• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.165-174
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 실물 콘크리트 거더 교량의 가속도 응답 신호를 이용하여 구조물의 상태변화를 경보한 후 그 위치 변화를 검색하는 2단계 구조건전성 모니터링 체계를 제시하였다. 먼저, 2경간 연속 콘크리트 거더 교량인 미호천교를 대상교량으로 선정하였으며, 볼링공을 이용한 강제진동 실험으로부터 동특성을 추출하였다. 다음으로, 미호천교의 2단계 구조건전성 모니터링 체계 구축을 위한 손상 발생 경보 및 손상 위치 검색 기법들을 선정하였다. 손상 경보 기법으로는 시간영역 특징을 이용하는 자기회귀모델과 주파수응답함수의 상관계수, 주파수응답비보증지수를 선정하였다. 손상 위치 검색 기법으로는 모드변형에너지기반 손상지수법을 선정하였다. 마지막으로, 덤프트럭을 이용한 정적 재하 실험을 통해 2단계 손상 모니터링 체계의 적합성을 검증하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제89권6호
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• pp.617-626
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• 2024

The study investigated the behavior of plain and fibered Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) beams under varying loading conditions using integrated analysis of the flexure and acoustic emission tests. The loading rate of testing is -0.25 -2 mm/min. It is observed that on increasing loading rate, flexural strength increases, and toughness decreases. The acoustic emission testing revealed that higher loading rates accelerate crack propagation. Fiber effect and matrix cracking are identified as significant contributors to the release of acoustic emission energy, with fiber rupture/failure and matrix cracking showing rate-dependent behavior. Crack classification analysis indicated that the rise angle (RA) value decreased under quasi-static loading. The average frequency (AF) value increased with the loading rate, but this trend reversed under rate-dependent conditions. K-means analysis identified distinct clusters of crack types with unique frequency and duration characteristics at different loading rates. Furthermore, the historic index and signal strength decreased with increasing loading rate after peak capacity, while the severity index increased in the post-peak zone, indicating more severe damage. The sudden rise in the historic index and cumulative signal strength indicates the possibility of several occurrences, such as the emergence of a significant crack, shifts in cracking modes, abrupt failure, or notable fiber debonding/pull-out. Moreover, there is a distinct rise in the number of AE knees corresponding to the increase in loading rate. The crack mapping from acoustic emission testing aligned with observed failure patterns, validating its use in structural health monitoring.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.709-719
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• 2023

일반적으로 발전소 내 제어를 담당하는 대부분의 전기 설비는 자립식 캐비닛으로, 후설치 앵커를 사용하여 슬래브에 고정하는 정착 방식이 주로 사용된다. 정착부 앵커의 경우 외력이 작용될 시 모멘트 하중 등에 의한 전도의 위험성에 노출되지만 현행 앵커에 대한 성능 검토는 1축 재료 시험으로만 평가되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 현장 설치 조건이 반영된 후설치 앵커의 정적 성능 실험을 통하여 재료 시험과의 성능을 비교하고 앵커의 거동 특성을 분석하는 것이 주목적이다. 실제 캐비닛을 이용하여 실험을 진행하는 것이 타당하지만 경제적, 공간적 제약으로 수행하기에 어려움이 있어 강재 기둥과 받침으로 구성된 실험체로 대체하여 수행하였다. 결과적으로 현장 설치 조건을 반영한 앵커의 인발 성능이 재료 시험 대비 약 10 % 높게 측정되었으며, 앵커의 하중 감소 경향 및 최대 성능이 발현되는 시점도 상이한 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 실험적 연구의 신뢰성을 검증하기 위하여 3D FEM 해석을 수행하였으며, 이를 통해 향후 진동대를 이용한 전기 캐비닛의 구조 성능 평가 시 후설치 앵커에 전달되는 예측 가능한 하중 정보를 제공하고자 한다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.151-162
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• 2017

In practical engineering, the friction damper is a widely used energy dissipation device because of its large deformation capacity, stable energy dissipation capability, and cost effectiveness. While based on conventional friction dampers, the double-sliding friction damper (DSFD) being proposed is different in that it features two sliding friction forces, i.e., small and large sliding friction forces, rather than a single-sliding friction force of ordinary friction dampers. The DSFD starts to deform when the force sustained exceeds the small-sliding friction force, and stops deforming when the deformation reaches a certain value. If the force sustained exceeds the large sliding friction force, it continues to deform. Such a double-sliding behavior is expected to endow structures equipped with the DSFD better performance in both small and large earthquakes. The configuration and working mechanism of the DSFD is described and analyzed. Quasi-static loading tests and finite element analyses were conducted to investigate its hysteretic behavior. Finally, time history analysis of the single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) and multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) systems were performed to investigate the seismic performance of DSFD-equipped structures. For the purpose of comparison, tests on systems equipped with conventional friction dampers were also performed. The proposed DSFD can be realized perfectly, and the DSFD-equipped structures provide better performances than those equipped with conventional friction dampers in terms of interstory drift and floor acceleration. In particular, for the MDOF system, the DSFD helps the structural system to have a uniform distributed interstory drift.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제55권6호
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• pp.1139-1155
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• 2015

