• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.587-614
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• 2014

In recent years the interest in online monitoring of lightweight structures with ultrasonic guided waves is steadily growing. Especially the aircraft industry is a driving force in the development of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. In order to optimally design SHM systems powerful and efficient numerical simulation tools to predict the behaviour of ultrasonic elastic waves in thin-walled structures are required. It has been shown that in real industrial applications, such as airplane wings or fuselages, conventional linear and quadratic pure displacement finite elements commonly used to model ultrasonic elastic waves quickly reach their limits. The required mesh density, to obtain good quality solutions, results in enormous computational costs when solving the wave propagation problem in the time domain. To resolve this problem different possibilities are available. Analytical methods and higher order finite element method approaches (HO-FEM), like p-FEM, spectral elements, spectral analysis and isogeometric analysis, are among them. Although analytical approaches offer fast and accurate results, they are limited to rather simple geometries. On the other hand, the application of higher order finite element schemes is a computationally demanding task. The drawbacks of both methods can be circumvented if regions of complex geometry are modelled using a HO-FEM approach while the response of the remaining structure is computed utilizing an analytical approach. The objective of the paper is to present an efficient method to couple different HO-FEM schemes with an analytical description of an undisturbed region. Using this hybrid formulation the numerical effort can be drastically reduced. The functionality of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by studying the propagation of ultrasonic guided waves in plates, excited by a piezoelectric patch actuator. The actuator is modelled utilizing higher order coupled field finite elements, whereas the homogenous, isotropic plate is described analytically. The results of this "semi-analytical" approach highlight the opportunities to reduce the numerical effort if closed-form solutions are partially available.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제65권4호
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• pp.491-504
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• 2018

Because of sandwich structures with low weight and high stiffness have much usage in various industries such as civil and aerospace engineering, in this article, buckling and free vibration analyses of coupled micro composite sandwich plates are investigated based on sinusoidal shear deformation (SSDT) and most general strain gradient theories (MGSGT). It is assumed that the sandwich structure rested on an orthotropic elastic foundation and make of four composite face sheets with temperature-dependent material properties that they reinforced by carbon and boron nitride nanotubes and two flexible transversely orthotropic cores. Mathematical formulation is presented using Hamilton's principle and governing equations of motions are derived based on energy approach and applying variation method for simply supported edges under electro-magneto-thermo-mechanical, axial buckling and pre-stresses loadings. In order to predict the effects of various parameters such as material length scale parameter, length to width ratio, length to thickness ratio, thickness of face sheets to core thickness ratio, nanotubes volume fraction, pre-stress load and orthotropic elastic medium on the natural frequencies and critical buckling load of double-bonded micro composite sandwich plates. It is found that orthotropic elastic medium has a special role on the system stability and increasing Winkler and Pasternak constants lead to enhance the natural frequency and critical buckling load of micro plates, while decrease natural frequency and critical buckling load with increasing temperature changes. Also, it is showed that pre-stresses due to help the axial buckling load causes that delay the buckling phenomenon. Moreover, it is concluded that the sandwich structures with orthotropic cores have high stiffness, but because they are not economical, thus it is necessary the sandwich plates reinforce by carbon or boron nitride nanotubes specially, because these nanotubes have important thermal and mechanical properties in comparison of the other reinforcement.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.335-345
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 역학적 특성이 우수하여 다양한 구조에 적용되고 있는 복합적층판에 대한 추계론적 유한요소해석 정식화를 제안한다. 정식화의 제시는 추계론적 수치해석기법 중 그 정확도가 매우 높은 것으로 알려져 있는 가중적분법에 기초하였다. 공간적 불확실성을 가지는 인수로는 두 재료축에 대한 탄성계수와 면내 전단탄성계수가 고려되었다. 이들 재료인수들은 독립적인 추계장함수로 모델링 되었으며, 이들 추계장이 구조거동에 미치는 영향은 지수함수형태의 자기 및 상호상관함수를 적용하여 산정하였다. 수치예제를 통하여 복합적층판이 등방성 및 이방성의 재료에 의한 판 구조에 비하여 거동의 변동계수가 낮음을 보여주었으며, 제안된 해석법의 검증을 위하여 몬테카를로 해석을 동시에 수행하고 그 결과를 상호 비교하였다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2020

Unlike a printing process, it is difficult to pattern organic thin films in the longitudinal (coating) direction using a coating process. In this paper, we have investigated the feasibility of patterning organic thin films using needles. To this end, we have slot-coated an aqueous poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(4-styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) solution in the form of a fine stripe or large area and then applied the dual needle; one for discharging the main solvent of the underlying thin film and the other for sucking the dissolved thin film. We have found that the pattern width and depth increase as the moving speed of the plate decreases. However, it is observed that the sidewall slope is very gentle (the length of the slope is of the order of 200 ㎛) due to the fact that the discharged main solvent is widely spread and then isotropic etching occurs. With this scheme, we have also demonstrated that a fine stripe can be obtained by scanning the dual needle closely. To demonstrate its applicability to solution-processable organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), we have also fabricated OLED with the patterned PEDOT:PSS stripe and observed the insulation property in the strong light-emitting stripe.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제12권3호통권46호
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• pp.291-302
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• 2000

