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Statistical properties of the maximum elastoplastic story drift of steel frames subjected to earthquake load

  • Li, Gang
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.185-198
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    • 2003
  • The concept of performance based seismic design has been gradually accepted by the earthquake engineering profession recently, in which the cost-effectiveness criterion is one of the most important principles and more attention is paid to the structural performance at the inelastic stage. Since there are many uncertainties in seismic design, reliability analysis is a major task in performance based seismic design. However, structural reliability analysis may be very costly and time consuming because the limit state function is usually a highly nonlinear implicit function with respect to the basic design variables, especially for the complex large-scale structures for dynamic and nonlinear analysis. Understanding statistical properties of the structural inelastic deformation, which is the aim of the present paper, is helpful to develop an efficient approximate approach of reliability analysis. The present paper studies the statistical properties of the maximum elastoplastic story drift of steel frames subjected to earthquake load. The randomness of earthquake load, dead load, live load, steel elastic modulus, yield strength and structural member dimensions are considered. Possible probability distributions for the maximum story are evaluated using K-S test. The results show that the choice of the probability distribution for the maximum elastoplastic story drift of steel frames is related to the mean value of the maximum elastoplastic story drift. When the mean drift is small (less than 0.3%), an extreme value type I distribution is the best choice. However, for large drifts (more than 0.35%), an extreme value type II distribution is best.

A Study on the Expansion Methodology of Creative Fashion Design (크리에이티브 패션 디자인의 전개 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Kong Mi-Sun;Chae Keum-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.55 no.2 s.92
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    • pp.45-57
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    • 2005
  • The creative fashion design is the technique which ran be obtained through the structural analysis of the relationship between principle, element-combination and idea-expression. In the research, as the results of theoretical survey of design structure and idea-expression, the structural and subjective designs are classified and defined: a. the structural design is analyzed with the existing examples based on the combinational Idea-expression of the O.C.L method, and b. the subjective design is also analyzed connecting the real examples to Cordon method, Synetic method, Association method, and expansive idea-expression-method obtained by the Experiences of Geometrical Combinations. The research can be summarized as follows: 1. The creative fashion design which emphasizes the geometrical structure utilizes the modification method whirh combines the shapes and constructs extraordinary structural beauty coming from the complex structural principle, that is, emphasis and balance. 2. The creative fashion design which emphasizes specific subjects utilizes the modification method which mimics representative and plastic resemblances and constructs symbolic structural beauty coming from the simple structural principle, that is, material elements.

Structural Design for 2kW Class Wind Turbine Blade by using Design of Experiment (실험계획법을 이용한 2kW급 풍력발전용 블레이드에 대한 구조설계)

  • Lee, Seung-Pyo;Kang, Ki-Weon;Chang, Se-Myong;Lee, Jang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.28-33
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, structural design for 2kW class composite blade is performed by using design of experiment(DOE). A full factorial design is applied to meet the design specifications at the manufacturing process. The analysis of variance(ANOVA) is made in order to determine the significance of effects in an analysis. Structural analysis by using of commercial software ABAQUS is performed to compute the displacement and safety factor of filament wound composite blade. The results show that the proposed method is suitable to analyze the factors at the design of wind turbine blade.

Development of Expert System for Tower Cranes

  • Kim, Ki-sung;Kang, Dong-gil;Hong, Ki-sup
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.27-48
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    • 1999
  • The paper is concerned with application to develop the expert system, which structural analysis and design process for tower cranes. The system is organized into three groups. One is pre-processor for creating input data files, another is `model former' which combines knowledge-base with inference engine for automatic generating structural analysis models, a third is application group for final analysis checks. In this study, geometric subroutine of `model former' designates node positions, nodes, elements numbers and element types. Load data subroutine computes weight of tower crane and device, slewing force, cargo load, wind force form rules or equations in knowledge-base. Also, Property and boundary subroutine applies element properties and boundary conditions to suitable elements and nodes. Design and analysis expert system for tower crane integrates these subroutine, `model former' and pre-processor. RBR(Rule-Base Reasoning) was adopted for a reasoning strategy of this expert system. And this expert system can produce structural analysis model and data, which can be used in ordinary structural analysis program (SAP, ADINA or NASTRAN, etc.). In this paper, this expert system produces format of the analysis model data, which are used in MSC/NASTRAN. The main discussions included in the paper are introduction of the tower crane and structural analysis, composition of the design expert system for tower crane and structural analysis using the expert system.

