• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1996.11b
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• pp.683-689
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• 1996

본 논문의 목적은 현재 국내에서 개념설계중인 KALIMER(Korea Advanced LIquid MEtal Reactor) 원자로구조물에 대한 면진성능과 내진여유도를 평가하여 이들 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 주요 설계변경 부위를 검토하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 ANSYS 범용 유한요소해석코드를 이용하여 원자로구조물에 대한 3차원 유한요소해석모델을 작성하고 이로부터 집중질량 스프링으로 이루어진 지진해석모델을 개발하여 지진해석을 수행하였다. KALIMER 원자로 구조물에 대한 내진평가결과 내진능력(Seismic Capability)은 0.35g로 나타났으며 이는 Reactor Vessel Liner, Separation Plate그리고 Support Barrel의 연결부위의 수직 강성을 증가시키는 설계변경을 통하여 크게 향상될 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.13-22
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• 2001

지진하중을 받는 다경간 단순형교의 낙교방지대책으로 적용되는 cable restrainer를 적절하게 설계하기 위해서는 restrainer의 보강효과에 대한 분석이 우선적으로 이루어져야한다. 본 연구에서는 단순지지 다경간 교량시스템을 중심으로 restrainer로 보강된 교량의 보강효과와 다양한 교량의 영향 요소를 고려할 수 있는 단순화된 해석모형을 개발하였으며, 이를 바탕으로 대상교량의 인접 진동계간의 상대거리, 충돌력, 하부교각으로 전달되는 전단역과 휨모멘트의 변화 등의 동적거동특성을 조사하여 restrainer의 보강효과를 분석하였다. 또한, restrainer의 여유길이 변화, 강성변화, 그리고 restrainer 길이변화에 따른 응답특성을 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.03a
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• pp.239-249
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• 2002

The Turbine Building of nuclear power plant is classified as non safety-related structure. During the operation, there may be possibility the original licensing basis would be changed, which makes non safety-related structure safety-related. Such a change in regulation requires utility to perform seismic qualification for the existing structure and their facilities. Thus it is meaningful to evaluate seismic margin of the existing non-qualified building structure. In addition, in this paper it is shown that a modification to the structure can enhance their seismic capacity.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.03a
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• pp.220-227
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• 2002

This study introduces the fragility analysis method for the safety evaluation of reinforced concrete pier subject to earthquake. Damage probability is calculated instead of the failure probability from definition of the damage state in the fragility curve. Not only the damage model determined by the response of structure subject to earthquake, but also the plastic-damage model which can represent the local damage is applied to fragility analysis. The evaluation method of damage state by damage variable in global structure is defined by this procedure. This study introduces the fragility analysis method considering the features of nonlinear time history behavior of reinforced concrete element and the plastic behavior of materials. At last, This study gives one of the approach method for seismic margin evaluation with the result of fragility analysis to design seismic load.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.57-64
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• 2012

Since a seismic exceeding design load can result in exposing radioactive material during disposal process of radioactive wastes, the repository should be designed with enough seismic margin. In this paper, a seismic fragility analysis was performed to evaluate the seismic capacity of surface facility structures. According to the analysis results, since inspection & store facility and radioactive waste facility have a rectangle geometry, the seismic capacity was differently presented about 23%~43% according to the axis of structures. The HCLPF capacity of inspection & store facility and radioactive waste facility was 0.52g and 0.93g, respectively. And it was observed that seismic capacity of radioactive waste facility was similar to that of a containment for nuclear power plants.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.31-40
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• 1998

The purpose of this study is to investigate static elastoplastic behaviour and estimate ultimate resistance capacity of a high-rise apartment shear wall system subjected to a vertical distribution of lateral loading along the height. A typical 25-story two unit plan apartment is selected as a representive model. For the analysis, the pushover analysis is adopted to estimate initial elastic stiffness, post-yielding stiffness and story shear yield resistance level on each story of the structure through three-dimensional nonlinear analysis program-CANNY. In the result of elastoplastic analysis, it is observed that the yield strength of building structures is 1.6 times larger than required lateral design strength.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.28-39
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• 2013

