The flange spreader has been used to withdraw gaskets and valves during butterfly valve maintenance. When using the conventional flange spreader, an excessive working space (pipe separation distance) appears, and the pipe and flange are damaged by the load. Also, the equipment can’t be operated safely when the pipe has eccentric fitting. To solve the problems, a valve easy out tool with collet was developed for safely fixing and spreading flange. By using Ansys Workbench 2021 R2, the structural analysis of the original collet was performed, and shape design of the collet was carried out to improve structural safety.

본 논문에서는 등가 단자유도를 이용하여 구조부재의 정적변위를 고려하는 해석기법을 제시하였다. 기존의 단자유도 비선형 동적 해석 알고리듬을 구조부재의 초기정적변위의 영향을 고려할 수 있도록 개선하였다. 가정된 폭발하중 지속시간과 부재의 고유주기 비 에 따라 정적변위가 최대응답에 미치는 영향의 차이와 폭발하중의 방향과 초기변위의 방향에 따른 차이를 확인하였다. 이에 따라 기 존의 응답 차트를 정적변위를 고려할 수 있도록 폭발하중의 형태에 따라 각각 제시하였다. 설계 예제를 정적변위가 고려된 응답 차트 에 적용하여 부재의 최대 변위를 비교 및 분석하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 통해 초기 정적변위를 고려한 구조부재의 최대응답을 쉽게 산 정할 수 있으며 본 연구에서 제시한 응답 차트는 플랜트 또는 군사시설물의 내폭 설계에 활용될 수 있다.

Recently, cultural heritages in South Korea gain many interests of restoration and preservation from the government since many of that have been severely damaged during earthquakes. Many previous studies in both terms of experimental and analytical approaches have been done to examine structural behavior and decide appropriate methods of preservation. Being motivated by such researches, this research aims to investigate a religious stone pagoda dated back to the Goryeo Dynasty in Korea. The structure consists of a granite stone foundation and baked bricks, which resembles the shape of traditional pagodas. In order to examine the structural behavior of the pagoda, an analytical model is implemented using ANSYS, a comprehensive engineering simulation platform. For the time history analysis of the pagoda, several earthquake excitations are chosen and input to simulation modeling. Seismic response of the tower such as time domain, natural frequency, modal shapes and peak acceleration measured at each layer are presented and discussed. In addition, the amplification ratio of the tower is calculated from the accelerations of each layer to determine tower stability in accordance with Korean seismic design guide. The determination and evaluation of status and response of the brick tower by simulation analysis play an important role in the preservation of history as well as valuable architectural heritages in South Korea.

A simplified method for earthquake response analysis of a rectangular liquid storage tank is proposed with fluid-structure interaction considered. In order to simplify the complex three-dimensional structural behavior of a rectangular liquid storage tank, it is assumed that structural deformation does not occur in the plane parallel to the direction in which the earthquake ground motion is applied but in the plane perpendicular to the direction. The structural deformation is approximated by combining the natural modes of the simple beam and the cantilever beam. The hydrodynamic pressure, the structure’s mass and stiffness, and the hydrodynamic pressure’s added mass are derived by applying the Rayleigh-Ritz method. The natural frequency, structural deformation, pressure, effective mode mass, and effective mode height of the rectangular liquid storage tank are obtained. The structural displacement, hydrodynamic pressure, base shear, and overturning moment are calculated. The seismic response analysis of an example rectangular liquid storage tank is performed using the proposed simplified approach, and its accuracy is verified by comparing the results with the reference solution by the finite element method. Existing seismic design codes based on the hydrodynamic pressure in rigid liquid storage tanks are observed to produce results with significant errors that cannot be ignored.

The plastic deformation behavior of additively manufactured anisotropic structures are analyzed using the finite element method (FEM). Hill’s quadratic anisotropic yield function is used, and a modified return-mapping method based on dual potential is presented. The plane stress biaxial loading condition is considered to investigate the number of iterations required for the convergence of the Newton-Raphson method during plastic deformation analysis. In this study, incompressible plastic deformation is considered, and the associated flow rule is assumed. The modified returnmapping method is implemented using the ABAQUS UMAT subroutine and effective in reducing the number of iterations in the Newton-Raphson method. The anisotropic tensile behavior is computed using the 3-dimensional FEM for two tensile specimens manufactured along orthogonal additive directions.

