• Advanced Composite Materials
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.373-407
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• 2008

This paper will examine the possibilities of the virtual tests of composite structures by simulating mechanical behaviors by using supercomputing technologies, which have now become easily available and powerful but relatively inexpensive. We will describe mainly the applications of large-scale finite element analysis using the direct numerical simulation (DNS), which describes composite material properties considering individual constituent properties. DNS approach is based on the full microscopic concepts, which can provide detailed information about the local interaction between the constituents and micro-failure mechanisms by separate modeling of each constituent. Various composite materials such as metal matrix composites (MMCs), active fiber composites (AFCs), boron/epoxy cross-ply laminates and 3-D orthogonal woven composites are selected as verification examples of DNS. The effective elastic moduli and impact structural characteristics of the composites are determined using the DNS models. These DNS models can also give the global and local information about deformations and influences of high local in-plane and interlaminar stresses induced by transverse impact loading at a microscopic level inside the materials. Furthermore, the multi-scale models based on DNS concepts considering microscopic and macroscopic structures simultaneously are also developed and a numerical low-velocity impact simulation is performed using these multi-scale DNS models. Through these various applications of DNS models, it can be shown that the DNS approach can provide insights of various structural behaviors of composite structures.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

가스터빈 엔진의 성능은 그 구성품 성능 특성에 큰 영향을 받는다. 보통 이러한 구성품 성능 특성은 여러 조건에서의 수많은 실험을 통해 얻을 수 있지만 그것은 제작사의 고유 재산이기 때문에 쉽게 제공되지 않는다. 그렇기 때문에 보통 성능 덱을 이용하거나 소유하고 있는 엔진 성능 맵을 스케일링 하여 사용한다. 하지만 이러한 방법은 탈설계점에서 오차를 보인다. 이에 본 연구에서는 소형 가스터빈 엔진 실험 장치를 구성하여 몇 구간에서의 실험을 통해 데이터를 축적하고 이를 이용하여 구성품 성능 맵을 축척하는 방법을 제시하였다. 그리고 프로그램을 이용하여 대상 엔진의 정상상태 성능 모델을 구성하여 실제 측정 데이터와 새롭게 생성된 구성품 맵을 사용했을 경우, 그리고 기존의 방법을 이용한 경우를 비교하였다.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2009

Chloride diffusivity of concrete is a crucial material parameter for service life determination and durability designing of marine concrete. Many research works on this issue have been conducted, varying from empirical solutions obtained experimentally to image analysis, based on multi-scale modeling. One of the simple approaches is to express the chloride diffusivity of concrete by a multi-factor function, however, the influences of various factors on the chloride diffusivity are ambiguous. Furthermore, the majority of these research works have not dealt with the carbonation process of concrete, although this process affects the chloride diffusivity of concrete significantly. The purpose of this study is to establish a simple approach to calculate the chloride diffusivity of (non)carbonated concrete. The chloride diffusivity of concrete should be defined, based on engineering and scientific knowledge of cement and concrete materials. In this paper, a lot of parameters affecting the chloride diffusivity, such as the diffusivity in pore solution, tortuosity, micro-structural properties of hardened cement paste, volumetric portion of aggregate, are taken into consideration in the calculation of the chloride diffusivity of noncarbonated concrete. For carbonated concrete, reduced porosity due to carbonation is calculated and used for calculating the chloride diffusivity. The results are compared with experimental data and previous research works.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.579-594
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• 2013

A new enthalpy - based procedure for the homogenization of the electromechanical material parameters of composite piezoelectric modules with integrated electrodes is presented. It is based on a finite element (FE) modeling of the latter's representative volume element (RVE). In contrast to most previously published homogenization approaches that are based on averaged quantities, the presented method uses a direct evaluation of the electromechanical enthalpy. Hence, for the linear orthotropic piezoelectric composite behavior full set of elastic, piezoelectric, and dielectric material parameters, 17 load cases (LC) are used where each load case leads directly to one material parameter. This gives the possibility to elaborate a very strict and easy to program processing. In conjunction with the 17 LC, the enthalpy - based homogenization is particularly suitable for laminated composite piezoelectric modules with integrated electrodes. In this case, the electric load has to be given at the electrodes rather than at the RVE FE model boundaries. The proposed procedure is validated through its comparison to literature available results on a classical 1-3 piezoelectric micro fiber (longitudinally polarized) reinforced composite and a $d_{15}$ shear piezoelectric macro-fiber (transversely polarized) composite module.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.41-45
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• 2010

