• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.1083-1104
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• 2015

This paper provides the results of an experimental investigation into the flexural behavior of continuous two-span unbonded post-tensioned high strength concrete (HSC) beams, strengthened by end-anchored CFRP laminates of different configurations in the hogging region. Implementing two different configurations of end-anchorage systems consisting of steel plates and bolts and carefully monitoring the development of strains throughout the load history using sufficiently large number of strain gauges, the response of beams including the observed crack propagations, beam deflection, modes of failure, capacity enhancement at service and ultimate and the amount of moment redistribution are measured, presented and discussed. The study is appropriate in the sense that it covers the more commonly occurring two span beams instead of the simply supported beams investigated by others. The experiments reconfirmed the finding of others that proper installation of composite strengthening system is most important in the quality of the bond which is essential for the internal transfer of forces. It was also found that for the tested two span continuous beams, the capacity enhancement is more pronounced at the serviceability level than the ultimate. This is an important finding as the design of these beams is mostly governed by the serviceability limit state signifying the appropriateness of the suggested strengthening method. The paper provides quantitative data on the amount of this capacity enhancement.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.305-319
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• 2015

On mesoscopic level, concrete can be treated as a three-phase composite material consisting of mortar, aggregates and interfacial transition zone (ITZ) between mortar and aggregate. A lot of research has confirmed that ITZ plays a crucial role in the mechanical fracture process of concrete. The aim of the present study is to propose a numerical method on mesoscale to analyze the failure mechanism of reinforced concrete (RC) structures under mechanical loading, and then it will help precisely predict the damage or the cracking initiation and propagation of concrete. Concrete is meshed by means of the Rigid Body Spring Model (RBSM) concept, while the reinforcing steel bars are modeled as beam-type elements. Two kinds of RC members, i.e. subjected to uniaxial tension and beams under bending, the fracture process of concrete and the distribution of cracks, as well as the load-deflection relationships are investigated and compared with the available test results. It is found that the numerical results are in good agreement with the experimental observations, indicating that the model can successfully simulate the failure process of the RC members.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.499-520
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• 2011

The effectiveness of a technique for the repair of reinforced concrete members in combination with a technique for the repair of masonry walls of infilled frames, damaged due to cyclic loading, is experimentally investigated. Three single - story, one - bay, 1/3 - scale frame specimens are tested under cyclic horizontal loading, up to a drift level of 4%. One bare frame and two infilled frames with weak and strong infills, respectively, have been tasted. Specimens have spirals as shear reinforcement. The applied repair technique is mainly based on the use of thin epoxy resin infused under pressure into the crack system of the damaged RC joint bodies, the use of a polymer modified cement mortar with or without a fiberglass reinforcing mesh for the damaged infill masonry walls and the use of CFRP plates to the surfaces of the damaged structural RC members, as external reinforcement. Specimens after repair, were retested in the same way. Conclusions concerning the effectiveness of the applied repair technique, based on maximum cycles load, loading stiffness, and hysteretic energy absorption capabilities of the tested specimens, are drawn and commented upon.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.465-498
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• 2011

Concrete structures are generally cracked in flexural tension at working loads. Concrete beams with asymmetric section details and crack patterns exhibit different flexural rigidity depending upon the sense of the applied flexural moment. In this paper, three different models, having the same natural period, of such SDOF bilinear dynamical systems have been proposed. The Model-I and Model-II have constant damping coefficient, but the latter is characterized by two stiffness coefficients depending upon the sense of vibration amplitude. The Model-III, additionally, has two damping coefficients as well. In this paper, the dynamical response of Model-III to sinusoidal loading has been investigated and compared with that of Model-II studied earlier. It has been found that Model-III exhibits regular and irregular sub-harmonics, jump phenomena and strong sensitivity to initial conditions, forcing frequency, system period as well as the sense of peak sinusoidal force. The constant sustained load has been found to affect the natural period of the dynamical system. The predictions of Model-I have been compared with those of the approximate linear model adopted in present practice. The behaviour exhibited by different models of the SDOF cracked elastic concrete structures under working loads and the theoretical and practical implications of the approach followed have been critically evaluated.

• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.20-32
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• 1990

The plane strain fracture toughness of a material characterize the resistance to fracture in the presence of a sharp crack under severe tensile condition. Fracture toughness can be determined by indentation method. The purpose of this study was to investigate the fracture toughness of dental amalgams by measuring the plane strain fracture toughness and the fracture toughness from indentation method. Two conventional and four high copper amalgam alloys were employed for this study. The amalgams were prepared according to the A.D.A. spec. No. 1 and inserted into the specially designed mould with the single edge notch specimen to use in 3-point bending method. The specimens (20mm long, 4mm wide, 2mm thick) were stored at $37^{\circ}C$ for 1 week, and tested in 3-point bending by means of Instron at a cross-head speed of 1mm/min. In indentation method, the specimens were made in same manner as single edge notch specimens. The test was conducted with Vickers hardness tester at 10kg load. The following results were obtained. 1. The plane strain fracture toughness and the fracture toughness from indentation method were higher in the low copper amalgams than the high copper amalgams. 2. In high copper amalgams, the fracture toughness of amalgams decreases according as the copper contents increase. 3. In similar copper contents, the single composition amalgams have a higher fracture toughness than the admixed amalgams.

