• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.217-235
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• 2023

Orthogonal pairs of rollers on concave beds (OPRCB) are a low-cost, low-tech rolling-based isolating system, whose high efficiency has been shown in a previous study. However, seismic performance of OPRCB isolators has only been studied in the two-dimensional (2D) state so far. This is while their performance in the three-dimensional (3D) state differs from that of the 2D state, mainly since the vertical accelerations due to rollers' motion in their beds, simultaneously in two orthogonal horizontal directions, are added up and resulting in bigger vertical inertia forces and higher rolling resistance. In this study, first, Lagrange equations were used to derive the governing equations of motion of the OPRCB-isolated buildings in 3D. Then, some regular shear-type OPRCB-isolated buildings were considered subjected to three-component excitations of far- and near-source earthquakes, and their responses were compared to those of their fixed-base counterparts. Finally, the effects of more realistic modeling and analysis were examined by comparing the responses of isolated buildings in 2D and 3D states. Response histories were obtained by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta-Nystrom method, considering the geometrical nonlinearity of isolators. Results reveal that utilizing the OPRCB isolators effectively reduces the acceleration response, however, depending on the system specifications and earthquake characteristics, the maximum responses of isolated buildings in the 3D state can be up to 40% higher than those in the 2D state.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.875-891
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• 2015

Earthquake can occur anywhere in the world and it is essential to design important members in special structures based on maximum possible forces that can be produced in them under severe earthquake. In addition, since the earthquake is an accidental phenomena and there are no similar earthquakes, therefore the possibility of strong earthquakes should be taken into account in earthquake-resistant design of important structures. Based on this viewpoint, finding the critical acceleration which maximizes internal forces is an essential factor in structural design. This paper proposes critical excitation method to compute the critical acceleration in design of important members in special structures. These critical accelerations are computed so that the columns' internal shear force at the base of the structure at each time step is maximized under constraints on ground motion. Among computed critical accelerations (of each time step), the one which produces maximum internal shear force is selected. A numerical example presents to show the efficiency of critical excitation method in determining the maximum internal shear force and base moment under variety of constraints. The results show that these method can be used to compute the resonant earthquake which have large enough effective duration of earthquake strong motion (between 12.86 sec to 13.38 sec) and produce the internal shear force and base moment for specific column greater than the same value for selected earthquakes in constructing the critical excitation (for different cases about 2.78 to 1.29 times the San Fernando earthquake). Therefore, a group of them can be utilized in developing the response spectrum for design of special structures.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.111-127
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• 2010

This paper studies the effects of spatially varying ground motions on the responses of a bridge frame located on a canyon site. Compared to the spatial ground motions on a uniform flat site, which is the usual assumptions in the analysis of spatial ground motion variation effects on structures, the spatial ground motions at different locations on surface of a canyon site have different intensities owing to local site amplifications, besides the loss of coherency and phase difference. In the proposed approach, the spatial ground motions are modelled in two steps. Firstly, the base rock motions are assumed to have the same intensity and are modelled with a filtered Tajimi-Kanai power spectral density function and an empirical spatial ground motion coherency loss function. Then, power spectral density function of ground motion on surface of the canyon site is derived by considering the site amplification effect based on the one dimensional seismic wave propagation theory. Dynamic, quasi-static and total responses of the model structure to various cases of spatially varying ground motions are estimated. For comparison, responses to uniform ground motion, to spatial ground motions without considering local site effects, to spatial ground motions without considering coherency loss or phase shift are also calculated. Discussions on the ground motion spatial variation and local soil site amplification effects on structural responses are made. In particular, the effects of neglecting the site amplifications in the analysis as adopted in most studies of spatial ground motion effect on structural responses are highlighted.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.175-189
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• 2014

Objective: The goal of this research is to develop new user behavior model using user motion analysis with microscopic perspective for attracting user's participation in interactive space. Background: The interactive space is 'human's place', which is made up of complex elements of digital virtual space and traditional analog and physical environment based on human-computer interaction system. Human behavior has changed in it at the same time. If the user couldn't make participation in interaction, the purpose of the system is not met, which reduces its effect. Therefore, we need to focus on interactive space that is potential future direction from a new point of view. Method: For this research, we would discuss and study fields of interactive space; (1) finding definition of interactive space and studying background of theory about it. (2) providing base of user behavior model with study of user's context that is to be user information and motion. (3) examining user motion, classify basic motion type and making user participation behavior model in phases. Results: Through this process, user's basic twenty motions which are systematized are taken as a standard for analysis of interaction process and participation in interactive space. Then, 'NK-$I^5$ (I Five)' model is developed for user participation types in interactive space. There are five phases of user participation behavior: Imperception, Interest, Involvement, Immersion, and Influence. In this analysis, three indicators which are time, motion types, and user relationship are found to be related to participation. Conclusion: The capabilities and limitation of this research is discussed to attract user participation. This paper focuses especially on contribution of design to lead user's participation in interactive system and expectation to help adapt to user centered design of various interactive space with new aspect of user behavior research. Application: The results of the 'NK-$I^5$ (I Five)' model might help to realize successful interactive space based on user centered design.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.165-180
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• 1999

