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Korean Society of Steel Construction (한국강구조학회)
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Fatigue Field Test of Variable Message Sign Structure and Evaluation of AASHTO Specifications

가변정보판이 설치된 지주구조물에 대한 피로 시험 및 AASHTO설계기준 적용성 평가

  • 박종섭 (상명대학교 토목환경공학부)
  • Received : 2005.09.13
  • Accepted : 2005.12.29
  • Published : 2006.02.27
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Abstract

Message Signs (VMS) structures offer an increase in traffic safety through their ability to relay massages to motorists for warnings of hazards ahead, traffic congestion, accidents, and lane closings. The geometry of these signs sometimes results in the significant cyclic loading of the supports structure due to wind gusts, which can result from passing trucks or from natural wind. This study presents the results of analytical and experimental investigations of VMS structures. The commercially available softwareGTSTRUDL (2003) was used to perform space-frame structural analyses of these welded tubular structures. Fatigue evaluations were performed using stress ranges from field measurements and from structural analyses. Based on the results of the structural analyses that were conducted, where fatigue design loadings that had been derived from AASHTO Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaries, and Traffic Signals (2001) were used, the structures that had been studied were found not to have infinite fatigue life. According to the limited measurements that were made in this study, the fatigue design loadings derived from AASHTO Specifications (2001) appear to be conservative, but they are not overly conservative. The results of this study should be used to make a reasonable design of VMS structures, and to maintain their standards.

가변정보판이 설치된 지주 구조물은 차량 운전자들에게 안개, 사고 등에 의한 교통혼잡 및 유지 보수를 위한 차선 통제 등 발생 가능한 위험 사항을 경고해 줌으로서 안전사고예방에 큰 역할을 수행하고 있다. 이러한 지주구조물은 자연풍과 트럭이 하부를 통과하면서 생기는 바람으로 인하여 반복피로하중을 받게 된다. 본 연구에서는 가변정보판이 설치된 지주구조물에 대한 피로성능을 평가하기 위하여, 유한요소해석 프로그램인 GTSTRUDL(2003)을 이용한 구조해석 및 현장시험이 실시되었다. 구조해석 및 현장시험결과를 토대로 본 대상구조물의 안전성 및 피로수명을 검토하였다. 피로성능평가 분석결과 본 대상 구조물은 AASHTO(2001) 교통신호 지주구조물을 위한 설계기준이 제시하고 있는 무한피로 수명을 확보하고 있지 못함을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 본 연구결과를 토대로 AASHTO(2001) 설계기준이 안전 측으로 트러스형 지주구조물에 적용 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 대상 구조물보다 상대적으로 작은 경간장을 가지는 국내 교통신호 지주구조물을 위한 설계 및 유지보수기준 마련에 본 연구가 매우 유용하게 활용될 것이다.

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