• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.19 no.1 s.71
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• pp.93-103
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• 2006

It is absolutely essential that safety assessment of the containment buildings during service life because containment buildings are last barrier to protect radioactive substance due to the accidents. Therefore, this study describes an enhanced degenerated shell finite element(FE) which has been developed for nonlinear FE analysis of reinforced concrete(RC) containment buildings with elasto-plastic material model. For the purpose of the material nonlinear analysis, Drucker-Prager failure criteria is adapted in compression region and material parameters which determine the shape of the failure envelop are derived from biaxial stress tests. Reissner-Mindlin(RM) assumptions are adopted to develop the degenerated shell FE so that transverse shear deformation effects is considered. However, it is found that there are serious defects such as locking phenomena in RM degenerated shell FE since the stiffness matrix has been overestimated in some situations. Therefore, shell formulation is provided in this paper with emphasis on the terms related to the stiffness matrix based on assumed strain method. Finally, the performance of the present shell element to analysis RC containment buildings is tested and demonstrated with several numerical examples. From the numerical tests, the present results show a good agreement with experimental data or other numerical results.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.60-68
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• 2003

Tension tests of six half-thickness concrete containment wall elements were conducted as a part of Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) program. The aim of the KAERI test program is to provide a test-verified analytical method for estimating capacities of concrete reactor containment buildings under internal overpressurization from postulated degraded core accidents. The data from the tests reported herein should be useful for benchmarking analytical method that require modeling of material behavior including concrete cracking behavior and reinforcement/concrete interaction exhibited by the test. Major test variable is compressive strength of concrete, and its effect on the behavior of prestressed concrete panel subjected to biaxial tension is investigated.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.18 no.4 s.70
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• pp.335-345
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• 2005

This paper concentrates on the nonlinear analysis of prestressed concrete (PSC) containment structures. Unlike a commercialized program which adopts the perfect bond assumption between concrete and tendon in the analysis of PSC structures, a numerical algorithm to consider the slip effect, simultaneously with the use of commercialized programs such as DIANA and ABAQUS, is introduced in this paper For bonded tendons, the apparent yield stress of an embedded tendon is determined from the bond slip relationship. And for unbonded tendons, Correction for the strength and stiffness of unbonded internal tendons is achieved on the basis of an iteration scheme derived from the slip behavior of tendon along the entire length. Finally, the developed algorithm is applied to two PSC containment structures of PWR and CANDU to verify its efficiency and applicability in simulating the structural behavior of large complex structures, and the obtained result shows that both containment structures represent the ultimate pressure capacity larger than about 3 times of the design pressure.

• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.17-28
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• 2002

Safety concern is one of the most important parameters in the design of building demolition by explosive blasting, Accidents were sometimes reported due to the flying chips of fragmented materials In building demolition work in urban area. Laboratory experiments were performed to investigate the failure behavior of reinforced concrete pillars under blast loading and to develop an effective protection technique. Sixteen reinforced concrete pillars were constructed. The failure behavior and the flying chip velocities were observed by means of a high-speed camera. Protection scheme was designed and the effects of several protection materials were investigated. Two kinds of non-woven fabrics and wire net were tested as protection materials. The results showed that reinforcing bar was one of the important factors to determine specific charges, and that mesh size of wire net and tied-up method affected the protection of flying chips. Control of gas effects is also a key to the control of flying chips. It was recommended to use both wire net and non-woven fabrics as primary and secondary protection materials. Such protection scheme was successfully applied to the explosive demolition of apartment buildings.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.577-580
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• 2008

Concrete absorbs $CO_2$ in the air because of carbonation. according to rising concern for lasting earth environment efforts of reducing greenhouse gas, especially co2, are occurred whole industry throughout the world. In this paper selected one building and computed amount of production and absorbtion of co2 during its lifecycle at concrete. In computing amount of absorbtion of co2 considered amount of absorbtion according to the area of concrete changing senarioes of servicelife(40,60,80 years) and deconstruct preiod(60,40,20 years). As a result, size of concrete and maintenance period of disused concrete work increasement of $CO_2$ as main factors. We came to the conclusion that maintenance period is more important than recycle of unused concrete as a method for reducing environmental load in architectural industry.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.363-373
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• 2018

