• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.501-509
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• 2022

Cracks are common defects in concrete structures. Thus far, crack inspection has been manually performed using the contact inspection method. This manpower-dependent method inevitably increases the cost and work hours. Various non-contact studies have been conducted to overcome such difficulties. However, previous studies have focused on developing a methodology for non-contact inspection or local quantitative detection of crack width or length on concrete surfaces. However, crack depth can affect the safety of concrete structures. In particular, although macrocrack depth is structurally fatal, it is difficult to find it with the existing method. Therefore, an experimental investigation based on non-contact infrared thermography and multivariate machine learning was performed in this study to estimate the hidden macrocrack depth. To consider practical applications for inspection, an experiment was conducted that considered the simulated piloting of an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with infrared thermography equipment. The crack depths (10-60 mm) were comparatively evaluated using linear regression, gradient boosting, and random forest (AI regression methods).

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 1993년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.65-72
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• 1993

Steel fiber reinforced concrete(SFRC) which is made by short, randomly distributed steel fibers in concrete is superior in its tensile mechanical properties to plain concrete in enhancement of tensile strength and tensile ductility. These improvements are attributed to crack arresting mechanism and formation of longer crack paths due to fibers , which as a consequence lead to increase in energy absorption capacity of SFRC. In the post-peak region under tensile stresses, major macrocrack forms at critical section. The opening of this macrocrack is mainly resisted by both of the fiber pull-out bridging the cracked surfaces and the resistance by matrix softening. In this study, micromechaincal approach has been made in order to simulate tensile behavior of SFRC and based on which the theoretical model is presented. This model reflects the features of both the composite material concept and the spacing concept in predicting tensile strength of SFRC. The model also takes into account for the effects of matrix tensile softening and fiber bridging by pull-out on the resistance for the post-peak behavior of SFRC. It has been shown that the developed model satisfactory predicts the experimental results.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2014

PURPOSES : The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of asphalt and geotextile interlayer on the fracture behavior of unbonded concrete overlay through a laboratory composite beam test. METHODS : In order to evaluate the effect of interlayer materials on the fracture behavior of unbonded concrete overlay, a laboratory test of composite beam was conducted with different types of interlayer. The test results of the composite beam using two types of geotextile interlayer with different thicknesses were compared to the test results of the composite beam using the tradition type of asphalt interlayer. The unbonded concrete overlay on the existing concrete pavement without interlayer was set for the control condition. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION : Overall, the laboratory composite beam test results did show the effect of asphalt and geotextile interlayer on the fracture behavior of composite concrete beams. The three-layer geotextile interlayer and HMA layer both increase the peak load when the first macrocrack occurs in the top concrete beam, while the HMA interlayer causes the smallest load drop percentage after the first macrocrack. The three-layer geotextile did show better performance than the single-layer geotextile through the greater peak load and smaller load drop percentage. It indicates that the thickness of geotextile interlayer will affect the fracture behavior of unbonded concrete overlay and the thicker geotextile interlayer is recommended.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 1995년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.35-41
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• 1995

Fracture Mechanics does work for concrete, provided that a finite nonlinear zone at fracture front is being considered. The development of model for fracture process zone is most important to describe fracture phenomena in concrete. The fracture process zone is a region ahead of a traction-free crack, in which two major mechanisms, microcracking and bridging, play important rules. The toughness due to bridging is dominant compared to toughness induced by microcracking, so that the bridging is dominant mechanism governing the fracture process of concrete. In this paper the bridging zone, which is a part of extended macrocrack with stresses transmitted by aggregates in concrete, is model led by a Dugdale-Barenblatt type model with linear tension-softening curve. Two finite element techniques are shown for the model of fracture process zone in concrete.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 추계 학술발표회 제20권2호
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• pp.753-756
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• 2008

일반 콘크리트에 비해 상대적으로 높은 인성과 연성의 특징을 갖는 HPFRCC는 과도한 하중을 받는 구조 부재 혹은, 내구적으로 취약한 부재 등에 사용될 수 있으며, 기존의 연구에 의하면 PVA섬유를 이용한 HPFRCC의 경우 혼입률 2%에서 가장 높은 휨 성능이 나타난다고 알려져 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 길이가 다른 두 종류의 PVA 섬유를 사용하여 상대적으로 짧은 섬유는 작은 균열(microcrack)을, 상대적으로 긴 섬유는 큰 균열(macrocrack)을 보다 효과적으로 제어하는 최적혼입비를 찾기 위하여 전체 PVA 혼입률을 2%로 고정시킨 채 두 섬유의 혼입률을 달리하여 각 혼입비에 따른 압축 및 휨 강도 테스트를 실시하였다. 또한 강섬유와 PVA 섬유를 동시에 하이브리드 보강한 콘크리트 부재에 대해서도 같은 실험을 실시하여 비교 분석하여 가장 높은 휨 성능을 나타낼 수 있는 최적배합을 찾고자 한다. 실험 결과 1.6%의 단섬유(12mm)와 0.4%의 장섬유(30mm)로 이루어진 시편에서 가장 높은 휨 성능을 보였으며, 2%의 PVA 섬유가 혼입된 부재에 대하여 소량의 강섬유 혼입 시 휨 성능이 다소 향상 되지만 많은 혼입량은 오히려 휨 성능의 저하를 초래하였다.