• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.107-127
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• 2008

Wind turbine blades are increasing in magnitude without a proportional increase of stiffness for which reason geometrical and inertial nonlinearities become increasingly important. Often these effects are analysed using a nonlinear truncated expansion in undamped fixed base mode shapes of a blade, modelling geometrical and inertial nonlinear couplings in the fundamental flap and edge direction. The purpose of this article is to examine the applicability of such a reduced-degree-of-freedom model in predicting the nonlinear response and stability of a blade by comparison to a full model based on a nonlinear co-rotating FE formulation. By use of the reduced-degree-of-freedom model it is shown that under strong resonance excitation of the fundamental flap or edge modes, significant energy is transferred to higher modes due to parametric or nonlinear coupling terms, which influence the response and stability conditions. It is demonstrated that the response predicted by such models in some cases becomes instable or chaotic. However, as a consequence of the energy flow the stability is increased and the tendency of chaotic vibrations is reduced as the number of modes are increased. The FE model representing the case of infinitely many included modes, is shown to predict stable and ordered response for all considered parameters. Further, the analysis shows that the reduced-degree-of-freedom model of relatively low order overestimates the response near resonance peaks, which is a consequence of the small number of included modes. The qualitative erratic response and stability prediction of the reduced order models take place at frequencies slightly above normal operation. However, for normal operation of the wind turbine without resonance excitation 4 modes in the reduced-degree-of-freedom model perform acceptable.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.536-541
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• 2005

고무 성분에 대한 대변형 및 강성은 비선형 및 대변형의 해석 결과로 나타낼 수 있다. 또한 고무는 Mooney-Rivlin의 모델로서 적용되고 고무들 사이에서 자기 접촉이 성립되어지는데 강성체 및 고무 사이에서는 마찰력이 있게 된다. 본 연구에서 사용된 비선형 시뮬레이션 해석은 여러 가지의 고무 성분들의 설계, 분석 그리고 개발에 널리 사용될 수 있다. 이러한 방법을 이용하면 새로운 고무 제품을 개발하는데 있어서 시간과 비용을 절감할 수 있을 것으로 보인다. 고무 성분들의 분석은 특이한 재료의 모델링과 비선형 유한 요소 해석을 요하는데 금속 부품들에 대하여 해석하는 프로그램들과는 완전히 다르다. 본 연구의 목적은 대변형 및 비선형의 고무 부품을 해석하는데 있다.

• 대한조선학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1980

The nonlinear analysis of ship plating with flat bar stiffners has been carried out by the finite element method based on the load incremental approach. The large deflection analysis has been done by using the Lagrangian description. The elastoplastic analysis has been performed by adopting the flow theory of plasticity and the von Mises yield condition. The layered elements are used to show the process of yielding through the plate thickness in the elasto-plastic analysis. The following results are obtained; 1) According to the large deflection analysis, it is shown that the small deflection theory to the plate is applicable in the range of the lateral deflection-the thickness ratio $w/h{\leqq}0.3$ and ship plating in the range of $w/h{\leqq}0.5$. 2) By means of the elasto-plastic analysis, it is found that the maximum load-carrying capacity of the plate increases as much as 1.8 times of the initial yield load in the case of the simply supported condition and 2.2 times in the clamped condition. It is also shown that the maximum load-carrying capacity of ship plating increase as much as 4.3 times in the simply supported condition and 4.2 times in the clamped condition. This method would be applied and extended to solve combined nonlinear problems which involve both material nonlinearity and geometric nonlinearity.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.667-675
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• 2020