In today's diversified society, it is hard to know which building style represents the architectural style of the time. The simplicity found in monolithic-style buildings forms a symmetrical point with fairly complex structure, and its value can be acknowledged. This study analyzes buildings made of insulating lightweight aggregate concrete in the early 21st century, defines the concept of monolithic expression, and examines how these characteristics are expressed in the space, forms, and structural methods in construction. Unlike a multi-layered exterior wall system, which features multiple layers composed of a variety of materials, the exterior walls built with insulating lightweight aggregate concrete comes in a lump form with a mold form that is tightly filled with concrete as a single material and is monolithic. This is attributed to the creation of spaces characterized by the homogeneity of inner and outer spaces with the use of the same material, continuity of the surface as solidity, spatial characteristics of the stereotomic construction, expression of materiality with the use of exposed concrete, and the contrast of the lump and the space. This not only reveals formal characteristics that expose a discourse about monolithic architecture in contemporary architecture but also provide an opportunity to extend the range of discussion to structures and materials and even to their effects on space.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Grassland and Forage Science
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.227-232
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• 2000

Triticale(Moniko, Presto, Tewo), wheat(Kitami 66, Tsukisarnul, chihoku) and rye(Almo, Warko, Mardar) were harvested in heading, milk, dough and ripe stage. Effects of various harvesting stage on the feed chemical composition and in vitro digestibility(IVDMD) was investigated in these species and varieties. 1. Dry matter yield increased with advancing maturity regardless of forage species. Among the species triticale plants showed the highest yield. 2. The chemical composition of triticale plants in view of feed value generally placed between wheat and rye plants. 3. IVDMDs of triticale plants decreased from heading to dough stage and then increased at yellow ripe stage, while thoes of wheat and rye plants decreased with advancing maturity. Among plant species triticale. plants showed the highest IVDMD at heading and yellow ripe stage, while rye plants showed the lowest value throughout the maturity.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.271-280
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• 2003

The purpose of the study presented in this paper is to develope the general model for capture of the linear and nonlinear response of a flexible diaphragm building in which there are significant contributions from the out-of-plane walls. Two single-story single-diaphragm half scale reinforced masonry buildings were tested by researchers at the United States Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL). The first had a metal deck diaphragm. The second specimen had a diaphragm with a single layer of diagonal lumber sheathing, A multiple degree of freedom (MDOF) approach is adopted in this paper. The required stiffnesses and strengths of the components within this model are determined.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.46-52
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• 2019

This work proposes a noncontact ultrasonic transducer for detecting wall-thinning of containment liner plates of nuclear power plants by measuring their thickness without physical contact. Because the containment liner plate is designed to prevent atmospheric leakage of radioactive substances under severe nuclear accident, its wall-thinning inspection is important for safety of nuclear power plants. Wall-thinning investigation of containment liner plates have been carried out by measuring their thickness with contact-type ultrasonic thickness gauge by inspectors and needs a lot of time and cost. As an alternative, an electromagnetic acoustic transducer measuring precisely thickness of containment liner plates without any physical contact or couplant was suggested in this research. A transducer generating and measuring shear ultrasonic waves in thickness direction was designed and wave field produced by the transducer was analyzed to verify the design. The working performance of the suggested transducer was tested with carbon steel plate specimens with various thicknesses. The test result shows that the proposed transducer can measure thickness of the specimens precisely without any couplant and implies that swift scanning of wall-thinning of containment liner plates will be possible with the proposed transducer.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.25-30
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• 1994

본 고에서는 강한 바람이나 지진에 의한 고층 구조물의 진동을 감소시키기 위하여, 능동제어장치가 효과적으로 사용될 수 있음을 보이었다. 그러나 능동제어장치를 실제 구조물에 널리 적용하기에는 아직 많은 문제점들이 남아있다. 첫째, 효과에 비해 고가의 진동제어장치가 필요하며 유지관리에도 많은 비용이 필요하다. 또한 진동제어장치가 원활히 작동하기 위해서는 계속된 에너지의 공급이 있어야 하는데, 지진과 같은 과도한 구조물의 진동시 이를 보장할 수는 없다. 그러므로 극한상황에서는 진동을 오히려 증폭시킬 수도 있다. 둘째, Control Force의 산정시 사용되는 목적함수의 가중행렬을 결정하는 정형화된 방법이 아직 존재하지 않으며 효율적인 산정을 위해서는 많은 시행착오가 필요하다. 그밖에도 복잡한 실제 구조물의 단순한 모형화에 따라서 여러 문제점들이 발생하기 쉬우며, 실제 제어시에는 시간지연효과나 측정되지 못한 거동에 의한 문제 등이 있다. 구조물의 진동 저감방안에 대한 지금까지의 연구결과로는, 일반적인 경우에 있어서는 Base Isolator와 같이 재료의 감쇠특성을 이용하는 방법이 추천되고 있으나, 현재 내진설계된 고층건물과 같은 대형 구조물의 진동제어 등의 몇몇 경우에 있어서 능동제어의 필요성이 인정되고 있다. 좀더 안정적이고 효율적인 제어기법의 개발에 의해 많은 실제 구조물에 적용 범위를 넓힐 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.