• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.7 no.2 s.24
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• pp.115-124
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• 2007

The initial shape is arrived at by a self-formation process, which accomplishes a form in the natural world, or is determined analytically by considering the equilibrium of initial stress only. Therefore, the self-formation process, which accomplishes a form in the natural world is grasped and the types of modeling techniques available to find the shapes of soft structures are well investigated and classified. To establish a form-finding modeling techniques, the models of string, soap film, fabric, rubber, plaster, and etc. are used. These modeling techniques can be used as a method of understanding the characteristics of structures when the material of model shows similar characteristics. Generally, the model test confirms the structure based on numerical analysis, at the same time it is important preceding process to develop such a program. With the above process, the relationship between model test and numerical analysis becomes a feedback process. Therefore, in this study, two examples which have been accomplished from such a technique are investigated and considered according to modeling process.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.587-597
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• 2001

The structural system that discreterized continuous shells is frequently used to make dome-type structures and these structures show the unstable phenomena by snap-through or bifurcation when a load level reaches certain critical value. The characteristic structural behaviour of a cable dome shows a strong nonlinearity and very sensitive according to the initial imperfection. In this study the shape finding problem by applying initial tension stress is investigated and using this the unstable phenomena of perfectly shaped and initially imperfected shape model by external forces are examined to grasp the unstable behavior of cable dome using the Geiger-type model.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.4A
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• pp.337-346
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• 2009

To determine the initial configuration of the suspension bridge appropriate idealization model and analysis procedure are proposed as considering the boundary and loading conditions of stiffening girder during the erection. The construction stages of a suspension bridge are divided into two steps which are the first stage of the erection and the second stage of the completion in terms of the erection time of stiffening girders, and depending upon such an erection step the initial configuration analysis is classified the first configuration analysis and the revision analysis of the second configuration. The boundary and loading conditions and the analysis procedures for each stage are suggested and the results are verified by comparing with existing data. The results show that the proposed method provides better solution compared to the results using existing method.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.101-108
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• 2012

Initial shape analysis for cable-stayed bridges should be able to find optimizated initial cable forces and unstrained length that minimize deflection and bending moments of the deck and pylon. Comparison study of an improved initial force method and TCUD method for determination of initial cable forces in cable-stayed bridges is presented in this paper. For this purpose, an elastic catenary cable element and a nonlinear frame element are firstly described. And concepts and algorithm of two analysis methods are then presented. Finally to demonstrate the validity and the accuracy of two methods, numerical examples for initial state problems of cable-stayed bridges are given and compared based on these methods.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.947-954
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• 2016

A simplified analysis method is first proposed in order to determine an optimized initial shape of cable-stayed bridges including all unstrained element lengths without using complicated nonlinear FE analysis. The unstrained-length based FE method is then presented using the unstrained lengths by the simplified analysis. To demonstrate validity and accuracy of the proposed method, Incheon bridge model having the fabrication camber is constructed and initial shaping analysis is performed using the presented method and commercial finite element analysis program, MIDAS. Resultantly it is shown that the initial solutions by the proposed algorithm are well optimized and in good agreement with those by MIDAS except for axial displacements of the main member.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.19-28
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• 1992

이 글에서는 막 구조물의 설계에서 자주 제기되는 형상결정 문제에 대한 접근방법을 제시하고자 하였다. 형상결정 문제는 막 구조물이 휨 강성이 전혀 없거나, 빈약한 재료를 사용하는데 기인하여 제기되고, 막 구조물의 설계에서 불안정영역의 발생을 피하기 위해서는 형상의 기준면에서 곡률과 비틀림의 변화를 최소화해야 하며 이러한 변화를 최소화하기 위해서는 형상이 적용하중의 막력에 의한 평형면에 근접하는 것이 바람직하다. 또한, 초기에 막 구조물에 도입된 초기장력에 오차가 발새하면 막면은 스스로 등장력의 형태로 이동하게 되므로, 초기에 막장력의 분포가 등장력의 상태가 되도록 그 형상을 결정하는 것이 바람직하다. 따라서, 이러한 조건을 만족하는 형상탐색문제는 이러한 종류의 구조물의 설계에서는 매우 중요한 문제가 된다. 그러나 국내에서는 막과 케이블 구조물의 형상해석과 응력-변형해석에 범용적으로 사용될 수 있는 프로그램의 개발이 미약하고 이러한 구조방식에 대한 국내의 인식에 크게 부족한 실정이다. 따라서 이 글이 막과 케이블 구조물의 설계에서 형상탐색해석이 반드시 필요한 이 구조물의 구조적 특성을 이해하는데 조금이라도 도움이 될 수 있기를 기대한다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.87-95
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• 2011

A rational method for determination of initial cable forces in cable-stayed bridges without complicated nonlinear analysis is presented. Initial shape analysis for cable-stayed bridges should be able to find optimizated initial cable forces and unstrained length that minimize deflection and vending moments of the deck and pylon. A presented method utilizing the idea of force equilibrium organizes initial shape analysis for each types of cable-stayed bridges. The results of that analysis were compared to several existing methods for 2D numerical examples. And for 3D actual bridges, the improved TCUD method was performed to demonstrate the accuracy of this study.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.59-66
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• 2010

This study presents the topology optimization technique by density method to determine the initial shape of space truss structures. Most initial shape design is performed by designer's previous experiences and trial and error method instead of the application of reasonable optimization method. Thus, the reasonable and economical optimization methods are needed to be introduced for the initial shape design. Therefore, we set design domain for cantilever space truss structure as an example model. And topology optimization is used to obtain optimum layout for them, and then size optimization method is used to find the optimum member size. Therefore, the reasonable initial optimal shapes of spatial truss structures can be obtained through the topology and size optimization using density method.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.1468-1484
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• 1992

In the present paper forward projection is proposed as a new approach to determine the preform shape in rib-web type forging. In the forward projection technique an optimal billet is determined by applying some mathematical relationship between geometrical trials in the initial billet shape and the final products. In forward projection a volume difference between the desired product shape and the final computed shape obtained by the rigid-plastic finite element method is used as a measure of incomplete filling of working material in the die. At first linear inter-/extrapolation is employed to find a proper trial shape for the initial billet and the method is successfully applied to some cases of different aspect ratios of the initial billet. However, when the initial guesses are not sufficiently near the optimal value linear inter-/extrapolation does not render complete die filling. For more general application, a fuzzy system is used in the forward projection technique in order to determine the initial billet shape for rib-web type forging. It has been thus shown that the fuzzy system is more reliable for the preform design in the rib-web type forging process.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.78-81
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 개선된 TCUD(Improved TCUD, I.TCUD)법 및 개선된 초기부재력법(Improved Initial Force Methods, I.IFM)을 이용하여 3차원 현수교의 초기형상해석을 수행하였다. 절점평형법에 의하여 초기 평형상태를 결정하고, 이때 계산된 무응력장을 초기값으로 입력하여 비선형 해석을 수행하여 나온 값을 초기값으로 하여 해석을 반복한다. 이를 통하여 간단한 수치 해석 기법인 I.IFM이 정밀한 I.TCUD법과 비교하여 근접한 결과를 나타내는 것을 수치예제를 통하여 확인하였다.