• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.811-831
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• 2015

This paper focuses on the strengthening methods used for improving the compression behaviors of perforated box-section walls as provided in the anchorage zones of steel pylons. Rectangular plates containing double-row continuous elliptical holes are investigated by employing the boundary condition of simple supporting on four edges in the out-of-plane direction of plate. Two types of strengthening stiffeners, named flat stiffener (FS) and longitudinal stiffener (LS), are considered. Uniaxial compression tests are first conducted for 18 specimens, of which 5 are unstrengthened plates and 13 are strengthened plates. The mechanical behaviors such as stress concentration, out-of-plane deformation, failure pattern, and elasto-plastic ultimate strength are experimentally investigated. Finite element (FE) models are also developed to predict the ultimate strengths of plates with various dimensions. The results of FE analysis are validated by test data. The influences of non-dimensional parameters including plate aspect ratio, hole spacing, hole width, stiffener slenderness ratio, as well as stiffener thickness on the ultimate strengths are illustrated on the basis of numerous parametric studies. Comparison of strengthening efficiency shows that the continuous longitudinal stiffener is the best strengthening method for such perforated plates. The simplified formulas used for estimating the compression strengths of strengthened plates are finally proposed.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.385-401
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• 2022

Uncertainty quantification is the most important challenge in seismic fragility assessment of structures. The precision increment of the quantification method leads to reliable results but at the same time increases the computational costs and the latter will be so undesirable in cases such as reliability-based design optimization which includes numerous probabilistic seismic analyses. Accordingly, the authors' effort has been put on the development and validation of an approach that has reduced computational cost in seismic fragility assessment. In this regard, it is necessary to apply the appropriate methods for consideration of two categories of uncertainties consisting of uncertainties related to the ground motions and structural characteristics, separately. Also, cable-stayed bridges have been specifically selected because as a result of their complexity and the according time-consuming seismic analyses, reducing the computations corresponding to their fragility analyses is worthy of studying. To achieve this, the fragility assessment of three case studies is performed based on existing and proposed approaches, and a comparative study on the efficiency in the estimation of seismic responses. For this purpose, statistical validation is conducted on the seismic demand and fragility resulting from the mentioned approaches, and through a comprehensive interpretation, sufficient arguments for the acceptable errors of the proposed approach are presented. Finally, this study concludes that the combination of the Capacity Spectrum Method (CSM) and Uniform Design Sampling (UDS) in advanced proposed forms can provide adequate accuracy in seismic fragility estimation at a significantly reduced computational cost.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2006

The study is to analyze the surface luminance of the illuminated bridges according to the change of view point using luminance measurements with instrument CS-100 and ProMetric 1400. For the purpose the illuminated bridges of the structure type were sleceted. Also, the view points were classified the three types which are a perspective view, a building view, a driver view. The luminance of the surrounding sky, surface of river, upper structure or bridge, girder side, and pier or the objects was measured. As a result of this study, The Kwangjin and Dongho Bridge showed the luminance distribution of a perspective view was high. And the Olympic and Dongjac bridge the luminance distribution of building view was high. The luminance effect of the girder bridge that has no upper structure was distinguished for the perspective view, and the cable-stayed girder bridge and the arch bridge were characterized as the building view.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.27-33
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• 2004

Dynamic response analysis is conducted for a floating bridge subjected to multiple support earthquake excitation. The floating bridge used in this study is supported by discrete floating pontoons and horizontal pretension cables supported at both ends of the bridge. The bridge is modeled with finite elements and the hydrodynamic added mass and added damping due to the surrounding fluid around pontoons are obtained using boundary elements. During the analysis the concept of retardation function is utilized to consider the frequency dependency of the hydrodynamic coefficients. Multiple support excitation is introduced at both ends of the bridge and the time history response is compared to that of a simultaneous excitation. The results show that the multiple support excitation yields larger values in some responses. for example in cable tensions. than the sumultaneous excitation.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.55-63
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• 1993

