• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.107-118
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• 1993

New methods of visualizing the data from finite element analyses of 3-dimensional solids were developed in this study. Their efficiency and practicality were examined through their application and implementation into a finite element analysis software. The major effort of the study was to provide a way of representing data inside of volume, which is the most difficult problem in the postprocessing of 3-dimensional solids. Section representation, volume slice and separation, and isosurface representation were proposed for this purpose.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.81-90
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• 2008

This paper presents a finite element formulation for the three-dimensional hierarchical solid element using Integrals of Legendre polynomials. The proposed hexahedral solid element is composed of four different modes including vertex, edge, face, and internal mode, respectively. The eigenvalue and patch test have been carried out to confirm the zero-energy mode and constant strain condition. In addition to these, a posteriori error estimation has been studied for the p-adaptive finite element analysis that is based on a smoothing technique to compute a post-processed solution from the finite element solution. The uniform p-refinement and non-uniform p-refinement are compared in terms of convergence rate as the number of degree of freedom is increased. The simple cantilever beam is tested to show the performance of the proposed solid element.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.78-83
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• 2012

The authors suggest the algorithm for the static analysis of a three dimensional solid structure by using the finite element-transfer stiffness coefficient method (FE-TSCM) and the hexahedral element of the finite element method (FEM). MATLAB codes were made by both FE-TSCM and FEM for the static analysis of three dimensional solid structure. They were applied to the static analyses of a very thick plate structure and a three dimensional solid structure. In this paper, as we compare the results of FE-TSCM with those of FEM, we confirm that FE-TSCM introducing the hexahedral element for the static analysis of a three dimensional solid structure is very effective from the viewpoint of the computational accuracy, speed, and storage.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.40-44
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• 1977

먼저번에는(대한기계학회지 제16권 제4호 1976) 유한요소법의 중심부를 통하는 기본로선을 따라 가면서 기초 개념을 해설하였다. 이 해설에서 앞으로 취급될 사항은 다음과 같다. 1. 트러스 구조물의 정역학적 문제를 예제로 다루며 방향변환에 따르는 "변환매트릭스"해설 2. 기둥의 탄성 안정 문제를 예제로 다루며 비 선형 문제에서 등장하는 "추가 강성매트 릭스 (Incremental Stiffness Matrix)[N]의 해설 3. 1차원 문제에 있어서의 여러 가지 유한요소 해설 4. 2차원 문제에 있어서 평면형을 갖는 여러 가지 유한요소 해설 5. 2차원 문제에 있어서 곡면형을 갖는 여러 가지 유한요소 해설 6. 유한요소법의 발전 전망 7. 전자계산기 프로그래밍에 있어서의 여러문제 해설의 대상자는 공과대학 기계계열의 상급학년 학생 또는 고체역학 부문에 경력을 갖는 기술자 들로서 이 부문의 기본지식을 갖고 있는 자로 한다. 이번회에는 유한요소의 자유도 즉 미지상 수로 다루어지는 자변수의 좌표축이 바뀔 때 부수적으로 등장하는 변환 매트릭스에 대하여 해 설한다.트릭스에 대하여 해 설한다.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.2 s.28
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• pp.1-21
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• 1998

In this paper, a non-conforming 3-D 8-node solid element(MQM10) has beets applied to the analyses of static and dynamic bending problems of laminated composite plates The QM10 element exhibits stiffer bending stiffness which is caused by the reduction of degree of freedom from Q11 element. As an effective way to correct the relative stiffness stiffening phenomenon the modification of Gauss sampling points for composite plates is proposed. The quantity of modification is a function of material properties. Also, another two modified equations are obtained, one is modification for stress, and the other is modification of coefficient of shear modulus in free vibration. It is noted that MQM10 element can analyse the static and free vibration problems of various 3-dimensional composite plates composed of unidirectional laminae, woven laminae or braided laminae. The results of MQM10 element are in good agreement with those of 20-node element.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.496-503
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• 1987

지금까지 유한요소망의 자동생성 방법에 대하여 현재 보편적으로 쓰이고 있는 것을 중심으로 살펴보고자 한다. 특히 최근 유한요소해석을 포함한 설계의 완전자동화에 대한 연구 추세에 의해 형상 모델러의 기능이 중요하게 됨에 따라 유한요소망의 자동생성과 형상 모델러의 관계를 기술하였다. 유한요소망의 자동생성에 대한 현재 상황은, 3차원 고체의 경우 모든 가능한 상황에 대처할 수 있는 일반적인 자동생성방법을 위해서는 더 많은 진전이 이루어져야 할 것이다. 특히 이 경우, 2차원 문제와는 달리 해석전에 미리 사용자가 필요한 유한요소망의 밀도를 쉽게 예측할 수 없기 때문에 해석결과나 오류치 평가에 따라 유한요소망을 조절해가는 자체조절 기능이 더욱 중요하게 된다. 이 기능이 충분히 발달되면 자동생성의 문제점이나 그 원리의 복잡성등을 직접 해결할 필요성이 없어질 것이다.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.117-130
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• 1997

In this paper, a modified 10-node equivalent solid element(MQM10 element), which has smallest degrees of freedom among 3-dimensional solid elements accounting bending deformation as well as extensional and shear deformations of isotropic plates, is proposed. The proposed MQM10 element exhibits stiffer bending stiffness due to the reduction of degrees of freedom from 20-node element or Q11 element. As an effective way to correct the relative stiffness stiffening phenomenon, the modification equation of Gauss sampling points is proposed. The quantity of modification is a function of Poisson's ratio. The effectiveness of MQM10 element is tested by applying it to several examples. It is noted that the results of static and free vibration analysis of isotropic plates using MQM10 elements show a good agreement with those using 20-node element.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.119-127
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• 1996

Objection of this study is to present the three-dimensional material nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete. A concrete is idealized with three-dimensional 16-node solid element including triaxial nonlinear stress-strain behavior, cracking, crushing and strain softening: a steel with three-dimensional 3 node truss element including elastic-plastic behavior with strain hardening. The cracked shear retention factor is introduced to estimate the effective shear modulus con sidering aggregate interlock after c:racking and a modified newton method is used to obtain a nu merical solution. Numerical results in a gauss point is displayed graphically. Numerical examples of Krahl's reinforced concrete beam and Hedgreds shell are selected to compare with the experimental and numerical results.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.88-93
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• 2010

Many pipes that are arranged longitudinally in ships have loops at intervals to prevent the failure of the pipes as they absorb large portions of the axial load caused by the bending of the hull girder and/or thermal loads when the pipes are carrying very hot fluids. Since the loops are curved at corners, an efficient method for conducting the structural analyses of these curved portions is required. In this paper, a pipe loop was analyzed by an analytical method and by the finite-element method in four different ways, i.e., based on straight-beam elements, curved-beam elements, 2-D shell elements, and 3-D solid elements. The results of the five analyses were compared to check the validity of the current curved-beam theory. The paper includes some suggestions on how to analyze the pipe loops efficiently.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1995.04a
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• pp.9-16
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• 1995

A new three-dimensional transition solid element with drilling degrees of freedom is presented. The proposed transition element is established by adding variable nodes to a basic 8-node element for an effective connection between the refined region and the coarse. The derivation of the element in this paper is based on the variational principles in which the drilling rotations are introduced as independent variables. This element was also improved through the addition of modified non-conforming modes. Numerical examples show that performance of the element and the applicability to 3D adaptations are satisfactory.