• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.681-688
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• 2009

철도교량은 일반적으로 공용기간동안 진동과 충격에 의한 구조적 영향을 받는다. 이와 같은 이유로 내하력 증진을 위한 보강성능 검토 시 철도교에 작용하는 외부하중에 효율적으로 저항할 수 있는 보강성능이 요구된다. 이 연구에서는 철도교의 공용 중 진동 및 충격하중에 효율적으로 저항할 수 있는 보강공법으로써 NSM 보강공법을 제안하였다. 이는 기존 탄소섬유외부부착 공법에 비해 부착성능 및 보강성능이 우수한 공법이다. NSM 보강공법은 현재 다양한 실험적 연구들이 진행되고 있으나, 실교량으로의 범용적인 적용을 위해서는 보강설계에 필요한 합리적인 보강비 산정이 필수적이다. 이를 위해, 이 연구에서는 재료적 및 기하학적 불확실성이 반영된 확률 신뢰도기반 NSM 보강비 산정방법을 제안하여 임계보강비를 산정하고자 한다. 이를 위해, Monte Carlo Simulation(MCS) 기법으로 도출된 재료 및 단면치수에 대한 불확실성 특성을 내부저항모멘트 설계식에 반영하여, 외부활하중의 불확실성 특성이 반영된 외부하중모멘트에 대한 안전도 평가를 수행하였으며, 목표신뢰성지수 3.5를 만족할 수 있도록 하는 CFRP 플레이트의 임계보강비를 산출하였다.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.116-127
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• 1994

A reliability analysis model for the frame structure which grafts the discretized ideal plastic method to the stochastic finite element method is introduced. The proposed method simmulates realistically the sequencial occurrence of plastic hinges and yields the probability of failure directly from the geometrical and material properties of a frame structure. The presented method can also take into account the uncertainties inherent in loads and resisten- ces through the stochastic finite element technique. The analysis results are compared with those of the Monte Carlo Simmulation, the Bound Theory, and the fs-unzipping method, and show good agreement.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1995

This study presents a methodology for the system reliability analysis of cracked structures with random material properties, which are modeled as random fields, and crack geometry under random static loads. The finite element method provides the computational framework to obtain the stress intensity solutions, and the first-order reliability method provides the basis for modeling and analysis of uncertainties. The ultimate structural system reliability is effectively evaluated by the stable configuration approach. Numerical examples are given for the case of random fracture toughness and load.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제31권2A호
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• pp.115-120
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• 2011

철근콘크리트 부재의 강도는 시공오차, 부재단면치수, 철근 및 콘크리트 재료의 역학적 특성 등의 불확실성 때문에 통계적인 변동성을 보인다. 부재 저항강도의 불확실성을 고려하고 신뢰성을 확보하기 위하여는 이러한 불확실성에 대한 정확한 평가가 필요한데, 국내의 경우 특히 철근의 역학적 특성 변동성에 대한 실험 및 연구가 활발하지 못하여 국내 설계기준작성의 기초가 되는 자료는 주로 외국의 연구 성과를 인용하고 있다. 이 논문에서는 우리나라 실정에 맞는 철근의 확률모델을 개발하기위하여 국내에서 생산된 철근의 강도특성자료를 수집하여 강도와 지름, 생산회사별로 분석하였다. 그 결과 철근의 항복강도의 확률특성은 베타분포로 모델링 하는 것이 타당한 것으로 나타났으며 공칭항복강도와 철근제조회사, 그리고 철근의 직경이 철근강도에 통계적 특성에 큰 영향은 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.141-161
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• 2016

In seismic fragility and risk analysis, the definition of structural limit state (LS) capacities is of crucial importance. Traditionally, LS capacities are defined according to design code provisions or using deterministic pushover analysis without considering the inherent randomness of structural parameters. To assess the effects of structural randomness on LS capacities, ten structural parameters that include material strengths and gravity loads are considered as random variables, and a probabilistic pushover method based on a correlation-controlled Latin hypercube sampling technique is used to estimate the uncertainties in LS capacities for four typical reinforced concrete frame buildings. A series of ten LSs are identified from the pushover curves based on the design-code-given thresholds and the available damage-controlled criteria. The obtained LS capacities are further represented by a lognormal model with the median $m_C$ and the dispersion ${\beta}_C$. The results show that structural uncertainties have limited influence on $m_C$ for the LSs other than that near collapse. The commonly used assumption of ${\beta}_C$ between 0.25 and 0.30 overestimates the uncertainties in LS capacities for each individual building, but they are suitable for a building group with moderate damages. A low uncertainty as ${\beta}_C=0.1{\sim}0.15$ is adequate for the LSs associated with slight damages of structures, while a large uncertainty as ${\beta}_C=0.40{\sim}0.45$ is suggested for the LSs near collapse.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.62-74
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• 2002

