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Vibration response of FG-CNT-reinforced plates covered by magnetic layer utilizing numerical solution

  • Cao, Yan;Musharavati, Farayi;Baharom, Shahrizan;Talebizadehsardari, Pouyan;Sebaey, Tamer A.;Eyvazian, Arameh;Zain, Azlan Mohd
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.253-258
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    • 2020
  • Vibration response in a sandwich plate with a nanocompiste core covered by magnetic layer is presented. The core is armed by functionalyy graded-carbon nanotubes (FG-CNTs) where the Mori-Tanaka law is utilized assuming agglomeration effects. The structure plate is located on elastic medium simulated by Pasternak model. The governing equations are derived based on Mindlin theory and Hamilton's principle. Utilizing diffrential quadrature method (DQM), the frequency of the structure is calculated and the effects of magnetic layer, volume percent and agglomeration of CNTs, elastic medium and geometrical parameters of structure are shown on the frequency of system. Results indicate that with considering magnetic layer, the frequency of structure is increased.

Improving aeroelastic characteristics of helicopter rotor blades in forward flight

  • Badran, Hossam T.;Tawfik, Mohammad;Negm, Hani M.
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.31-49
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    • 2019
  • Flutter is a dangerous phenomenon encountered in flexible structures subjected to aerodynamic forces. This includes aircraft, helicopter blades, engine rotors, buildings and bridges. Flutter occurs as a result of interactions between aerodynamic, stiffness and inertia forces on a structure. The conventional method for designing a rotor blade to be free from flutter instability throughout the helicopter's flight regime is to design the blade so that the aerodynamic center (AC), elastic axis (EA) and center of gravity (CG) are coincident and located at the quarter-chord. While this assures freedom from flutter, it adds constraints on rotor blade design which are not usually followed in fixed wing design. Periodic Structures have been in the focus of research for their useful characteristics and ability to attenuate vibration in frequency bands called "stop-bands". A periodic structure consists of cells which differ in material or geometry. As vibration waves travel along the structure and face the cell boundaries, some waves pass and some are reflected back, which may cause destructive interference with the succeeding waves. In this work, we analyze the flutter characteristics of a helicopter blades with a periodic change in their sandwich material using a finite element structural model. Results shows great improvements in the flutter forward speed of the rotating blade obtained by using periodic design and increasing the number of periodic cells.

A Study on The Photoelectric Characteristics of Dye-sensitized Solar Cell according to Expanding Photo-electrode (염료감응형 태양전지의 광전극 확장에 따른 광전특성 연구)

  • Seo, Hyun-Woong;Kim, Mi-Jeong;Park, Je-Wook;Kim, Ho-Sung;Kim, Hee-Je
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.305-308
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    • 2007
  • The field of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) is being researched actively at present. Because DSC has several advantages to pass the limits of Si solar cells such as a low manufacturing expense, a simple manufacturing process and its transparency. A lot of researches are underway about materials and processes in the field of dye-sensitized solar cell but its structure has been fixed up as the sandwich structure that both edges are used as positive and negative terminals. But the structure as of present is a factor of decreasing efficiency because the more electrons are recombined the further distance from terminal, considering about the characteristic of dye-sensitized solar cell that electrons generated inside cell are moved by diffusion. In this study, we made experiment on expanding the terminal to shorten internal moving distance of electron and compared the results according to the variation of active area to find out the effect of this trial. As a result, we achieved about 15.5% improvement of maximum power and 0.5% improvement of efficiency from terminal-expanded dye-sensitized solar cell of $2cm^{2}$ active area and concluded that the increasing rate of efficiency is raised as the active area becomes wider.

