• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1283-1301
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• 2014

Ground motion modification is extensively used in seismic design of civil infrastructure, especially where few or no recorded ground motions representative of the design scenario are available. A site in Los Angeles, California is used as a study site and 28 ground motions consistent with the design earthquake scenario are selected. The suite of 28 ground motions is scaled and modified in the time domain (TD) and frequency domain (FD) before being used as input to a bilinear SDOF system. The median structural responses to the suites of scaled, TD-modified, and FD-modified motions, along with ratios of he modified-to-scaled responses, are investigated for SDOF systems with different periods, strength ratios, and post-yield stiffness ratios. Overall, little difference (less than 20%) is observed in the peak structural accelerations, velocities, and displacements; displacement ductility; and absolute accelerations caused by the TD-modified and FD-modified motions when compared to the responses caused by the scaled motions. The energy absorbed by the system when the modified motions are used as input is more than 20% greater than when scaled motions are used as input. The observed trends in the structural response are predominantly the result of changes in the ground motion characteristics caused by modification.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제85권5호
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• pp.655-664
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• 2023

Reinforced concrete (RC) shear wall structures are one of the most widely used structural systems to resist seismic loading all around the world. Although there have been several efforts to provide conceptually simple procedures to reasonably assess the seismic demands of structures over recent decades, it seems that lesser effort has been put on a number of structural forms such as RC shear wall structures. Therefore, this study aims to represent a simple linear response spectrum-based method which can acceptably predict the nonlinear displacements of a non-ductile RC shear wall structure subjected to an individual ground motion record. An effective period and an equivalent damping ratio are introduced as the dynamic characteristics of an equivalent linear SDOF system relevant to the main structure. By applying the fundamental mode participation factor of the original MDOF structure to the linear spectral response of the equivalent SDOF system, an acceptable estimation of the nonlinear displacement response is obtained. Subsequently, the accuracy of the proposed method is evaluated by comparison with another approximate method which is based on linear response spectrum. Results show that the proposed method has better estimations for maximum nonlinear responses and is more utilizable and applicable than the other one.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.389-395
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• 2018

This paper presents the application of a semi-active fuzzy based control system for seismic response reduction of a single degree-of-freedom (SDOF) framed structure using a Magnetorheological (MR) damper. Semi-active vibration control with MR dampers has been shown to be a viable approach to protect building structures from earthquake excitation. Moreover, intelligent damping systems based on soft-computing techniques such as fuzzy logic models have the inherent robustness to deal with typical uncertainties and non-linearities present in civil engineering structures. Thus, the proposed semi-active control system uses fuzzy logic based models to simulate the behavior of MR damper and also to develop the control algorithm that computes the required control signal to command the actuator. The results of the numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the suggested semi-active control system in reducing the response of the SDOF structure.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.305-310
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 단자유도계 구조물의 자유진동응답으로부터 점성감쇠와 마찰감쇠의 영향을 정확히 식별하는 방법을 제시하였다. 제안방법을 검증하기 위해서 우선, 감쇠항으로써 점성감쇠와 마찰감쇠를 동시에 고려한 단자유도계의 변위 및 가속도 자유진동응답에 대해서 기술하였다. 다음으로, 서로 인접하는 두 개의 변위 또는 가속도 피크응답의 진폭을 이용하여 점성감쇠 및 마찰감쇠를 식별하는 관계식을 유도하였다. 마지막으로, 단자유도계에 대한 수치해석을 수행하여 유도된 관계식으로부터 점성감쇠와 마찰감쇠를 식별하는 방법을 검증하였다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.177-189
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• 2017

For energy-based seismic design, a simplified normalized cumulative hysteretic energy spectrum proposed for obtaining hysteretic energy as energy demand is the main objective in this paper. The dimensionless parameter, ${\beta}_{Eh}$, is presented to express hysteretic energy indirectly. The ${\beta}_{Eh}$ spectrum is constructed directly through subtracting the hysteretic energy of single degree-of-freedom (SDOF) system energy equation. The simplified ${\beta}_{Eh}$ spectral formulation as well as pseudo-acceleration spectrum of modern seismic provisions is developed based on the regression analysis of the large number of seismic responses of SDOF system subjected to earthquake excitations, which considers the influence of earthquake event, soil type, damping ratio, and ductility factor. The relationship between PGV and PGA is established according to the statistical analysis relied on a total of 422 ground motion records. The combination of ${\beta}_{Eh}$ spectrum and PGV/PGA equation allows determining the cumulative hysteretic energy as a main aseismic design indicator.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 에너지 소산형 감쇠기가 설치된 철근콘크리트 구조물의 지진응답 저감효과를 확률적으로 평가하기 위하여 지진취약도 함수를 도출하였다. 가속도민감 영역과 속도민감 영역에 속하는 대표 고유주기를 갖는 비선형 단자유도 시스템으로 모델링된 철근콘크리트 구조물을 대상으로 강도와 강성의 불확실성을 고려하였다. 원구조물에 다양한 강성과 감쇠를 갖는 변위의존형 감쇠기를 부가하여 비선형시간이력해석을 수행하였으며, 해석결과의 통계를 바탕으로 로그정규분포 형태의 지진취약도 함수를 도출하였다. 원구조물의 종류별로 감쇠기의 설계변수에 따른 지진취약도 함수의 변화를 검토하고 이를 통해 손상확률의 저감효과를 분석하였다.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2005년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.269-276
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• 2005

