• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.79-90
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• 2004

A high precision shear deformable triangular element has been proposed for bending analysis of triangular plate. The element has twelve nodes at the three sides and four nodes inside the element. Initially the element has thirty-five degrees of freedom, which has been reduced to thirty by eliminating the degrees of freedom of the internal nodes through static condensation. Plates having different boundary conditions, side ratios (b/a) and thickness ratios (h/a = 0.001, 0.1 and 0.2) have been analyzed using the proposed shear locking free element. Concentrated and uniformly distributed transverse loads have been used for the analysis. The formulation is made based on first order shear deformation theory. For validation of the present element and formulation few results of thin triangular plate have been compared with the analytical solutions. Results for thick plate have been presented as new results.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.349-359
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• 2001

본 논분은 평판구조물의 동적 시간이력해석을 수행하기 위하여 개발된 사절점 판요소에 대하여 기술하였다. 이 요소는 두꺼운 판에서 발생하는 횡전단 변형효과를 고려하기 위하여 Reissner-Mindlin(RM)가정을 도달하였다. 알려진 바와 같이 RM가정을 바탕으로 개발된 판요소가 얇은 판에 적용되면 전단강성 과대현상(,Shear Locking Phenomenon)을 일으키는데 이를 개선하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 가변형도법을 이용한 대체변형도를 자연좌표계에 준하여 명시적으로 유도하였다. 개발된 저차 판요소는 중앙 차분법을 이용한 명시적인 동적 해석 알고리즘에 적용되었으며 이때 판의 대각질량행렬은 특별집중질량법을 사용하여 형성하였다. 개발된 판의 성능은 수치예제를 통하여 평가하고 검증하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.213-229
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• 2003

A high precision shear deformable triangular element has been proposed for free vibration analysis of composite trapezoidal plates. The element has twelve nodes at the three sides and four nodes inside the element. Initially the element has fifty-five degrees of freedom, which has been reduced to forty-eight by eliminating the degrees of freedom of the internal nodes through static condensation. Plates having different side ratios (b/a), boundary conditions, thickness ratios (h/a=0.01, 0.1 and 0.2), number of layers and fibre angle orientations have been analyzed by the proposed shear locking free element. Trapezoidal laminate with concentrated mass at the centre has also been analyzed. An efficient mass lumping scheme has been recommended, where the effect of rotary inertia has been included. For validation of the present element and formulation few results of isotropic trapezoidal plate and square composite laminate have been compared with those obtained from open literatures. The numerical results for composite trapezoidal laminate have been given as new results.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.719-730
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• 2007

Timoshenko의 전통적인 보 이론에 근거한 유한 요소의 전단 잠김 현상을 해결하기 위하여 가정 변형도법을 적용한 7자유도 공간 박벽 뼈대요소를 개발하였다. 2개의 노드를 갖는 직선 보요소에서 한 요소내의 변형도가 일정하다고 가정하여 형상함수를 유도하고 이를 바탕으로 가상일의 원리에 따라 강성행렬을 구성하였다. Corotational 기하 비선형 해석법을 이용하여 불평형 하중을 산정하였으며 부재 길이의 비선형 효과를 반영하기 위하여 bowing effect를 정밀하게 고려하였다. 일축 비대칭 단면을 갖는 곡선 외팔보와 이축 비대칭 단면을 갖는 직선 외팔보에 대하여 횡-비틀림 좌굴에 의한 안정 해석과 후좌굴 해석을 수행한 결과 ABAQUS 쉘요소와 좋은 일치를 보여 주었다.

• Architectural research
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.113-120
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• 2016

The stability and resistance of the plates under in-plane loading is crucial in the design of structures. For the assessment of structural stability, it is necessarily required to have accurate finite element technologies. Therefore, the enhanced 9-node plate (Q9-ANS) element is introduced for the linear buckling analysis of plate where the critical buckling load has to be determined. The Q9-ANS is developed with the Reissner-Mindlin (RM) assumptions which consider transverse shear deformation of the plate. Assumed shear strain is used to alleviate the shear locking phenomenon. Numerical examples are carried out to verify the performance of the Q9-ANS element in calculation of critical buckling load of the plates.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제48권5호
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• pp.583-597
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• 2023