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Compressive Behavior for Smart Skin of Sandwich Structure (스마트 스킨 샌드위치 시편의 압축거동 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Sung;Kim, Yong-Bum;Park, Hoon-Cheol;Yoon, Kwang-Joon;Lee, Jeo-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.30 no.8
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    • pp.56-64
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    • 2002
  • In this work, a smart skin of multi-layer structure is designed and manufactured. Through the compression test, the characteristic of smart skin behavior was examined. We have predicted stress of each layer and the first failed layer of the smart skin structure by using MSC/NASTRAN. The finite element model was verified by comparing measured data from the compression test and result from the geometrically linear/non-linear analysis. The finite element model was used for obtaining design data from the parametric study. It was confirmed that shear moduli of honeycomb core affect the buckling load of smart skin where shear deformation was considerable.

Development of a Composite Spacecraft Structure for STSAT-3 Satellite Program (소형 복합재 위성 구조체 개발)

  • Cho, Hee-Keun;Seo, Jung-Ki;Kim, Byoung-Jung;Jang, Tae-Seung;Cha, Won-Ho;Lee, Dai-Gil;Myung, Noh-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.38 no.7
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    • pp.727-736
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    • 2010
  • A satellite that has an all-composite structure, STSAT-3(science and technology satellite), was initially developed in Korea. Partially use of advanced composites in space applications such as solar panel is well developed, however the application of an all-composite satellite bus has never been achieved in Korea. This study emphasizes the application of composite technology to the design and fabrication of an all-composite spacecraft bus for small-class satellite STSAT-3. Moreover its structure design concept is totally different from the one that was used in the previous satellites developed in Korea.

Bandgap capability of hybrid Kirigami inspired cellular structures

  • Del Broccolo, S.;Ouisse, M.;Foltete, E.;Scarpa, F.
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.479-495
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    • 2019
  • Periodic cellular core structures included in sandwich panels possess good stiffness while saving weight and only lately their potential to act as passive vibration filters is increasingly being studied. Classical homogeneous honeycombs show poor vibracoustic performance and only by varying certain geometrical features, a shift and/or variation in bandgap frequency range occurs. This work aims to investigate the vibration filtering properties of the AUXHEX "hybrid" core, which is a cellular structure containing cells of different shapes. Numerical simulations are carried out using two different approaches. The first technique used is the harmonic analysis with commercially available software, and the second one, which has been proved to be computationally more efficient, consists in the Wave Finite Element Method (WFEM), which still makes use of finite elements (FEM) packages, but instead of working with large models, it exploits the periodicity of the structure by analysing only the unit cell, thanks to the Floquet-Bloch theorem. Both techniques allow to produce graphs such as frequency response plots (FRF's) and dispersion curves, which are powerful tools used to identify the spectral bandgap signature of the considered structure. The hybrid cellular core pattern AUXHEX is analysed and results are discussed, focusing the investigation on the possible spectral bandgap signature heritage that a hybrid core experiences from their "parents" homogeneous cell cores.

Shear and tensile behaviors of headed stud connectors in double skin composite shear wall

  • Yan, Jia-Bao;Wang, Zhe;Wang, Tao;Wang, Xiao-Ting
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.759-769
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    • 2018
  • This paper studies shear and tensile behaviors of headed stud connectors in double skin composite (DSC) structure. Firstly, 11 push-out tests and 11 tensile tests were performed to investigate the ultimate shear and tensile behaviors of headed stud in DSC shear wall, respectively. The main parameters investigated in this test program were height and layout of headed stud connectors. The test results reported the representative failure modes of headed studs in DSC structures subjected to shear and tension. The shear-slip and tension-elongation behaviors of headed studs in DSC structures were also reported. Influences of different parameters on these shear-slip and tension-elongation behaviors of headed studs were discussed and analyzed. Analytical models were also developed to predict the ultimate shear and tensile resistances of headed stud connectors in DSC shear walls. The developed analytical model incorporated the influence of the dense layout of headed studs in DSC shear walls. The validations of analytical predictions against 22 test results confirmed the accuracy of developed analytical models.

