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Investigation of two parallel lengthwise cracks in an inhomogeneous beam of varying thickness

  • Rizov, Victor I.
    • Coupled systems mechanics
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.381-396
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    • 2020
  • Analytical investigation of the fracture of inhomogeneous beam with two parallel lengthwise cracks is performed. The thickness of the beam varies continuously along the beam length. The beam is loaded in three-point bending. Two beam configurations with different lengths of the cracks are analyzed. The two cracks are located arbitrary along the thickness of the beam. Solutions to the strain energy release rate are derived assuming that the material has non-linear elastic mechanical behavior. Besides, the beam exhibits continuous material inhomogeneity along its thickness. The balance of the energy is analyzed in order to derive the strain energy release rate. Verifications of the solutions are carried-out by considering the complementary strain energy stored in the beam configurations. The influence of the continuous variation of the thickness along the beam length on the lengthwise fracture behavior is investigated. The dependence of the lengthwise fracture on the lengths of the two parallel cracks is also studied.

Research of Foresight Knowledge by CMAC based Q-learning in Inhomogeneous Multi-Agent System

  • Hoshino, Yukinobu;Sakakura, Akira;Kamei, Katsuari
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 2003.09a
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    • pp.280-283
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    • 2003
  • A purpose of our research is an acquisition of cooperative behaviors in inhomogeneous multi-agent system. In this research, we used the fire panic problem as an experiment environment. In Fire panic problem a fire exists in the environment, and follows in each steps of agent's behavior, and this fire spreads within the constant law. The purpose of the agent is to reach the goal established without touching the fire, which exists in the environment. The fire heat up by a few steps, which exists in the environment. The fire has unsureness to the agent. The agent has to avoid a fire, which is spreading in environment. The acquisition of the behavior to reach it to the goal is required. In this paper, we observe how agents escape from the fire cooperating with other agents. For this problem, we propose a unique CMAC based Q-learning system for inhomogeneous multi-agent system.

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Electromagnetic Scattering Analysis from Inhomogeneous Material Scatterers (불균질 매질내에서의 전자파 산란 해석)

  • 김태용;김석재
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.478-484
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    • 2003
  • The electromagnetic wave scattering problems from inhomogeneous material bodies are considered. The formulation is made in terms of mixed potentials for the moment methods (MoM). The surfaces of a three-dimensional inhomogeneous scatterer of arbitrary shape are divide into triangular patches for descretization. Application of the boundary conditions leads to the coupled surface integral equations to be satisfied for the unknown surface equivalent electric and magnetic currents. The radar cross-section (RCS) for some structures is computed and the results are compared with the reported data.

Evaluation of Inhomogeneous Deformation and Stress Concentration In Polymer Composites Injection Weld by means of Thermoelastic Techniques

  • Lim, Jae-Kyoo;Kim, Yon-Jig
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.12
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    • pp.1616-1622
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    • 2001
  • Fiber composite materials are widely used in aerospace industries due to their high specific strength and stiffness. Especially, the increasing use of polymer composite materials for injection of automobile components has led to a considerable interest in the application of stress pattern analysis by thermal emission to these composite materials. Therefore, in this study the microstructure of glass fiber orientation at the parent and weld line of polycarbonate is observed by a light transmission. And we also investigate a stress concentration model of a notch including short glass fibers. Especially the polymer injection weld reorients the fiber to suggest a new method for the evaluation of inhomogeneous deformation.

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STEADY-STATE TEMPERATURE ANALYSIS TO 2D ELASTICITY AND THERMO-ELASTICITY PROBLEMS FOR INHOMOGENEOUS SOLIDS IN HALF-PLANE

  • GHADLE, KIRTIWANT P.;ADHE, ABHIJEET B.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.93-102
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    • 2020
  • The concept of temperature distribution in inhomogeneous semi-infinite solids is examined by making use of direct integration method. The analysis is done on the solution of the in-plane steady state heat conduction problem under certain boundary conditions. The method of direct integration has been employed, which is then reduced to Volterra integral equation of second kind, produces the explicit form analytical solution. Using resolvent- kernel algorithm, the governing equation is solved to get present solution. The temperature distribution obtained and calculated numerically and the relation with distribution of heat flux generated by internal heat source is shown graphically.

