• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.359-369
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• 2000

Random loading identification has long been a difficult problem for Multi-Input-Multi-Output (MIMO) structure. In this paper, the Pseudo Excitation Method (PEM), which is an exact and efficient method for computing the structural random response, is extended inversely to identify the excitation power spectral densities (PSD). This identified method, named the Inverse Pseudo Excitation Method (IPEM), resembles the general dynamic loading identification in the frequency domain, and can be used to identify the definite or random excitations of complex structures in a similar way. Numerical simulations are used to reveal the the difficulties in such problems, and the results of some numerical analysis are discussed, which may be very useful in the setting up and processing of experimental data so as to obtain reasonable predictions of the input loading from the selected structural responses.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.561-575
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• 2000

Microvibration of high technology facilities, such as semiconductor plants and facilities with high precision equipments, due to nearby road and rail traffic has attracted considerable attention recently. In this paper, a preliminary study is conducted for the possible use of various protective systems and their performance for the reduction of microvibration. Simulation results indicate that passive base isolation systems, hybrid base isolation systems, passive floor isolation systems, and hybrid floor isolation systems are quite effective and practical. In particular, the performances of hybrid floor isolation systems are remarkable. Further, passive energy dissipation systems are not effective for the reduction of microvibration. Finally, the protections against both microvibration and earthquake are also investigated and presented.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.603-619
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• 2000

Analysis of a framed structure for vertical vibration requires a lot of computational efforts because large number of degrees of freedom are generally involved in the dynamic responses. This paper presents an efficient modeling technique for vertical vibration utilizing substructuring technique and super elements. To simplify the modeling procedure each floor in a structure is modeled as a substructure. Only the vertical translational degrees of freedom are selected as master degrees of freedom in the inside of each substructure. At the substructure-column interface, horizontal and rotational degrees of freedom are also included considering the compatibility condition of slabs and columns. For further simplification, the repeated parts in a substructure are modeled as super elements, which reduces computation time required for the construction of system matrices in a substructure. Finally, the Guyan reduction technique is applied to enhance the efficiency of dynamic analysis. In numerical examples, the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method are demonstrated by comparing the response time histories and the analysis time.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.458-467
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• 2000

The standard of performance-based seismic design accepted by Ministry of Construction and Transport requires to install and manage earthquake instruments for the facilities of seismic category I and to acquire earthquake response data of these facilities at earthquake events. So detailed standard and guideline for installation and management of earthquake instruments for each facilities according to the seismic design standard are getting ready. This paper presents the part of installation locations of sensors in that detaile standard and guideline.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.259-266
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• 2000

This study was conducted to investigate the seismic behavior assessment of circular reinforcement concrete bridge piers particularly with regard to assessing the displacement ductility curvature ductility response modification factor(R) and plastic hinge region etc, The experimental variables of bridge piers test consisted of transverse steel details amount and spacing different axial load levels etc. The test results indicated that reinforcement concrete bridge piers with confinement steel by the code specification exhibited suffcient ductile behavior and seismic performance. Also it is found that current seismic design code specification of confinement steel requirements may be revised.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.233-238
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to outline the analysis procedure for evaluating the performance of moment resisting steel frames. For this purpose, three ordinary moment resisting frames are designed in compliance to UBC 1994. The evaluation is performed by nonlinear static procedures using two analytical models. Only one analytical model using panel element can reflect the panel zone deformation explicitly. The limit values in FEMA 273 are used as guidelines of predicted demand parameters by which the performance of OMRFs may be assessed.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.209-214
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• 2000

Shaking table tests were performed to investigate dynamic behavior of a three dimensional flexible rectangular liquid storage tank. Response characteristics to the three components of translational motion and three component of rotational motion were studied. The aluminium tank was exposed to the shaking high enough to make it behave in nonlinear range. Only very limited amount of the data have been processed yet. Very interesting phenomena on the effects of non-symmetry have been observed and presented. Test results that show nonlinear behavior under the high intensity shaking are reported.

• The Journal of the Korean Society for Microbiology
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• v.35 no.5_6
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• pp.350-350
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• 2000

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06d
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• pp.182-185
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• 2000

In this paper, we present a new adaptive filter structure which is based on polyphase decomposition of the filter to be adapted. This structure uses wavelet transform to acquire transform-domain coefficients of the input signal. With this coefficients RLS algorithm is used for adaptation. Particularly, using the polyphase parallel structure, we can trace the system which has very long impulse response with only increasing the subband, and show that computational savings can be achieved. The proposed structure was applied to system identification for performance estimation and compared with fullband adaptive filter.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.85-88
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• 2000

We present a new approach to analyzing the dynamic false contour noise of AC plasma display panels (PDP), which is known to degrade the image quality severely. Compared with the existing methods that consider only the amount of light emission from PDP during 1 field time, the proposed approach uses the impulse response model of the human vision system and estimates how the human beings actually feel as the function of time. Experimental results using various benchmark sub-field scan algorithms are included.