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Structure Evaluation for the Level Luffing Crane' Boom (레벨 러핑 크레인 붐에 대한 구조설계의 건전성 평가)

  • Kim, Min-Saeng;Lee, Jae-Chul;Jeong, Suk-Yong;Ahn, Sung-Hoon;Son, Jee-Won;Cho, Kwang-Je;Song, Chul-Ki;Park, Sil-Ryong;Bae, Tae-Han
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.526-532
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    • 2008
  • Structure evaluation for 70/15 $T{\times}105\;m$ LLC(Level Luffing Crane)'s boom was conducted by Finite Element Method. Boom modeled with beam element was fixed by luff rope and boom mount and was received loads from self weight, luff hoisting, traveling motion, slewing motion, and wind force, etc. These applied loads were calculated using various factors presented in the reference standards and were inputted in the analysis model after considering about the adverse conditions of LLC. In the research, deformation, stresses, buckling of boom were evaluated by ANSYS. Structural safety of boom was confirmed in the results of numerical analysis.

EFFECT OF THE BOUNDARY CONDITION OF REDISTANCE EQUATION ON THE LEVEL SET SOLUTION OF SLOSHING PROBLEM (Redistance 방정식의 경계조건이 슬로싱 문제의 level set 해석에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, H.G.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.165-169
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    • 2009
  • The effect of the Dirichlet boundary condition for the redistance equation of level set method on the solutionof sloshing problem is investigated by adopting four Dirichlet boundary conditions. For the solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, P1P1 four-step fractional finite element method is employed and a least-square finite element method is used for the solutions of the two hyperbolic type equations of level set method; advection and redistance equation. ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian) method is used to deal with a moving computational domain. It has been shown that the free surface motion in a sloshing tank is strongly dependent on the type of the Dirichlet boundary condition and the results of broken dam and sloshing problems using various Dirichlet boundary conditions are discussed and compared with the existing experimental results.

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An Efficient Contact Detection Algorithm for Contact Problems with the Boundary Element Method (경계요소법을 이용한 접촉해석의 효율적인 접촉면 검출기법)

  • Kim, Moon-Kyum;Yun, Ik-Jung
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.439-444
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents an efficient contact detection algorithm for the plane elastostatic contact problem of the boundary element method(BEM). The data structures of the boundary element method are dissected to develop an efficient contact detection algorithm. This algorithm is consists of three parts as global searching, local searching and contact relation setting to reflect the corner node problem. Contact master and slave type elements are used in global searching step and quad-tree is selected as the spatial decomposition method in local searching step. To set up contact relation equations, global contact searching is conducted at node level and local searching is performed at element level. To verify the efficiency of the proposed contact detection algorithm of BEM, numerical example is presented.

Acoustic Characteristics Analysis of Cylindrical Array for the Directional and Omni-directional mode Using the Boundary Element Method (경계요소법을 이용한 원통형 배열센서의 지향성/무지향성 모드에 대한 음향특성해석)

  • Lee, Jung-Min;Seo, Hee-Seon;Cho, Yo-Han;Baek, Kwang-Ryul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.19 no.9
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    • pp.922-927
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    • 2009
  • The transducers used in active sonar on surface ships are packed in a specific geometry in the array drum in order to meet the requirements such as the source level, directional beam pattern, etc. This paper describes the acoustic characteristics of the cylindrical array which is based on a 64 vertical staves arrangement, each stave composed 5 independent transducers. Firstly, the single transducer on the rigid baffle in the water is analyzed with the Finite Element Method. From the result of the FE analysis nodal velocities on the radiation surface is calculated and used with the boundary conditions of the transducers mounted on the array drum. Then the acoustic pressure is calculated in the field points using the Boundary Element Method and the other acoustic informations, the source level, beam pattern, near field and far-field distance, were acquired.

Nonlinear seismic analysis of a super 13-element reinforced concrete beam-column joint model

  • Adom-Asamoah, Mark;Banahene, Jack Osei
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.905-924
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    • 2016
  • Several two-dimensional analytical beam column joint models with varying complexities have been proposed in quantifying joint flexibility during seismic vulnerability assessment of non-ductile reinforced concrete (RC) frames. Notable models are the single component rotational spring element and the super element joint model that can effectively capture the governing inelastic mechanisms under severe ground motions. Even though both models have been extensively calibrated and verified using quasi-static test of joint sub-assemblages, a comparative study of the inelastic seismic responses under nonlinear time history analysis (NTHA) of RC frames has not been thoroughly evaluated. This study employs three hypothetical case study RC frames subjected to increasing ground motion intensities to study their inherent variations. Results indicate that the super element joint model overestimates the transient drift ratio at the first story and becomes highly un-conservative by under-predicting the drift ratios at the roof level when compared to the single-component model and the conventional rigid joint assumption. In addition, between these story levels, a decline in the drift ratios is observed as the story level increased. However, from this limited study, there is no consistent evidence to suggest that care should be taken in selecting either a single or multi component joint model for seismic risk assessment of buildings when a global demand measure such as maximum inter-storey drift is employed in the seismic assessment framework.