The current study compares the effect of structure-soil-structure interaction (SSSI) on the dynamic responses of adjacent buildings and isolated structures including soil-structure interaction (SSI) with the responses of fixed-base structures. Structural responses such as the relative acceleration, displacement, drift and shear force were considered under earthquake ground motion excitation. For this purpose, 5-, 10- and 15-story structures with 2-bay moment resisting frames resting on shallow foundations were modeled as a group of buildings in soft soil media. Viscous lateral boundaries and interface elements were applied to the soil model to simulate semi-infinite soil media, frictional contact and probable slip under seismic excitation. The direct method was employed for fully nonlinear time-history dynamic analysis in OpenSees using 3D finite element soil-structure models with different building positions. The results showed that the responses of the grouped structures were strongly influenced by the adjacent structures. The responses were as much as 4 times greater for drift and 2.3 times greater for shear force than the responses of fixed-base models.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.443-456
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• 2021

Structural design of the vertical displacements and shear strains in the earth fill (EF) dams has great importance in the structural engineering problems. Moreover, far fault earthquakes have significant seismic effects on seismic damage performance of EF dams like the near fault earthquakes. For this reason, three dimensional (3D) earthquake damage performance of Oroville dam is assessed considering different far-fault ground motions in this study. Oroville Dam was built in United States of America-California and its height is 234.7 m (770 ft.). 3D model of Oroville dam is modelled using FLAC3D software based on finite difference approach. In order to represent interaction condition between discrete surfaces, special interface elements are used between dam body and foundation. Non-reflecting seismic boundary conditions (free field and quiet) are defined to the main surfaces of the dam for the nonlinear seismic analyses. 6 different far-fault ground motions are taken into account for the full reservoir condition of Oroville dam. According to nonlinear seismic analysis results, the effects of far-fault ground motions on the nonlinear seismic settlement and shear strain behaviour of Oroville EF dam are determined and evaluated in detail. It is clearly seen that far-fault earthquakes have very significant seismic effects on the settlement-shear strain behaviour of EF dams and these earthquakes create vital important seismic damages on the swelling behaviour of dam body surface. Moreover, it is proposed that far-fault ground motions should not be ignored while modelling EF dams.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.719-738
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• 2010

The aim of this paper concerns with the nonlinear analysis of cable-stayed bridges including the vibration effect of cable stays. Two models for the cable stay system are built up in the study. One is the OECS (one element cable system) model in which one single element per cable stay is used and the other is MECS (multi-elements cable system) model, where multi-elements per cable stay are used. A finite element computation procedure has been set up for the nonlinear analysis of such kind of structures. For shape finding of the cable-stayed bridge with MECS model, an efficient computation procedure is presented by using the two-loop iteration method (equilibrium iteration and shape iteration) with help of the catenary function method to discretize each single cable stay. After the convergent initial shape of the bridge is found, further analysis can then be performed. The structural behaviors of cable-stayed bridges influenced by the cable lateral motion will be examined here detailedly, such as the static deflection, the natural frequencies and modes, and the dynamic responses induced by seismic loading. The results show that the MECS model offers the real shape of cable stays in the initial shape, and all the natural frequencies and modes of the bridge including global modes and local modes. The global mode of the bridge consists of coupled girder, tower and cable stays motion and is a coupled mode, while the local mode exhibits only the motion of cable stays and is uncoupled with girder and tower. The OECS model can only offers global mode of tower and girder without any motion of cable stays, because each cable stay is represented by a single straight cable (or truss) element. In the nonlinear seismic analysis, only the MECS model can offer the lateral displacement response of cable stays and the axial force variation in cable stays. The responses of towers and girders of the bridge determined by both OECS- and MECS-models have no great difference.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.41-49
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 국제공동연구원 대형지진시험구조물의 강세진동시험결과 대한 상관해석와 지진응답해석에 관해 연구하였다. 지반-구조물 상호작용을 위해서 구조물과 근영지반은 유한요소로 모형화하고 원역지반은 무한요소로 모형화하는 직적법을 사용하였으며, 지진응답은 부분구조법에 근거한 파 입력기법을 사용하여 해석하였다. 시험후 상관해석을 통해 각 지반영역의 물성이 강제진동 시험에서 계측된 구조물 응답과 일치하도록 보정하였다. 보정된 지반물성을 초기 선형값으로 사용하고 등가선형화기법을 적용하여 지진에 관한 구조물의 응답을 예측하였다. 지반의 비선형거동을 고려하여 얻어진 구조물 응답은 계측된 결과와 매우 잘 일치한 반면, 초기 선형물성치를 사용한 응답결과는 상당한 차이를 보이고 있어서, 지반 비선형 거동의 영향이 중요함을 알 수 있었다.

