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Deformation Behavior of Carbon Fibers by Monitoring Change in Electrical Resistance

  • 최준식;조재환
    • Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.248-251
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    • 1998
  • 최근 전자, 의료, 인공지능, 합금, 고분자 등의 여러 분야에 걸쳐 smart 재료에 관한 연구가 흥미롭게 진행되고 있는데, smart 재료의 특성은 Sensor-processor-actuator의 기능을 한 재료 시스템 내에 갖고 있는 경우를 뜻하기 때문에 자기진단, 자기수복기능 및 자기조정기능을 가질 수 있다[1]. (중략)

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Numerical and experimental research on actuator forces in toggled active vibration control system (Part I: Numerical)

  • Mirfakhraei, Seyyed Farhad;Ahmadi, Hamid Reza;Chan, Ricky
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.229-240
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    • 2020
  • In this research, toggled actuator forces were examined. For achieving to this object, an actuator was installed in a toggle pattern in a S.D.O.F frame and actuator forces were investigated thru a numerical analysis process. Within past twenty years, researchers tried to use strong bracing systems as well as huge dampers to stabilize tall buildings during intensive earthquakes. Eventually, utilizing of active control systems containing actuators to counter massive excitations in structures was emerged. However, the more powerful earthquake excitations, the more robust actuators were required to be installed in the system. Subsequently, the latter process made disadvantage to the active control system due to very high price of the robust actuators as well as their large demands for electricity. Therefore, through a numerical process (Part I), influence of toggled actuator pattern was investigated. The algorithm used in the system was LQR and ATmega328 was selected as a control platform. For comparison, active tendon control system was chosen. The final results show clearly that using the toggle pattern mitigates the required actuator forces enormously leading to deploy much lighter actuators.

Fabrication of Soft Textile Actuators Using NiTi Linear Shape Memory Alloy and Measurement of Dynamic Properties for a Smart Wearable (스마트 웨어러블용 NiTi계 선형 형상기억합금을 이용한 소프트 텍스타일 액추에이터 제작 및 동적 특성 측정)

  • Kim, Sang Un;Kim, Sang Jin;Kim, Jooyong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.44 no.6
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    • pp.1154-1162
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the soft textile actuator is produced for a smart wearable with the shape memory effects from linear shape memory alloys of Nickel and Titanium using the driving force through the fabrication process. The measurement model was designed to measure dynamic characteristics. The heating method, and memory shape of the linear shape memory alloy were set to measure the operating temperature. A shape memory alloy at 40.13℃, was used to heat the alloy with a power supply for the selective operation and rapid reaction speed. The required amount of current was obtained by calculating the amount of heat and (considering the prevention of overheating) set to 1.3 A. The fabrication process produced a soft textile actuator using a stitching technique for linear shape memory alloys at 0.5 mm intervals in the general fabric. The dynamic characteristics of linear shape memory alloys and actuators were measured and compared. For manufactured soft textile actuators, up to 0.8 N, twice the force of the single linear shape memory alloy, 0.38 N, and the response time was measured at 50 s.

Robust Vibration Control of Smart Structures via Discrete-Time Fuzzy-Sliding Modes (이산시간 퍼지-슬라이딩모드를 이용한 스마트구조물의 강건진동제어)

  • Choi, Seung-Bok;Kim, Myoung-Suk
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.3560-3572
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    • 1996
  • This paper presents a new discrete-time fuzzy-sliding mode controller for robust vibration control of a smart structure featuring a piezofilm actuator. A governong equation of motion for the smart beam structure is derived and discrete-time codel with mismatched uncertainties such as parameter variations is constructed ina state space. A discrete-time sliding mode control system consisting of an equivalent controller and a discontinuous controller is formulated. In the design of the equivalent part, so called an equivalent controller separation method is adopted to achieve vzster convergence to a sliding surface without extension of a sliding region, in which the system robustness maynot be guaranteed. On the other hand, the discontinuous part is constructed on the basis of both the sliding and the convergence conditions using a time-varying feedback gain. The sliding moide controller is then incorporated with a fuzzy technique to appropriately determine principal control parameters such as a discountinuous feedback gain. Experimental implementation on the forced and random vibraiton controls is undertaken in order to demonstrate superior control performance of the proposed controller.

Active Vibration Control of Underwater Hull Structure Using Macro-Fiber Composite Actuators (MFC 작동기를 이용한 수중 Hull 구조물의 능동 진동 제어)

  • Kwon, Oh-Cheol;Sohn, Jung-Woo;Choi, Seung-Bok
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.138-145
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    • 2009
  • Structural vibration and noise are hot issues in underwater vehicles such as submarines for their survivability. Therefore, active vibration and noise control of submarine, which can be modeled as hull structure, have been conducted by the use of piezoelectric materials. Traditional piezoelectric materials are too brittle and not suitable to curved geometry such as hull structures. Therefore, advanced anisotropic piezocomposite actuator named as Macro-Fiber Composite(MFC), which can provide great flexibility, large induced strain and directional actuating force is adopted for this research. In this study, dynamic model of the smart hull structure is established and active vibration control performance of the smart hull structure is evaluated using optimally placed MFC. Actuating performance of MFC is evaluated by finite element analysis and dynamic modeling of the smart hull structure is derived by finite element method considering underwater condition. In order to suppress the vibration of hull structure, Linear Quadratic Gaussian(LQG) algorithm is adopted. After then active vibration control performance of the proposed smart hull structure is evaluated with computer simulation and experimental investigation in underwater. Structural vibration of the hull structure is decreased effectively by applying proper control voltages to the MFC actuators.

Analysis of decimation techniques to improve computational efficiency of a frequency-domain evaluation approach for real-time hybrid simulation

  • Guo, Tong;Xu, Weijie;Chen, Cheng
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1197-1220
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    • 2014
  • Accurate actuator tracking is critical to achieve reliable real-time hybrid simulation results for earthquake engineering research. The frequency-domain evaluation approach provides an innovative way for more quantitative post-simulation evaluation of actuator tracking errors compared with existing time domain based techniques. Utilizing the Fast Fourier Transform the approach analyzes the actuator error in terms of amplitude and phrase errors. Existing application of the approach requires using the complete length of the experimental data. To improve the computational efficiency, two techniques including data decimation and frequency decimation are analyzed to reduce the amount of data involved in the frequency-domain evaluation. The presented study aims to enhance the computational efficiency of the approach in order to utilize it for future on-line actuator tracking evaluation. Both computational simulation and laboratory experimental results are analyzed and recommendations on the two decimation factors are provided based on the findings from this study.

Design of an actuator for simulating wind-induced response of a building structure

  • Park, Eun Churn;Lee, Sang-Hyun;Min, Kyung-Won;Chung, Lan;Lee, Sung-Kyung;Cho, Seung-Ho;Yu, Eunjong;Kang, Kyung-Soo
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.85-98
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, excitation systems using a linear mass shaker (LMS) and an active tuned mass damper (ATMD) are presented to simulate the wind induced responses of a building structure. The actuator force for the excitation systems is calculated by using the inverse transfer function of a target structural response to the actuator. Filter and envelop functions are used to prevent the actuator from exciting unexpected modal responses and an initial transient response and thus, to minimize the error between the wind and actuator induced responses. The analyses results from a 76-story benchmark building problem for which the wind load obtained by a wind tunnel test is given, indicate that the excitation system installed at a specific floor can approximately reproduce the structural responses induced by the wind load applied to each floor of the structure. The excitation system designed by the proposed method can be effectively used for evaluating the wind response characteristics of a practical building structure and for obtaining an accurate analytical model of the building under wind load.