• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.1676-1685
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• 2021

We develop a new high-fidelity multiphysics model to simulate boron chemistry in the porous Chalk River Unidentified Deposit (CRUD) deposits. Heat transfer, capillary flow, solute transport, and chemical reactions are fully coupled. The evaporation of coolant in the deposits is included in governing equations modified by the volume-averaged assumption of wick boiling. The axial offset anomaly (AOA) of the Seabrook nuclear power plant is simulated. The new model reasonably predicts the distributions of temperature, pressure, velocity, volumetric boiling heat density, and chemical concentrations. In the thicker CRUD regions, 60% of the total heat is removed by evaporative heat transfer, causing boron species accumulation. The new model successfully shows the quantitative effect of coolant evaporation on the local distributions of boron. The total amount of boron in the CRUD layer increases by a factor of 1.21 when an evaporation-driven increase of soluble and precipitated boron concentrations is reflected. In addition, the concentrations of B(OH)₃ and LiBO₂ are estimated according to various conditions such as different CRUD thickness and porosity. At the end of the cycle in the AOA case, the total mass of boron incorporated in CRUD deposits of a reference single fuel rod is estimated to be about 0.5 mg.

• 플랜트 저널
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.41-45
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• 2022

머드 유동 압력파를 이용한 기존의 통신방식은 속도가 1-2 bps 수준으로서 통신에 소요되는 시간이 길어 실시간 제어가 불가능한 수준이다. 통신 속도를 10배 이상 향상시키기 위한 음파통신 방식은 상용화되기는 하였으나 가격이 비싸 이용이 제한적이고 응용 사례도 많지 않다. 본 연구는 해당 설비에 해당하는 시뮬레이터를 개발하여 실제 시험 결과와 유사하게 성능을 개발하였다. 드릴 파이프를 통한 음파 통신 모사를 위해 머드에 의한 마찰 감쇠를 모사할 수 있는 지배 방정식을 제안하고 수치해석 모델을 개발하였다. 감쇠 계수는 시추 현장에서의 음파 에너지 감쇠율과 비교하여 보정하였다. 개발된 수치해석 모델을 대상 QPSK 변조 방식의 통신 알고리즘을 적용하여 지상부에서 통신 에러율 0.04% 수준의 우수한 성능을 확인하였다. 이는 아직 노이즈가 혼입되지 않은 조건에서의 통신 성능이며 이를 적용하기 위해 현장 노이즈 데이터를 확보하여 혼입을 위한 실제 노이즈 신호를 재생하는 기술을 확립하였다.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.23-36
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• 2022

Pharyngeal pouches, a series of outgrowths of the pharyngeal endoderm, are a key epithelial structure governing facial skeleton development in vertebrates. Pouch formation is achieved through collective cell migration and rearrangement of pouch-forming cells controlled by actin cytoskeleton dynamics. While essential transcription factors and signaling molecules have been identified in pouch formation, regulators of actin cytoskeleton dynamics have not been reported yet in any vertebrates. Cofilin1-like (Cfl1l) is a fish-specific member of the Actin-depolymerizing factor (ADF)/Cofilin family, a critical regulator of actin cytoskeleton dynamics in eukaryotic cells. Here, we report the expression and function of cfl1l in pouch development in zebrafish. We first showed that fish cfl1l might be an ortholog of vertebrate adf, based on phylogenetic analysis of vertebrate adf and cfl genes. During pouch formation, cfl1l was expressed sequentially in the developing pouches but not in the posterior cell mass in which future pouch-forming cells are present. However, pouches, as well as facial cartilages whose development is dependent upon pouch formation, were unaffected by loss-of-function mutations in cfl1l. Although it could not be completely ruled out a possibility of a genetic redundancy of Cfl1l with other Cfls, our results suggest that the cfl1l expression in the developing pouches might be dispensable for regulating actin cytoskeleton dynamics in pouch-forming cells.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.697-711
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• 2021

In this work, a simple quasi 3-D parabolic shear deformation theory is developed to examine the bending response of antisymmetric cross-ply laminated composite plates under different types of mechanical loading. The main feature of this theory is that, in addition to including the transverse shear deformation and thickness stretching effects, it has only five-unknown variables in the displacement field modeling like Mindlin's theory (FSDT), yet satisfies the zero shear stress conditions on the top and bottom surfaces of the plate without requiring a shear correction factor. The static version of principle of virtual work was employed to derive the governing equations, while the bending problem for simply supported antisymmetric cross-ply laminated plates was solved by a Navier-type closed-form solution procedure. The adequacy of the proposed model is handled by considering the impact of side-to-thickness ratio on bending response of plate through several illustrative examples. Comparison of the obtained numerical results with the other shear deformation theories leads to the conclusion that the present model is more accurate and efficient in predicting the displacements and stresses of laminated composite plates.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제85권5호
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• pp.593-605
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• 2023

This work presents a comparison between analytical and finite element analysis for bending of porous sandwich functionally graded material (FGM) plates. The plate is rectangular and simply supported under static sinusoidal loading. Material properties of FGM are assumed to vary continuously across the face sheets thickness according to a power-law function in terms of the volume fractions of the constituents while the core is homogeneous. Four types of porosity are considered. A refined higher-order shear with normal deformation theory is used. The number of unknowns in this theory is five, as against six or more in other shear and normal deformation theories. This theory assumes the nonlinear variation of transverse shear stresses and satisfies its nullity in the top and bottom surfaces of the plate without the use of a shear correction factor. The governing equations of equilibrium are derived from the virtual work principle. The Navier approach is used to solve equilibrium equations. The constitutive law of the porous FGM sandwich plate is implemented for a 3D finite element through a subroutine in FORTRAN (UMAT) in Abaqus software. Results show good agreement between the finite element model and the analytical method for some results, but the analytical method keeps giving symmetric results even with the thickness stretching effect and load applied to the top surface of the sandwich.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제86권3호
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• pp.291-309
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• 2023

