• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.493-504
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• 2008

This paper presents a computation of nonlinear elastic strains that may occur in the leaflet of the Edwards MIRA mechanical heart valve by the applied high blood pressure using the finite element analysis methodology. By adopting numerical analysis techniques of the commercial finite element analysis code, NISA, structural analyses of the Edwards MIRA mechanical heart valve are performed for the slight variation of leaflet thickness to get the elastic strains occurring in the leaflet while the high blood fluid pressures are applied to the leaflet surface in order that the maximum stress occurring in the leaflet may be less than the yield stress of the leaflet material(Si-Alloyed PyC). And so, only the geometric non-linearity is assumed because large geometric nonlinear elastic strains are expected rather than material nonlinear strains due to the applied high blood pressure. Computed linear and nonlinear elastic strains are compared to make sure the non-linearity of the computed elastic strain. The comparison result shows that large elastic strains occur clearly in the very thin leaflets as high blood pressures are applied. However, only the linear elastic strains occur for low blood pressures, and also for thick leaflets even for the high blood pressures. Hence the nonlinear structural analysis is very required in the structural design of a mechanical heart valve.

• The Korean Journal of Rheology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.46-53
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• 1989

유한요소법을 이용하여 애뉼라다이 팽창현상을 수치 해석학적으로 분석하였다. 이보 고는 계속적인 연구의 일부로써 비탄성 비뉴토니안 유체인 지수법칙형의 유체에 대한 모사 이다. 이지수법칙형의 유체는 간단하나 고분자 공정 연구에 많이 쓰이는 구성식으로써, 분석 결과는 환형압축체의 두께는 지수법칙 지수에 비례하여 증가하였다. 높은 전단응력 감소유 체의 경우 두께는 증가하지 않고 감소하였다. 비등온 유체 및 여러 다른 형태의 압출형에 대한 수치해석 결과도 예시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1992.06a
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• pp.60-65
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• 1992

액정은 합성에 의해서 만들어지는 고분자 화합물로서 액체와 고체결정의 중간적인 특성을 갖는 물질이다. 따라서 액체와 같이 점도를 갖고 유동하며 고체와 같이 외부하중에 대하여는 탄성변형을 하므로 일반 윤활유보다 월등한 윤활특성이 기대된다. 액정은 분자배열에 따라 smectics, cholesterics, Nematics의 세종류로 나뉘어지며 Smectics는 다시 Smectic A, Smectic C등으로 분류되며 관심대상은 Smectic A이다. 본 연구에서는 평판 슬라이더 베어링의 간극에 액정층이 형성되어있을때 액정의 탄성계수, 침투계수 및 벌어짐계수가 베어링부하, 액정층의 유동현상등에 미치는 영향을 비선형 유한 요소법을 사용하여 해석하고 레이놀즈 이론해와 비교하였다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.87-95
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• 2000

The two eigenvalues (elastic critical load and natural frequency of lateral vibration) of sinusoidally tapered bats with simply supported ends were determined by the finite element method. For the convenience of structural engineers who are engaged in the structural design or vibration analysis of tapered beam-columns, eigenvalue coefficients were expressed by simple algebraic equations. The validity of each algebraic equation was confirmed by the value of unity for each correlation coefficient. The influence of axial thrust on the lateral vibration frequency was also investigated. For this purpose, the axial thrust was increased successively and the corresponding frequency was calculated. The approximate linear relationship between the axial thrust and the square of the frequency was confirmed lot each of the tapered members.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.48-48
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• 2004

RUS(공명초음파분광법)는 비파괴 검사법의 하나로서 공명 주파수와 주파수 응답을 매우 정확하게 측정할 수 있으며, 탄성학적인 성질과 이방성을 결정하는데 이용 가능하다. Paul Heyliger와 Hassel Ledbetter는 steel block의 표면 크랙과 복합적층물의 내부 손상을 검출하는데 RUS를 사용하였으며, Jay G. Saxton은 RUS를 이용하여 chops, cracks, voids등을 검출하므로써 RUS의 비파괴 검사기능으로서의 가능성을 찾았다. 현재 광섬유 응용 제품에 많이 이용되고 있는 광커넥터는 초정밀 가공을 필요로 하는 중요한 부품으로서 optical fiber, ball lense로 구성되어진다.(중략)

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.195-205
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• 2003

This paper presents an analytic method and a design technique for golf shoes with air-cycled pump in the midsole. The golf shoes are modeled using the finite element method for better design by considering the configuration of the midsole and the outsole, which compose the golf shoes. Also the optimum size and shape of air-cycled pump in the midsole is examined. The values or standard human pressure for boundary conditions are adopted for the FEA(Finite Element Analysis). The unknown constants of the strain energy function of Ogden type are observed in accordance with the axial tension test. By the commercial FEM software for nonlinear analysis, MARC V7.3, the strains and the values of volume change for the midsole and the outsole are obtained, respectively. It can be concluded that results obtained by FEM in the midsole and the outsole are different depending on the characteristic of elastomer The results reported herein provide better understanding of analyzing the golf shoes. Moreover, it is believed that those properties of the results can be utilized in the shoes industry to develop the effective design method.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 1992

A method analizing contact pressure between plate and elastic half space is presented by using F.E.M. With the method, the pressure intensities at surface nodes of half space cae be directly calculated by using flexibility matrix of half space. The method is originally presented by Y.K. Cheung et al.(3) Insted of Y.K. Cheung's method, which use a conception of equi-contact pressure area around each surface nodes of half space in the noded rectanqular element area. We use the equi-contact pressure area around the Gaussian integration points of half space surface in the noded isoparametric element area. Numarical examples are presented and compared with other's studies.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1592-1602
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• 1990

Mixed mode surface crack in finite-width plate subjected to uniform tension and bending has been analyzed in 3-D problem by using boundary element method. The calculations were carried out for the surface crack angles(.a/pha.) of 0.deg., 15.deg., 30.deg., 45.deg., 60.deg., and 75.deg., and for the aspect ratio(a/c) of 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 1.0 to get stress intensity factors at the boundary points of the surface crack. For the aspect ratio of 1.0 and the surface crack angles, finite element method was used to check the results in this study. Comparison of the results from both methods showed good agreement.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.322-330
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• 1987

Isotropic linear viscoelasticity problems are analyzed numerically in time domain by Boundary Element Method with quadratic isoparametric boundary elements. Viscoelastic fundamental solutions are newly derived by using the elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle and corresponding boundary integral equations are also presented. Numerical results of two examples are compared with the derived exact solutions to verify the accuracy and validity of the method. A detailed study on the accuracy of displacement and stress in terms of time integration step is given.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.173-182
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• 2014

The mixed convolved action principle provides a new rigorous weak variational formalism for a broad range of initial boundary value problems in mathematical physics and mechanics in terms of mixed formulation, convolution, and fractional calculus. In this paper, its potential in the development of numerical methods for transient problems in various dynamical systems when adopting temporally second order approximation is investigated. For this, the classical single-degree-of-freedom linear elastic dynamical systems are primarily considered to investigate computational characteristics of the developed algorithms. For the undamped system, all the developed algorithms are symplectic with respect to the time step. For the damped system, they are shown to be accurate with good convergence characteristics.