• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.87-97
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• 2004

In gradient-dependent plasticity theory, the yield strength depends on the Laplacian of an equivalent plastic strain measure (hardening parameter), and the consistency condition results in a differential equation with respect to the plastic multiplier. The plastic multiplier is then discretized in addition to the usual discretization of the displacements, and the consistency condition is solved simultaneously with the equilibrium equations. The disadvantage is that the plastic multiplier requires a Hermitian interpolation that has four degrees of freedom at each node. Instead of using a Hermitian interpolation, in this article, a 3-node incompatible (trigonometric) interpolation is proposed for the plastic multiplier. This incompatible interpolation uses only the function values of each node, but it is continuous across element boundaries and its second-order derivatives exist within the elements. It greatly reduces the degrees of freedom for a problem, and is shown through a numerical example on localization to yield good results.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2002년도 ICCAS
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• pp.32.6-32
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• 2002

The damage localization of the structural system using the natural frequency measurement only is proposed. The existing methods use the changes of mode shape, strain mode shape or curvature mode shape before and after the damage occurrence as these shapes carry the geometric information of the structure. Basically, the change of natural frequencies of the structure can be used as the indicator of the damage occurrence but not as the indicator of the damage location as the natural frequency changes does not carry the geometric information of the structure. In this research, the feedback scope method that measures the natural frequency changes of the structure with and without the feedback Ioo...

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2011년도 정기 학술대회
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• pp.680-683
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• 2011

This study deals with damage detection in beam structure by using modal strain energy-based technique with three different sensor types: accelerometer, lead zirconate titanate (PZT) piezoelectric sensor and electrical strain gage. First, the use of direct piezoelectric effect of PZT sensor for dynamic strain response are presented. Next, a modal strain energy-based damage detection method is outlined. For validation, forced vibration tests are carried out on lab-scale aluminum cantilever beam. The dynamic responses are measured for several damage scenarios. Based on damage localization results, the performance of three different sensor types is evaluated.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.121-127
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• 2009

연화재료의 변형률 국부화 거동에 따른 파괴영역과 파괴영역 내에서의 변형률 추이는 구조물의 극한거동에 큰 영향을 미치지만 파괴영역의 예측과 영역 내에서의 변형률을 정량화하는 것은 실험적으로 명확히 구명되어 있다고 보기 어렵다. 이 연구에서는 국부화된 파괴영역 및 그 영역 내에서의 변형률 분포 추이를 추정하기 위해 화상처리기법을 이용하였다. 화상처리기법의 신뢰성 및 타당성을 검증하기 위해, 일축압축공시체를 대상으로 화상처리기법을 이용하여 변형률을 추정하고, 이를 콘크리트 게이지로부터 취득한 변형률과 비교분석하였다. 분석 결과를 바탕으로 전단압축파괴형 보의 정적파괴실험에 화상처리기법을 적용하여 실험체의 거동에 따른 주인장변형률 및 주압축변형률의 분포도를 작성하였다. 마지막으로 작성된 분포도를 이용하여 국부화영역 및 국부변형률을 추정하였다. 실험 결과, 화상처리기법을 이용하여 취득한 파괴영역 내에서의 변형률 분포 추이는 비교적 정확히 실험체의 거동을 예측할 수 있었으며 손상 정도에 따라 비교적 합리적인 국부변형률값을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.129-135
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• 1997

Previous studies has shown that the curve of low-cycle fatigue life was not expressed with the single line subjected to Manson-Coffin's law type and bent to short life in low ${\Delta}{\varepsilon}_p$ region. The main cause of this phenomenon has been considered that the localization of plastic strain in the crack initiation process fosters the crack initiation. In this study, the low-cycle fatigue life was investigated for each specimens omitted crack initiation process and it was found that fatigue life curve in log(${\Delta}{\varepsilon}_p$)-log($N_f$)was bent in low ${\Delta}{\varepsilon}_p$ region as ever. Therefore, the main cause of appearance of knee point in fatigue life curve is not found in the crack initiation process but in the crack propagation process. In the crack propagation process, the localization of the plastic strain in the vicinity of crack tip and the influence of test environment on the crack propagation rate were observed and these inclinations were more remarkable in low ${\Delta}{\varepsilon}_p$ region. Hence, it was concluded that these two phenomena in the crack propagation process were proved to the main cause which accelerates the crack propagation in low ${\Delta}{\varepsilon}_p$ region and bent the fatigue life curve in result.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.18-25
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• 2007

