• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.347-368
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• 2012

Measuring the bridge frequencies indirectly from an instrumented test vehicle is a potentially powerful technique for its mobility and economy, compared with the conventional direct technique that requires vibration sensors to be installed on the bridge. However, road surface roughness may pollute the vehicle spectrum and render the bridge frequencies unidentifiable. The objective of this paper is to study such an effect. First, a numerical simulation is conducted using the vehicle-bridge interaction element to demonstrate how the surface roughness affects the vehicle response. Then, an approximate theory in closed form is presented, for physically interpreting the role and range of influence of surface roughness on the identification of bridge frequencies. The latter is then expanded to include the action of an accompanying vehicle. Finally, measures are proposed for reducing the roughness effect, while enhancing the identifiability of bridge frequencies from the passing vehicle response.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.315-331
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• 2014

The present study investigated the effect of the correlation of the measured road roughness profiles corresponding to the left and right wheels of a vehicle on the vibration of a vehicle-bridge coupling system. Four sets of road roughness profiles were measured by a laser road-testing vehicle. A correlation analysis was carried out on the four roughness samples, and two samples with the strongest correlation and weakest correlation were selected for the power spectral density, autocorrelation and cross-correlation analyses. The scenario of a three-axle truck moving across a rigid-frame arch bridge was used as an example. The two selected road roughness profiles were used as inputs to the vehicle-bridge coupling system. Three different input modes were adopted in the numerical analysis: (1) using the measured road roughness profile of the left wheel for the input of both wheels in the numerical simulation; (2) using the measured road roughness profile of the right wheel for both wheels; and (3) using the measured road roughness profiles corresponding to left and right wheels for the input corresponding to the vehicle's left and right wheels, respectively. The influence of the three input modes on the vibration of the vehicle-bridge system was analyzed and compared in detail. The results show that the correlation of the road roughness profiles corresponding to left and right wheels and the selected roughness input mode both have a significant influence on the vibration of the vehicle-bridge coupling system.

• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.299-308
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• 2010

The indirect approach for measuring the bridge frequencies from the dynamic responses of a passing vehicle is a highly potential method. In this study, the effect of road surface roughness on such an approach is studied through finite element simulations. A two-dimensional mathematical model with the vehicle simulated as a moving sprung mass and the bridge as a simply-supported beam is adopted. The dynamic responses of the passing vehicle are solved by the finite element method along with the Newmark ${\beta}$ method. Through the numerical examples studied, it is shown that the presence of surface roughness may have negative consequence on the extraction of bridge frequencies from the test vehicle. However, such a shortcoming can be overcome either by introducing multiple moving vehicles on the bridge, besides the test vehicle, or by raising the moving speed of the accompanying vehicles.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.679-691
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• 2020

To identify the bridge information from the response of test vehicles passing on it (also known as the indirect approach) has aroused the interest of many researchers thanks to its economy, easy implementation and less disruption to traffic. The surface roughness of bridge remains an obstacle for such method as it contaminates the vehicle response severely and thereby renders many vehicle-response-based bridge identification methods ineffective. This study aims to eliminate such effect with the responses of two different test vehicles. The proposed method can estimate the surface profile of a bridge based on the acceleration data of the vehicles running on the bridge successively, and obtain the normalized contact point response, which proves to be relatively immune to surface roughness. The frequencies and mode shapes of bridge can be further extracted from the normalized contact point acceleration with spectral analysis and Hilbert transform. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified numerically with a three-span continuous bridge. The influence of measurement noise is also examined.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.259-272
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• 2001

The impact behavior of a multigirder concrete bridge under single and multiple moving vehicles is studied based on correlated road surface characteristics. The bridge structure is modeled as grillage beam system. A 3D nonlinear vehicle model with eleven degrees of freedom is utilized according to the HS20-44 truck design loading in the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) specifications. A triangle correlation model is introduced to generate four classes of longitudinal road surface roughness as multi-correlated random processes along deck transverse direction. On the basis of a correlation length of approximately half the bridge width, the upper limits of impact factors obtained under confidence level of 95 percent and side-by-side three-truck loading provide probability-based evidence for the evaluation of AASHTO specifications. The analytical results indicate that a better transverse correlation among road surface roughness generally leads to slightly higher impact factors. Suggestions are made for the routine maintenance of this type of highway bridges.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.21-30
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• 1989

