• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.405-415
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• 2011

For the safe seismic design of buildings, it is necessary to predict the plastic deformation demands of the members as well as the story drift ratio. In the present study, a simple method of estimating the beam plastic rotation was developed for special-moment-resisting steel frame structures designed with strong column-weak beam behavior. The proposed method uses elastic analysis rather than nonlinear analysis, which is difficult to use in practice. The beam plastic rotation was directly calculated based on the results of the elastic analysis, addressing the moment redistribution, the column and joint dimensions, the movement of the plastic hinge, the panel zone deformation, the gravity load, and the strain-hardening behavior. In addition, the rocking effect of the braced frame or core wall on the beam plastic rotation was addressed. For verification, the proposed method was applied to a six-story special-moment frame designed with strong column-weak beam behavior. The predicted plastic rotations of the beams were compared with those that were determined via nonlinear analysis. The beam plastic rotations that were predicted using the proposed method correlated well with those that were determined from the nonlinear pushover analysis.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.9 no.3 s.43
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• pp.69-75
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• 2005

In this paper, the comparative performance of repaired RC columns using steel and CFRP is presented. Also, the effect of transverse reinforcement ratio on the behavior of the steel and the CFRP repairing is investigated. Monotonic and cyclic load tests are conducted on nine RC column specimens with different repairing strategies and transverse reinforcement ratios to compare the load-displacement curves and the hysteretic behaviors. From the tests, it is observed that both steel and CFRP jacket repairings can significantly increase the displacement ductility and the ultimate load capacity of damaged columns.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.725-730
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• 2010

The leak-before-break behavior and the crack opening displacement were investigated of statically indeterminate piping system and statically determinate piping system after a crack penetration. The reduction in the ultimate strength caused by a crack was relatively small in the statically indeterminate piping system. The leak-before-break in the statically indeterminate piping system had a larger safety margin than that in the statically determinate piping system. The crack opening displacement after crack penetration in a pipe with a nonpenetrating crack was evaluated by using a plastic rotation angle.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.71-78
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• 1989

In this paper a computer program for displacement control method was developed, in which a certain displacement of the structure is increased and the applied loads and another displacements are obtained. To simplify the nonlinear structural analysis, the relationships of moment-curvature were linearized as elasto-softening model for over-reinforced concrete beam and as elasto-plastic-softening model for under-reinforced concrete beam. Since the result of the analysis of reinforced concrete beam depended on the element size beyond elastic zone, the relationship of moment-curvature was modified for each element by using the concept of fracture energy approach. Overall, analytical results accurately predicted the load-displacement behavior of reinforced concrete beams.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.81-89
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• 2005

Relationship between dynamic friction resistances and shear displacement rate, and other frictional characteristics of non-geotextile-involving geosynthetic interfaces was experimentally studied. A cyclic, displacement rate-controlled experimental setup built on a shaking table was used. The subsequent multiple rate tests showed that interfaces that do not involve geotextiles have distinct shearing characteristics that can be differentiated from the interfaces involving geotextiles. Unlike those of the geotextile-involving interfaces, shear behaviors of the interfaces involving only non-geotextiles tend to be not sensitive to shear displacement rate, and are approximately rigid-perfectly plastic.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.629-638
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• 2005

본 연구대상 사면은 연장이 300m이고 최대 사면높이가 80m에 달하는 대절토 사면으로 서 총 11 소단으로 이루어져 있으며, 전 사면에 걸쳐 Soil Nail 공법으로 보강이 되어있다. 사면 상단부에 설치된 2개의 경사계를 이용하여 주기적으로 사면의 수평방향 변위 계측을 실시하던 중, 사면 하부의 소단 굴착과정에서 상대적으로 급격한 사변경사 방향의 수평변위가 발생한 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서는 사면의 수평방향 변위 계측결과 분석 및 대상 사면에 대한 수치해석을 통하여 사면의 안정성 여부를 판단하고자 하였으며, 굴착단계별 수평방향 변위량 및 변위 양상을 분석함으로써 급격히 증가한 변위의 원인을 파악하였다. 수치해석을 통해 나타난 사면 굴착 단계에 따른 사면 토체의 소성영역을 도시한 결과, 사면 전체에 걸쳐 대규모 파괴면이 나타났으며 파괴활동면이 Soil Nail 로 보강된 영역의 바깥쪽에 위치하여 사면 안정성 확보를 위한 대책방안이 수립되어야 할 것으로 판단되었다. 또한 보다 자세한 원인 규명을 위한 확인 시추조사를 실시하여 하부 지층 특성을 파악하였으며, 하부에 풍화가 심하고 절리 및 균열이 심한 파쇄구간이 분포하고 있음이 확인되었다. 연구 대상 사면의 변위 계측 결과, 수치해석 결과, 확인 시추 조사 결과 및 예상되는 사면 활동의 규모 등을 고려할 때 사변의 안정성 확보를 위한 대책방안이 수립되어야 하며, 본 사면은 억지말뚝과 Ahchor 공법 적용이 가장 적절할 것으로 판단되었다.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.247-256
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• 2009

