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A Study on the Fatigue Strength Evaluation in Rail-type Expansion Joint Weldment of Bridge (레일형 교량신축이음장치 용접부의 피로강도 평가에 관한 연구)

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    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.115-120
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    • 1998
  • This paper is especially concerned with the weldment between support beam and square bar that plays important roles in control box of Expansion Joint as a bridge structure. Fatigue strength of the weldment is dependent on notch radius from welding defects and material properties. From which, tensile strength($\sigma$ult) and fatigue notch factor(Kf) become important factors to predict fatigue life. The fatigue notch sensitivity(η) for metals can be divided into two types : high and low notch sensitivity. In this work, the Expansion Joint weldment was found to have low notch sensitivity. Fatigue test of real structure was performed up to 106cycles to be compared with predicted endurance limit.

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Predicting shear strength of SFRC slender beams without stirrups using an ANN model

  • Keskin, Riza S.O.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.61 no.5
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    • pp.605-615
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    • 2017
  • Shear failure of reinforced concrete (RC) beams is a major concern for structural engineers. It has been shown through various studies that the shear strength and ductility of RC beams can be improved by adding steel fibers to the concrete. An accurate model predicting the shear strength of steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) beams will help SFRC to become widely used. An artificial neural network (ANN) model consisting of an input layer, a hidden layer of six neurons and an output layer was developed to predict the shear strength of SFRC slender beams without stirrups, where the input parameters are concrete compressive strength, tensile reinforcement ratio, shear span-to-depth ratio, effective depth, volume fraction of fibers, aspect ratio of fibers and fiber bond factor, and the output is an estimate of shear strength. It is shown that the model is superior to fourteen equations proposed by various researchers in predicting the shear strength of SFRC beams considered in this study and it is verified through a parametric study that the model has a good generalization capability.

Structural characteristics of railway vehicle floors with joints (연결체결부를 갖는 철도차량 바닥재의 구조특성)

  • Shin, Bum-Sik;Choi, Yeon-Son
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.809-815
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    • 2007
  • The floor structure of railway vehicles consists of plywood, rubber, and wood keystone plate which affects on the comfort of passengers. Its structural characteristics has been investigated experimentally and numerically for samples of beam and plate structure, and the real floor structure in this paper. The material properties of etch part measured directly by experiments. The deformation and stress distribution of the sample beams for 6 different joints were sought experimentally and calculated using a commercial software. The numerical calculation shows that the effect of friction and clearance between joints is crucial. The DMU/EMU plates were also experimented and compared for different loading conditions. The structural characteristics of the whole floor structure were calculated numerically. The results show that the method of joint between plywoods is an important factor to decide the strength of the floor structure of railway vehicles.

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Experimental Research on Development and Splices Length in High-Strength Concrete Flexural Members (고강도 콘크리트 휨부재의 정착 및 겹침이음길이에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 이기열;김우;정기오
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.865-871
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents the test results of 24 beam-end specimens to investigate the effect of concrete strength and cover thickness on the development resistance capacity in tensile lap splice length regions. The results showed that as higher strength concrete was employed, nor only development resistance capacity was influenced by cover thickness, but also more sufficient safety factor reserved shorter than the lap splice length provision in current design code. From experimental research results, high-strength concrete development length was not inverse ratio of ($\sqrt{f_{ck}}$) but directly inverse of $f_{ck}$, and it is also said that there is a certain limit length of the embedded steel over which the assumption of uniform bond stress distribution is valid specially for high-strength concrete not having a same embed length such as normal-strength concrete in current design criteria hypothesis.

