• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.49-60
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• 2010

The actual hysteretic behavior of structural elements and systems is smooth. Smooth hysteretic behavior is more representative of actual behavior than bi-linear or piece-wise linear stiffness degrading models. The strength reduction factor in seismic design is used to reduce the elastic strength demand to design levels. In this study, the effect of smoothness on the strength reduction factor is evaluated for several smooth hysteretic systems subjected to near-fault and far-fault earthquakes. For design purposes, a simple expression of the strength reduction factor considering hysteretic smoothness and earthquake characteristics, represented as near-fault and far-fault earthquakes, is proposed. The strength reduction factors calculated by the proposed simple formulation are more similar to the factors directly obtained from inelastic response spectrum analyses than those calculated by several existing formulas.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.57-66
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• 1982

This study is directed toward the statical analysis of the curved girder bridge having irregular supports, This paper is specifically intended to propose an analytical methods in order to obtain the forces and displacements a section of girder bridges for mini-computer design. Transfer matrix, one of the efficient and widly used techniques in the structual analysis for mini-computer, is applied for characteristics of the section of curved girder bridges considering practical applicability of the solution method. Also, by eliminating the terms which contain the central angle of the member, in their denominators it has shown that this solution may also be used for the girder bridges whose axes become straight.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.308-308
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• 2016

기후변화는 하천 수문특성을 변화시켰으며, 이로 인해 홍수와 가뭄과 같은 자연재해로 인한 피해와 발생빈도가 점차 증가하고 있다. 이에 따라 기후변화에 대비한 유역관리를 위해 유역특성을 고려한 정확한 수문예측이 요구되고 있다. 다양한 유역특성 중에서 수문곡선의 감수부는 유역의 토성, 경사, 대수층 특성 등에 영향을 받는다. 하지만 대부분 유출 모의 모형에서는 이를 고려하지 않고 유역 전체가 동일한 감수특성을 가지고 있다고 가정하여 모의를 한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 미계측 유역에서의 유출 모의가 가능한 Soil and Water Assessement Tool(SWAT) 모형을 활용하여 소유역 별 수문곡선의 감수부 특성이 기저유출 모의 결과에 대한 영향을 분석하였다. alpha factor는 SWAT 모형의 다양한 매개변수 중 한가지로 수문곡선의 감수부 특성을 나타내는 매개변수이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 소유역 중에서 실측 유량자료가 활용 가능한 소유역에 대하여 Web-based RECESS를 통해 alpha factor를 직접 산정하였다. 이렇게 산정한 alpha factor를 SWAT 모형에 적용하여 유출 모의를 한 뒤 모의 결과로부터 기저유출을 분리하였다. SWAT 모형의 기본 입력값(default value)을 적용에 따른 기저유출 분리결과와 실측 유량자료로부터 산정된 alpha factor 적용에 따른 기저유출 분리결과를 비교한 결과 실측 유량자료로부터 산정된 alpha factor를 적용 시 기저유출 모의 결과가 실제 기저유출에 더 가까운 값을 나타내었다. 하지만 alpha factor의 산정 방법 특성 상 실측 유량자료 부재시 이를 산정할 수 없다는 한계점이 있다. 이에 실측 유량자료를 이용한 기존의 alpha factor 산정 방법을 대체할 수 있는 alpha factor 산정 방법을 개발한다면 정확한 기저유출 모의가 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.55 no.1
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• pp.23-32
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• 2022

This paper performs two-dimensional numerical simulation of surface water-groundwater coupled flow and solute transport to investigate the effect of the hyporheic exchange at the sediment-water interface (SWI) on surface solute transport. For the impermeable bed case in the absence of hyporheic flow, the trapping effect of flow recirculation associated with the ripple bed controls the shape of breakthrough curves (BTCs). However, the permeable bed case with hyporheic flow stimulates the extended tailing of the BTCs more significantly due to the elevated concentration of the BTC tailing resulting from slow hyporheic velocity. Also, the increased bottom pressure at the SWI with an increase in surface velocity shortens the BTC tailing because of increasing hyporheic velocity. These results infer that hyporhiec flow is critically important in predicting solute residence times in surface water.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.474-480
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• 2018

