• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.125-136
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• 1993

The study of Cochlear biomechanics is to clearly define three biomechanical principles of the Cochlea : Activity, Nonlinearity and Feedback. In this article, the Cochlea is linearly and actively modelled in one dimensional time domain. The sharp tunning of the Basilar Membrane displacement is shown when the amplifying activity of hair cells is added to the model. The amplified energy of the travelling displacement wave is emitted throughout the Cochlear fluid, so that the model becomes unstable. A new technique is introduced to reduce strong echos fro the Helicotrema. It makes the model less unstable. Both pure and click tones are used as input stimuli onto the ear durm. When the model is normal, the click response of the model shows that the backward emission of the amplified fluid pressure has mainly the echos from the Helicotrema. However, when the linear and active model is assumed to be abnormal, that is, some of hair cells are damaged not to produce the active process, the effect of the hair cell damage is resulted in the Oto-acoustic emission. The frequency response of the abnormally emitted sound pressure shows that the Oto-acoustic emission has the information about the characteristic frequency of the damaged hair cell. The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the active biomechanics of the Chchlea in the time domain.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2022

Many piping systems installed in the power plant are directly related to the safety and operation of the plant. Various dampers have been applied to the piping system to reduce the damage caused by earthquakes. In order to reduce the vibration of the piping system, this study developed a steel coil damper (SCD) with a straightforward structure but excellent damping performance. SCD reduces the vibration of the objective structure by hysteretic damping. The new SCD damper can be applied to high-temperature environments since it consists of steel members. The paper introduces a design method for the elastoplastic coil spring, which is the critical element of SCD. The practical applicability of the design procedure was validated by comparing the nonlinear force-displacement curves calculated by design equations with the results obtained from nonlinear finite element analysis and repeated loading test. It was found that the designed SCD's have a damping ratio higher than 25%. In addition, this study performed a set of seismic tests using a shaking table with an existing piping system to verify the vibration control capacity on the piping system by SCD. Test results prove that the SCD can effectively control the displacement vibration of the piping system up to 80%.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.1089-1109
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• 2016

Modified two-surface model (M2SM) is one of the steel elasto-plastic hysteretic constitutive models that consider both analysis accuracy and efficiency. However, when M2SM is used for complex strain history, sometimes the results are irrational due to the limitation of stress-strain path judgment. In this paper, the defect of M2SM was re-modified by improving the judgment of stress-strain paths. The accuracy and applicability of the improved method were verified on both material and structural level. Based on this improvement, the nonlinear time-history analysis was carried out for a deck-through steel arch bridge with a 200 m-long span under the ground motions of Chi-Chi earthquake and Niigata earthquake. In the analysis, we compared the results obtained by hysteretic constitutive models of improved two-surface model (I2SM) presented in this paper, M2SM and the bilinear kinematic hardening model (BKHM). Results show that, although the analysis precision of displacement response of different steel hysteretic models differs little from each other, the stress-strain responses of the structure are affected by steel hysteretic models apparently. The difference between the stress-strain responses obtained by I2SM and M2SM cannot be neglected. In significantly damaged areas, BKHM gives smaller stress result and obviously different strain response compared with I2SM and M2SM, and tends to overestimate the effect of hysteretic energy dissipation. Moreover, at some position with severe damage, BKHM may underestimate the size of seismic damaged areas. Different steel hysteretic models also have influences on structural damage evaluation results based on deformation behavior and low cycle fatigue, and may lead to completely different judgment of failure, especially in severely damaged areas.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.405-418
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• 2020

Deep excavation may have impact on the adjacent tunnels. It is obvious that the excavation will adversely affect and even damage the existing tunnels if the induced deformation exceeds the capacity of tunnel structures. It hence creates a high necessity to predict tunnel displacement induced by nearby excavation to ensure the safety of tunnel. In this paper, a simplified method to evaluate the heave of the underlying tunnel induced by adjacent excavation is presented and verified by field measurement results. In the proposed model, the tunnel is represented by a series of short beams connected by tensile springs, compressional springs and shear springs, so that the rotational effect and shearing effect of the joints between lining rings can be captured. The proposed method is compared with the previous modelling methods (e.g., Euler-Bernoulli beam, a series of short beams connected only by shear springs) based on a field measured longitudinal deformation of subway tunnels. Results of these case studies show a reasonable agreement between the predictions and observations.

