• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.92-98
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• 2015

최근의 건축물은 복합적인 기능과 형태를 보이고 있으며, 크기가 거대해짐에 따라 구조물 건전성 감시 (Structural Health Monitoring)기술의 수요 또한 증가하고 있다. 구조물마다 고유한 동특성을 가지고 있으며, 다양한 외력의 영향을 받기 때문에 구조물의 건전성을 평가하는 다양한 방법들이 연구되고 있다. 이상거동 시점이란 구조물이 비정상적 (Abnormal)으로 진동하는 시점으로 손상을 명확히 검출하기 위해서는 이상거동의 시점을 기준으로 전과 후를 비교하여야 한다. 즉, 이상거동은 구조물 손상의 이상 징후이며, 정확한 이상거동 시점의 추정은 구조물의 안전과 직결될 수 있다. 이상 거동은 손상을 유발하고 이는 곧 막대한 경제적 피해 및 심각한 인명 피해로 이어지므로 본 연구에서는 시간-주파수 신호분석 기법인 힐버트-황 변환을 이용한 이상거동 시점 추정 기법을 제안하고 진동대를 이용한 모형실험을 통해 제안한 알고리즘의 검증을 수행하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제74권6호
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• pp.821-832
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• 2020

The fundamental period is an important parameter for seismic design and seismic risk assessment of building structures. In this paper, a simplified theoretical method to predict the fundamental period of masonry infilled reinforced concrete (RC) frame is developed based on the basic theory of engineering mechanics. The different configurations of the RC frame as well as masonry walls were taken into account in the developed method. The fundamental period of the infilled structure is calculated according to the integration of the lateral stiffness of the RC frame and masonry walls along the height. A correction coefficient is considered to control the error for the period estimation, and it is determined according to the multiple linear regression analysis. The corrected formula is verified by shaking table tests on two masonry infilled RC frame models, and the errors between the estimated and test period are 2.3% and 23.2%. Finally, a probability-based method is proposed for the corrected formula, and it allows the structural engineers to select an appropriate fundamental period with a certain safety redundancy. The proposed method can be quickly and flexibly used for prediction, and it can be hand-calculated and easily understood. Thus it would be a good choice in determining the fundamental period of RC frames infilled with masonry wall structures in engineering practice instead of the existing methods.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.13-22
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• 1998

본 연구는 지진격리장치의 일종인 마찰 단진자 시스템(FPS)의 교량에의 적용에 관한 연구이다. FPS에 의하여 지진 격리된 교량과 지진 격리되지 않은 교량의 지진하중 작용시의 응답을 비교하기 위하여 축소모델 교량을 이용한 진동대 실험을 수행하였다. 연구결과, 본 장치를 설치한 경우 지진하중에 대한 지지능력이 향상하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 활동면 곡류반경에 의해 조절이 가능한 F.P.S 베어링의 강성은 입력된 kwlsfur의 강도와는 무관하며, 활동면의 마찰계수에 따라 속도가 변화하여 약진시에는 활동면에서의 속도가 작으므로 강진시와 비교하여 지진하중에 의하여 발생하는 마찰력도 감소하게 되었다. 한편 F.P.S 베어링의 마찰특성은 반복된 실험에서도 변화하지 않았고, 영구변형은 약적으로도 작았을 뿐만 아니라 누적되지도 않았다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제9권2호통권42호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2005

