• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.147-152
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• 2015

Corrosion of steel reinforcement is a major factor in the deterioration of harbour and bridge structure. Steel corrosion in concrete must be checked for assessing the condition of a reinforced concrete structure. There are several ways how to measure the corrosion condition of reinforced concrete, but the corrosion potential measurement is a very simple, rapid, cost-effective and non-destructive technique to evaluate the severity of corrosion in reinforced concrete structure, therefore commonly used by engineers. However some particular situations may not relate to the reinforcement corrosion probability and a simple comparison of the corrosion potential data with the ASTM C876 Standard on steel reinforcement corrosion probability could be meaningless and not give reliable informations because of environment factors as oxygen concentration, chloride content, concrete resistance. Therefore this paper explains the risk of corrosion assessment in reinforced concrete structure and how many factors can affect the reliability of the corrosion potential data.

• Composites Research
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.59-65
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• 2005

This report is on the Reinforcing System(MFRI) for Concrete Structure using FRP ROD & High-Performance Mortar. The main characteristic of this system is as follow. First, the fiber rods in this system have seven times greater tensile strength than general reinforcing steel bars(re-bar) and the weight is a fifth lighter. Camels coated on the fiber rods' surfaces to improve adhesive strength and pull-out strength. Second, high strength shotcrete mortar is has very good workability and low rebound rate. After installing the Fiber Rods, Shotcrete mortar Is applied or sprayed to finish reinforcement. Finally, MFRI system has excellent fire-resisting performance and sogood tolerance against external environment by inserting fiber rods and reinforcing materials into mortar which has high compressive strength. It is applied to bridge slab, utility box and tunnel of civil engineering works, and beam and slab of building structures.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.19-26
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• 2010

This study was conducted to find out the reasonable optimum design method of agricultural reinforced concrete structures. Selected design variables are the dimension of concrete section, reinforced steel area, and objective function is formulated by cost function. To test the reliability, efficiency, possibility of application and reasonability of optimum design method, both continuous optimization method and mixed-discrete optimization method were applied to the design of reinforced concrete superstructure of aqueduct and application results were discussed. It is proved that mixed-discrete optimization method is more reliable, efficient and reasonable than continuous optimization method for the optimum design of reinforced concrete agricultural structures.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.165-170
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• 2009

In this study, the flexural experiment was conducted to propose the one-way composite slab system composed of concrete and GFRP-Deckplate by comparing with the composite deck slab system with bar-mesh As a result of experiment, the specimens of the proposed GFRP-Deck composite slab were better than the specimens for comparison in the flexural performance. It is effective for the building structures exposed to air pollution or salt.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.103-110
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• 2010

Carbonation is one of the major deterioration factors for concrete. So. lots of researchers have proposed the equations for determining carbonated depth and the initial time of steel corrosion due to carbonation to predict the service life of concrete structures. However, there are large gaps among the equations for predicting carbonation because each researcher has different considering factors to predict carbonation depth. So, in this study, we calculated the deviations of the proposed equations for carbonation, and we calculated each researcher different corrosion initiation time. However, it has a lot of deviation. Therefore, we evaluated the probability of steel corrosion considering each deviation using MCS, an analysis method based on probability theory. In the results, we have proposed much advanced information for determining service life of reinforced concrete structures due to carbonation.

• The Journal of Engineering Research
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.5-11
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• 2006

In order to evaluate the seismic performance of a reinforced concrete building structure, four different analyses are carried out. Firstly, conventional pushover analysis with code-specified inverted triangular load pattern is conducted. Secondly, the pushover analysis with uniform load pattern is performed. Thirdly, adaptive pushover analyses with spectral amplification for both EC 8 artificial and Northridge earthquake are carried out. Lastly, Incremental dynamic analyses under a number of scaled PGA for both EC 8 artificial and Northridge earthquake record are performed. Comparative studies demonstrate that the adaptive pushover analysis may be able to explain the response characteristics that conventional pushover analysis with fixed load distribution fails to capture.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.287-295
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• 2001

The purpose of this paper to describe an analytical model that is capable of reproducing the hysteretic behavior of beam-column joints under cyclic loading and to suggest the variable of hysteretic model for the inelastic analysis of R/C frame structures to do this quasi-static analysis using IDARC program was performed for the beam-column joints. The effort to obtain the result of analysis similar to those of experiment was made by determining the value for hysteretic parameters representing stiffness degradation, strength deterioration and pinching effect. The accuracy and reliability of the proposed analytical model was demonstrated by comparison of load-displacement relation, maximum strength, stiffness degradation and energy dissipation.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.127-133
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• 2007

As a fundamental study on the corrosion resistance of reinforced concrete structures using Natural Inorganic Minerals exposed to carbonation environment, The test specimens were concrete(W/C=60%) with Natural Inorganic Minerals content of 0%, 10%. Accelerated carbonation and autoclave corrosion accelerated curing were then conducted with them. The corrosion resistance of steel in concrete with Natural Inorganic Minerals content of 0%, 10% was examined by corrosion form, half-cell potential, polarization resistance, corrosion area and weight loss after 24 hours of autoclave corrosion accelerated curing.The results of the study showed that as for steel in concrete with Natural Inorganic Minerals content of 10%, the corrosion resistance was more excellent than steel in concrete with Natural Inorganic Minerals content of 0%.

• Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.114-120
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• 2000

In this study a computer program considering initial imperfection of wall of axisymmetric reinforced concrete shell which show plastic deformation by large external loading is developed. initial imperfection of wall of axisymmetric reinforced concrete shell is assumed as sinusoidal curve expressed as {{{{ {W }_{i } }}}}={{{{ {W}_{0 } }}}}sin (n$\pi$y/$\ell$)y. The developed program is applied to the analysis of the dynamic response of axisymmetric reinforced concrete shell when the wall has initial imperfection. The initial imperfection of 0.0 -5.0, and 5cm and steel ratio 0.3, and 5% are tested for numerical examples. The effects of the wall initial imperfection and steel ratio on the dynamic response of the axisymmetric reinforced concrete shell are analysed, It is shown that the direction of the initial imperfection is very important factors for determining the dynamic response.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.191-196
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• 2001

국내 경제성장이 증대함에 따라 철근콘크리트 건축구조물은 다양화, 복잡화, 고층화 되고 있으며 이로 인한 사업의 무리한 추진으로 부실시공 등으로 국내에서는 1970년 4월 서울마포의 와우아파트 붕괴사고, 1995년 6월 삼풍붕괴 사고 등 크고 작은 사건 및 사고로 인한 막대한 재산과 고귀한 생명의 손실 등이 사회적인 문제로 대두되면서 건축물의 유지관리 및 안전진단 등에 대한 중요성이 부각되기 시작했다. 이렇게 크고 작은 사고들이 많이 발생함에 따라 기술인 들이 피땀 흘려 건설된 공공시설을 불신하게 되면서 건설공사중인 현장과 사용중인 시설물에 대해서 법으로 규제사항을 강화하거나 새로운 내용이 신설되고 있는 실정이며 전국 중요 시설물에 대한 유지 관리 업의 중요성이 대두되고 있는 실정이다.(중략)