• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.25-38
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• 2009

Local failure of a primary structural component induced by direct air-blast loading may be itself a critical damage and lead to the partial or full collapse of the building. As an extensive research to mitigate blast-induced hazards in steel frame structure, a state-of-art analytical approach or high-fidelity computational nonlinear continuum modeling using computational fluid dynamics was described in this paper. The capability of the approach to produce reasonable blast pressures on a steel wide-flange section column was first evaluated. Parametric studies were conducted to observe the effects of section sizes and boundary conditions on behavior and failure of columns in steel frame structures. This study shows that the analytical approach is reasonable and effective to understand the nature of blast wave and complex interaction between blast loading and steel column behavior.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.41.1-41.1
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• 2011

풍력블레이드는 가벼워야 하며 강도면에서 신뢰성이 확보되어야한다. 최근 들어 복합소재를 적용한 블레이드가 많이 선보이고 있다. 현재 가장 많이 사용되는 유리섬유/에폭시는 경제성 및 강도면에서 우수하여 많이 사용되어왔다. 본 논문에서는 유리섬유(80%)-탄소섬유(20%)/에폭시를 사용하여 강도를 높이고 무게를 경감시켜 효율을 증가시키고자 연구하였다. 국내 풍황에 적합한 1kW급 풍력블레이드의 Airfoil을 개발하여 강도를 평가하고 블레이드를 최적화 설계하였다. 유리섬유(80%)-탄소섬유(20%)가 적용된 복합재를 적층방법에 따라 실험하고 이를 블레이드 강도평가에 적용하였으며 FSI (Fluid-Structure Interaction)를 사용하였다. 이를 통해 블레이드의 무게경감 및 강도가 향상되었다.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.648-661
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• 2019

Thin fabric-based yacht sails have a cambered shape to generate lift force; however, their shape can be easily deformed by wind pressure and also affected by the deformation of the mast. These deformations can change the airflow characteristics over the sail. Therefore, Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) analysis is needed to evaluate the sail force precisely. In this study, airflow over the deformed sail and rig was studied using FSI. Elastic deformation of the sail and rig was obtained by an aerodynamic calculation under dynamic pressure loading on the sail surface. The effects of rig deformation on the aerodynamic performance of the sail were examined according to the rig type and mast flexibilities. As a result, the changes of lift force for a fractional type rig with a thin mast section were more significant than with a masthead rig.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회B
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• pp.2410-2414
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• 2008

Human heart valves diseased by congenital heart defects, rheumatic fever, bacterial infection, cancer may cause stenosis or insufficiency in the valves. Treatment may be with medication but often involves valve repair or replacement (insertion of an artificial heart valve). Bileaflet mechanical heart valves (BMHVs) are widely implanted to replace the diseased heart valves, but still suffer from complications such as hemolysis, platelet activation, tissue overgrowth and device failure. These complications are closely related to both flow characteristics through the valves and leaflet dynamics. In this study, the physiological flow interacting with the moving leaflets in a bileaflet mechanical heart valve (BMHV) is simulated with a strongly coupled implicit fluid-structure interaction (FSI) method which is newly organized based on the Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approach and the dynamic mesh method (remeshing) in FLUENT. The simulated results are in good agreement with previous experimental studies. This study shows the applicability of the present FSI model to the complicated physics interacting between fluid flow and moving boundary.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2017년도 제48회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1048-1050
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• 2017

본 연구에는 핀틀 노즐의 열변형 영향을 평가하기 위해 단방향 유체-구조 연성해석을 수행하였다. 단방향 유체-구조 연성해석을 위해 핀틀-노즐의 내부에 발생하는 압력 및 온도분포를 유동해석을 통해 도출하였고, 압력 및 온도분포 값을 각각의 유체-구조 해석의 하중조건으로 적용하여 핀틀의 변형량을 확인하였다. 변형에 대한 추력특성 변화를 확인하기 위해 양방향 유체-구조 연성해석을 수행 중이다.

