• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.481-501
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• 2023

Over-coating is one of the most popular engineering practices to strengthen Reinforced Concrete (RC) structures, due to the relative quickness and ease of construction. It consists of an external coat bonded to the outer surface of the structural RC element, either by the use of chemical adhesives, mechanical anchor bolts or simply mortar injection. In contrast to these constructive advantages, the numerical estimation of the bearing capacity of the strengthened reinforced concrete element is still complicated, not only for the complexity of modelling a flexible membrane or plate attached to a quasi-rigid solid, but also for the difficulties that raise of simulating any potential delamination between both materials. For these reasons, the standard engineering calculations used in the practice remain very approximated and clumsy. In this work, we propose the formulation of a new 2D solid-layer finite element capable to link a solid body with a flexible thin layer, as it were the "skin" of the body, allowing the potential delamination between both materials. In numerical terms, this "skin" element is intended to work as a transitional region between a solid body (modelled with a classical formulation of a standard quadrilateral four-nodes element) and a flexible coat layer (modelled with cubic beam element), dealing with the incompatibility of Degrees-OfFreedom between them (two DOF for the solid and three DOF for the beam). The aim of the solid-layer element is to simplify the mesh construction of the strengthened RC element being aware of two aspects: a) to prevent the inappropriate use of very small solid elements to simulate the coat; b) to improve the numerical estimation of the real bearing capacity of the strengthened element when the coat is attached or detached from the solid body.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.191-199
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 피에조콘 시험의 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 점탄소성 bounding surface 모델, 가상일의 방정식(virtual work equation) 및 theory of mixtures를 Updated Lagrangian reference frame에서 formulation하였다. 결과적으로 구성된 유한요소 formulation을 컴퓨터 프로그래밍 하였으며 유한요소해석에서 얻은 콘 저항치, 과잉간극수압 및 간극수압소산 등의 결과를 실험치와 비교 분석하였으며 피에조콘 주변의 응력, 변형율 및 과잉간극수압의 contour를 유한요소해석에서 구하여 이를 고찰하였다. 비등방성 및 점성이 추가된 구성모델을 사용함으로서 응력의 비등방성 및 관입속도를 효과적으로 simulation할 수 있었다. 유한요소 Formulation 과정은 'I' 결과는 'II'에서 설명된다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 1992년도 추계학술대회논문집; 반도아카데미, 20 Nov. 1992
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• pp.117-123
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• 1992

In recent years, the finite element method has become one of the most popular numerical technique for obtaining solutions of engineering science problems. However, there exist various uncertainties in modeling the problems, such as the dimensions(geometry shape), the material properties, boundary conditions, etc. The consideration for the uncertainties inherent in the problems can be made by understanding the influences of uncertain parameters[1]. Determining the influences of uncertainties as statistical quantities using the standard finite element method requires enormous computing time, while the probabilistic finite element method is realized as an efficient scheme[2,3] yielding statistical solution with just a few direct computations. In this paper, a formulation of the probabilistic fluid-structure interaction problem accounting for the first order perturbation of geometric shape is derived, and especially probabilistical acoustic pressure scattering from the structure with surrounding fluid is focused on. In Section 2, governing equations for the fluid-structure problems are given. In Section 3, a finite element formulation, based on the functional, is presented. First order perturbation of geometric shape with randomness is incorporated into the finite element formulation in conjunction with discretization of the random fields in Section 4 and 5. Finally, the proposed formulation is applied to a acoustic pressure scattering problem from an infinitely long cylindrical shell structure with randomness of radial perturbation.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.125-143
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• 2014

This paper provides a new technique for solving the static analysis of arbitrarily shaped composite plates by using Strong Formulation Finite Element Method (SFEM). Several papers in literature by the authors have presented the proposed technique as an extension of the classic Generalized Differential Quadrature (GDQ) procedure. The present methodology joins the high accuracy of the strong formulation with the versatility of the well-known Finite Element Method (FEM). The continuity conditions among the elements is carried out by the compatibility or continuity conditions. The mapping technique is used to transform both the governing differential equations and the compatibility conditions between two adjacent sub-domains into the regular master element in the computational space. The numerical implementation of the global algebraic system obtained by the technique at issue is easy and straightforward. The main novelty of this paper is the application of the stress and strain recovery once the displacement parameters are evaluated. Computer investigations concerning a large number of composite plates have been carried out. SFEM results are compared with those presented in literature and a perfect agreement is observed.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.579-596
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• 2016

