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Magnetorheological elastomer base isolator for earthquake response mitigation on building structures: modeling and second-order sliding mode control

  • Yu, Yang;Royel, Sayed;Li, Jianchun;Li, Yancheng;Ha, Quang
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.943-966
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    • 2016
  • Recently, magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) material and its devices have been developed and attracted a good deal of attention for their potentials in vibration control. Among them, a highly adaptive base isolator based on MRE was designed, fabricated and tested for real-time adaptive control of base isolated structures against a suite of earthquakes. To perfectly take advantage of this new device, an accurate and robust model should be built to characterize its nonlinearity and hysteresis for its application in structural control. This paper first proposes a novel hysteresis model, in which a nonlinear hyperbolic sine function spring is used to portray the strain stiffening phenomenon and a Voigt component is incorporated in parallel to describe the solid-material behaviours. Then the fruit fly optimization algorithm (FFOA) is employed for model parameter identification using testing data of shear force, displacement and velocity obtained from different loading conditions. The relationships between model parameters and applied current are also explored to obtain a current-dependent generalized model for the control application. Based on the proposed model of MRE base isolator, a second-order sliding mode controller is designed and applied to the device to provide a real-time feedback control of smart structures. The performance of the proposed technique is evaluated in simulation through utilizing a three-storey benchmark building model under four benchmark earthquake excitations. The results verify the effectiveness of the proposed current-dependent model and corresponding controller for semi-active control of MRE base isolator incorporated smart structures.

A Study on the effect of welding wire diameter on the welding quality detection (용접 와이어 직경이 용접 상태 검출에 미치는 영향)

  • Ryu, Jeong Tak
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2016
  • Using the welding current and voltage signal processing, we have studied the influence that the diameter of the welding wire to the welding quality detection. For the experiments, We have analyzed the signal with respect to large and small artificially a gap between base materials than the welding wire. In this experiment, the 1.2 mm diameter of the welding wire was used, and distance between the welding base materials was respectively 1.0 mm and 2.0 mm. In the welding with a large defect than the diameter of the welding wire it was able to detect a change in the welding current and welding voltage. But it could not detect a change in the welding current and welding voltage in the welding has a small defect than the welding wire diameter.

A Fast Response Smectic LCD using Induced Polarization

  • Mochizuki, Akihiro
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.6-11
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, a general performance of the PSS-LCD or Polarization Shielded Smectic Liquid Crystal Display is discussed. This smectic base LCD does not use any spontaneous polarization, but uses induced polarization just sa me with current nematic base LCDs. Specific initial molecular alignment as well as specific cell design realizes ext remely fast optical response speed with native wide viewing angle. Moreover, this performance is provided by full compatible electronics for current conventional LCDs. A general performance of the PSS-LCD is introduced herein.

A General Performance of PSS-LCDs

  • Mochizuki, Akihiro
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.91-96
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, a general performance of the PSS-LCD or Polarization Shielded Smectic Liquid Crystal Display is discussed. This smectic base LCD does not use any spontaneous polarization, but uses induced polarization just same with current nematic base LCDs. Specific initial molecular alignment as well as specific cell design realizes extremely fast optical response speed with native wide viewing angle. Moreover, this performance is provided by full compatible electronics for current conventional LCDs. A general performance of the PSS-LCD is introduced here.

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Seismic protection of base isolated structures using smart passive control system

  • Jung, Hyung-Jo;Choi, Kang-Min;Park, Kyu-Sik;Cho, Sang-Won
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.385-403
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    • 2007
  • The effectiveness of the newly developed smart passive control system employing a magnetorheological (MR) damper and an electromagnetic induction (EMI) part for seismic protection of base isolated structures is numerically investigated. An EMI part in the system consists of a permanent magnet and a coil, which changes the kinetic energy of the deformation of an MR damper into the electric energy (i.e. the induced current) according to the Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction. In the smart passive control system, the damping characteristics of an MR damper are varied with the current input generated from an EMI part. Hence, it does not need any control system consisting of sensors, a controller and an external power source. This makes the system much simpler as well as more economic. To verify the efficacy of the smart passive control system, a series of numerical simulations are carried out by considering the benchmark base isolated structure control problems. The numerical simulation results show that the smart passive control system has the comparable control performance to the conventional MR damper-based semiactive control system. Therefore, the smart passive control system could be considered as one of the promising control devices for seismic protection of seismically excited base isolated structures.

