• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.291-296
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• 2000

The crack of concrete induced by the heat of hydration is s serious problem, particularly in concrete structures such as bridge piers. thick walls, box type walls, mat-slab of nuclear reactor building, dams of foundations of high rise buildings, etc. As a result of the temperature rise and restriction condition of foundation, the thermal stress which way induce the cracks can occur. Therefore the various techniques of the thermal stress control in massive concrete have been widely used. One of them is prediction of the thermal stress, besides low-heat cement which mitigates the temperature rise, design change which consider steel bar reinforcement, operation control and so on. In this study, firstly it introduce the thermal cracks control technique by employing low-heat cement concrete, thermal stress analysis, Secondly it shows the application of the cracks control technique like the bottom of No.15,16 Underground LNG Tank in Inchon.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.195-198
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• 2000

Recently, the anriwashout underwater concrete has been increasingly used for underwater structures such as vary high diaphrame walls of high strength massive concrete structures. In this study, experiments were made on the fundamental properties of antiwashout underwater concrete replaced with Fly Ash from 10% to 30% to improve its properties. Resultant to the test, we got the results as follows; the value of slump flow wasi ncreased, the setting, time was very delayed, and the heat evolution amount decreased, whereas the amount of suspended solids became high, and pH value became low as to increasing the replacement ratio of Fly Ash. Also the ratios of compressive strength (in water compared to in air) at 28day were obtained over 90%, and these values were satisfied with 70% of a criterion.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.37-49
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• 2012

PURPOSES : This study is to investigate the fundamental properties of limestone added cement concrete for application of pavement. METHODS : As the production of Portland cement causes environmental problems, engineers have sought more environment-friendly concrete construction materials. Limestone powder can be used for concrete as a partial replacement of Portland cement. One of the great applications of limestone powder added cement concrete might be a cement concrete pavement since the concrete pavement consumes massive quantity of Portland cement. Experimental variables were different replacement level of limestone powder by 0% to 25% with 5% increment. Before hardening of fresh concrete, setting time and plastic shrinkage characteristics were investigated in addition to other basic properties. Properties of hardened concrete included compressive, tensile and flexural strength as well as drying shrinkage. RESULTS : The addition of limestone powder did not significantly affect the properties of fresh concrete. Strength deceased as the replacement ratio increased and when the replacement ratio was greater than 10% decrease rate increased. CONCLUSIONS : It was found that the partial replacement of the limestone powder to cement in pavement materials can be positively considered as its mechanical properties show comparable performance to those normal concrete.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1994.04a
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• pp.233-237
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• 1994

매스콘크리트에서는 수화열에 의하여 유발된 높은 온도가 열응력을 일으키는 원인이 되며 구속의 정도에 따라 인장응력이 발생되어 균열이 발생하게 된다. 따라서, 매스콘크리트 타설시 시멘트의 수화열에 의한 균열이 심각한 문제가 된다. 본 연구에서는 매스콘크리트 기초 및 교각구조에 대한 수화열 실험을 통해 온도분포 및 변형분포를 측정하고 이에 대한 온도 및 열응력 해석을 통해 매스콘크리트에 대한 수화열 특성을 규명하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1995.04a
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• pp.274-279
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• 1995

The heat of hyderation of cement causes the internal temperature rise and volume change at early age, paticular in massive concrete structures. As the results of the temperature rise and extenal restraint conditions, the themal stress may induce cracks in concrete. Therefore various techenuques of the themal stress control of the mass concrete has been widely used. One of these techniques is pipe-cooling which is considered in this study. The objective of this paper is to develop finite element program which is capable of simulating the temperature history and the thermal stress considering pipe-cooling, creep and the modified elastic modulus dud to maturity effect.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.671-676
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• 1999

Because of relatively heavy dead weight of concrete itself and unavoidable heat of massive concrete in bridge piers, circular hollow columns are widely used in Korean highway bridges. Since the occurrence of 1995 Kobe earthquake, there have been much concerns about seismic design for various infrastructures, inclusive of bridge structures. It is, however, understood that there are not much research works for nonlinear behavior of circular hollow columns subjected to earthquake motions. The ultimate of this experimental research is investigate nonlinear behavior of circular hollow reinforced concrete bridge piers under the quasi-static cyclic load, and then to enhance their ductility by strengthening the plastic hinge region with glassfiber sheets. It is concluded from quasi-static tests for 7 bridge piers that energy dissipation capacity and curvatures for a given displacement ductility factor $\{\mu}=frac{\Delta}{\Delta_y}$are about 20% higher for the seismically designed columns and about 70% higher for the retrofitted piers than the nonseismically designed columns in a conventional way.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.787-790
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• 2012

In downtown, construction noise related claims are the most important issues. Sometimes noise related claims halt the construction process. Therefore, Introduction of noise reduction measures is common to construction process with a loud noise. This case is about concrete pouring for mat foundation of super tall building. Concrete pouring process using High Pressure Pumping machine causes high noise level in the vicinity of area. And large number of transit-mixer truck cause traffic congestion. This paper introduces effort and process to prevention of construction noise claims on massive scale concrete pouring.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.10-17
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• 2001

With the introduction of durability examination into design code of concrete structure, a prediction of early-age behavior of concrete and its cracking resistance becomes very important. But, the early-age behaviors such as hydration, micro-structure development, moisture transport and mechanical properties development is quite complicated and coupled each other, and thus those can not be solved independently. One way to analyze those is to model their behaviors analytically and solve those computationally within a unified framework. In this paper, we propose a finite element technique to predict the early-age behaviors of concrete within the unified framework. The technique is applied to evaluatio of cracking in a massive concrete structure and then the analysis results are discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.422-429
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• 1997

Thermal stress induced by hydration heat may produce cracks in mass concrete structure, which can result in structural problems as well as bad appearance. To minimize crack occurrence in massive structural, thus, the study put an emphasis on the determination of optimized lift height and block size. In the parametric study different sizes and lift heights were used to measure the magnitudes of hydration heat and thermal stresses for 3 different types of concrete fabricated with 1 pure cement and 2 blended Portland cements. As a result of analysis. it was found that magnitude of hydration heat and the occurrence of thermal cracks depend on the restriction conditions and material characteristics, especially adiabatic material parameters. It was also found that optimized lift height and block size can be determined from an appropriate combination of the degree of inner and outer structural restrictions.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.743-754
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• 1997

A three-dimensional constitutive modeling for reinforced concrete is presented for finite element nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete. The targets of interest to the authors are columns confined by lateral steel hoops, RC thin shells subjected to combined in-plane and out-of-plane actions and massive structures of three-dimensional (3D) extent in shear. The elasto-plastic and continuum fracture law is applied to pre-cracked solid concrete. For post cracking formulation, fixed multi-directional smeared crack model is adopted for RC domains of 3D geometry subjected to monotonic and reversed cyclic actions. The authors propose a new scheme of decomposing stress strain fields into sub-planes on which 2D constitutive laws can be applied. The proposed model for 3D reinforced concrete is experimentally verified in both member and structural levels under cyclic actions.