A web-based platform for nonlinear earthquake analysis on SDOF systems has been developed in the research. The proposed web-based platform is a 2-tier system composed of client and server sides. Smart Client is applied for the client side to improve the handling speed and UI compatible to the stand alone systems. For the server side, MSSQL is used as a storage for the web. XML WebService is adpoted for the networking between client and server. To examine the efficiency of the developed web-based platform, a trial study on a SDOF nonlinear structural system under earthquake excitation has been carried out.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.145-158
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• 2004

The evaluation of the accumulation of permanent set for inelastic structures due to wind action is important in establishing a criterion to select a reduced design wind load and in incorporating the beneficial ductile behaviour in wind engineering. A parametric study of the accumulation of the permanent set as well as the ductility demand for bilinear single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems is presented in the present study. The dynamic analysis of the inelastic SDOF system is carried out using the method of Newmark for artificially generated time history of wind speed. Simulation results indicate that the mean of the normalized damage rate is highly dependent on the natural frequency of vibration. This mean value is relatively insensitive to the damping ratio if the damping ratio is larger than 5%. The scatter associated with the accumulation of the permanent set is very significant. The consideration of the postyield stiffness can significantly reduce the accumulation of the permanent set if the ratio of the yield strength to the expected peak response is small. The results also show that the ductility demand due to the wind action over a period of one hour for flexible structures can be much less than that for rigid structures or structures with larger damping ratio if the SDOF systems are designed with a reduced peak response caused by the fluctuating wind.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.292-298
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• 2010

본 연구는 발파진동에 의한 지반진동이 구조물에 미치는 영향을 평가하기 위함이다. 이를 위하여 지반에서 측정한 자료를 토대로 Newmark $\beta$ 방법을 이용하여 단자유도계(SDOF)를 가정한 구조물 동적응답 시간이력과 구조물에서 직접 측정한 진동 시간이력을 비교 하였다. 지반과 구조물의 측정 자료로부터 시간이력을 해석한 결과, 단일공 발파와 20 ms 단차 발파에서 지반진동과 구조물 사이의 진동 크기는 약 3배의 차이로 구조물에서 더 큰 진동을 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 구조물 동적응답 시간이력을 해석한 결과, 그 값은 구조물에서 직접 측정한 자료와 유사한 최대 진동속도를 보였으며, 이것은 구조물 하부 지반에서 측정된 지반진동 측정자료에 근거하여 구조물의 진동특성을 예측할 수 있음을 지시한다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.369-385
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• 2002

Ductility capacity is comprehensively studied for steel moment-resisting frames. Local, story and global ductility are being considered. An appropriate measure of global ductility is suggested. A time domain nonlinear seismic response algorithm is used to evaluate several definitions of ductility. It is observed that for one-story structures, resembling a single degree of freedom (SDOF) system, all definitions of global ductility seem to give reasonable values. However, for complex structures it may give unreasonable values. It indicates that using SDOF systems to estimate the ductility capacity may be a very crude approximation. For multi degree of freedom (MDOF) systems some definitions may not be appropriate, even though they are used in the profession. Results also indicate that the structural global ductility of 4, commonly used for moment-resisting steel frames, cannot be justified based on this study. The ductility of MDOF structural systems and the corresponding equivalent SDOF systems is studied. The global ductility values are very different for the two representations. The ductility reduction factor $F_{\mu}$ is also estimated. For a given frame, the values of the $F_{\mu}$ parameter significantly vary from one earthquake to another, even though the maximum deformation in terms of the interstory displacement is roughly the same for all earthquakes. This is because the $F_{\mu}$ values depend on the amount of dissipated energy, which in turn depends on the plastic mechanism, formed in the frames as well as on the loading, unloading and reloading process at plastic hinges. Based on the results of this study, the Newmark and Hall procedure to relate the ductility reduction factor and the ductility parameter cannot be justified. The reason for this is that SDOF systems were used to model real frames in these studies. Higher mode effects were neglected and energy dissipation was not explicitly considered. In addition, it is not possible to observe the formation of a collapse mechanism in the equivalent SDOF systems. Therefore, the ductility parameter and the force reduction factor should be estimated by using the MDOF representation.