• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제86권3호
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• pp.311-324
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• 2023

Herein, we present effective polygonal finite elements to which the strain-smoothed element (SSE) method is applied. Recently, the SSE method has been developed for conventional triangular and quadrilateral finite elements; furthermore, it has been shown to improve the performance of finite elements. Polygonal elements enable various applications through flexible mesh handling; however, further development is still required to use them more effectively in engineering practice. In this study, piecewise linear shape functions are adopted, the SSE method is applied through the triangulation of polygonal elements, and a smoothed strain field is constructed within the element. The strain-smoothed polygonal elements pass basic tests and show improved convergence behaviors in various numerical problems.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.119-129
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• 2008

A small strain and elastoplastic formulation of Polygonal Element Method (PEM) is developed for efficient analysis of elastoplastic solids. In this work, the polygonal elements are constructed based on traditional triangular finite meshes. The construction method of polygonal mesh can directly utilize the sophisticated triangularization algorithm and reduce the difficulty in generating polygonal elements. The Wachspress rational finite element basis function is used to construct the approximations of polygonal elements. The incremental variational form and a von Mises type model are used for non-linear elastoplastic analysis. Several small strain elastoplastic numerical examples are presented to verify the advantages and the accuracy of the numerical formulation.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2002

This paper presents a practical technique for approximating the boundary surface of the volume swept out by three-dimensional objects using the depth-buffer. Objects may change their geometries and orientations while sweeping. The sweep volume is approximated as a union of volume elements, which are just rendered inside appropriate viewing frusta of virtual cameras and mapped into screen viewports with depth-buffer. From the depth of each pixel in the screen space of each rendering, the corresponding point in the original world space can be computed. Appropriately connecting these points yields polygonal faces forming polygonal surface patches approximately covering some portion of the sweep volume. Each view frustum adds one or more surface patches in this way, and these presumably overlapped polygonal surface patches approximately enclose the whole sweep volume. These patches may further be processed to yield non-overlapped polygonal surfaces as an approximation to the boundary of the original 3D sweep volume.

• 열처리공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.78-86
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• 2004

Effects of the annealing parameters on the formation of ferrites transformed at low temperatures were studied in cold-rolled ultra low carbon steels with niobium and/or chromium. Niobium and chromium were found to be effective in the formation of the low temperature transformation ferrites. The low temperature transformation ferrites more easily formed when both higher annealing temperature and longer annealing time, allowing substitutional alloying elements to distribute between phases, are in combination with faster cooling rate. It was found from EBSD study that the additions of niobium or chromium resulted in the increase in the numbers of high angle grain boundaries and the decrease in those of the low angle grain boundaries in the microstructures. Both granular bainitic ferrite and bainitic ferrite were characterized by the not clearly etched grain boundaries in light microscopy because of the low angle grain boundaries.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제64권1호
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• pp.11-21
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• 2017

It has been observed in the past that, the reinforced concrete (RC) bridge columns are very often subjected to torsional moment in addition to flexure and shear during seismic vibration. Ignoring torsion in the design can trigger unexpected shear failure of the columns (Farhey et al. 1993). Performance based seismic design is a popular design philosophy which calls for accurate prediction of the hysteresis behavior of structural elements to ensure safe and economical design under earthquake loading. However, very few investigations in the past focused on the development of analytical models to accurately predict the response of RC members under cyclic torsion. Previously developed hysteresis models are not readily applicable for torsional loading owing to significant pinching and stiffness degradation associated with torsion (Wang et al. 2014). The present study proposes an improved polygonal hysteresis model which can accurately predict the hysteretic behavior of RC circular and square columns under torsion. The primary curve is obtained from mechanics based softened truss model for torsion. The proposed model is validated with test data of two circular and two square columns. A good correlation is observed between the predicted and measured torque-twist behavior and dissipated energy.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.64-72
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• 2009