복합적층 구조물에서 복합재료는 그 자체의 높은 강성, 강도와 내구성등의 특성을 갖고 있을 뿐 아니라, 구조물의 역학적 특성에 따라 얼마든지 재료의 특성을 합리적으로 구성하여 배치할 수 있는 매우 우수한 장점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 등분포로 재하된 복합적층경사판의 처짐에 관한 해석으로서 복합적층 경사판의 처짐을 나타내는 단일 4차 편미분방정식을 3개의 종속변수를 갖는 3원2차 연립방정식을 이용하여 해석하는 수치해석 법을 제시하였으며, 대칭 앵글-플라이 각도로 적층, 역대칭 앵글-플라이 각도로 적층, 비대칭 앵글-플라이 각도로 적층한 경우에 처짐과 단면력을 비교 검토하였다.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.61-74
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• 2023

This article investigates the wave propagation analysis of the imperfect functionally graded (FG) sandwich plates based on a novel simple four-variable integral quasi-3D higher-order shear deformation theory (HSDT). The thickness stretching effect is considered in the transverse displacement component. The presented formulation ensures a parabolic variation of the transverse shear stresses with zero-stresses at the top and the bottom surfaces without requiring any shear correction factors. The studied sandwich plates can be used in several sectors as areas of aircraft, construction, naval/marine, aerospace and wind energy systems, the sandwich structure is composed from three layers (two FG face sheets and isotropic core). The material properties in the FG faces sheet are computed according to a modified power law function with considering the porosity which may appear during the manufacturing process in the form of micro-voids in the layer body. The Hamilton principle is utilized to determine the four governing differential equations for wave propagation in FG plates which is reduced in terms of computation time and cost compared to the other conventional quasi-3D models. An eigenvalue equation is formulated for the analytical solution using a generalized displacements' solution form for wave propagation. The effects of porosity, temperature, moisture concentration, core thickness, and the material exponent on the plates' dispersion relations are examined by considering the thickness stretching influence.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.81-92
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• 2006

본 연구는 순수 면내모멘트를 발생시키는 선형적으로 변하는 수직응력을 받고 있는 단순지지된 마주보는 두 모서리와 자유경계를 가지는 직사각형 판의 자유진동과 좌굴의 엄밀해를 구하였다. 정현적으로 가정된 하중방향(x)으로의 변위함수는 단순지지 경계조건을 만족시키며, 평판을 지배하는 편미분 운동방정식 을 y 방향으로의 변계수를 갖는 상미분방정식으로 만든다. Frobenius법을 통하여, y방향으로의 멱급수를 가정하면 이 식을 엄밀하게 풀 수 있으며, 그 식의 합당한 계수를 구할 수 있다. 자유경계조건을 y=0과 b에 적용하면, 고유진동수와 임계좌굴모멘트를 구할 수 있는 4차의 특성행렬식이 만들어진다. 본 논문에서는 이 급수해의 수렴성이 면밀히 조사되었으며, 임계 좌굴모멘트의 수치결과와 모드형상이 주어진다. 상대적으로 정확도가 떨어지는 1차원적인 보 이론으로 구한 결과치와의 비교연구가 이루어진다. 또한 자유진동수와 모드형상 주어진다. 프와송비(v)의 변화에 따른 좌굴모멘트와 고유진동수의 변화가 도표로 주어진다.

• 전산구조공학
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.87-97
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• 1995

2차원 유한요소 모델의 동일한 형상과 하중 조건에 있어서 6절점 요소의 굽힘 강성은 8절점 요소의 굽힘 강성보다 더 크게 나타난다. 이와 같은 현상은 3차원 16절점 요소와 20절점 요소에서도 나타나며, 완전 요소의 중간 절점들을 제거하므로 인하여 나타난다. 따라서 이 현상을 상대적 강성강화 현상이라 할 수 있다. 강성강화 현상을 보정하기 위한 매우 효과적인 방법으로 가우스 적분점 수정법을 도출하였으며, 이 방법은 확장적인 강성과 같이 다른 종류의 강성을 변화시키지 않으며, 또한 패취시험을 통과하였다. 적분점 수정량은 재료의 포아송비의 함수로 나타나며, 2차원 평면응력 상태와 평면변형율 상태에 대한 두개의 수정식을 구하였고, 또한 3차원 고체요소에 대하여 확장하였다. 가우스 적분점 수정법의 효과를 검증하기 위하여 보와 판의 자유 및 강제운동 문제를 해석하였으며, 등방성 적층 보와 판에 대해서도 단층보와 단층판과 같은 방법으로 적용하여 그 효율성을 입증하였다.