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Test Results and Nonlinear Analysis of RC T-beams Strengthened by Bonded Steel Plates

  • Ren, Wei;Sneed, Lesley H.;Gai, Yiting;Kang, Xin
    • International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.133-143
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    • 2015
  • This paper describes the test results and nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete T-beams strengthened by bonded steel plates under increasing static loading conditions. The first part of this paper discusses the flexural tests on five T-beams, including the test model design (based on similarity principles), test programs, and test procedure. The second part discusses the nonlinear numerical analysis of the strengthened beams, in which a concrete damage plasticity model and a cohesive behavior were adopted. The numerical analysis results are compared with experimental data and show good agreement. The area of bonded steel plate and the anchor bolt spacing were found to have an impact on the cracking load, yield load, and ultimate load. An increase in the area of steel plate and a reduction of the anchor spacing could significantly improve the cracking and ultimate loads and decrease the damage of the beam.

DEVELOPMENT OF ROLLOVER CRITERIA BASED ON SIMPLE PHYSICAL MODEL OF ROLLOVER EVENT

  • KIM M. H.;OH J. H.;LEE J. H.;JEON M. C.
    • International Journal of Automotive Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2006
  • The high potential for injury involved in rollover accidents warrants the development of a system to protect passengers against such events. To effectively implement such a protection system, it is first necessary to determine rollover criteria (i.e., real time states which indicate the occurrence of rollover events). In this paper, several rollover criteria have been developed based on simplified physical models. Such accidents are first classified into two types, untripped and tripped, according to the main cause that initiates the rollover. Characteristics of these rollover situations are identified by applying appropriate principles of dynamics to corresponding simplified physical models. Two main rollover criteria, Rotational Kinetic Energy (RKE) and Initial Kinetic Energy (IKE), are then introduced based on these characteristics. ADAMS/View simulations have been performed to verify the feasibility of the introduced rollover criteria. ADAMS/Car simulations have also been conducted to get more realistic rollover data with a complete vehicle model. Results of these experiments reveal that our established criteria prove useful for predicting whether actual rollover occurs or not.

Impact of Employing Mass Customization in Shipbuilding (조선에서 대량 맞춤화의 영향)

  • Kwon, Chi-Myung;Lim, Sang-Gyu;Storch, R.L.
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.69-79
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    • 2012
  • One of the goals of mass customization is to permit changes in the product to meet specific customer requirements without substantially impacting the cost or delivery schedule. In large assembly manufacturing industries, such as shipbuilding and commercial airplane production, customization takes place by changing components and/or modules, sometimes called interim products. Using shipbuilding as a case study, it is possible to study the impact of such changes using mass customization principles on the schedule. In large assembly manufacturing, mass customization changes would cause changes in engineering time and production time, based on the amount of change required by the customization. This work first proposes a structure for implementing mass customization in shipbuilding and then uses simulation of a simplified, theoretical shipbuilding process to evaluate the impacts of various levels of change on delivery performance.

A study of the train traffic optimal control system in a circular metro line (도시형 순환 열차에서 운전 최적제어 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Hyo-Sik;Ryu, Kwang-Gyun;Song, Noon-Suck
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2003.10c
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    • pp.236-246
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    • 2003
  • This paper is implemented a control algorithm in order to be stable and minimized to entire train traffic system at delayed case. Signal ing system is described wi th algebraic equations given for train headway, Discrete-event simulation principles are reviewed and a demonstration block signaling model using the technique is implemented. Train congestion at station entrance for short headway operation is demonstrated and the propagation of delays along a platform of trains from any imposed delay to the leading train is also shown. A rail way signaling system is by nature a distributed operation with event triggered at discrete intervals. Although the train kinematic variables of position, velocity, and acceleration are continually changing, the changes are triggered when the trains pass over section boundaries and arrive at signals and route switches. This paper deals with linear-mode1ing, stability and optimal control for the traffic on such metro line of the model is reconstructed in order to adapt the circuits. This paper propose optimal control laws wi th state feedback ensuring the stability of the modeled system for circuits. Simulation results show the benefit to be expected from an efficient traffic control. The main results are summarized as follows: 1. In this paper we develop a linear model describing the traffic for both loop lines, two state space equations have been analyzed. The first one is adapted to the situation where a complete nominal time schedule is available while second one is adapted when only the nominal time interval between trains is known, in both cases we show the unstability of the traffic when the proceeding train is delayed following properties, - They are easily implemented at law cost on existing lines. - They ensure the exponetial stability of loop system. 2. These control laws have been tested on a traffic simulation software taking into the non-linearites and the physical constraints on a metro line. By means of simulation, the efficiency of the proposed optimal control laws are shown.

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A Method for Offline Inter-Turn Fault Diagnosis of Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor through the Co-Analysis (연동해석을 통한 영구자석 동기전동기의 오프라인 Inter-Turn 고장진단법)

  • Cho, Sooyoung;Oh, Ye Jun;Lee, GangSeok;Bae, Jae-Nam;Lee, Ju
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.67 no.3
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    • pp.365-373
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, inter-turn fault diagnosis of the interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) is performed in offline state by linking the finite element analysis (FEA) tool and control simulation tool. In order to diagnose the inter-turn fault, it is important to select the current value to determine the fault. First, the basic principles for inter-turn fault diagnosis of IPMSM are explained and co-analysis model for fault diagnosis is constructed. Further, in order to select the appropriate high frequency voltage, the change of the current value to be judged as failure was analyzed at various voltage and frequency conditions, and the change of the current value according to the number of the failed windings was analyzed. Finally, the current value to be judged as failure is selected.