• 에너지공학
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.97-102
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 화재가 발생하였을 때 작동되는 옥외형 피난계단 구조물이 태풍에 따른 풍압이 작용하였을 때 내구성을 검증하기 위하여 단방향 유동-구조 연성해석을 진행하였다. 이를 위해, 피난계단 구조물 주위에 대한 유동장을 정상상태로 유동해석을 수행하였고, 이러한 해석결과를 구조해석을 위한 입력 데이터로 사용하여 구조응력, 변형량, 피로수명 등의 계산을 통해 내구성을 분석하였다. 유동해석 결과, 피난계단 구조물 형상에 따라 공기에 의한 유동 흐름이 다르게 나타났으며, 이러한 유동속도 분포는 구조물 표면에 전압력으로 작용하였다. 또한, 이러한 전압력에 의해 계산된 구조해석 결과, 최대응력값으로 계산된 안전율이 허용치 이상으로 나타났으며, 피로수명과 변형량 분석을 통해 내구성을 입증하였다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.533-548
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• 2020

Despite the current technologic developments, failures in existent tensile fabric structures (TFS) subjected to wind do happen. However, design pressure coefficients are only obtained for large projects. Moreover, studies on TFSs with realistic supporting frames, comparing static and dynamic analyses and discussing the design implications, are lacking. In this study, fluid-Structure analyses of a TFS supported by masts and inclined cables, by subjecting it to different wind speeds, are carried out, to gain more understanding in the above-referred aspects. Wind-induced stresses in the fabric and axial forces in masts and cables are assessed for a hypar by using computational fluid dynamics. Comparisons are carried out versus an equivalent static analysis and also versus loadings deemed representative for design. The procedure includes the so-called form-finding, a finite element formulation for the TFS and the fluid formulation. The selected structure is deemed realistic, since the supporting frame is included and the shape and geometry of the TFS are not uncommon. It is found that by carrying out an equivalent static analysis with the determined pressure coefficients, differences of up to 24% for stresses in the fabric, 5.4% for the compressive force in the masts and 21% for the tensile force in the cables are found with respect to results of the dynamic analysis. If wind loads commonly considered for design are used, significant differences are also found, specially for the reactions at the supporting frame. The results in this study can be used as an aid by designers and researchers.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.1073-1082
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• 2003

Many researchers have investigated the blood flow characteristics through bileaflet mechanical heart valves using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models. Their numerical approach methods can be classified into three types; steady flow analysis, pulsatile flow analysis with fixed leaflets, and pulsatile flow analysis with moving leaflets. The first and second methods have been generally employed for two-dimensional and three-dimensional calculations. The pulsatile flow analysis interacted with moving leaflets has been recently introduced and tried only in two-dimensional analysis because this approach method has difficulty in considering simultaneously two physics of blood flow and leaflet behavior interacted with blood flow. In this publication, numerical calculation for pulsatile flow with moving leaflets using a fluid-structure interaction method has been performed in a three-dimensional geometry. Also, pulsatile flow with fixed leaflets has been analyzed for comparison with the case with moving leaflets. The calculated results using the fluid-structure interaction model have shown good agreements with results visualized by previous experiments. In peak systole. calculations with the two approach methods have predicted similar flow fields. However, the model with fixed leaflets has not been able to predict the flow fields during opening and closing phases. Therefore, the model with moving leaflets is rigorously required for advanced analysis of flow fields.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.988-995
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• 2020

Air gun shock systems are commonly used as alternative explosion energy sources for underwater explosion (UNDEX) shock tests owing to their low cost and environmental impact. The airbag inflator of automotive airbag systems is also very useful to generate extremely rapid underwater gas release in labscale tests. To overcome the restrictions on the very small computational time step owing to the very fine fluid mesh around the nozzle hole in the explicit integration algorithm, and also the absence of a commercial solver and software for gas UNDEX of airbag inflator, an idealized airbag inflator and fluid mesh modeling technique was developed using nozzle holes of relatively large size and several small TNT charges instead of gas inside the airbag inflator. The objective of this study is to validate the results of an UNDEX response analysis of one and two idealized airbag inflators by comparison with the results of shock tests in a small water tank. This comparison was performed using the multi-material Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation and fluid-structure interaction algorithm. The number, size, vertical distance from the nozzle outlet, detonation velocity, and lighting times of small TNT charges were determined. Through mesh size convergence tests, the UNDEX response analysis and idealized airbag inflator modeling were validated.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.597-600
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• 2008

Preconditioners for a two-dimensional combined finite element formulation have been devised and tested for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. The FSI code simulating the interaction of a elastic body with an unsteady flow is based on P2P1 finite element combined formulation. It has been shown that two preconditioners among them perform well with respect to computational memory and convergence for a bench-mark problem. Based on the verification of the preconditioners for the two-dimensional combined formulation, four preconditioners are proposed for the problem of an elastic body interacting with a flow.