• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.1041-1049
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• 2003

In this paper, a new local two-point approximation method which is based on the exponential intervening variable is proposed. This new algorithm, called the Two-Point Convex Approximation(TPCA), use the function and design sensitivity information from the current and previous design points of the sequential approximate optimization to generate a sequence of convex, separable subproblems. This paper describes the derivation of the parameters associated with the approximation and the numerical solution procedure. In order to show the numerical performance of the proposed method, a sequential approximate optimizer is developed and applied to solve several typical design problems. These optimization results are compared with those of other optimizers. Numerical results obtained from the test examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.431-437
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 순차 설계영역 (SDD： sequential Design Domain) 개념을 사용한 GUI(Graphic User Interface)환경 프로그램을 개발하였다. 본 프로그램은 상용프로그램인 ANSYS와 최적설계 프로그램인 PLBA(Pshenichny-Lim-Belegundu-Arora)를 연결하고 비주얼 베이직을 이용하여 GUI환경에서 사용자가 초기값과 입력파일을 작성하고 결과를 확인할 수 있도록 하였다. 프로그램의 신뢰도를 검증하기 위해서 3부재 및 5부재 트러스 구조물을 수치예제로 선정하여 해석하였다.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.1257-1267
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• 2001

For efficient mechanical system optimization, a new two-point approximation method is presented. Unlike the conventional two-point approximation methods such as TPEA, TANA, TANA-1, TANA-2 and TANA-3, this introduces the shifting level into each exponential intervening variable to avoid the lack of definition of the conventional exponential intervening variables due to zero-or negative-valued design variables. Then a new quadratic approximation whose Hessian matrix has only diagonal elements of different values is proposed in terms of these shifted exponential intervening variables. These diagonal elements are determined in a closed form that corrects the typical error in the approximate gradient of the TANA series due to the lack of definition of exponential type intervening variables and their incomplete second-order terms. Also, a correction coefficient is multiplied to the pre-determined quadratic term to match the value of approximate function with that of the previous point. Finally, in order to show the numerical performance of the proposed method, a sequential approximate optimizer is developed and applied to solve six typical design problems. These optimization results are compared with those of TANA-3. These comparisons show that the proposed method gives more efficient and reliable results than TANA-3.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.3040-3052
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• 2000

For effective construction of second-order response surface models, an efficient quad ratic approximation method is proposed in the context of trust region model management strategy. In the proposed method, although only the linear and quadratic terms are uniquely determined using 2n+1 design points, the two-factor interaction terms are mathematically updated by normalized quasi-Newton formula. In order to show the numerical performance of the proposed approximation method, a sequential approximate optimizer is developed and solves a typical unconstrained optimization problem having 2, 6, 10, 15, 30 and 50 design variables, a gear reducer system design problem and two dynamic response optimization problems with multiple objectives, five objectives for one and two objectives for the other. Finally, their optimization results are compared with those of the CCD or the 50% over-determined D-optimal design combined with the same trust region sequential approximate optimizer. These comparisons show that the proposed method gives more efficient than others.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2004

기계부품의 설계는 초기 설계, 해석, 성능 평가의 반복 과정을 통하여 수행된다. 설계자는 각 과정에서 특성에 맞는 프로그램을 사용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 순차 설계 영역을 이용한 형상최적화를 수행하였다. 순차 설계영역의 근사함수를 구하기 위하여 Pro/Engineer 와 ANSYS 실행의 자동화를 수행하였다. 전체 설계영역을 근사식으로 표현하기에는 어려움이 있다. 정확도가 높은 근사식을 만들기 위하여 순차설계영역을 설정하여 각 단계에서 수렴한 해로 이동량을 결정하고, 두 번 연속하여 순차설계 영역에 존재하면 수렴조건을 만족하는 것으로 하였다. 각 단계의 해는 순차이차 계획법인 PLBA(Pshenichny-Lim-Belegundu Arora)알고리즘을 이용하여 구하였다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.317-324
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• 2008

