• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.34-41
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• 2020

Ready-mixed concrete is unconsolidated concrete typically transported to construction sites by using mixer trucks. A proper rotation of concrete is necessary to prevent its solidification in mixer trucks during transport: in accordance with the manufacturing method and quality inspection prescribed in KSF4009, this movement is maintained after the manufacturing of concrete in professional production plants and the addition of water, solid materials, and admixtures. Unfortunately, mixer truck parts wear out over long periods of time. In order to improve the wear resistance of the main part of mixer trucks, we used a steel plate with good wear resistance or partially added a reinforcement plate. In this study, we first tested the properties of concrete (as required for the DEM), and then carried out mixing and discharge simulations to define the actual operating conditions of mixer trucks. For each condition, we calculated the amount and location of wear. The reliability of our results was finally verified by comparing them with the measurement values. Overall, this study provided basic data for an optimal design of mixer trucks: one that would reduce the vehicles' weight and production costs.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.313-330
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• 2021

In this study, the dynamic interaction between an Arctic Spar and drifting level ice is examined in time domain using the newly developed ice-hull-mooring coupled dynamics program. The in-house program, CHARM3D, which is the hull-riser-mooring coupled dynamic simulator is extended by coupling with the open-source discrete element method (DEM) simulator, LIGGGHTS. In the LIGGGHTS module, the parallel-bonding method is implemented to model the level ice using an assembly of multiple bonded spherical particles. As a case study, a spread-moored Artic Spar platform, whose hull surface near waterline is the inverted conical shape, is chosen. To determine the breaking-related DEM parameter (the critical bonding strength), the four-point numerical bending test is used. A series of numerical simulations is systematically performed under the various ice conditions including ice drift velocity, flexural strength, and thickness. Then, the effects of these parameters on the ice force, platform motions, and mooring tensions are discussed. The simulations reveal various features of dynamic interactions between the drifting ice and moored platform for various ice conditions including the novel synchronous resonance at low ice speed. The newly developed simulator is promising and can repeatedly be used for the future design and analysis including ice-floater-mooring coupled dynamics.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제25권12호
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• pp.119-130
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• 2009

흙의 변형을 측정하기 위해 적용되는 이미지 해석 기법으로는 Particle Image Velocimetry(PIV)와 Digital Image Correlation(DIC)가 있으며, 이 기법들이 더욱 널리 활용되기 위해서는 각 기법에 따라 다양한 조건에서 정밀도를 평가하는 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 이미지 해상도, 변위 및 변형 정도, 픽셀 집합의 크기 및 해석 기법의 다양한 요소를 고려하여 사질토의 변형을 관찰하기에 적합한 최적의 이미지 해석 기법을 제시하고자 한다. 개별요소법(DEM)을 이용하여 구성된 가상의 사질토 이미지를 활용하여 이미지 해석을 행하고 변위를 산정한 후, 개별 요소법의 변위와 비교하였다. 각 영향 요소들이 정확도에 미치는 영향을 분석하였고, 변위 및 변형 정도에 따라 최적의 이미지 해석조건을 제시할 수 있었다.

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2004

The computation of viscoelastic flow using neural networks and stochastic simulation (CVFNNSS) is developed from the point of view of Eulerian CONNFFESSIT (calculation of non-Newtonian flows: finite elements and stochastic simulation techniques). The present method is based on the combination of radial basis function networks (RBFNs) and Brownian configuration fields (BCFs) where the stress is computed from an ensemble of continuous configuration fields instead of convecting discrete particles, and the velocity field is determined by solving the conservation equations for mass and momentum with a finite point method based on RBFNs. The method does not require any kind of element-type discretisation of the analysis domain. The method is verified and its capability is demonstrated with the start-up planar Couette flow, the Poiseuille flow and the lid driven cavity flow of Hookean and FENE model materials.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.334-341
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• 2004

In this study, a remeshing algorithm adapted to the mesh density map using the Delaunay mesh generation method is developed. In the finite element simulation of forging process, the numerical error increases as the process goes on because of discrete property of the finite elements and distortion of elements. Especially, in the region where stresses and strains are concentrated, the numerical error will be highly increased. However, it is not desirable to use a uniformly fine mesh in the whole domain. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the analysis error by constructing locally refined mesh at the region where the error is concentrated such as at the die corner. In this paper, the point insertion algorithm is used and the mesh size is controlled by using a mesh density map constructed with a posteriori error estimation. An optimized smoothing technique is adopted to have smooth distribution of the mesh and improve the mesh element quality.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.22-27
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• 2013