모형 압력 토조에 개단, 폐단, 관내토 그라우팅, 그리고 선단 하부지반 그라우팅 말뚝들을 설치하여 수행된 재하실험을 통해 그 지지력을 비교하였고, 유사화된(Simulated) 해진시 말뚝의 설치깊이를 변화시켜 선단 하부지반 그라우팅 말뚝의 안정성을 검토하였다. 또한, 재하실험과 해진 실험은 2개와 4개로 된 군말뚝에 대해서도 수행되었다. 관내토 선단부만 그라우팅한 말뚝의 지지력은 선단 지반 교란으로 인한 선단지지력 감소로 개단말뚝에 비해 극한지지력이 약 11.2~30.8%정도 작았다. 관내토 선단 하부지반 그라우팅한 말뚝의 지지력은 개단말뚝의 지지력보다 약 23.8~33.9%정도 증가하였으며, 이는 폐단말뚝의 지지력과 비슷하였다. 선단 하부지반 그라우팅된 군말뚝은 개단 군말뚝에 비해 증가하였는데, 2개의 군말뚝의 경우에는 14.6~31.8%만큼 지지력이 증가하였으며, 4개의 군말뚝의 경우는 15.3~22.4%만큼 증가하였다. 심해에서 발생된 해진시 관내토 선단 하부지반 그라우팅된 개단말뚝의 안정성은 말뚝의 설치 형태와 말뚝의 지중관입 길이에 따라 달라졌다. 외말뚝의 경우에는 지중 관입 깊이가 20m보다 깊어지면 안정한 상태를 유지할 수 있었으나, 12m보다 짧은 말뚝은 파괴될 수 있었고, 12m보다 긴 말뚝의 경우에는 가동(Mobility) 상태를 유지할 수 있었다. 군말뚝의 경우에는 지중 관입깊이가 7m이상이면 지지력의 일부만 감소하여 약간 변위하는 "Mobility" 상태를 유지할 수 있었다.유지할 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.9-20
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• 2018

Due to integrated stochastic wind and wave loads, the supporting platform of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) has to bear six Degrees of Freedom (DOF) motion, which makes the random cyclic loads acting on the structural components, for instance the tower base, more complicated than those on bottom-fixed or land-based wind turbines. These cyclic loads may cause unexpected fatigue damages on a FOWT. This paper presents a study on short-term fatigue damage at the tower base of a 5 MW FOWT with a spar-type platform. Fully coupled time-domain simulations code FAST is used and realistic environment conditions are considered to obtain the loads and structural stresses at the tower base. Then the cumulative fatigue damage is calculated based on rainflow counting method and Miner's rule. Moreover, the effects of the simulation length, the wind-wave misalignment, the wind-only condition and the wave-only condition on the fatigue damage are investigated. It is found that the wind and wave induced loads affect the tower base's axial stress separately and in a decoupled way, and the wave-induced fatigue damage is greater than that induced by the wind loads. Under the environment conditions with rated wind speed, the tower base experiences the highest fatigue damage when the joint probability of the wind and wave is included in the calculation. Moreover, it is also found that 1 h simulation length is sufficient to give an appropriate fatigue damage estimated life for FOWT.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.349-365
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• 2020