본 연구에서는 유한요소법과 실험적인 방법으로 이동하중용 받는 불규칙한 노면을 갖는 연속교의 동적거동을 연구하였다. 차량하중은 차축의 스프링효과를 포함하였으며 이로 인해 교량과 차량의 운동방정식은 결합된 미분방정식으로 표현되었고 이를 반복시산법으로 해결하였다. 실험적인 방법에서는 상사율을 고려하여 원형과 모형에서 동일한 동적거동이 나타나도록 모델을 제작하였고 이러한 교량 불규칙조도면, 진입부 단차면, 연속 단차면을 주어 실험하였다. 속도의 분포와 조도면의 양상 및 차량의 진동에 따른 교량의 동적거동을 이론 및 실험적인 방법으로 비교, 분석하였다.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.189-197
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• 2008

본 연구는 2003년도부터 2007년도까지의 고속도로 포장관리시스템 운영에 의한 포장상태 측정자료를 이용하여 고속도로 교량부 평탄성 불량 구간과 그 원인을 조사 분석하여 도로교량 구간 평탄성을 향상시킬 수 있도록 관리체계를 개선하고 교량평탄성 불량구간이 효과적으로 유지보수 될 수 있도록 하는데 중점을 두었다. 고속도로 포장유지관리 시스템으로부터 추출한 데이터 분석과 이에 대한 현장 검증 결과, 교량구간의 평탄성이 토공부에 비해 상당히 좋지 않은 것으로 분석되었다. 그 원인과 개선방안에 대해 살펴보면, 교량구간의 평탄성 불량 원인은 교면포장(접속부 포함)의 조기손상뿐만 아니라 뒷채움부 침하에 의한 접속부 포장의 단차가 주요 원인인 것으로 분석되었다. 이에 따라 교량구간은 현재 정기적으로 시행하고 있는 조사장비에 의한 포장상태 측정과 병행하여 뒷채움부 침하가 원인인 단차를 측정하여 교량구간의 평탄성 불량지점을 효과적으로 개선할 수 있도록 조사 및 평가체계를 수립하였다.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제9권3호통권32호
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• pp.309-321
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• 1997

차량이 교량을 통과할 때 교량에 발생하는 충격계수는 교량의 설계시 매우 중요한 인자이다. 본 연구에서는 2연속 강판형교의 지간 중앙점에 발생하는 충격계수에 관한 실험 및 해석적 연구를 수행하였다. 교량의 수치해석시 교량과 차량은 3차원으로 모델링하였으며. 교량의 노면조도는 Intelligent Total Station으로 직접 측정하여 사용하였다. 이때 교량의 주형은 보요소, 콘크리트 바닥판은 쉘요소를 사용하고 주형과 콘크리트 바닥판 사이는 Rigid Link를 사용하여 연결시켰다. 교량과 차량 사이의 상호작용을 고려하여 차량의 운동방정식을 유도하였으며, 차량의 여러 가지 주행속도에 따른 교량의 지간 중앙점에서의 충격계수를 구하여 우리나라 및 외국의 시방서 규정과 비교 검토하였다.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.561-568
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• 2006

Dynamic equations of motion for the interaction system of bridge and vehicle are derived to investigate the dynamic responses of bridge and vehicles induced by moving automated guide-way transit(AGT) vehicle and surface roughness of bridge. The vehicle model for ACT vehicle is idealized as 11 DOF including yawing, lateral translation and steering of wheels, and the bridges are modeled with finite element method. The AGT vehicle model was verified by experimental study. Parametric studies are carried out to investigate the effect of vehicle speed, surface roughness, stiffness and damping of the suspension system, AGT vehicles and dynamic wheel loads of the AGT vehicles. From the parametric study it can be seen that the dynamic incremental factor of the bridge and dynamic responses of vehicles have a tendency to increase with vehicle speeds, surface roughness and the stiffness of AGT vehicle suspension system. On the other hand those dynamic wheel loads have tendencies to decrease in according to increase of damping of the suspension system.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.757-767
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 강원도 원주 횡성 부근의 지방도 및 군도에 위치한 18개의 지방도 도로교에 대한 노면조도의 PSD를 제시하였다. 18개 대상교량에 대하여 GPS 측정기를 사용하여 교량의 노면조도를 10~30 cm의 간격으로 직접 측정하였다. 노면조도의 PSD는 평균값이 영인 정상확률분포로 가정하고 측정한 노면조도를 사용하여 MEM으로 구하였다. 도로교의 동적응답 연구에 적합한 노면조도의 PSD 값을 계산할 수 있는 식을 RC 슬래브교, 라멘교 및 PSC거더교 등 교량형식별 및 전체 교량에 대하여 제안하였다. 그리고 대상교량의 노면조도를 평가하고 IRI와 노면 조도계수 사이의 관계를 분석하였다.