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The effects of different FRP/concrete bond-slip laws on the 3D nonlinear FE modeling of retrofitted RC beams - A sensitivity analysis

  • Lezgy-Nazargah, M.;Dezhangah, M.;Sepehrinia, M.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.347-360
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    • 2018
  • The aim of this paper is to evaluate the accuracy and reliability of the available bond-slip laws which are being used for the numerical modeling of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP)/concrete interfaces. For this purpose, a set of Reinforced Concrete (RC) beams retrofitted with external FRP were modeled using the 3D nonlinear Finite Element (FE) approach. All considered RC beams have been previously tested and the corresponding experimental data are available in the literature. The failure modes of these beams are concrete crushing, steel yielding and FRP debonding. Through comparison of the numerical and experimental results, the effectiveness of each FRP/concrete bond-slip model for the prediction of the structural behavior of externally retrofitted RC beams is assessed. The sensitivity of the numerical results against different modeling considerations of the concrete constitutive behavior and bond-slip laws has also been evaluated. The results show that the maximum allowable stress of FRP/concrete interface has an important role in the accurate prediction of the FRP debonding failure.

Performance and heat transfer analysis of turbochargers using numerical and experimental methods

  • Pakbin, Ali;Tabatabaei, Hamidreza;Nouri-Bidgoli, Hossein
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.43 no.5
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    • pp.523-532
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    • 2022
  • Turbocharger technology is one of the ways to survive in a competitive market that is facing increasing demand for fuel and improving the efficiency of vehicle engines. Turbocharging allows the engine to operate at close to its maximum power, thereby reducing the relative friction losses. One way to optimally understand the behavior of a turbocharger is to better understand the heat flow. In this paper, a 1.7 liter, 4 cylinder and 16 air valve gasoline engine turbocharger with compressible, viscous and 3D flow was investigated. The purpose of this paper is numerical investigation of the number of heat transfer in gasoline engines turbochargers under 3D flow and to examine the effect of different types of coatings on its performance; To do this, modeling of snail chamber and turbine blades in CATIA and simulation in ANSYS-FLUENT software have been used to compare the results of turbine with experimental results in both adiabatic and non-adiabatic (heat transfer) conditions. It should be noted that the turbine blades are modeled using multiple rotational coordinate methods. In the experimental section, we simulated our model without coating in two states of adiabatic and non-adiabatic. Then we matched our results with the experimental results to prove the validation of the model. Comparison of numerical and experimental results showed a difference of 8-10%, which indicates the accuracy and precision of numerical results. Also, in our studies, we concluded that the highest effective power of the turbocharged engine is achieved in the adiabatic state. We also used three types of SiO2, Sic and Si3N4 ceramic coatings to investigate the effect of insulating coatings on turbine shells to prevent heat transfer. The results showed that SiO2 has better results than the other two coatings due to its lower heat transfer coefficient.

Numerical Study on Pilot Ratio Effect of Shale-Gas in a Commercial Gas Turbine (상용급 가스터빈에서 셰일가스 파일럿비 영향에 관한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Seo, Dong Kyun;Joo, Yong-Jin;Park, Seik;Kim, Mi-yoeng;Shin, Jugon
    • KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.189-195
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    • 2019
  • In this work, the flow and combustion characteristics using a 3-D numerical simulation was evaluated for a shale gas fueled combustor in a commercial class gas turbine. The Standard k-e turbulence model, 2 step methane oxidation mechanism, Finite rate/Eddy dissipation reaction model, DTRM radiation model were employed and validated well at the baseline condition (Natural Gas, Pilot Ratio 0.2). Based on the validated models, the combustion characteristics of shale gas was evaluated for three pilot ratios cases. It was found that NOx concentrations for all shale gas cases were less than the that for city gas, which imply that, at the selected PRs, the condition for combustion stability is satisfied. In addition, for higher PR, whereas the average temperatures at the exit are the same, the NOx increases. It means that diffusion combustion portion increases due to the higher PR.

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL SUBSONIC TURBULENT CAVITY FLOWS (3차원 아음속 난류 공동 유동에 대한 수치적 연구)

  • Choi, Hong-Il;Kim, Jae-Soo
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.35-40
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    • 2008
  • Generally flight vehicles have many cavities such as wheel wells, bomb bays and windows on their external surfaces and the flow around these cavities makes separation, vortex, shock and expansion waves, reattachment and other complex flow phenomenon. The flow around the cavity makes abnormal and three-dimensional noise and vibration even thought the aspect ratio (L/D) is small. The cavity giving large effects to the flow might make large noise, cause structural damage or breakage, harm the aerodynamic performance and stability, or damage the sensitive devices. In this study, numerical analysis was performed for cavity flows by the unsteady compressible three dimensional Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations with Wilcox's $\kappa-\omega$ turbulence model. The MPI(Message Passing Interface) parallelized code was used for calculations by PC-cluster. The cavity has the aspect ratios of 2.5, 3.5 and 4.5 with the W/D ratio of 2 for three-dimensional cavities. The Sound Pressure Level (SPL) analysis was done with FFT to check the dominant frequency of the cavity flow. The dominant frequencies were analyzed and compared with the results of Rossiter's formula and Ahuja& Mendoza's experimental datum.

