• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.205-220
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• 2014

This paper is concerned with the modification of multidisciplinary feasible formulation for MDO problems using the integrated coupled approximate models. A drawback of conventional MDFs is the numerical difficulty in decomposing the design variables and deriving the coupled equations of state. To overcome such a drawback of conventional methods, the coupling in analysis and design is resolved by approximating the state variables in each discipline by the response surface method and by modifying the optimization formulation using the corresponding integrated coupled approximate models. The validity, reliability and effectiveness of the proposed method are illustrated and verified through two optimization problems, a mathematical MDF problem and the multidisciplinary optimum design of suspension unit of wheeled armored vehicle.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.59-81
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• 2012

A ductility inverse-mapping method for SDOF systems including passive dampers is proposed which enables one to find the maximum acceleration of ground motion for the prescribed maximum response deformation. In the conventional capacity spectrum method, the maximum response deformation is computed through iterative procedures for the prescribed maximum acceleration of ground motion. This is because the equivalent linear model for response evaluation is described in terms of unknown maximum deformation. While successive calculations are needed, no numerically unstable iterative procedure is required in the proposed method. This ductility inverse-mapping method is applied to an SDOF model of bilinear hysteresis. The SDOF models without and with passive dampers (viscous, viscoelastic and hysteretic dampers) are taken into account to investigate the effectiveness of passive dampers for seismic retrofitting of building structures. Since the maximum response deformation is the principal parameter and specified sequentially, the proposed ductility inverse-mapping method is suitable for the implementation of the performance-based design.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2242-2244
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• 2004

This paper deals with the design of a reduced-order stabilizing controller for the linear system. The coupled lineal matrix inequality (LMI) problem subject to a rank condition is solved by a sequential semidefinite programming (SDP) approach. The nonconvex rank constraint is incorporated into a strictly linear penalty function, and the computation of the gradient and Hessian function for the Newton method is not required. The penalty factor and related term are updated iteratively. Therefore the overall procedure leads to a successive LMI relaxation method. Extensive numerical experiments illustrate the proposed algorithm.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.1283-1291
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• 2003

원하는 주파수 응답을 갖는 불균일 전송선로(NTL)는 일차원 역산란 문제에서 결합모드 Zakharov-Shabat(ZS) 방정식으로부터 포텐셜을 합성함으로서 구현할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 ZS 방정식을 사용하여 제한된 포텐셜범위를 갖도록 하는 임의 반사계수를 갖는 NTL을 효율적으로 합성하는 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 특정한 윈도우 함수를 사용한 반사계수를 목표치로 한 경우보다 합성된 선로의 길이가 짧아지는 장점을 가진다. 또한 ZS 역변환시 연쇄법을 사용함으로서 기존의 반복법에 의한 계산과정을 간소화시켰다. 분산특성을 갖는 NTL 필터 설계에 제안한 방법을 적용함으로서 특정한 윈도우를 목표치로 한 기존의 방법과 비교, 분석하였으며, chain 행렬을 사용한 2-포트 해석을 통해 타당성을 검증하였다.