• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.421-440
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• 2007

An optimal design method in cooperated with nonlinear inelastic analysis is presented. The proposed nonlinear inelastic method overcomes the difficulties due to incompatibility between the elastic global analysis and the limit state member design in the conventional LRFD method. The genetic algorithm used is a procedure based on Darwinian notions of survival of the fittest, where selection, crossover, and mutation operators are used to look for high performance ones among sections in the database. They are satisfied with the constraint functions and give the lightest weight to the structure. The objective function taken is the total weight of the steel structure and the constraint functions are load-carrying capacity, serviceability, and ductility requirement. Case studies of a planar portal frame, a space two-story frame, and a three-dimensional steel arch bridge are presented.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-18
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• 1999

Procedures are investigated by which nonlinear finite element shell analysis algorithms can be simplified to provide more cost effective approximate analyses of orthogonally-reinforced concrete flat plate structures. Two alternative effective stiffness formulations, and an unbalanced force formulation, are described. These are then implemented into a nonlinear shell analysis algorithm. Nonlinear geometry, three-dimensional layered stress analyses, and other general formulations are bypassed to reduce the computational burden. In application to standard patch test problems, these simplified approximate analysis procedures are shown to provide reasonable accuracy while significantly reducing the computational effort. Corroboration studies using various simple and complex test specimens provide an indication of the relative accuracy of the constitutive models utilized. The studies also point to the limitations of the approximate formulations, and identify situations where one should revert back to full nonlinear shell analyses.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제72권5호
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• pp.569-583
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• 2019

Tubular steel sections are widespread all over the world because of their strength and aesthetic appearance. Tubular steel members may exhibit local buckling such as elephant foot or overall buckling under extreme compression load. Recently, external bonding of fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) sheets for strengthening these members has been explored through experimental research. This paper presents three-dimensional nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) to investigate the structural behavior of strengthening tubular steel members with FRP against local and overall buckling phenomena. Out-of-roundness and out-of-straightness imperfections were introduced to the numerical models to simulate the elephant foot and overall buckling, respectively. The nonlinear analysis preferences such as the integration scheme of the shell elements, the algorithm for solution of nonlinear equations, the loading procedure, the bisection limits for the load increments, and the convergence criteria were set, appropriately enough, to successfully track the sophisticated buckling deformations. The agreement between the results of both the presented FEA and the experimental research was evident. The FEA results demonstrated the power of the presented rigorous FEA in monitoring the plastic strain distribution and the buckling phenomena (initiation and propagation). Consequently, the buckling process was interpreted for each mode (elephant foot and overall) into three sequential stages. Furthermore, the influence of FRP layers on the nonlinear analysis preferences and the results was presented.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2020

The aerostatic stability analysis of a long-span suspension bridge by the Element-free Galerkin (EFG) method is presented in this paper. Nonlinear effects due to wind structure interactions should be taken into account in determining the aerostatic behavior of long-span suspension bridges. The EFG method is applied to investigate torsional divergence of suspension bridges, based on both the three components of wind loads and nonlinearities of structural geometric. Since EFG methods, which are based on moving least-square (MLS) interpolation, require only nodal data, the description of the geometry of bridge structure and boundaries consist of defining a set of nodes. A numerical example involving the three-dimensional EFG model of a suspension bridge with a span length of 888m is presented to illustrate the performance and potential of this method. The results indicate that presented method can effectively be applied for modeling suspension bridge structure and the computed results obtained using present modeling strategy for nonlinear suspension bridge structure under wind flow are encouragingly acceptable.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.224-229
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• 2007

This paper presents a camera calibration method using several images for three dimensional measurement applications such as stereo systems, mobile robots, and visual inspection systems in factories. Conventional calibration methods that use single image suffer from errors related to reference point extraction in image, lens distortion, and numerical analysis of nonlinear optimization. The camera parameter values obtained from images of same camera is not same even though we use same calibration method. The camera parameters that are obtained from several images of different view for a calibration target is usaully not same with large error values and we can not assume a special probabilistic distribution when we estimate the parameter values. In this paper, the median value of camera parameters from several images is used to improve estimation of the camera values in an iterative step with nonlinear optimization. The proposed method is proved by experiments using real images.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.33-52
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• 1997

