• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.449-455
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• 2011

최근 가압중수형 원전 격납건물의 내압능력 및 비선형 거동에 관한 실증실험과 해석코드에 대한 검증을 위하여 인도의 BARC 주관으로 가압중수형 격납건물 1/4 축소모델을 건설하였고, 내압성능평가를 위한 국제공동연구가 수행되었다. 이 논문은 가압중수형 1/4 축소모델 격납건물에 대한 내압성능과 비선형 거동을 예측하기 위하여 유한요소해석을 수행하였고 그 결과를 도출하였다. 대상 격납건물은 기초매트와 원통형 벽체 및 돔으로 구성되어 있고, 수평 텐던의 정착을 위하여 4개의 부벽(buttress)을 가지고 있다. 유한요소해석을 위하여 ABAQUS를 이용하였고 콘크리트, 철근 및 텐던에 대한 유한요소 모델을 작성하여 극한내압해석을 수행하였다. 유한요소해석결과 콘크리트의 초기 균열은 $1.6P_d$(design pressure)에서 발생하였고, 철근의 항복은 $3.36P_d$ 그리고 극한내압능력은 $4.0P_d$ 수준으로 나타났다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.515-524
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 판 두께와 볼트 크기에 따른 고장력 볼트 마찰이음부의 극한 거동을 비선형 유한 요소 해석 및 실험을 통하여 분석하였다. 볼트의 크기 및 모재의 두께가 고장력 볼트 마찰이음부에 끼치는 영향을 미끄러짐 하중, 볼트의 변형 및 파괴하중과의 관계와 함께 파악하였다. M20, M22, M24의 세가지 볼트와 모재의 두께가 12mm, 16mm, 20mm, 30mm, 40mm인 경우에 대하여 압축력을 받는 고장력 볼트 이음부의 극한 거동을 고찰하였다. 이음부의 힘-변위 관계 및 외력-변형도 관계를 실험적으로 도출하였으며 범용 유한요소해석 프로그램인 ABAQYS를 사용한 수치해석 결과와 비교, 분석하였다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.581-588
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• 2014

최근에 널리 사용되고 있는 PSC 교량은 콘크리트의 처짐과 균열 등의 취약점을 긴장재와 강봉을 사용하여 보완하고 성능을 향상시킨 구조물이다. 따라서 PSC 교량에서 긴장재에 작용하는 하중을 적절하게 산정하는 것은 구조물의 안전하고 효율적인 유지, 보수를 위하여 중요하다. 이 논문은 텐던에 작용하는 하중과 앵커헤드 변형과의 관계를 확인하기 위하여 멀티 텐던 앵커헤드의 변형률에 대한 수치해석을 수행하고 분석한 것이다. 정확한 해석을 위하여 재료의 물성, 접촉 문제의 비선형성 등을 모두 고려하였으며 해석은 범용 유한요소 프로그램인 Abaqus를 사용하여 수행되었다. 수치해석 결과로부터 텐던에 작용하는 하중을 추정하는 데에는 hoop 방향 변형률이 가장 유용하며, 마찰 계수, 경계조건, 그리고 배치 등에 따라 영향을 받는 것을 확인하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.83-114
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• 2003

A new simple 3-node triangular flat-shell element with standard nodal DOF (6 DOF per node) is proposed for the linear and geometrically nonlinear analysis of very thin to thick plate and shell structures. The formulation of element GT9 (Long and Xu 1994), a generalized conforming membrane element with rigid rotational freedoms, is employed as the membrane component of the new shell element. Both one-point reduced integration scheme and a corresponding stabilization matrix are adopted for avoiding membrane locking and hourglass phenomenon. The bending component of the new element comes from a new generalized conforming Kirchhoff-Mindlin plate element TSL-T9, which is derived in this paper based on semiLoof constrains and rational shear interpolation. Thus the convergence can be guaranteed and no shear locking will happen. Furthermore, a simple hybrid procedure is suggested to improve the stress solutions, and the Updated Lagrangian formulae are also established for the geometrically nonlinear problems. Numerical results with solutions, which are solved by some other recent element models and the models in the commercial finite element software ABAQUS, are presented. They show that the proposed element, denoted as GMST18, exhibits excellent and better performance for the analysis of thin-think plates and shells in both linear and geometrically nonlinear problems.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.295-312
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• 2017

