• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제10권4_5호
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• pp.471-483
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• 2012

In this paper, the structural health monitoring (SHM) benchmark problem of the Canton tower is studied. Based on the field monitoring data from the 20 accelerometers deployed on the tower, some modal frequencies and mode shapes at measured degrees of freedom of the tower are identified. Then, these identified incomplete modal data are used to update the reduced finite element (FE) model of the tower by a novel algorithm. The proposed algorithm avoids the problem of subjective selection of updated parameters and directly updates model stiffness matrix without model reduction or modal expansion approach. Only the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the normal finite element models corresponding to the measured modes are needed in the computation procedures. The updated model not only possesses the measured modal frequencies and mode shapes but also preserves the modal frequencies and modes shapes in their normal values for the unobserved modes. Updating results including the natural frequencies and mode shapes are compared with the experimental ones to evaluate the proposed algorithm. Also, dynamic responses estimated from the updated FE model using remote senor locations are compared with the measurement ones to validate the convergence of the updated model.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2004년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.423-430
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• 2004

A new active neuro-control strategy for seismic response reduction using modal states is proposed. In order to apply the neuro-control strategy to the given structural system it is needed to select state variables used as inputs into the neural network. If the degrees of freedom of the analytical model is large, there are so many possible combinations of the state variables. And selecting state variables is very complicated and troublesome task for the designer. In order to avoid this problem, the proposed control system adopts modal states as inputs. Since the modal states contain the information of the whole structural system's behavior, it is proper to use modal states as inputs of the neuro-controller. The simulation results show that the proposed the proposed active neuro-control strategy is quite effective to reduce seismic responses. In addition, the consuming time for training proposed neuro-controller is quite shorter than that for the conventional neuro- controller. The results of this investigation, therefore, indicate that the proposed active neuro-control strategy using modal states as the inputs could be effectively used for control seismically excited structures.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2013년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.236-240
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• 2013

Due to difficulty of considering dynamic load in side of a computer resource and computing time, it is common that external load is assumed as ideal static load. However, structural analysis under static load cannot guarantee the safety of structural design. Recently, the systematic method to construct equivalent static load from the given dynamic load has been proposed. Previous study has calculated equivalent static load through the optimization procedure under displacement constraints. And previously reported works to distribute equivalent static load were based on ad hoc methods. However, it is appropriate to take into account the stress constraint for the safety design. Moreover, the improper selection of loading position may results in unreliable structural design. The present study proposes the methodology to optimize an equivalent static which distributed on the primary DOFs, DOFs of the constraint elements, DOF of an external load as positions. In conclusion, the reliability of proposed method is demonstrated through a global optimization.

• 신재생에너지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.26-34
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• 2024

Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) have been developed to overcome large water depths and leverage the abundant wind resource in deep seas. However, wind-wave misalignment can occur depending on the weather conditions, and most megawatt (MW)-class turbines are horizontal-axis wind turbines subjected to yaw errors. Therefore, the power performance and dynamic response of super-large FOWTs exposed simultaneously to these external conditions must be analyzed. In this study, several scenarios combining wind-wave misalignment and yaw error were considered. The IEA 15 MW reference FOWT (v1.1.2) and OpenFAST (v3.4.1) were used to perform numerical simulations. The results show that the power performance was affected more significantly by the yaw error; therefore, the generator power reduction and variability increased significantly. However, the dynamic response was affected more significantly by the wind-wave misalignment increased; thus, the change in the platform 6-DOF and tower loads (top and base) increased significantly. These results can be facilitate improvements to the power performance and structural integrity of FOWTs during the design process.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.271-279
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• 2010

