• Wind and Structures
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.291-302
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• 2000

A new finite element technique to solve the problem of wind and structure interactions is presented. Conventionally, wind analysis is performed on the Eulerian description in which the finite element mesh would not move in accordance with the wind flow. However, it is not the case in wind-structure interaction problems because nodes attached to the surface of structure should move with the displacement of structure. The arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method treats the mesh and flow independently, and allow the mesh to move. In this study, the analysis domain is divided into regions of the structure, air around the structure and the interface of two regions. To satisfy the compatibility and equilibrium conditions between separated regions and to carry out the efficient analysis, the rigid link is used. Also the equation of wind and that of structure are arranged in a single matrix equation.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2000년도 추계학술대회논문집A
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• pp.475-480
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• 2000

The transient dynamic-response analysis of fuel-storage tanks of flying vehicles accelerating in the vertical direction is achieved with finite element method. A fuel-storage tank is a representative example of the fluid-structure interaction problem, in which structure and fluid media interact strongly. For the accurate analysis of this complicated fluid-structure system, we employed ALE(arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian) coupling method. Two types of fuel-storage tanks, one with two baffles and the other without baffle, are considered to examine the effect of baffles. The fuel-storage tank with baffles shows more uniform hydrodynamic pressure distribution, resulting effective stress in structural region and faster convergence from transient to steady states. MSC/Dytran, a commercial FEM software for the 3D coupled dynamic analysis, is used for this analysis.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.552-559
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• 2011

An interest in Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) finite element methods has been increased due to more accurate responses in Fluid-Structure Interaction(FSI) problems. The multi-material ALE approach was applied to the prediction of the acceleration response of free-fall lifeboat, and its responses were compared to those of the single-material ALE one. It could be found that even though there was no big difference in the simulation responses of two methods, the single-material and multi-material ALE ones, the latter multi-material ALE method showed a little bit more close response to those of experimental results compared to the former single-material ALE one, especially in the x- and z-direction acceleration responses. Through this study, it could be found that several parameters in the ALE algorithms have to be examined more carefully for a good structural safety assessment of FSI problems.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.333-342
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• 2022

경험식에 기반한 폭발 해석방법은 폭압-시간 이력곡선을 하중으로 적용하여 해석하는 방법이다. 이 방법은 모델링이 간단하고 해석시간이 짧아 효율적이지만, 일부 연구에 따르면 근거리 폭발 해석에는 적합하지 않음이 보고되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 예로써 환산거리 0.4~1.0의 근거리 폭발조건에 있는 RC 보에 대해 해석방법에 따른 결과의 차이 및 원인을 분석하였고, 이를 통해 경험식 방법을 이용한 해석의 적용 범위를 구체적으로 검토 및 확인할 수 있었다. 사용된 유한요소해석 프로그램은 LS-DYNA이다. 해석결과에 따르면, 원거리 폭발 실험 데이터를 근거로 하는 경험식 해석방법은 충격량을 과소평가하고 있었다. 이로 인해 RC 보의 처짐은 측정된 처짐 또는 ALE(Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian) 해석결과에 비해 작게 계산되었다. 구조체의 응답이 크게 나타나는 근거리 폭발에 대해서는 ALE 해석방법을 사용하는 것이 더 적합할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.77-86
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• 2003

비행체의 선회운동 시 액체연료 저장탱크의 동응답을 ALE(arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian) 유한요소법을 이용하여 해석하였다. 연료탱크는 선회운동 시 내부 연료의 관성력에 의해 상당한 양의 충격하중을 받게 된다. 또한 이로 인해 유발된 큰 동 하중과 모멘트는 구조물의 안정성과 제어시스템에 영향을 미친다. 본 논문에서는 내부연료의 동적 영향력을 억제하기 위하여 링형배플을 채용하였다. 배플개수와 배플위치에 따른 연료탱크의 파라메트릭 해석을 통하여 연료탱크의 동응답 특성에 미치는 배플의 영향을 분석하였다. 유체와 구조물 사이의 연계는 ALE 유한요소법을 통하여 정확하고 효과적으로 처리되었다.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.137-152
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• 2016

This paper studied the dynamic response of a new gasbag-type floating bridge under the effect of a moving load. The arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method was used to simulate the movement of seawater and air, and the penalty-based method was used to study the coupling between gasbags and fluid. A three-dimensional finite element model of the floating bridge was established, and the numerical model was verified by comparing with the experimental results. In order to prevent resonance, the natural frequencies and flexural mode shapes were analyzed. Based on the initial state analysis, the dynamic responses of the floating bridge subjected to different moving loads were investigated. Vertical displacements and radial deformations of gasbags under different loads were compared, and principal stress distributions of gasbags were researched while driving. The hinge forces between adjacent modules were calculated to ensure the connection strength. Besides, the floating bridge under wave impacting was analyzed. Those results can provide references for the analysis and design of this new floating bridge.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.653-670
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• 2002

