• Composites Research
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.247-253
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• 2017

In this study, the mechanical behavior and interface properties of boron nitride nanotube-poly(methyl methacrylate) nanocomposites are predicted using the molecular dynamics simulations and the double inclusion model. After modeling nanocomposite unit cell embedding single-walled nanotube and polymer, the stiffness matrix is determined from uniaxial tension and shear tests. Through the orientation average of the transversely isotropic stiffness matrix, the effective isotropic elastic constants of randomly dispersed microstructure of nanocomposites. Compared with the double inclusion model solution with a perfect interfacial condition, it is found that the interface between boron nitride nanotube and polymer matrix is weak in nature. To characterize the interphase surrounding the nanotube, the two step domain decomposition method incorporating a linear spring model at the interface is adopted. As a result, various combinations of the interfacial compliance and the interphase elastic constants are successfully determined from an inverse analysis.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.103-113
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• 1995

Since the mechanical properties of the rubber connectors used in the vehicle structures are sensitive on the dynamic characteristics of the system, they must be exactly evaluated. In this paper, both finite deformation theory and Hookean model are considered to calculate the stiffness coefficients of rubber connectors. An expert system is developed by using finite element method. When the equivalent stiffness coefficients on the same kinds of isolators used in actual vehicles were emperically examined, the results were largely dispersed due to the lack of the quality control on the material properties. To compensate the errors caused by the mathematical modeling and the mechanical properties, a practical method which identifies the shear and bulk moduli of rubber with the experimented overall force-deformation curves is suggested and applied to the engine isolators of vehicle.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.433-442
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• 2020

In this study, in order to build a molecular dynamics simulation model of ionomer for water electrolysis, an ionomer model that reflects the characteristics of a water electrolysis system in which excess water molecules exist was compared to an ionomer built according to the conventional simulation method of the fuel cells membrane. The final ionomer MD models have a strong phase separation and water channel that is one of the important characteristics of the perfluorinated ionomer, and are stable and water-insoluble under excessive water and high temperature conditions. In the ionomer MD models built in this study, the excess water molecules decrease an ion conductivity due to the dilution of ions, but increase a hydrogen diffusivity. Therefore, it is necessary to design the molecular structure of ionomers for water electrolysis in experimental studies as well as molecular dynamics studies according to the characteristics of the water electrolysis system reported in this study.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.35-41
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• 2014

A rotordynamic analysis is performed for a turbopump of 7 ton class liquid rocket engine considering bearing housing structural flexibility. Stiffness and damping characteristics of ball bearings and pump noncontact seals are reflected in a rotordynamic model. A dynamic model of bearing housing with lumped mass and stiffness is also applied to the rotordynamic analysis. Rotor critical speed and onset speed of instability are predicted from synchronous rotor mass unbalance response and complex eigenvalue analyses. The bearing housing structural flexibility effect on rotordynamic characteristics is investigated for both of bearing loaded and unloaded conditions respectively. From the numerical analysis, it is found that the effect of the housing structural flexibility significantly reduces the rotor critical speed and onset speed of instability.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.577-582
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• 2016

In this study, a multiscale method for solving a thermoelasticity problem for interphase in the polymeric nanocomposites is developed. Molecular dynamics simulation and finite element analysis were numerically combined to describe the geometrical boundaries and the local mechanical response of the interfacial region where the polymer networks were highly interacted with the nanoparticle surface. Also, the micrmechanical thermoelasticity equations were applied to the obtained equivalent continuum unit to compute the growth of interphase thickness according to the size of nanoparticles, as well as the thermal phase transition behavior at a wide range of temperatures. Accordingly, the equivalent continuum model obtained from the multiscale analysis provides a meaningful description of the thermoelastic behavior of interphase as well as its nanoparticle size effect on thermoelasticity at both below and above the glass transition temperature.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.92-97
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• 2006

