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Experimental Evaluation for Structural Performance of Hybrid Damper Combining Steel Slit and Rotational Friction Damper (강재 슬릿과 회전 마찰형 감쇠 장치를 결합한 복합 감쇠 장치의 실험적 구조 성능 평가)

  • Kim, Yu-Seong;Kang, Joo-Won;Park, Byung-Tae;Lee, Joon-Ho
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.101-109
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    • 2019
  • In order to develop the compatible damping device in various vibration source, a hybrid wall-type damper combining slit and friction damper in parallel was developed. Cyclic loading tests and two-story RC reinforced frame tests were performed for structural performance verification. As a result of the 5-cyclic loading test according to KBC-2016 and low displacement cyclic fatigue test, The hybrid wall type damper increased its strength and the ductility was the same as that of the slit damper. In addition, As a result of the two-layer frame test, the reinforced frame had about twice the strength of the unreinforced frame, and the story drift ratio was satisfied to Life Safety Level.

Seismic retrofit system made of viscoelastic polymer composite material and thin steel plates

  • Nasab, Mohammad Seddiq Eskandari;Chun, Seungho;Kim, Jinkoo
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.153-164
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    • 2022
  • In this study, a series of cyclic loading tests were performed on viscoelastic dampers (VED) composed of viscoelastic polymer composite material and thin steel plates to observe the variation of the mechanical properties under different loading conditions. A mathematical model was developed based on the Kelvin-Voigt and Bouc-Wen models to formulate the nonlinear force-displacement relationship of the viscoelastic damper. The accuracy of the proposed mathematical model was verified using the data obtained from the tests. The mathematical model was applied to analyze a reinforced concrete framed structure retrofitted with viscoelastic dampers. Nonlinear dynamic analysis results showed that the average maximum inter-story drift ratios of the retrofitted structure met the target limit state after installing the VED. In addition, both the maximum and residual displacements were significantly reduced after the installation of the VED.

Single piles under cyclic lateral loads - Full scale tests and numerical modelling

  • Hocine Haouari;Ali Bouafia
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.21-34
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    • 2023
  • In order to analyze the effect of the cyclic lateral loading on the response of a pile-soil system, a full-scale single steel pile was subjected to one-way cyclic loading. The test pile was driven into a bi-layered soil consisting of a normally consolidated saturated clay overlying a silty sandy layer, the site being submerged by water up to one meter above the mudline in order to reproduce the conditions of an offshore pile foundation. The aim of this paper is to present the main results of interpretation of the cyclic lateral tests in terms of pile deflections, bending moment, and cyclic P-Y curves. From these latter an absolute secant reaction modulus EAS,N was derived and a simple calculation model of the test single pile is proposed based on this modulus. Two applications of the proposed model are carried out, one with a 2D finite element modelling, and the second with a load transfer curves-based method.

Experimental Study on the Connection between RC Footing and Steel Pile according to Rail loads (철도하중을 고려한 기초구조물과 강관말뚝 연결부 거동에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Sung;Kim, Dae-Sang;Cho, Kook-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.1607-1614
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    • 2011
  • As the connection between spread footing and pile is very important structural connection, it acts as the inter-loading medium to transfer the rail loads applied by superstructure to ground through the body pile of foundation. The experimental study is the method how to reinforce the pile cap between steel pile and footing utilizing perfobond plate with protruding keys. It were experimented on the compression punching tests and bending moment tests against the vertical loading and horizontal loadings acting on head of steel tube pipe. As a result, the tension capacity of the perfobond plate exhibited the superior performance due to the interlocking or dowel effects by the sheared keys of perfobond plate, and there were showing the sufficient strength and ductile capacity against the bending moment of horizontal loading tests. Therefore, it is judged that "the embedded method of perfobond plate in pile cap and footing" which is utilizing the shear connection of perfobond plate with protruding keys has a sufficient structural stability enough to be replaced with the current specification of reinforced method of pile cap with vertically deformed rebar against the vertical compression loads and bending moments that are able to occur in the combination structure of steel pile and the footing foundation.

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A Study on the Applicability of Bearing Capacity Formulas of Driven Pile by Comparison with the Results of Static Loading Tests (정재하시험 결과를 통한 타입말뚝 지지력 공식의 타당성 분석)

  • Chun, Byung-Sik;Lee, Seung-Beom
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2004.03b
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    • pp.544-551
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    • 2004
  • Piles are structural elements made of steel, concrete or timber, and utilize as pile foundation which is one of deep foundations. Driven pile among them, which drives pile into the ground, is fast-constructable, less expensive and it supplies much bearing capacity. For these reasons, its demand is steady. In this study, by selecting the cases which reached ultimate failure during in-situ static loading tests, bearing capacities acquired from these tests were compared with those computed by existing theories and formula. As the results of the analysis, ultimate bearing capacity computed by theoretic formula were less or similar to those of test results in most cases, but lower ground water level and more dense layer where end of piles were reached remarkably high bearing capacity in theoretical methods. ${\beta}-method$ and Korean structure foundation design standard were sensitive to ground physical properties. Meyerhof metbod and API code were relatively independent from site condition.

