• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.533-556
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• 2003

The flutter and buckling analysis of a beam structure subjected to a static follower force is completely studied in the paper. The beam is fixed in the transverse direction and constrained by a rotational spring at one end, and by a translational spring and a rotational spring at the other end. The co-existence of flutter and buckling in this beam due to the presence of the follower force is an interesting and important phenomenon. The results from this theoretical analysis will be useful for the stability design of structures in engineering applications, such as the potential of flutter control of aircrafts by smart materials. The transition-curve surface for differentiating the two distinct instability regions of the beam is first obtained with respect to the variations of the stiffness of the springs at the two ends. Second, the capacity of the follower force is derived for flutter and buckling of the beam as a function of the stiffness of the springs by observing the variation of the first two frequencies obtained from dynamic analysis of the beam. The research in the paper may be used as a benchmark for the flutter and buckling analysis of beams.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1107-1132
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• 2015

A damage detection algorithm based on neuro fuzzy hybrid system is presented in this study for location and severity predictions of cracks in beam-like structures. A combination of eigenfrequencies and rotation deviation curves are utilized as input to the soft computing technique. Both single and multiple damage cases are considered. Theoretical expressions leading to modal properties of damaged beam elements are provided. The beam formulation is based on Euler-Bernoulli theory. The cracked section of beam is simulated employing discrete spring model whose compliance is computed from stress intensity factors of fracture mechanics. A hybrid neuro fuzzy technique is utilized to solve the inverse problem of crack identification. Two different neuro fuzzy systems including grid partitioning (GP) and subtractive clustering (SC) are investigated for the highlighted problem. Several error metrics are utilized for evaluating the accuracy of the hybrid algorithms. The study is the first in terms of 1) using the two models of neuro fuzzy systems in crack detection and 2) considering multiple damages in beam elements employing the fused neuro fuzzy procedures. At the end of the study, the developed hybrid models are tested by utilizing the noise-contaminated data. Considering the robustness of the models, they can be employed as damage identification algorithms in health monitoring of beam-like structures.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.277-291
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• 2024

The objective of this work is to study the effects of the modification of material properties on the vibration of the FGM beam using an integral shear strain model. In the present theory, the rotational displacement is replaced by an integral term in the displacement fields. The use of a shear correction factor is not necessary because our model gives a parabolic description of shear stress through the thickness while satisfying the conditions of zero shear stresses on the bottom and top surfaces of the beam. The FGM beam is assumed that the beam is a mixture of metal and ceramic, and that its properties change depending on the power functions of the thickness of the beam such as: linear, quadratic, cubic and inverse quadratic. By applying Hamilton's principle, general formulas were obtained to obtain the frequencies of the FGM beam. The effects of changing compositional characteristics of materials presented by volume fraction of FGM beams with simply supported edges on free vibration and some mode shapes are investigated.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2022

지형 추종을 시뮬레이션하기 위해 레이다 모의 지형 스캔 정보 생성 기법이 제시되었다. 레이다 모의 지형 스캔 정보 생성 기법은 레이다가 원하는 방위각, 고각 방향에 순차적으로 다수의 빔을 방사하는 것을 모사한다. 방사되는 각 빔의 방위각은 모두 동일하고, 고각은 서로 다르다. 각 빔을 통해 획득한 지형 정보를 통합하여 레이다 모의 지형 스캔 정보가 생성된다. 레이다 모의 지형 스캔 정보는 레이다 탐지점들로 구성되어 있다. 레이다 탐지점은 레이다로부터 멀어질수록 빔 중심선으로부터 멀어지는 경향이 있다. 이는 빔 폭이 일정한 각도를 가지기 때문이며, 방사 위치로부터 멀어질수록 빔의 스캔 영역이 넓어지는 것과 관련이 있다. 본 논문에서는 빔을 모사하여 생성된 레이다 모의 지형 스캔 정보를 분석하기 위해 기하학 기반 지형 스캔 정보 생성 기법을 제시한다. 기하학 기반 지형 스캔 정보는 기하학 탐지점으로 구성되며, 모든 기하학 탐지점은 빔 중심선 위에 존재한다. 두 기법이 생성한 지형 스캔 정보의 위도, 경도를 분석하여 빔 폭의 영향이 반영된 레이다 모의 지형 스캔 정보가 생성되었는지 확인하였다.

