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Strengthening methods for existing wall type structures by installing additional shear walls

  • Chung, Lan;Park, Tae Won;Hwang, Ji Hyun
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.523-536
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    • 2014
  • Before incorporating the earthquake-resistance design in design standard (1988) in South Korea, most of existing residential buildings were built without having lateral resistance capacity in addition to their structural peculiarity, such as exterior stair ways, exterior elevator room. For these reasons, the demands on retrofitting research for existing buildings arise recently and many retrofitting methods are proposed. These tasks are important to reduce the enormous economic loss and environmental issues. As the main purpose, this study was intended to examine the performance improvement in terms of ductility and strength in the wake of retrofitting and to suggest retrofitting details.

A Model of Risk Management Plan in the Development Phase of Urban Regeneration Project

  • Kim, Seon-Gyoo
    • Architectural research
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2009
  • Recently, intensive urban redevelopment concentrated on new towns has reduced the number of settled population, and weakened various functions such as commercial, culture, education and welfare in old towns, and made the stagnation and declination of the entire or some parts of old towns. Urban regeneration project means renewing cities' functions in terms of physical, environmental, social, cultural, industrial and economic aspects or revitalizing the existing functions through improvement project in the entire or part of a city, which is now drawing keen attention from the public. However, urban regeneration project is huge in scale, needs long construction period and various complex facilities, and also characterized by complicated relations with many stakeholders. Due to such characteristics, there are many risks in the project. Therefore, systematic risk management is absolutely necessary to efficiently manage various risk factors inherent in urban regeneration project. The purpose of this research proposes a basic model to establish risk management plan and work process in order to help project participants to perform risk management more systematically and rationally in the development phase of urban regeneration project.

Time-Cost Trade-Off by Lead-Time Adjustment in the PDM Network

  • Kim, Seon-Gyoo
    • Architectural research
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.43-49
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    • 2009
  • Since the late 1980s, the schedule technique applied to the construction industry around the world has rapidly changed from the traditional ADM (Arrow Diagramming Method) to the PDM (Precedence Diagramming Method) technique. The main reason for this change is to overcome the limits and inconveniences of the traditional ADM technique. The time-cost trade-off is one of the core scheduling techniques to establish the best optimized combination plan in terms of a relationship between the cost and schedule. However, most of the schedule-related textbooks and research papers have discussed and proposed applications of a time-cost trade-off technique based only on the Finish to Start relationship. Therefore, there are almost no consideration and discussion of problems or restrictions that emerge when the time-cost trade-off technique is applied to the PDM network that has overlapping relationships. This paper proposes the lead-time adjustment method as a methodology for overcoming some restrictions that are encountered when the time-cost trade-off technique is applied to the overlapping relationships of the PDM network.

Analysis on Liveability of Multi-Family Housing Blocks in Seoul, Korea: A Focus on Comparison with Multi-Household Housings

  • Shin, Eunha;Kim, Heungsoon
    • Architectural research
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.63-70
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of housing units assembled as complexes on residential satisfaction. Two analyses were performed to examine residential satisfaction of Multi-Family Housing Blocks (MFHB; complex) and Multi-Household Housing (MH; non-complex). The residents from both housing types were surveyed on nine categories of questions regarding residential satisfaction and one on overall satisfaction from their experiences. First, the t-test results between MFHB and MH suggest that MFHB has insufficient effect in terms of improvement over MH, as their satisfaction differences are either insignificant or uncontrollable. Second, the common factors affecting Overall Satisfaction of MFHB and MH are Maintenance and Residential Environments.

Performance Assessment of Building Envelopes I: Double Skin Facade (외피 친환경 성능평가 I: 이중외피)

  • Kim, Deuk-Woo;Park, Cheol-Soo
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2009
  • Many countries have been interested in sustainable development of buildings for environmental preservation. Thus it is significant to assess building envelopes in terms of $CO_2$ emissions owing to Kyoto Protocol. In this paper, a Double Skin Facade(DSF) installed in a general office building was assessed by $CO_2$ emissions(one of the performance-based assessment). To predict $CO_2$ emissions caused by the building energy consumption, the dynamic simulation program(Energy Plus) and $CO_2$ emission factor was used. Because DSF has various airflow regimes, pre-simulation runs were conducted to decide proximate optimal airflow regimes depending on seasonal variation. It is shown that the DSF can achieve 17.1-36.5% of annual energy savings.

