• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제27권10호
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• pp.1457-1463
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• 2003

In this paper, the response surface method using three-dimensional Navier-Stokes analysis to optimize the shape of a multi-blade centrifugal fan, is described. For numerical analysis, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations with standard k - c turbulence model are transformed into non-orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system, and are discretized with finite volume approximations. Due to the large number of blades in this centrifugal fan, the flow inside of the fan is regarded as steady flow by introducing the impeller force models for economic calculations. Linear Upwind Differencing Scheme(LUDS) is used to approximate the convection terms in the governing equations. SIMPLEC algorithm is used as a velocity-pressure correction procedure. Design variables, location of cur off, radius of cut off, expansion angle of scroll and width of impeller were selected to optimize the shapes of scroll and blades. Data points for response evaluations were selected by D-optimal design, and linear programming method was used for the optimization on the response surface. As a main result of the optimization, the efficiency was successfully improved. It was found that the optimization process provides reliable design of this kind of fans with reasonable computing time.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2009

This paper presents a topology optimization approach using element-free Galerkin method (EFGM) for the optimal design of compliant mechanisms with geometrically non-linearity. Meshless method has an advantage over the finite element method(FEM) because it is more capable of handling large deformation resulted from geometrical nonlinearity. Therefore, in this paper, EFGM is employed to discretize the governing equations and the bulk density field. The sensitivity analysis of the optimization problem is performed by incorporating the adjoint approach with the meshless method. The Lagrange multipliers method adjusted for imposition of both the concentrated and continuous essential boundary conditions in the EFGM is proposed in details. The optimization mathematical formulation is developed to convert the multi-criteria problem to an equivalent single-objective problem. The popularly applied interpolation scheme, solid isotropic material with penalization (SIMP), is used to indicate the dependence of material property upon on pseudo densities discretized to the integration points. A well studied numerical example has been applied to demonstrate the proposed approach works very well and the non-linear EFGM can obtain the better topologies than the linear EFGM to design large-displacement compliant mechanisms.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.203-217
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• 2003

제약식 프로그래밍과 최적화 솔버는 공통된 문제를 풀기 위한 해법으로서 서로 다른 영역에서 발전되어왔다. 특히 제약식 확산법과 선형 계획법은 두 영역의 주된 기법으로서 조합 최적화 문제를 푸는데 함께 사용될 수 있는 통합가능한 보완 기법들이다. 지금까지 이를 통합하기 위한 시도는 주로 한 기법을 다른 기법의 모형 틀안에 포함시키는 것이었다. 본 논문은 둘의 통합을 통한 잇점들은 충분히 사용하기 위해서는 모형 역시 통합될 필요가 있음과 그 모형 통합의 틀을 보이고 그 틀 안에서 어떻게 두 기법의 솔버의 수준으로 통합되어 새로운 혼합 솔버를 구축할 수 있는지를 보인다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.533-550
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• 1999

Optimal design of raft-pile foundations is examined by combining finite element technique and the optimization approach. The piles and soil medium are modeled by three dimensional solid elements while the raft is modelled by shell elements. Drucker-Prager criterion is adopted for the soil medium while the raft and the piles are assumed to be linear elastic. For the optimization process, the approximate semi-analytical method is used for calculating constraint sensitivities and a constraint approximation method which is a combination of the extended Bi-point approximation and Lagrangian polynomial approximation is used for predicting the behaviour of the constraints. The objective function of the problem is the volume of materials of the foundation while the design variables are raft thickness, pile length and pile spacing. The generalized reduced gradient algorithm is chosen for solving the optimization process. It is demonstrated that the method proposed in this study is promising for obtaining optimal design of raft-pile foundations without carrying out a large number of analyses. The results are also compared with those obtained from the previous study in which linear analysis was carried out.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제77권5호
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• pp.613-626
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• 2021

In this paper, an enhanced Violation-based Sensitivity analysis and Border-Line Adaptive Sliding Technique (ViS-BLAST) will be utilized for optimization of some well-known structural and mechanical engineering problems. ViS-BLAST has already been introduced by the authors for solving truss optimization problems. For those problems, this method showed a satisfactory enactment both in speed and efficiency. The Enriched ViS-BLAST or EVB is introduced to be vastly applicable to any solvable constrained optimization problem without any specific initialization. It uses one-directional step-wise searching technique and mostly limits exploration to the vicinity of FNF border and does not explore the entire design space. It first enters the feasible region very quickly and keeps the feasibility of solutions. For doing this important, EVB groups variables for specifying the desired searching directions in order to moving toward best solutions out or inside feasible domains. EVB was employed for solving seven numerical engineering design problems. Results show that for problems with tiny or even complex feasible regions with a larger number of highly non-linear constraints, EVB has a better performance compared to some records in the literature. This dominance was evaluated in terms of the feasibility of solutions, the quality of optimum objective values found and the total number of function evaluations performed.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제85권5호
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• pp.607-620
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• 2023

