• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.411-426
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• 2012

Thin-walled adaptive structures render a large and important group of adaptive structures. Typical material system used for them is a composite laminate that includes piezoelectric material based sensors and actuators. The piezoelectric active elements are in the form of thin patches bonded onto or embedded into the structure. Among different types of patches, the paper considers those polarized in the thickness direction. The finite element method (FEM) imposed itself as an essential technical support for the needs of structural design. This paper gives a brief description of a developed shell type finite element for active/adaptive thin-walled structures and the element is, furthermore, used as a tool to consider the aspect of mesh distortion over the surface of actuators and sensors. The aspect is of significance for simulation of behavior of adaptive structures and implementation of control algorithms.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.1870-1875
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• 2003

Optimization has been used in many engineering problems and must be one of the essential components during design process now. It is the process of maximizing the performance called an objective function of a system while satisfying some constraints, so finite element method is generally required in order to obtain these values during optimization. However, there are some difficulties to obtain them by means of FEM, where the changes of design variables cause the distortion and the regeneration of mesh that may result in inaccuracy and inefficiency. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposed an alternative that the eXtended FEM introduced and developed by Ted Belytschko was applied to the optimization process because the key points of the X-FEM lie in that the discontinuity can be represented independently on the mesh by a function called in an enrichment function.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.143-150
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• 2016

In shipbuilding, hull assemblies are manufactured by welding. The thermal deformation caused by the welding produces shape deformation. Counter-deformed design methods have been used in shipyards to cope with the weld-induced deformation of ship assembles. Finite element methods (FEMs) are frequently used to estimate welding distortion in the counter-deformed design. For the estimation of welding distortion, producing uniform rectangular elements is required to enter thermal loads on the welding line and obtain accurate analysis results. In this paper, a new automatic mesh generation method is proposed for prediction of welding deformation in FEM. Meshes are constructed for test cases to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed mesh generation method.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2006년도 제5회 박판성형 SYMPOSIUM
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• pp.68-71
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• 2006

Traditional section-based method develops blank along section planes and find trimming line by generating loop of end points. This method suffers from inaccurate results for regions with out-of-section motion. In this study, new fast method to find feasible trimming line is proposed. One step FEM is used to analyze the flanging and incremental development method is proposed to handle bad-shaped mesh and undercut part. Also in order to remedy mesh distortion during development, energy minimization technique is utilized. The proposed method is verified by shrink/stretch flange forming and successfully applied to the complex industrial applications such as door outer flanging process.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.111-123
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• 2011

Severe element distortion problem is observed in finite element mesh while performing numerical simulations of high velocity steel projectiles penetration/perforation of concrete targets using finite element method (FEM). This problem of element distortion in Lagrangian formulation of FEM can be resolved by using element erosion methodology. Element erosion approach is applied in the finite element program by defining failure parameters as a condition for element elimination. In this study strain parameters for both compression and tension at failure are used as failure criteria. Since no direct method exists to determine these values, a calibration approach is used to establish suitable failure strain values while performing numerical simulations of ogive-nose steel projectile penetration/perforation into concrete target. A range of erosion parameters is suggested and adopted in concrete penetration/perforation tests to validate the suggested values. Good agreement between the numerical and field data is observed.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2013

The finite element method(FEM) presents some limitations when the mesh becomes highly distorted. For analysis of metal forming processes with large deformation, the conventional finite element method usually requires several remeshing operations due to severe mesh distortion. The new computational method developed in the recent years, usually designated by meshfree method, offers an attractive approach to avoid those time-consuming remeshing efforts. This new method uses a set of points to represent the problem domain with no need of an additional mesh. Also this new generation of computational method provides a higher rate of convergence than that of the conventional finite element methods. One of the promising applications of meshfree methods is the adaptive refinement for problems having multi-scale nature. In this study, an adaptive node generation procedure is proposed and also to illustrate the efficiency of proposed method, several numerical examples are presented.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.77-92
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• 2020

