• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.11-21
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• 2007

Currently in the country, the necessity of seismic analyses is increasing due to the increase of demand and interest in seismic design. Especially, shear wall apartments are constructed mostly for a residental building so seismic analyses for the apartment are actively executed. For the seismic analysis of the shear wall apartment, it may be not efficient in time and effort to model the entire structure by a finite element mesh. Therefore, an equivalent model is needed to simulate the dynamic behavior of the structure by decreasing the number of degrees of freedom. In this study, a method to form an equivalent model that is simple and easy to use was proposed utilizing effective mass coefficient that is highly correlated to mode shape of the structure. This equivalent model was obtained by replacing a shear wall structure with an equivalent frame structure having beams and columns. This model can be used very effectively when excessive seismic analyses are necessary in a short period because it can be operated in any commercial program and reduce the analysis time. Also, it can model floor slabs so it can represent the actual behavior of shear wall apartments. Furthermore, it is very excellent since it can represent the asymmetry of the structure.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.115-124
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• 2003

In this paper, the effects of vehicle loads on flat slab system are investigated on the basis of the previous studies for beam-gilder parking structural system. The influence surfaces of flat slab for a typical design section are constructed lot the purpose of obtaining maximum member forces under vehicle loads. In addition, the equivalent vehicle load factors for flat slab parking structures are suggested using artificial neural network. The network responses we compared with the results obtained by numerical analyses to verify the validation of Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm adopted as training method in this Paper. Many parameter studies for the flat slab structural system show dominant vehicle load effects at the center positive moments in both column and middle strips, like the beam-girder parking structural system.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.13-18
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• 2009

In this study, an equivalent unit load methodology has been presented to simplify the fatigue analysis procedure. And fuselage structure fatigue life has been evaluated based on equivalent unit load. Finite element analysis has been carried out to analyze the stress intensity factor and geometrical correction factor that is needed for crack growth analysis. And strain energy density factor is used to predict the initial direction of crack propagation.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.103-110
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• 2007

Only horizontal seismic waves are often applied as designed load to a rectangular rigid frame because the influence of vertical seismic waves is considered small so as to be able to ignore it. But, as for the seismic responses of shell and spatial structures, the responses in the vortical direction is significantly amplified and the vertical responses are amplified even if they are subjected to the horizontal seismic wave only. And also, the horizontal and vertical seismic responses of shell and spatial structures are amplified by vortical seismic waves. An arch has been often used as the main structure component of the large spatial structures and is the mostly simple structure with the seismic response characteristics of the spatial structures. In this paper, for arches as a simple example of the shell and spatial structures, the dynamic characteristics, when the structures are subjected to the horizontal and vertical seismic wave at the same time, are studied, and the horizontal and vertical static seismic force, which have simple forms but hold the response characteristics of arches, are proposed.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.691-697
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• 2007

Numerical eigen analysis of beam-like structure can be easily and effectively done by various conventional beam theory-based methods. However, in case of the structures composed of composite-sectioned beams, the application of conventional numerical methods requires one to derive both equivalent material and geometry properties. In the present paper, these equivalent properties are derived by the transformed section method and the test FEM program is coded. The numerical accuracy of the proposed method is verified through the comparison with the ANSYS 3-D model.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.193-201
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• 1992

A new equivalent curved beam theory is developed for the analysis of the corner part of ship structures, in which effects of distributed loads and asymmetricity with two or three connected parts are considered. Equivalent loads are obtained from equilibrium conditions between the distributed loads and the member forces and moments at the ends of curved beam. And an equivalent curved beam for the asymmetric structure is obtained by superposing the equivalent symmetric parts which have equivalent stiffness. From the sample calculation, it is found that the results of the new equivalent curved beam theory are well agreed with those of finite element method using membrane elements with little computing time and sufficient accuracy.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.17-19
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• 1991

본 글에서는 ANS(American Nuclear Society)에서 규정하고 있는 Safety Class 구조물 중 격납건물의 내진해석모델에 대해 주로 언급하며, 기타 건물(Non-Nuclear Safety "NNS")은 일반건물과 차이점이 없음으로 언급하지 않는다. U.S. NRC(Nuclear Regulatory Commision)는 참고문헌[1]에 의해 원자력 발전소내 여러건물중 SSE(Safe Shutdown Earthquake)하중에도 견디도록 규정하여 정확한 동력학적 계산이 요구되어지나, 그 이외의 건물들은 대개 등가정적 방법에 의해 해석되어진다. 이 해석방법은 여러 빌딩규정들에서 제안된 것으로 지진에 의한 동적하중을 밑면적 단력 또는 각층에 작용하는 층전단력이라는 등가의 정적하중으로 바꿔 계산되며 이 때 사용되는 해석모델은 건물의 기본진동만을 표시할 수 있는 간단한 것이다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.2 no.1 s.2
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• pp.108-113
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• 1998

By using an equivalent network based on Floquet's theorem and bisection principle, the optical properties of planar DFB guiding structure are evaluated. The optical parameters, such as Bragg condition and the reflectivity as a function of grating period, are numerically calculated. The numerical results reveal that this method offers a simple and convenient algorithm to analyze the optical characteristics of DFB configurations.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1106-1115
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• 2006

In this paper, the transmission characteristics and equivalent circuit model of microstrip transmission line having defected ground structure (DGS) in multilayer substrates are described fur high frequency region. In order to perform the study, the second dielectric layer is attached additionally onto the bottom(ground) plane of the basic DGS microstrip line consisted of the microstrip line and DGS. The dielectric constant and thickness of the second dielectric layer are adjusted to get various transmission characteristics and model parameters, and to analysis the effect of the second dielectric layer ultimately. According to this paper, the effect and equivalent circuits due to the attached dielectric substrate are verified separately, and this is expected to be applied to high frequency circuit design in the future.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.19 no.3 s.73
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• pp.247-258
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• 2006

For the perforated cylindrical shell submerged in fluid, it is almost impossible to develop a finite element model due to the necessity of the fine meshing of the shell and the fluid at the same time. This necessitates the use of solid shell with equivalent material properties. Unfortunately the effective elastic constants are not found in any references even though the ASME code is suggesting those for perforated plate. Therefore in this study the equivalent material properties of perforated shell are suggested by performing several finite element analyses with respect to the ligament efficiencies.