• 전산구조공학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.151-159
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• 1996

구조용 콘크리트의 비선형 거동을 예측하기 위하여, 압축강도 연화현상, 거시적 및 회전균열모델등의 내용을 포함하고 있는 압축장 응력장 이론(CFT)에 근거한 유한요소법이 개발/제시되었다. 또한, 이와 관련하여 CFT가 암시하는 탄젠트 및 세칸트 재료강성이 반복계산해법의 관점에서 정의/논의되었다. 최종적으로 계산상의 효율성 증대 및 최대하중 이후의 거동 포착에 주안점을 두어 초기재료 강성을 채택한 변위증분법 논리 및 빠른 수렴을 위한 Over-Relaxtion방법이 Isoparametric계의 8-Node요소에 포함/유도되었다. 이와 같이하여 제시된 비선형 해석 프로그램 NASCOM은 응력 혼돈지역에 위치하는 콘크리트 평면요소의 하중 지지능력, 탄성범위 이후의 변형 특성, 균열양상 및 보강근의 항복범위등의 예측을 가능하게 하였다. NASCOM의 제한된 검증을 위하여, Cervenka의 판넬 시험결과에 대한 하중지지능력 및 변형이력등을 예측한 결과가 전체적인 의미에서 실험결과와 상응하는 일치를 나타내었다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.167-178
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• 2018

A roller compacted concrete (RCC) dam should be analyzed under seismic ground motions for different conditions such as empty reservoir and full reservoir conditions. This study presents three-dimensional earthquake response and performance of a RCC dam considering materially non-linearity. For this purpose, Cine RCC dam constructed in Aydın, Turkey, is selected in applications. The three-dimensional finite element model of Cine RCC dam is obtained using ANSYS software. The Drucker-Prager material model is considered in the materially nonlinear time history analyses for concrete and foundation rock. Furthermore, hydrodynamic effect was investigated in linear and non-linear dynamic analyses. Researchers observe that how the tensile and compressive stresses change by hydrodynamic pressure effect. The hydrodynamic pressure of the reservoir water is modeled with the fluid finite elements based on the Lagrangian approach. In this study, dam body and foundation are modeled with welded contact. The displacements and principle stress components obtained from the linear and non-linear analyses with and without reservoir water are compared each other. Principle stresses during earthquake were obtained at the most critical point in the upstream face of dam body. Besides, the change of displacements and stresses by crest length were investigated. Moreover demand-capacity ratio criteria were also studied under linear dynamic and nonlinear analysis. Earthquake performance analyses were carried out for different cases and evaluated. According to linear and nonlinear analysis, hydrodynamic water effect is obvious in full reservoir situation. On the other hand, higher tensile stresses were observed in linear analyses and then non-linear analyses were performed and compared with each other.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.93-103
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• 2018

This study showed that experimental study of inelastic nonlinear behavior of two-way beam string structures. General large span structures consisting of beam members have large moment and long cross section of area. In order to decrease these excessive moment and deflection, the two-way beam string structures composed of H-Beam, strut, and cable elements were proposed. In the two-way string beam, the cable with the prestress improves force distribution of some weight reduction. Two systems made of structural steel and cables were tested. The nonlinear behaviour of the two-way beam string structures studied by using finite element model and compared to experimental results. The displacement of the LVDT in the center of the beam correspond with the ABAQUS results. 2,200MPa cable can afford to bear breaking load than 1,860MPa cable. The two-way beam string structures is correlated to the finite element model and the experimental results. In consequence, It showed that the system with two-way cables exhibits much better structural performances than H-Beam structures and beam with cable.