• 한국항공운항학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항공운항학회 2004년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.73-78
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• 2004

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권12A호
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• pp.1276-1285
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• 2007

TDD를 기반으로 하는 TD-SCDMA 시스템은 상 하향링크를 시간 영역으로 나누기 때문에 상 하향링크에 대한 트래픽을 비대칭으로 적용할 수 있다. 따라서 높은 주파수 효율성을 가질 수 있지만 셀 간 상 하향링크가 엇갈리는 타임 슬럿이 발생하게 된다. 이러한 타임 슬럿이 존재하는 인접한 셀 간의 간섭은 시스템 성능을 저하시키는 주요한 원인으로 대두되었다. 일반적으로 이런 간섭을 억제하기 위한 방법으로 동적 채널 할당 방안이 고려된다. 본 논문에서는 스마트 안테나가 적용된 TD-SCDMA 시스템에서 사용자의 위치와 인접한 셀과의 빔 특성을 고려한 새로운 타임 슬럿 할당 방법을 제안한다. 또한, 모의실험을 통해 기존의 동적 채별 할당 방안과 제안된 동적 채널 할당 방안에 대한 셀의 수용용량을 측정하였다. 그 결과를 통해 제안된 동적 채널 할당 방안이 셀의 수용용량 면에서 기존에 제시된 동적 채널 할당 방안에 비해 좋은 성능을 가지는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.769-785
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• 2015

Although timber structures have been extensively used in underground temporary supporting system, their actual performance is poorly understood, resulting in potentially conservative and over-engineered design. In this paper, a novel wireless sensor technology, SmartPlank, is introduced to monitor the field performance of timber structures during underground construction. It consists of a wooden beam equipped with a streamlined wireless sensor node, two thin foil strain gauges and two temperature sensors, which enables to measure the strain and temperature at two sides of the beam, and to transmit this information in real-time over an IPv6 (6LowPan) multi-hop wireless mesh network and Internet. Four SmartPlanks were deployed at the London Underground's Tottenham Court Road (TCR) station redevelopment site during the Stair 14 excavation, together with seven relay nodes and a gateway. The monitoring started from August 2013, and will last for one and a half years until the Central Line possession in 2015. This paper reports both the short-term and long-term performances of the monitored timber structures. The grouting effect on the short-term performance of timber structures is highlighted; the grout injection process creates a large downward pressure on the top surface of the SmartPlank. The short and long term earth pressures applied to the monitored structures are estimated from the measured strains, and the estimated values are compared to the design loads.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.384-390
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• 2015

There are two main artifacts in reconstructed images from in-beam positron emission tomography (PET). Unlike generic PET, in-beam PET uses the annihilation photons that occur during heavy ion therapy. Therefore, the geometry of in-beam PET is not a full ring, but a partial ring that has one or two openings around the rings in order for the hadrons to arrive at the tumor without prevention of detector blocks. This causes truncation in the projection data due to an absence of detector modules in the openings. The other is a ring artifact caused by the gaps between detector modules also found in generic PET. To sum up, in-beam PET has two kinds of gap: openings for hadrons, and gaps between the modules. We acquired three types of simulation results from a PET system: full-ring, C-ring and dual head. In this study, we aim to compensate for the artifacts that come from the two types of gap. In the case of truncation, we propose a method that uses prior knowledge of the location where annihilations occur, and we applied the discrete-cosine transform (DCT) gap-filling method proposed by Tuna et al. for inter-detector gap.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2004년도 춘계 학술발표회 제16권1호
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• pp.486-489
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• 2004

In this paper, we try to detect the peel out effect and find the strain difference between the main structure and retrofitting patch material when they separate from each other. In the experiment, two fiber optic Bragg grating sensors are applied to the main concrete structure and the patching material separately at the same position. The sensors show coincident behaviors at the initial loading, but different behaviors after a certain load. The test results show the possibility of optical fiber sensor monitoring of beam structures retrofitted by the composite patches.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.788-797
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• 2005

This paper describes the design and realization of an extra high frequency band $8{\times}8$ microstrip Butler matrix. Operation at 36 GHz is achieved with a frequency bandwidth exceeding 400 MHz. The circuit is implemented on a bi-layer microstrip structure using conventional manufacturing processes. This planar implementation of a Butler matrix is a key component of a switched beam smart antenna with printed antenna elements integrated on-board. Conception details, simulation results, and measurements are also given for the components (hybrid couplers, cross-couplers, and vertical inter-connections) used to implement the matrix.