The Design and Analysis of Composite Advanced Propeller Blade for Next Generation Turboprop Aircraft (차세대 터보프롭 항공기용 복합재 최신 프로펠러 설계 및 해석)

  • Choi, Won;Kim, Kwang-Hae;Lee, Won-Joong
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2012
  • The one way fluid structure interaction analysis on advanced propeller blade for next generation turboprop aircraft. HS1 airfoil series are selected as a advanced propeller blade airfoil. Adkins method is used for aerodynamic design and performance analysis with respect to the design point. Adkins method is based on the vortex-blade element theory which design the propeller to satisfy the condition for minimum energy loss. propeller geometry is generated by varying chord length and pitch angle at design point. Blade sweep is designed based on the design mach number and target propulsion efficiency. The aerodynamic characteristics of the designed Advanced propeller were verified by CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamic) and showed the enhanced performance than the conventional propeller. The skin-foam sandwich structural type is adopted for blade. The high stiffness, strength carbon/epoxy composite material is used for the skin and PMI(Polymethacrylimide) is used for the foam. Aerodynamic load is calculated by computational fluid dynamics. Linear static stress analysis is performed by finite element analysis code MSC.NASTRAN in order to investigate the structural safety. The result of structural analysis showed that the design has sufficient structural safety. It was concluded that structural safety assessment should incorporate the off-design points.

Structural Characterization of Crown Ether Complexed Potassium Ion $(C_{12}H_{24}O_6{\cdot}K)_2K[Co(OH)_6Mo_6O_{18}]{\cdot}12H_2O$

  • Osamu Nagano;Uk Lee;Hikaru Ichida;Yukiyoshi Sasaki
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.15-19
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    • 1990
  • The crystal structure of $(C_{12}H_{24}O_6{\cdot}K)_2K[Co(OH)_6Mo_6O_{18}]{\cdot}12H_2O$ has been determined by X-ray diffraction. Crystal data as follows ; monoclinic, space group $C_2/m,\;a\;=\;22.512(4)\;{\AA},\;b\;=\;18.304(4)\;{\AA},\;c\;=\;7.641(1)\;{\AA},\;{\beta}\;=\;90.52(2)\;{\AA}$, and Z = 2. A final conventional R value of 0.044 was obtained by least-squares refinement of 4173 independent observed $[{\mid}Fo{\mid}{\geq}3{\sigma}({\mid}Fo{\mid})]$ reflections. The $[Co(OH)_6Mo_6O_}{18}]^{-3}$ polyanion shows the well-known Anderson-structure and has approximate 3m symmetry. A $[Co(OH)_6Mo_6O_{18}]^{-3}$ polyanion is located between two crown ether complexed cations forming a sandwich structure. One potassium ion interacts with the crown ether via electrostatic interactions. The other potassium ion only interacts with the water molecules and terminal oxygen atoms of the polyanion.

Analytical solution for analyzing initial curvature effect on vibrational behavior of PM beams integrated with FGP layers based on trigonometric theories

  • Mousavi, S. Behnam;Amir, Saeed;Jafari, Akbar;Arshid, Ehsan
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.235-251
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    • 2021
  • In the current study, the free vibrational behavior of a Porous Micro (PM) beam which is integrated with Functionally Graded Piezoelectric (FGP) layers with initial curvature is considered based on the two trigonometric shear deformation theories namely SSDBT and Tan-SDBT. The structure's mechanical properties are varied through its thicknesses following the given functions. The curved microbeam is exposed to electro-mechanical preload and also is rested on a Pasternak type of elastic foundation. Hamilton's principle is used to extract the motion equations and the MCST is used to capture the size effect. Navier's solution method is selected as an analytical method to solve the motion equations for a simply supported ends case and by validating the results for a simpler state with previously published works, effects of different important parameters on the behavior of the structure are considered. It is found that although increasing the porosity reduces the natural frequency, but enhancing the volume fraction of CNTs increasing it. Also, by increasing the central angle of the curved beam the vibrations of the structure increases. Designing and manufacturing more efficient smart structures such as sensors and actuators are of the aims of this study.