본 논문의 목적은 구조물의 지진응답제어를 위해 사용되는 MR 감쇠기의 성능을 선형화기법을 이용하여 등가의 선형 점성으로 표현하고, 이를 MR감쇠기가 설치된 축소건물에 대한 시스템식별 실험을 통해 얻은 결과와 비교하여, MR 감쇠기의 성능평가에 대한 선형화 기법의 타당성을 검증하는 것이다. 먼저, MR 감쇠기의 이력모델로 많이 사용되는 모델 중, 수학적 표현이 간단한 Bingham 모델에 등가선형화 기법을 적용하여 등가의 점성을 구하였다. 그리고, 진동대 가진실험을 통해 얻어진 MR감쇠기가 설치된 3층 소형구조물의 전달함수로부터 모드정보를 추출하고 이를 사용하여 구조물의 점성행렬을 구하였다. 선형화기법을 통해 Bingham 모델을 사용하여 예측된 점성과 실험을 통해 얻어진 MR감쇠기에 의해 증가된 점성은 5% 오차범위 이내로 일치된 결과를 보여준다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.80-87
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• 1993

본 논문은 에너지 분산 장치의 일종인 점탄성 감쇠기를 설치한 건물의 거동에 관한 실험 및 해석적 연구를 다루고자 한다. 지진 모형 실험 장치를 이용하여 감쇠기를 설치한 건물의 구조응답을 구하고. 이를 감쇠기를 설치하지 않은 건물에 대하여 행해진 비탄성 해석 결과와 비교한다. 결론적으로 말하면. 점탄성 감쇠기는 강지진 하중에 의하여 건물에 발생한 과도한 진동을 감소시키는데 효과적이다 일반적으로 점탄성 감쇠기를 건물에 설치함으로써 감쇠비와 함께 강성도가 증가하여 지진 응답을 감소시키는데 기여하나, 대부분은 감쇠기의 역할에 의해 증가된 감쇠비의 영향인 것으로 밝혀졌다. 모드 변형에너지법을 이용하여 감쇠기에 의해 증가된 등가구조 감쇠를 성공적으로 예측할 수 있으며 따라서 점탄성 감쇠기를 설치한 건물의 지진 응답이 일반적인 모드 해석 기법을 이용한 수치모형해석에 의해 정확히 예측된다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.381-399
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• 2005

Base isolation technologies have been proven to be very efficient in protecting structures from seismic hazards during experimental and theoretical studies. In recent years, there have been more and more engineering applications using base isolators to upgrade the seismic resistibility of structures. Optimum design of the base isolator can lessen the undesirable seismic hazard with the most efficiency. Hence, tracing the nonlinear behavior of the base isolator with good accuracy is important in the engineering profession. In order to predict the nonlinear behavior of base isolated structures precisely, hundreds even thousands of degrees-of-freedom and iterative algorithm are required for nonlinear time history analysis. In view of this, a simple and feasible exact formulation without any iteration has been proposed in this study to calculate the seismic responses of structures with base isolators. Comparison between the experimental results from shaking table tests conducted at National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering in Taiwan and the analytical results show that the proposed method can accurately simulate the seismic behavior of base isolated structures with elastomeric bearings. Furthermore, it is also shown that the proposed method can predict the nonlinear behavior of the VCFPS isolated structure with accuracy as compared to that from the nonlinear finite element program. Therefore, the proposed concept can be used as a simple and practical tool for engineering professions for designing the elastomeric bearing as well as sliding bearing.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.693-701
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• 2020

The conventional Kalman Filter (KF) provides a promising way for structural state estimation. However, the physical parameters of structural systems or models should be available for the estimation. Moreover, it is not applicable when the loadings applied to the structures are unknown. To circumvent the aforementioned limitations, a two-stage KF with unknown input approach is proposed for the simultaneous identification of structural parameters and unknown loadings. In stage 1, a modified observation equation is employed. The structural state vector is estimated by KF on the basis of structural parameters identified at the previous time-step. Then, the unknown input is identified by Least Squares Estimation (LSE). In stage 2, based on the concept of sensitivity matrix, the structural parameters are updated at the current time-step by using the estimated structural states obtained from stage 1. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is numerically validated via a five-story shearing model under random and earthquake excitations. Shaking table tests on a five-story structure are also employed to demonstrate the performance of the proposed approach. It is demonstrated from numerical and experimental results that the proposed approach can be used for the identification of parameters of structure and the external force applied to it with acceptable accuracy.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.185-201
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• 2022