• 대한조선학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.81-93
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• 1989

본(本) 논문(論文)에서는 충돌(衝突)이나 중량물(重量物) 낙하(落下)등에 의한 사고하중(事故荷重)을 받는 해양구조물(海洋構造物)의 원통부재(圓筒部材)에 대한 손상변형거동(損傷變形擧動)을 실용적(實用的)으로 추정(推定)할 수 있는 새로운 손상예측(損傷豫測) 모델을 제안(提案)한다. 본(本) 논문(論文)은 하중속도(荷重速度)가 비교적(比較的) 느리고 준정적(準靜的) 문제(問題)로서 다룰수 있는 경우만을 대상(對象)으로 하고 있다. 본연구(本硏究)에서 취급하는 원통부재(圓筒部材)는 양단단순(兩端單純) 지지(支持)되어 있고 축방향(軸方向)의 변위(變位)는 구속(拘束)되어 있으며, 하중(荷重)은 부재(部材)의 중앙위치(中央位置)에서 횡방향(橫方向)으로 작용(作用)한다고 가정(假定)한다. 지금까지의 연구성과(硏究成果) 및 본(本) 연구(硏究)에서 직접(直接) 수행(遂行)한 실험결과(實驗結果)를 바탕으로 사고하중작용시(事故荷重作用時)의 원통부재(圓筒部材)에 대한 손상변형거동(損傷變形擧動)을 상세(詳細)히 파악(把握)하고, 국부(局部) Dent 손상(損傷) 및 전체적(全體的)인 굽힘 처짐의 상관효과(相關效果)를 고려(考慮)한 하중-손상변형(荷重-損傷變形) 관계식(關係式)을 도출(導出)하였으며, 실제적(實際的)인 원통부재(圓筒部材)에 대한 실험결과(實驗結果)와 본연구(本硏究)에서 제안(提案)한 예측(豫測) 모델에 의한 추정결과(推定結果)는 잘 대응(對應)하고 있다는 것을 확인(確認)하였다. 특(特)히, 이 같은 하중상태하(荷重狀態下)에서의 실제부재(實際部材)의 손상변형거동(損傷變形擧動)에 대하여는 국부(局部) Dent 손상(損傷)과 전체적(全體的)인 굽힘처짐의 상관효과(相關效果)가 매우 크다는 것을 알았으며, 본예측(本豫測) 모델은 이들의 효과(效果)도 잘 나타내고 있다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.353-369
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• 2020

Eight cold-formed thin-walled steel beams were performed to investigate the effect of corrosion damage on the flexural behavior of steel beams. The relationships between failure modes or load-displacement curves and corrosion degree of steel beams were investigated. A series of parametric analysis with more than forty finite element models were also performed with different corrosion degrees, types and locations. The results showed that the reduction of cross-section thickness as well as corrosion pits on the surface would lead to a decline in the stiffness and flexural capacity of steel beams, and gradually intensified with the corrosion degree. The yield load, ultimate load and critical buckling load of the corroded specimen IV-B46-4 decreased by 22.2%, 26% and 45%, respectively. The failure modes of steel beams changed from strength failure to stability failure or brittle fracture with the corrosion degree increasing. In addition, thickness damage and corrosion pits at different locations caused the degradation of flexural capacity, the worst of which was the thickness damage of compression zone. Finally, the method for calculating flexural capacity of corroded cold-formed thin-walled steel beams was also proposed based on experimental investigation and numerical analysis results.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.409-424
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• 2023