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Fabrication and Characterization of GaAs/AlGaAs HEMT Device (GaAs/AlGaAs HEMT소자의 제작 및 특성)

  • 이진희;윤형섭;강석봉;오응기;이해권;이재진;최상수;박철순;박형무
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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    • v.31A no.9
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    • pp.114-120
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    • 1994
  • We have been successfully fabricated the low nois HEMT device with AlGaAs and GaAs structure. The epitazial layer with n-type AlgaAs and undoped GaAs was grown by molecular beam epitaxy(MBE) system. Ohmic resistivity of the ource and drain contact is below 5${\times}10^{6}{\Omega}{\cdot}cm^{2}$ by the rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process. The ideality factor of the Schottky gate is below 1.6 and the gate material was Ti/Pt/Au. The HEMTs with 0.25$\mu$m-long and 200$\mu$m-wide gates have exhibited a noise figure of 0.65dB with associated gain of 9dB at 12GHz, and a transconductance of 208mS/mm.

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Frequency-Phase Method to Measure Material Damping in a Nonlinear Range (비선형 영역에서의 재료감쇠비 측정을 위한 주파수-위상각법)

  • 우규석;조성호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2001.03a
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    • pp.533-540
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    • 2001
  • Material damping is an important parameter to evaluate the site response by a dynamic loading. Currently the material damping of the subgrade is mainly determined by a resonant column testing. Typical methods to evaluate material damping include half-power bandwidth method and free-vibration decay method. In the large strain range, the half-power bandwidth method gives an erratic damping factor, because the method is based on the assumption of the linear behavior of a specimen. The free-vibration decay method has also limitations in that the damping factors vary with the range of cycles in calculation, and also in that the specific shear strain can not be designated for the free vibration. In this study, the frequency-phase method, which was developed to evaluate material damping of a beam simply supported, is introduced to evaluate the material damping by the resonant column testing. Also, the comparison among half-power method, free-vibration decay method and the frequency-phase method is provided for a remolded sand.

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Effect of Potential Well Structure on Ion Current in SCBF Device (SCBF 장치에서 이온전류에 대한 포텐셜 우물 구조의 영향)

  • Ju, Heung-Jin;Park, Jeong-Ho;Ko, Kwang-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.471-477
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    • 2007
  • SCBF(Spherically Convergent Beam Fusion) device has been studied as a neutron source. Neutron production rate is a most important factor for the application of SCBF device and is proportional to the square of the ion current[1]. It is regarded generally that some correlations between the potential well structure and the ion current exist. In this paper, the ion current and potential distribution were calculated in a variety of grid cathode geometries using FEM-FCT method. Single potential well structure was certified inside the grid cathode. The deeper the potential well became, the higher the ion current due to the high electric field near the grid cathode became.

Theoretical evaluation of collision safety for Submerged Floating Railway Tunnel (SFRT) by using simplified analysis

  • Seo, Sung-il;Moon, Jiho;Mun, Hyung-Suk
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.64 no.3
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    • pp.293-299
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    • 2017
  • Submarine collisions is one of the major hazardous factor for Submerged Floating Railway Tunnel (SFRT) and this study presents the safety evaluation for submarine collision to SFRT by using theoretical approach. Simplified method to evaluate the collision safety of SFRT was proposed based on the beam on elastic foundation theory. Firstly, the time history load function for submarine collision was obtained by using one-degree-of-freedom vibration model. Then, the equivalent mass and stiffness of the structure were calculated, and the collision responses of SFRT were evaluated. Finite element analysis was conducted to verify the proposed equations, and it can be found that the collision responses, such as deflection, and acceleration, agreed well with the proposed equations. Finally, derailment condition for high speed train in SFRT due to submarine collision was proposed.

Deformation-based Strut-and-Tie Model for flexural members subject to transverse loading

  • Hong, Sung-Gul;Lee, Soo-Gon;Hong, Seongwon;Kang, Thomas H.K.
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.1213-1234
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    • 2016
  • This paper describes a deformation-based strut-and-tie model for the flexural members at post-yield state. Boundary deformation conditions by flexural post-yield response are chosen in terms of the flexural bar strains as the main factor influenced on the shear strength. The main purpose of the proposed model is to predict the shear capacities of the flexural members associated with the given flexural deformation conditions. To verify the proposed strut-and-tie model, the estimated shear strengths depending on the flexural deformation are compared with the experimental results. The experimental data are in good agreement with the values obtained by the proposed model.