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Behavior of Flexible Hose Connected to Mother Ship (모함에 연결된 탄성 호스의 거동)

  • Kim, Kun-Woo;Lee, Jae-Wook;Kim, Hyung-Ryul;Yoo, Wan-Suk;An, Deuk-Man
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.235-240
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    • 2011
  • A flexible hose attached to a mother ship experiences various motions that depend on the movement of the mother ship and that of underwater vehicle. Although the motion of the hose is a very important factor that determines how a mother ship should be steered in a real situation, it is difficult to experimentally obtain information about the hose motion. Therefore, we study the motion of the hose analytically. The ANCF(absolute nodal coordinate formulation) was used to model the hose, because this formulation can relax the Euler-Bernoulli theory and the Timoshenko beam theory and allow the deformation of the cross section. The mother ship is assumed to be a rigid body with 6 degrees of freedom. The motion of the hose is predominantly affected by the behavior of the mother ship and by the fluid flow.

Efficient Analysis of Vertical Vibration of Building Structures (건축구조물의 효율적인 연직진동 해석)

  • 이동근;안상경;김태호
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.23-34
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    • 1998
  • This research proposes on effective analytical methodology for vertical vibration of three dimensional frame structures including slabs. The consideration of slabs, although allows more precise results, requires large amount of computer time and memory space due to the use of plane stress elements. In consideration of these problems, a method to properly manage nodal points and degrees of freedom is proposed based on matrix condensation technique. Also studied is the use of super elements to obtain fast and reliable results with simple input data when they are applied to conventional building structures.

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3D thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled discrete beam lattice model of saturated poro-plastic medium

  • Hadzalic, Emina;Ibrahimbegovic, Adnan;Dolarevic, Samir
    • Coupled systems mechanics
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.125-145
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, we present a 3D thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled discrete beam lattice model of structure built of the nonisothermal saturated poro-plastic medium subjected to mechanical loads and nonstationary heat transfer conditions. The proposed model is based on Voronoi cell representation of the domain with cohesive links represented as inelastic Timoshenko beam finite elements enhanced with additional kinematics in terms of embedded strong discontinuities in axial and both transverse directions. The enhanced Timoshenko beam finite element is capable of modeling crack formation in mode I, mode II and mode III. Mode I relates to crack opening, mode II relates to in-plane crack sliding, and mode III relates to the out-of-plane shear sliding. The pore fluid flow and heat flow in the proposed model are governed by Darcy's law and Fourier's law for heat conduction, respectively. The pore pressure field and temperature field are approximated with linear tetrahedral finite elements. By exploiting nodal point quadrature rule for numerical integration on tetrahedral finite elements and duality property between Voronoi diagram and Delaunay tetrahedralization, the numerical implementation of the coupling results with additional pore pressure and temperature degrees of freedom placed at each node of a Timoshenko beam finite element. The results of several numerical simulations are presented and discussed.

Studies on magneto-electro-elastic cantilever beam under thermal environment

  • Kondaiah, P.;Shankar, K.;Ganesan, N.
    • Coupled systems mechanics
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.205-217
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    • 2012
  • A smart beam made of magneto-electro-elastic (MEE) material having piezoelectric phase and piezomagnetic phase, shows the coupling between magnetic, electric, thermal and mechanical under thermal environment. Product properties such as pyroelectric and pyromagnetic are generated in this MEE material under thermal environment. Recently studies have been published on the product properties (pyroelectric and pyromagnetic) for magneto-electro-thermo-elastic smart composite. Hence, the magneto-electro-elastic beam with different volume fractions, investigated under uniform temperature rise is the main aim of this paper, to study the influence of product properties on clamped-free boundary condition, using finite element procedures. The finite element beam is modeled using eight node 3D brick element with five nodal degrees of freedom viz. displacements in the x, y and z directions and electric and magnetic potentials. It is found that a significant increase in electric potential observed at volume fraction of $BaTiO_3$, $v_f$ = 0.2 due to pyroelectric effect. In-contrast, the displacements and stresses are not much affected.

Finite Element Analysis of Planar Effect on the Concrete Pavements (유한 요소법에 의한 콘크리트 포장 구조의 평면 거동연구)

  • Jo, Byung Wan
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.1091-1096
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    • 1994
  • Since horizontal movements due to shrinkage and thermal gradients in concrete pavements involve no actual load, the stresses induced will be those due to closing of the pavement joints and subbase friction. Consequently, complete derivations of stiffness matrix and equivalent nodal loads due to planar effects on the concrete pavements was throughly undertaken using the finite rectangular elements with two degrees of freedom at each node. The numerical example shows that the tensile stress induced in a pavement due to concrete shrinkage might be negligible except at very long slab and very high coefficient of frictions. However the stresses in conjunction with principal traffic loads might cause cracking problems.

