• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2018

This study suggests an optimal design process of an LMU, which is installed on the top side of offshore structures. The LMU is consist of EB(elastomeric bearing) and steel plate, and supports the vertical loads of offshore structures and assists its stable installation. The structural design requirement of the LMU is related to its stiffness. This study utilizes the finite element analysis to predict the stiffness. The stiffness of the EB depends on the size of the bearing. Thus, the design variables in this study are defined as the thickness, the width and the number of plates. Since the LMU has different loads for different locations, its stiffness should be designed differently. The multiobjective function is introduced to attain the target stiffness. In this process, the metamodel using the kriging interpolation method is adopted to replace the true stiffness.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.31-42
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• 2021

This research aims to demonstrate the optimal geometrical design of splayed multiple cross-sectional pin fin heat sinks (SMCSPFHS), which are a type of side-inlet-side-outlet heat sink (SISOHS). The optimiser strength Pareto evolutionary algorithm2 (SPEA2)is employed to explore a set of Pareto optimalsolutions. Objective functions are the fan pumping power and junction temperature. Function evaluations can be accomplished using computational fluid dynamics(CFD) analysis. Design variablesinclude pin cross-sectional areas, the number of fins, fin pitch, thickness of heatsink base, inlet air speed, fin heights, and fin orientations with respect to the base. Design constraints are defined in such a way as to make a heat sink usable and easy to manufacture. The optimum results obtained from SPEA2 are compared with the straight pin fin design results obtained from hybrid population-based incremental learning and differential evolution (PBIL-DE), SPEA2, and an unrestricted population size evolutionary multiobjective optimisation algorithm (UPSEMOA). The results indicate that the splayed pin-fin design using SPEA2 issuperiorto those reported in the literature.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.489-499
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• 2022

This paper proposes a numerical optimization method to design the mesoscale architecture of textile composite for simultaneously enhancing mechanical and thermal properties, which compete with each other making it difficult to design intuitively. The base cell of the periodic warp and fill yarn system is served as the design space, and optimal fibre yarn geometries are found by solving the optimization problem through the proposed method. With the help of homogenization method, analytical formulae for the effective material properties as functions of the geometry parameters of plain-woven textile composites were derived, and they are used to form the inverse homogenization method to establish the design problem. These modules are then put together to form a multiobjective optimization problem, which is formulated in such a way that the optimal design depends on the weight factors predetermined by the user based on the stiffness and thermal terms in the objective function. Numerical examples illustrate that the developed method can achieve reasonable designs in terms of fibre yarn paths and geometries.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권12호
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• pp.1793-1803
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• 2010

가중치법이나 목표계획법을 이용하여 다목적함수 최적화를 수행할 때 설계자는 각 함수에 적절한 가중치나 목표값을 설정해 주어야 한다. 하지만 파라미터를 잘못 설정하게 되면 파레토 최적해를 얻지못하기 때문에 이는 설계자에게 큰 부담이 된다. 최근에 데이터의 분포특성만을 이용하여 데이터의 평균과 함수 사이의 거리를 표현하는 마하라노비스 거리(MD)를 최소화하는 MTS기법이 개발되었다. 이 방법은 파라미터를 설정하지 않아도 되는 장점이 있지만 최적해가 참고데이터의 평균으로 수렴하는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 방향성이 없는 기존의 MD에 방향성을 부여한 새로운 거리 척도인 SMD를 제안하였다. 그리고 SMD법이 계산과정에서 각 함수의 가중치를 자동으로 반영하고 평균에서 가장 멀리 위치한 한 점을 항상 파레토 최적해로 제공한다는 것을 2개의 단순예제를 통해 검증하였다.