Finite element analyses are conducted with stochastic elastic moduli when truss structures are subjected to static loads of a deterministic nature. Stochastic stiffness matrix is derived from stochastic shape functions and numerical analyses are performed within the framework of the Monte Carlo method. Analysis methods are verified for the space truss and applied to cable stayed bridge for determining the cable force.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.461-462
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• 2009

Since the modal pushover analysis (MPA) is introduced by A.K.Chopra in 2002, it has been the leading procedure for the seismic evalution of structures. However it has scarcely used on bridge structures dueing to its inherent limitation. In this paper, MPA is applied on cable-stayed bridges to check its applicability on such structures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.239-253
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• 2000

영종대교는 2000년대 수도권 항공수요에 대비하여 영종도와 용유도 일원의 간석지에 건설되어, 인천국제공항과 인천 경서동을 연결하는 총연장 4,420m의 해상교량으로 현수교 3경간(550m), Truss교 18경간 (2,250m), 강상형교 27경간(1.620m)로 구성되어 있다. 영종대교는 10개 차선, 철도 2개 차선의 교량으로 건설된다. 교량이 건설되는 해역은 10,000ton급 선박의 통행이 가능하도록 교하공간 35m의 현수교를 계획 하였으며 경제성을 고려하여 Cable을 보강형에 정착시켰다. 미관을 고려한 경간 분할에 따른 교량의 부상을 방지하기 위하여 단부교각에 Link 구조를 설치하고 접속교를 Counterweight로 이용하였으며 Cable 장력이 저감되도록 Sag비를 1/5(=f/1)로 설정하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.461-467
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• 2007

Exact application of the tensile force is critical to high-tension members in civil engineering structures, and thus actual tensile forces have often been estimated in field. To date, a few methodologies have been presented utilizing static and/or dynamic responses of tension members. Each of these methods has its disadvantages as well as advantages in its procedures, accuracy, and equipment requirements. In this paper, the feasibility of a sensitivity based methodology, based on the relationship between the natural frequencies and the applied tensile force, developed by the authors, is verified using the measured data from a cable-stayed bridge structure. From the results, it is shown that the proposed method can be utilized in estimating the tensile force in tension member of a real structure.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.619-622
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• 2011

케이블 정착구 검토를 위해서 사장교 전 체계를 모델링하는 것은 전체모델링 해석시 많은 노력과 시간이 요구되고 해석결과의 분석 또한 어려움이 많다. 따라서 문제가 예상되는 부분만을 국부 상세해석하여 구조적 거동을 정확히 파악하는 것이 필요하다. 케이블 정착부에는 여러 보강재들로 구성되어 있어 국부해석에 어려움이 있다. 따라서 실제와 가능한 한 근접하도록 모델링을 하고 전체 구조물의 거동을 국부 상세모델에 적적히 반영할 수 있도록 경계조건을 설정하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 부산 지하철 4호선의 아치형 사장교를 국내 범용 구조해석 프로그램인 MIDAS/CIVIL을 이용하여 아치리브와 거더정착구 모델링을 실시하였다. 해석 후 해석의 타당성을 검토하고 정착부의 안전성을 확보할 수 있는지 검토 분석 하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.149-156
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• 2002

This paper examines the ASCE first generation benchmark problem for a seismically excited cable-stayed bridge, and proposes a new semi-active control strategy focusing on inclusion of effects of control- structure interaction. In this study, magnetorheological (MR) fluid dampers, which belong to the class of controllable fluid dampers, are proposed as the supplemental damping devices, and a clipped-optimal control algorithm, shown to perform well in previous studies involving MR fluid dampers, is employed. The dynamic model for MR fluid dampers is considered as a modified Bouc-Wen model, which is obtained from data based on experimental results for large-scale dampers. Numerical results show that the performance of the proposed semi-active control strategy using MR fluid dampers is quite effective.