• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.149-167
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• 2004

Offshore platforms have to serve in harsh environments and hence are likely to be damaged due to wave induced fatigue and environmental corrosion. Welded tubular joints in offshore platforms are most vulnerable to fatigue damage. Such damages endanger the integrity of the structure. Therefore it is all the more essential to assess the capacity of damaged structure from the point of view of its safety. Eight internally ring stiffened fatigue damaged tubular joints with nominal chord and brace diameter of 324 mm and 219 mm respectively and thickness 12 mm and 8 mm respectively were tested under axial brace compression loading to evaluate the reserve capacity of the joints. These joints had earlier been tested under fatigue loading under corrosive environments of synthetic sea water and hence they have been cracked. The extent of the damage varied from 35 to 50 per cent. One stiffened joint was also tested under axial brace tension loading. The residual strength of fatigue damaged stiffened joint tested under tension loading was observed to be less than one fourth of that tested under compression loading. It was observed in this experimental investigation that in the damaged condition, the joints possessed an in-built load-transfer mechanism. A bi-linear stress-strain model was developed in this investigation to predict the reserve capacity of the joint. This model considered the strain hardening effect. Close agreement was observed between the experimental and predicted results. The paper presents in detail the experimental investigation and the development of the analytical model to predict the reserve capacity of internally ring stiffened joints.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.367-375
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• 2014

삼차원 솔리드 유한요소 방법을 이용한 목재 거동 해석을 보다 효율적으로 손쉽게 활용하기 위하여, 이에 필요한 목재재료모델 생성 방법을 개발하였다. 2단선형 탄소성이방성 이론에 근거하여 목재의 주요 세 방향 즉, 섬유, 방사 및 접선방향의 구성방정식을 정의하였다. 목재재료상수 결정의 단순화를 위하여 방사방향과 접선방향의 특성을 섬유직각 방향으로 통합하고, 요구되는 총 27개의 재료입력상수를 방향별 탄성계수와 항복응력, 그리고 프와송 비를 포함하는 6개의 독립상수로 단순화하였다. 개발된 목재재료모델을 이용하여 북미 더글라스 퍼 압축시험에 대한 삼차원 유한요소 모델을 개발하고 주요 세 방향에 대한 실험 측정치들과 시뮬레이션 결과를 비교하였다. 성공적인 모델해석 결과를 얻었으며, 이를 바탕으로 향후 진척되어야 할 연구개발 방향과 예상되는 문제점들을 논의하였다.