The tracking of a reference temperature trajectory in a polymerization batch reactor is a common problem and has critical importance because the quality control of a batch reactor is usually achieved by implementing the trajectory precisely. In this study, only energy balances around a reactor are considered as a design model for control synthesis, and material balances describing concentration variations of involved components are treated as unknown disturbances, of which the effects appear as time-varying parameters in the design model. For the synthesis of a tracking controller, a method combining the input-output linearization of a time-variant system with the parameter estimation is proposed. The parameter estimation method provides parameter estimates such that the estimated outputs asymptotically follow the measured outputs in a specified way. Since other unknown external disturbances or uncertainties can be lumped into existing parameters or considered as another separate parameters, the method is useful in practices exposed to diverse uncertainties and disturbances, and the designed controller becomes robust. And the design procedure and setting of tuning parameters are simple and clear due to the resulted linear design equations. The performances and the effectiveness of the proposed method are demonstrated via simulation studies.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제28권10호
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• pp.1219-1230
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• 2004

Comparing to the gravimetric and volumetric method, the flowmeter calibration based on the master meter method is relatively economical and convenient, especially for high flowrate. The uncertainty of flow quantity and flowrate using the master meter method was evaluated according to the GUM (Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement). In order to apply for the wider flow range, two master meters (electromagnetic flow meter) were employed as reference flowmeters. The uncertainty of the master meter was obtained by combining the statistical variation of the repeated measurements and the variation of fluid density and pipe material due to temperature and pressure changes were scrutinized. for a practical application, the uncertainty of calibrator, whose measuring capacity of 1000 ㎥/h obtained by employing two 500 ㎥/h electromagnetic How meters, was evaluated. The uncertainty budget shows the quantitative contribution of each uncertainty component to the overall uncertainty of the calibrator. As a result, it was found that the dominant uncertainties were from the master meter, which was evaluated statistically, and from the process of least squares fitting. On the contrary, the uncertainties arising from the variation of the fluid density and the pipe volume due to the temperature and pressure were negligible.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.625-639
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• 2015

Monopiles have been most widely used for supporting offshore wind turbines (OWTs) in shallow water areas. However, multi-member lattice-type structures such as jackets and tripods are also considered good alternatives to monopile foundations for relatively deep water areas with depth ranging from 25-50 m owing to their technical and economic feasibility. Moreover, jacket structures have been popular in the oil and gas industry for a long time. However, several unsolved technical issues still persist in the utilization of multi-member lattice-type supporting structures for OWTs; these problems include pile-soil-interaction (PSI) effects, realization of dynamically stable designs to avoid resonances, and quick and safe installation in remote areas. In this study, the effects of PSI on the dynamic properties of bottom-fixed OWTs, including monopile-, tripod- and jacket-supported OWTs, were investigated intensively. The tower and substructure were modeled using conventional beam elements with added mass, and pile foundations were modeled with beam and nonlinear spring elements. The effects of PSI on the dynamic properties of the structure were evaluated using Monte Carlo simulation considering the load amplitude, scouring depth, and the uncertainties in soil properties.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.1148-1155
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• 2020

This work presents two different methods for quantifying and propagating the uncertainty associated with fuel composition at end of life for cask criticality calculations. The first approach, the computational approach uses parametric uncertainty including those associated with nuclear data, fuel geometry, material composition, and plant operation to perform forward depletion on Monte-Carlo sampled inputs. These uncertainties are based on experimental and prior experience in criticality safety. The second approach, the data-driven approach relies on using radiochemcial assay data to derive code bias information. The code bias data is used to perturb the isotopic inventory in the data-driven approach. For both approaches, the uncertainty in k_eff for the cask is propagated by performing forward criticality calculations on sampled inputs using the distributions obtained from each approach. It is found that the data driven approach yielded a higher uncertainty than the computational approach by about 500 pcm. An exploration is also done to see if considering correlation between isotopes at end of life affects k_eff uncertainty, and the results demonstrate an effect of about 100 pcm.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.489-504
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• 2008

In piezoelectric flexible structures, the contribution of vibration modes to the dynamic response of system may change with the location of piezoelectric actuator patches, which means that the ability of actuators to control vibration modes should be taken into account in the development of modal reduction model. The spatial $H_2$ norm of modes, which serves as a measure of the intensity of modes to system dynamical response, is used to pick up the modes included in the reduction model. Based on the reduction model, the paper develops the state-space representation for uncertain flexible tructures with piezoelectric material as non-collocated actuators/sensors in the modal space, taking into account uncertainties due to modal parameters variation and unmodeled residual modes. In order to suppress the vibration of the structure, a dynamic output feedback control law is designed by imultaneously considering the conflicting performance specifications, such as robust stability, transient response requirement, disturbance rejection, actuator saturation constraints. Based on linear matrix inequality, the vibration control design is converted into a linear convex optimization problem. The simulation results show how the influence of vibration modes on the dynamical response of structure varies with the location of piezoelectric actuators, why the uncertainties should be considered in the reductiom model to avoid exciting high-frequency modes in the non-collcated vibration control, and the possiblity that the conflicting performance specifications are dealt with simultaneously.