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The Effect of Impacted Fracture in Glass Fiber Orientation with Injection Molding & Structural Coupled Analysis (사출-구조 연성해석을 통한 Glass Fiber 배향성이 충격 파괴에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Woong;Kim, JongRyang
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.35-41
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    • 2017
  • The use of engineering plastics in automotive components is increasing with the trend towards improving the car strength and reducing weight. Among the different choices of materials, engineering plastic emerged as the necessary material for achieving lower costs, reduced weight and improved production efficiency. To produce the automotive parts, it is important to predict defect and validation of injection molding prior to design. Injection molding analysis and structural analysis are widely applied as a part of the design process when developing automotive parts. Injection molding analysis, in particular, involves a highly complicated mechanism that requires deep knowledge of polymer properties as well as an analytic approach different from that used for a general isotropic material when the molded material is used as a structural material. This is because the parts made of polymer have pre-stress factors such as intrinsic deformation and residual stress. The most important factors for injection molded plastic products are injection molding condition and cavity design, taking into account ease of molding, mass production and application. Despite optimal injection molding conditions and cavity design, however, glass fiber orientation is critically linked to strength reduction. The application of injection molding and structural coupled analysis provides a low-cost solution for product molding and structural validation, all prior to the actual molding. The purpose of this study involves the validation, pre-study, and solution of defect in injection-molded polymer automotive parts using the simulation software for injection molding and structural coupled analysis. Finally, this thesis provides validation of an injection molding and structural coupled analytic mechanism that can demonstrate the effect of glass fiber orientation on mechanical strength. Design improvement ideas for the injection molded product of PPS (Poly Phenylene Sulfide)+40% glass fiber are also suggested.

A Study for Design of Reinforced Concrete Pier Based on Virtual Model (Virtual Modeling 기반의 철근 콘크리트 교각 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Heon-Min;Park, Jae-Geun;Kim, Min-Hee;Choi, Jung-Ho;Shin, Hyun-Mock
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.96-99
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    • 2008
  • When the design modification is occurred, at present, design process based on 2-D spend more time and effort than that based on 3-D to modify related structural details. To improve and develop these processes, therefore, the design possibility of civil structures based on virtual model of 3-D must be investigated. We designed reinforced concrete pier of 3-D model, containing parameters. The parameters was defined as structural details like area of the section, reinforcement specification for design modification and structural analysis. In this paper, we researched about the processes modeling of reinforced concrete bridge pier based on parameters, the extracting data from the virtual model of 3-D, and the reflection of data to virtual model throughout structural analysis.

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Design and Structural Analysis of Leg Extension Machine (레그 익스텐션 기구의 설계 및 구조해석)

  • 이종선;백두성
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.326-330
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    • 2004
  • This study is object to design and structural analysis of Leg Extension Machine. Design tool is AutoCAD and structural analysis of Leg Extension Machine using result from ANSYS Code. This structural analysis results, many variables such as boundary condition, constraint condition and load condition are considered.

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A Study on the Design and Analysis of a Bridge Connecting VLFS (VLFS 연결을 위한 연육교 설계 연구)

  • Cho, Kyu-Nam;Yoo, Kyug-Hun;Kang, Jum-Moon;Yoon, Myung-Cheol;Kim, Oi-Hyum
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.179-184
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    • 2002
  • For the development of the practical design and analysis scheme of a bridge connecting to the typical VLFS, relevant design criteria and theory and techniques are studied and numerical analysis for the verification of the structural safety of the bridge are carried out. For the design of a typical steel bridge, characteristics of proper type bridge are reviewed and the requirements fur the bridge of this kind are studied as well as the environmental loads. By using the design spiral technique, several alternatives are investigated and an efficient type of a bridge is initially designed. Structural idealization is performed to make overall structural analysis first, and the structural behaviors of the proposed bridge in the given loading condition are evaluated. Through this study a bridge is finally proposed and it is found that this one works well for the connecting function of the bridge.

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Distributed Structural Analysis Method on Network of PCs using Substructuring Techniques (부구조기법을 이용한 PC level 분산구조해석법)

  • 박효선;박성무;성창원;김재홍
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 1998
  • Efficiency of design process for large scale structures highly depends on the development of efficient structural analysis and structural response control algorithms because a successful design involves a number of structural analysis based on iterative structural response control process. In this paper, distributed structural analysis model on multiple personal computers connected by ethernet network is presented. To reduce communication cost required in the process of analysis, substructuring techniques are adopted to evenly distribute computational loads on each processor. With its applications on structural analysis of plane frame structures, performance of the proposed computational model are presented in detail.

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Risk Based Accidental Limit State Evaluation on Explosion Accident at Shale Shaker Room of Semi-Submersible Drilling Rig (반잠수식 시추선의 Shale Shaker Room 폭발 사고에 대한 위험도 기반 사고한계상태 평가)

  • Yoo, Seung-Jae;Kim, Han-Byul;Park, Jin-Hoo;Won, Sun-Il;Choi, Byung-Ki
    • Special Issue of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • 2015.09a
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    • pp.69-73
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    • 2015
  • An evaluation of the accidental limit state (ALS) for design of a semi-submersible drilling rig is one of the essential design requirements as well as ultimate limit state (ULS) and fatigue limit state (FLS). This paper describes the ALS evaluation on the explosion accident at shale shaker room of semi-submersible drilling rig. There are three steps for the ALS evaluation such as structural analysis at concept design, risk based safety design and structural analysis at detailed design. For the ALS evaluation at concept design, conceptual explosion overpressure from the Rule guided by the classification society was used in the structural analysis that was carried out using LS-DYNA. To set up the design accidental load (DAL), explosion analysis was carried out using FLACS taking safety barriers into consideration. Then, the structural analysis was carried out applying DAL for the ALS evaluation at detailed design. Through the ALS evaluation on the explosion at shale shaker room, the importance of the risk based safety design was described.

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