• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.115-121
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• 2012

Sapphire single crystals have been highlighted for epitaxial gallium nitride films in high-power laser and light emitting diode (LED) industries. Among the many crystal growth methods, the Kyropoulos process is an excellent commercial method for growing larger, high-optical-quality sapphire crystals with fewer defects. Because the properties and growth behavior of sapphire crystals are influenced largely by the temperature distribution and convection of molten sapphire during the manufacturing process, accurate predictions of the thermal fields and melt flow behavior are essential to design and optimize the Kyropoulos crystal growth process. In this study, computational fluid dynamic simulations were performed to examine the effects of the crucible geometry aspect ratio on melt convection during Kyropoulos sapphire crystal growth. The results through the evolution of various growth parameters on the temperature and velocity fields and convexity of the crystallization interface based on finite volume element simulations show that lower aspect ratio of the crucible geometry can be helpful for the quality of sapphire single crystal.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.137-146
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• 2005

299 railroad slopes were investigated and the failure characteristics and reinforcement patterns were analyzed. Stability analyses on the 14 cut-off soil slopes were carried out. Surficial failures were predicted by infinite slope analyses assuming the temporarily perched ground water table at soil surface during rainfall period. Limit equilibrium analyses were also carried out and the influences of rainfall infiltration on the slope stabilities were taken Into account by seepage analyses using finite element method and by assuming ground water tables to be located adjacent to soil surface. The adequacy of those analyses was evaluated by comparing the slope failure characteristics between analysis results and the past failure records. From the comparison results, it was deduced that the limit equilibrium analyses were not appropriate to estimate the shallow failure that occurred at most of the railroad cut-off soil slopes. For the better estimation of the surficial failure, not only the increase of pore-water pressure (reduction of matric suction), but also the influence of water flows over slope surface which erode soil mass, should be evaluated and considered.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.145-153
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• 2003

The resonant column testing determines the shear modulus and material damping factor dependent on the shear strain magnitude, based on the wave-propagation theory. The determination of the dynamic soil properties requires the theoretical formulation of the dynamic behavior of the resonant column testing system. One of the theoretical formulations is the use of the wave equation for the soil specimen in the resonant column testing device. Wood, Richart and Hall derived the wave equation by assuming the linear elastic soil, and didn't take the material damping into consideration. Hardin incorporated the viscoelastic damping of soil in the wave equation, but he had to assume the material damping factor for the determination of the shear modulus. For the better theoretical formulation of the resonant column testing, this study derived a new wave equation to include the viscosity of soil, and proposed an approach for the solution. Also, in this study, the equation of motion for the testing system, which is another approach of the theoretical formulation of the resonant column testing, was also derived. The equation of motion leads to the better understanding of the resonant column testing, which includes the dynamic magnification factor and the phase angle of the response. For the verification of the proposed equation of motion for the resonant column testing, the finite element analysis was performed for the resonant column testing. The comparison of the dynamic magnification factors and the phase angles far the system response were performed.

• The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.281-302
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• 1987

의치상 재료 종류에 따라 의치, 점막 및 하악골에 발생되는 변위 및 응력을 연구하기 위하여 컴퓨터를 이용한 수치적 해석인 2차원 유한 요소법을 이용하였다. 2차원 유한 요소 모형으로선 표준 크기의 하악골 및 의치를 고려하여 231개의 사변형 요소 및 268개의 절점으로 분할한 후 각 구성 성분의 물리적 성질인 탄성률 및 프와송비를 대입시켰다. 사용된 의치로서는 일반 합성수지의치, 2mm후경의 탄성재를 의치상 하부에 이장한 합성수지의치, 2mm후경의 탄성재를 치아와 의치상 중앙에 삽입한 합성수지의치 및 0.5mm후경의 금속상의치의 4종류였으며, 하중시에 하악의 고정 부위로선 생체와 동일 조건을 부여하기 위하여 교근, 내측익돌근, 측두근등의 하악 폐구근이 부착되는 하악각 부위 및 하악 근돌기 부위의 16절점을 고정점으로 하였다. 하중 조건으로선 하악 제1대구치의 일점에 10kg의 수직 집중하중, 하악 중절치의 일점에 7kg의 수직 집중하중 및 하악 제 1소구치로 부터 하악 제2대구치까지의 교합면에 10kg의 수직 분산하중을 부여하여 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 하중이 의치 교합면위의 가해진 부위에 따라 다양한 의치 회전 및 강하 현상을 보였으며, 탄성재를 이장 및 삽입한 합성 수지 의치의 변위가 일반 합성수지의치 및 금속상 의치의 변위보다 더 컸다. 2. 주응력을 고려할때 점막 부위에는 주로 압축 응력이 작용하였으며 치조제 부위는 압축응력과 인장 응력이 함께 작용하였다. 3. 탄성재를 삽입한 합성수지의치에 최고 등가 응력이 집중되었으며 그 다음은 탄성재를 이장한 합성수지의치, 일반 합성수지의치의 순이였으며 금속상의 경우는 금속을 따라서 높은 등가 응력이 넓게 분산되었다. 4. 의치상 종류에 관계없이 동일 하중 조건하에선 점막에 나타나는 등가 응력의 크기 및 분산양태는 유사하였다. 5. 하악골에서 등가 응력은 의치지지 부위에만 국한되지 않고 넓게 분산 되었으며 의치상 종류 및 하중 조건에 관계없이 치조제 후방 및 하악연의 후방 부위에 특히 높은 등가응력이 집중되었다. 6. 하악 중절치의 일점에 수직 하중을 가한 경우가 다른 하중 조건에 비하여 지지점과의 거리차이로 인하여 하악골에 가장 높은 등가 응력을 유발하였다. 7. 의치상 재료에 따른 하악 골에 발생되는 응력의 크기 및 분산에는 큰 차이가 없으나 금속상의 경우가 교합압을 분산하는데는 효과적이었다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.337-344
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• 2017