Dynamic analysis of piezoelectric perforated cantilever bimorph energy harvester via finite element analysis

  • Yousef A. Alessi;Ibrahim Ali;Mashhour A. Alazwari;Khalid Almitani;Alaa A Abdelrahman;Mohamed A. Eltaher
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.179-202
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    • 2023
  • This article presents a numerical analysis to investigate the natural frequencies and harmonic response of a perforated cantilever beam attached to two layers of piezoelectric materials by using the finite element method for the first time. The bimorph piezoelectric is composed of 3 layers; two of them at the outer are piezoelectric, and the inner isotropic material. A higher order 3-D 20-node solid element that exhibits quadratic displacement behavior is exploited to discretize the isotropic layer, and coupled piezoelectric 3D element with twenty nodes is used to mesh the top and bottom layers. CIRCU94 element is added to act as a resistor part of the model. The proposed model is validated with previous works. The numerical parametric studies are presented to illustrate the effects of perforation geometry, the number of rows, the resistance on the natural frequencies, frequency response, and power. It is found that the thickness has a positive relationship with the natural frequency. Perforations help in producing higher voltage, and the best shape is rectangular perforations, and to produce higher voltage, two rows of rectangular perforations should be applied.

MEASUREMENT OF FLOW DISTRIBUTION IN A STRAIGHT DUCT OF RAILWAY TUNNEL MOCK-UP USING PIV AND COMPARISON WITH NUMERICAL SIMULATION (PIV 기법을 이용한 모형철도터널 직관덕트에서 유동 분포 계측 및 수치해석 결과와의 비교분석)

  • Jang, Y.J.;Jung, W.S.;Park, I.S.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2010
  • The turbulent flows in a tunnel mock-up($10L{\times}0.5W{\times}0.25H$ m3 : scale reduction 1/20) with rectangular cross section were investigated. The instantaneous velocity fields of Re = 49,029, 89,571 were measured by the 2-D PIV system which is consisted of double pulsed Nd:Yag laser and the tracer particles in the straight-duct mock-up where the flows were fully developed. The mean velocity profiles were taken from the ensemble averages of 1,000 instantaneous velocity fields. Simultaneously, numerical simulations(RANS) were performed to compare with experimental data using STREAM code. Non-linear eddy viscosity model (NLEVM : Abe-Jang-Leschziner Eddy Viscosity Model) was employed to resolve the turbulent flows in the duct. The calculated mean velocity profiles were well compared with PIV results. In the log-law profiles, the experimental data were in good agreement with numerical simulations all the way to the wake region except the viscous sub-layer (near wall region).

A Study on 3D Equivalent Magnetic Circuit Network Method Using Trapezoidal Element (사다리꼴 요소를 이용한 3차원 등가자기회로망 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sol;Lee, Ju
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.51 no.8
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    • pp.449-456
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    • 2002
  • 3D Equivalent magnetic Circuit Network Method (EMCNM) is comparatively the easy way that analyzes 3D models of Electric Machine by using permeance as a distributive magnetic circuit parameter under the existing magnetic equivalent circuit method and Numerical Method. The existing 3D EMCNM could not correctly describe the shape of an analysis target when using rectangular shape element or fan shape element, so it made errors when calculating permeance. Therefore, this paper proposes the trapezoidal element contained rectangular element, fan-shape element, and quadrilateral element to express a shape. The proposed method in this research was confirmed as a useful and an accurate method through comparing with the analysis result of SRM model that is sufficiently guaranteed by 2D-Analysis.

Numerical Simulation for the Prediction of PAHs in Jinhae Bay using EMT-3D Model (EMT-3D 모델을 이용한 진해만 PAHs의 거동 예측 시뮬레이션)

  • Kim, Dong-Myung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.7-13
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    • 2011
  • The behavior prediction of PAHs in Jinhae Bay using a three-dimensional ecological model(EMT-3D) was examined. A three-dimensional ecological model(EMT-3D) was applied to the simulation of PAHs behaviors in Jinhae Bay of Korea. The computed results of simulation were in good agreement with the observed values. The result of sensitivity analysis showed that photolysis coefficient and extinction coefficient were important factors in the variation of dissolved PAHs, and POC partition coefficient was important factor in the variation of PAHs in particulate organic matter. In the case of PAHs in phytoplankton, bioconcentration factor of plankton was the most significant and the most effective in all. In simulations of 30%, 50% and 80% reduction in total loads of PAHs, the concentrations of dissolved PAHs were shown to be lower than 24 ng/L, 20 ng/L and 16 ng/L, respectively.

Evaluation of Dynamic p-y Curve Based on the Numerical Analysis (수치해석기반의 동적 p-y 곡선 산정)

  • Park, Jeong-Sik;Jeong, Sang-Seom
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.33 no.12
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    • pp.59-73
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    • 2017
  • Numerical analysis using 3D finite element program (PLAXIS 3D) evaluated the interaction of soil - pile structure under dynamic surface loading. The dynamic p-y curve of the 1-g shaking table experiment by numerical analysis was calculated, and the parametric studies were presented by considering the pile-soil condition, the pile tip condition, and the loading condition. The frequency of 1.4 Hz is almost equal to the natural frequency of the pile - soil system. The p and y values of resonance phenomenon are significantly different from the results of other frequencies. The results can be summarized by a third order polynomial function representing the trend line in the p-y curve. In the case of a single pile, the shape of the dominant curve was found to be an ellipse by mathematical proof. The elliptic equation can be used for the dynamic design or analysis of soil-pile system.

Numerical Study for 3D Turbulent Flow in High Incidence Compressor Cascade (고입사각 압축기 익렬 내의 3차원 난류유동에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • 안병진;정기호;김귀순;임진식;김유일
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2002
  • A numerical analysis based on two-dimensional and three-dimensional incompressible Wavier-Stokes equations has been carried out for double-circular-arc compressor cascades and the results are compared with available experimental data at various incidence angles. The 2-D and 3-D computational codes based on SIMPLE algorithm adopt pressure weighted interpolation method for non-staggered grid and hybrid scheme for the convective terms. Turbulence modeling is very important for prediction of cascade flows, which are extremely complex with separation and reattachment by adverse pressure gradient. Considering computation times, $\kappa$-$\varepsilon$ turbulence model with wall function is used.