• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.549-562
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• 2017

The US railroad network carries 40% of the nation's total freight. Railroad bridges are the most critical part of the network infrastructure and, therefore, must be properly maintained for the operational safety. Railroad managers inspect bridges by measuring displacements under train crossing events to assess their structural condition and prioritize bridge management and safety decisions accordingly. The displacement of a railroad bridge under train crossings is one parameter of interest to railroad bridge owners, as it quantifies a bridge's ability to perform safely and addresses its serviceability. Railroad bridges with poor track conditions will have amplified displacements under heavy loads due to impacts between the wheels and rail joints. Under these circumstances, vehicle-track-bridge interactions could cause excessive bridge displacements, and hence, unsafe train crossings. If displacements during train crossings could be measured objectively, owners could repair or replace less safe bridges first. However, data on bridge displacements is difficult to collect in the field as a fixed point of reference is required for measurement. Accelerations can be used to estimate dynamic displacements, but to date, the pseudo-static displacements cannot be measured using reference-free sensors. This study proposes a method to estimate total transverse displacements of a railroad bridge under live train loads using acceleration and tilt data at the top of the exterior pile bent of a standard timber trestle, where train derailment due to excessive lateral movement is the main concern. Researchers used real bridge transverse displacement data under train traffic from varying bridge serviceability levels. This study explores the design of a new bridge deck-pier experimental model that simulates the vibrations of railroad bridges under traffic using a shake table for the input of train crossing data collected from the field into a laboratory model of a standard timber railroad pile bent. Reference-free sensors measured both the inclination angle and accelerations of the pile cap. Various readings are used to estimate the total displacements of the bridge using data filtering. The estimated displacements are then compared to the true responses of the model measured with displacement sensors. An average peak error of 10% and a root mean square error average of 5% resulted, concluding that this method can cost-effectively measure the total displacement of railroad bridges without a fixed reference.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.597-605
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• 2019

IPM Birdge는 경간장 30.0m에서부터 최대 120.0m까지 적용이 가능한 일체식 교량으로, 이러한 교량의 형상 조건은 라멘교에서도 적용가능하다. 교량의 형상조건은 유사하나 거동이 다른 IPM Bridge와 라멘교를 현장에 적용하기 위해, 두 교량의 공학적 우수성을 비교분석하는 과정이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 라멘교와 IPM Bridge의 구조해석을 수행하여, IPM Bridge와 라멘교의 하중, 모멘트, 및 변위 등의 분포 형태를 비교분석하였다. 입력조건의 차이가 두 교량 형식의 거동에 영향을 미치지 않도록 동일한 조건에서 구조해석을 수행하였다. 구조해석은 경간 30.0m를 기준으로 단경간 교량부터 4경간 120.0m까지로 각 4개의 모델로 구조해석을 수행하였다. 본 연구로부터 도출된 결론은 다음과 같다. 1) 휨모멘트는 라멘교가 크게 산정되었고, 수평변위는 IPM Bridge가 크게 산정되었다. 2) 라멘교는 교량의 연장보다는 경간장에 의해 휨모멘트가 크게 도출되므로, 설계에서 경간장에 대한 허용 휨모멘트가 고려되어야 한다. 3) IPM Bridge의 파일벤트는 120.0m 경간에서도 강관말뚝의 소성모멘트를 초과하지 않았지만, 수축방향의 수평변위가 조인트 교량의 허용기준인 25mm에 근접하므로 설계 시 고려가 필요하다. 4) 실제 설계에서는 부재력에 대한 안정성을 확보하는 것이 중요하므로, 부 모멘트에 대한 검토가 가장 중요한 것으로 나타났다.

• 전산구조공학
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.69-69
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• 1999

Design of Dangsan Steel Railway Bridge(a part of Seoul Subway Line NO. 2), which is supposed to be replaced after its 15years survice, was done, and the reconstruction has begun in Dec. 1997. The design include new superstruc-ture and bridge piers, retrofitting of the foun-dation, rail system, electric and signal, etc. In this paper, design of the structure is mainly summarized. The main span superstructure, across Han river, is composite section which is com-posed of steel box and reinforced concrete deck slab with 9 span continuous. The superstructure for the approaches is bottom througth type 2-cell steel box girder with steel floor system and concrete deck slab with 3 or 4 span continuous. The bridge piers was planned to be reconstructed based upon the result from the various investi-gations, while the foundation(cassion and pile foundation) was planned to be retrofitted. For superstructure erection, the method of combination of barge bent and heavy lifting and the launching truss method was investigated for the main span and approach spans, respectively.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.243-254
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• 2022

Reinforced concrete (RC) deep beams are critical structural elements used in offshore pile caps, rectangular cross-section water tanks, silo structures, transfer beams in high-rise buildings, and bent caps. As a result of the low shear span ratio to effective depth (a/d) in deep beams, arch action occurs, which leads to shear failure. Several studies have been carried out to improve the shear resistance of RC deep beams and avoid brittle fracture behavior in recent years. This study was performed to investigate the behavior of RC deep beams numerically and experimentally with different reinforcement arrangements. Deep beams with four different reinforcement arrangements were produced and tested under monotonic static loading in the study's scope. The horizontal and vertical shear reinforcement members were changed in the test specimens to obtain the effects of different reinforcement arrangements. However, the rebars used for tension and the vertical shear reinforcement ratio were constant. In addition, the behavior of each deep beam was obtained numerically with commercial finite element analysis (FEA) software ABAQUS, and the findings were compared with the experimental results. The results showed that the reinforcements placed diagonally significantly increased the load-carrying and energy absorption capacities of RC deep beams. Moreover, an apparent plastic plateau was seen in the load-displacement curves of these test specimens in question (DE-2 and DE-3). This finding also indicated that diagonally located reinforcements improve displacement ductility. Also, the numerical results showed that the FEM method could be used to accurately predict RC deep beams'behavior with different reinforcement arrangements.