비선형 3차원 유한요소 해석법을 이용하여 타이백으로 억지된 토류벽의 거동을 분석하여 설계시에 고려되는 중요 파라미터의 영향을 조사하였다. 제안된 유한요소기법에서 엄지말뚝과 텐던 정착길이는 빔요소로, 토류판은 쉘요소로, 텐던 비정착길이는 스프링 요소로 모델링하였다. 사용된 흙의 거동모델은 사질토의 비선형 거동 특성과 응력이력을 고려할 수 있는 기존의 Hyperbolic 모델을 수정하여 사용하였으며 벽체 전면에서의 굴착, 타이백 설치, 타이조임 그리고 재굴착 등의 모든 축조과정을 단계별로 해석할 수 있는 시뮬레이션 기법을 제안하였다. 여러 가지 주요 설계인자를 변화시키며 파라메트릭 해석을 수행하였고 이 결과 앵커의 위치, 앵커의 비정착 길이, 앵커 조임 하중의 크기와 엄지말뚝의 근입긴이등의 영향을 밝혀낼 수 있었다. 이 해석 결과를 토대로 새로운 설계지침을 제안하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.315-333
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• 2010

The structural behaviors of circular concrete filled steel tube (CFT) structures are investigated by nonlinear finite element method. An efficient three-dimensional (3D) degenerated beam element is adopted. Based on those previous studies, a modified stress-strain relationship for confined concrete which introduces the influence of eccentricity on confining stress is presented. Updated Lagrange formulation is used to consider the geometrical nonlinearity induced by large deformation effect. The nonlinear behaviors of CFT structures are investigated, and the accuracy of the proposed constitutive model for confined concrete is mainly concerned. The results demonstrate that the confining effect in CFT elements subjected to combining action of axial force and bending moment is far sophisticated than that in axial loaded columns, and an appropriate evaluation about this effect may be important for nonlinear numerical simulation of CFT structures.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.19-30
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• 2005

. 본 연구에서는 지반의 비선형을 고려한 하부구조(말뚝지반말뚝캡)의 복잡한 거동과 상부 피어구조와 연계된 상$\cdot$하부 일체화 해석을 수행할 수 있는 3차원 해석기법을 개발하였다. FBPier 3.0과 Croup 6.0의 중간단계에 해당하는 해석기법으로 각 해석기법의 장점을 취하고 단점을 보완하였다. 군말뚝기초 중 말뚝은 말뚝두부 강성행렬을 이용하여 모델링하였으며, 지반은 비선형 하중전이곡선(t-z, q-z, p-y곡선)으로 나타내었다. 말뚝캡은 6개의 자유도를 갖는 개선된 4절점 평면쉘(Flat shell)요소루 교각(피어)은 3차원 보(Beam)요소로 모델링 하여 상$\cdot$하부 일체해석이 가능하게 하였다. 말뚝두부 강성행렬의 하중크기에 따른 비선형성을 고려하기 위하여 점증하중-할선계수법을 제안하였다. 기존의 비선형 해석기법과의 비교$\cdot$분석 결과, 본 해석기법이 말뚝을 FBPier 5.0과 달리 말뚝두부 강성행렬을 이용하여 모델링 하였어도 말뚝두부 및 교각 상단에서의 변위를 비교적 정확히 산정 가능하였다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2002년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.285-290
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• 2002

The double composite box girder is a structural system filled with concrete at the bottom of the steel box in the negative moment region increasing the flexural strengths. Flexural strengths of the double composite steel box girders are investigated through a series of the experimental tests and the numerical analysis. The experimental tests are performed on the three kinds of steel box girders with the different concrete depths including loom, 15cm, and 20cm. Moment-curvature relations are calculated based on the sectional analysis method describing the nonlinear natures of concrete and steel. In the finite element analysis the nonlinear nature of concrete is described based on the three dimensional four-parameter constitutive model recently developed and that of steel is described based on von Mises failure criterion. The ultimate flexural capacities of the box girders predicted using sectional analysis and finite element analysis show good agreement with those of the experiments.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.189-196
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• 2000

Effect of ball filling ratio on the behavior of balls motion and their collision characteristic in a tumbler-ball milling of metal powder are investigated by a computer simulation. The discrete element method and the extended Kelvin model composed of nonlinear spring and nonlinear dashpot were employed in the simulation. It can be possible that analysis of the individual balls motion in a three-dimensional actual mill by the two-dimensional model simulation, since the simulated trajectories of ball paths are in relatively good agreement with the actual ones. It knows that the balls motion in the tumbler-ball mill is strongly influenced by the surface conditions of the balls and mill container wall. The energy consumption of the individual balls during impact and the impact frequency of the individual balls increased with an increase in the ball filling ratio and showed maximum values at about 50-60% ball filling ratio, and then decreased.