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Analysis Methods of Wrinkle Prediction for Thin Membrane (얇은 막재료의 주름해석 기법)

  • Bae, Hongsu;Woo, Kyeongsik
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.41 no.11
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    • pp.865-873
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, numerical methods for wrinkle prediction of thin membrane were studied by finite element analysis. Techniques using membrane and shell elements were applied for triangular membrane. In case of membrane element method, the wrinkling was accounted for by the wrinkle algorithm of property modification, which was implemented to ABAQUS as a user subroutine. In case of shell method, geometrically nonlinear post-buckling analysis was performed to obtain the wrinkle deformation explicitly. The wrinkling deformation was induced by seeding the mesh with a random geometric imperfection. The results were investigated focusing on the mesh convergence and the solution accuracy.

Optimum parameterization in grillage design under a worst point load

  • Kim Yun-Young;Ko Jae-Yang
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.137-143
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    • 2006
  • The optimum grillage design belongs to nonlinear constrained optimization problem. The determination of beam scantlings for the grillage structure is a very crucial matter out of whole structural design process. The performance of optimization methods, based on penalty functions, is highly problem-dependent and many methods require additional tuning of some variables. This additional tuning is the influences of penalty coefficient, which depend strongly on the degree of constraint violation. Moreover, Binary-coded Genetic Algorithm (BGA) meets certain difficulties when dealing with continuous and/or discrete search spaces with large dimensions. With the above reasons, Real-coded Micro-Genetic Algorithm ($R{\mu}GA$) is proposed to find the optimum beam scantlings of the grillage structure without handling any of penalty functions. $R{\mu}GA$ can help in avoiding the premature convergence and search for global solution-spaces, because of its wide spread applicability, global perspective and inherent parallelism. Direct stiffness method is used as a numerical tool for the grillage analysis. In optimization study to find minimum weight, sensitivity study is carried out with varying beam configurations. From the simulation results, it has been concluded that the proposed $R{\mu}GA$ is an effective optimization tool for solving continuous and/or discrete nonlinear real-world optimization problems.

A Fast Scheme for Inverting Single-Hole Electromagnetic Data

  • Kim Hee Joon;Lee Jung-Mo;Lee Ki Ha
    • Proceedings of the KSEEG Conference
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    • 2002.04a
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    • pp.167-169
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    • 2002
  • The extended Born, or localized nonlinear approximation of integral equation (IE) solution has been applied to inverting single-hole electromagnetic (EM) data using a cylindrically symmetric model. The extended Born approximation is less accurate than a full solution but much superior to the simple Born approximation. When applied to the cylindrically symmetric model with a vertical magnetic dipole source, however, the accuracy of the extended Born approximation is greatly improved because the electric field is scalar and continuous everywhere. One of the most important steps in the inversion is the selection of a proper regularization parameter for stability. Occam's inversion (Constable et al., 1987) is an excellent method for obtaining a stable inverse solution. It is extremely slow when combined with a differential equation method because many forward simulations are needed but suitable for the extended Born solution because the Green's functions, the most time consuming part in IE methods, are repeatedly re-usable throughout the inversion. In addition, the If formulation also readily contains a sensitivity matrix, which can be revised at each iteration at little expense. The inversion algorithm developed in this study is quite stable and fast even if the optimum regularization parameter Is sought at each iteration step. Tn this paper we show inversion results using synthetic data obtained from a finite-element method and field data as well.

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A REVIEW ON REDUCTION IN FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

  • Kim, Ki-Ook;Park, Young-Jae
    • Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2002
  • Reduction methods for large structural systems have been reviewed. Mai emphasis is put on the dynamic reduction. Recently, the computing resources and technologies have been expanded so fast that the huge matrices Invoked In the analysis of structural system can be processed without serious difficulties. For most users, however, the computer facilities are limited and the system reductions in some forms are required. The reduction procedure in static problems is simple and straightforward. The major task is the book-keeping in computations. In dynamic problems and structural optimization. however. the problem is much more complicated. The problem is, in general, nonlinear and hence the exact solution is not available. Therefore, approximate solutions are sought in an iterative manner. A proper convergence criterion needs to be employed in order to get an accurate solution efficiently. Several research works have been reported fer the structural optimization combined with system reductions.

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ANALYTICAL SOLUTION OF SINGULAR FOURTH ORDER PARABOLIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF VARIABLE COEFFICIENTS BY USING HOMOTOPY PERTURBATION TRANSFORM METHOD

  • Gupta, V.G.;Gupta, Sumit
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.31 no.1_2
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    • pp.165-177
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we apply Homotopy perturbation transform method (HPTM) for solving singular fourth order parabolic partial differential equations with variable coefficients. This method is the combination of the Laplace transform method and Homotopy perturbation method. The nonlinear terms can be easily handled by the use of He's polynomials. The aim of using the Laplace transform is to overcome the deficiency that is mainly caused by unsatisfied conditions in other semi-analytical methods such as Homotopy perturbation method (HPM), Variational iteration method (VIM) and Adomain Decomposition method (ADM). The proposed scheme finds the solutions without any discretization or restrictive assumptions and avoids the round-off errors. The comparison shows a precise agreement between the results and introduces this method as an applicable one which it needs fewer computations and is much easier and more convenient than others, so it can be widely used in engineering too.

