• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.567-576
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• 2017

Design of piezoelectric energy harvester for a wide operating frequency range is a challenging problem and is currently being investigated by many researchers. Widening the operating frequency is required, as the energy is harvested from ambient source of vibration which consists of spectrum of frequency. This paper presents a new technique to increase the operating frequency range which is achieved by designing a harvester featured by a propped cantilever beam with variable over hang length. The proposed piezoelectric energy harvester is modeled analytically using Euler Bernoulli beam theory and the effectiveness of the harvester is demonstrated through experimentation. The results from analytical model and from experimentation reveal that the proposed energy harvester generates an open circuit output voltage ranging from 36.43 V to 11.94 V for the frequency range of 27.24 Hz to 48.47 Hz. The proposed harvester produces continuously varying output voltage and power in the broadened operating frequency range.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.37-60
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• 2008

Structural health monitoring of existing infrastructure is currently an important field of research, where elaborate experimental programs and advanced analytical methods are used in identifying the current state of health of critical and important structures. The paper outlines two methods of system identification of beam-like reinforced concrete structures representing bridges, through static measurements, in a distributed damage scenario. The first one is similar to the stiffness method, re-cast and the second one to flexibility method. A least square error (LSE) based solution method is used for the estimation of flexural rigidities and damages of simply supported, cantilever and propped cantilever beam from the measured deformation values. The performance of both methods in the presence of measurement errors is demonstrated. An experiment on an un-symmetrically damaged simply supported reinforced concrete beam is used to validate the developed method. A method for damage prognosis is demonstrated using a generalized, indeterminate, propped cantilever beam.

• 전산구조공학
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.109-118
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• 1992

보(Beam)의 횡-비틀림 좌굴(Lateral-Torsional Buckling)에 대한 저항능력을 향상시키기 위해 횡-브레이싱(Lateral Bracing)을 실제 설계에 오랫동안 사용해 왔으나, 횡-브레이싱의 성능에 중요한 인자들은 아직 설계공식에 많이 포함되어 있지 않다. 해석적 모델을 사용하여 아래와 같은 몇개의 인자들에 대한 Parametric Study를 반복하중을 받는 짧은 보에 적용하여 그 영향들을 고찰하고자 한다 : 브레이스의 보 길이 방향의 위치, 브레이스의 보의 절단중심에 대한 높이, 브레이스의 강도와 강성. 일단고정 타단가중 지반(Propped Cantilever)보를 이용하여 Parametric Study를 수행하고, 또한 구조물 전체의 좌굴현상을 잘 포착하기 위해 보와 브레이스에 기하학적 (완전) 비선형의 보 모델을 사용한다. 여기에서 이상화된 브레이스는 보 단면의 횡방향의 이동은 구속하지만 회전은 자유롭게 하도록 한다. 또한 금속의 주기적 소성(Cyclic Plasticity)거동을 보다 잘 나타내기 위해 다축 주기적 소성 모델을 Consistent Return Mapping Algorithm과 결합시켜 적용한다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.169-184
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• 2003

This paper presents a generic modelling of composite steel-concrete beams with elastic shear connection. It builds on the well-known seminal technique of Newmark, Siess and Viest, in order to formulate the partial interaction formulation for solution under a variety of end conditions, and lends itself well for modification to enable direct quantification of effects such as shrinkage, creep, and limited shear connection slip capacity. This application is possible because the governing differential equations are set up and solved in a fashion whereby inclusion of the kinematic and static end conditions merely requires a statement of the appropriate constants of integration that are generated in the solution of the linear differential equations. The method is applied in the paper for the solution of the well-studied behaviour of simply supported beams with partial interaction, as well as to provide solutions for a beam encastr$\acute{e}$ at its ends, and for a propped cantilever.