• 콘크리트학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.135-144
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• 1993

본 논문은 일정진폭의 피로하중을 받는 피리스트레스트 콘크리트 합성거더 교량의 피로해석 절차를 시간의 진행에 따른 재료 특성의 변화양상을 고려하여 정립하였다. 본 논문에서 제시된 방법은 피로하중의 재하에 따라 균열이 진전되면서 생기는 중립축의 이동현상을 고려하였으며, 해석결과는 기존의 제한된 실험자료와 부합되었다. 또한, 건설부에서 규정한 표준 I 단면의 프리스트레스트 콘크리트거더의 피로저항능력을 검토한 결과 충분한 안전도를 갖고 있음을 확인하였다. 그리고 이 방법의 적용으로 임의의 단면형상을 갖는 프리스트레스트 콘크리트 거더의 피로특성을 S-N 곡선의 형태로 나타낼 수 있도록 하였으며, 이는 향후 변동진폭하중하에서의 피로거동 해석에 유용하게 이용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2005년도 봄학술 발표회 논문집(I)
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• pp.111-114
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• 2005

While the existing reinforced concrete flat plate(RC flat plate) has a lot of advantages including reduced building height, it has some weak points such as many steel bars and the brittle rupture by punching shear. Compared with the RC flat plate, the post-tensioned flat plate (PT flat plate) has not only the same merits, but it also makes longer span possible and induces slab-column connections to be failed with the ductile behavior rather than with the brittle behavior by means of post-tensioning. However, it is difficult to define the joint behavior of PT flat plate under vertical and lateral loads since there are limit experimental results. For this reason, the experimental study is undertaken to investigate the comparison of behavior of PT flat plate and RC flat plate, and how flat plate(Gravity Load Resisting System) is displaced as lateral loads, like the wind and the earthquake, are occur. The result of this experiment shows that PT flat plate is generally superior to RC flat plate in terms of controlling crack, postponing stiffness deterioration, energy dissipation, etc.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.48-54
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• 1998

Part I에 이어서 질화규소로 코팅된 질화규소-질화붕소 시스템에 있어서 접촉하중에 의한 코팅층의 파괴에 대한 코팅층의 두께의 영향을 고찰하였다. 코팅층과 기판층간의 elastic/plastic mismatch가 큰 경우 코팅층의 균열생성을 방지하는 어느 임계 두께가 존재한다는 사실을 발견하였으며, mismatch가 감소할수록 이러한 요구 임계두께가 감소하였다. 또한 가해진 하중이 증가할수록 요구 임계두께는 증가하여야 함을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 코팅층의 파괴를 방지하기 위해서는 코팅층과 기판층간의 mismatch와 사용환경(가해지는 하중)을 고려한 적정 임계두께늬 설계가 요구된다.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2012

압출성형 ECC 패널을 활용한 철근콘크리트 복합 슬래브 구조에 대한 비선형 휨 해석 모델을 새롭게 제시하였다. ECC 패널은 직접인장시험 결과로부터 균열 이후에 고인성 인장거동을 하는 재료로 모델링하였다. 개발 모델을 기존 철근콘크리트 슬래브 및 ECC 패널 철근콘크리트 복합슬래브 실험체의 휨 실험결과와 비교하였다. 예측결과는 실험결과와 잘 일치하였으며, ECC 패널 적용 철근콘크리트 복합슬래브는 균열제어, 휨내력 및 휨변형능력 개선에 장점이 있는 것으로 판단되었다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.411-426
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• 2001

This paper treats the failure analysis of prestressing steel wires with different kinds of localised damage in the form of a surface defect (crack or notch) or as a mechanical action (transverse loads). From the microscopical point of view, the micromechanisms of fracture are shear dimples (associated with localised plasticity) in the case of the transverse loads and cleavage-like (related to a weakest-link fracture micromechanism) in the case of cracked wires. In the notched geometries the microscopic modes of fracture range from the ductile micro-void coalescence to the brittle cleavage, depending on the stress triaxiality in the vicinity of the notch tip. From the macroscopical point of view, fracture criteria are proposed as design criteria in damage tolerance analyses. The transverse load situation is solved by using an upper bound theorem of limit analysis in plasticity. The case of the cracked wire may be treated using fracture criteria in the framework of linear elastic fracture mechanics on the basis of a previous finite element computation of the stress intensity factor in the cracked cylinder. Notched geometries require the use of elastic-plastic fracture mechanics and numerical analysis of the stress-strain state at the failure situation. A fracture criterion is formulated on the basis of the critical value of the effective or equivalent stress in the Von Mises sense.