백라이트유닛을 더 얇고 밝게 제안하기 위하여 우리는 새로운 타입의 백라이트유닛을 시뮬레이션하였다. 도광판 상면에 미세 볼록렌즈어레이를 형성시킨다. 또한, LGP와의 매칭을 위하여 우리는 기능성 광학 시트를 시뮬레이션하였다. 일반적으로 전통적인 백라이트유닛들은 하나의 LGP와 네 개의 광학시트를 사용해왔으나 우리는 하나의 광학시트를 사용한 백라이트유닛을 시뮬레이션하였다. 설계 결과 우리의 백라이트유닛은 동일한 발광성을 달성하면서 시야각은 30% 더 좋아진 것을 밝혀내었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제59권2호
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• pp.291-312
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• 2016

Seismic performance evaluation of shear wall is essential as it is the major lateral load resisting member of a structure. The ultimate load and ultimate drift of the shear wall are the two most important parameters which need to be assessed experimentally and verified analytically. This paper comprises the results of monotonic tests, quasi-static cyclic tests and shake-table tests carried out on a midrise shear wall. The shear wall considered for the study is 1:5 scaled model of the shear wall of the internal structure of a reactor building. The analytical simulation of these tests is carried out using micro and macro modeling of the shear wall. This paper mainly consists of modification in the hysteretic macro model, developed for RC structural walls by Lestuzzi and Badoux in 2003. This modification is made by considering the stiffness degradation effect observed from the tests carried out and this modified model is then used for nonlinear dynamic analysis of the shear wall. The outcome of the paper gives the variation of the capacity, the failure patterns and the performance levels of the shear walls in all three types of tests. The change in the stiffness and the damping of the wall due to increased damage and cracking when subjected to seismic excitation is also highlighted in the paper.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.485-501
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• 2015

Cooling by the flow of water through an embedded cooling pipe has become a common and effective artificial thermal control measure for massive concrete structures. However, an extreme thermal gradient induces significant thermal stress, resulting in thermal cracking. Using a mesoscopic finite-element (FE) mesh, three-phase composites of concrete namely aggregate, mortar matrix and interfacial transition zone (ITZ) are modeled. An equivalent probabilistic model is presented for failure study of concrete by assuming that the material properties conform to the Weibull distribution law. Meanwhile, the correlation coefficient introduced by the statistical method is incorporated into the Weibull distribution formula. Subsequently, a series of numerical analyses are used for investigating the influence of the correlation coefficient on tensile strength and the failure process of concrete based on the equivalent probabilistic model. Finally, as an engineering application, damage and failure behavior of concrete cracks induced by a water-cooling pipe are analyzed in-depth by the presented model. Results show that the random distribution of concrete mechanical parameters and the temperature gradient near water-cooling pipe have a significant influence on the pattern and failure progress of temperature-induced micro-cracking in concrete.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1292-1301
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• 2006

This article investigates numerically the carrier-phonon interactions in thin gallium arsenide (GaAs) film structures irradiated by subpicosecond laser pulses to figure out the role of several recombination processes on the energy transport during laser pulses and to examine the effects of laser fluences and pulses on non-equilibrium energy transfer characteristics in thin film structures. The self-consistent hydrodynamic equations derived from the Boltzmann transport equations are established for carriers and two different types of phonons, i.e., acoustic phonons and longitudinal optical (LO) phonons. From the results, it is found that the two-peak structure of carrier temperatures depends mainly on the pulse durations, laser fluences, and nonradiative recombination processes, two different phonons are in nonequilibrium state within such lagging times, and this lagging effect can be neglected for longer pulses. Finally, at the initial stage of laser irradiation, SRH recombination rates increases sufficiently because the abrupt increase in carrier number density no longer permits Auger recombination to be activated. For thin GaAs film structures, it is thus seen that Auger recombination is negligible even at high temperature during laser irradiation.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.373-380
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• 2007

In this paper, we consider a new lot-sizing and scheduling problem (LSSP) that minimizes the sum of production cost, setup cost and inventory cost. Setup carry-over and overlapping as well as demand splitting are considered. Also, maximum number of setups for each time period is not limited. For this LSSP, we have formulated a mixed integer programming (MIP) model, of which the size does not increase even if we divide a time period into a number of micro time periods. Also, we have developed an efficient heuristic algorithm by combining decomposition scheme with local search procedure. Test results show that the developed heuristic algorithm finds good quality (in practice, even better) feasible solutions using far less computation time compared with the CPLEX, a competitive MIP solver.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.465-474
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• 2011

본 연구는 마이크로 유전 알고리즘을 이용하여 트러스 구조물의 단면적 및 형상을 최적화 하였다. 구조물의 최소 물량을 얻기 위하여 허용 응력 및 좌굴 응력과 같은 여러 제약조건이 고려되었으며, 이를 통해 트러스 구조물의 최적 설계 시 최적화된 부재의 단면적과 구조물의 좌표를 얻었다. 트러스 구조물의 최적 설계에 적용가능 한 제안된 기법을 이용하여 다양한 예제들을 선정하여 최적화를 수행하였으며, 기존 연구 결과와 비교를 통해 본 마이크로 유전 알고리즘의 효과를 입증하였다.