This paper describes a method of the refined plastic hinge approach in the framework of the higher-order element formulation that can efficaciously evaluate the limit state capacity of a whole reinforced concrete structural system using least number of element(s), whereas the traditional design of a reinforced concrete structure (i.e. AS3600; Eurocode 2) is member-based approach. Hence, in regard to the material nonlinearities, the efficient and economical cross-section analysis is provided to evaluate the element section capacity of non-uniform and arbitrary concrete section subjected to the interaction effects, which is helpful to formulate the refined plastic hinge method. In regard to the geometric nonlinearities, this paper relies on the higher-order element formulation with element load effect. Eventually, the load redistribution can be considered and make full use of the strength reserved owing to the redundancy of an indeterminate structure. And it is particularly true for the performance-based design of a structure under the extreme loads, while the uncertainty of the extreme load is great that the true behaviour of a whole structural system is important for the economical design approach, which is great superiority over the conservative optimal strength of an individual and isolated member based on traditional design (i.e. AS3600; Eurocode 2).

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2004년도 학술대회지
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• pp.216-221
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• 2004

In two dimensional incompressible flaws, a preconditioning technique called Hierarchical Iterative Procedure(HIP) has been implemented on a SUPG finite element formulation. By using the SUPG formulation, one can escape from the LBB constraint and hence achieve an equal order formulation. In this paper, we increased the order of interpolation up to cubic. The conjugate gradient squared(CGS) method is used for the outer iteration, and the HIP for the preconditioning for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation. The hierarchical elements has been used to achieve a higher order accuracy in fluid flaw analyses, but a proper efficient iterative procedure for higher order finite element formulation has not been available so far. The numerical results by the present HIP for the lid driven cavity flaw showed the present procedure to be stable, very efficient and useful in flaw analyses in conjunction with hierarchical elements.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2003

In two-dimensional incompressible flows, a preconditioning technique called Hierarchical Iterative Procedure (HIP) has been implemented on a SUPG finite element formulation. By using the SUPG formulation, one can escape from the LBB constraint hence, achieving an equal order formulation. In this paper, we increased the order of interpolation up to cubic. The conjugate gradient squared (CGS) method is used for the outer iteration, and the HIP for the preconditioning for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation. The hierarchical elements have been used to achieve a higher order accuracy in fluid flow analyses, but a proper and efficient iterative procedure for higher order finite element formulation has not been available, thus far. The numerical results by the present HIP for the lid driven cavity flow showed the present procedure to be stable, very efficient, and useful in flow analyses, in conjunction with hierarchical elements.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.369-375
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• 2010

The two-dimensional finite element formulation for the basic field equations governing electrochemical responses of ionic conducting polymer-metal composite(IPMC) actuators is proposed in the present study. Biaxial deformation of a platinum plated Nafion actuator having 4 electrodes is dominated by electro-osmosis of hydrated ions and self-diffusion of free water molecules. Some numerical studies for IPMC actuators with electric field are carried out in order to show the validity of the proposed formulation and electric field analysis for the initial condition of total charge distribution are conducted using commercial code ANSYS/Emag.

• Composites Research
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.117-125
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 복합소재 적층 구조물의 열-기계적 거동을 효과적으로 예측할 수 있는 8절점 판 요소 기반 전산해석 기법을 제안하고자 한다. 횡방향 수직 변형이 고려된 개선된 일차전단변형이론을 바탕으로 유한요소 정식화를 수행하였으며, 독립적으로 가정되는 변위장 및 응력장 사이의 타당한 수학적 관계식을 도출함으로써 해석 결과의 정확도와 계산 과정의 효율성을 동시에 향상시키고자 하였다. 또한, 횡 방향 변위장의 개선을 통해 횡 방향 수직 변형을 효과적으로 고려함으로써, 복합소재 적층 구조물의 열적 거동 예측 과정에서의 신뢰성을 확보하고자 하였다. 수치 예제로써 열-기계 하중을 받는 2차원 복합소재 적층평판을 고려하였으며, 3차원 탄성해 및 참고문헌에서 활용 가능한 해석 결과와의 비교, 검토를 통해 제안된 유한요소 해석 기법의 성능을 검증하였다.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.267-285
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• 2014

An upstream scheme based on the pseudostress-velocity mixed formulation is studied to solve convection-dominated Oseen equations. Lagrange multipliers are introduced to treat the trace-free constraint and the lowest order Raviart-Thomas finite element space on rectangular mesh is used. Error analysis for several quantities of interest is given. Particularly, first-order convergence in $L^2$ norm for the velocity is proved. Finally, numerical experiments for various cases are presented to show the efficiency of this method.