경주 방폐물 처분시설의 1단계 시설로 건설된 지하 사일로 구조는 2014년에 10만 드럼 규모로 완공되어 현재 운영중에 있다. 지하 사일로 구조는 지름 25m, 높이 50m로써 방폐물을 저장하는 실린더부분과 돔 부분으로 구성되어 있으며, 돔부분은 운영터널과 연결 되는 하부 돔 부분과 상부 돔 부분으로 구분할 수 있다. 지하 사일로 구조의 벽체는 철근콘크리트 라이너이고, 두께는 약 1m이다. 본 논문에서는 지하 사일로 구조의 건설과정 및 운영과정의 단계별 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. SMAP-3D 프로그램을 사용하여 2차원 축대칭 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. 2차원 축대칭 유한요소모델의 신뢰성을 검토하고자 3차원 유한요소해석도 수행하였다. 본 논문 에서는 지하 사일로 구조의 구조거동을 분석하고 구조적 안전성을 검토결과를 제시하였다.

본 논문에서는 축하중과 폭발하중을 동시에 받는 철근콘크리트 부재의 구조 거동을 분석하였다. 기본적인 폭발하중을 받는 패널 실험 데이터, 축하중과 폭발하중을 받는 철근콘크리트 기둥 실험데이터를 이용하여 비선형 동적해석 모델링을 검증하였다. 축하중의 적용에 있어서 Autodyn은 동적해석만을 위한 프로그램이기 때문에 축하중과 같은 정적 하중에 대한 초기 응력 상태를 모사하는 해석 절차를 제시하였다. 축하중비 0%~70% 구간과 TNT 등가량에 의존한 환산거리 1.1~2.0에 해당하는 매개변수를 선정하여 총 80개의 비선형 동적 유한요소해석을 진행하였다. 축하중비와 환산거리의 변화를 통해 손상정도와 최대 변위 및 회전각으로 구조 거동을 비 교 분석한 결과로 원거리 폭발하중에서 축하중을 받는 기둥의 강성 증가로 최대 변위가 감소한다. 결과적으로 축하중비 10%~30%, 30%~50%, 50% 이상의 영역 3가지로 구조적 거동 분류가 가능함에 따라 내폭 설계 모델 개발에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 보인다.

Seismic demand on nonstructural components (NSCs) is highly dependent on the coupled behavior of a combined supporting structure- NSC system. Because of the inherent complexities of the problem, many of the affecting factors are inevitably neglected or simplified based on engineering judgments in current seismic design codes. However, a systematic analysis of the key affecting factors should establish reasonable seismic design provisions for NSCs. In this study, an idealized 2-DOF model simulating the coupled structure-NSC system was constructed to analyze the parameters that affect the response of NSCs comprehensively. The analyses were conducted to evaluate the effects of structure-NSC mass ratio, structure, and NSC nonlinearities on the peak component acceleration. Also, the appropriateness of component ductility factor (R p) given by current codes was discussed based on the required ductility capacity of NSCs. It was observed that the responses of NSCs on the coupled system were significantly affected by the mass ratio, resulting in lower accelerations than the floor spectrum-based response, which neglected the interaction effects. Also, the component amplification factor (a p) in current provisions tended to underestimate the dynamic amplification of NSCs with a mass ratio of less than 15%. The nonlinearity of NSCs decreased the component responses. In some cases, the code-specified R p caused nonlinear deformation far beyond the ductility capacity of NSCs, and a practically unacceptable level of ductility was required for short-period NSCs to achieve the assigned amount of response reduction.

In this study, the design of the lower arm, a type of suspension for a 4 wheel drive vehicle, was dealt with through structural analysis. In the case of the existing lower arm, cracks occurred in the neck, so it is necessary to reduce the maximum stress in order to extend the life of the analysis model. Based on this, various design changes were made, and the maximum stress generated was compared through structural analysis of each design change model. For structural analysis, a unit load (1N) was applied in the vertical direction to the lower arm model, and the results were analyzed relative to each other. As a result of analysis through various design changes, case 3, a model in which the stress concentration applied to the lower arm was relieved, showed an increase in strength of about 51% compared to the existing model.