A Study on Energy Saving of IMV Circuit using Pressure Feedback

  • Park, Hyoung Gyu;Nahian, Syed Abu;Anh, Kyoung Kwan
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.31-44
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    • 2016
  • In recent hydraulic actuation systems, conventional hydraulic spool valves with pressure compensators are becoming less popular, after the introduction of the independent metering concept for valves. Within this concept, four valves are needed for actuating a single cylinder. Subsequently, this increases the freedom of controlling both chamber pressures of the cylinder, and it then provides for electronically-controlled pressure compensation facilities. Additionally, this has the potential to save valuable energy. The primary focus of this paper is to develop a new generation of hydraulic circuits using the independent metering valve (IMV). This configuration can function well as a conventional IMV circuit while providing better pressure control. We first describe the working principles of five distinct modes of the proposed IMV system. Then, mathematical models for each working mode are presented. Finally, we present numerical simulations that have been carried out to evaluate the system performance, in comparison with that of the conventional IMV configuration. The simulation results demonstrate that the performance of the new IMV configuration is superior to the conventional IMV system in terms of energy savings.

Study on Visual Rhetoric (영상의 수사적 표현 연구)

  • 안상혁
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.207-214
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    • 2003
  • The reason why rhetoric is important to a moving image is that a moving image communicates through non-verbal communication language. At first, rhetoric in a moving image functions to be persuasive in the story of a moving image. Second, rhetoric works to enhance an aesthetic value for a moving image. Thus we feel good when we are watching a moving image with well embeded rhetoric. On the other hand, we see extened rhetoric to enhance an imaginary because of a hollywood movie with visual effect and a digital movie. Visual images now formed using more signigier compared to signified for signification. Also we see that every signifier structured metaphorically to function as a sign. In this paper, 1 am going to explain the principles of rhetoric applied to a moving image so that we can better understand a signification on visual image.

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OTP: An Overlay Transport Protocol for End-to-end Congestion and Flow Control in Overlay Networks

  • Kim, Kyung-Hoe;Kim, Pyoung-Yun;Youm, Sung-Kwan;Seok, Seung-Joon;Kang, Chul-Hee
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.331-339
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    • 2007
  • The problem of architecting a reliable transport system across an overlay network using split TCP connections as the transport primitive is mainly considered. The considered overlay network uses the application-level switch in each intermediate host. We first argue that natural designs based on store-and-forward principles that are maintained by split TCP connections of hop-by-hop approaches. These approaches in overlay networks do not concern end-to-end TCP semantics. Then, a new transport protocol-Overlay Transport Protocol (OTP)-that manages the end-to-end connection and is responsible for the congestion/flow control between source host and destination host is proposed. The proposed network model for the congestion and flow control mechanisms uses a new window size-Ownd-and a new timer in the source host and destination host. We validate our analytical findings and evaluate the performance of our OTP using a prototype implementation via simulation.

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Two Vector Based Direct Power Control of AC/DC Grid Connected Converters Using a Constant Switching Frequency

  • Mehdi, Adel;Reama, Abdellatif;Benalla, Hocine
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.1363-1371
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, an improved Direct Power Control (DPC) algorithm is presented for grid connected three phase PWM rectifiers. The new DPC approach is based on two main tasks. First the optimization of the look-up table, which is well-known in conventional DPC, is outlined for selecting the optimum converter output voltage vectors. Secondly a very simple and effective method is used to directly calculate their duty cycles from the power errors. Therefore, the measured active and reactive powers are made to track their references using hysteresis controllers. Then two vectors are selected and applied during one control cycle to minimize both the active and reactive power ripples. The main advantages of this method are that there is no need of linear current controllers, coordinates transformations or modulators. In addition, the control strategy is able to operate at constant switching frequencies to ease the design of the power converter and the AC harmonic filter. The control exhibits a good steady state performance and improves the dynamic response without any overshoot in the line current. Theoretical principles of the proposed method are discussed. Both simulation and experimental results are presented to verify the performance and effectiveness of this control scheme.

Modeling of CeO2, Ce2O3, PrO2, and Pr2O3 in GGA+U formalism

  • An, Gi-Yong;Yu, Dong-Su;Lee, Jong-Ho;Jeong, Yong-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.435-435
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    • 2011
  • The electronic structure and various physical properties of CeO2, Ce2O3, PrO2, and Pr2O3 have been studied from the framework of Ab-initio by the all-electron projector-augmented-wave (PAW) method, as implemented VASP (Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package). The generalized gradient approximation (GGA) with effective U (Ueff) has been used to explain the strong on-site Coulomb repulsion among the localized Ce 4f electrons. The dependence of selected observables of these materials on the Ueff parameter has been scrutinized. The studied properties contain lattice constants, density of states, and reaction energies of CeO2, Ce2O3, PrO2, and Pr2O3. For CeO2 and PrO2, the GGA(PBE)+U results are in good agreement with experimental data whereas for the computational calculationally more demanding Ce2O3 and Pr2O3 both approaches give comparable accuracy. This results represent that by choosing an appropriate Ueff it is possible to reliably describe structural and electronic properties of CeO2, Ce2O3, PrO2, and Pr2O3, which enables modeling of oxygen reduction reaction processes involving ceria-based materials.

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