The present paper outlined a procedure for geometrically nonlinear dynamic analysis of functionally graded graphene platelets-reinforced (GPLR-FG) nanocomposite cylinder subjected to mechanical shock loading. The governing equation of motion for large deformation problems is derived using meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method based on total lagrangian approach. In the MLPG method, the radial point interpolation technique is employed to construct the shape functions. A micromechanical model based on the Halpin-Tsai model and rule of mixture is used for formulation the nonlinear functionally graded distribution of GPLs in polymer matrix of composites. Energy dissipation in analyses of the structure responding to dynamic loads is considered using the Rayleigh damping. The Newmark-Newton/Raphson method which is an incremental-iterative approach is implemented to solve the nonlinear dynamic equations. The results of the proposed method for homogenous material are compared with the finite element ones. A very good agreement is achieved between the MLPG and FEM with very fine meshing. In addition, the results have demonstrated that the MLPG method is more effective method compared with the FEM for very large deformation problems due to avoiding mesh distortion issues. Finally, the effect of GPLs distribution on strength, stiffness and dynamic characteristics of the cylinder are discussed in details. The obtained results show that the distribution of GPLs changed the mechanical properties, so a classification of different types and volume fraction exponent is established. Indeed by comparing the obtained results, the best compromise of nanocomposite cylinder is determined in terms of mechanical and dynamic properties for different load patterns. All these applications have shown that the present MLPG method is very effective for geometrically nonlinear analyses of GPLR-FG nanocomposite cylinder because of vanishing mesh distortion issue in large deformation problems. In addition, since in proposed method the distributed nodes are used for discretization the problem domain (rather than the meshing), modeling the functionally graded media yields to more accurate results.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.729-740
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• 1994

h-version 유한요소법에 근거를 둔 형상최적화 설계에서는 초기모델의 기하형상에 대한 이상적인 체눈설계가 최종해석시에는 적합하지 않을 수 있게 된다. 그러므로, 최적화의 반복단계마다 모델의 단변형상에 대한 새로운 체눈설계가 필요하게 된다. 그러나 p-version 유한요소법은 형상최적화 문제 해석을 위한 매우 매력적인 대안으로 제시될 수 있다 p-version 유한요소법은 h-version 유한요소법과 비교하여 다음과 같은 큰 장점을 갖고 있다. 첫째로, 보간함수의 차수가 3차이상이 되면 요소의 찌그러진 형상에 대한 유한요소 해에 별 영향을 미치지 않는다. 둘째로, 심지어 응력특이 문제도 h-version에 비해 p-version은 적절한 체눈설계를 하게되면 훨씬 효율적이다. 셋째로, 초지 체눈설계와 최종 체눈설계가 동일하므로 반복단계마다 새롭게 체눈설계를 할 필요가 없어진다. Bezier의 곡선보간법, 경사투사법과 적분형 르장드르 다항식에 기초를 둔 2차원 형상최적화를 위한 p-version 모델이 제시되었다. 수치해석 경과는 p-version 소프트웨어인 RASNA를 사용하여 수행되었다.

• Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.106-114
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• 2015

In the fabrication of offshore oil and gas facilities, the significance of dimension control is growing continuously. But, it is difficult to determine the deformation of the structure during fabrication by simple lab tests due to the large size and the complicated shape. Strain-boundary method (a kind of shrinkage method) based on the shell element was proposed to predict the welding distortion of a structure effectively. Modeling of weld geometry in shell element is still a difficult task. In this paper, a concept of imaginary temperature pair is introduced to handle the effect of geometric factors such as groove shape, plate thickness and pass number, etc. Single pass imaginary temperature pair formula is derived from the relation between the groove area and the FE mesh size. By considering the contribution of each weld layer to the whole weldment, multi-pass imaginary temperature is also derived. Since the temperature difference represents the distortion increment, cumulative distortion curve can be drawn by integrating the temperature difference. This curve will be a useful solution when engineers meet some problems occurred in the shipyard. A typical example is shown about utilization of this curve. Several verifications are conducted to examine the validity of the proposed methodology. The applicability of the model is also demonstrated by applying it to the fabrication process of the heavy ship block. It is expected that the imaginary temperature model can effectively solve the modeling problem in shell element. It is also expected that the cumulative distortion curve derived from the imaginary temperature can offer useful qualitative information about angular distortion without FE analysis.

• 대한조선학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.21-30
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• 1990

자유수면을 갖는 2차원 탱크내 유동현상의 규명을 위하여 수치해석법 및 실험적 방법을 제사하였다. 수치해석 방법으로는 전유동장에 대하여 Lagrangian 표현법 개념의 유한요소법을 적용하였으며, 유도의 비압축성 조건을 이용하여 Navier-Stokes 방정식을 fractional step method로 속도수정하는 방법을 도입하였다. 유한요소 내부의 유체는 항상 그 요소 안에 머물러 있고 유체의 경계는 항상 요소의 경계에 따라 이동하고 벽면에서 미끄러짐이 일어난다고 가정한다. 이 방법은 유동이 심한 경우 유동장의 이산화를 재조정해야 하므로 물체 적합좌표계를 사용한 절점 재조정법을 개발하였다. 실험은 한국해사기술연구소가 보유하고 있는 MTS유압시스템을 이용하여 슬러싱 탱크 모형실험이 수행되었으며, 이를 위하여 슬러싱 전용시험기를 제작하였다. 2차원 단순 직사각형 탱크에 대하여 수심의 변화 및 기진진폭의 변화에 따른 유동현상의 변화를 관찰하였고 이론해석 결과와 비교하였다.