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Estimation of extreme wind pressure coefficient in a zone by multivariate extreme value theory

  • Yang, Qingshan;Li, Danyu;Hui, Yi;Law, Siu-Seong
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.197-207
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    • 2020
  • Knowledge on the design value of extreme wind pressure coefficients (EWPC) of a specific zone of buildings is essential for the wind-resistant capacity of claddings. This paper presents a method to estimate the representative EWPC introducing the multivariate extreme value model. The spatial correlations of the extreme wind pressures at different locations can be consider through the multivariate extreme value. The moving average method is also adopted in this method, so that the measured point pressure can be converted to wind pressure of an area. The proposed method is applied to wind tunnel test results of a large flat roof building. Comparison with existing methods shows that it can give a good estimation for all target zones with different sizes.

NATURAL CONVECTION AROUND A HEAT CONDUCTING AND GENERATING SOLID BODY INSIDE A SQUARE ENCLOSURE WITH DIFFERENT THERMAL BOUNDARIES

  • NITHYADEVI, NAGARAJAN;UMADEVI, PERIYASAMY
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.459-479
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    • 2015
  • Two-dimensional steady laminar natural convection around a heat conducting and generating solid body inside a square enclosure with different thermal boundaries is performed. The mathematical model is governed by the coupled equation of mass, momentum and energy. These equations are discretized by finite volume method with power-law scheme and solved numerically by SIMPLE algorithm with under-relaxation technique. Effect of Rayleigh number, temperature difference ratio of solid-fluid, aspect ratio of solid-enclosure and the thermal conductivity ratio of solid-fluid are investigated numerically for Pr = 0.7. The flow and heat transfer aspects are demonstrated in the form of streamlines and isotherms respectively.

Design and Analysis of Dynamic Positioning System Using a Nonlinear Robust Observer

  • Kim, Myung-Hyun
    • International Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology Speciallssue:Selected Papers
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.46-52
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    • 2002
  • A robust nonlinear observer, utilizing the sliding mode concept, is developed for the dynamic positioning of ships. The observer provides the estimates of linear velocities of the ship and bias from slowly varying environmental loads. It also filters out wave frequency motion to avoid wear of actuators and excessive fuel consumption. The main advantage of the proposed observer is in its robustness. Especially, the observer structure with a saturation function makes the proposed observer robust against neglected nonlinearties, disturbances and uncertainties. Since the mathematical model of DP ships is difficult to obtain and includes uncertainties and disturbances, it is very important for the observer to be robust. A nonlinear output feedback controller is derives based on the developed observer using the observer backstepping technique, and the global stability of the observer and control law is shown by Lyapunov stability theory.. A set of simulation was carried out to investigate the performance of the proposed observer for dynamic positioning of ships.

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CORONAL TEMPERATURE AS AN AGE INDICATOR

  • Sung, Hwan-Kyung;Bessell, M.S.;Sana, Hugues
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2008
  • The X-ray spectra of late type stars can generally be well fitted by a two temperature component model of the corona. We find that the temperatures of both components are strong functions of stellar age, although the temperature of the hotter plasma in the corona shows a larger scatter and is probably affected by the activity of stars, such as flares. We confirm the power-law decay of the temperature of the hot plasma, but the temperature of the cool plasma component decays linearly with log(age).

Design and Characteristics of Magnetic Amplifier (자기증폭기의 시형설계 및 동작특성)

  • 현경호;오명환;이광원
    • 전기의세계
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.17-26
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    • 1971
  • An experimental design of magnetic amplifiers and their characteristics in steady state are presented. A saturable reactor model having 2KVA capacity was designed, using Z-10 grain-oriented silicon steel which is commonly used in power transformers. Experimental and theoretical analysis show that the experimental results are in good agreement with the equal ampere-turns law. In addition to the saturable reactor, the self-saturated magnetic amplifiers of 0.4VA and 5VA capacity, using 50% Ni-Fe alloy cores having rectangular hysteresis loops were designed. Control characteristic curves of these amplifiers show high ampere-turn gain enough to be used for voltage controllers under load and non-contact magnetic switches of the rated capacity.