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is used to provide reliable information about the structure's integrity in near realtime following extreme incidents such as earthquakes, considering the inevitable aging and degradation that occurs in operating environments. This paper experimentally investigates an integrated wireless sensor network (Wi-SN) based monitoring technique for damage detection in concrete structures. An effective SHM technique can be used to detect potential structural damage based on post-earthquake data. Two novel methods are proposed for damage detection in reinforced concrete (RC) building structures including: (i) Jerk Energy Method (JEM), which is based on time-domain analysis, and (ii) Modal Contributing Parameter (MCP), which is based on frequency-domain analysis. Wireless accelerometer sensors are installed at each story level to monitor the dynamic responses from the building structure. Prior knowledge of the initial state (immediately after construction) of the structure is not required in these methods. Proposed methods only use responses recorded during ambient vibration state (i.e., operational state) to estimate the damage index. Herein, the experimental studies serve as an illustration of the procedures. In particular, (i) a 3-story shear-type steel frame model is analyzed for several damage scenarios and (ii) 2-story RC scaled down (at 1/6th) building models, simulated and verified under experimental tests on a shaking table. As a result, in addition to the usual benefits like system adaptability, and cost-effectiveness, the proposed sensing system does not require a cluster of sensors. The spatial information in the real-time recorded data is used in global damage identification stage of SHM. Whereas in next stage of SHM, the damage is detected at the story level. Experimental results also show the efficiency and superior performance of the proposed measuring techniques.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.91-103
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• 2023

Tuned liquid dampers (TLDs) are increasingly being used as efficient dynamic vibration absorbers to mitigate wind-induced vibration in super high-rise buildings. However, the damping characteristics of screens and the control effectiveness of actual structures must be investigated to improve the reliability of TLDs in engineering applications. In this study, a numerical TLD model is developed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and a simulation method for achieving the coupled vibration of the structure and TLD is proposed. The numerical results are verified using shaking table tests, and the effects of the solidity ratio and screen position on the TLD damping ratios are investigated. The TLD control effectiveness is obtained by simulating the wind-induced vibration response of a full-scale structure-TLD system to determine the optimal screen solidity ratio. The effects of the structural frequency, damping ratio, and wind load amplitude on the TLD performance are further analyzed. The TLD damping ratio increases nonlinearly with the solidity ratio, and it increases with the screens towards the tank center and then decreases slightly owing to the hydrodynamic interaction between screens. Full-scale coupled simulations demonstrated that the optimal TLD control effectiveness was achieved when the solidity ratio was 0.46. In addition, structural frequency shifts can significantly weaken the TLD performance. The control effectiveness decreases with an increase in the structural damping ratio, and is insensitive to the wind load amplitude within a certain range, implying that the TLD has a stable damping performance over a range of wind speed variations.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제26권4A호
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• pp.605-609
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• 2006

이 연구에서는 최근 사회기반시설물의 스마트 모니터링을 위하여 많은 관심을 받고 있는 광섬유 FBG형 가속도계와 MEMS형 가속도계의 적용성을 평가하고자 하였다. 이들의 성능을 비교하기 위하여 저주파수 영역에서 높은 민감도와 신뢰성을 가지고 있는 ICP형 가속도계를 스마트 센서와 동시에 모형구조물에 부착하여 소규모 진동대 실험을 수행하였으며, 계측된 응답을 이용하여 모드해석을 수행함으로써 간접적으로 계측자료의 신뢰성을 비교하였다. 계측자료로부터 구한 모드자료를 이용하여 진단빌딩의 층간 강성을 추정하였다. 추정된 강성의 신뢰성을 검증하기 위하여 기지의 질량을 추가하여 구조물의 특성을 변경시킨 후, 다시 진동대 실험을 수행하여 구한 실험모드해석 결과를 수치해석결과와 비교하였다.