• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.75-83
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• 2003

The ultimate goal of this research is to improve highway system performance in earthquakes by evaluating the effectiveness of retrofitting bridges with column jacketing. The objective of the study is to determine if steel jacketing increases the ductility capacity of bridge columns and hence improves the fragility characteristics of the bridge. Analytical fragility curves are used to adjust the empirical fragility curves obtained for the unretrofitted bridges using seismic damage data collected following past earthquakes. The adjustment was carried out by increasing the median values of the empirical curves through comparison with the median values of the corresponding fragility curves obtained analytically, both before and after being retrofit.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.34 no.11
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• pp.71-80
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• 2018

In this study, the seismic response of cut-and-cover box tunnels is evaluated from pseudo-static analyses and the fragility curves are derived. A series of site profiles were used to evaluate the effect of soil conditions. A total of 20 ground motions were used. The fragility curves were developed as functions of peak ground acceleration for three damage states, which are minor, moderate, and extensive states. The damage indices, defined as the ratio of the elastic moment to the yield moment, correlated to three damage states, were used. The curves are shown to greatly depend on the site profile. The curves are further compared to those derived in previous studies. The widely used empirically derived curves are shown not to account for the site effects, and therefore underestimate the response for soft sites.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02b
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• pp.166.1-166.1
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• 2009

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.626-633
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• 2019

Purpose: The primery objecting of this paper is to explore the seismics fragility of curved bridge based on the change of girder section. Method: The cross section of the bridge structure was constructed with I, T, and Box shapes and then, in order to perform the seismic fragility 24 seismic ground motions were used, including Gyeongju Pohang Earthquake. Result: Fist, T-Shape of the bridge strucrue was much fragility in terms of the stress on girder section, in comparison to the other shapes. The seismic fragilies of the structures with respect to displacement(drift ratio), however, were shown simialr. Conclusion: In other to wvaluation the seismic fragility of curved structure using different girder shapes, analytical models of the structure were constructed and then, the probability failure of box-shape girder was shown lower probability. In further, Parametric studies of curved structures must be conducted.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.1-12
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• 2011

Seismic fragility analysis has been developed to evaluate the seismic performance of existing nuclear power plants, but now its applicability has been extended to buildings and bridges. In general, the seismic fragility curves are evaluated from the nonlinear time-history analysis (THA) using many earthquake ground motions. Seismic fragility analysis using the nonlinear THA requires a time consuming process of structural modeling and analysis. To overcome this shortcoming of the nonlinear THA, simplified methods such as the displacement coefficient method (DCM) and the capacity spectrum method (CSM) are used for the seismic fragility analysis. In order to evaluate the accuracy of the seismic fragility curve calculated by the DCM and the CSM, the seismic fragility curves of a reinforced concrete shear wall structure calculated by the DCM and CSM are compared with those calculated by the nonlinear THA. In order to construct a numerical fragility curve, 190 artificially generated ground motions corresponding to the design spectrum and the methodology proposed by Shinozuka et al. are used.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.143-159
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• 2017

A probabilistic fragility assessment procedure is developed in this paper to predict risks of damage arising from seismic loading to the two-cell RC box tunnel. Especially, the paper focuses on establishing a simplified methodology to derive fragility curves which are an indispensable ingredient of seismic fragility assessment. In consideration of soil-structure interaction (SSI) effect, the ground response acceleration method for buried structure (GRAMBS) is used in the proposed approach to estimate the dynamic response behavior of the structures. In addition, the damage states of tunnels are identified by conducting the pushover analyses and Latin Hypercube sampling (LHS) technique is employed to consider the uncertainties associated with design variables. To illustrate the concepts described, a numerical analysis is conducted and fragility curves are developed for a large set of artificially generated ground motions satisfying a design spectrum. The seismic fragility curves are represented by two-parameter lognormal distribution function and its two parameters, namely the median and log-standard deviation, are estimated using the maximum likelihood estimates (MLE) method.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.77-85
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• 2020

