• Architectural research
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.53-60
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• 2001

The proposed building upgrading technique employs prestressing cables to function as bracing to improve the seismic performance during future events. A four-story reinforced concrete moment resisting frame damaged from an ultimate limit state earthquake is assessed and upgraded using the proposed technique. Both existing and upgraded buildings are evaluated in regard of seismic performance parameters performing static lateral load to collapse analysis and dynamic nonlinear time history analysis as well. To obtain realistic comparison of seismic performance between existing and upgraded frames, each frame is subjected to its critical ground motion that has strength demand exceeding the building strength supply. Furthermore, reliability of static lateral load to collapse analysis as a substitute to time history analysis is evaluated. The results reveal that the proposed upgrading technique improves the stiffness distribution compared to the ideal distribution that gives equal inter-story drift. As a result, the upgraded building retains more stories that contribute to energy dissipation. The overall behavior of upgraded building beyond yield is also enhanced due to the gradual change of building stiffness as the lateral load increases.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.45-57
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• 1997

MAC (media access control) bridge is used to interconnect separate LANs and to relay frames between the BLANs (bridged LANs). Bridge architecture consists of MAC entity, MAC relay entity and bridge protocol entity protocol entity and performs learning, filtering and forwarding functions using filtering database. In this paper, we simulate these functions of bridge and the STP (spanning tree protocol). The STP derives an active topology from an arbitrarily connected BLAN. Our simulation model assumes a BLAN consisted of three bridge forming a closed loop. In order to remove the loop, each bridge process exchanges configruation BPDU (bridge protocol data unit0 with other bridge processes connected to the bridge itself. To simulate the communication between bridges, we implement the IPC (inter-process communication) server using message queues. Our simulation results show that the assumed BLAN contains no closed loop and then there is no alternative route and no unnecessary traffic.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.541-558
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• 2014

A 1/4-scale two-bay eight-storey reinforced concrete frame was tested on shaking table. Initial shaking table tests were carried out through a set of real seismic excitations to investigate the seismic behavior of the RC frame. Subsequently, the damaged frame was repaired using epoxy injection technique, and then subjected to the tests with the same records. The purpose of this study was to investigate experimentally the dynamic characteristics, cracking pattern and lateral inter-story stiffness of RC frames using epoxy injection technique. The test results indicate that epoxy-injection technique appears to be a satisfactory method for repairing earthquake-damaged structure.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.151-173
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• 2020

This paper aims to probabilistically evaluate performance of two types of I beam to box column (IBBC) connection. With the objective of considering the variability of seismic loading demand, statistical features of the inter-story drift ratio corresponding to the second, fifth and eleventh story of a 12-story steel special moment resisting frames are extracted through incremental dynamic analysis at global collapse state. Variability of geometrical variables and material strength are also taken into account. All of these random variables are exported as inputs to a probabilistic finite element model which simulates the connection. At the end, cumulative distribution functions of local seismic demand for each component of each connection are provided using histogram sampling. Through a parametric study on probabilistic local seismic demand, the influence of some geometrical random variables on the performance of IBBC connections is demonstrated. Furthermore, the probabilistic study revealed that IBBC connection with widened flange has a better performance than the un-widened flange. Also, a design procedure is proposed for WF connections to achieve a same connection performance in different stories.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.211-232
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• 2013

In this study a multi-objective optimization problem is solved. The objectives used here include simultaneous minimum construction cost in term of sections weight, minimum structural damage using a damage index, and minimum non-structural damage in term of inter-story drift under the applied ground motions. A high-speed and low-error neural network is trained and employed in the process of optimization to estimate the results of non-linear time history analysis. This approach can be utilized for all steel or concrete frame structures. In this study, the optimal design of a planar eccentric braced steel frame is performed with great detail, using the presented multi-objective algorithm with a discrete population and then a moment resisting frame is solved as a supplementary example.