Cast in situ and grouted concrete helical piles with 150-200 mm diameter half cylindrical ribs have become an economical and effective choice in Shanghai, China for uplift piles in deep soft soils. Though this type of pile has been successful used in practice, the reinforcing mechanism and the contribution of the ribs to the total resistance is not clear, and there is no clear guideline for the design of such piles. To study the inclusion of ribs to the contribution of shear resistance, the shear behaviour between silty sand and concrete slabs with parallel ribs at different spacing and angles were tested in a large direct shear box ($600mm{\times}400mm{\times}200mm$). The front panels of the shear box are detachable to observe the soil deformation after the test. The tests were modelled with three-dimensional finite element method in ABAQUS. It was found that, passive zones can be developed ahead of the ribs to form undulated failure surfaces. The shear resistance and failure mode are affected by the ratio of rib spacing to rib diameter. Based on the shape and continuity of the failure zones at the interface, the failure modes at the interface can be classified as "punching", "local" or "general" shear failure respectively. With the inclusion of the ribs, the pull out resistance can increase up to 17%. The optimum rib spacing to rib diameter ratio was found to be around 7 based on the observed experimental results and the numerical modelling.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제66권1호
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• pp.85-96
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• 2018

This study investigates the response of functionally graded (FG) gas pipe under unsteady internal pressure and temperature. The pipe is proposed to be manufactured from FGMs rather than custom carbon steel, to reduce the erosion, corrosion, pressure surge and temperature variation effects caused by conveying of gases. The distribution of material graduations are obeying power and sigmoidal functions varying with the pipe thickness. The sigmoidal distribution is proposed for the 1st time in analysis of FG pipe structure. A Two-dimensional (2D) plane strain problem is proposed to model the pipe cross-section. The Fourier law is applied to describe the heat flux and temperature variation through the pipe thickness. The time variation of internal pressure is described by using exponential-harmonic function. The proposed problem is solved numerically by a two-dimensional (2D) plane strain finite element ABAQUS software. Nine-node isoparametric element is selected. The proposed model is verified with published results. The effects of material graduation, material function, temperature and internal pressures on the response of FG gas pipe are investigated. The coupled temperature and displacement FEM solution is used to find a solution for the stress displacement and temperature fields simultaneously because the thermal and mechanical solutions affected greatly by each other. The obtained results present the applicability of alternative FGM materials rather than classical A106Gr.B steel. According to proposed model and numerical results, the FGM pipe is more effective in natural gas application, especially in eliminating the corrosion, erosion and reduction of stresses.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.691-702
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• 2018

This paper presents experimental and analytical results of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) confined steel tubular columns under transverse impact loads. Influences of applied impact energy, thickness of FRP jacket and impact position were discussed in detail, and then the impact responses of FRP confined steel tubes were compared with bare steel tubes. The test results revealed that the FRP jacket contributes to prevent outward buckling deformation of steel at the clamped end and inward buckling of steel at the impact position. For the given applied impact energy, specimens wrapped with one layer and three layers of FRP have the lower peak impact loads than those of the bare steel tubes, whereas specimens wrapped with five layers of FRP exhibit the higher peak impact loads. All the FRP confined steel tubular specimens displayed a longer duration time than the bare steel tubes under the same magnitude of impact energy, and the specimen wrapped with one layer of FRP had the longest duration time. In addition, increasing the applied impact energy leads to the increase of peak impact load and duration time, whereas increasing the distance of impact position from the clamped end results in the decrease of peak impact load and the increase of duration time. The dynamic analysis software Abaqus Explicit was used to simulate the mechanical behavior of FRP confined steel tubular columns, and the numerical results agreed well with the test data. Analytical solution for lateral displacement of an equivalent cantilever beam model subjected to impact load was derived out. Comparison of analytical and experimental results shows that the maximum displacement can be precisely predicted by the present theoretical model.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.167-182
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• 2018

