• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.1053-1063
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• 2014

This study presents a sustainable design method that optimizes the embodied energy of concrete beam based on the concept of sustainable development that effectively utilizes natural resource and energy within the range that our succeeding generation can afford to utilize. In order to get the flexural strength carrying the ultimate load, concrete beam sections are designed by optimization that consists of the embodied energy as a objective function and the requirements of design code as constrained conditions. The sustainable design can be used to minimize the embodied energy consumed in material production, construction, operation, demolition of the infrastructure. As a result of comparison of the cost and the embodied energy optimizations based on practical beam sections, it is shown that 20% embodied energy saving and 35% $CO_2$ emission saving are achieved by sacrificing 10% cost increase. The sustainable design method provides a new effective methodology that manages the strength design concept based on cost minimization together with economic feasibility and sustainability. In addition, the method is expected to be applied to more various structural design practices.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.419-426
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• 2020

The structural design of the steel eccentrically braced frame (EBF) was developed and analyzed in this study through multiobjective optimization (MOO). For the optimal design, NSGA-II which is one of the genetic algorithms was utilized. The amount of structure and interfloor displacement were selected as the objective functions of the MOO. The constraints include strength ratio and rotation angle of the link, which are required by structural standards and have forms of the penalty function such that the values of the objective functions increase drastically when a condition is violated. The regulations in the code provision for the EBF system are based on the concept of capacity design, that is, only the link members are allowed to yield, whereas the remaining members are intended to withstand the member forces within their elastic ranges. However, although the pareto front obtained from MOO satisfies the regulations in the code provision, the actual nonlinear behavior shows that the plastic deformation is concentrated in the link member of a certain story, resulting in the formation of a soft story, which violates the capacity design concept in the design code. To address this problem, another constraint based on the Eurocode was added to ensure that the maximum values of the shear overstrength factors of all links did not exceed 1.25 times the minimum values. When this constraint was added, it was observed that the resulting pareto front complied with both the design regulations and capacity design concept. Ratios of the link length to beam span ranged from 10% to 14%, which was within the category of shear links. The overall design is dominated by the constraint on the link's overstrength factor ratio. Design characteristics required by the design code, such as interstory drift and member strength ratios, were conservatively compared to the allowable values.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.14 no.5 s.60
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• pp.603-612
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• 2002

Numerical analyses have been carried out in order to check the applicability of high-strength steel to a medium-sized steel bridge. Using the yield strength of steel, Average Daily Truck Traffic (ADTT), and fatigue grade of structural detail as analytical parameters, the minimum weight sections that satisfy the limit states of the AASHTO LRFD design specification were determined through an optimization scheme. Likewise, the effects of the number of girders and span length on the applicability of high-strength steel were evaluated. Results show that high-strength steel may be employed in the steel bridge, since steel weight decreases with increasing yield strength regardless of the fatigue effect. Nonetheless, appropriate countermeasures against fatigue should be determined since it is a major factor in the effective use of high-strength steel in steel bridges.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.50-56
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• 2013

For accurate analysis of low molecular peptides using SELDI-TOF MS (surface enhanced laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry), the optimized analytical conditions should be established for a specific biological sample. This study was conducted to optimize SELDI-TOF MS analytical conditions for profiling low molecular peptide below 10 kDa presented in sorghum seeds. Analytical conditions were as follows; (1) protein chips: CM10 (weak cation exchanger) and Q10 (strong anion exchanger), (2) dilution factors of binding buffer: 1/2, 1/5, 1/10, 1/20, 1/50, 1/100, and 1/200, (3) the stringency of Q10 binding buffer: 10 mM and 100 mM, and (4) protein extraction buffers: sodium borate, sodium borate + acetone, phenol, and TCA buffers. Optimum dilution factors were selected as 1/20 and 1/50 in both protein chips, CM10 and Q10. Low stringency of Q10 binding buffer (10mM) detected more peptide peaks than high stringency (100 mM). Selected protein extraction buffers of sorghum seed for SELDI-TOF MS analysis was the sodium borate buffer in the range of 2~10 kDa, while the phenol buffer was more suitable in the range of 10~20 kDa.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.19 no.2 s.72
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• pp.115-124
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• 2006

