• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.79-86
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• 1999

A general approach to automatic generation of triangular meshes on three-dimensional surfaces is presented in this paper. The approach, developed with emphasis on program generality and interface with CAD/CAM systems, is based on the double mapping method and the looping method. The double mapping method is introduced and anew splitting scheme is proposed for the looping method employed for triangular mesh generation on the parametric domain. Several application examples are given.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2004

In the process of finite element analysis, mesh generation is tedious job which consumes tremendous time. Therefore, the automation of well shaped mesh generation from the minimal boundary input data is desirable to improve reliability and accuracy of the analysis and also to reduce the process time of the entire design process. The automation of triangular mesh generation has been relatively well treated due to its robustness and ease of handling when compared to rectangular element mesh generation. In this study, the offset method developed previously for generating plane rectangular element mesh has been corrected and modified to generate triangular element mesh on the B-spline surface having arbitrary holes. The result shows that the generated triangular mesh has the average aspect ratio over 0.9. The designed arbitrary surface shape has been interactively constructed by non-uniform B-spline theory for triangular mesh generation.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.95-101
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• 2000

For last two decades numerous automatic mesh generation algorithms for various two dimensional objects have been introduced continuously and among them triangular mesh generation schemes have been majority because of efficiency and controllability. In our study, an existing triangular mesh generation algorithm developed by Lo is totally modified to more improve node distribution, element shape, and objects shape independency. ft is composed of node generation part and element generation part. In order to find a suitable node position within geometry, the suggested algorithm searches desirable positions of points within boundary and optimizes node position to generate comparatively well-shaped elements. More over, the suggested algorithm handles various complex two dimensional objects and its meshing speed shows superiority to those of the existing triangulation mesh generation algorithms. It is fully automated in a sense of constructing object boundary and hence can be directly used as an independent meshing software.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.21-30
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• 1995

In order to save time and efforts in generating finite element meshes in irregular houndaries of domains, it is needed to develop an automatic mesh-generator which can hoth promote the accuracy of solutions and reduce the run-time in operating finite ele- ment models. In this study, the advancing front technique of triangular mesh generation and the transforming technique from triangular meshes to quadrilateral meshes were used to de- velop a computer program for the automatic triangular and quadrilateral meshes in the mixed shape. Furthermore, to enhance the quadrilateral mesh quality, the techniques of Laplancian smoothing and interior mesh modification were employed. The mesh genera- tor was applied to evaluate its applicability to irregular and complex geometries such as Nakdong river bay. In has hoen shown that the automatic mesh generator developed is capable of automatically generating meshes for irreguiar and complex geometries with high qualities of meshes and with the simple input data of arbitrarily specified nodal spacing in bound- aries.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.553-563
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• 1996

An algorithm for automatic mesh generation of two-dimensional arbitrary planar domain is proposed by using Delaunay triangulation algorithm. An efficient algorithm is proposed for the construction of Delaunay triangulation algorithm over convex planar domain. From the definition of boundary, boundary nodes are first defined and then interior nodes are generated ensuring the Delaunay property. These interior nodes and the boundary nodes are then linked up together to produce a valid triangular mesh for any finite element analysis. Through the various example, it is found that high-quality triangular element meshes are obtained by Delaunay algorithm, showing the robustness of the current method. The proposed mesh generation scheme has been extended to automatic remeshing, which is applicable to FE analysis including large deformation and large distortion of elements.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.197-206
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• 2009

In a finite element analysis of the metal forming processes having large plastic deformation, largely distorted elements are unstable and hence they influence upon the result toward negative way so that adaptive remeshing is required to avoid a failure in the numerical computation. Therefore automatic mesh generation and regeneration is very important to avoid a numerical failure in a finite element analysis. In case of generating quadrilateral mesh, the automation is more difficult than that of triangular mesh because of its geometric complexity. However its demand is very high due to the precision of analysis. Thus, in this study, an automatic quadrilateral mesh generation and regeneration method using grid-based approach is developed. The developed method contains decision of grid size to generate initial mesh inside a two dimensional domain, classification of boundary angles and inner boundary nodes to improve element qualities in case of concave domains, and boundary projection to construct the final mesh.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.224-233
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• 1996

An automatic mesh generation scheme with triangular finite elements on three-dimensional surfaces has been developed. The surface triangulation process is performed as follows. To begin, surfaces with key nodes are transformed to two-dimensional planes and the meshes with triangular elements are constructed in these planes. Finally, the constructed meshes are transformed back to the original 3D surfaces. For the mesh generation, an irregular mesh generation scheme is employed in which local mesh densities are assigned by the user along the boundaries of the analysis domain. For this purpose a looping algorithm combined with an advancing front technique using basic operators has been developed, in which the loops are recursively subdivided into subloops with the use of the best split lines and then the basic operators generate elements. Using the split lines, the original boundaries are split recursively until each loop contains a certain number of key nodes, and then using the basic operators such as type-1 and type-2, one or two triangular elements are generated at each operation. After the triangulation process has been completed for each meshing domain, the resulting meshes are finally improved by smoothing process. Sample meshes are presented to demonstrate the versatility of the algorithm.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.270-277
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• 2003

In two dimensional mechanical design analysis, quadrilateral element mesh is preferred because it provides more accurate result than triangular element mesh. However, automation of quadrilateral element mesh generation is much more complex because of its geometrical complexities. In this study, an automatic quadrilateral element mesh generation algorithm based on the boundary normal offsetting method and the boundary decomposition method is developed. In so doing, nodes are automatically placed using the boundary normal offsetting method and the decomposition method is applied to decompose the designed domain into a set of convex subdomains. The generated elements are improved by relocation of the existing nodes based on the four criteria - uniformity, aspect ratio, skewness and taper degree. The developed algorithm requires minimal user inputs such as boundary data and the distance between nodes.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제32권9호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 빠른 요소망 자료 처리를 위해 영역기반 해쉬구조를 개발하고 이에 기반한 효율적 삼각형 자동 요소망 생성 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리듬에서는 신속하게 최적의 절점을 생성하고 삼각형 생성시 예외처리를 줄일 수 있도록 Advancing layer method 와 Delaunay 삼각화 방법이 함께 이용되었다. 본 알고리듬의 성능을 검증하기 위하여 개발된 2차원 자동 요소망 생성 프로그램을 이용하여 볼록한 모델, 오목한 모델 및 복잡한 형태의 모델에 대한 요소망 생성 테스트를 수행하고, 그 성능을 상용 소프트웨어와 비교하였다.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.130-137
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• 2013

더욱 정확한 수치 해석이 필요하면 할수록, 해석하고자 하는 구조물 상의 절점과 요소를 적절하게 배치하는 것이 중요하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 천해영역에서 구조적인 이점과 경제성의 두 가지 장점을 가지고 있는 원형 단면의 하부 구조물에 대한 3차원 삼각 Shell 요소 생성기법을 개발하였다. 높이와 형태와 같은 상세한 데이터를 입력하여 제어하는 것에 의해 기초와 타워를 다양한 유한요소 조건에서 고려할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 기존의 3차원 Delaunay 삼각요소분할법을 사용한 결과의 수치와 비교, 검증하였으며, 현재 제안되어진 기초와 하부구조물에 적용한 요소 분할의 예를 들었다. 본 연구의 결과는 현존하거나 제안되어진 풍력 터빈의 기초부와 타워의 제원에 대해 다양하게 적용될 수 있을 것이라 사료된다.