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Experimental Study on Characteristics of Granular Materials Containing Recycled Aggregates (순환골재를 포함한 입상재료의 특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Hong, Seok-Woo;Gwon, Gi-Cheol;Han, Yeong-Seong
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.83-94
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    • 2013
  • PURPOSES : In Korea, most designs of pavement had been mainly performed by considering CBR of granular materials before KPRP(Korea Pavement Research Program) and 86 AASHTO design method were introduced. Since then, the trend of the pavement designs gradually have moved to using mechanical characteristics throughout the resilient modulus based on the test results up to recently. In this study, we should like to research the mechanical characteristics of paving materials containing Recycled aggregates through the cyclic loading triaxial compression tests. METHODS : The kinds of materials were tested; coarse grained subbase materials, refining aggregates base materials and recycled aggregates. RESULTS : The present study aims to figure out the resilient modulus of paving materials containing Recycled aggregates through the cyclic loading triaxial compression tests. CONCLUSIONS : The test results revealed that the engineering properties of the recycled aggregates were more excellent than the those of others.

Loading rate effect on the delamination toughness of carbon/epoxy composites (하중속도가 탄소섬유/에폭시 적층복합재의 층간분리인성에 미치는 영향)

  • Ha S.R.;Rhee K.Y.;Kim H.J.;Jung D.H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.593-597
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    • 2005
  • It is generally accepted that fracture toughness of fiber-reinforced polymer composites is affected by loading rate in an atmospheric presure condition. For a present study, the loading rate effect on the fracture toughness of fiber-reinforced laminated composites in the hydrostatic pressure condition was investigated. For this purpose, fracture tests have been conducted using carbon/epoxy composites applying three steps of the strain rate at 270 MPa hydrostatic pressure condition. The loading rates applied were 0.05%/sec, 0.25%/sec, and 0.55%/sec. Fracture toughness was determined from the work factor approach as a function of applied loading rate. The result showed that fracture toughness decreased as the loading rate increased. Specifically, the fracture toughness decreased 12% as the loading rate increased from 0.05%/sec to 0.55%/sec.

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Fractographic Analysis Method of Fatigue Fracture Surface under Program and Random Loading for Aluminum Alloy (알루미늄 합금의 랜덤하중 하에서 발생한 피로파면 해석 방법)

  • 김상태;최성종;양현태;이희원
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.27 no.12
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    • pp.2055-2060
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    • 2003
  • Striation is a typical pattern observed on the fatigue fracture surface and the spacing is known to correspond to a macroscopic fatigue crack growth rate, and many models for the predict in the formation of such striation have been proposed. However, these theories and methods can't be applied under random loading spectrum. In this study, the fatigue tests were carried out on aluminum alloy under random loading spectrum. The fatigue fracture surfaces were observed in the scanning electron microscope (SEM) and great quantities of SEM micrographs were synthesized and saved in computer system. The space and morphology of several large-scale striations, which are expected to from at the relatively greater load range in loading block, were observed. The crack length for each loading blocks was decided in consideration of regularity and repetition of those striations. It is shown that the applicability of fractographic methods on the fatigue fracture surface under random loading spectrum.

Frequency Dependence in Large Strain Range During Cyclic Triaxial Tests of Clay (점성토의 진동삼축시험시 대변형률영역에서의 주파수 의존성)

  • Kim, Yong-Seong
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.48 no.5
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    • pp.63-71
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    • 2006
  • In the present study, the dynamic deformation characteristics of clay, including the effect of loading rate in large strain ranges, were examined by performing undrained cyclic triaxial test. The test results showed that the loading rate to failure decreased with increasing loading amplitude and decreasing loading frequency. While the stress-strain relationships was not affected by loading frequency, excess pore pressure was affected significantly with the change in loading frequency. The change for 0.1 Hz was larger for than that of 0.01 Hz, resulting in inclined effective stress paths. Furthermore, the lower the frequency was, the higher the excess pore pressure was in the first loading.

Prediction of Shear Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Panels Subjected to Reversed Cyclic Loading (반복하중을 받는 철근 콘크리트 막요소의 전단거동 예측)

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    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.105-110
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    • 2002
  • This paper proposes an analytical method to predict the behavior of reinforced concrete beams subjected to reversed cyclic loading. The proposed method is based on the compatibility aided truss model and adopts the stress vs. strain curve of concrete which considers the softening effects. This model Is verified by comparing to the six reinforced concrete panel tests.

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