• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.57-62
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• 2011

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.5 s.39
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• pp.65-77
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• 2004

In this study, the base isolation systems for equipment in the NPP are presented and the responses of each isolation system are investigated. As for the base isolation systems, a natural rubber bearing (NRB) and a high damping rubber bearing (HDRB) are selected. As input motions, artificial time histories enveloping the US NRC RG 1.60 spectrum and the probability-based scenario earthquake spectra developed for the Korean nuclear power plant site as well as a typical near-fault earthquake record are used. Uniaxial, biaxial, and triaxial excitations are conducted with PGAs of 0.1, 0.2 and 0.25g. The reduction of the seismic forces transmitted to the equipment models are determined for different isolation systems and input motions.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.15-23
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• 2017

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.486.1-486
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.431-431
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• 1999

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.6 s.52
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• pp.67-77
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• 2006

Seismic activity of Korea is not so high as that of Japan or California and most of the structures were designed without considering the influence of earthquakes until the first seismic design code was enforced in 1988. Therefore, it was very hard to find seismically isolated structures in Korea until 1980's. Korean engineers assumed that the seismic isolation or vibration control would be useful only in a high seismicity region while such technologies can be quite useful in a low seismicity region for the efficient reduction of earthquake damages. Recently, Korean engineers began to have interest in the seismic isolation or vibration control and applied it to some important structures such as LNG storage tanks, many bridges and several buildings. However, design codes are not defining such useful advanced technologies for the design of building structures and several projects employing seismic isolation or vibration control in the design of structures had difficulties in obtaining construction permit from the local government. Therefore, it is an urgent requirement to introduce these advanced technologies in the seismic design code.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.33 no.1 s.368
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• pp.18-21
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• 2000

우리나라에서도 연평균 19회의 지진이 발생하고 있으며 78년에 일어난 홍성지진은 건물에 균열이 가는 피해를 입었다. 지진에 무감했던 우리나라는 88년 처음으로 내진설계기준을 건축법에 도입했고 96년엔 5층 이상 공동주택에도 적용, 실시했다. 내진설계는 2가지 개념으로 나누는데 면진구조설계는 구조물의 고유주기를 길게 하는 것으로 당산철교 등에 적용했고 제진구조설계는 건물의 흔들림을 컨트롤 제어하는 설계로 인천국제공항 22층 관제탑 시공에 적용하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.325-336
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• 2012

Smart base isolation systems developed for structures in high seismic regions cannot be directly applied to structures in regions of low-to-moderate seismicity, such as Korea. Therefore, the problems that occur by applying the smart base isolation system for high seismic regions to the structures in regions of low-to-moderate seismicity have been investigated in this study. To this end, a five-story building is used as an example, and an MR damper and low damping elastomeric bearings were used to compose a smart base isolation system. Artificial earthquakes are simulated for ground motions in regions of high and low-to-moderate seismicity. Based on numerical simulation results, the MR damper capacity that can provide good control is quite different among regions of high and low-to-moderate seismicity. Moreover, it is noted that the properties of a smart base isolation system for the regions of low-to-moderate seismicity should be carefully designed because the base isolation effects of the smart base isolation system for high seismic regions deteriorate when it is applied to the structures in regions of low-to-moderate seismicity.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.1743-1750
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• 2001

This paper presents an analysis of nonlinear response of the seismically isolated structure against earthquake excitation to evaluate isolation performances of a rubber bearing. In the analysis of the vibration of building, the building is modeled by lumped mass system where the restoring force is considered as linear, bilinear and trilinear. Fundamental equations of motion are derived for the base isolated structure, and hysteretic and nonlinear-elastic characteristics are considered for a numerical calculation. The excitation levels are magnified fur the recorded strong earthquake motions in order to examine dynamic stability of the structure. Seismic responses (of the building are compared fur the each restoring force type. As a result, it is shown that the effect of the motion by the nonlinear response of the building is comparatively not so large from a seismic design standpoint. The responses of the isolated structures reduce sufficiently and controled the motion of the building well in a practical range. By increasing the acceleration of the earthquake, the yielding of the farce was occurred in the concrete and steel frame, which shows the necessity of the exact nonlinear dynamic analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.420-422
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• 2004

This paper reports the results of performance verification tests of the base isolated RC building with the laminated rubber bearings which is manufactured by Dongil Rubber Belt Co.. The shaking table tests were performed using a scaled 3-story model scaled to 1/3 of the prototype RC apartment building. Several major earthquake records were scaled to different peak ground accelerations and used as input base excitations. Through the verification tests, the validity of the applied base isolation device and the response reduction effect against earthquakes are confirmed.