A Study on Minimum Volume of Highly Homogeneous Superconducting Coil (균일자장 초전도코일의 체유최소화에 관한 연구)

  • 이승원;권영안
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.38-43
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    • 1985
  • Since the superconductor type II with high critical current and high critical magnetic field was discovered in 1961, there were many studies on the superconducting coil for high field and highly homogeneous field. The graphical method and the numerical method by Newton Raphson technique have been studied as the method for design of homogeneous superconducting coil. It is comparatively easy to get a compensating coil for any given main coil by the above methods, but it is too laborious to get a general solution for main coil dimension. This paper studies the optimal design method for minimum volume of superconducting coil under certain central field and highly homogeneous field. The present method makes use of the nonlinear programming for optimization. The optimal solution of NMR superconducting coils by this method are demonstrated very well.

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A Study on Genetic Algorithms to Solve Nonlinear Optimization Problems (비선형 최적화 문제 해결을 위한 유전 알고리즘에 관한 연구)

  • 윤영수;이상용;류영근
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.19 no.40
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    • pp.15-22
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    • 1996
  • Methods to find an optimal solution that is the function of the design variables satisfying all constraints have been studied, there are still many difficulties to apply them to optimal design problems. A method to solve the above difficulties is developed by using Genetic Algorithms. but, several problems that conventional GAs are ill defined are application of penalty function that can be adapted to transform a constrained optimization problem into an unconstrained one and premature convergence of solution. Thus, we developed an modified GAs to solve this problems, and two examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the methodology developed in this paper.

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A Fast Forward Kinematic Analysis of Stewart Platform (스튜어트 플랫폼의 빠른 순기구학 해석)

  • Ha, Hyeon-Pyo;Han, Myeong-Cheol
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.339-352
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    • 2001
  • The inverse kinematics problem of Stewart platform is straightforward, but no closed form solution of the forward kinematic problem has been presented. Since we need the real-time forward kinematic solution in MIMO control and the motion monitoring of the platform, it is important to acquire the 6 DOF displacements of the platform from measured lengths of six cylinders in small sampling period. Newton-Raphson method a simple algorithm and good convergence, but it takes too long calculation time. So we reduce 6 nonlinear kinematic equations to 3 polynomials using Nairs method and 3 polynomials to 2 polynomials. Then Newton-Raphson method is used to solve 3 polynomials and 2 polynomials respectively. We investigate operation counts and performance of three methods which come from the equation reduction and Newton-Raphson method, and choose the best method.

Analytical solution of a two-dimensional thermoelastic problem subjected to laser pulse

  • Abbas, Ibrahim A.;Alzahrani, Faris S.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.791-803
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    • 2016
  • In this article, the problem of a two-dimensional thermoelastic half-space are studied using mathematical methods under the purview of the generalized thermoelastic theory with one relaxation time is studied. The surface of the half-space is taken to be thermally insulated and traction free. Accordingly, the variations of physical quantities due to by laser pulse given by the heat input. The nonhomogeneous governing equations have been written in the form of a vector-matrix differential equation, which is then solved by the eigenvalue approach. The analytical solutions are obtained for the temperature, the components of displacement and stresses. The resulting quantities are depicted graphically for different values of thermal relaxation time. The result provides a motivation to investigate the effect of the thermal relaxation time on the physical quantities.

USING CROOKED LINES FOR THE HIGHER ACCURACY IN SYSTEM OF INTEGRAL EQUATIONS

  • Hashemiparast, S.M.;Sabzevari, M.;Fallahgoul, H.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.29 no.1_2
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    • pp.145-159
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    • 2011
  • The numerical solution to the linear and nonlinear and linear system of Fredholm and Volterra integral equations of the second kind are investigated. We have used crooked lines which includ the nodes specified by modified rationalized Haar functions. This method differs from using nominal Haar or Walsh wavelets. The accuracy of the solution is improved and the simplicity of the method of using nominal Haar functions is preserved. In this paper, the crooked lines with unknown coefficients under the specified conditions change the system of integral equations to a system of equations. By solving this system the unknowns are obtained and the crooked lines are determined. Finally, error analysis of the procedure are considered and this procedure is applied to the numerical examples, which illustrate the accuracy and simplicity of this method in comparison with the methods proposed by these authors.