• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.281-301
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• 2004

The paper begins by presenting a unified variational approach to the lateral-torsional buckling (LTB) analysis of doubly symmetric prismatic and tapered thin-walled beams with open cross-sections, which accounts for the influence of the pre-buckling deflections. This approach (i) extends the kinematical assumptions usually adopted for prismatic beams, (ii) consistently uses shell membrane theory in general coordinates and (iii) adopts Trefftz's criterion to perform the bifurcation analysis. The proposed formulation is then applied to investigate the influence of the pre-buckling deflections on the LTB behaviour of prismatic and web-tapered I-section simply supported beams and cantilevers. After establishing an interesting analytical result, valid for prismatic members with shear centre loading, several elastic critical moments/loads are presented, discussed and, when possible, also compared with values reported in the literature. These numerical results, which are obtained by means of the Rayleigh-Ritz method, (i) highlight the qualitative differences existing between the LTB behaviours of simply supported beams and cantilevers and (ii) illustrate how the influence of the pre-buckling deflections on LTB is affected by a number of factors, namely ($ii_1$) the minor-to-major inertia ratio, ($ii_2$) the beam length, ($ii_3$) the location of the load point of application and ($ii_4$) the bending moment diagram shape.

• Advances in materials Research
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.29-44
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• 2018

In this paper, a closed-form rigorous solution for interfacial shear stress in simply supported beams strengthened with bonded prestressed E-FGM plates and subjected to an arbitrarily positioned single point load, or two symmetric point loads is developed using linear elastic theory. This improved solution is intended for application to beams made of all kinds of materials bonded with a thin plate, while all existing solutions have been developed focusing on the strengthening of reinforced concrete beams, which allowed the omission of certain terms. The theoretical predictions are compared with other existing solutions. Finally, numerical results from the present analysis are presented to study the effects of various parameters of the beams on the distributions of the interfacial shear stresses. The results of this study indicated that the E-FGM plate strengthening systems are effective in enhancing flexural behavior of the strengthened RC beams.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제32B권5호
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• pp.720-729
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• 1995

We proposed a XMESH(crossed-mesh) topology as a suitable interconnection for the massively parallel computer architectures, and presented performance analysis of the proposed interconnection topology. Horizontally, the XMESH has the same links as those of the toroidal mesh(TMESH) or toroid, but vertically, it has diagonal cross links instead of the vertical links. It reveals desirable interconnection characteristics for the massively parallel computers as the number of nodes increases, while retaining the same structural advantages of the TMESH such as the symmetric structure, periodic placement of subsystems, and constant degree, which are highly recommended features for VLSI/WSI implementations. Furthermore, n*k XMESH can be easily expanded without increasing the diameter as long as n.leq.k.leq.n+4. Analytical performance evaluations show that the XMESH has a shorter diameter, a shorter mean internode distance, and a higher message completion rate than the TMESH or the diagonal mesh(DMESH). To confirm these results, an optimal self-routing algorithm for the proposed topology is developed and is used to simulate the average delay, the maximum delay, and the throughput in the presence of contention. In all cases, the XMESH is shown to outperform the TMESH and the DMESH regardless of the communication load conditions or the number of nodes of the networks, and can provide an attractive alternative to those networks in implementing massively parallel computers.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.87-93
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 평면 비대칭건물의 비탄성 변위를 주어진 목표까지 제한하기 위하여 필요한 추가적인 감쇠량을 구하는 방법에 관하여 연구하였다. 이를 위하여 먼저 비대칭구조물의 항복 후 거동을 분석하고 구조물에 발생하는 연성도 요구량을 이용하여 필요한 등가 감쇠비를 유도하였다. 이러한 방법을 지진하중을 받는 5층 비대칭구조물에 적용하였다. 시간이력해석 결과와의 비교에 따르면 제안된 방법에 따라 점성감쇠기를 설치한 경우 주어진 지진하중에 대하여 약변 및 강변 모두 만족할만한 거동을 보이는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.371-375
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• 2010

분산형 고속철도차량의 유리창 강도조건을 설정하기 위하여 열차가 터널을 통과하는 동안의 압력변동이 수치적으로 모사되었다. 계산결과를 토대로 객실 내외의 압력차이가 계산되었고, 객실 유리창에 작용하는 하중의 크기가 도출되었다. 열차가 터널을 통과하는 동안의 압력장을 모사하기 위하여 축대칭 Navier-Stokes 방정식에 기반한 전산유체역학이 이용되었다. 차량 내부의 압력변동은 차내 압력변화율과 차 내외부 압력변동의 선형 관계식에 근거한 1차 차분식을 이용하여 계산되었다.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.149-157
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• 2017