In this study, a new retrofitting method for improving the seismic performance of reinforced concrete column was presented, in which prestressed steel strips were utilized as retrofitting stuff to confine the reinforced concrete column transversely. In order to figure out the seismic performance of concrete column specimen retrofitted by such prestressed steel strips methods, a series of quasi-static tests of five retrofitted specimens and two unconfined column specimen which acted as control specimens were conducted. Based on the test results, the seismic performance including the failure modes, hysteresis performance, ductility performance, energy dissipation and stiffness degradation of all these specimens were fully investigated and analyzed. And furthermore the influences of some key parameters such as the axial force ratios, shear span ratios and steel strips spacing on seismic performance of those retrofitted reinforced concrete column specimens were also studied. It was shown that the prestressed steel strips provided large transverse confining effect on reinforced concrete column specimens, which resulted in improving the shearing bearing capacity, ductility performance, deformation capacity and energy dissipation performance of retrofitted specimens effectively. In comparison to the specimen which was retrofitted by the carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) strips method, the seismic performance of the specimens retrofitted by the prestressed steel strips was a bit better, and with much less cost both in material and labor. From this research results, it can be concluded that this new retrofitting method is really useful and has significant advantages both in saving money and time over some other retrofitting methods.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.182-190
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• 2020

This study reports a series of drop impact tests performed to generate denting damages on stiffened plates and their residual ultimate strength tests under axial compression. The models were fabricated of general structural steel, and each model has six longitudinal stiffeners and two transverse frames. Among six fabricated models, four were damaged, and two were left intact for reference. To investigate the effects of collision velocity and impact location on the extent of damage, the drop height and the impact location were changed in each impact test. After performing the collision tests, the ultimate axial compression tests were conducted to investigate the residual strengths of the damaged stiffened plates. Finite element analyses were also carried out using a commercial package Abaqus/Explicit. The material properties obtained from a quasi-static tensile tests were used, and the strain-rate sensitivity was considered. After importing the collision simulation results, the ultimate strength calculations were carried out and their results were compared with the test data for the validation of the finite element analysis method.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.260-269
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• 2014

본 논문의 목적은 철도교량 단부 전환부 궤도의 구조적 거동특성을 평가하는 것이다. 국내 고속철도 교량상 궤도표준단면을 이용하여 전환부 궤도구조를 설계 및 제작하여 피로시험 전, 후에 대한 전환부 궤도시스템의 중립축 및 동특성(고유진동수 및 감쇠비)의 변화를 비롯하여 피로균열 발생경향을 수치해석 결과와 비교, 검토하였다. 연구결과, 국내 고속철도 궤도설계기준을 준용하여 설계한 전환부 궤도시스템에 대한 동특성을 실험적으로 산정하였으며 국내 철도하중 및 충격효과를 고려한 피로하중에 대한 구조적 건전성을 실험 및 해석적으로 입증하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.227-237
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• 2017

This paper presents optimization of a long-span portal steel frame under dynamic wind loads using a surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm. Long-span portal steel frames are often used in low-rise industrial and commercial buildings. The structure needs be able to resist the wind loads, and at the same time it should be as light as possible in order to be cost-effective. In this work, numerical model of a portal steel frame is constructed using structural analysis program (SAP2000), with the web-heights at five locations of I-sections of the columns and rafters as the decision variables. In order to evaluate the performance of a given design under dynamic wind loading, the equivalent static wind load (ESWL) is obtained from a database of wind pressures measured in wind tunnel tests. A modified formulation of the problem compared to the one available in the literature is also presented, considering additional design constraints for practicality. Evolutionary algorithms (EA) are often used to solve such non-linear, black-box problems, but when each design evaluation is computationally expensive (e.g., in this case a SAP2000 simulation), the time taken for optimization using EAs becomes untenable. To overcome this challenge, we employ a surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm (SAEA) to expedite the convergence towards the optimum design. The presented SAEA uses multiple spatially distributed surrogate models to approximate the simulations more accurately in lieu of commonly used single global surrogate models. Through rigorous numerical experiments, improvements in results and time savings obtained using SAEA over EA are demonstrated.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.134-144
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• 2011

In this paper, the global study trends for material behaviors are investigated regarding the static and dynamic hardenings and final fractures of marine structural steels. In particular, after reviewing all of the papers published at the 4th and 5th ICCGS (International Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ship), the used hardening and fracture properties are summarized, explicitly presenting the material properties. Although some studies have attempted to employ new plasticity and fracture models, it is obvious that most still employed an ideal hardening rule such as perfect plastic or linear hardening and a simple shear fracture criterion with an assumed value of failure strain. HSE (2001) presented pioneering study results regarding the temperature dependency of material strain hardening at various levels of temperature, but did not show strain rate hardening at intermediate or high strain rate ranges. Nemat-Nasser and Guo (2003) carried out fully coupled tests for DH-36 steel: strain hardening, strain rate hardening, and temperature hardening and softening at multiple steps of strain rates and temperatures. The main goal of this paper is to provide the theoretical background for strain and strain rate hardening. In addition, it presents the procedure and methodology needed to derive the material constants for the static hardening constitutive equations of Ludwik, Hollomon, Swift, and Ramberg-Osgood and for the dynamic hardening constitutive equations of power from Cowper-Symonds and Johnson-Cook.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.725-734
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• 2012

모듈화된 급속시공 교량 구조물의 하부구조 형식으로 충전 원형강관을 이용한 교각 구조물을 제안하였다. 다수의 충전강관을 연결하여 표준화된 제품으로 생산하여 운반 조립할 수 있는 구조 상세와 연결 상세를 제안하였다. 제안된 구조상세와 연결상세를 반영한 모듈러 교각의 정적실험을 강축과 약축에 대해서 횡변위 조건으로 수행하였다. 단일 기둥으로 설계한 것에 비하여 모듈러 CFT 교각 시스템이 브레이싱으로 연결된 편심효과로 인해 5.23배 높은 휨강성을 나타내었고 휨강도도 6배 이상 증가하였다. 합리적인 설계를 위해서는 모듈러 CFT 교각을 프레임으로 모델링하여 응력 및 처짐 검토를 수행하는 것이 타당한 것으로 나타났다. 교각을 구성하는 기둥간의 간격 조정을 통해서 필요한 내하력을 확보할 수 있을 것으로 판단되고 설계를 위한 고려사항을 제안하였다.