• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.153-168
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• 2000

This paper presents four incompatible but convergent Rational quadrilateral elements, two four-node elements (RQ4Z and RQ4B) and two five-node elements (RQ5Z and RQ5B). The difference between the so-called Rational Finite Element (Zhong and Zeng 1996) and the Free Formulation (Bergan and Nygard 1984) are discussed and compared. The importance of the mode completeness in these formulations is emphasized. Numerical results for several benchmark problems show the good performance of these elements. The two five-nodes elements RQ5Z and RQ5B, which can be viewed as complete quadratic mode elements (with seven stress modes), always give better results than the four nodes elements RQ4Z and RQ4B.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2006년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.425-429
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• 2006

The understanding and prediction of the behavior of flow in open channels are important to the solution of a wide variety of practical flow problems in water resources engineering. Recently, frequent drought has increased the necessity of an effective water resources control and management of river flows for reserving instream flow. The objective of this study is to develop an efficient and accurate finite element model based on Streamline Upwind/Petrov-Galerkin(SU/PG) scheme for analyzing and predicting two dimensional flow features in complex natural rivers. Several tests were performed in developed all elements(4-Node, 6-Node, 8-Node elements) for the purpose of validation and verification of the developed model. The U-shaped channel of flow and natural river of flow were performed for tests. The results were compared with these of laboratory experiments and RMA-2 model. Such results showed that solutions of high order elements were better accurate and improved than those of linear elements. Also, the suggested model displayed reasonable velocity distribution compare to RMA-2 model in meandering domain for application of natural river flow. Accordingly, the developed finite element model is feasible and produces reliable results for simulation of two dimensional natural river flow. Also, One contribution of this study is to present that results can lead to significant gain in analyzing the accurate flow behavior associated with hydraulic structure such as weir and water intake station and flow of chute and pool.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.163-171
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• 1996

For the effective analysis of two dimensional plane problems, Treffiz finite elements and cavity elements have been proposed. These element matrix equaitons were formulated on the basis of hybrid variational principle and Treffiz function sets derived consitstently from the complex theoy of plane elasticity. In order to suggest the accuracy chatacteristics of the proposed Treffiz elements typical plane problems were analyzed and these results were compared with ones obtained by using the conveintional displacement type elements. The accuracy of the proposed elements is less sensitive to the element size and shape than the conventional displacement type elements. These elements, being able to be formed with multi-nodes, give the convenient modeling of an analytic domain. The cavity elements give the comparatively exact values of stress concentration factors of stress intensity factors and can be effectively used for the analysis of mechanical stuctures containing various cavities.

• 전산구조공학
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.57-67
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• 1994

지하구조물의 주위지반은 일반적으로 퇴적층의 형성 또는 지각의 변동에 의해 다층구조를 가지게 되므로, 구조물 및 주위지반의 거동을 정확히 예측하기 위해서는 해석에 다층구조의 영향을 반영해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 다층으로 구성된 지하구조계를 대상으로 하여 구조물과 그 주변에는 비선형 유한요소를 사용하고, 비선형성이 상대적으로 미약한 주변 다층지반에는 선형 경계요소를 사용하여 재료의 비선형성과 비균질성을 고려한 효율적인 조합해석방법을 개발하고자 한다. 반무한영역에 설정되는 다층구조계를 경계요소로 해석할 경우 그 기본해가 제한되어 있으므로, 본 연구에서는 기존의 무한기본해를 이용하는 방법을 사용하였다. 무한기본해를 이용하는 내부영역문제의 경우 각각의 균질한 층을 부영역(subdomain)으로 분할하고 계방정식을 구성한 뒤에 접합면에 대하여 평형조건과 적합조건을 만족시켜 주는 방법을 사용하여 비균질성을 고려한다. 부영역으로 층을 분할한 내부영역문제의 경계요소해석 결과는 선형 유한요소해석 결과와 비교하여 검증하였고, 검증된 경계요소 프로그램을 비선형 유한요소 프로그램과 조합하였다. 조합해석 결과, 굴착부 주변의 응력집 중부에는 비선형 유한요소를 사용하고, 비선형의 영향이 미소한 주변의 다층지반에 대해서는 부영역에 의한 선형 경계요소를 사용하는 조합해석방법이 합리적이고 효율적임을 알 수 있었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.587-614
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• 2014

In recent years the interest in online monitoring of lightweight structures with ultrasonic guided waves is steadily growing. Especially the aircraft industry is a driving force in the development of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. In order to optimally design SHM systems powerful and efficient numerical simulation tools to predict the behaviour of ultrasonic elastic waves in thin-walled structures are required. It has been shown that in real industrial applications, such as airplane wings or fuselages, conventional linear and quadratic pure displacement finite elements commonly used to model ultrasonic elastic waves quickly reach their limits. The required mesh density, to obtain good quality solutions, results in enormous computational costs when solving the wave propagation problem in the time domain. To resolve this problem different possibilities are available. Analytical methods and higher order finite element method approaches (HO-FEM), like p-FEM, spectral elements, spectral analysis and isogeometric analysis, are among them. Although analytical approaches offer fast and accurate results, they are limited to rather simple geometries. On the other hand, the application of higher order finite element schemes is a computationally demanding task. The drawbacks of both methods can be circumvented if regions of complex geometry are modelled using a HO-FEM approach while the response of the remaining structure is computed utilizing an analytical approach. The objective of the paper is to present an efficient method to couple different HO-FEM schemes with an analytical description of an undisturbed region. Using this hybrid formulation the numerical effort can be drastically reduced. The functionality of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by studying the propagation of ultrasonic guided waves in plates, excited by a piezoelectric patch actuator. The actuator is modelled utilizing higher order coupled field finite elements, whereas the homogenous, isotropic plate is described analytically. The results of this "semi-analytical" approach highlight the opportunities to reduce the numerical effort if closed-form solutions are partially available.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.659-665
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• 2010