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF LEVEL SET FORMULATION (유한요소법을 이용한 level set 공식화의 해석)

  • Choi, H.G.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.223-227
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    • 2009
  • In the present study, a least square weighted residual method and Taylor-Galerkin method were formulated and tested for the discretization of the two hyperbolic type equations of level set method; advection and reinitialization equations. The two approaches were compared by solving a time reversed vortex flow and three-dimensional broken dam flow by employing a four-step splitting finite element method for the solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. From the numerical experiments, it was shown that the least square method is more accurate and conservative than Taylor-Galerkin method and both methods are approximately first order accurate when both advection and reinitialization phase are involved in the evolution of free surface.

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STUDY ON THE DEFORMATION OF DROPLETS IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL CHANNEL FLOW (2차원 채널유동에서의 액적 변형에 대한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Jung, S.R.;Cho, M.H.;Choi, H.G.;Yoo, J.Y.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.6-9
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    • 2011
  • In this study, the two-phase incompressible flow in two-dimensional channel considering the effect of surface tension is simulated using an improved level-set method. Quadratic element is used for solving the continuity and Navier-Stokes equations to avoid using an additional pressure equation, and Crank-Nicholson scheme and linear element are used for solving the advection equation of the level set function. Direct approach method using geometric information is implemented instead of the hyperbolic-type partial differential equation for the reinitializing the level set function. The benchmark test case considers various arrays of defomable droplets under different flow conditions in straight channel. The deformation and migration of the droplets are computed and the results are compared very well with the existing studies.

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The Effect of Liquid Level on the Natural Frequencies of a Partially Liquid-Filled Circular Cylindrical Shell (유체로 채워진 원통형 쉘의 고유진동수에미치는 수위의 영향)

  • 정경훈;이성철
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 1995.04b
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    • pp.314-319
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    • 1995
  • The effect of liquid level on the natural frequencies and mode shapes of a partially liquid-filled circular cylindrical shell with various boundary conditions is investigated by means of a theoretical analysis based upon Fourier series expansion method and a finite element analysis using ANSYS computer program. Two dimensional mode shapes of the liquid-coupled shell structure are obtained by the ANSYS finite element analysis and show that the liquid level affect the nodal point movement. It is found that the variation of normalized naturalfrequencies (natural frequencies of liquid-filled shell/antural frequencies ofempty shell) to the liquid level is depend on the axial mode numbers and circumferential wave numbers. Additionally, it is found that the number of variational steps of normalized natural frequencies is identicial to that of axial nodal points of the mode shape.

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Multi-Objective Optimization of Multistory Shear Building Under Seismic Loads (지진하중을 받는 다층 뼈대구조물의 다목적 최적설계)

  • 조효남;민대홍;정봉교
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.255-262
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, an improved multi-objective optimmum design method is proposed. And it is applied to steel frames under seismic loads. The multi-objective optimization problem is formulated with three optimality criteria, namely, minimum structural weight and maximum strain energy and stability. The Pareto curve can be obtained by performing the multi-objective optimization for multistory shear buildings. In order to efficiently solve the multi-objective optimization problem the decomposition method that separates both system-level and element-level is used. In addition, various techniques such as effective reanalysis technique with respect to intermediate variables and sensitivity analysis using an automatic differentiation (AD) we incorporated. Moreover, the relationship function among section properties induced from the profile is used in order to link system-level and element level. From the results of numerical investigation, it may be stated that the proposed method will lead to the more rational design compared with the conventional one.

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Compaction of Aggregated Ceramic Powders, Discrete Element and Finite Element Simulations

  • Pizette, P.;Martin, C. L.;Delette, G.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute Conference
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    • 2006.09a
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    • pp.187-188
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    • 2006
  • In contrast with the Finite Element Method, the Discrete Element Method (DEM) takes explicitly into account the particulate nature of powders. DEM exhibits some drawbacks and many advantages. Simulations can be computationally expensive and they are only able to represent a volume element. However, these simulations have the great advantage of providing a wealth of information at the microstructural level. Here we demonstrate that the method is well suited for modelling, in coordination with FEM, the compaction of ceramic $UO_2$ particles that have been aggregated. Aggregates of individual ceramic crystallites that are strongly bonded together are represented by porous spheres.

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