The Mobile Harbor(MH) is a new transportation platform that can load and unload containers to and from very large container ships in the sea. This loading and unloading by crane can be performed with only very small movements of the MH in waves because MH is operated outside of the harbor. For this reason, an anti-rolling tank(ART) and an active mass driving system(AMD) were designed to reduce MH's roll motion, especially at the natural frequency of MH. In the conceptual design stage, it is difficult to confirm the design result of theses anti-rolling devices without modeling and simulation tools. Therefore, the coupled MH and anti-rolling devices' dynamic equations in waves were derived and a simulation program that can analyze the roll reduction performance in various conditions, such as sea state, wave direction, and so on, was developed. The coupled equations are constructed as an eight degrees of freedom (DOF) motion that consists of MH's six DOF dynamics and the ART's and AMD's control variables. In order to conveniently include the ART's and AMD's control dynamics in the time domain, MH's radiated wave force was described by an impulse response function derived by the damping coefficient obtained in the frequency domain, and wave exciting forces such as Froude-Krylov force and diffraction force and nonlinear buoyancy were calculated at every simulation time interval. Finally, the roll reduction performances of the designed anti-rolling devices were successfully assessed in the various loading and wave conditions by using a developed simulation program.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.77-89
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• 2018

Speech articulators are coordinated for the purpose of segmental constriction in terms of a task. In particular, vertical jaw movements repeatedly contribute to consonantal as well as vocalic constriction. The current study explores vertical jaw movements in conjunction with bilabial constriction in bilabial stop /p/ in the context /a/-to-/a/. Revisiting kinematic data of /p/ collected using the electromagenetic midsagittal articulometer (EMMA) method from seven (four female and three male) speakers of Seoul Korean, we examined maximum vertical jaw position, its relative timing with respect to the upper and lower lips, and lip aperture minima. The results of those dependent variables are recapitulated in terms of linguistic (different word boundaries) and paralinguistic (different speech rates) factors as follows. Firstly, maximum jaw height was lower in the across-word boundary condition (across-word < within-word), but it did not differ as a function of different speech rates (comfortable = fast). Secondly, more reduction in the lip aperture (LA) gesture occurred in fast rate, while word-boundary effects were absent. Thirdly, jaw raising was still in progress after the lips' positional extrema were achieved in the within-word condition, while the former was completed before the latter in the across-word condition. Lastly, relative temporal lags between the jaw and the lips (UL and LL) were more synchronous in fast rate, compared to comfortable rate. When these results are considered together, it is possible to posit that speakers are not tolerant of lenition to the extent that it is potentially realized as a labial approximant in either word-boundary condition while jaw height still manifested lower jaw position in the across-word boundary condition. Early termination of vertical jaw maxima before vertical lower lip maxima across-word condition may be partly responsible for the spatial reduction of jaw raising movements. This may come about as a consequence of an excessive number of factors (e.g., upper lip height (UH), lower lip height (LH), jaw angle (JA)) for the representation of a vector with two degrees of freedom (x, y) engaged in a gesture-based task (e.g., lip aperture (LA)). In the task-dynamic application toolkit, the jaw angle parameter can be assigned numerical values for greater weight in the across-word boundary condition, which in turn gives rise to lower jaw position. Speech rate-dependent spatial reduction in lip aperture may be able to be resolved by means of manipulating activation time of an active tract variable in the gestural score level.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.329-334
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• 2017

다양한 산업 분야의 구조물은 여러 부구조의 조합으로 구성되며, 시스템의 자유도 또한 무수히 많다. 높은 복잡성을 가지는 구조물의 해석 및 계산 효율을 향상시키기 위해서 해석 모델의 단순화 및 자유도 축소가 요구된다. 지난 50여 년 동안 규모가 큰 공학적 문제를 단순화하기 위해 다양한 부분구조화 기법들이 개발되어 왔다. 이러한 부분구조화 기법들은 Newton-Raphson 알고리즘 등과 같은 반복계산을 동반하는 비선형 구조해석 문제 해석에 매우 효과적이다. 본 논문에서는 기 개발된 비선형 부분구조화 기법 중의 하나인 모드미분(modal derivatives)을 이용하여 기하비선형 보의 모델 축소에 적용하고자 한다. 모드미분은 모드 기반 축소 기저의 2차항의 형태로, 선형모드의 조합으로 근사 가능한 변위벡터를 미소변위에 대한 Taylor 급수를 통해 확인할 수 있으며, 시스템의 고유치 문제를 모드 좌표로 미분을 함으로써 얻어진다. 모드미분에는 비선형 접선 강성행렬의 미분을 포함하고 있으며, 이는 유한차분법 등의 근사를 통해 계산할 수 있다. 제안된 방법론은 기하학적 비선형 문제에 우수한 성능을 보이는 동시회전 유한요소법에 적용하였다. 수치예제를 통해 보의 경계가 수평으로 움직일 수 있는 문제에서는 기존의 모드축소기법이 매우 비효율적임을 알 수 있었다. 한편 모드미분을 이용한 축소기법은 다양한 경계조건에 대하여 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.1271-1278
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• 2012

