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A WFE and hybrid FE/WFE technique for the forced response of stiffened cylinders

  • Errico, Fabrizio;Ichchou, M.;De Rosa, S.;Bareille, O.;Franco, F.
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.1-19
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    • 2018
  • The present work shows many aspects concerning the use of a numerical wave-based methodology for the computation of the structural response of periodic structures, focusing on cylinders. Taking into account the periodicity of the system, the Bloch-Floquet theorem can be applied leading to an eigenvalue problem, whose solutions are the waves propagation constants and wavemodes of the periodic structure. Two different approaches are presented, instead, for computing the forced response of stiffened structures. The first one, dealing with a Wave Finite Element (WFE) methodology, proved to drastically reduce the problem size in terms of degrees of freedom, with respect to more mature techniques such as the classic FEM. The other approach presented enables the use of the previous technique even when the whole structure can not be considered as periodic. This is the case when two waveguides are connected through one or more joints and/or different waveguides are connected each other. Any approach presented can deal with deterministic excitations and responses in any point. The results show a good agreement with FEM full models. The drastic reduction of DoF (degrees of freedom) is evident, even more when the number of repetitive substructures is high and the substructures itself is modelled in order to get the lowest number of DoF at the boundaries.

Prediction of the Maximum Strain of Circular Concrete Columns Confined with Fiber Composites (섬유에 의하여 구속된 원형 콘크리트 기둥의 최대변형률 예측)

  • Lee, Jung-Yoon;Jeong, Hoon-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.726-736
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    • 2003
  • Concrete columns confined with high-strength fiber composites can enhance its strength as well as maximum strain. In recent years, several equations have been developed to predict the behavior of the concrete columns confined with fiber composites. While the developed equations can predict the compressive strength of the confined columns with reasonable agreement, these equations are not successful in predicting the observed maximum strain of the columns. In this paper, a total of 61 test results is analysed to propose an equation to predict both compressive strength and maximum strain of concrete cylinders. The proposed equation takes into account the effects of confining pressure and cylinder size. Furthermore, in order to verify the proposed stress-strain curve for concrete cylinders, six cylindrical specimens were tested. Comparisons between the observed and calculated stress-strain curves of the tested cylinders showed reasonable agreement.

Development of wet-sampler for collection and fractionation of micron-sized particles (마이크로 입자의 습식 수집 및 분획 장치 개발)

  • Eum, Chul-Hun;Kang, Dong-Young;Lee, Seung-Ho
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.429-434
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    • 2011
  • In this study, a wet-sampler was developed for collection in water and simultaneous fractionation of micron-sized particles (e.g., pigment, airborne, etc.). In this new device, three cylinders (partially filled with water) through which air was forced to pass for sample collection are connected in a series. Particles of different sizes are collected in different cylinders, allowing simultaneous fractionation. An uniqueness of this new device is that it does not use any membrane filter. Microparticles are collected directly in cylinders filled partially with water. Also the particles are simultaneously fractionated within this device while they are being collected. The new device was employed for collection of airborne particles. The collected airborne particles were fractionated by using sedimentation field-flow fractionation, SdFFF), and observed with an optical microscopy (OM) for size and shape analysis. Also AAS and ICP-AES were used for composition analysis of the airborne particles. It is expected that the new device is applicable to collection and analysis of size distribution of various types of microparticles.

Experimental Study on the Ultimate Strength of Composite Cylinders under Hydrostatic Pressure (수압을 받는 복합재 원통의 최종강도 실험 연구)

  • Cho, Sang-Rai;Koo, Jeong-Bon;Cho, Jong-Rae;Kwon, Jin-Hwe;Choi, Jin-Ho;Kim, Hyun-Su
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.21 no.3 s.76
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    • pp.52-57
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    • 2007
  • Composite material is one of the strongest candidates for deep see pressure hulls. Research regarding composite cylinders, subjected to hydrostatic pressure, has been ongoing for a couple of decades, abroad, but domestic research is very new. Experimental investigations seem necessary, in order to understand their structural behavior not only up to the ultimate limit state, but in the post-ultimate regime. That experimental information will be very helpful in the development of any theoretical methods or to substantiate any commercial numerical packages for structural analyses. In this study, ultimate strength tests on seven composite cylinders subjected to hydrostatic pressure are reported, which includes the fabrication method of models, mechanical properties of the material, initial shape imperfection measurements, test procedure, and strain and axial shortening measurements during the tests. The ultimate strengths of the models were compared with predictions of numerical analyses. The numerical predictions are higher than the test results. It seems necessary to improve the accuracy of the numerical predictions by considering the initial shape and material imperfections.

A Numerical Simulation of Wave Run-up Around Circular Cylinders in Waves (파랑중 원형 실린더 주위 Wave Run-up 시뮬레이션)

  • Cha, Kyung-Jung;Jung, Jae-Hwan;Seo, Kwang-Cheol;Koo, Bon-Guk
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.750-757
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    • 2016
  • This study presents the wave run-up height around single and multiple surface-piercing cylinders according to wave period and steepness. In order to simulate 3D incompressible viscous two-phase turbulent flow, the present study employed a volume of fluid (VOF) method with realizable $k-{\varepsilon}$ turbulence model based on commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software, "STAR-CCM". The wave periods at model scale were 1.269s and 1.692s for a single cylinder and 1.716s for multiple cylinders. In each case, wave steepness of has 1/30 and 1/16 were used, respectively. Consequently, the results for wave run-up height with regard to wave steepness and period were compared with those of relevant previous experimental studies. The numerical simulation results showed a good qualitative agreement with experiments.