초록  In this study, the structural analysis of sway brace device for earthquake-proof which can fix a pipe installed in the building was carried out. The sway brace device was analyzed to evaluate not only the deformations of adaptor fitting, support brace member, structure attachment fitting and clamp sway brace fitting that compose it, but also the effective stress of adaptor fitting combined with support brace member by shear bolt. As a result of structural analysis, it can be seen that the deformation of support brace member influences most of the deformation of sway brace device and the design of adaptor fitting must be modified. Above all, it indicates that the sway brace device is suitable for Korea Fire Institute(KFI) approval standard since its total deformation is smaller than the maximum displacement proposed by KFI. The result of this study can be effectively used to investigate the effective stresses and deformations without the performance test of sway brace device according to its setting angle.

This paper deals with selecting an optimal rapid prototyping(RP) machine that suits the end use of a part. Evaluation factors include only major attributes such as accuracy, roughness, strength, part cost and build time that greatly affect the performance of RP machines. Accuracy, surface roughness and strength are presented as crisp values. The part cost and build time identified as just approximate ranges due to different human cost and many variable parameters are presented by linguistic values. It can be described with triangular fuzzy numbers. Based on the evaluation values obtained, an appropriate RP process for a specific part application can be selected by using the modified TOPSIS(Technique of Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method including crisp data as well as linguistic variables, and each weight on the alternatives is assigned by using a fuzzy weight. The ranking order of all machines provides the decision information for the selection of RP machines.