The 1st and 2nd tension forces of the PSSC(Prestressed Steel and Concrete) grider constructed with commercial rolling beams and concrete are optimally designed. The design variables are the 1st and 2nd tension forces due to multi-step prestressing and live load. The objective function is set to the maximum live load. Design conditions are allowable stresses at the top and bottom of slab, beam and infilled concrete due at the several construction stages. A Matlab based optimization program is developed. The results show that the tendon position as well as concrete compression strength have significant influence on the beam strength.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.153-160
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• 2010

This paper deals with the topology optimized design of the riser support structures for floating production storage and offloading units (FPSOs) under global and local loading conditions. For a preliminary study and validation of the numerical approach, a simplified plate under static loading is first evaluated with the representative topology optimization methods, the Homogenization Design Method (HDM) and Density Method (DM) or Simple Isotropic Material with Penalization (SIMP). In the context of the corresponding riser support structures, the design problem is formulated such that structure shapes based on design domain variables are determined by minimizing the compliance subject to a mass target, considering the stress criterion. An initial design model is generated based on an actual FPSO riser support configuration. The topology optimization results present improved design performances under various loading conditions, while staying within the allowable limit of the offshore area.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.565-572
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• 2019

Optimization of production system of polyester manufacturing companies is an important task for strengthening the competitiveness of the domestic polyester industry. The purpose of this study is to present a way to evaluate the goodness of the polyester manufacturing systems determined by the combinations of production facilities and to derive the optimal configuration of the production system. To this end, the criteria or factors for the evaluating polyester production system were derived and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used. Using the AHP model, we derived weights on the criteria for evaluating polyester production system and drew priorities for the configurations of the production systems under consideration.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.10 no.1 s.34
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• pp.63-72
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• 1998

The stiffness design method is presented as a drift control model of steel structures and applied to design of space trusses subjected to stress and displacement constraints. The stiffness design method is developed by integrating the resizing techniques for an effective drift control algorithm with the strength design process according to the commonly used design specifications such as allowable stress design. In the resizing technique the amount of material to be modified depends on the member displacement participation factors and is determined by an optimization technique. Using the stiffness design method, a structural design model for steel structures is proposed and applied to two verifying examples. As demonstrated in the examples, the displacement of the structures can be effectively controlled without expensive computational cost.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.423-423
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• 2022

수자원 계획 및 관리 관점에 있어 수문모형은 중요한 도구 중 하나이며 모의의 신뢰성을 높이기 위하여 검정 및 보정 과정을 거친다. 이는 일반적으로 장기간의 과거 수문기상자료를 활용하며 자료가 정상성(stationarity)이라는 가정에 따라 매개변수를 산정한다. 그러나 최근 기후변화 문제가 심화되며, 우리나라의 경우 여름철 호우의 강도 및 빈도가 증가할 것으로 전망되는 실정에서 수문 모형의 정상성을 가정한 매개변수 추정은 강우-유출 관계에 왜곡을 초래할 수 있다. 이러한 점에서 수문기상자료의 변동성을 고려한 수문모형의 검정 및 보정기법이 필요할 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 개념적 강우-유출 모형을 활용하여 산정된 소양강댐의 기존 매개변수와 수문기상자료의 경향성을 비교하여 모형의 적합성 향상 및 다양한 매개변수 산정 방식을 제공하고자 한다. 이를 위해 전역최적화 기법(global optimization method)을 도입하여 매개변수 추정시 발생하는 불확실성을 정량화하였고 동적 기후 예측 매개변수(dynamic climate predictors)를 활용하여 최적화를 수행하였다. 교차검증을 통하여 기존의 매개변수 추정 절차와 비교 검토를 수행하였다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.135-141
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• 2001

차량 충돌시 자동차의 시트는 승객 및 운전자를 보호해야 한다. 따라서 자동차시트는 충분한 강도를 가져야 하며 이것은 여러 가지 법규에 의해서 제재되고 있다. 물리적 실험 결과가 법규에 정한 규정치를 만족시키기 위해 과대설계 될 수 있다. 그러나 이것은 연비를 줄이기 위한 경량화의 만족이라는 설계요구에 상충한다. 본 논문에서는 헤드레스트 강도시험을 시뮬레이션하고 과대 설계되어 있다고 판단되는 어퍼암을 최적화 모델로 최적설계를 수행하였다. 순차 이차 계획법인 PLBA 알고리즘과 민감도 해석을 위하여 직접근사해석법을 사용하였다.