This paper introduces a novel approach to multi-material topology optimization (MTO) targeting in-plane bi-directional functionally graded (IBFG) non-uniform thickness Reissner-Mindlin plates, employing an alternative active phase approach. The mathematical formulation integrates a first shear deformation theory (FSDT) to address compliance minimization as the objective function. Through an alternating active-phase algorithm in conjunction with the block Gauss-Seidel method, the study transforms a multi-phase topology optimization challenge with multi-volume fraction constraints into multiple binary phase sub-problems, each with a single volume fraction constraint. The investigation focuses on IBFG materials that incorporate adequate local bulk and shear moduli to enhance the precision of material interactions. Furthermore, the well-established mixed interpolation of tensorial components 4-node elements (MITC4) is harnessed to tackle shear-locking issues inherent in thin plate models. The study meticulously presents detailed mathematical formulations for IBFG plates in the MTO framework, underscored by numerous numerical examples demonstrating the method's efficiency and reliability.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.32-41
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• 1995

In the analysis of metal forming processes by the finite element method, there are many numerical instabilities such as element locking, hourglass mode and shear locking. These instabilities may have a bad effect upon accuracy and convergence. The present work is concerned with improvement of stability and efficiency in two-dimensional rigid-plastic finite element method using various type of elemenmts and numerical intergration schemes. As metal forming examples, upsetting and backward extrusion are taken for comparison among the methods: various element types and numerical integration schemes. Comparison is made in terms of stability and efficiency in element behavior and computational efficiency and a new scheme of adaptive directional reduced integration is introduced. As a result, the finite element computation has been stabilized from the viewpoint of computational time, convergency, and numerical instability.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 1990년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.18-23
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• 1990

The paper is concerned with the elasto-plastic and geometrically nonlinear analysis of shell structures using an improved degenerated shell element. In the formulation of the improved degenerated shell element, an enhanced interpolation of transverse shear strains in the natural coordinate system is used to overcome the shear locking problems; the reduced integration technique in in-plane strains is applied to avoid membrane locking behavior; selective addition the nonconforming displacement modes improve the element performances. This element is free of serious locking problems and undesirable compatible or commutable spurious kinematic deformation modes and passes the patch tests. An incremental total Lagrangian formulation is presented which allows the calculation of arbitrarily large displacements and rotations. The resulting nonlinear equations are solved by the Newton-Raphson solution scheme. The versatility and accuracy of this improved degenerated shell element are demonstrated by solving several numerical examples.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.191-213
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• 2011

This paper presents an improved 8-node shell element for the analysis of plates and shells. The finite element, based on a refined first-order shear deformation theory, is further improved by the combined use of assumed natural strain method. We analyze the influence of the shell element with the different patterns of sampling points for interpolating different components of strains. Using the assumed natural strain method with proper interpolation functions, the present shell element generates neither membrane nor shear locking behavior even when full integration is used in the formulation. Further, a refined first-order shear deformation theory, which results in parabolic through-thickness distribution of the transverse shear strains from the formulation based on the third-order shear deformation theory, is proposed. This formulation eliminates the need for shear correction factors in the first-order theory. Numerical examples demonstrate that the present element perform better in comparison with other shell elements.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.373-385
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• 2009

The purpose of this paper is to study shear locking-free parametric earthquake analysis of thick and thin plates using Mindlin's theory, to determine the effects of the thickness/span ratio, the aspect ratio and the boundary conditions on the linear responses of thick and thin plates subjected to earthquake excitations. In the analysis, finite element method is used for spatial integration and the Newmark-${\beta}$ method is used for the time integration. Finite element formulation of the equations of the thick plate theory is derived by using higher order displacement shape functions. A computer program using finite element method is coded in C++ to analyze the plates clamped or simply supported along all four edges. In the analysis, 17-noded finite element is used. Graphs are presented that should help engineers in the design of thick plates subjected to earthquake excitations. It is concluded that 17-noded finite element can be effectively used in the earthquake analysis of thick and thin plates. It is also concluded that, in general, the changes in the thickness/span ratio are more effective on the maximum responses considered in this study than the changes in the aspect ratio.