• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.68-76
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• 2022

The purpose of this paper was to design the cable networks for mesh reflector antennas, considering the flexibility of structures. An effective form-find methodology is proposed. The whole parts of the cable networks are described by the absolute nodal coordinate formulation. Additionally, nonlinear deformation of the cable can be obtained. The form-finding analysis of the reflector with standard configuration is performed, to validate the proposed methodology. The truss ring structure is numerically modeled using the frame elements. To consider the flexibility of the truss ring as well as the cable net structure, an iteration analysis between the truss ring and the cable net under tensional forces is also performed in the form-finding process. The finial configuration of the reflector with tensioned cable networks is demonstrated.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.474-482
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• 2002

The purpose of the study is to establish an optimum geometry and optimum geometry factor through bond test of a structural synthetic fiber, which fully utilizes matrix anchoring without fiber fracturing with the maximum pullout resistance. Seven deformed structural synthetic fibers with widely different geometries were investigated and pullout test was conducted. Included parameters are seven different types of fiber and two of mortar matrixes. The test result shows that the crimped type structural synthetic fiber is significant improvement in the interface toughness(pullout energy) and pullout load. The pullout test was performed with various size of crimped type structural synthetic fiber in order to invest optimum geometry factor, In the basis of the test results, optimum geometry factor is established such as D=b$^{{\alpha}0{\alpha}}$h$^{λ{\beta}}$.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.19-24
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• 2009

Structural Dynamics Modification (SDM) is a very effective technique to improve structure's dynamic characteristics by adding or removing auxiliary structures, changing material properties and shape of structure. Among those of SDM technique, the method to change shape of structure has been mostly relied on engineer's experience and trial-and-error process which are very time consuming. In order to develop a systematic method to change structure shape, surface grooving technique is studied and successfully applied to HDD cover model. To verify Surface Grooving Technique, fully embossed HDD cover model was optimized. And comparing with previous optimization result, the effectiveness of this surface grooving technique was checked. The shape of groove and 1 st natural frequency were converged to the same result of previous optimization.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.215-221
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• 2008

Dynamic characteristics of a structure, i.e., natural frequency and mode shape, have been widely using as an input data in the area of structural integrity or health monitoring which combined with the damage evaluation and structural system identification techniques. It is very difficult, however, to get those information by the conventional modal analysis method from large structures, such as the offshore structure or the long-span bridge, since the source of vibration is not available. In this paper, a method to obtain the frequencies and the mode shapes of a large span truss structure using only acceleration responses is studied. The calculation procedures to obtain acceleration responses and frequency response functions are provided utilizing a numerical model of the truss, and the process to extract natural frequencies and mode shapes from the modal analysis is cleary explained. The extracted mode shapes by proposed method are compared with those from eigenvalue analysis for the estimation of accuracy. The validity of the mode shapes is also demonstrated using an existing damage detection technique for the truss structure by simulated damage cases.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.16 no.3 s.70
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• pp.345-353
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• 2004

One of the key issues in spatial structures with large spaces is how to carry the weight of the roof. This can be solved by the effective use of tension members. A cable dome structural system facilitates the construction of a large space structure. As external load increases, however, the cable dome structural system is put at risk due to global buckling. This study measures the shape of the Geiger and Flower-type cable dome by applying an initial stress. This unstable phenomenon is also examined using a perfectly shaped model and an imperfect model, which are both subjected to an axisymmetric load.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.599-607
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• 2002

During the shape optimization, relocations of nodes happen successively. However, excessive movement of nodes often results in the mesh distortion and eventually deteriorates the accuracy of the optimum solution. To overcome this problem, an efficient method lot the shape optimization has been developed. The method starts from the design domain which is large enough to hold the possible shape of the structure. The design domain has pre-defined uniform fine meshes. In each cycle, the method allots real properties to the elements inside the structure and nearly zero to ones outside. The performance of the method is evaluated through two examples with displacement and frequency constraints.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.249-252
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• 2012

Structural design of the injector head part of a 7ton class thrust chamber was preformed. Structural stability of an injector head part is a very important factor for a thrust chamber of a liquid rocket engine because it is loaded by high pressure of liquid oxidizer and fuel in addition to thrust load. Structural design requirements were first defined to design the injector head part of the 7ton class thrust chamber and the basic configuration was designed on the basis of the design requirements. A high strength steel that has been locally developed was applied to the injector head part of the thrust chamber. A total of twelve design configurations have been analyzed to select structurally the most stable design configuration.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.407-415
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• 1999

There are two kinds of instability phenomena for shell-type structures which are snap-through and bifurcation buckling. These are very sensitive according to the shape characteristics including rise-span ratio and especially shape initial imperfection. In this study, the equilibrium path of shallow sinusoidal arches supported by hinges at both ends is investigated to grasp the instability behavior of shell-type structures with initial imperfection. The Galerkin method is used to get the nonlinear discretized equation of governing differential equation considering geometric nonlinearity of arches and the perturbation method is also used to transform the nonlinear equation to incremental form.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.578-583
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• 2010

본 연구는 전통적인 형상탐색 기법중의 하나인 내력밀도법을 건축구조물의 통합설계최적화 과정에 도입하고 이와 관련된 이론적 배경과 수치해석 결과를 기술하였다. 통합설계최적화 기법은 크기최적화, 형상최적화 그리고 위상최적화와 같이 다양한 개별최적화 기법을 이용하게 되는데 본 연구에서는 구조물의 형상을 결정하는 단계에서 내력밀도법을 이용하였다. 특히 본 연구에서는 내력밀도법과 다른 개별최적화기법과의 연계성에 대하여 기술하고 아치형 트러스 구조물의 통합설계최적화를 수행하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2011

In this study, we investigated the hydrodynamic and thermal performance of constructal architectures on the basis of the mass flow rates for a given pressure drop, and we determined the thermal resistance and flow uniformity. The five flow configuration used in this study were the first construct with optimized hydraulic diameter, the second construct with optimized hydraulic diameter, the first construct with non-optimized hydraulic diameter, second construct with non-optimized hydraulic diameter, and a serpentine configuration. The results of our study suggest that the best fluid-flow structure is the second constructal structure with optimized constructal configurations. We also found that in the case of the optimized structure of cooling plates, the heat transfer was remarkably higher and the pumping power was significantly lower than those of traditional channels.