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Field testing and numerical modeling of a low-fill box culvert under a flexible pavement subjected to traffic loading

  • Acharya, Raju;Han, Jie;Parsons, Robert L.;Brennan, James J.
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.625-638
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents field study and numerical modeling results for a single-cell low-fill concrete box culvert under a flexible pavement subjected to traffic loading. The culvert in the field test was instrumented with displacement transducers to capture the deformations resulting from different combinations of static and traffic loads. A low-boy truck with a known axle configuration and loads was used to apply seven static load combinations and traffic loads at different speeds. Deflections under the culvert roof were measured during loading. Soil and pavement samples were obtained by drilling operation on the test site. The properties of the soil and pavement layers were determined in the laboratory. A 3-D numerical model of the culvert was developed using a finite difference program FLAC3D. Linear elastic models were used for the pavement layers and soil. The numerical results with the material properties determined in the laboratory were compared with the field test results. The observed deflections in the field test were generally smaller under moving loads than static loads. The maximum deflections measured during the static and traffic loads were 0.6 mm and 0.41 mm respectively. The deflections computed by the numerical method were in good agreement with those observed in the field test. The deflection profiles obtained from the field test and the numerical simulation suggest that the traffic load acted more like a concentrated load distributed over a limited area on the culvert. Elastic models for culverts, pavement layers, and surrounding soil are appropriate for numerical modeling of box culverts under loading for load rating purposes.

COMPARISON OF NUMERICAL METHODS FOR TERNARY FLUID FLOWS: IMMERSED BOUNDARY, LEVEL-SET, AND PHASE-FIELD METHODS

  • LEE, SEUNGGYU;JEONG, DARAE;CHOI, YONGHO;KIM, JUNSEOK
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.83-106
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    • 2016
  • This paper reviews and compares three different methods for modeling incompressible and immiscible ternary fluid flows: the immersed boundary, level set, and phase-field methods. The immersed boundary method represents the moving interface by tracking the Lagrangian particles. In the level set method, an interface is defined implicitly by using the signed distance function, and its evolution is governed by a transport equation. In the phase-field method, the advective Cahn-Hilliard equation is used as the evolution equation, and its order parameter also implicitly defines an interface. Each method has its merits and demerits. We perform the several simulations under different conditions to examine the merits and demerits of each method. Based on the results, we determine the most suitable method depending on the specific modeling needs of different situations.

A Novel Contour Path finite Difference Time Domain (CPFDTD) Algorithm for Modeling Objects with Curved Surfaces (곡면을 가진 물체의 모델링을 위한 새로운 CPFDTD 앨거리즘)

  • 이민수;박영태
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.4 no.5
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    • pp.931-936
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    • 2000
  • A novel CPFDTD algorithm for modeling the smooth curved surfaces is presented. This scheme subdivides electric fields on the distorted grid into the extended contour field, the non-distorted field, and the quasi-available field to avoid the collinear borrowing approximation. Several preceding methods are applied to the I-plane sectoral horn antenna to get far-field patterns. The accuracy of the presented method is demonstrated by comparison with measured values.

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MODELING OF A REPULSIVE TYPE MAGNETIC BEARING FOR FIVE AXIS CONTROL INCLUDING EDDY CURRENT EFFECT

  • Ohji, T.;Mukhopadhyay, S.C.;Iwahara, M.;Yamada, S.
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.625-629
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    • 1998
  • So far a single-axis controlled repulsive type magnetic bearing system have been designed and fabricated in our laboratory employing the repulsive forces operating between the stator and rotor permanent magnet for levitation. The radial axis is uncontrolled passive one. The higher speed of operation is limited due to the vibration along the uncontrolled axis and the increase of control current due to eddy current interference. This paper will discuss a detailed modeling of the repulsive type magnetic bearing system for five axis control including the eddy current effect and the method of reduction of eddy current effect. Simulation results using Matlab will be presented.

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Accurate FDTD Analysis of Bow-tie Antenna

  • Cho, Young-Il;Park, Dong-Hyuk;Park, Soeng-Ook
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.13-16
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, FDTD analysis of the bow-tie antenna is investigated by incorporating static field solution that is suitable to the bow-tie antenna without increasing computational time. Transforming static feld solution to the rotated grid system, we can obtain the transformed static field solution which is able to represent field behavior near the oblique edge line of the bow-tie antenna. The result shows a good agreement with a MoM analysis and is compared conformal modeling technique and regular FDTD method.

New Magnetic Field Analysis Considering a Vector Magnetic Characteristic

  • Shimoji, Hiroyasu;Enokizono, Masato;Todaka, Takashi;Horibe, Toyomi
    • KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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    • v.2B no.4
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    • pp.149-155
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents magnetic field analysis technology that uses a vector magnetic characteristic. Recently the magnetic material was found to be measurable using the vector quantity technique. Therefore considering the anisotropy of the magnetic material in the vector field analysis is necessary. The magnetic field analysis method, which is considered the anisotropy by combining the finite element method with the E&$S^2$ (Enokizono, Soda, and Shimoji) modeling, is applied to a permanent magnet motor model.