An innovative analysis method is proposed in this paper for the determination of ultimate resistance of prestressed concrete beams. The proposed method can be applied to simply supported or continuous beams in a unified manner whether structure and external loads are symmetric or not. Through the iterative nonlinear strain compatibility solutions, this method can also be applied to the non-prismatic section/un-symmetrical composite structures under moving load. The conventional studies have used the failure criteria when the strain of concrete reaches 0.003. However compared with bonded case, the value of strain in the reinforcement is much smaller than bonded case, thus, unbonded prestressed cases show compressive failure mode. It is shown that the proposed method gives acceptable results within 5% error compared with the prior experimental results. It can be shown that the proposed method can reach the solution much faster than typical three-dimensional finite element analysis for the same problem. This method is applicable to the existing unbonded prestressed members where deterioration has occurred leading to the reduced ultimate resistance or safety. In all, the proposed procedure can be applied to the design and analysis of newly constructed structures, as well as the risk assessment of rehabilitated structures.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.345-360
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• 2018

Increasing demand for large-sized Floating, Storage and Regasification Units (FSRUs) for oil and gas industries led to the development of novel geometric form of Buoyant Leg Storage and Regasification Platform (BLSRP). Six buoyant legs support the deck and are placed symmetric with respect to wave direction. Circular deck is connected to buoyant legs using hinged joints, which restrain transfer of rotation from the legs to deck and vice-versa. Buoyant legs are connected to seabed using taut-moored system with high initial pretension, enabling rigid body motion in vertical plane. Encountered environmental loads induce dynamic tether tension variations, which in turn affect stability of the platform. Postulated failure cases, created by placing eccentric loads at different locations resulted in dynamic tether tension variation; chaotic nature of tension variation is also observed in few cases. A detailed numerical analysis is carried out for BLSRP using Mathieu equation of stability. Increase in the magnitude of eccentric load and its position influences fatigue life of tethers significantly. Fatigue life decreases with the increase in the amplitude of tension variation in tethers. Very low fatigue life of tethers under Mathieu instability proves the severity of instability.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.77-82
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• 1999

Resistance spot welding process is completed in very short time and there are many factors affecting on the generation of heat. It is difficult to control these experimental factors and monitor distribution of the temperature and stresses in the experimental analysis case. and too much time and expense are required for the experimental trials to fine proper welding condition. So numerical analyses have been attempted steadily, but most numerical analyses on the resistance spot welding are mainly focused on thermal behavior. Therefore, in this paper, the numerical analysis of mechanical behavior as well as heat conduction is carried out for the spot welding process. For this numerical analysis, axial symmetric computer program for the spot welding analysis by F.E.M. has been developed considering heat conduction and thermal elastic-plastic theory. Material properties depending on temperature such as density, heat conductivity, heat expansion coefficient, specific heat, yield stress, elastic modulus, and specific resistance are considered. Using the results of temperature distribution obtained from heat conduction analysis, the thermal elastic-plastic analysis is carried out to clarify mechanical behavior of spot welded specimen. In order to evaluate the effect of residual stresses, numerical analyses are carried out under tension-shear load in two cases respectively; one with residual stress, the other without residual stresses.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.85-93
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• 2001

In this study, a computer program considering shape imperfections of arch under dynamic loading was developed. The shape imperfection of arch was assumed as higher degree polynomial expressed as $\omega$$_{i}$ = $\omega$$_{o}$ (1-(2$\chi$/L)$^{m}$ )$^n$and sinusoidal curve such as $\omega$$_{i}$ = $\omega$$_{o}$ sin(η$\pi$$\chi$/L). In finite element formulation, the material nonlinear behavior was assumed the elasto-viscoplastic model highly corresponding to the real behavior of the material and the geometrically nonlinear behavior was modeled using Lagrangian description of motion. Also, the behavior of steel was modeled by applying yield criteria of Von Mises. The developed program was applied to the analysis of the dynamic behavior for the clamped beam subjected to the concentrated load at midspan and the results were compared with those from other research to investigate accuracy of the presented finite element program. In numerical examples, the shape imperfections of L/500, L/1,000 and L/2,000 were considered and the modes of shape imperfections of the symmetric and antisymmetric were adopted. The effects of the shape imperfections on the dynamic behavior of arch were conspicuous and results of analysis indicate that the reasonable values of arch rise to arch span ratio ranged between 0.1 and 0.3.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.139-152
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• 1999

근래에 들어 구조물의 대형화에 따라 현장타설 말뚝을 하부 구조물로서 광범위하게 적용하고 있다. 그러나 현장타설 말뚝에 결함이 생기면 상부 하중에 대한 지지력 저하와 함께 침하량이 증가하게 되어 상부 구조물에 치명적인 손실을 초래할 수 있다. 따라서 비파괴시험 기법에 의한 콘크리트 말뚝의 효과적인 건전도 평가기법 개발이 중요하게 대두되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 수치해석을 통하여 콘크리트 말뚝의 건전도 평가에 이용되는 충격반향기법의 적용성을 검토하였다. 3차원 축대칭 유한요소법을 이용하여 건전한 말뚝과 현장타설 말뚝의 전형적인 결함인 병목, 공동, 불량 콘크리트를 포함하는 말뚝, 그리고 지반 및 암반위에 놓인 말뚝에 관한 해석을 수행하였다. 해석결과 현장타설 말뚝에 적용되는 충격반향기법의 적용성 평가에 있어서 유한요소법이 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.