In order to ensure the structural dynamic stability of moving liquid-storage containers, the flow motion of interior liquid should be appropriately suppressed by means of mechanical devices such as the disc-type elastic baffle. In practice, the design of a suitable baffle requires a priori the parametric dynamic characteristics of storage containers, with respect to the design parameters of baffle, such as the installation location and inner-hole size, the baffle number, and so on. In this paper, we intend to investigate the parametric effect of the baffle parameters on the transient dynamic behavior of a cylindrical fuel-storage tank in an abrupt vertical acceleration motion. For this goal, we employ the ALE (arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian) kinematic description method incorporated with the finite element method.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회B
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• pp.2410-2414
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• 2008

Human heart valves diseased by congenital heart defects, rheumatic fever, bacterial infection, cancer may cause stenosis or insufficiency in the valves. Treatment may be with medication but often involves valve repair or replacement (insertion of an artificial heart valve). Bileaflet mechanical heart valves (BMHVs) are widely implanted to replace the diseased heart valves, but still suffer from complications such as hemolysis, platelet activation, tissue overgrowth and device failure. These complications are closely related to both flow characteristics through the valves and leaflet dynamics. In this study, the physiological flow interacting with the moving leaflets in a bileaflet mechanical heart valve (BMHV) is simulated with a strongly coupled implicit fluid-structure interaction (FSI) method which is newly organized based on the Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approach and the dynamic mesh method (remeshing) in FLUENT. The simulated results are in good agreement with previous experimental studies. This study shows the applicability of the present FSI model to the complicated physics interacting between fluid flow and moving boundary.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.918-923
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• 2018

항공기용 연료탱크는 평상시에는 연료저장 등의 단순한 기능을 한다. 그러나, 항공기 추락과 같은 긴급 상황에서는 연료탱크 구조건전성은 승무원의 생존과 직결되므로, 관련 성능의 보유 여부를 충돌충격시험을 통해 입증하도록 규정되어 있다. 충돌충격시험은 높은 충격하중으로 실패 위험이 높기 때문에 설계 초기 실물시험에서의 시행착오 가능성을 최소화하기 위한 노력이 진행되어 왔다. 실제 시험 전에 수행하는 수치해석도 그러한 노력의 일환이다. 하지만, 수치해석 결과가 설계에 반영되기 위해서는 수치해석의 신뢰성 확보가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 회전익항공기 연료탱크의 충돌충격시험 수치해석의 신뢰성 확보를 위해 수치해석 결과와 시험 데이타 간의 비교를 수행하였다. 수치해석은 충돌전용 소프트웨어인 LS-DYNA을 사용하였고, 해석방법은 유체-구조연성해석 방법 중 ALE(arbitary lagrangian eulerian) 방법을 적용하였다. 시험데이터 확보를 위해 연료탱크 금속 피팅부에 변형률게이지를 설치하고 데이터 획득장비와 연동시켰다. 수치해석 결과로써 연료탱크 피팅부의 변형률과 응력을 계산하였다. 그리고, 실물 연료탱크로 수행한 충돌충격시험을 통하여 확보한 상부피팅의 변형률 측정값과 수치해석으로 계산된 변형률과의 오차를 평가함으로써 수치해석의 신뢰성을 제고하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.442-447
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• 2008

This paper presents a new approach to simulate fluid-solid interaction problems involving non-matching interfaces. The coupling between fluid and solid domains with dissimilar finite element meshes consisting of 4-node quadrilateral elements is achieved by using the interface element method (IEM). Conditions of compatibility between fluid and solid meshes are satisfied exactly by introducing the interface elements defined on interfacing regions. Importantly, a consistent transfer of loads through matching interface element meshes guarantees the present method to be an efficient approach of the solution strategy to fluid-solid interaction problems. An arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) description is adopted for the fluid domain, while for the solid domain an updated Lagrangian formulation is considered to accommodate finite deformations of an elastic structure. The stabilized equal order velocity-pressure elements for incompressible flows are used in the motion of fluids. Fully coupled equations are solved simultaneously in a single computational domain. Numerical results are presented for fluid-solid interaction problems involving nonmatching interfaces to demonstrate the effectiveness of the methodology.