• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.89-95
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• 1990

Possibility for the evaluation of fracture properties of mortar and concrete by splitting tensile test was stud¬ied. Splitting tensile tests were conducted to obtain the fracture loads for several sizes of cylindrical specimens of mortar and concrete with initial notch. From the results, fracture energy and fracture toughness by SEL were obtained and compared with the values by Rooke and Cartwright, and r.E.Moo The values by SEL method converged effectively. SEL method was shown to be a good method to obtain fracture properties of mortar and concrete.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.230-240
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• 1997

An experimental research investigation of the fracture properties of polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete is reported. Fibers used in this experiment were two types, monofilament and fibrillated polypropylene fibers. Fiber length was 19 mm, and volume fractions were 0, 1, 2, and 3%. Also, as initial notch depths influence the fracture properties of fiber reinforced concrete, the notch depth ratios by specimen height were 0.15, 0.30 and 0.45. The main objective of this experimental program is to obtain the load-deflection and the load-CMOD curves, to investigate the fracture properties of the polypropylene fiber reinforced concretes. Therefore, the flexural specimen testings on the four-point bending were conducted. Then, the load-load point displacement and the load-crack mouth opening displacement curves were measured. The effects of different volume fractions of the monofilament and the fibrillated polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete on the compressive strength, flexural strength and toughness, stress intensity factor, and fracture energy were investigated through the experimental results.

• Composites Research
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.54-66
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• 2000

Interfacial and microfailure properties of carbon fiber/epoxy matrix composites were evaluated using both tensile fragmentation and compressive Broutman tests with an aid of acoustic emission (AE) monitoring. A polymeric maleic anhydride coupling agent and a monomeric amino-silane coupling agent were used via the electrodeposition (ED) and the dipping applications, respectively. Both coupling agents exhibited significant improvements in interfacial shear strength (IFSS) compared to the untreated case under tensile and compressive tests. The typical microfailure modes including fiber break of cone-shape, matrix cracking, and partial interlayer failure were observed during tensile test, whereas the diagonal slippage in fiber ends was observed under compressive test. For both loading types, fiber breaks occurred around just before and after yielding point. In both the untreated and treated cases AE amplitudes were separately distributed for the tensile testing, whereas they were closely distributed for the compressive tests. It is because of the difference in failure energies of carbon fiber between tensile and compressive loading. The maximum AE voltage for the waveform of carbon or basalt fiber breakages under tensile tests exhibited much larger than those under compressive tests, which can provide the difference in the failure energy of the individual failure processes.

• Composites Research
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.33-40
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• 2009

Fiber orientation effects on the impact surface fracture of the glass plates coated with the glass fiber/epoxy lamina layer were investigated using a small-diameter steel-ball impact experiment. Four kinds of materials were used: soda-lime glass plates, unidirectional glass fiber/epoxy layer(one ply, two plies)-coated, crossed glass tiber/epoxy layer (two plies)-coated glass plates. The maximum stress and absorbed fracture energy were measured on the back surface of glass plates during the impact. With increasing impact velocity, various surface cracks such as ring, cone, radial and lateral cracks appeared near the impacted site of glass plates. Cracks in the plate drastically diminished by glass fiber coating. The tiber orientation guided the directions of delamination and plastic deformation zones between the tiber layer and the glass plate. Impact surface-fracture indices expressed in terms of the maximum stress and absorbed energy could be used as an effective evaluation parameter of the surface resistance.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.535-544
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• 2016

This paper aims at examining the effects of sustained load and elevated temperature on the time-dependent deformation of a carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets bonded to concrete as well as the pull-off strength of single-lap shear specimens after the sustained loading period using digital images. Elevated temperature during the sustained loading period resulted in increased slip of the CFRP composites, whereas increased curing time of the polymer resin prior to the sustained loading period resulted in reduced slip. Pull-off tests conducted after sustained loading period showed that the presence of sustained load resulted in increased pull-off strength and interfacial fracture energy. This beneficial effect decreased with increased creep duration. Based on analysis of digital images, results on strain distributions and fracture surfaces indicated that stress relaxation of the epoxy occurred in the 30 mm closest to the loaded end of the CFRP composites during sustained loading, which increased the pull-off strength provided the failure locus remained mostly in the concrete. For longer sustained loading duration, the failure mode of concrete-CFRP bond region can change from a cohesive failure in the concrete to an interfacial failure along the concrete/epoxy interface, which diminished part of the strength increase due to the stress relaxation of the adhesive.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 1991

The concept of damage is all-pervasive in structural engineering. It can be considered a state variable and defined to vary from 0(no damage) to 1(failure). Thus, the factor of safety against failure, the most important aspect of a structure, cannot be assessed without evaluating the damageability of a structure under load. It is the objective of the research reported herein to study the behavior of concrete under repeated load applications. Concrete is known to deteriorate under such loading, i.e., it suffers damage of increasing degree. Its response to future loading is a function of the amount of damage sustained during previous load exposures. The same can be said about reinforced concrete members and entire structures, but here we wish to consider only plain concrete and express some of its material properties as functions of the degree of sustained damage. The work described herein is based on the stipulation that the energy dissipation capacity of plain concrete is a material property and the damage accumulates in direct proportion to the degree to which the energy dissipation capacity is being exhausted, in some analogy to both high- and low-cycle failure behavior of materials.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.40 no.8
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• pp.693-701
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• 2016