The finite element method(FEM) is proven to be an effective approximate method of structural analysis if proper element types and meshes are chosen, and recently, the method is often applied to solve complex dynamic and nonlinear problems. A properly chosen element type and mesh yields reliable results for dynamic finite element structural analysis. However, dynamic behavior of a structure may include unpredictably large strains in some parts of the structure, and using the initial mesh throughout the duration of a dynamic analysis may include some elements to go through strains beyond the elements' reliable limits. Thus, the finite element mesh for a dynamic analysis must be dynamically adaptive, and considering the rapid process of analysis in real time, the dynamically adaptive finite element mesh generating schemes must be computationally efficient. In this paper, a computationally efficient dynamically adaptive finite element mesh generation scheme for dynamic analyses of structures is described. The concept of representative strain value is used for error estimates and the refinements of meshes use combinations of the h-method(node movement) and the r-method(element division). The shape coefficient for element mesh is used to correct overly distorted elements. The validity of the scheme is shown through a cantilever beam example under a concentrated load with varying values. The example shows reasonable accuracy and efficient computing time. Furthermore, the study shows the potential for the scheme's effective use in complex structural dynamic problems such as those under seismic or erratic wind loads.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.127-135
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• 1997

Patch recovery attempts to derive a more accurate stress filed over a particular element than the finite element shape function used for that particular element. Elements that have a free edge being the boundary to the structure have particular stress relationship that can be incorporated to the stress field to improve the accuracy of the approximation.

• Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.66-80
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• 2002

The bilinear formulation proposed earlier by Peters and Izadpanah to develop finite elements in time to solve undamped linear systems, Is extended (and found to be readily amenable) to develop time finite elements to obtain transient responses of both linear and nonlinear, and damped and undamped systems. The formulation Is used in the h-, p- and hp-versions. The resulting linear and nonlinear algebraic equations are differentiated to obtain the first- and second-order sensitivities of the transient response with respect to various system parameters. The present developments were tested on a series of linear and nonlinear examples and were found to yield, when compared with results obtained using other methods, excellent results for both the transient response and Its sensitivity to system parameters. Mostly. the results were obtained using the Legendre polynomials as basis functions, though. in some cases other orthogonal polynomials namely. the Hermite. the Chebyshev, and integrated Legendre polynomials were also employed (but to no great advantage). A key advantage of the time finite element method, and the one often overlooked in its past applications, is the ease In which the sensitivity of the transient response with respect to various system parameters can be obtained. The results of sensitivity analysis can be used for approximate schemes for efficient solution of design optimization problems. Also. the results can be applied to gradient-based parameter identification schemes.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.293-301
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 이동최소제곱 다절점 유한요소를 이용한 새로운 전역-국부해석기법을 제시하였다. 다절점 유한요소는 요소의 변에 임의의 수 절점을 가질 수 있으므로, 여러 개의 유한요소를 요소망의 재구성 없이 동시적으로 결합시킬 수 있다. 이는 응력구배가 집중되는 곳에 유한요소망을 구성하는 데에 있어 큰 편의를 제공한다. 또한 기존의 전역-국부해석기법처럼 중첩된 요소망을 사용하거나, 지배방정식을 두 번 해석할 필요가 없기 때문에 매우 간편하고 정확하다. 제시된 방법론의 성능을 검증하기 위해 응력 집중과 관련된 다양한 다중스케일 문제를 해석하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.142-150
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• 2012

도파관유한요소법 (waveguide finite element method, WFEM)은 단면의 형상이 길이방향으로 일정한 도파관 구조물의 진동을 해석하기 위한 수치해석 기법이다. 도파관유한요소법은 2차원 단면만을 FE 모델링하여 길이방향 파동 전파를 해석하므로 기존의 유한요소법에 비해 해석 모델의 크기가 작고 연산 시간이 짧다는 장점을 가진다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 도파관유한요소법을 확장하여 내부 및 외부에 유체가 채워진 도파관 구조물에 대한 진동 해석을 수행하였다. 이를 위해 내부 유체와 도파관 구조물은 WFE로, 외부 유체는 파수경계요소 (waveguide boudnary element, WBE)로 모델링하고 이들을 연성시킨 운동방정식을 제시하였다. 이 방법의 적용 예로써 내부에 물이 채워진 몰수된 파이프의 진동 및 방사 음향 파워를 해석하였다. 내부 및 외부 유체의 유/무에 따른 분산 선도와 가진점 모빌리티 (point mobility)를 구하고 유체 연성의 효과를 살펴보았다.