열적으로 민감한 재료의 소성 변형에 있어서, 전단력에 의한 전단밴드(shear band)는 많은 공학적인 재료에서 관찰되고 있으며 전단밴드의 형성이 가속화됨에 따라 밴드의 변화량이 많고 폭이 좁은 국부화(localization) 현상이 발생하게 되는데, 이는 가공물에 치명적인 파단을 가져올 수 있는 현상이다. 본 연구에서는 텅스텐 중합금(tungsten heavy alloy, WHA)의 관통 메커니즘을 분석하기 위해 높은 변형률의 조건하에서 관찰될 수 있는 전단밴드(shear band)의 형성과 국부화 현상에 대하여 열적 조건을 고려하여, 고속변형률에서 다결정 금속의 전단밴드 구성에 기초를 둔 메커니즘을 수치적으로 연구하였다.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.317-329
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• 2010

The paper describes localization of deformation in a bar under tensile loading. The material of the bar is considered as non-linear viscous elastic and the bar consists of two symmetric halves. It is assumed that the model represents behavior of the quasi-brittle viscous material under uniaxial tension with different loading rates. Besides that, the bar could represent uniaxial stress-strain law on a single plane of a microplane material model. Non-linear material property is taken from the microplane material model and it is coupled with the viscous damper producing non-linear Maxwell material model. Mathematically, the problem is described with a system of two partial differential equations with a non-linear algebraic constraint. In order to obtain solution, the system of differential algebraic equations is transformed into a system of three partial differential equations. System is subjected to loadings of different rate and it is shown that localization occurs only for high loading rates. Mathematically, in such a case two solutions are possible: one without the localization (unstable) and one with the localization (stable one). Furthermore, mass is added to the bar and in that case the problem is described with a system of four differential equations. It is demonstrated that for high enough loading rates, it is the added mass that dominates the response, in contrast to the viscous and elastic material parameters that dominated in the case without mass. This is demonstrated by several numerical examples.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.335-353
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• 2014

The softening hyperelastic model based on the strain energy limitation is of clear concepts and simple forms to describe the failure of materials. In this study, a linear and a nonlinear softening hyperelastic model are proposed to characterize the deformation and the failure in granular materials by introducing a softening function into the shear part of the strain energy. A method to determine material parameters introduced in the models is suggested. Based on the proposed models the numerical examples focus on bearing capacity and strain localization of granular materials. Compared with Volokh softening hyperelasticity and classical Mohr-Coulomb plasticity, our proposed models are able to capture the typical characters of granular materials such as the strain softening and the critical state. In addition, the issue of mesh dependency of the proposed models is investigated.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.231-244
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• 2013

An efficient method is proposed here to identify multiple damage cases in structural systems using the concepts of flexibility matrix and strain energy of a structure. The flexibility matrix of the structure is accurately estimated from the first few mode shapes and natural frequencies. Then, the change of strain energy of a structural element, due to damage, evaluated by the columnar coefficients of the flexibility matrix is used to construct a damage indicator. This new indicator is named here as flexibility strain energy based index (FSEBI). In order to assess the performance of the proposed method for structural damage detection, two benchmark structures having a number of damage scenarios are considered. Numerical results demonstrate that the method can accurately locate the structural damage induced. It is also revealed that the magnitudes of the FSEBI depend on the damage severity.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.778-782
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• 1996

By the use of a similar numerical method as that in the previous paper, the forming limit strain of bonded sheet metals is investigated, in which the FEM is applied and J2G(J2-Gotoh's corner theory) is utilized as the plasticity constitutive equation. Bonded two-layer sheets and sheets bonded with dissimilar sheets on both surface planes are stretched in a plane-strain state, with various work-hardening exponent n-values and thicknesses of each layer. Processes of shear-band formation in such composite sheets are clearly illustrated. It is concluded that, in the bonded state, the higher limiting strain of one layer is reduced due to the lower limiting strain of the other layer and vice versa, and does not necessarily obey the rule of linear combination of the limiting strain of each layer weighted according thickness.