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Accelerated life test plan under modified ramp-stress loading with two stress factors

  • Srivastava, P.W.;Gupta, T.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.21-44
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    • 2017
  • Accelerated life tests (ALTs) are frequently used in manufacturing industries to evaluate the reliability of products within a reasonable amount of time and cost. Test units are subjected to elevated stresses which yield quick failures. Most of the previous works on designing ALT plans are focused on tests that involve a single stress. Many times more than one stress factor influence the product's functioning. This paper deals with the design of optimum modified ramp-stress ALT plan for Burr type XII distribution with Type-I censoring under two stress factors, viz., voltage and switching rate each at two levels- low and high. It is assumed that usage time to failure is power law function of switching rate, and voltage increases linearly with time according to modified ramp-stress scheme. The cumulative exposure model is used to incorporate the effect of changing stresses. The optimum plan is devised using D-optimality criterion wherein the ${\log}_{10}$ of the determinant of Fisher information matrix is maximized. The method developed has been explained using a numerical example and sensitivity carried out.

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An Assessment of Offshore Wind Energy Resources around Korean Peninsula (한반도해역의 해상 풍력 자원 평가)

  • Kyong, N.H.;Yoon, J.E.;Jang, M.S.;Jang, D.S.
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.35-41
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    • 2003
  • In order to investigate the offshore wind resources around Korean peninsula, the "QuikSCAT Level 3" data by ADEOS II satellite was analyzed from Jan 1 2000 to Jan 18 2003. The "SeaWinds" on the satellite is a specialize4 device for microwave scatterometery that measures near-surface wind speed and direction under all weather and cloud conditions. Wind speed are extrapolated from 10m to 60m with the exponent of 1/10 in the power law model. It has been found that the High wind energy potentials are prevailing in the South sea and Southeastern end of Korean peninsula.

Computational Study on the Performance of the Impeller Centrifugal Pump (원심펌프 회전차의 성능해석에 대한 전산해석적 연구)

  • Kim, Won-Kap;Kang, Shin-Hyoung
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1999.12a
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    • pp.125-133
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    • 1999
  • This paper reports the impeller performance of centrifugal pump, modified HES65-250. Developed CFD code uses SIMPLE algorithm, power-law scheme, standard k-$\epsilon$ turbulence model in curvilinear coordinate system. The calculations are conducted for 5 cases, from 0.6 to 1.4 of flow rate ratio with 0.2 increment. The flow characteristics inside of impeller are analysed. The results show that reversal flows exist at the inlet of impeller which have small rotary stagnation pressure. The obtained results are compared with the experimental data at impeller exit and shows good qualitative agreement.

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Flowrate Integration Errors of Multi-path Ultrasonic Flowmeter using Weighting Factors (가중계수에 의한 다회선 초음파유량계의 유량적분오차)

  • Lee, Ho-June;Hwang, Shang-Yoon;Kim, Kyoung-Jin
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.7 no.5 s.26
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    • pp.7-12
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    • 2004
  • Multi-path ultrasonic flowrate measuring technology is being received much attentions from a variety of industrial fields to exactly measure the flowrate. Multi-path ultrasonic flowmeter has much advantage since it has no moving parts and little pressure loss. It offers good accuracy, repeatability, linearity and turn-down ratio can be over 1:50. The present study investigates flowrate integration errors using weighting factors. A theoretical flow model uses power law to describe a fully developed velocity profiles and wall roughness is changed. Gaussian, Chebyshev, and Tailor methods are used to integrate line-average velocities. The obtained results show that Chebyshev method in 2, 4-path arrangement and Gaussian method in 3, 5-path arrangement are not affected for wall roughness changes.

Vibration analysis of FG nanobeams based on third-order shear deformation theory under various boundary conditions

  • Jandaghian, Ali Akbar;Rahmani, Omid
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.67-78
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    • 2017
  • In this study, free vibration of functionally graded (FG) micro/nanobeams based on nonlocal third-order shear deformation theory and under different boundary conditions is investigated by applying the differential quadrature method. Third-order shear deformation theory can consider the both small-scale effects and quadratic variation of shear strain and hence shear stress along the FG nanobeam thickness. The governing equations are obtained by using the Hamilton's principle, based on third-order shear deformation beam theory. The differential quadrature (DQ) method is used to discretize the model and attain the natural frequencies and mode shapes. The properties of FG micro/nanobeam are assumed to be chanfged along the thickness direction based on the simple power law distribution. The effects of various parameters such as the nonlocal parameter, gradient index, boundary conditions and mode number on the vibration characteristics of FG micro/nanobeams are discussed in detail.