• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.15 no.4 s.65
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• pp.369-378
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• 2003

This study proposed a damage index for steel members and examined a process where steel square tubular columns under cycle loading failed to meet the damage index. A nonlinear analysis was carried out and a damage process analyzed using a finite element program. Material properties and strain characteristics were obtained from material testing. The effect on the damage of members was analyzed according to varying kinds of steels and conditions of loading based on material testing results. According to strain characteristics and cumulative plastic strain of each variable, the effect of conditions of loading and kinds of steels on the damage could be estimated quantitatively.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.99-112
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• 2013

This paper presents a subspace system identification for estimating the stiffness matrix and flexural rigidities of a shear building. System matrices are estimated by LQ decomposition and singular value decomposition from an input-output Hankel matrix. The estimated system matrices are converted into a real coordinate through similarity transformation, and the stiffness matrix is estimated from the system matrices. The accuracy and the stability of an estimated stiffness matrix depend on the size of the associated Hankel matrix. The estimation error curve of the stiffness matrix is obtained with respect to the size of a Hankel matrix using a prior finite element model of a shear building. The sizes of the Hankel matrix, which are consistent with a target accuracy level, are chosen through this curve. Among these candidate sizes of the Hankel matrix, more proper one can be determined considering the computational cost of subspace identification. The stiffness matrix and flexural rigidities are estimated using the Hankel matrix with the candidate sizes. The validity of the proposed method is demonstrated through the numerical example of a five-story shear building model with and without damage.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.535-546
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• 2010

Recently, the probability of collision accident between vehicles or vessels and infrastructures are increasing at alarming rate. Particularly, collision impact load can be detrimental to sub-structures such as piers and columns. The damaged pier from an impact load of a vehicle or a vessel can lead to member damages, which make the member more vulnerable to impact load due to other accidents which. In extreme case, may cause structural collapse. Therefore, in this study, the vehicle impact load on concrete compression member was considered to assess the quantitative design resistance capacity to improve, the existing design method and to setup the new damage assessment method. The case study was carried out using the LS-DYNA, an explicit finite element analysis program. The parameters for the case study were cross-section variation of pier, impact load angle, permanent axial load and axial load ratio, concrete strength, longitudinal and lateral rebar ratios, and slenderness ratio. Using the analysis results, the performance based resistance capacity evaluation method for impact load using satisfaction curve was developed using Bayesian probabilistic method, which can be applied to reinforced concrete column design for impact loads.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.395-402
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• 2002

This study proposed a muti-objective optimum design method for rational optimizing of orthotropic steel deck bridges. This multi-objective optimum design method was found to be effective in optimizing multi-objective problems, considering cost and deflection functions. It may ve difficult to optimize orthotropic steel deck bridges using a conventional optimization, since the bridges have several parts and show complex structural behaviors. Therefore, the Pareto curve can be obtained by performing the multi-objective optimization for real orthotropic steel deck bridges, using the multi-level technique with excellent efficiency. A reasonable and economical design can be attained using the Parato curve in the cost and deflection functions of the bridge. Thus, more reasonable design values can be determined based on a comparison with those using a conventional design procedure.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.2264-2269
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• 2008

귀중한 수자원을 효율적으로 관리하고 홍수 피해를 저감하고 환경친화적인 수자원의 역할을 제대로 자리매김하기 위하여 무엇보다 필요한 사항은 신뢰성 있는 유량자료를 기초자료로서 확보하는 것이다. 그러나 유량 측정에 필요한 측정기준의 불명확, 예산과 측정장비의 부족, 전문 인력의 부재로 인해 그동안 유량자료에 대한 문제 제기가 계속되어 온 것이 사실이다. 최근 유량조사사업단의 설립과 함께 정도 높은 유량자료를 생성하고자 유량측정을 전문적으로 담당하는 인력이 유량측정과 분석을 일상적으로 수행하는 등 개선의 노력을 계속하고 있다. 강화된 유량측정 기준과 개선된 방법론에 따른 현장측정을 통해 정밀한 유량측정성과를 확보하였으며, 측정된 유량측정성과의 일상 검증을 통해 보다 정밀한 유량측정성과를 확보하고자 하였다. 또한 유량자료를 생성하여 이를 평가함으로써 유량측정 전 과정이 적절하게 이루어졌는지를 평가하고자 하였다. 그 결과, 낙동강 수계 본류의 주요 9개 대상 지점에 대해 신뢰성 있는 수위-유량관계곡선을 개발할 수 있었다. 개발된 곡선식을 이용하여 유량자료를 생성하고 상 하류간 비교, 유출률 분석 등을 통해 생성된 유량자료를 검토하였다. 확정된 유량자료는 양질의 수준을 갖는 것으로 평가되었다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.169-179
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• 2005

