph system.

A Numerical Study on the Flow around a Rudder behind Low Speed Full Ship

  • Lee, Young-Gill;Yu, Jin-Won;Kang, Bong-Han;Pak, Kyung-Ryeung
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.41-52
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    • 2008
  • The development of a high-lift rudder is needed because low speed full ships such as the VLCC(Very Large Crude oil Carrier) have difficulty for obtaining enough lifting force from a common rudder. The rudder of a ship is generally positioned behind the hull and propeller. Therefore, rudder design should consider the interactions between hull, propeller, and rudder. In the present study, the FLUENT code and body fitted mesh systems generated by the GRIDGEN program are adopted for the numerical simulations of flow characteristics around a rudder that is interacting with hull and propeller. Sliding mesh model(SMM) is adopted to analyze the interaction between propeller rotation and wake flow behind hull. Several numerical simulations are performed to compare the interactions such as hull-rudder, propeller-rudder, and hull-propeller-rudder. Also, we consider relationships between the interactions. The results of present numerical simulations show the variation of flow characteristics by the interaction between hull, propeller, and rudder, and these results are compared with an existing experimental result. The present study demonstrates that numerical simulations can be used effectively in the design of high-lift rudder behind low speed full ship.

Effects of Palm Angles in Sculling on the Variation of Underwater Weighting (스컬링 수행 시 손바닥 각도에 따른 수중에서의 체중 변화)

  • Lee, Hyo-Taek;Kim, Yong-Jae
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.405-409
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    • 2013
  • In this study, the researcher tried to analyse the effects of various palm angles in sculling on the variation of underwater weighting. An experiment was conducted on the study subjects of 14 males with life guard licences issued by the Korean Red Cross, living in B district with their spontaneous consent after explaining the purpose and method of this study sufficiently. The effects of various angles in sculling on underwater weighting is as follows; The underwater weighting in sculling gradually decreased with the increasing angle of the palm from $0^{\circ}$ to $45^{\circ}$ during sculling(p<.001). Overall, it is concluded that the optimal efficiency of sculling can be achieved at the angles $30^{\circ}$ and $45^{\circ}$. But, it is a little limited that we generalize the result drawn from variation of underwater weighting depending on the angles as an actual lift and drag value, which warrants further studies on the measuring of overall swimming movement of rotary kick of our lower body as well as sculling, along with various subjects.

Numerical study on the effect of three-dimensional unsteady tunnel entry flow characteristics on the aerodynamic performance of high-speed train (터널진입시 비정상 유동특성이 고속전철의 공력성능에 미치는 영향에 관한 수치해석적 연구)

  • 정수진;김태훈;성기안
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.596-606
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    • 2002
  • The three-dimensional unsteady compressible Euler equation solver with ALE, CFD code, PAM-FLOW based on FEM method has been applied to analyze the flow field around the high speed train which is entering into a channel. From the present study, the pressure and flow transients were calculated and analyzed. The generation of compression wave was observed ahead of train and the high pressure in the gap between the train and the tunnel was also found due to the blockage effects. It was found that abrupt fluctuation in pressure exists in the region from train nose to shoulder of train corresponding to 10% of total length of train during tunnel entry. Computed time history of aerodynamic forces of train during tunnel entry show that drag coefficient rapidly rises and saturates at about non-dimensional time 0.31. The total increase of drag coefficient before and after tunnel entry is about 1.1%. Transient profile of lift force shows similar pattern to drag coefficient except abrupt drop after saturation and lift force in the tunnel increases 0.08% more than that before tunnel entry.

Development of Wearable Robot for Elbow Motion Assistance of Elderly (노약자의 팔꿈치 거동 지원을 위한 착용형 로봇 개발)

  • Jang, Hye-Yoen;Han, Chang-Soo;Kim, Tae-Sik;Jang, Jae-Ho;Han, Jung-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.141-146
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study is to develop the algorithm which can control muscle power assist robot especially for elderly. Recently, wearable robots for power assistance are developed by many researchers, and its application fields are also variable such as for medical or military equipment. However, there are many technical barriers to develop the wearable robot. This study suggest a control method improving performance of a wearable robot system by using a EMG signal of major muscles and a force sensor signal as command signal of system. The result of the robot Prototype efficiency experiment, the case of Maximum Isometric motion it suggest 100% power of muscle, the man need only 66% of MVIC(Maximum Voluntary Isometric Contraction) to lift 5kg dumbbell without robot assist. However the man needs only 52% of MVIC to lift 5kg dumbbell with robot assist. Therefore 20% muscle power increased with robot assist. Also, we designed light weight robot mechanism that extract the command signal verified and drive the wanted motions.