• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.79-93
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• 2013

One of the biggest problems affecting bridges is the transverse cracking and deterioration of concrete bridge decks. The causes of early age cracking are primarily attributed to plastic shrinkage, temperature effects, autogenous shrinkage, and drying shrinkage. The cracks can be influenced by material characteristics, casting sequence, formwork, climate conditions, geometry, and time dependent factors. The cracking of bridge decks not only creates unsightly aesthetic condition but also greatly reduces durability. It leads to a loss of functionality, loss of stiffness, and ultimately loss of structural safety. This investigation consists of field, laboratory, and analytical phases. The experimental and field testing investigate the early age transverse cracking of bridge decks and evaluate the use of sealant materials. The research identifies suitable materials, for crack sealing, with an ability to span cracks of various widths and to achieve performance criteria such as penetration depth, bond strength, and elongation. This paper also analytically examines the effect of a wide range of parameters on the development of cracking such as the number of spans, the span length, girder spacing, deck thickness, concrete compressive strength, dead load, hydration, temperature, shrinkage, and creep. The importance of each parameter is identified and then evaluated. Also, the AASHTO Standard Specification limits liveload deflections to L/800 for ordinary bridges and L/1000 for bridges in urban areas that are subject to pedestrian use. The deflection is found to be an important parameter to affect cracking. A set of recommendations to limit the transverse deck cracks in bridge decks is also presented.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.139-151
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• 2022

Filling materials poured into precast member joint are subjected to restraint stress by the precast member and joint reinforcement. The induced stress will likely cause cracks at early ages and performance degradation of the entire structure. To prevent these issues and design reasonable joints, it is very important to analyze and evaluate the restrained shrinkage cracks of filling materials at various restraint conditions. In this study, a new time zero-that defines the shrinkage development time of a filling material-is proposed to calculate the accurate amount of shrinkage. The tensile stresses and strengths at different ages were compared through the ring test (AASHTO PP34) to evaluate the crack potential of the restrained filling materials at various restraint conditions. The mixture which contained an expansive additive and a shrinkage reducing agent exhibited high resistance to shrinkage cracking owing to the high-drying shrinkage compensation effect. The high-performance, fiber-reinforced cement composite, and ultra-high-performance, fiber-reinforced cement composite yielded very high resistance to shrinkage and cracking owing to the pull-out property of steel fibers. To this end, multiple nonlinear regression analyses were conducted based on the test results. Accordingly, a modified tensile stress equation that considered both the geometric shape of the specimen and the intrinsic properties of the material is proposed.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2014년도 추계 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.158-159
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• 2014

In general, the shrinkage occurring in the floor mortar is large the influence by the dry shrinkage. In order to reduce the cracks occurring in the floor mortar, studies of physical methods are often performed, but these methods is difficult to prevent cracking of the floor mortar essentially. Therefore, in this study, the dry shrinkage properties of floor mortar of gypsum and red clay type using alpha-hemihydrate gypsum had been evaluated. The experimental variables were cement mortar(CM), gypsum mortar(GM), red-clay mortar(RM), the evaluation items was conducted experiment to evaluate the setting time, the compressive strength, drying shrinkage cracks, the dry shrinkage. As a result, it was confirmed that condensation time of GM is shorter that that of CM, and GM satisfied the compressive strength of the floor mortar standard. Also shrinkage deformation of GM reduced more than the CM.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.113-122
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• 2010

In this study, 150MPa ultra-high-strength concrete was manufactured, and its performance was reviewed. As technically meaningful autogenous shrinkage reportedly occurs at a W/B ratio of 40% or less, although it occurs in all concrete regardless of the W/B ratio, the effects of the use of expansive admixture and shrinkage reducer, or of the friction and restraint of forms that may result in the effective reduction of autogenous shrinkage, were reviewed. As a result, considering the flow and strength characteristics, it was found that the slump flow time was shorter with expansive admixture, and shortest with shrinkage reducer. All specimens with $30kg/m^3$ expansive admixture showed high strength at early material age. Their strength decreased due to the expansion cracks when there was excessive use of expansive admixture, and the use of shrinkage reducer did not influence the change in the strength according to the material age. The expansive admixture had a shrinkage reduction effect of 80%, while the shrinkage reducer had a shrinkage reduction effect of 30%, indicating that the expansive admixture had a stronger effect. It seems that mixing the two will have a synergistic effect. The shrinkage reduction rate was highest when the W/B ratio was 20%. The form suppressed the expansion and shrinkage at the early period, and the demolding time did not significantly influence the shrinkage. The results of the study showed that the excessive addition of expansive admixture leads to expansion cracks, and the expansive admixture and shrinkage reducer have the highest shrinkage reduction effect when they are mixed.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.30-37
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• 2023

PSCB 거더교는 상하부 플랜지와 복부가 일체화된 폐합된 단면으로 일반적으로 거더와 바닥판이 분리된 교량과 구조적 특성이 상이하여 PSCB 거더교의 특성을 반영한 유지관리 방안이 필요하다. 고속도로 PSCB 거더교의 정밀안전진단 보고서를 수집하여 손상 유형을 분석한 결과, 공용 중 발생되는 열화·손상은 대부분 상부플랜지에 집중되어 있다. 특히 상부플랜지 하면의 교축방향 균열은 분석대상 PSCB 거더교의 약 70 %에서 발생되었고, 이는 외부하중에 의한 구조적 균열 보다 수화열, 건조수축 등 간접하중에 의한 균열로 판단된다. 공용중인 PSCB 거더교의 내구성 향상 및 유지관리 비용 절감 등을 위해서는 설계단계부터 구속 건조수축 균열의 제어가 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 PSCB 거더교 상부플랜지 하면 균열의 주요 원인인 구속 상태에서의 건조수축으로 인하여 발생되는 균열에 대하여 Gilbert Model을 이용하여 직접 계산하고, 철근량, 철근직경 및 간격 등 영향인자를 분석하였다. 분석결과, 간접하중으로 인하여 발생되는 균열폭은 H16 철근 기준 철근비 0.01 이하, 철근비 0.01 기준 H19보다 직경이 큰 철근의 경우 허용 균열폭 0.2 mm를 초과하는 것으로 나타났으며, 최종적으로 균열폭 검토 결과를 바탕으로 PSCB 거더교 상부플랜지의 균열폭 제어 방안을 제안하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.296-302
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• 2016

