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A parametric study of indicial function models in bridge deck aeroelasticity

  • Borri, C.;Costa, C.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.405-420
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    • 2004
  • In common approaches, bridge dynamics under wind action is analyzed by modeling the interaction between fluid and structure by means of transient wind loads acting over the structure itself. Amid various possible manners to describe such types of loads, a representation based on families of 'indicial functions' is adopted here. The aim is to investigate its flexibility to capture the main features of wind-bridge interaction. A set of coefficients is involved in indicial functions. The values that one may attribute to them suffer uncertainties coming from experimental errors affecting data. Here, the sensitivity of a 2-DOF schematic model to the variations of these coefficients is investigated at fixed values of dynamic derivatives and for various types of indicial functions. It is shown how parameter variations influence phase portraits.

Design Loads on Railway Substructure: Sensitivity Analysis of the Influence of the Fastening Stiffness

  • Giannakos, Konstantinos
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.46-56
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    • 2014
  • The superstructure of the railway track undertakes the forces that develop during train passage and distributes them towards its seating. The track panel plays a key role in terms of load distribution, while at the same time it maintains the geometrical distance between the rails. The substructure and ballast undergo residual deformations under high stresses that contribute to the deterioration of the so-called geometry of the track. The track stiffness is the primary contributing factor to the amount of the stresses that develop on the substructure and is directly influenced by the fastening resilience. Four methods from the international literature are used in this paper to calculate the loads and stresses on the track substructure and the results are compared and discussed. A parametric investigation of the stresses that develop on the substructure of different types of railway tracks (i.e. balastless vs ballasted) is performed and the results are presented as a function of the total static track stiffness.

Optimal Design of High-Speed Railway Bridges Considering Static and Dynamic Constraints (정적 및 동적 제약조건을 고려한 고속철도 교량의 최적화 설계)

  • 안예준;신영석;신동구
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.135-142
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    • 1999
  • Plate girder bridges for tile Korean high-speed railway are optimally designed. Static and dynamic constraints are all considered. The design variables are the thicknesses and the lengths of the plates that are used to form I-shaped main girders with variable cross-sections. And the objective function is tile steel weight of a main girder. A C++ based design program is developed; this program interfaces with a FORTRAN based optimization program ADS. From the results of optimal design for various span lengths, it is observed that the deck vertical acceleration is one of the most important constraints in a special range of tile span length. Front a parametric study, sensitivity of the optimal design to static as well as dynamic constraints are presented.

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A Study on the Dynamic Behavior of Steel Composite railway Bridges subject to High Speed Train (고속열차하중 하의 강합성형 철도교의 동적거동에 관한 연구)

  • 장승필;곽종원;하상길;김성일
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 1998.05a
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    • pp.548-555
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    • 1998
  • The influences of high speed train on the dynamic responses of steel composite railway bridges are investigated. The bridge system which has two Ⅰ-girder and several cross beams is modeled with plate and frame elements. With assumption of concrete slabs ate fully connected with steel girders, the offset between slabs and girders is modeled using rigid link. The track system is modeled using beams on elastic foundation theory. And, the TGV train is modeled in 2-dimension considering bouncing and pitching motion. And, braking action of vehicle is considered using speed dependent braking function. To investigate the behavior of bridges due to moving trains, parametric studies are performed.

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Asymptotic Relative Efficiencies of the Nonparametric Relative Risk Estimators for the Two Sample Proportional Hazard Model

  • Cho, Kil-Ho;Lee, In-Suk;Choi, Jeen-Kap;Jeong, Seong-Hwa;Choi, Dal-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, we summarize some relative risk estimators under the two sample model with proportional hazard and examine the relative efficiencies of the nonparametric estimators relative to the maximum likelihood estimator of a parametric survival function under random censoring model by comparing their asymptotic variances.

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Determinacy on a Maximum Resolution in Wavelet Series

  • Park, Chun-Gun;Kim, Yeong-Hwa;Yang, Wan-Youn
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.467-476
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    • 2004
  • Recently, an approximation of a wavelet series has been developed in the analyses of an unknown function. Most of articles have been studied on thresholding and shrinkage methods for its wavelet coefficients based on (non)parametric and Bayesian methods when the sample size is considered as a maximum resolution in wavelet series. In this paper, regardless of the sample size, we are focusing only on the choice of a maximum resolution in wavelet series. We propose a Bayesian approach to the choice of a maximum resolution based on the linear combination of the wavelet basis functions.

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Feature selection in the semivarying coefficient LS-SVR

  • Hwang, Changha;Shim, Jooyong
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.461-471
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    • 2017
  • In this paper we propose a feature selection method identifying important features in the semivarying coefficient model. One important issue in semivarying coefficient model is how to estimate the parametric and nonparametric components. Another issue is how to identify important features in the varying and the constant effects. We propose a feature selection method able to address this issue using generalized cross validation functions of the varying coefficient least squares support vector regression (LS-SVR) and the linear LS-SVR. Numerical studies indicate that the proposed method is quite effective in identifying important features in the varying and the constant effects in the semivarying coefficient model.

Characterizations of Spherical Luneburg Lens Antennas with Air-gaps and Dielectric Losses

  • Kim, Kang-Wook
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, spherical Luneburg lens antennas have been systematically analyzed using the Eigenfunction Expansion Method (EEM), The developed technique has capability of performing a complete 3-D analysis to characterize the multi-layered dielectric spherical lens with arbitrary permittivity and permeability. This paper describes the analysis technique, and presents the results of the parametric study of Luneburg lens antennas by varying design parameters suoh as the diameter of the lens antenna (up to 80 wavelength), number of spherical shells (up to 30 shells), air-gaps between spherical shells, and dielectric loss of the material. Many representative engineering design curves including the far-field patterns, wide-angle sidelobe characterizations, antenna efficiency have been presented.

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Semi-resolution Practicability of Three-Dimensional Statics of Cables from Computer Programs

  • Dodaran, Asgar Ahadpour;Park, SangKil
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this paper is to present a rational method for analyzing, designing, or evaluating the spread mooring systems used with floating drilling units. This paper presents a validated model to calculate the catenary static configuration. A semi-resolution approach is presented in this paper that is capable of predicting the static performance of a caisson mooring system. The solution is derived as a function of only three parameters, which can be solved numerically by implementing different kinds of boundary conditions. The efficiency and accuracy of the method permit quick parametric studies for the optimal selection of the system particle, which is undoubtedly useful for a preliminary design. A number of numerical examples demonstrate the validity of the adopted approach. The paper contains a complete description of the test cases and reports the results in such a way that it can provide a "benchmark" test for users and programmers of computer codes for flexible riser analysis.

Simulation of Secondary Motion of Piston Assemblies (피스톤 어셈블리의 2차 운동에 관한 시뮬레이션)

  • 오병근;조남효
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.231-243
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    • 2000
  • This paper describes a simulation of secondary motion of piston assemblies using PISDYN by Ricardo. Motions of the piston, pin, rod and skirt are separately calculated, by integrating equations of motion for individual components and dynamic degrees of freedom. The effects of engine speed at full load and pin offsets on the piston assembly secondary motions, forces and friction were investigated in parametric study for 4-cylinder gasoline engine. Results show that lateral displacement and friction loss of the piston increase as a function of engine speed. The lateral motion of the piston is affected by the change in pin offset. The minimum friction loss for the condition of 4800rpm WOT occurs at a pin offset of 1.6mm.

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