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.171-180
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• 2005

We present numerical results for inertialess elliptic particle suspensions in a Newtonian fluid subject to simple shear flow, using the sliding bi-periodic frame concept of Hwang et al. (2004) such that a particulate system with a small number of particles could represent a suspension system containing a large number of particles. We report the motion and configurational change of elliptic particles in simple shear flow and discuss the inter-relationship with the bulk shear stress behaviors through several example problems of a single, two-interacting and ten particle problems in a sliding bi-periodic frame. The main objective is to check the feasibility of the direct simulation method for understanding the relationship between the microstructural evolution and the bulk material behaviors.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2024

The paper presents a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) system designed for satellite movement testing in the microgravity environment on the ground with two industrial robots. Especially, the paper deals with the contact between satellites during rendezvous and docking simulations of satellites using a robotic HILS system. For this purpose, the admittance control method plays a core role in preventing damage to the satellite or robot from contact force between satellites. The coordinate frames are transformed into the mass center of the satellite and the admittance control at the level of exponential coordinates is adopted to actively use the properties of Lie groups related to tracking errors. These methods effectively mitigate the risk of robot damage during inter-satellite contact and ensure efficient tracking performance of satellite movements.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.487-498
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• 2024

Steel moment resisting frames (MRFs) typically have inter-story drift concentrations at lower stories during earthquakes as found from previous research. Hinged walls (HWs) can be used as structural strengthening components to force the MRFs deform uniformly along the building height. However, large moment demands are often observed on HWs and make the design of HWs non-economical. This paper proposes a method to reduce the moment demand on HWs using a ductile connection system between the MRFs and the HWs. The ductile connection system is designed with a yield strength and energy dissipation capacity, for the purpose of limiting the seismic forces transferred to the HWs and dissipating seismic energy. Nonlinear time history analyses were performed using 10 far-filed earthquakes at maximum considered earthquake level. The analysis results show that the proposed ductile connection system can reduce: (1) seismic moment demands in the HWs; (2) floor accelerations; (3) the connection force between HWs and MRFs.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제40권11호
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• pp.2218-2229
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• 2015

최근 Wi-Fi Alliance에서는 기존의 Wi-Fi 망에서 이동성을 갖는 무선 단말들이 중개기나 라우터가 없이 언제 어디서나 직접 통신이 가능한 Wi-Fi direct라는 새로운 표준 기술을 발표하였다. Wi-Fi direct에서 기기는 기존의 Wi-Fi 망에서 AP역할을 하는 Group Owner (GO)와 GO와 연결되어 있는 client로 구분되어 존재한다. 일반적으로 client들은 휴대성을 위해 제한된 배터리 용량을 갖기 때문에, 기기들의 에너지 소모가 효율적으로 이루어져야 한다. 이에 따라 GO의 에너지소모를 막기 위하여 두 가지 전력관리기법 Opportunistic기법과 Notice Of Absence (NOA)기법이 사용되었으나 이 두 기법은 트래픽 패턴 등의 특성을 고려하지 않아 에너지 효율성이 높지 않다. 이에 본 논문에서는 멀티미디어 트래픽의 특성을 파악하여 Wi-Fi direct power saving의 에너지 효율성을 높이기 위한 알고리즘을 제시한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 NOA 기법에서 동적으로 변하는 비디오 프레임의 분포를 활용하여, 다음 비콘 구간에 도착할 비디오 프레임의 예상 크기에 따라서 GO의 awake 구간을 동적으로 조절함으로써, 불필요한 에너지 소모를 감소한다. 또한 비디오 프레임의 상호 의존성을 고려하여 비디오 프레임의 종류별로 우선 순위를 부여하고, 이를 바탕으로 우선순위가 높은 비디오 프레임이 높은 확률로 전송될 수 있도록 awake 구간을 결정함으로써 전송 효율을 높인다. 모의실험 결과 제안한 알고리즘이 NOA 기법에 비해 전송 지연이 더 짧고 에너지 효율이 더 높다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.555-562
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 Nondominated sorting genetic algorithm-II(NSGA-II)를 이용한 Zipper를 가진 역V형 중심가새골조의 다목적 최적내진설계기법을 제시한다. 부재의 단면성능을 설계변수로 사용하는 제시된 최적화기법은 내진설계를 위해 부재의 강도조건, 구조물의 층간변위조건, 부재의 변형조건 등을 만족시키면서 구조물의 물량과 구조물의 최대 층간변위율을 동시에 최소화하는 문제로 정식화된다. 구조물의 물량과 최대 층간변위율을 최소화하는 이유는 구조물의 비용과 성능을 각각 최적화하기 위해서 이다. 선형 정적해석을 통해 구조물의 강도 및 층간변위 제약 조건을 검토하며, 비선형 정적해석을 통해 구조물의 변형 조건 및 내진성능을 평가한다. 제안된 기법을 검증하기 위해 3층과 6층 Zipper를 가진 역V형 중심가새골조 예제를 사용한다. 이를 통해 얻은 설계안을 초기 설계안과 비교분석하여 제안된 기법의 적용성을 확인한다.