In this study, the seismic fragility curve according to the boundary conditions is created for a two-pylon concrete cable-stayed bridge, and the effect of the boundary conditions on the seismic fragility of the target bridge is evaluated. An analysis model for the target bridge is constructed using Midas Civil, and a nonlinear time history analysis is performed by applying the fiber element, concrete and rebar material models. The boundary conditions between the pylon and the stiffened girder are classified into four types: rigid, unconstrained, pot bearing, and seismic isolation bearing, and the seismic fragility curves are created for each boundary condition. The plastic hinge section of the pylon, the connection part, and the cable are selected as weak members, and the earthquake vulnerability curve is created for them. As a result of the analysis, it is found that the seismic isolation bearing model shows the lowest damage probability in the pylon and the connection part, and the seismic fragility of the cable is less affected by the boundary conditions than other members.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.334-343
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• 2003

본 논문의 목적은 스팅베어링의 기존교량과 납-고무베어링(Lead-Rubber Bearing)으로 내진 보강된 교량에 대해서 갭(Gap)의 크기가 교량의 지진 취약도에 미치는 영향에 대해서 평가하였다. 이를 위해서 다경간 단순교(Multi-Span Simply Supported Bridge)와 다경간 연속교(Muti-Span Continuous Bridge)를 대상으로 취약도 분석을 실시하였다 또한 다양한 크기의 갭사이즈를 도입하여 해석을 실시하였다. 이를 통해서 갭사이즈의 변화가 각 교량의 구성품에 미치는 영향을 확률적으로 평가할 수 있었고, 합성된 취약도 곡선을 이용하여 최적의 갭사이즈를 확정할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.35-47
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• 2003

Seismic ground motion can vary significantly over distances comparable to the length of a majority of highway bridges on multiple supports. This paper presents results of fragility analysis of two actual highway bridges under ground motion with spatial variation. Ground motion time histories are artificially generated with different amplitudes, phases, as well as frequency contents at different support locations. Monte Carlo simulation is performed to study dynamic responses of the bridges under these ground motions. The effect of spatial variation on the seismic response is systematically examined and the resulting fragility curves are compared with those under identical support ground motion. This study shows that ductility demands for the bridge columns can be underestimated if the bridge is analyzed using identical support ground motions rather than differential support ground motions. Fragility curves are developed as functions of different measures of ground motion intensity including peak ground acceleration(PGA), peak ground velocity(PGV), spectral acceleration(SA), spectral velocity(SV) and spectral intensity(SI). This study represents a first attempt to develop fragility curves under spatially varying ground motion and provides information useful for improvement of the current seismic design codes so as to account for the effects of spatial variation in the seismic design of long-span bridges.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.383-386
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• 2009

본 연구는 HAZUS에서 제시하고 있는 비보강 조적조 건축물의 구조적 손상상태에 대한 지진취약도함수와 관련하여 층간변위율 및 스펙트럼 변위 등의 매개변수를 평가하고 또한 국내 상황에 적합한 기존 비보강 조적조 건축물의 지진취약도곡선의 도출을 목적으로 하였다. 국내 상황을 고려한 지진피해를 추정하기 위하여 먼저 기존 비보강 조적조 건축물의 현황파악 및 지진취약도함수 산출방법을 분석하였다. 일반적으로 HAZUS에서 제시하고 있는 지진취약도함수는 역량스펙트럼을 변환시킨 가속도-변위응답 스펙트럼법을 기본적으로 사용하는 상황으로 국내 기존 비보강 조적조 건축물에 대한 지진취약도함수 개발을 위하여 Midas GEN Ver.741 구조해석프로그램을 사용하여 실제 23개동의 비보강 조적조 건축물을 대상으로 역량스펙트럼 해석을 수행하였다. 연구결과를 통하여 지진취약도함수의 주요 매개변수인 손상상태별 층간변위율 및 스펙트럼 변위를 제시하였다.