A shot blasting process is to improve the surface quality of stainless steels. The process is similar to a well-known shot peening that is used to strengthen the surface via the residual stress. In the shot blasting process, it is important to decide many parameters, such as the size, incident angle and velocity of shot balls, to effectively get rid of the iron oxide on the surface of stainless steels. In this study, the simulation of the shot blasting process is carried out by a finite element software, which can help to find out the optimal design parameters to cause the delamination of the iron oxide from the stainless steel substrate. The results obtained are also compared to those of the discrete element method to verify them.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2007

본 연구는 지진운동의 영향 하에서 강제 모멘트 골조로 이루어진 post-Northridge 연결부를 갖는 보의 탄성 및 비탄성 거동을 모델하기 위한 부등단면 보 요소를 제시한다. 단면감소 연결부를 갖는 부등단면 보의 탄성강성 행렬은 수치적분이 필요치 많은 수식으로 표현된다. 소성모델은 분포형이며 강체링크로 연결된 일련의 비선형 힌지로 구성 되어있고 경화법칙은 단조 및 임의 주기 하중에 대한 비탄성 거동과 국부좌굴의 효과를 고려할 수 있다. 모델의 대조와 검증은 동반논문에 제시되어있다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2008

기능경사 소재(FGM)에는 서로 다른 두 가지 구성입자들이 혼합되어 있는 경사층(graded layer)이 삽입되어, 소재 전 영역에 걸쳐 구성입자의 체적분율이 연속적이고 기능적으로 변화하도록 되어있다. 이러한 이상(dual-phase) 입자복합재의 열 기계적 거동을 해석함에 있어 필수적인 경사층의 물성치는 전통적으로 균질화 기법을 이용하여 예측되었다. 하지만, 이러한 균질화 기법은 구성입자의 형태, 분산구조 등과 같은 상세 형상을 반영하지 못하지 때문에 복합재의 총체적인 등가 물성치 예측에만 국한 되어왔다. 이러한 맥락에서 본 연구에서는 경사층을 미시역학적으로 이산화 모델링하고, 다양한 체적분율과 외부 하중조건에 대해 유한요소해석을 실시하여 이러한 균질화 기법들의 특성을 분석하였다.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제15권1_2호
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• pp.29-51
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new mixed finite element method, called the characteristics-mixed method, for approximating the solution to Burgers' equation. This method is based upon a space-time variational form of Burgers' equation. The hyperbolic part of the equation is approximated along the characteristics in time and the diffusion part is approximated by a mixed finite element method of lowest order. The scheme is locally conservative since fluid is transported along the approximate characteristics on the discrete level and the test function can be piecewise constant. Our analysis show the new method approximate the scalar unknown and the vector flux optimally and simultaneously. We also show this scheme has much smaller time-truncation errors than those of standard methods. Numerical example is presented to show that the new scheme is easily implemented, shocks and boundary layers are handled with almost no oscillations. One of the contributions of the paper is to show how the optimal error estimates in $L^2(\Omega)$ are obtained which are much more difficult than in the standard finite element methods. These results seem to be new in the literature of finite element methods.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.496-507
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• 2020

EPB TBM의 굴진성능 예측은 터널 시공성 향상을 위해 매우 중요하며, 따라서 현재까지 TBM 굴진을 수치 해석적으로 모사하기 위한 다양한 시도들이 이루어져 왔다. 본 논문에서는 EPB TBM의 운전조건에 따른 굴진성능을 평가하기 위해 개별요소법(DEM, discrete element method)과 유한차분법(FDM, finite difference method)을 연계한 수치해석 모델을 사용하여 운전조건을 변경해가며 매개변수 해석을 수행하였다. 해석은 커터헤드의 회전속도를 2 rpm으로 일정하게 유지한 상태에서 굴진속도를 0.5, 1.0 mm/sec, 스크류 컨베이어의 회전속도를 5, 15, 25 rpm으로 조건을 변경해가며 수행되었다. 운전조건의 변화에 따라 측정되는 토크, 추력, 챔버압, 배토량을 비교하였으며 매개변수 해석 결과를 통해 개별요소법-유한차분법 연계 TBM 굴진해석 모델을 사용하여 최적 TBM 운전조건을 예측할 수 있음을 나타냈다.