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Non-Dimensional Analysis of a Two-Dimensional Beam Using Linear Stiffness Matrix in Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation (절대절점좌표계에서 선형 강성행렬을 활용한 2차원 보의 무차원 해석)

  • Kim, Kun Woo;Lee, Jae Wook;Jang, Jin Seok;Oh, Joo Young;Kang, Ji Heon;Kim, Hyung Ryul;Yoo, Wan Suk
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 2017
  • Absolute nodal coordinate formulation was developed in the mid-1990s, and is used in the flexible dynamic analysis. In the process of deriving the equation of motion, if the order of polynomial referring to the displacement field increases, then the degrees of freedom increase, as well as the analysis time increases. Therefore, in this study, the primary objective was to reduce the analysis time by transforming the dimensional equation of motion to a non-dimensional equation of motion. After the shape function was rearranged to be non-dimensional and the nodal coordinate was rearranged to be in length dimension, the non-dimensional mass matrix, stiffness matrix, and conservative force was derived from the non-dimensional variables. The verification and efficiency of this non-dimensional equation of motion was performed using two examples; cantilever beam which has the exact solution about static deflection and flexible pendulum.

Free Vibration Analysis of a Degenerated Timoshenko Beam Including the Effect of Shear Deformation and Rotatory Inertia (전단변형(剪斷變形)과 회전관성(回轉慣性)을 고려(考慮)한 Timoshenko 보의 자유진동(自由振動) 해석(解析))

  • Byun, Dong Kyun;Shin, Young Shik;Jang, Jong Tak
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.109-122
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    • 1983
  • An accurate thick beam element (TB4) which includes the effects of the shear deformation and rotatory inertia has been degenerated from the three dimensional continuum by employing the Timoshenko beam assumptions. The proposed TB4 element has four nodes and two degrees of freedom at each node, totally eight degrees of freedom. The transverse deflection W and plane rotation ${\theta}$ with the cubic interpolation functions are selected as nodal variables. The element characteristics are formulated by discretizing the beam equations of motion, using the Galerkin weighted residual method, and are numerically integrated by the reduced shear integration technique, using the three-point Gauss quadrature with the various shear coefficients. Several numerical examples are analyzed to demonstrate the accuracy and the monotonic convergence behavior of the proposed TB4 beam element. The result indicates that the TB4 element shows the more excellent performance and the monotonic convergence behavior than the other existing Timoshenko beam type elements for the whole range of the beam aspect ratios, in both static and free vibration analyses.

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What Do We Learn from Two-Dimensional Raman Spectra by Varying the Polarization Conditions?

  • Ma, Ao;Stratt, Richard M.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.1126-1134
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    • 2003
  • The signals obtained from the $5^{th}$-order (two-dimensional) Raman spectrum of a liquid can depend dramatically on the polarizations of the various light beams, but to date there has been no evidence presented that different polarization conditions probe any fundamentally different aspects of liquid dynamics. In order to explore the molecular significance of polarization we have carried out a molecular dynamics simulation of the $5^{th}$-order spectrum of a dilute solution of CS₂ in liquid Xe, perhaps the simplest system capable of displaying a full range of polarization dependencies. By focusing on the 5 distinct rotational invariants revealed by the different polarizations and by comparing our results with those from liquid Xe, a liquid whose spectrum has no significant polarization dependence, we discovered that the polarization experiments do, in fact, yield valuable microscopic information. With different linear combinations of the experimental response functions one can separate the part of the signal derived from the purely interaction-induced part of the many-body polarizability from the portion with the largest contributions from single-molecule polarizabilities. This division does not directly address the underlying liquid dynamics, but it significantly simplifies the interpretation of the theoretical calculations which do address this issue. We find that the different linear combinations differ as well in whether they exhibit nodal lines. Despite the absence of nodes with the atomic liquid Xe, observing the resilience of our solution's nodes when we artificially remove the anisotropy of our solute leads us to conclude that there is no direct connection between nodes and specifically molecular degrees of freedom.

Modeling and Analysis of Size-Dependent Structural Problems by Using Low-Order Finite Elements with Strain Gradient Plasticity (변형률 구배 소성 저차 유한요소에 의한 크기 의존 구조 문제의 모델링 및 해석)

  • Park, Moon-Shik;Suh, Yeong-Sung;Song, Seung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.35 no.9
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    • pp.1041-1050
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    • 2011
  • An elasto-plastic finite element method using the theory of strain gradient plasticity is proposed to evaluate the size dependency of structural plasticity that occurs when the configuration size decreases to micron scale. For this method, we suggest a low-order plane and three-dimensional displacement-based elements, eliminating the need for a high order, many degrees of freedom, a mixed element, or super elements, which have been considered necessary in previous researches. The proposed method can be performed in the framework of nonlinear incremental analysis in which plastic strains are calculated and averaged at nodes. These strains are then interpolated and differentiated for gradient calculation. We adopted a strain-gradient-hardening constitutive equation from the Taylor dislocation model, which requires the plastic strain gradient. The developed finite elements are tested numerically on the basis of typical size-effect problems such as micro-bending, micro-torsion, and micro-voids. With respect to the strain gradient plasticity, i.e., the size effects, the results obtained by using the proposed method, which are simple in their calculation, are in good agreement with the experimental results cited in previously published papers.