대형 구조물에 대한 최적설계를 고려할 때 구조해석에 많은 시간과 노력이 소비된다. 한대의 개인용 컴퓨터에 의한 대형 구조물의 구조해석은 대용량의 기억장치와 많은 계산시간이 요구되므로 반복적 해석이 필요한 대형 구조물의 설계에 효율적으로 이용되기 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제의 대안으로 인터넷이 연결된 다수의 개인용 컴퓨터들로 고성능 병렬연산시스템을 구성하여 구조해석을 분산 처리하여 계산시간을 절감하였다. 아울러 반응표면의 근사를 위해 요구되는 구조해석을 상용 구조해석 어플리케이션으로 해결할 수 있다면 상용성이 확보되어 일반 구조물에 대하여도 반응표면법을 이용한 최적설계를 수행할 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.1022-1027
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• 2004

In this study, the shape of plate-fin type heat sink is numerically optimized to acquire the minimum pressure drop under the required temperature rise. To do this, a new sequential approximate optimization (SAO) is proposed and it is integrated with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In thermal/fluid systems for constrained nonlinear optimization problems, three fundamental difficulties such as high cost for function evaluations (i.e., pressure drop and thermal resistance), the absence of design sensitivity information, and the occurrence of numerical noise are confronted. To overcome these problems, the progressive quadratic response surface method (PQRSM), which is one of the sequential approximate optimization algorithms, is proposed and the heat sink is optimize by means of the PQRSM.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집C
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• pp.386-391
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• 2001

This paper presents a new two-point approximation method based on the exponential intervening variable. To avoid the lack of definition of the conventional exponential intervening variables due to zero- or negative-valued design variables the shifting level into each exponential intervening variable is introduced. Then a new quadratic approximation, whose Hessian matrix has only diagonal elements of different values, is proposed in terms of these intervening variables. These diagonal elements are computed in a closed form, which correct the typical error in the approximate gradient of the TANA series due to the lack of definition of exponential type intervening variables and their incomplete second-order terms. Also, a correction coefficient is multiplied to the pre-determined quadratic term to match the value of approximate function with that of the original function at the previous point. Finally, the authors developed a sequential approximate optimizer, solved several typical design problems used in the literature and compared these optimization results with those of TANA-3. These comparisons show that the proposed method gives more efficient and reliable results than TANA-3.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제25권9호
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• pp.1423-1431
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• 2001

Based on the exponential intervening variable, a new two-point approximation method is presented. This introduces the shifting level into each exponential intervening variable to avoid the lack of def inition of the conventional exponential intervening variables due to zero-or negative-valued design variables. Then a new quadratic approximation whose Hessian matrix has only diagonal elements of different values is proposed in terms of these intervening variables. These diagonal elements are determined in a closed form that corrects the typical error in the approximate gradient of the TANA series due to the lack of definition of exponential type intervening variables and their incomplete second-order terms. Also, a correction coefficient is multiplied to the pre-determined quadratic term to match the value of approximate function with that of the previous point. Finally, in order to show the numerical performance of the proposed method, a sequential approximate optimizer is developed and applied to solve six typical design problems. These optimization results are compared with those of TANA-3. These comparisons show that the proposed method gives more efficient and reliable results than TANA-3.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.698-707
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• 2003

A new quadratic response surface modeling method is presented. In this method, the incomplete small composite design (ISCD) is newly proposed to .educe the number of experimental runs than that of the SCD. Unlike the SCD, the proposed ISCD always gives a unique design assessed on the number of factors, although it may induce the rank-deficiency in the normal equation. Thus, the singular value decomposition (SVD) is employed to solve the normal equation. Then, the duality theory is used to newly develop the conservative least squares fitting (CONFIT) method. This can directly control the ever- or the under-estimation behavior of the approximate functions. Finally, the performance of CONFIT is numerically shown by comparing its'conservativeness with that of conventional fitting method. Also, optimizing one practical design problem numerically shows the effectiveness of the sequential approximate optimization (SAO) combined with the proposed ISCD and CONFIT.