• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.593-598
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• 2002

Routinely, strength method for the determination of the nominal moment of reinforced concrete beam is assumed to also be suitable for strengthening beams with carbon fiber sheets since typically strengthening beams compromise 98% by volume of reinforced concrete. Flexural capacity of strengthening beam is absolutely dependent upon the type of reinforcement materials, amount of reinforcement, anchoring system, adhesion capacity between reinforcement material and concrete. Therefore, it might be incorrect to use strength method for analysis and design of strengthening beam without considering the differences in the load-deflection curves, mechanism of failure, state of stress distribution, failure strain of the reinforcement. An flexural analysis based on force equilibrium and strain comparability has been developed for strengthening beam. Systematic experimental investigations are compared with analytical results. Then, the adaptation of strength method for strengthening beam have also been discussed.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.501-516
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• 2010

This paper is aiming to study the performances of reinforced high-strength concrete (HSC) short columns confined with aramid fibre-reinforced polymer (AFRP) sheets. An experimental program, which involved 45 confined columns and nine unconfined columns, was carried out in this study. All the columns were circular in cross section and tested under axial compressive load. The considered parameters included the concrete strength, amount of AFRP layers, and ratio of hoop reinforcements. Based on the experimental results, a prediction model for the axial stress-strain curves of the confined columns was proposed. It was observed from the experiment that there was a great increment in the compressive strength of the columns when the amount of AFRP layers increases, similar as the ultimate strain. However, these increments were reduced as the concrete strength increasing. Comparisons with other existing prediction models present that the proposed model can provide more accurate predictions.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.482-485
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• 2006

The response of a reinforced concrete element under cyclic shear is characterized by the hysteretic loops of the shear stress-strain curves. These hysteretic loops can exhibit strength deterioration, stiffness degradation, and a pinched shape. Recent tests have shown that the orientation of steel grids in RC shear elements has a strong effect on the "pinching effect" in the post-yield hysteretic loops. When the steel grid was set at a 45 degree angle to the shear plane, there was no pinching effect and no strength deterioration. However, when the steel grid was set parallel to the shear plane, there was a severe pinching effect and severe strength deterioration with increasing shear strain magnitude. In this paper, two RC elements subjected to revered cyclic shear stresses are considered to study the effect of the steel grid orientation. The presence and absence of the pinching mechanism in the post-yield shear hysteretic loops is studied using the Rotating Angle Softened Truss Model (RA-STM) theory.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.1059-1062
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• 2003

Micro-tensile testing system has been developed and micro-tensile tests for copper foil have been carried out. The system consisted of a micro tensile loading system and a micro-ESPI system for measuring strain. The loading system has a maximum loading capacity of 50N and a stroke resolution of 4.5nm. Stress-strain curves for the electro-deposited copper foil with the thickness of 18$\mu\textrm{m}$ were obtained, and tensile properties, including elastic modulus, yielding strength and tensile strength, were determined. The tensile properties obtained under three different conditions of testing speed showed a dependency on the speed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 1995.03a
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• pp.114-123
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• 1995

Hot workability and microstructural development of 7075Al alloy were studied by hot torsion test. With decling temperature from 440$^{\circ}C$ to 340$^{\circ}C$, and strain rate ranges form 5 ${\times}$10-3/sec to 5 ${\times}$10-1/sec , flow stress and microstructural development were analyzed . The hot resoration mechanism was found to be dynamic recrystalization (DRX) form the analysis of the flow curves and the microstructures. In multistage deformation with decreasing temperature grain refinement was obtained effectively compared to conventional thermomechanical treatment (TMT) process. The strain of the 1st stage deformation at 440$^{\circ}C$ was found to play an important role for the next stage deformation behavior at 380$^{\circ}C$.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1-6
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• 2008

Due to the self-similarity of Berkovich and conical indenters, different materials may show the same loaddepth curve for single indentation. In this study, we first compare the load-depth characteristics of conical and Berkovich indenters via finite element method. We also analyze the variation of load-depth curves with angle of Berkovich indenter, indentation parameters, and material properties. With numerical regressions of obtained data, we then propose dual-Berkovich indentation formulae for material property evaluation. The proposed approach provides the values of elastic modulus, yield strength and strain-hardening exponent and corresponding stress-strain curve with an average error of less than 3%. The method is valid for any elastic indenters made of tungsten carbide and diamond for instance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.139-146
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• 1996

The torsion tests in the range of 900~1100$^{\circ}C$ and 5.0X10-2~5.0X100/sec were performed to study the high temperasture deformation behavior kinetics of 304 stainless steels. The flow curves and microstructures exhibited the characteristic of dynamic recrystallization(DRX). The relationship between the critical strain($\varepsilon$c) for the initiation of dynamic recrystallization and the peak strain($\varepsilon$p) could be expressed as $\varepsilon$c=0.73$\varepsilon$p. The dependence of the flow stress on temperature(T) and stain rate($\varepsilon$) was expressed by hyperbolic sine law, $\varepsilon$=2.75X1014 (sinh 0.076$\sigma$)5.26 exp(-379.55kJ/mol). Under the Zener-Hollomon parameter, Z value of 1013 order, it was found that the grain size was 20${\mu}$m. The relationship between the grain size, dDRX and Z parameter was expressed as dDRX =139.48-7.33 log Z.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.231-237
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• 1995

The powder mixtures of Al, Ti and Cr were mechanically alloyed to obtain nanocrystalline powders of $Ti_{25}Cr_8Al_{67}$ composition. Both FCC phase and undissolved metal chromium formed by MA. During the annealing of the MA powders, the phase transition from FCC to ordered $Ll_2$ started at ~$300^{\circ}C$ and was completed below $600^{\circ}C$. As a result of the high-temperature compressive test for the MA powder compacts, the stress-strain curves showed serrated yielding behavior at 400 and $600^{\circ}C$, and softening phenomenon below the strain rate of $5{\times}10^{-3}s^{-1}$ at $800^{\circ}C$. The compressive yield strength as a function of test temperatures showed the nature of the positive-temperature dependence which has the peak temperature around $600^{\circ}C$.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.461-471
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• 2007

In this work, indentation theory of Lee $et al.^{(1)}$ for 6% indentation of indenter diameter is extended to an indentation theory for 20% indentation. For shallow indentation, the effect of friction on load-depth curve is negligible, but different materials can show nearly identical load-depth curves. On the basis of this observation, a new numerical approach to deep indentation techniques is proposed by examining the finite element solutions. With this new approach, from the load-depth curve, we obtain stress-strain curve and the values of Young's modulus, yield strength and strain-hardening exponent with an average error of less than 3%.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.3 no.1 s.7
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• pp.77-85
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• 2003

This paper presents a truss model that can predict the shear behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beams subjected to the combined actions of shear and flexure. Unlike other truss models, the proposed truss model, TATM, takes into account the effect of the flexural moment on the shear strength of RC beams with different shear span-to-depth ratios. To check the successfulness of the proposed model experimentally obtained stress shear strain curves were compared to the predicted ones using the proposed truss model. Furthermore, the shear strengths of 170 RC test beams with variable shear span-to-depth ratios were compared to the shear strengths as given by the truss model reported in this paper.