콘크리트의 내구성 저하로 인한 균열의 보수 및 보강에 소요되는 비용은 콘크리트 구조물의 유지비용 증대로 연결되어 균열발생 저감에 대한 연구가 요구되고 있다. 특히, 전력공급용 시설인 전력구의 경우 지하 매설물이므로 보수 및 보강은 경제적으로 큰 부담이 된다. 그러므로 지하매설 전력구의 경우 효과적인 균열 저감 방안이 설계 초기단계부터 요구되어진다. 본 연구는 전력구용 저수축 콘크리트 제조를 위한 수축저감제 개발의 일환으로 수축저감제 사용 콘크리트의 초기 강도 개선을 위해 TEA를 검토하였다. 검토결과, TEA를 수축저감제의 3% 사용할 경우 조기 강도가 크게 개선되었으며, 수축저감 효과도 우수한 것으로 확인되었다. 또한, TEA 3 %에 수축저감제 2.0 % 혼합하여 적용하였을 경우 압축강도 특성 및 건조수축 길이변화 실험결과에서 가장 우수한 것으로 나타나 수축저감제로서의 가능성을 확인하였다. 추후 수축저감제의 범용적인 적용성 검토를 위하여 수축저감제의 사용재료 변화 등에 대한 다양한 재료변수 요인 검토를 통하여 수축저감제의 성능 검토가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2005년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.448-455
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• 2005

In this paper, an analytical model for estimation of the time at which the concrete surface begins to dry is introduced to predict whether or not plastic shrinkage cracks occur. First of all, the validity of a consolidation model for bleeding of cement paste proposed by Tan et al. is verified by comparing the analytical results with the experimental results, and used to evaluate the rate and amount of bleed water of concrete. Also an analytical model for evaporation of bleed water which considers the effect of the temperature variation of concrete surface due to hydration heat on the evaporation rate is proposed, and the experimental and analytical results are then compared to verify the validity of the introduced model. In advance, the time at which the concrete surface begins to dry is estimated using above two analytical models, and compared with the experimental results about the time at which plastic shrinkage cracks occur. From the comparison, it is verified that the proposed model can predict the occurrence of plastic shrinkage cracking with comparative precision.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 1998년도 가을 학술발표논문집(II)
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• pp.386-391
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• 1998

Recently, high performance concrete developed has a good quality at fresh and hardened state, but high binder contents results in spending much money on manufacturing and many cracks by drying and autogenous shrinkage. Therefore, in this paper, not only prevention of cracks caused by drying and autogenous shrinkage, but improvement of quality and accmplishment of economy by applying F.A(fly ash), S.F(silica fume) and CSA(calcium sulfa aluminate) expansive additives as an inorganic admixtures in W/B 35% are discussed. According to the experimental results, when 5% of CSA Expansive additives and 15:5 (F.A:S.F)are replaced at unit cement content, high performance concrete with both good compensation of drying and autogenous shrinkage at hardened state is accomplished.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.478-483
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• 2011

Cast mold has low wear-resistance comparing with other alloyed molds which result in lower production rate and high cost of products. Recently, various weld methods are being applied to increase the wear-resistance of molds and to extend mold life. Among them, nickel alloy weld process increases the hardness irrelevant to its machinability and creates very uniform structures. In addition, it causes better wear-resistance and reduces shrinkage defects. In this paper, we analyze the mold surface cracks welded by nickel alloy and propose the methods to improve the mold surface and its wear-resistance. It has been found that nickel alloy weld does not affect the inside crack of mold but has an influence on the surface crack seriously. Results show that the start and growth of fatigue cracks have been delayed about 3 times and reduced approximately 75%, respectively, and the mold surface cracks are decreased about 5.7 times.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.102-108
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• 2016

이 연구의 목적은 개착식 전력구 콘크리트에 발생하는 부등건조수축에 의한 균열특성을 파악하고, 수축저감제 혼입에 따른 건조수축균열특성을 분석하는데 있다. 따라서 이 연구에서는 전력구 박스형 콘크리트 구조물의 부등건조수축에 의한 균열특성을 파악하기 위하여 세 가지 주요영향인자를 고려한 수치해석과 수치해석을 한 결과와 실제 전력구 타설을 하여 측정한 차이를 확인해 보았다. 본 연구로부터 건조 수축 시험체에 대한 건조수축량을 산정에 대한 해석 기법을 개발하였으며, 실제 전력구 타설 실험을 통해 종방향 및 횡방향 균열발생 가능성을 입증 하였다. 전력구 실증시험체 건조수축량 수치해석 결과, 균열저감 콘크리트 배합의 경우 종방향 및 횡방향 응력에 있어 일반배합에 비해 40~50%정도의 현저한 감소를 보이며, 이에 따라 균열저감 콘크리트를 전력구에 적용하였을 경우 현저한 균열감소 효과를 보일 것으로 예측된다.