The demand of liquified natural gas is increasing due to environmental issues. This reason has resulted in increasing the capacity of liquified natural gas cargo tank. The Mark-III type primary barrier directly contacts liquified natural gas. Also, the primary barrier is under various loading conditions such as weight of liquified natural gas and sloshing loads. During a ship operation, various loads can cause fatigue failure. Therefore, the fatigue life prediction should be evaluated to prevent leakage of liquified natural gas. In the present study, the fatigue analysis of insulation system including primary barrier is performed using a finite element model. The fatigue life of primary barrier is carried out using a numerical study. The value of principle stress and the location of maximum principle stress range are calculated, and the fatigue life is evaluated. In addition, the effects on the insulation panel status and the arrangement of knot or corrugation are analyzed by comparing the fatigue life of various models. The insulation system which has best structural performance of primary barrier was selected to ensure structural integrity in fatigue assessment. These results can be used as a design guideline and a fundamental study for the fatigue assessment of primary barrier.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.8
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• pp.869-876
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• 2011

It is important to analyze the dynamic behavior of counter-rotating rigid/deformable rolls in the roll-coating process, because the stability of the process is affected by the dynamic characteristics. In the present study, the effects of material property, angular velocity, and gap size on the contact pressure and contact shape of the deformable roll are numerically investigated. The behavior of two rolls with a negative gap was analyzed using the finite element method, and the material property of the deformable roll was applied with the Mooney-Rivlin coefficients of the hyper-elastic model. The contact shape is affected by the gap size, and the contact pressure mainly depends on the stiffness of the deformable roll and the gap size. To maintain a negative gap between two rolls, controls such as load and displacement controls must be used. The results indicate that displacement control can reduce the instability.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.91-105
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• 2015

In the current work, a series of three-dimensional (3D) finite element analyses have been performed to study the effects of the locations of pile tips on the behaviour of single piles to adjacent tunnelling. In the numerical modelling, several key issues, such as tunnelling-induced pile head settlements, axial pile forces, interface shear stresses and apparent factors of safety have been studied. When the pile tips are inside the influence zone which considers the relative pile tip location with respect to the tunnel position, tunnelling-induced pile head settlements are larger than those computed from the greenfield condition. However, when the pile tips were outside the influence zone, an opposite trend was observed. When the pile tips were inside the influence zone, tunnelling-induced tensile pile forces developed; however, when the pile tips were outside the influence zone, tunnelling-induced compressive pile forces were mobilised, associated with larger settlements of the surrounding soil than the pile settlements. It has been shown that the increases in the tunnelling-induced pile head settlements have resulted in reductions of the apparent factor of safety by about 50% when the pile tips are inside the influence zone, therefore severly affecting the serviceability of piles. The pile behaviour, when considering the location of pile tips with regards to the influence zone, has been analysed in great detail by taking the tunnelling-induced pile head settlements, axial pile force and apparent factor of safety into account.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.283-290
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• 2020

In this study, a floater was developed for a frame-type solar power plant. The floater supports the frame and the solar panels. A finite element analysis was performed to design its shape and thickness, and the floater was manufactured by a rotational molding method using linear low-density polyethylene. It was found that the floater did not cause collapse and it maintained its stiffness even at 4 times the maximum load of 322.7 kgf. To perform a long-term compression test, a weight-type load application device that uses gravity was designed and manufactured. The amount of compressive deformation was measured for 7 days, and a long-term deformation equation was obtained. Even under small loads, continuous deformation was observed. However, the 10-year deformation amount for a constant load of 100 kgf was predicted to be small at about 4.64 mm. As a result, it was found that the developed floater could be used in a solar power plant on a body of water.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.31 no.5 s.121
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• pp.435-445
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• 2007

Ship structures are thin-walled structures and lots of cutouts, for example, of inner bottom structure, girder, upper deck hatch, floor and dia-frame etc. In the case where a plate has cutout it experiences reduced buckling and ultimate strength and at the same time the in-plane stress under compressive load produced by hull girder bending will be redistributed. In the present paper, we investigated several kinds of perforated stiffened model from actual ship structure and series of elasto-plastic large deflection analyses were performed to investigate into the influence of perforation on the buckling and ultimate strength of the perforated stiffened plate varying the cutout ratio, web height, thickness and type of cross-section by commercial FEA program(ANSYS). Closed-form formulas for predicting the ultimate strength of the perforated stiffened plate are empirically derived by curve fitting based on the Finite Element Analysis results. These formulas are used to evaluate the ultimate strength, which showed good correlation with FEM results. These results will be useful for evaluating the ultimate strength of the perforated stiffened plate in the preliminary design.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.1161-1166
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• 2010

Tapered roller bearings are core components of rotating machine parts and are simultaneously subjected to axial and radial loads. Life-shortening effect was particularly evident in the case of tapered roller bearings used in the input and output shafts of transmission; this shortening of life was a result of excessive axial pre-load, which is common in the transmission assembly line. In this study, we derived an equation for evaluating the life of tapered roller bearings subjected to excessive pre-load by using accelerated life test data. The DOE(Design Of Experiment) method and FEA(Finite Element Analysis) was used for determining the condition for performing an accelerated life test. This equation for evaluating the service life of the bearings was derived by analyzing the Weibull distribution of the test results. Using the derived equation the life evaluated was 6-7 times longer than that evaluated by the conventional $L_{10}$ bearing-life equation. The results of this study will be helpful in predicting the life of tapered roller bearings subjected to excessive pre-load and in designing reliable rotating machines.