등고선에서 생성된 DEM(digital elevation model)은 고도 간격에 따라 미지형 요소 표현에 절대적인 영향을 받기 때문에 미기복 지형이 잘 표현되지 않는 문제가 발생한다. 이를 보완하기 위해 지표피복에 고도정보를 입력하여 buffering과 지도대수 연산기법을 적용하며 미기복 지형을 복원하는 Landcover burning 기법을 개발하고자 하였다. 미지형복원과정은 등고선에서 일차 DEM 생성, 지표피복도 제작, 지표피복요소 중 미지형요소에 대한 buffering 기법에 의한 고도정보 복원, 피복인자에 대한 지도대수 연산을 통한 고도정보 입력에 의해 DEM을 복원하였다. 미지형복원은 하천지형을 중심으로 적용하였다. buffering에 의한 지형복원은 면적인(polygonal) 요소인 사력퇴, 습지에 대해서 지형형상이 오목 혹은 볼록 지형의 특성에 맞추어 일정간격의 등고선을 생성하여 지형을 복원한 후, 고도 정보를 입력하여 복원하였다. 선형적인 요소인 제방, 도로, 수로, 지류는 지도대수함수를 이용하여 지형을 복원할 수 있었다. 하상, 하안단구, 인공지물(농경지)과 같은 면적인 요소들은 평탄하기 때문에 일정한 고도값을 입력하여 지형면을 복원하였다. 연구결과는 단면도를 제작하여 원래의 DEM과 복원된 DEM의 지형표현 정도를 비교 분석하였다. 분석한 결과, 기존의 방법으로 제작된 DEM은 미지형적인 요소들이 거의 표현되지 않았다. 본 연구에서 개발된 방법은 습지, 사력퇴, 하천주변의 지형, 농경지, 제방, 하안단구, 인공지물 위치가 비교적 잘 표현되었다. 본 연구는 중소규모의 저기복 구릉대나 평야지대의 미지형분류와 분석, 하천 주변 미지형복원이 필요한 생태 및 환경분야 연구에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

• Metals and materials international
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.1221-1231
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• 2018

The effect of strain aging on tensile behavior and properties of API X60, X70, and X80 pipeline steels was investigated in this study. The API X60, X70, and X80 pipeline steels were fabricated by varying alloying elements and thermomechanical processing conditions. Although all the steels exhibited complex microstructure consisting of polygonal ferrite (PF), acicular ferrite, granular bainite (GB), bainitic ferrite (BF), and secondary phases, they had different fractions of microstructures depending on the alloying elements and thermomechanical processing conditions. The tensile test results revealed that yielding behavior steadily changed from continuous-type to discontinuous-type as aging temperature increases after 1% pre-strain. After pre-strain and thermal aging treatment in all the steels, the yield and tensile strengths, and yield ratio were increased, while the uniform elongation and work hardening exponent were decreased. In the case of the X80 steel, particularly, the decrease in uniform elongation was relatively small due to many mobile dislocations in PF, and the increase in yield ratio was the lowest because a large amount of harder microstructures such as GB, BF, and coarse secondary phases effectively enhanced work hardening.

• Selected Papers of The Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-17
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• 1994

For a planar curve-sided panel with constant or linear density distributions of source or doublet in the singularity methods, Cantaloube and Rehbach show that the surface integral can be transformed into contour integral by using Stokes'formulas. As an extension of their formulations, this paper deals with a planar polygonal panel for which we derive the closed-forms of the potentials and the velocities induced by the singularity distributions. Test calculations show that the analytical evaluation of the closed-forms is superior to numerical integration (suggested by Cantaloube and Rehbach) of the contour integral. The compact and explicit expressions may produce accurate values of matrix elements of simultaneous linear equations in the singularity methods with much reduced computer time.

• 대한세포병리학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.179-182
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• 1995

Ganglioneuromas are a fully differentiated tumor that contains no immature elements. The majority of sanglioneuromas are diagnosed in patients older than 10 years and are most often located in the posterior mediastinum, followed by the retroperitoneum. The location of these tumors in the parapharyngeal region is extremely uncommon and there are only a few reports on the cytologic appearance of the tumor. We report a case of ganglioneuroma presenting in a parapharyngeal location in a 4 year-old boy, diagnosed by fine needle aspiration cytology. The smears revealed scattered large oval to polygonal cells with voluminous, granular cytoplasms. The nuclei were one to two in number and had a prominent nucleolus. Clusters of benign spindle-shaped cells were also present.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2006

Juvenile and matured wood of Populus tomentiglandulosa species of Salicaceae native grown in Korea was observed by FE-SEM and optical microscope. Species is characterized by mostly diffuse-porous, simple perforation plates, polygonal alternate non-vestured intervessel pit, medium length of vessel elements and fibres, non-septate very thin walled libriform fibres and exclusively uniseriate procumbent rays. Axial parenchyma was absent or extremely rare. Vessel and fibre length were longer in both matured and juvenile latewood than those of earlywood. Ray cell lumen diameter, ray length, number and diameter of endwall pit in ray cell, endwall pit, number and diameter of pit in lateral wall of one ray parenchyma cell, vessel ray pit number and diameter vary from juvenile early and latewood to matured wood.