The most common housing type in Korea is low-rise buildings with unreinforced masonry walls (UMWs) that have been known as a vulnerable seismic-force-resisting system (SFRS) due to the lack of ductility capacities compared to high lateral stiffness of an UMW. However, there are still a little experimental investigation on the shear strength and stiffness of UMWs and on the seismic performance of buildings using UMWs as a SFRS. In Korea, the shear strength and stiffness of UMWs have been evaluated with the equations suggested in FEMA 356 which can not reflect the structural and material characteristics, and workmanship of domestic UMW construction. First of all, this study demonstrates the differences in shear strength and stiffness of UMWs obtained from between FEMA 356 and test results. The influence of these differences on the seismic performance of UMW buildings is then discussed with incremental dynamic analyses results of a prototype UMW building that were selected by the site survey of more than 200 UMW buildings and existing test results of UMWs. The seismic performance assessment of the prototype UMW building are analyzed based on collapse margin ratios and beta values repesenting uncertainty of seismic capacity. Analysis results show that the seismic performance of the UMW building estimated using the equations in FEMA 356 underestimates both a collapse margin ratio and a beta value compared to that estimated by test results. Whatever the estimation is carried out two cases, the seismic performance of the prototype building does not meet the criteria prescribed in a current Korean seismic code and about 90% collapse probability presents for more than 30-year-old UMW buildings under earthquakes with 2400 return years.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.57-65
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• 2007

Earthquake is one of the factors to affect the stability of geotechnical structures. Numerous past earthquakes have shown that earthquakes have taught that damage of soil structures could occur on fine soils as well as coarse soils. For that reason, earthquake-induced decreasing tendency for strength on both coarse and fine soils has been investigated using direct simple shear (DSS) tests in laboratory. Based on the testing results the decreasing tendency for strength on coarse and fine soils is clearly identified in terms of the concept of volume decrease potential and plasticity index, respectively. Most of the soils except the weathered soil have shown similar reduction tendency of strength with the increasing number of cycles. Liquefaction strength of coarse and fine soils appears to decrease with the increment of volume decrease potential and the decrement of plasticity index, respectively. Reduction of strength on the weathered soil is particularly remarkable rather than others, which might be owing to the collapse phenomenon. From the DSS test results for soils, proposed is a simple method to evaluate strength decrement with the increasing number of cycles, and it can help estimate decrement of strength with the number of cycles easily.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.97-104
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• 2000

Evaluating a Review-Level Ground Motion is a key to efficiently perform Seismic Margin Assessment of nuclear power plants whose purpose is to determine a ground motion level for which a plant has high-confidence-of-a-low-probability of seismic-induced core damage and to identify any weaker-link components. In this study a method to obtain RLGMs is reviewed which is recommended by Electric Power Research Institute and implemented to be applied to Limerick site in eastern and central U. S as a case study. This method provides reasonable and site-specific RLGMs as minimum required plant HCLPF for SMA that meet a target mean seismic core-damage frequency based on seismic hazard results and generic values of uncertainty and randomness parameters of the core-damage fragility curves. In addition high-frequency RLGM is justifiably modified to reflect the increased seismic capacity of high-frequency components and spatial variation and incoherence of input ground motion on a basemat of large structures by establishing a method to obtain high0-frequency reduction factors according to EPRI guidelines.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.169-174
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• 2001

원자력발전소 배관계통에 존재하는 균열을 해석하는 방법으로, 이제까지는 균열을 고려하지 않은 상태에서 지진하중을 고려한 탄성 배관해석을 수행하여, 배관에 작용하는 하중을 구한 후, 다음 단계에서 파괴해석 방법으로 균열을 가정한 탄소성 균열해석을 수행하는 2단계의 해석을 통해 균열안정성을 평가해 왔다. 이러한 방법은 전체 배관의 거동과 배관 내에 존재하는 균열의 거동을 서로 독립적인 것으로 고려하고 있으며 재료물성치로는 설계값을 사용하는 등의 보수적인 가정들을 포함하고 있어 배관에 작용하는 하중 또는 응력을 과도하게 계산하는 결과를 초래하고 있다 특히, 지진하중과 같은 반복적인 외부 동적하중이 작용하는 경우, 배관에 국부적인 소성변형이 발생함에도 이를 단지 탄성거동으로 간주하게 되는 것이다. 이러한 몇몇 보수적 가정들을 포함하고 있는 기존의 해석방법은 지나친 보수성을 가질 뿐만 아니라, 균열에 의한 실제 배관의 파단하중과 계산에 의한 파단하중의 비교로서 배관의 안전여유도를 예측하는 방법으로는 적절하지 못하다.(중략)