This research was conducted to analyze the behavior of PTCP (Post-Tensioned prestressed Concrete Pavement) under tensioning by performing field tests when the experimental PTCP slab was being constructed. The displacements in the slab under the environmental loading and tensioning were measured using temperature measurement sensors and displacement transducers. Tensioning was performed three times and appropriateness of tensioning could be determined by investigating the relationship between temperature and displacement, behavior of transverse crack, and daily change in displacement. The results of this study showed that under the first tensioning at very early age, large displacements were observed only near the joints because of the friction between slab and underlying layer and concrete inelasticity. Under consecutive tensioning, displacements were clearly observed all over the slab, but still affected by the friction. In addition, appropriate tensioning ensured the one-slab behavior of the PTCP slab even though cracks existed.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.223-232
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• 2003

In this study, a constitutive model called the disturbed state concept (DSC) was modified to be applied to the interface shear stress-displacement relationship between geosynthetics. The DSC model is comprised of two reference states, namely the relative intact (RI) and the fully adjusted (FA) state, and one function, namely the disturbance function. This model is a unified approach and can allow for various models as an RI state such as elastic-perfectly plastic model, hierarchical model, and so on. In addition, by using this model, the elastic and plastic displacements can be considered simultaneously. Comparisons between the measured data and predicted results through the parameters determined from four sets of large direct shear tests showed good agreements with each other, especially for the smooth geomembrane-involved interface. Although there are slight differences at peak shear strength for textured geomembrane-involved interface, this model can still be useful to predict the position of displacement at peak strength and the large displacement (or residual) shear strength.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.79-88
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• 2003

For the construction of PC bridge piers the implementation of 1992 seismic provisions, longitudinal steels were practically lap-spliced in the plastic hinge region. Experimental investigation was conducted ductility of evaluate the seismic earthquake-experienced reinforced concrete columns with 2,5 aspect ratio. Six test specimens were mode with test parameters: confinement ratios, lap splices, and retrofitting FRP materials. They were damaged under series of artificial earthquakes that could be compatible in Korean peninsula. Directly after the pseudo-dynamic test, damaged columns were retested under inelastic reversal cyclic loading simultaneously under a constant axial load, P＝0.1f$\_$ck/A$\_$g/. Residual seismic performance of damaged columns was evaluated and compared to that of the corresponding original columns. Test results show that PC bridge piers with lap-spliced longitudinal steels appeared to fail at low ductility. This was due to the debonding of the lap splice, which resulted from insufficient development of the longitudinal steels. The specimens externally wrapped with composite FRP straps in the potential plastic hinge region indicated significant improvement both in flexural strength and displacement ductility.

• Composites Research
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.1-11
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• 1999

Cyclic deformation and fatigue behavior of $Al/$Al_2O_3$ metal matrix composites and matrix alloy were studied. Hatigue strength Al/$Al_2O_3$ composites was about 210MPa, and that of Al matrix alloy was 170MPa. Most of the resultant displacement due to permanent plastic deformation occurred in less than the first 5% of fatigue life. In case of composites, decrease of cyclic displacement was smaller than that of matrix because the reinforcements acted as barriers to dislocation movement. Consequently, cyclic stress-displacement response curve can be considered to have these atages ; an initial few cycles of rapid hardening, followed by progressive hardening for most the fatigue life, and then just prior to failure, an instantaneous drop in stress carrying capability of the material due to multiple microcrack initiation, eventual coalescence of microcrack to form a macrocrack and then rapid macroscopic crack growth.