The classical optimal control (COC) method has been widely used for linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problems of structural control. However, the equation of motion of the structure is incorporated into the optimization model as the constraint condition for the LQR problem, which needs to be solved through the Riccati equation under certain assumptions. In this study, an explicit optimal control (EOC) method is proposed based on the explicit time-domain method (ETDM). By use of the explicit formulation of structural responses, the LQR problem with the constraint of equation of motion can be transformed into an unconstrained optimization problem, and therefore the control law can be derived directly without solving the Riccati equation. To further optimize the weighting parameters adopted in the control law using the gradient-based optimization algorithm, the sensitivities of structural responses and control forces with respect to the weighting parameters are derived analytically based on the explicit expressions of dynamic responses of the controlled structure. Two numerical examples are investigated to demonstrate the feasibility of the EOC method and the optimization scheme for weighting parameters involved in the control law.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.311-318
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• 2015

텔레비전의 운송 중 발생 가능한 낙하상황을 설정하고, 낙하충격으로부터 텔레비전을 보호할 수 있는 텔레비전 포장재의 최적설계를 수행하였다. 텔레비전 포장재의 최적설계는 등가정하중법을 이용하여 비선형동적응답 구조최적설계를 수행하였으며, 포장재의 최적설계 과정을 본 연구에서 제안하였다. 개념설계 단계에서 등가정하중법을 적용한 위상최적설계를 수행하였으며 상세설계 단계에서 가상모델을 사용한 응력등가정하중법을 이용하여 형상최적설계를 수행하였다. 응력등가정하중은 비선형동적응답 해석의 변위장뿐만 아니라 응력반응장과 동일한 선형해석반응장을 유발하는 선형정적하중이다. 즉, 비선형동적응답 해석에서의 응력반응장을 구조최적설계에서 제한조건을 설정할 수 있는 것이다. 실제 예제를 통해 등가정하중법을 적용한 최적설계 과정의 유용성을 검증하였다. 텔레비전 포장재 낙하 테스트는 LS-DYNA 를 사용하였으며 구조최적설계는 NASTRAN 을 사용하였다.

• 전산구조공학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.255-263
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• 1997

실제로 구조시스템들의 최적설계는 설계변수가 연속값이 아닌 이산값을 요하는 경우가 대부분이다. 본 논문은 이산형 설계변수를 갖는 비대칭 복합 적층평판에 대해 선형 근사화방법을 이용한 이산최적설계를 수행하였으며, 이 방법이 매우 효율적임을 보였다. 대상 문제는 축력, 전단력, 그리고 휨과 비틀림 모멘트의 평면 내하중들(in-plane loads)의 다중하중조건을 받는 것으로 고려하였으며, 복합 적층평판을 구성하는 플라이들에 대한 최대변형률 규준을 설계 제약조건으로 부과하였다. 이산 최적화를 위한 초기 접근방법으로 단 한번의 연속변수 최적화 과정이 FDM(Feasible Direction Method)을 이용하여 수행되었으며, 차후 이산 및 연속변수를 포함하는 비선형 이산최적화문제를 SLDP(Sequential Linear Discrete Programming)방법에 의해 선형 근사화된 혼합정수계획문제로 형성하여 풀었다. 수치예에서 6개의 플라이로 구성된 비대칭 복합 적층평판을 대상으로 회전식 적층배열([(90-.theta.)/-(60+.theta.)/-.theta./-(45+.theta.)/(45-.theta.)]/sub s/)에 따른 이산최적해를 구하였다. 효율성 입증을 위해 똑같은 문제를 비선형 분기한계법을 이용하여 풀었으며, 그 결과를 비교 분석하였다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.57-64
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• 2000

Recent advances in the field of control theory have enabled us to design active vibration control systems for various structures. In many studies, the controller used to suppress vibration has been synthesized for the given mathematical model of structure. In these cases, the designer has not been able to utilize the degree of freedom to adjust the structural parameters of the control object. To overcome this problem, so called 'Structure/Control Simultaneous Optimization Method' is used. In this context of view, this paper is concerned with the active vibration control of bridge towers, platforms and ocean vehicles etc. Simultaneous design method is used to achieve optimal system performance. Here, a general framework for the simultaneous design problem of output feedback case is introduced based on LMI (Linear Matrix Inequality). The simulation results show that the proposed design method achieves desirable control performance.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.385-395
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• 2000

In the transportation literature, many useful decision making models for ship routing and ship scheduling have been studied. But the majority of these studies are on industrial carriers, bulk carriers, or tankers. It is quite recent that a few optimization models have been developed for liner fleet routing and scheduling problems. However there have been few academic studies on decision making models for the routing or scheduling problems of passenger ships in spite of their economic importance in the entire shipping industry. The purpose of this study is to develop analytic decision making models for ship routing and scheduling for the passenger ship fleet. This study gives two optimization models, one is a linear programming model and the other a goal programming model. These two models are solved easy by commercial linear programming softwares and suggest optimal ship routing plans and many other useful implications for passenger ship fleet managers.