• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.609-624
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• 1997

The optimization of cutouts in composite plates was investigated by implementing a procedure known as Evolutionary Structural Optimization. Perforations were introduced into a finite element mesh of the plate from which one or more cutouts of a predetermined size were evolved. In the examples presented, plates were rejected from around each evolving cutout based on a predefined rejection criterion. The limiting ply within each plate element around the cutout was determined based on the Tsai-Hill failure criterion. Finite element plates with values below the product of the average Tsai-Hill number and a rejection criterion were subsequently removed. This process was iterated until a steady state was reached and the rejection criterion was then incremented by an evolutionary rate and the above steps repeated until the desired cutout area was achieved. Various plates with differing lay-up and loading parameters were investigated to demonstrate the generality and robustness of this optimization procedure.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.557-567
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• 2018

Cylindrical shell structures buckle at service loads which are much lower than their associated theoretical buckling loads. The main source of this discrepancy is the presence of various imperfections which are created on the cylinder body during different processes as manufacturing, handling, assembling and machining. Many cylindrical shell structures are still designed against buckling based on the experimental data introduced by NASA SP-8007 as conservative lower bound curves. This study employed the numerical based Linear Buckling mode shape Imperfection (LBMI) method and modified it using a stochastic method to assess the effect of geometrical imperfections in more details on the buckling of cylindrical shells with and without the cutout. The comparison of results with those obtained from the numerical Simcple Perturbation Load Imperfection (SPLI) method for cylinders with and without cutout revealed a good correlation. The effect of two parameters of size and number of cutouts on the buckling load was investigated using the linear buckling and Modified LBMI methods. Results confirmed that in cylinders with a small cutout inserting geometrical imperfection using either SPLI or modified LBMI methods significantly reduced the value of the predicted buckling load. However, in cylinders with larger cutouts, the effect of the cutout is dominant, thus considering geometrical imperfection had a minor effect on the buckling loads predicted by both SPLI and modified LBMI methods. Furthermore, the modified LBMI method was employed to evaluate the combination effect of cutout numbers and size on the buckling load. It is shown that in small cutouts, an increasing in the cutout size up to a certain value resulted in a remarkable reduction of the buckling load, and beyond that limit, the buckling loads were constant against D/R ratios. In addition, the cutout number shows a more significant effect on decreasing the buckling load at small D/R ratios than large D/R ratios.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.627-641
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• 2003

The structural intensity fields of rectangular plates with single cutout and multiple cutouts are studied. The main objective is to examine the effect of the presence of cutouts on the flow pattern of vibrational energy from the source to the sink on a rectangular plate. The computation of the structural intensity is carried out using the finite element method. The magnitude of energy flow is significantly larger at the edges on the plate near the cutout boundary parallel to the energy flow. The effects of cutouts with different shape and size at different positions on structural intensity of a rectangular plate are presented and discussed. A case study on a plate with two cutouts is also presented.

• 한국공작기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국공작기계학회 2003년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.277-282
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• 2003

The growth-strain method was applied to cutout optimization in laminated composite plates. Since the growth-strain method optimizes a shape by generating the bulk strain to make the distributed parameter uniform, the distributed parameter was chosen as Tsai-Hill value. In this study, of particular interest is to see whether the growth-strain method developed for shape optimization in isotropic media would work for laminated composite Plates. In volume control of the growth-strain method, it makes Tsai-Hill value at each element uniform in laminated composite plates under the predetermined volume. The shapes optimized by Tsai-Hill fracture index were compared with those of the initial shapes for the various load conditions and predetermined volumes of laminated composite plates. As a result, it was verified that volume control of the growth-strain method worked very well for cutout optimization in laminated composite plates.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.1086-1092
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• 2007

This paper is concerned with the vibration analysis of a rectangular plate with multiple circular holes. On the contrary to the case of rectangular plate with multiple rectangular holes, it is very difficult to perform qualitative analysis on natural vibration characteristics because of geometrical inconsistency. In this paper, we applied the Independent Coordinate Coupling Method(ICCM) to the addressed problem, which was developed to compute natural vibration characteristics of the rectangular plate with a circular hole and proven to be computationally effective. The ICCM is based on Rayleigh-Ritz method but utilizes independent coordinates for each hole domain. By matching the deflection conditions for each hole imposed on the expressions, we can easily derive the reduced mass and stiffness matrices. The resulting equation is then used for the calculation of the eigenvalue problem. The numerical results show the efficacy of the Independent Coordinate Coupling Method.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.881-887
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• 2007

This paper is concerned with the vibration analysis of a rectangular plate with multiple rectangular holes. Even though there have been many methods developed for the addressed problem, they suffer from computational time. In this paper, we applied the Independent Coordinate Coupling Method(ICCM) to the addressed problem, which was developed to compute natural vibration characteristics of the rectangular plate with a rectangular hole and proven to be computationally effective. The ICCM is based on Rayleigh-Ritz method but utilizes independent coordinates for each hole domain. By matching the deflection conditions for each hole imposed on the expressions, we can easily derive the reduced mass and stiffness matrices. The resulting equation is then used for the calculation of the eigenvalue problem. The numerical results show the efficacy of the Independent Coordinate Coupling Method.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.413-420
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• 2012

본 논문은 2차원 선형탄성 직접 경계요소법에서 저매개변수 요소를 사용할 때 Kernel의 적분방법에 대하여 논의하였다. 일반적으로 등매개변수 요소의 경우 형상함수로 통칭되는 해의 기저함수와 요소의 적분을 위해 사용되는 사상함수를 동일하게 사용한다. 그러나 본 논문에서는 사상함수의 차수를 낮게 취하여 순수기저절점을 도입하고 그때 직접 경계요소의 Kernel을 적분하기 위한 방법이 모색되었다. 일반적으로 경계요소법의 적분 Kernel의 경우 Log수치적분과 코쉬주치(Cauchy principal value) 등을 통해 해결하는데, 본 논문에서는 대수적 조작을 통해 적분값의 정확도를 높일 수 있도록 새로운 수식을 유도하였다. 본 연구에서 저매개변수 기반의 직접 경계요소에 대한 강건성과 정확도를 검증하기 위해 2차원 타원형 편미분방정식으로 표현되는 평면응력과 평면변형문제에 대해 적용하였다. 적용 예제로는 단순연결영역(simple connected region)의 대표적 문제인 캔틸레버보와 다중연결영역(multiple connected region)의 대표적인 문제인 개구부가 있는 사각평면에 대해 각각 수치해석을 수행한 결과 대폭적인 자유도의 감소에 비해 정확도 측면에는 기존의 방법과 차이가 없음을 볼 수 있었다. 본 논문에서 제시된 방법은 기저함수 고차화 저매개변수 직접 경계요소법(subparametric high order boundary element)과 이에 기초를 둔 저매개변수 고차 이중경계요소법(subparametric high order dual boundary element)의 초석이 될 수 있을 것이다.