The modeling of loss of bond between reinforcing bars (rebars) and concrete due to corrosion is useful in studying the behavior and prediction of residual load bearing capacity of corroded reinforced concrete (RC) members. In the present work, first the possibility of using different methods to simulate the rebars-concrete bonding, which is used in three-dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) modeling of corroded RC beams, was explored. The cohesive surface interaction method was found to be most suitable for simulating the bond between rebars and concrete. Secondly, using the cohesive surface interaction approach, the 3D FE modeling of the behavior of non-corroded and corroded RC beams was carried out in an ABAQUS environment. Experimental data, reported in literature, were used to validate the models. Then using the developed models, a parametric study was conducted to examine the effects of some parameters, such as degree and location of the corrosion, on the behavior and residual capacity of the corroded beams. The results obtained from the parametric analysis using the developed model showed that corrosion in top compression rebars has very small effect on the flexural behaviors of beams with small flexural reinforcement ratio that is less than the maximum ratio specified in ACI-318-14 (singly RC beam). In addition, the reduction of steel yield strength in tension reinforcement due to corrosion is the main source of reducing the load bearing capacity of corroded RC beams. The most critical corrosion-induced damage is the complete loss of bond between rebars and the concrete as it causes sudden failure and the beam acts as un-reinforced beam.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.255-265
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• 2020

Laboratory tests are conducted to investigate the performance of retaining system with different combinations of long-short piles. Numerical analysis implemented using ABAQUS are verified by comparing numerical results with measured data. By performing numerical studies, the horizontal displacement of piles, heave of excavation bottom and bending moment of pile for various pile system with different pile lengths are investigated. Results show that long piles share higher bending moments than short piles. The increase in the number of short piles leads to a slight increase in the heave at excavation bottom for long-short pile retaining system. Retaining system with different long and short pile combinations have greater effects on the horizontal displacement of pile above the excavation bottom, compared to its counterparts below excavation bottom. For a given length of long pile, the bending moment and displacement of piles increase with the decrease in length of short piles, while the increasing rate of maximum moment of retaining pile system is insignificant. Results highlight that a reliable and economical pile retaining system can be designed by optimizing the number and length of short piles, provided that the working performance of retaining structures above excavation bottom meets the design requirement in practice.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제75권6호
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• pp.643-657
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• 2020

This study presents experimental and numerical investigations on circular steel tube confined ultra high performance concrete (UHPC) columns under axial compression. The plain UHPC without fibers was designed to achieve a compressive strength ranged between 150 MPa and 200 MPa. Test results revealed that loading on only the UHPC core can generate a significant confinement effect for the UHPC core, thus leading to an increase in both strength and ductility of columns, and restricting the inherent brittleness of unconfined UHPC. All tested columns failed by shear plane failure of the UHPC core, this causes a softening stage in the axial load versus axial strain curves. In addition, an increase in the steel tube thickness or the confinement index was found to increase the strength and ductility enhancement and to reduce the magnitude of the loss of load capacity. Besides, steel tube with higher yield strength can improve the post-peak behavior. Based on the test results, the load contribution of the steel tube and the concrete core to the total load was examined. It was found that no significant confinement effect can be developed before the peak load, while the ductility of post-peak stage is mainly affected by the degree of the confinement effect. A finite element model (FEM) was also constructed in ABAQUS software to validate the test results. The effect of bond strength between the steel tube and the UHPC core was also investigated through the change of friction coefficient in FEM. Furthermore, the mechanism of circular steel tube confined UHPC columns was examined using the established FEM. Based on the results of FEM, the confining pressures along the height of each modeled column were shown. Furthermore, the interaction between the steel tube and the UHPC core was displayed through the slip length and shear stresses between two surfaces of two materials.