An Experimental Study on Block Shear Strength of Carbon Steel Fillet Welded Connection with Base Metal Fracture (탄소강 용접접합부의 모재블록전단내력에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Lee, Hwa-Young;Hwang, Bo-kyung;Lee, Hoo-Chang;Kim, Tea-Soo
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Structure & Construction
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.11-18
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    • 2018
  • An experimental study on the ultimate behaviors of the mild carbon steel (SPHC) fillet-welded connection is presented in this paper. Seven specimens were fabricated by the shielded metal arc welding (SMAW). All specimens failed by typical block shear fracture in the base metal of welded connections not weld metal. Block shear fracture observed in the base metal of welded connection is a combination of single tensile fracture transverse to the loading direction and two shear fractures longitudinal to the loading direction. Test strengths were compared with strength predictions by the current design equations and suggested equations by previous researchers. It is known that current design specifications (AISC2010 and KBC2016) and Oosterhof & Driver's equation underestimated overly the ultimate strength of the welded connection by on average 44%, 31%, respectively and prediction by Topkaya's equation was the closest to the test results. Consequently, modified equation is required to be proposed considering the stress triaxiality effect and material property difference on the block shear strength for base metal fracture in welded connections fabricated with mild carbon steel.

Fabrication and characteristics of AlGaAs/GaAs SABM HBTs (AlgaAs/GaAs SABM HBT의 제작 및 특성)

  • 이준우;김영식;서아람;서영석;신진호;김범만
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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    • v.32A no.1
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    • pp.129-137
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    • 1995
  • AlGaAs/GaAs HBTs have been fabricated using SABM (Self-Aligned Base Metal) process technique. The mesa type HBTs were fabricated through following steps: isolation implant, wet etching, metal lift-off, and airbridge interconnection process. The fabricated HBTs with 2umx10um size emitter showed a common emitter current gain of 10 at a collector current density of Jk=100kA/cm$^{2}$, a breakdown volgate BVCEO of 8V, and the ideality factors of base and collector junctions of 1.6 and 1.1, respectively. On-wafer S-Parameter measurement at 0.5~18GHz has been made for the characterization of the common emitter HBTx with a 2umx10um size emitter. The extrapolated current gain cut-off frequency of ft=30GHz and maximum oscillation frequency of fmax=23 GHz were obtained at a collector current density of Jc=70kA/cm$^{2}$. Small signal HBT equivalent circuit was extracted from the S-Parameter data.

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Field-domain dynamics and current self-oscillations in negative-effective-mass terahertz oscillators

  • Cao, J.C.;Qi, M.
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.12 no.S1
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    • pp.36-39
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    • 2003
  • Field-domain dynamics and current self-oscillations are theoretically studied in quantum-well (QW) negative-effective-mass (NEM) $p^{+}pp^{+}$ diodes when the electric field is applied along the direction of the well. The origin of current self-oscillations is the formation and traveling of electric-field domains in the p-base. We have accurately considered the scattering contributions from carrier-impurity, carrier-acoustic phonon, and carrier-optic phonon. It's indicated that, both the applied bias and the doping concentration largely influence the current patterns and self-oscillating frequencies, which lie in the THz range for the NEM $p^{+}pp^{+}$ diode with a submicrometer p-base. The complicated field-domain dynamics is presented with the applied bias as the controlling parameter.

Seepage analysis on seadike by considering permeability of the rubble base (바닥보호공의 투수성을 고려한 방조제의 침투류해석)

  • 조재홍;김서룡;장웅희;노종구
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.491-498
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    • 2002
  • The rubble base in the seadike structure is construct with rubble-mound of big size for stability of seadike against a tidal current velocity at the closing. The permeability gives an effect to stability of seadike a lot in The case which rubble base is founded long with a lake direction like objective area of this study. The permeability of the rubble base produced in the model test regarding filling condition and materials of the rubble base, It applied the result which it tests in seepage analysis and it analyzed a stability of piping, In this study, it diminishes the permeability of the rubble base to respect, the pit soil more the dredge soil is effective and it was analyzed with the fact that it increases the stability of lake direction slope against the piping.

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High Temperature Characteristics of submicron GaAs MESFETs (고온 동작 MESFET 의 온도특성 해석)

  • 원창섭;유영한;신훈범;한득영;안형근
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.07a
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    • pp.379-382
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    • 2002
  • GaAs has wide band gap, Therefore that malarial can used high Temperature application. in this paper explain to current-voltage characteristics of thermal effect. we experiment on thermal test of current-voltage characteristics and gate leakage current with real device. As a result, we propose a current-volatage characteristics model. that model base on gate leakage current, and gate leakage current influence gate source voltage.

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