Response of the pipeline crossing fault is considered as the large strain problem. Proper estimation of the pipeline response plays important role in mitigation studies. In this study, an advanced continuum modeling including material non-linearity in large strain deformations, hardening/softening soil behavior and soil-pipeline interaction is applied. Through the application of a fully nonlinear analysis based on an explicit finite difference method, the mechanics of the pipeline behavior and its interaction with soil under large strains is presented in more detail. To make the results useful in oil and gas engineering works, a continuous pipeline of two steel grades buried in two clayey soil types with four different crossing angles of 30°, 45°, 70° and 90° with respect to the pipeline axis have been considered. The results are presented as the fault movement corresponding to different damage limit states. It was seen that the maximum affected pipeline length is about 20 meters for the studied conditions. Also, the affected length around the fault cutting plane is asymmetric with about 35% and 65% at the fault moving and stationary block, respectively. Local buckling is the dominant damage state for greater crossing angle of 90° with the fault displacement varying from 0.4 m to 0.55 m. While the tensile strain limit is the main damage state at the crossing angles of 70° and 45°, the cross-sectional flattening limit becomes the main damage state at the smaller 30° crossing angles. Compared to the stiff clayey soil, the fault movement resulting 3% tensile strain limit reach up to 40% in soft clayey soil. Also, it was seen that the effect of the pipeline internal pressure reaches up to about 40% compared to non-pressurized condition for some cases.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2006

항공기의 주요 발사체 전투손상 중 하나이며 기체 생존성 설계에 중요한 영향을 미치는 수압램을 연구하였다. 수압램의 기본 개념과 물리적 원리, 연구사례를 조사하였다. 간단한 형상의 연료탱크 및 전투기 날개모델(ICW, Intermediate Complexity Wing)에 대해 발사체 관통 및 내부폭발 해석을 수행하였다. 구조-유체 간에 파손이 고려된 General 커플링과 커플링 면간의 상호작용을 정의하여, 구조의 파열과 유체의 터짐을 해석상에서 구현하였다. 유체 압력, 탱크 응력과 변형 등의 해석결과를 보였으며, 연구결과를 토대로 향후 가능성을 제시하였다.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.377-396
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• 2019

지하구조물의 내부에 탄두가 관입 후 폭발할 경우 일반적으로 목표물에 상당한 변위, 파손 및 광범위한 피해를 유발한다. 따라서 이러한 피해효과를 줄이기 위해서는 관입에 저항할 수 있는 지하구조물 방호 설계가 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 응용요소법을 이용한 철근콘크리트 지하구조물의 관입 방호성능 향상을 위한 주요 인자들을 크게 강도(콘크리트 압축강도) 및 밀도(콘크리트 두께, 철근의 피복 층수, 철근의 직경, 철근의 배근간격)로 나누었다. 이를 바탕으로 다양한 조건에서 관통자에 의한 동적응답 시뮬레이션 전산해석 연구를 수행하고 그 결과를 분석하였다. 본 연구 결과는 철근콘크리트 지하구조물의 관입 방호성능 향상을 위한 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.185-192
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• 2020

A new lighting support structure composing of two-way wires and pulley, a pulley-type wireway system, was developed to improve the seismic performance of a ceiling type lighting equipment. This study verifies the seismic performance of the pulley-type wireway system using a numerical approach. A theoretical model fitted to the physical features of the newly-developed system was proposed, and it was utilized to compute a frictional coefficient between the wire and pulley sections under tension forces. The frictional coefficient was implemented to a finite element model representing the pulley-type wireway system. Using the numerical model, the seismic responses of the pulley-type wireway system were compared to those of the existing lighting support structure, a one-way wire system. The addition of the pulley component resulted in the increasement of energy absorption capacity as well as friction effect and showed in significant reduction in maximum displacement and oscillation after the peak responses. Thus, the newly-developed wireway system can minimize earthquake-induced vibration and damage on electric equipment.