Air Quality Modeling of Ozone Concentration According to the Roughness Length on the Complex Terrain (복잡지형에서의 지표면 거칠기에 따른 오존 농도 수치모의)

  • Choi, Hyun-Jung;Lee, Hwa-Woon;Sung, Kyoung-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.430-439
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    • 2007
  • The objective of this work is the air quality modeling according to the practical roughness length using the building information as surface boundary conditions. As accurate wind and temperature field are required to produce realistic urban air quality modeling, comparative simulations by various roughness length are discussed. The prognostic meteorological fields and air quality field over complex areas of Seoul, Korea are generated by the PSU/NCAR mesoscale model (MM5) and the Third Generation Community Multi-scale Air Quality Modeling System (Models-3/CMAQ), respectively. The simulated $O_3$ concentration on complex terrain and their interactions with the weak synoptic flow had relatively strong effects by the roughness length. A comparison of the three meteorological fields of respective roughness length reveals substantial localized differences in surface temperature and wind folds. Under these conditions, the ascended mixing height and weakened wind speed at night which induced the stable boundary stronger, and the difference of simulated $O_3$ concentration is $2{\sim}6\;ppb$.

Technical Trends of Computing Infrastructure for Agent Based Modeling & Simulation (에이전트 기반 모델링 및 시뮬레이션을 위한 컴퓨팅 인프라 기술 동향)

  • Jung, Y.W.;Son, S.;Oh, B.T.;Lee, G.C.;Bae, S.J.;Kim, B.S.;Kang, D.J.;Jung, Y.J.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.111-120
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    • 2018
  • Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) is a computational method for analyzing research targets through observations of agent-to-agent interactions, and can be applied to multidimensional policy experiments in various fields of social sciences to support policy and decision making. Recently, according to increasing complexity of society and the rapid growth of collected data, the need for high-speed processing is considered to be more important in this field. For this reason, in the ABMS research field, a scalable and large-scale computing infrastructure is becoming an essential element, and cloud computing has been considered a promising infrastructure of ABMS. This paper surveys the technology trends of ABMS tools, cloud computing-based modeling, and simulation studies, and forecasts the use of cloud-computing infrastructure for future modeling and simulation tools. Although fundamental studies are underway to apply and operate cloud computing in the areas of modeling and simulation, new and additional studies are required to devise an optimal cloud computing infrastructure to satisfy the needs of large-scale ABMS.

Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Solar Active Region

  • Inoue, S.;Magara, T.;Choe, G.S.;Kusano, K.;Shiota, D.;Yamamoto, T.T.;Watari, S.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.85.2-85.2
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we introduce the 3D modeling of the coronal magnetic field in the solar active region by extrapolating from the 2D observational data numerically. First, we introduce a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) extrapolation code based on the MHD-like relaxation method implementing the cleaning a numerical error for Div B proposed by Dedner et al. 2002 and the multi-grid method. We are able to reconstruct the ideal force-free field, which was introduced by Low & Lou (1990), in high accuracy and achieve the faster speed in the high-resolution calculation (512^3 grids). Next we applied our NLFFF extrapolation to the solar active region NOAA 10930. First of all, we compare the 3D NLFFF with the flare ribbons of Ca II images observed by the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) aboard on the Hinode. As a result, it was found that the location of the two foot-points of the magnetic field lines well correspond to the flare ribbon. The result indicates that the NLFFF well capture the 3D structure of magnetic field in the flaring region. We further report the stability of the magnetic field by estimating the twist value of the field line and finally suggest the flare onset mechanism.

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Vibration Adaptive Algorithm for Vision Systems (비전 시스템의 성능개선을 위한 진동 적응 방법)

  • Seo, Kap-Ho;Yun, Sung-Jo;Park, Jeong Woo;Park, Sungho;Kim, Dae-Hee;Sohn, Dong-Seop;Suh, Jin-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.486-491
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    • 2016
  • Disturbance/vibration reduction is critical in many applications using machine vision. The off-focusing or blurring error caused by vibration degrades the machine performance. In line with this, real-time disturbance estimation and avoidance are proposed in this study instead of going with a more familiar approach, such as the vibration absorber. The instantaneous motion caused by the disturbance is sensed by an attitude heading reference system module. A periodic vibration modeling is conducted to provide a better performance. The algorithm for vibration avoidance is described according to the vibration modeling. The vibration occurrence function is also proposed, and its parameters are determined using the genetic algorithm. The proposed algorithm is experimentally tested for its effectiveness in the vision inspection system.