Genetic fusion of two proteins frequently induces beneficial effects to the proteins, such as increased solubility, besides the combination of two protein functions. Here, we study the effects of the bacterial surface layer protein SgsE from Geobacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a on the folding of a C-terminally fused enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) moiety. Although GFPs are generally unable to adopt a functional confirmation in the bacterial periplasm of Escherichia coli cells, we observed periplasmic fluorescence from a chimera of a 150-amino-acid N-terminal truncation of SgsE and EGFP. Based on this finding, unfolding and refolding kinetics of different S-layer-EGFP chimeras, a maltose binding protein-EGFP chimera, and sole EGFP were monitored using green fluorescence as indicator for the folded protein state. Calculated apparent rate constants for unfolding and refolding indicated different folding pathways for EGFP depending on the fusion partner used, and a clearly stabilizing effect was observed for the SgsE_C fusion moiety. Thermal stability, as determined by differential scanning calorimetry, and unfolding equilibria were found to be independent of the fused partner. We conclude that the stabilizing effect SgsE_C exerts on EGFP is due to a reduction of degrees of freedom for folding of EGFP in the fused state.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제90권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2024

In recent years, an increasing number of experimental studies have shown that the practical application of mature active control systems requires consideration of robustness criteria in the design process, including the reduction of tracking errors, operational resistance to external disturbances, and measurement noise, as well as robustness and stability. Good uncertainty prediction is thus proposed to solve problems caused by poor parameter selection and to remove the effects of dynamic coupling between degrees of freedom (DOF) in nonlinear systems. To overcome the stability problem, this study develops an advanced adaptive predictive fuzzy controller, which not only solves the programming problem of determining system stability but also uses the law of linear matrix inequality (LMI) to modify the fuzzy problem. The following parameters are used to manipulate the fuzzy controller of the robotic system to improve its control performance. The simulations for system uncertainty in the controller design emphasized the use of acceleration feedback for practical reasons. The simulation results also show that the proposed H∞ controller has excellent performance and reliability, and the effectiveness of the LMI-based method is also recognized. Therefore, this dynamic control method is suitable for seismic protection of civil buildings. The objectives of this document are access to adequate, safe, and affordable housing and basic services, promotion of inclusive and sustainable urbanization, implementation of sustainable disaster-resilient construction, sustainable planning, and sustainable management of human settlements. Simulation results of linear and non-linear structures demonstrate the ability of this method to identify structures and their changes due to damage. Therefore, with the continuous development of artificial intelligence and fuzzy theory, it seems that this goal will be achieved in the near future.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.141-153
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• 1987

고층 건물의 정확한 거동을 구하기 위한 구조 해석은 컴퓨터 적용의 중요한 분야로 취급되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 건축구조물에 대한 3차원적인 해석방법을 연구하였다. 이 해석 방법은 건물을 각각의 독립된 프레임의 조합체로 보고 해석하므로 매우 효율적이며, 건물의 3차원적인 거동에 관한 고려는 건물이나 하중이 대칭이 아닐 때는 특히 중요하다. 그리고 matrix condensation 기법을 이용함으로써 컴퓨터의 용량과 해석 시간이 상당히 절약되므로 매우 경제적이다. 본 논문의 건물 구조해석 컴퓨터 프로그램 PFS의 정확성과 효율성을 증명하기 위해 여러가지 예제들에 대해서 SAPIV 에 의한 해석 결과와 비교하였다. 그러므로, 본 논문에서 제안한 해석방법은 고층 건물의 구조 설계에서 매우 효율적이라 할 수 있다.