A Study on the Fracture Resistance at the Crack Tip in Dual Phase Steel (복합조직강 의 균열선단 에서의 파괴저항 에 관한 연구)

  • 김정규;오재민;김형채
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.564-571
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    • 1985
  • The estimation of fracture toughness in inhomogeneous material is still insufficient because it is difficult to get information of fracture initiation at the crack tip. Therefore, martensite-ferrite dual phase steel was prepared for a model material and micro-fracture behavior was investigated in the region of pre-fatigue crack in order to understand the characteristic of fracture resistance in inhomogeneous materials. In the case of severely inhomogeneous state, micro-fracture appearance is not distributed homogenously so that the estimation of fracture toughness is hardly possible. On the other hand when the grain size is refined or the strength of martensite is lowered, micro-fracture appearance is distributed homogenously and fracture toughness remarkably increases.

Non-uniform Failure in Superplastic Ti-6Al-4V Alloy (초소성 Ti-6Al-4V 합금에서의 불균일 파손)

  • 김태원
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.663-669
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    • 2000
  • A material model has been presented, at the continuum level, for the representation of superplastic deformation coupled with microstructural evolution. The model presented enables the effects of the spatial variation of distributions of grain size to be predicted at the process level. The model has been tested under conditions of both homogeneous and inhomogeneous stress and strain by carrying out detailed comparison of predicted distributions of grain size and their evolutions with experimentally obtained data. Experimental measurements have shown the extent of the spatial variation of the distribution of grain size that exists in the titanium alloy, Ti-6Al-4V. It is shown that whilst not large, the variations in grain size distributions are sufficient to lead to the development of inhomogeneous deformation in test pieces, which ultimately result in localisation of strain and failure.

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Free Vibration Analysis of Thick Plates on Inhomogeneous Pasternak Foundation (비균질 Pasternak지반 위에 놓여진 후판의 자유진동해석)

  • 김일중;오숙경;이효진;이용수
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.852-857
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    • 2003
  • This paper has the object of investigating natural frequencies of thick plates on inhomogeneous Pasternak foundation by means of finite element method and providing kinematic design data lot mat of building structures. This analysis was applied for design of substructure on elastic foundation. Mat of building structure may be consisdered as a thick plate on elastic foundation. Recently, as size of building structure becomes larger, mat area of building structure also tend to become target and building structure is supported on inhomogeneous foundation. In this paper, vibration analysis or rectangular thick plate is done by use or serendipity finite element with 8 nodes by considering shearing strain of plate. The solutions of this paper are compared with existing solutions and finite element solutions with 4${\times}$4 meshes of this analysis are shown the error of maximum 0.083% about the existing solutions. It is shown that natrural frequencies depend on not only Winkler foundation parameter but also shear foundation parameter.

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Numerical modeling of defects nucleation in the liquid crystal devices with inhomogeneous surface (액정 디스플레이 소자 내에서의 불균일한 표면에 의한 결점의 발생과 모델링)

  • Lee Gi-dong;Kang Bongsoon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.9 no.8
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    • pp.1793-1798
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    • 2005
  • We model the nucleation and motion of defects in the liquid crystal display device with inhomogeneous surface by using fast Q-tensor method, which can calculate scalar order parameter S and nucleation of the defect in the liquid crystal director field. In order to model the defect, homeotropic aligned liquid crystal cell with step inhomogeneous electrode which has a height of $1{\mu}m$ is used. From the simulation, we can observe the nucleation and line of the defect from surface inhomogeneity and the experiment is performed for confirmation.

Combustion Characteristics of Methane-Air Mixture in a Constant Volume Combustion Chamber(2) : Inhomogeneous Charge (정적연소기에서의 메탄-공기 혼합기의 연소특성(2) : 비균질급기)

  • 최승환;전충환;장영준
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2003
  • A cylindrical constant volume combustion chamber was used to investigate the flow characteristics at spark plug and the combustion characteristics of inhomogeneous charge methane-air mixture under several parameters. The flow characteristics such as mean velocity and turbulence intensity was analyzed by hot wire anemometer. Combustion pressure development measured by piezoelectric pressure transducer was used to investigate the effect of initial charge pressure, excess air ratio and ignition times on combustion pressure and combustion duration. Mean velocity and turbulence intensity had the maximum value at 200 or 300ms and then decreased to beneath 0.05m/s gradually at 3 seconds. Second mixture is accompanied by an increase in the combustion rate, and that the higher the mass which is added in the second stage injection, the faster the burn rate.