FRP is a new material that is lightweight, has high strength and high durability, and is emerging as a third construction material in many countries. The composite material panel targeted in this study was a curved member and is the most frequently used arch-shaped member of a structures, such as tunnels. Composite curved panels can be produced in high quality and large quantities through automation operations. On the other hand, the frequency of application is low, and the design criteria and experimental data are lacking. Therefore, this study examined the mechanical performance of the member unit first to verify its performance as structural members of the FRP curved panel. For this purpose, tensile, compression, and connection performance tests were carried out. The tensile tests showed greater tensile strength of specimens with larger curvature, and the compression tests showed that the composite section of a composite material has greater compressive strength than the concrete section. Finally, the test of the performance of the connection showed that the attachment performance of the connection was more than equal to that of the FRP composite material panel.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.54-62
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• 2017

This paper describes the behavior and failure probability of the basic structural members in a fire for the fire safety assessment of offshore structures. A fire safety assessment can be accomplished by comparing the fire resistance of the members with the fire severity of the heat load due to fire. The fire severity is represented as the maximum temperature of the members using the Eurocode 1 standard fire curve and heat transfer equation. On the other hand, the fire resistance is the limiting temperature calculated by a simplified formula in the case of simple structural members. Considering the complexity of FPSOs and offshore structures, a general-purpose structural analysis program should be used and the limiting temperature obtained by analyzing the structural strength of the members through an elasto-plastic analysis with a large deflection, and compared with the maximum temperature. Also, the equality of these two methods of evaluating the fire resistance was confirmed by comparing them. Following three criteria, the strength, serviceability and stability, three failure modes, namely the first failure of a hinge, large deflection and buckling, were chosen. The failure temperature was verified for each failure mode. using the AFOSM method in the equation of the fire severity and fire resistance, thereby giving the failure probability of the member. By applying these processes to the example of a beam and plate, the behavior of the structure and failure (temperature?) of each failure mode can be determined.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.193-201
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• 1992

A new equivalent curved beam theory is developed for the analysis of the corner part of ship structures, in which effects of distributed loads and asymmetricity with two or three connected parts are considered. Equivalent loads are obtained from equilibrium conditions between the distributed loads and the member forces and moments at the ends of curved beam. And an equivalent curved beam for the asymmetric structure is obtained by superposing the equivalent symmetric parts which have equivalent stiffness. From the sample calculation, it is found that the results of the new equivalent curved beam theory are well agreed with those of finite element method using membrane elements with little computing time and sufficient accuracy.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.2169-2179
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• 2013

The compressive strengths of simply supported columns may be significantly increased by reinforcing them with an assemblage of cross-arms and stayed struts connecting both ends of the columns and the cross-arm members. The purpose of the stayed struts and cross-arms is to introduce partial restraints against translation and rotation, thereby decreasing the effective buckling length of the column. In this study, buckling strengths of the assembled column system have been quantitatively evaluated from the theoretical methods based on both the equivalent spring model and the stiffness matrix formulation. And the results were compared with those from elastic/inelastic analysis using a finite element analysis package program, ABAQUS, for verification purpose. Expected compressive strength curves have been proposed for the assembled column system as a function of slenderness ratio of the simply supported column.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.89-97
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• 1991

Conventional aseismic design methods of R/C frame all but disregard the state of damage over the entire building frame. This paper presents an automated damage-controlled design method for R/C frames which aims at an uniform energy dissipation rate throughout the building frame, so that the resulting damage is uniformly distributed as much as possible over all element. The accuracy of the basic hystertic model and the damage model for R/C members is verified by reproducing the experimental load-deformation curves of one-bay one-story frames. Application of this design method to various frame structures indicate that 1) regardless of the structural properties or input earthquake characteristics, damage-controlled frames generally survive more severe earthquake excitations and suffer less damage than conventionally designed frames, and 2) member yielding strength in the lower stories of damage-controlled frames is larger than that for conventionally designed frames, while the trend is opposite in the upper stories.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.277-289
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• 2005

The study examines the limit strength for steel cable-stayed bridges. A case studies have been performed in order to evaluate the limit strength lot steel cable-stayed bridges using nonlinear inelastic analysis approach and bifurcation point instability analysis approach, effective tangent modulus $(E_f)$ method. To realize it, a practical nonlinear inelastic analysis condoling the initial shape is developed. In the initial shape analysis, updated structural configuration is introduced instead of initial member forces for beam-column members at every iterative step. Geometric and material nonlinearities of beam-column members are accounted by using stability function, and by using CRC tangent modulus and parabolic function, respectively Besides, geometric nonlinearity of cable members is accounted by using secant value of equivalent modulus of elasticity. The load-displacement relationships obtained by the proposed method are compared well with those given by other approaches. The limit strengths evaluated by the proposed nonlinear inelastic analysis for the proposed cable-stayed bridges with tee dimensional configuration compared with those by the inelastic bifurcation point instability analyses.