Since the peak seismic response of a base-isolated building strongly depends on the characteristics of the imposed seismic ground motion, the behavior of a base-isolated building under different seismic ground motions is studied, in order to better assess their effects on its peak seismic response. Specifically, the behavior of a typical steel building is examined as base-isolated with elastomeric bearings, while the effect of near-fault ground motions is studied by imposing 7 pairs of near- and 7 pairs of far-fault seismic records, from the same 7 earthquake events, to the building, under 3 different loading combinations, through three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear dynamic analyses, conducted with SAP2000. The results indicate that near-fault seismic components are more likely to increase the building's peak seismic response than the corresponding far-fault components. Furthermore, the direction of the imposed earthquake excitations is also varied by rotating the imposed pairs of seismic records from 0◦ to 360◦, with respect to the major construction axes. It is observed that the peak seismic responses along the critical incident angles, which in general differ from the major horizontal construction axes of the building, are significantly higher. Moreover, the influence of 5% and 10% accidental mass eccentricities is also studied, revealing that when considering accidental mass eccentricities the peak relative displacements of the base isolated building at the isolation level are substantially increased, while the peak floor accelerations and interstory drifts of its superstructure are only slightly affected.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.359-371
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• 2018

Strong seismic events commonly cause large drift and deformation, and functionality failures in the superstructures. One way to prevent functionality failures is to design structures which are ductile and flexible through yielding when subjected to strong ground excitations. By developing forces that assist motion as "negative stiffness forces", yielding can be achieved. In this paper, we adopt the weakening and damping method to achieve a new approach to reduce all of the structural responses by further adjusting damping phase. A semi-active control system is adopted to perform the experiments. In this adaptation, negative stiffness forces through certain devices are used in weakening phase to reduce structural strength. Magneto-rheological (MR) dampers are then added to preserve stability of the structure. To adjust the voltage in MR dampers, an inverse model is employed in the control system to command MR dampers and generate the desired control forces, where a velocity control algorithm produces initial required control force. An extensive numerical study is conducted to evaluate proposed methodology by using the smart base-isolated benchmark building. Totally, nine control systems are examined to study proposed strategy. Based on the numerical results of seven earthquakes, the use of proposed strategy not only reduces base displacements, base accelerations and base shear but also leads to reduction of accelerations and inter story drifts of the superstructure. Numerical results shows that the usage of inverse model produces the desired regulated damping, thus improving the stability of the structure.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.56-65
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• 2009

스테레오 영상은 단일 영상과는 달리 오른쪽과 왼쪽, 2개의 영상으로 구성되어 있기 때문에 단일 영상에 비하여 더욱 많은 데이터량을 가지게 된다. 따라서 이를 효율적으로 처리하기 위한 영상 압축 기술이 필요하게 되었고, 이를 위해 DPCM기반의 예측 부호화 압축 기술을 대부분의 비디오 압축 표준에서 사용한다. 예측 부호화 기술의 구현을 위해 움직임 추정 및 변이 추정이 필요한데 이를 수행하는 알고리즘으로 여러 가지 비디오 코딩 표준들에서 블록 정합 알고리즘을 사용한다. 블록 정합 알고리즘 중 완전탐색 알고리즘은 기준 블록을 탐색영역 안에 존재하는 모든 블록과 비교하여 최적의 블록을 찾아낸다. 이 알고리즘은 최적의 블록을 찾을 수 있어 효율은 좋으나 많은 연산량이 단점이 된다. 본 논문에서는 스테레오 영상에서 움직임 벡터 정보와 전 프레임의 변이벡터 정보를 이용하여 고속으로 현재 프레임의 변이 벡터를 추정할 수 있는 방안을 제시한다. 변이 벡터 추정시 전역 변이 벡터를 사용하여 탐색 영역을 줄이고, 전 프레임들 사이에서 구한 변이 벡터 정보를 재사용하면서 움직임 벡터 정보를 이용하여 탐색 위치를 제한함으로 연산량을 줄여 고속의 변이 벡터 추정을 가능하게 하였다. 실험결과 제안 알고리즘은 움직임이 많은 복잡 영상 보다는 움직임이 적은 단순 영상에서의 성능이 훨씬 뛰어났으며, 움직임이 적은 단순 영상에서의 변이 벡터 추정 시에 약간의 residual 증가는 있지만 빠른 처리 속도를 제공하여 고속의 변이 벡터 추정을 가능하게 함을 확인하였다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.57-64
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• 2012

For the vibration control of earthquake-excited buildings, an optimal design method of integrated control system considering soil-structure interaction is studied in this paper. Interaction between soils and the base of the building is simply modeled as lumped parameters and equations of motion are derived. The equations of motion are transformed into the state space equations and the probabilistic excitations such as Kanai-Tajumi power spectral density function is introduced. Then an optimization problem is formulated as finding hybrid or integrated control systems which minimizes the stochastic responses of the building structure for given constraints. In order to investigate the feasibility of the optimization method, an example design and numerical simulations are performed with tenstory building. Finally, numerical results are compared with a conventional design case that soil-structure interaction is not considered.