• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제59권5호
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• pp.821-840
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• 2016

A simple design process is proposed for supplemental viscous dampers based on structural safety redundancy. In this process, the safety redundancy of the primary structure without a damper is assessed by the capacity and response spectra. The required damping ratio that should be provided by the supplemental dampers is estimated by taking the structural safety redundancy as a design target. The arrangement of dampers is determined according to the drift distribution obtained by performing pushover analysis. A benchmark model is used to illustrate and verify the validity of this design process. The results show that the structural safety redundancy of the structure provided by the viscous dampers increases to approximately twice that of the structure without a damper and is close to the design target. Compared with the existing design methods, the proposed process can estimate the elastic-plastic response of a structure more easily by using static calculation, and determine the required damping ratio more directly without iterative calculation or graphical process. It can be concluded that the proposed process is simple and effective.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.156-168
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• 2022

기존 케이슨방파제의 전면 또는 후면에 추가로 케이슨을 설치하여 구조물의 안정성을 향상시키기 위한 설계 및 시공사례가 수행되고 있다. 기존 케이슨과 신규 케이슨사이에 존재하는 유체의 공진으로 구조물에 작용하는 파력이 과도하게 해석되는 현상이 포텐셜이론 기반의 수치해석에서 발생된다. 본 연구에서는 상용 프로그램인 ANSYS AQWA에서 제공되는 댐핑존 옵션을 이용하여 입사하는 파랑과 케이슨들간의 상호작용 영향에 의해 개별 케이슨에 작용하는 파력 분포 특성을 분석하였다. 공진이 발생되는 유체에 댐핑존을 적용하여 댐핑계수 변화에 따른 케이슨에 작용하는 파력을 도출하였다. 또한 전후 케이슨간의 간격 및 좌우 케이슨간의 간격 변화에 따른 개별 케이슨에 작용하는 파력 특성을 주파수영역 수치해석을 통해 검토하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.229-244
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• 1995

The parametric instability behaviour of a plate subjected to localized in-plane compressive or tensile periodic edge loading is studied, considering the effects of damping into the system. Different edge loading cases have been considered. Damping has been introduced in the form of proportional damping. Dynamic instability behaviour under compressive or tensile periodic edge loading shows that the instability regions are influenced by the load band width and its location on the edge. The effects of damping on the instability regions show that there is a critical value of dynamic load factor beyond which the plate becomes dynamically unstable. The critical dynamic load factor increases as damping increases. Damping generally reduces the widths of the instability regions.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제13권3호통권55호
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• pp.217-224
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• 2009

지진으로부터 구조물의 안전을 확보하기 위하여 많은 공학자들의 연구가 계속되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 납의 이력특성을 이용하여 지진하중을 감소시키는 LRB(lead rubber bearing)의 감쇠능력에 대한 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 납 플러그의 면적비를 주요변수로 설계한 2종류 12개의 시험체를 제작하여 변위제어시험을 시행하였다. 감쇠비 결정을 위한 이력감쇠곡선을 얻기 위하여 2개의 시험체가 한 쌍을 이루도록 배치하고 3회 반복이력시험을 수행하였다. 실험결과로부터 본 연구에서의 납 플러그 면적비가 큰 LRB는 지진시 구조물의 지진하중을 감소시키는데 충분한 감쇠비를 보유하고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• KCI Concrete Journal
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2002

Recent construction activities have given rise to civil petitions associated with vibration-induced damages or nuisances. To mitigate unfavorable effects of construction activities, the measures to reduce or isolate from vibration need to be adopted. In this research, a vibration-mitigated concrete, which is one of the active measures for reducing vibration in concrete structures, was investigated. Concrete was mixed with vibration-reducing materials (i.e. latex, rubber power, plastic resin, and polystyrofoam) to reduce vibration and tested to evaluate dynamic material properties and structural characteristics. Normal and high strength concrete specimens with a certain level of damage were also tested for comparisons. In addition, recycling tires and plastic materials were added to produce a vibration-reducing concrete. A total of 32 concrete bars and eight concrete beams were tested to investigate the dynamic material properties and structural characteristics. Wave measurements on concrete bars showed that vibration-mitigated concrete has larger material damping ratio than normal or high strength concrete. Styrofoam turned out to be the most effective vibration-reducing mixture. Flexural vibration tests on eight flexural concrete beams also revealed that material damping ratio of the concrete beams is much smaller than structural damping ratio for all the cases.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1171-1186
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• 2014

Damping is one of the parameters that control the performance of structures when they are subjected to seismic, wind, blast or other transient shock and vibration disturbances. By adding supplemental viscous dampers, the energy input from a transient deformation is absorbed, not only by the structure itself, but also by the supplemental dampers. The aim of this study is to evaluate the values of both damping and ductility reduction factors for steel moment resisting frames with supplemental linear viscous dampers. Two-dimensional finite element models have been established for a range of low to mid rise buildings with different parameters: number of floors; number of bays; and number of dampers with different supplemental damping ratios (from 5% to 30%). A parametric study has been performed using time history analyses and a well-documented research method (N2-method). In addition, an equation has been proposed for each reduction factor based on regression analysis for the obtained results. The results of the Time history analyses are compared with those of a modified N2-method. Moreover, a comparison with values specified in the European code EC8 and the Egyptian code ECP-201 has been performed.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.965-977
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• 2015

Determination of dynamic parameters of a structure such as predominant frequency and damping ratio is one of the most important subjects in dynamics of structures. Different methods are used to determine predominant frequency. These methods are different in the cost, implement accessibility, accuracy, speed, applicability in different conditions, simplicity of calculations and required data accessibility. Calculation of damping ratio by using common experimental procedures is very difficult and costly, then it is assumed as a constant value in most calculations. Microtremor measurements and using spectral ratio method to determine the predominant frequency and damping ratio of structure is of interest in recent years. In this paper, as a case study, the effects of retrofitting on structural dynamic parameters of two four-story buildings by using microtremor measurements and also finite element analysis, is investigated. The results of this study show that microtremor measurements can be utilized to assess the improvement of dynamic behavior of the retrofitted structure and the effectiveness of the method of retrofitting.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회논문초록집
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• pp.362.1-362
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• 2002

Eigenvalues are taken as performance criteria for structural damping design using viscoelastic material. Given material properties, optimal distribution of damping material is sought based on eigenvalue sensitivity. For eigenanalysis of frequency dependent viscoelastic material rented structures, Golla-Hughes-McTavish(GHM) model is used and some dominant modes are chosen for consideration. (omitted)

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 1996년도 추계학술대회논문집; 한국과학기술회관, 8 Nov. 1996
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• pp.224-230
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• 1996

In the mechanical systems with large damping, the conventional SDM method developed for no damping systems will lead to an error solution. Here, we introduce a SDM method based on the experimental modal model for large damping systems. The sensitivities of natural frequencies and mode shapes with respect to mass, damping, and stiffness coefficients of structures are used to calculate the position and quantity of modification, and predict the new dynamic characteristics. Through numerical simulation and experiment, the effectiveness of the proposed method is tested.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.141-151
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• 2005

There are several ways of decreasing the vibration energy of structures. One of which is special damping layers made of various viscoelastic materials are widely applied in structures subjected to dynamic loading. In this study, a cantilever beam, partially covered by damping a constraining layers, is investigated by using Finite Element method (FEM). The frequency and system loss factor are evaluated. The effects of different physical and geometrical parameters on the natural frequency and system loss factors are discussed.