In this study, notch defects are evaluated using fracture mechanics. To understand the effects of notch defects, FE analysis is conducted to predict the limit load and J-integral for middle-cracked and single-edge cracked plates with various sizes of notch under tension and bending. As the radius of the notch increases, the energy release rate also increases, although the limit load remains constant. The values of fracture toughness($J_{IC}$) of SM490A are determined for various notch radii through FE simulation instead of conducting an experiment. As the radius of the notch increases, the energy release rate also increases, together with a more significant increase in fracture toughness. To conclude, as the notch radius increases, the resistance to crack propagation also increases.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.59-64
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• 1996

Acoustic Emission(AE) signals are emitted by a sudden release of strain energy associated with material damage. A multi-channels of LeCroy system and piezoelectric pressure transducers are employed for AE measurement to investigate the roles of AE in the propagation of macro cracks as well as the characteris-tics of AE wave in occurrence, amplitude and dominant frequency with changes in macro loading modes. Deduced crack opening volume of micro cracks varied widely and implies that AE events could be caused by crystal dislocations on a small scale and grain boundary movements on a large scale. Amplitude of first arrival AE wave emitted during mode I test was approximately 3 times higher than those from mixed mode test, while the number of AE count in mode I test was only 25% of mixed mode. It may imply that the total energy required for generation of a given fracture surface is similar regardless in change of macroloading modes.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.22-29
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• 2015

Modern structures is the tendency of being increasingly taller and larger. The concrete with large weight has the disadvantage of increasing the weight on the structure. therefore, the method of carrying out the weight saving of the concrete is required. one of such method is to use a lightweight aggregate. However, studies on structural lightweight concrete, lacking for the recognition of the lightweight concrete, so also is lacking. therefore it is necessary to study on the physical characteristic value of the lightweight concrete. In this study, in order to investigate the tensile properties of lightweight concrete, Crack mouth opening displacement (CMOD) experiments were carried out. the fracture energy of the lightweight concrete subjected to inverse analysis were derived from the CMOD experimental results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.200-200
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 실제 가압장 및 가압장후단부의 상수도관망에 발생가능한 수충격해석을 수행하고 신뢰성해석을 수행하여 파괴확률을 정량적으로 산정하였다. 이를 위해 가압장의 펌프운영조건을 다르게 적용하였고 관말단부의 압력센서를 이용하여 토출압을 선택적으로 운영하면 수충격의 규모도 작아지고 파괴확률도 대폭 줄어드는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 가압장의 토출압을 선택적으로 운영하기 위해서는 관말단부에 필수적으로 충분한 수압이 존재해야하며 이를 위해서 실시간 모니터링이 가능한 압력계를 설치하게 된다. 이 압력계로부터 수신되는 데이터를 통하여 펌프의 운영이 이루어지고 최소한의 에너지 사용을 통해 효율을 증대하고 피해율도 저감하게 된다. 본 연구에서 개발된 센서기반 펌프운영시스템이 적용된 실제 상수도관망은 현재 가압장의 운영조건으로 24시간 75m의 펌프 토출압을 유지하고 있으며 관말단부의 수용가에 충분한 수압이 전달되고 있다. 가압장의 고압유지는 관말단부에 충분한 수압을 전달하기 위한 것이지만 상수도관망에서 누수와 시설물에 대한 많은 피해를 유발할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 가압장의 펌프토출압을 75m와 60m로 선택적 운영을 할 수 있도록 프로그램을 개발하였다. 기존 가압장의 운영조건과 선택적 운영조건을 사용하여 수충격해석을 수행하였고 신뢰성해석모형을 사용하여 파괴확률을 정량적으로 산정할 수 있었다. 가압장의 운영조건을 최적화하여 효율은 증대하고 피해율을 저감할 수 있는 방법을 찾을 수 있었다. 이를 위해서 가압장의 인버터 설치는 물론이고 펌프의 최적운영을 위해 개발된 펌프운영 프로그램을 가압장 배전반에 장착하여 경제적인 운영이 될 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 실제 상수관망에서 과도한 수압으로 인해 발생할 수 있는 여러 가지 피해를 최소화할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 또한, 본 연구에서는 기존의 펌프장 토출압으로 운영되었을 때와 비교하여 에너지 절감율을 정량적으로 산정하여 비교분석하였다. 가압장 후단의 작은 마을을 대상으로 하여 절감된 전기요금은 적은 양이라 할 수 있겠으나 개발된 시스템을 전국에 적용한다면 에너지 절감으로 인한 경제적 파급효과는 크다고 할 수 있다.