A critical speed analysis is performed for a 30 ton thrust turbopump considering the casing structural flexibility. A full three-dimensional finite element method including rotor and casing is used to predict rotordynamic behavior. Rotor alone model and rotor-casing coupled model with fixed-fixed and free-free boundary conditions are calculated to investigate the effects of the casing structural flexibility. The stiffness of ball bearings are applied as unloaded and loaded values to consider rotor operating conditions in vacuum and real engine respectively. From the results of the numerical analyses, it is found that the effect of the casing structural flexibility reduces the critical speeds of the turbopump. Especially, the loaded rotor condition with higher bearing stiffness is affected dramatically rather than the unloaded rotor condition with lower bearing stiffness.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.880-881
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• 2023

본 연구는 차량 동역학이 적용된 자율주행 시뮬레이터에서 구현된 차량의 거동이 실제 차량과 유사한지 검증하는 것이다. 이를 위해 실제 차량모델에 외력을 가할 수 있는 기구를 개발하여 데이터를 획득하고 분석하고자 한다. 시뮬레이터에서 구현된 차량과 유사한 서스펜션 구조를 가진 차량 모델을 만들고 센서를 달아 차량의 운동 모델을 모사했으며, 캠과 감속기어를 활용해 외력을 모사하기 위한 기구를 제작하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.319-319
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• 2004

최근 컴퓨터 기술의 급속한 발전과 함께, 생산품질의 향상과 생산주기의 단축을 목적으로 유한요소법(FEM)과 다물체 동역학(multi-body dynamics)과 같은 시뮬레이션 기술(math-based engineering)이 산업계 전반에 폭넓게 적용되고 있다. 생산시스템 분야에서는 디지털 생산기술(digital manufacturing) 및 가상 생산기술(virtual manufacturing)의 개념이 소개되면서 생산시스템의 모델링 및 시뮬레이션에 관한 연구가 활발히 시도되고 있다. 그러나 아직까지 대부분의 시뮬레이션 기술이 구조해석과 같은 제한적으로 부문에서만 활용되고 있는 실정이며, 시뮬레이션 모델은 대상이 되었던 몇몇 특수한 경우에 제한적으로 사용될 수 있는 등의 한계를 보여 왔다.(중략)

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2017.03a
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• pp.340-345
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• 2017

DNA 나노구조물을 설계 및 개발, 해석하기 위해서는 기본적인 홀리데이 연결(Holliday junction) 구조에 대한 물성을 아는 것이 필수적이다. 여러 실험 및 시뮬레이션을 통해서 홀리데이 연결 구조 물성을 측정하려는 시도가 많았지만, 아직까지도 홀리데이 구조에 대한 정확한 물성은 얻어지지 않았다. 이번 연구에서는 6HB-DNT 모델을 분자동역학 기법을 이용하여 DNT 모델의 물성을 분석하고, 이를 기반으로 유한요소 모델링을 통해 홀리데이 연결의 물성을 해석한다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.423-430
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• 2013

In this research, a paramteric study to account for the effect of interfacial strength and nanotube agglomeration on the elastoplastic behavior of carbon nanotube reinforced polypropylene composites is performed. At first, the elastoplastic behavior of nanocomposites is predicted from molecular dynamics(MD) simulations. By combining the MD simulation results with the nonlinear micromechanics model based on the Mori-Tanaka model, a two-step domain decomposition method is applied to inversely identify the elastoplastic behavior of adsorption interphase zone inside nanocomposites. In nonlinear micromechanics model, the secant moduli method combined with field fluctuation method is used to predict the elastoplastic behavior of nanocomposites. To account for the imperfect material interface between nanotube and matrix polymer, displacement discontinuity condition is applied to the micromechanics model. Using the elastoplastic behavior of the adsorption interphase zone obtained from the present study, stress-strain relation of nanocomposites at various interfacial bonding condition and local nanotube agglomeration is predicted from nonlinear micromechanics model with and without the adsorption interphase zone. As a result, it has been found that local nanotube agglomeration is the most important design factor to maximize reinforcing effect of nanotube in elastic and plastic behavior.