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A Study on the Derivation of Bracket Structure Terminology in Yingzaofashi in the Era of Song Dynasty (송대(宋代) ${\ll}$영조법식(營造法式)${\gg}$ 대목작(大木作) 포작(鋪作) 관련용어의 파생에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jae-Ung
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.55-70
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    • 2011
  • This paper aimed at analyzing of structural carpentry terminology for bracket structure in Yingzaofashi ${\ll}$營造法式${\gg}$in the era of Song Dynasty and illuminating coinage characteristics and method of Structural Carpentry Terminology for bracket Structure through graphonomy research and system and structure of these terms. The results are as follow. The structural carpentry terminologies for structure were identified to be approximately 23 words, and terminology of bracket structure鋪作 is largely categorized into 3 categories of Type鋪作次序, Structure, Place. On the other hand, the structural carpentry terminologies for parts largely categorized into 2 categories of Bracket structure鋪作, Others. Bracket structure terminologies for parts were derived from the core of Dou枓, Gong栱, Ang昂, Fang方. The phenomena of derivation in structural carpentry terminology for bracket structure can be explained by the difference in the shape of subsidiary material and the location for usage of the subsidiary material and part of the subsidiary material and their functions.

The Correlation Research between Lifestyle Changes and Evolution of Residential Communities - Based on a Survey of Shanghai, China

  • Zhang, Kai
    • Architectural research
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2020
  • From 1990s to the present, in China, residential communities has developed rapidly in terms of government policies and living environments. With economic development, dwelling commercialization and socialization gradually reshaped the housing distribution system and local government management in Chinese urban area. After this process, dwellings were endowed with commodity attributes, which were planned and designed depending on residents' requirements of life. During the 30 years of social transformation, Chinese citizens' lifestyle also had huge changes. In this period, the forms of residential area improved constantly to keep pace with social development. This study aims to research the features of contemporary communities and survey citizens' lifestyle changes to find the reasons of the evolution of communities. Moreover, in this paper, there is a clear explanation of the reasons why gated communities are popular in Chinese urban area. In addition, comprehensive data analysis is derived from a questionnaire administered in Shanghai, China. In this part, the questionnaire surveys what factors about lifestyle influence the transformation of living environments and residential buildings. The results of survey show that residents have housing preferences dependent on their lifestyles, and their daily needs related with environmental features.

Flow and Engineering Properties of Fiber Reinforced Hwangtoh Mortars

  • Mun, Ju-Hyun;Yang, Keun-Hyeok;Hwang, Hye-Zoo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.332-339
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    • 2012
  • In this study, six mortar mixes were tested in order to examine the significance and limitations of hydrophilic fiber in terms of its capacity to enhance the tensile resistance of Hwangtoh mortar. Lyocell, polyamide and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibers were selected for the main test parameters. The tensile capacity of mortars tested was evaluated based on the splitting tensile strength and the modulus of fracture, while their ductility was examined using the toughness indices specified in ASTM. Test results showed that the addition of lyocell and PVA fibers had little influence on the flow of the Hwangtoh mortars. To enhance the tensile capacity and toughness index of Hwangtoh mortar, it is proposed that fiber spacing above 0.0003 is required, regardless of the type of fiber.

A Study on the Architectural Characteristics of People Welfare Facilities -Centering on Gwangju city- (노인복지시설의 건축적 특성에 관한 연구 -광주광역시를 중심으로-)

  • Kil, Jong-Won;Choi, Min-Yong;Kim, Jae-Woong;Jeong, Jib-Mun;Lee, Sang-Jung
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study was to find out the development of old people welfare facilities according to the changes and distribution situation of the Welfare Law for the Aged in Korea under the social conditions of 'aging society', to reveal the location and plane characteristics of old people welfare facilities in the terms of architectural plan, and to suggest basic materials for improving old people welfare facilities in community.

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A Comparative Analysis of the Safety Awareness of Korean and Chinese Construction Workers

  • Zhang, Zhen;An, Sung-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.433-441
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    • 2012
  • Accompanied by Chinese strong economic growth rates and development of demand for the construction industry, Chinese construction industry has already become one of the largest construction markets in the world. Unfortunately, the frequent occurrence of safety incidents on Chinese construction sites is a large obstacle for other countries construction companies seeking to enter the Chinese construction market. This study aims to analyze and compare the safety awareness of Chinese and Korean construction workers. Our research showed that the safety awareness of Korean construction workers is far higher than that of their Chinese counterparts, particularly in terms of the efficiency of safety education and the observance of safety rules. The development of a safety management plan based on these results will contribute to reducing the frequency of accidents on Chinese construction sites.