An improved method for evaluating effective buckling lengths of beam-column members in plane frames is newly proposed based on system inelastic buckling analysis. To this end, the tangent stiffness matrix of be am-column elements is first calculated using stability functions and then the inelastic buckling analysis method is presented. The scheme for determining effective length of individual members is also addressed. Design examples and numerical results ?uc presented to show the validity of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.655-663
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• 2016

The present study shows the moment-average curvature relationship and effective inertia moment of RC beams obtained from the nonlinear analysis based on the parabola-rectangular stress-strain curve defined in EC-2 code. The variables examined are concrete strength and steel ratio, and moment-average curvature relationship and effective inertia moment obtained are compared with those of the current KCI provisions. As the results of the comparison, the followings could be said: Since the KCI provisions(the Branson method) were originally derived based on the experimental data ranged from 2.2 to 4 of $M/M_{cr}$ and 1.3 to 3.5 of $I_{ut}/I_{cr}$, thereby within these ranges the inertia moments obtained from the nonlinear analysis are closely agreed with those predicted by the Branson method. However, beyond those range the remarkable difference could be found between the two results. In particular, for beams having low steel ratio the inertia moment resulted from the nonlinear analysis are significantly smaller than those obtained from the KCI(Branson) method. This result may imply that the deflection of lightly reinforced members, such as slabs in buildings, becomes much larger than those calculated according to the current design provisions.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.5 s.39
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• pp.45-54
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• 2004

Since existing hysteretic models for R/C members focused on presenting the degrading stiffness using empirical equations based on experiments, they cannot accurately predict the energy dissipation capacity during cyclic loading. Recently, design equations which can evaluate the energy dissipation capacity of R/C members were developed. Based on those equations, in the present study, an energy-based hysteretic model for flexure-dominated R/C members was developed. The proposed model was devised to dissipate the same energy as the actual one dissipated during a complete load cycle. The proposed model represents the hysteretic behaviors of R/C members accompanied by stiffness degradation and pinching using primary and cyclic curves and six unloading/reloading rules. The proposed model was verified by comparisons with various experimental results. The energy-based hysteretic model can be used to develop computer programs for static and dynamic analysis/design because it is simple and easily applicable to numerical analysis.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.638-644
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• 2002

The stress-strain relationship of polymer concrete flexural member was evaluated using C-shaped polyester concrete specimen, the compressive strength of which is 1400 kgf/$\textrm{cm}^2$. Eccentric compression test was performed to estimate the parameters, ${\alpha}$, ${\beta}$1, ${\gamma}$ for equivalent rectangular stress block. The ultimate moment strength ware obtained from the bending test on reinforced polymer concrete beams which were prepared with S different tensile steel ratios with a shear span ratio of 4.0. These values were compared with theoretical ultimate moment strengths, which were obtained using the parameters ${\alpha}$=0.61 and ${\beta}$1=0.73 from stress-stain curves of C-shaped specimens. The results showed that, when tensile steel ratio was over 0.50 $\rho$b, the experimentally obtained moment strengths were well matched with theoretically calculated values. In order to develop accurate criteria for polymer concrete flexural members, however, many other expermental studies for parameter determination are necessary using C-shaped specimens which have various compressive strengths and different sizes.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.2 no.1 s.4
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• pp.119-126
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• 2002

This paper presents the appropriateness for using high strength reinforcement according to the use of high strength concrete. Nine flexural tests were conducted on full-scale beam specimens according to the concrete strength, reinforcement strength and reinforcement ratio as main variable. The structural behavior was analyzed due to the flexural strength, stress-strain curve, deflections at yielding and fracture point, crack appearance and ductility factor. The member with high-strength reinforcements showed large deflection at yielding point and this was analyzed as a main cause to decrease the ductility factor. Structural behavior after yielding point, however, showed similarity to behavior of members with normal strength reinforcements of same stiffness. It was found that in the case of using reinforcements of $5500kgf/cm^2$ strength, the combination with concrete of $800kgf/cm^2$ strength demonstrated the great appropriateness which can increase the flexural capacity without any reduction of maximum reinforcement ratio.