• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.4685-4693
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• 2013

Present work deals with a shape optimal design to minimize the weight of the mask-frame used in the process of OLED vapor deposition by the fine metal mask. A design concept for an optimal shape of the frame to increase the stiffness and to reduce the weight is derived using the topology optimization, shape design variables of the frame by adopting slots being defined. An optimal shape is determined by solving the shape optimization problem to minimize the weight of the frame under constraints of the maximum displacement. Weight of the optimal design is 117.6 kg, which is reduced by 138.4 kg(54.1%) of that of the first design, 256 kg.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.293-299
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• 2015

Various centrifugal compressors are currently used extensively in industrial fields, where the design requirements are more complicated. This makes it more difficult to determine the optimal design point of a centrifugal compressor. Traditionally, the efficiency is an important factor for optimization. In this study, the weight of the compressor was also considered. The aim of this study was to present the design tendency considering the stage efficiency and weight. In addition, this study suggested possibility of a selection of compressor design objectives at an early design stage based on the optimization results. Only a vaneless diffuser was considered in this case. The Kriging method was used with sample points from 1D design program data. The optimal points were determined in a substitute design space.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.18-19
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• 2023

최근 상품의 특성을 고려하지 않은 박스 크기 선택과 박스 공간 내 비효율적인 상품 배치로 인하여 박스의 파손 문제가 지속적으로 제기되고 있다. 이는 적재하고자 하는 상품의 특성을 고려하지 않고 상품을 대략적으로 배치하기 때문이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 면적과 무게와 같은 상품의 특성을 고려한 상품 배치 최적화 알고리즘을 제안하여 공간 배치의 비효율성 문제를 최소화하고자 한다. 제안한 상품 배치 최적화 알고리즘은 검색 트리 (search tree)와 상품 특성 기반 평가 함수(evaluation function)로 구성되어 있다. 상품 특성 기반 평가 함수는 면적, 무게 및 바닥에 닿는 면적을 고려하여 설계되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.403-407
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to find the optimum skirt size for a composite pressure vessel using optimum analysis technique. The size optimization for skirt shape of a composite pressure vessel was conducted using sub-problem approximation method and batch processing codes programmed by APDL(ANSYS Parametric Design Language). The thickness and length of skirt part were selected as design variables for the optimum analysis. The objective function and constraints were chosen as weight and displacement of skirt part, respectively. The numerical results showed that the weight of skirt of a composite pressure vessel would be saved by maximum 4.38% through the size optimization analysis for the skirt shape.

• Composites Research
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.207-212
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• 2013

In this study, the thickness optimization for uni-directional (UD) glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) laminates of the spar cap of composite tidal blades was performed under the tip deflection constrains. The spar cap was composed of GFRP composites and carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites. The stress distributions in the blade as well as its material costs for the optimized results were additionally investigated. The optimized thickness was obtained by interacting a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm and an ABAQUS software to calculate an objective function. It was confirmed that the thickness of UD GFRP increased with a decrease of the restrained tip deflection when a thickness of UD CFRP laminates was constrained to 9 mm. The weight of the optimized spar-cap increased up to 96.2% while the maximum longitudinal tensile stress decreased up to 24.6%. The thickness of UD GFRP laminates increased with a decrease of the thickness of UD CFRP laminates when the tip deflection was constrained to 126.83 mm. The weight increased up to 40.1%, but the material cost decreased up to 16.97%. Finally, the relationships among the weight, internal tensile stress, and material costs were presented based on the optimized thicknesses of the spar cap.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.65-72
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• 2016

In this study, a fully active transfemoral prothesis with a knee joint is designed considering stair walking conditions. Since the torque at the knee joint required for stair walking condition is relative high compared with the one in normal walking condition, the proposed design has high torque generating mechanism. Moreover, the transfemoral prothesis is designed in compact size to reduce its weight, which is related to comfortable fit and fatigue of patients. Flat type BLDC motor is used for simple and compact structure and various components are used to generate required torque with target working angle and speed. The weight reduction of structure is carried out using optimization method after the initial design process is complete. The optimization is conducted under the load conditions of stair walking. The optimized design is validated via finite element analysis and experiments. As a result, the weight is reduced using topology and shape optimization but maintaining the safety of structure. Also the space efficiency is improved due to its compact size.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.31 no.2 s.257
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• pp.269-276
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• 2007

Optimal thickness and shape of the pedal arm of an automotive clutch is determined, using the numerical optimization technique, by solving the size and shape optimization problems to minimize its weight. For the optimization problems, two cases of stress and displacement constraints are considered: one from the vertical, and the other from the transverse stiffness test condition. The result of the transverse case is shown to be more conservative than that from the vertical case, being determined as the final optimum.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.185-186
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• 2019

카캐리어선에 화물을 선적하기 위해서는 각 화물의 선적 순서와 위치를 결정해야 하며, 이를 선적 계획이라 한다. 선적 계획은 선박의 무게 중심과 공간 손실률, 화물 재취급(re-handling) 횟수를 최소화하도록 수립된다. 최적의 선적 계획을 수립하기 위해서는 여러 후보 선적 계획들을 평가하여 적합도(fitness)가 가장 높은 것을 탐색하여야 한다. 하지만 화물 종류의 수와 도착지의 수가 증가할수록 후보 선적 계획의 수가 증가하게 되어, 탐색 시간과 계산 비용이 커지는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 탐색 공간이 매우 큰 환경에서 최적의 선적 계획을 효율적으로 탐색하기 위해 유전 알고리즘(genetic algorithm)을 사용한다. 또한, 선박의 무게 중심과 공간 손실률, 화물 재취급 횟수로 목적 함수(objective function)를 구성하여 최적 선적 계획을 탐색한다. 실험 결과, 휴리스틱(heuristic) 방식보다 공간 손실률과 재취급 횟수가 향상되었으며, 특히 재취급 횟수는 70% 감소하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.31-37
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• 2013

This study aims to find the optimal skirt dimensions for a composite pressure vessel with a separated dome part. The size optimization for the skirt structure of the composite pressure vessel was conducted using a sub-problem approximation method and batch processing codes programmed using ANSYS Parametric Design Language (APDL). The thickness and length of the skirt part were selected as design variables for the optimum analysis. The objective function and constraints were chosen as the weight and the displacement of the skirt part, respectively. The numerical results showed that the weight of the skirt of a composite pressure vessel with a separated dome part could be reduced by a maximum of 4.38% through size optimization analysis of the skirt structure.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.4
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• pp.341-346
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• 2008

Minimum Weight Triangulation (MWT) problem is an optimization problem searching for the triangulation of a given graph with minimum weight. Like many other graph problems this problem is also known to be NP-hard for general graphs. Several heuristic algorithms have been proposed for this problem including simulated annealing and genetic algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new genetic algorithm called GA-FF and show that the performance of the proposed genetic algorithm outperforms the previous one.