This paper addresses the finite element modeling of functionally graded porous (FGP) beams for free vibration and buckling behaviour cases. The formulated finite element is based on simple and efficient higher order shear deformation theory. The key feature of this formulation is that it deals with Euler-Bernoulli beam theory with only three unknowns without requiring any shear correction factor. In fact, the presented two-noded beam element has three degrees of freedom per node, and the discrete model guarantees the interelement continuity by using both C⁰ and C¹ continuities for the displacement field and its first derivative shape functions, respectively. The weak form of the governing equations is obtained from the Hamilton principle of FGP beams to generate the elementary stiffness, geometric, and mass matrices. By deploying the isoparametric coordinate system, the derived elementary matrices are computed using the Gauss quadrature rule. To overcome the shear-locking phenomenon, the reduced integration technique is used for the shear strain energy. Furthermore, the effect of porosity distribution patterns on the free vibration and buckling behaviours of porous functionally graded beams in various parameters is investigated. The obtained results extend and improve those predicted previously by alternative existing theories, in which significant parameters such as material distribution, geometrical configuration, boundary conditions, and porosity distributions are considered and discussed in detailed numerical comparisons. Determining the impacts of these parameters on natural frequencies and critical buckling loads play an essential role in the manufacturing process of such materials and their related mechanical modeling in aerospace, nuclear, civil, and other structures.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.159-177
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• 2023

In the present work, a simple and refined shear deformation theory is used to analyze the effect of visco-elastic foundation on the buckling response of exponentially-gradient sandwich plates under various boundary conditions. The proposed theory includes indeterminate integral variables kinematic with only four generalized parameters, in which no shear correction factor is used. The visco-Pasternak's foundation is taken into account by adding the influence of damping to the usual foundation model which characterized by the linear Winkler's modulus and Pasternak's foundation modulus. The four governing equations for FGM sandwich plates are derived by employing principle of virtual work. To solve the buckling problem, Galerkin's approach is utilized for FGM sandwich plates for various boundary conditions. The analytical solutions for critical buckling loads of several types of powerly graded sandwich plates resting on visco-Pasternak foundations under various boundary conditions are presented. Some numerical results are presented to indicate the effects of inhomogeneity parameter, elastic foundation type, and damping coefficient of the foundation, on the critical buckling loads.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제30권2A호
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• pp.121-129
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 고감쇠 고무받침 시험체의 다양한 특성실험을 통하여 전단특성 의존성을 파악하였다. 파악하고자 하는 고감쇠 고무받침의 특성은 변위의존성, 면압 의존성, 주파수 의존성, 온도 의존성 등이다. 특성실험결과 고감쇠 고무받침의 특성치는 온도에 가장 큰 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났으며, 주파수가 증가할수록 전단강성과 등가감쇠비 모두 증가하나 반복횟수가 증가 할수록 고무의 온도상승으로 인하여 그 값들은 감소하였다. 그리고 면압이 증가할수록 유효강성은 감소하고 등가감쇠비는 증가하는 것으로 타나났다. 본 실험결과에 의하면 고감쇠 고무받침의 설계의 주요한 변수인 전단강성과 등가감쇠비를 산정함에 있어 설계변위와 가진속도 및 온도의 면밀한 검토가 필요하다고 판단된다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.839-856
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• 2023

This work presents a simple four-unknown refined integral plate theory for mechanical and thermal buckling behaviors of functionally graded (FG) plates resting on Visco-Pasternak foundations. The proposed refined high order shear deformation theory has a new displacement field which includes indeterminate integral variables and contains only four unknowns in which any shear correction factor not used, with even less than the conventional theory of first shear strain (FSDT). Governing equations are deduced from the principle of minimum total potential energy and a Navier type analytical solution is adopted for simply supported FG plates. The Visco-Pasternak foundations is considered by adding the impact of damping to the usual foundation model which characterized by the linear Winkler's modulus and Pasternak's foundation modulus. The accuracy of the present model is demonstrated by comparing the computed results with those available in the literature. Some numerical results are presented to show the impact of material index, elastic foundation type, and damping coefficient of the foundation, on the mechanical and thermal buckling behaviors of FG plates.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제29권4D호
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• pp.523-533
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• 2009

본 연구는 주행하는 자기부상열차와 교량간의 동적상호작용 특성을 파악하는 것이다. 이를 위해서 차량에 의한 교량의 정적처짐을 레일조도에 포함시켜 가진형태로 고려되는 2자유도 자기부상열차의 운동방정식과 동적상호작용에 의한 교량의 동적처짐을 레일조도와 함께 고려된 열차의 운동방정식을 각각 유도하였다. 이때 EMS위치에서의 부상공극 및 연직방향의 상태로부터 전상태를 추정하는 LQG기법을 고려하였다. 수치해석결과 레일조도가 없는 경우에는 자기부상열차의 주행성에 차량-교량간의 동적상호작용효과가 현저하게 커지지만, 레일조도가 고려될 경우에는 교량의 정적처짐을 가진으로 고려한 경우와 동적상호작용을 고려한 해석결과의 차이가 크지 않다는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다. 결론적으로 교량의 충격계수와 자기부상열차의 주행성능을 정확히 파악하기 위해서는 레일조도를 포함하는 교량-차량간의 동적상호작용해석이 필요한 것으로 판단된다.