• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.375-387
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• 2013

Soils consist of an assemblage of particles with different sizes and shapes which form a skeleton whose voids are filled with water and air. Hence, soil behaviour must be analyzed by incorporating the effects of the transient flow of the pore-fluid through the voids, and therefore requires a two-phase continuum formulation for saturated porous media. The present paper presents briefly the Biot's basic theory of dynamics of saturated porous media with u-P formulation to determine the responses of pore fluid and soil skeleton during cyclic loading. Kelvin elements are attached to transmitting boundary. The Pastor-Zienkiewicz-Chan model has been used to describe the inelastic behavior of soils under isotropic cyclic loadings. Newmark-Beta method is employed to discretize the time domain. The response of fluid-saturated porous media which are subjected to time dependent loads has been simulated numerically to predict the liquefaction potential of a semi-infinite saturated sandy layer using finite-infinite elements. A settlement of 17.1 cm is observed at top surface. It is also noticed that liquefaction occurs at shallow depth. The mathematical advantage of the coupled finite element analysis is that the excess pore pressure and displacement can be evaluated simultaneously without using any empirical relationship.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.305-318
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• 2014

The study deals with the physical modeling of a typical building frame resting on pile foundation and embedded in cohesive soil mass using complete three-dimensional finite element analysis. Two different pile groups comprising four piles ($2{\times}2$) and nine piles ($3{\times}3$) are considered. Further, three different pile diameters along with the various pile spacings are considered. The elements of the superstructure frame and those of the pile foundation are descretized using twenty-node isoparametric continuum elements. The interface between the pile and pile and soil is idealized using sixteen-node isoparametric surface elements. The current study is an improved version of finite element modeling for the soil elements compared to the one reported in the literature (Chore and Ingle 2008). The soil elements are discretized using eight-, nine- and twelve-node continuum elements. Both the elements of superstructure and substructure (i.e., foundation) including soil are assumed to remain in the elastic state at all the time. The interaction analysis is carried out using sub-structure approach in the parametric study. The total stress analysis is carried out considering the immediate behaviour of the soil. The effect of various parameters of the pile foundation such as spacing in a group and number piles in a group, along with pile diameter, is evaluated on the response of superstructure. The response includes the displacement at the top of the frame and bending moment in columns. The soil-structure interaction effect is found to increase displacement in the range of 58 -152% and increase the absolute maximum positive and negative moments in the column in the range of 14-15% and 26-28%, respectively. The effect of the soil- structure interaction is observed to be significant for the configuration of the pile groups and the soil considered in the present study.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회논문집A
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• pp.351-356
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• 2000

Various transition elements are generally used for the effective analysis of a complicated mechanical structure. In this paper, a solid-to-beam transition finite element which connects a continuum element and a $c^1-continuity$ beam element each other is proposed. The shape functions of the transition finite elements, which a 8-noded hexahedral solid element fur 3D analysis and a 4-noded quadrilateral plane element fur 2D analysis are connected to a Euler's beam element, are explicitely formulated. In order to show the effectiveness and convergence characteristics of the proposed transition elements. numerical tests are performed for various examples and their results are compared with those obtained by other methods. As the result of this study. following conclusions are obtained: (1)The proposed transition finite elements show the monotonic convergence characteristics because of having used the compatible displacement folds. (2)As being used the transition element in the finite element analysis, the finite element modelings are more convenient and the analysis results are more accurate because of the formulation characteristies of the Euler's beam element.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.25-32
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• 1988

본 연구에서는 8절점 28자유도를 갖는 사각형 고차 판 유한 요소를 면내고차 변위를 고려하여 3차원 연속체로부터 유도하였다. 요소매트릭스들은 판의 운동방정식으로부터 Galerkin 가중잔차법으로 유도하고 감차적분을 수행하여 구하였다. 고차 판 유한요소를 이용하여 판의 처짐해석과 자유진동해석을 수행한 결과 판의 두께와 경게조건에 관계없이 매우 정확한 결과를 나타내었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.82-87
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• 1987

본 논문에서는 열전달문제 역시 변분형으로 전환될 수 있음에 착안하여 전미 분 개념을 도입해서 전도와 대류가 있는 열전달모델에서 주어진 면적 제한조건을 만족 시키며 지정된 경계에서의 온도가 주어진 온도에 가장 근접할 수 있는 모델의 형상을 찾는 방법을 연구하였다. 어떤 물질의 열전달 상태를 바꾸어 경계에서의 온도를 원 하는 바대로 조정하는 문제는 실제 공정에서 중요한 경우가 많다.해석시 열전달 상 태 방정식과 adjoint식은 6절점 삼각형 등계수 요소의 유한 요소법을 이용하여 해석하 였다.설계민감도의 정확한 계산을 위해서는 임의의 형상변화에 따른 경계에서의 수 치적분이 정확해야 하므로 경계를 곡선으로 표시할 수 있는 등계수 요소가 필요하다. 설계 민감도 해석이 진행된 후에는 최적화 기법의 하나인 미분벡터 투영법(Gradient Projection Method)을 사용하여 최적화를 시도했다. 최적설계 과정중 매번 계산결과 에 의해 형상의 변화가 진행되므로 그때마다 유한 요소 모델을 적절히 변화시켜 주어 야 한다. 모델의 경계는 3차함수로 근사화하여 형상이 부드러운 곡선이 되도록 했 으며 설계변수는 근사화한 3차함수를 결정할 수 있도록 정하면 되나 본 연구에서는 모 델의 변화에 따른 y좌표의 변화는 없다고 가정하여 모델경계의 세점을 취해 그 점들의 x좌표를 설계변수로 했다.