• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.91-114
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• 2016

In this paper, recent research trends and activities on structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure in Korea are reviewed. Recently, there has been increasing need for adopting smart sensing technologies to SHM, so this review focuses on smart sensing, monitoring, and assessment for civil infrastructure. Firstly, the research activities on smart sensor technology is reviewed including optical fiber sensors, piezoelectric sensors, wireless smart sensors, and vision-based sensing system. Then, a brief overview is given to the recent advances in smart monitoring and assessment techniques such as vibration-based global monitoring techniques, local monitoring with piezoelectric materials, decentralized monitoring techniques for wireless sensors, wireless power supply and energy harvest. Finally, recent joint SHM activities on several test beds in Korea are discussed to share the up-to-date information and to promote the smart sensors and monitoring technologies for applications to civil infrastructure. It includes a Korea-US joint research on test bridges of the Korea Expressway Corporation (KEC), a Korea-US-Japan joint research on Jindo cable-stayed bridge, and a comparative study for cable tension measurement techniques on Hwamyung cable-stayed bridge, and a campaign test for displacement measurement techniques on Sorok suspension bridge.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 추계 학술발표회 3차
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• pp.72-77
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• 2010

The Incheon Bridge, which was opened to the traffic in October 2009, is an 18.4 km long sea-crossing bridge connecting the Incheon International Airport with the expressway networks around the Seoul metropolitan area by way of Songdo District of Incheon City. This bridge is an integration of several special featured bridges and the major part of the bridge consists of cable-stayed spans. This marine cable-stayed bridge has a main span of 800 m wide to cross the vessel navigation channel in and out of the Incheon Port. In waterways where ship collision is anticipated, bridges shall be designed to resist ship impact forces, and/or, adequately protected by ship impact protection (SIP) systems. For the Incheon Bridge, large diameter circular dolphins as SIP were made at 44 locations of the both side of the main span around the piers of the cable-stayed bridge span. This world's largest dolphin-type SIP system protects the bridge against the collision with 100,000 DWT tanker navigating the channel with speed of 10 knots. Diameter of the dolphin is up to 25 m. Vessel collision risk was assessed by probability based analysis with AASHTO Method-II. The annual frequency of bridge collapse through the risk analysis for 71,370 cases of the impact scenario was less than $0.5{\times}10^{-4}$ and satisfies design requirements. The dolphin is the circular sheet pile structure filled with crushed rock and closed at the top with a robust concrete cap. The structural design was performed with numerical analyses of which constitutional model was verified by the physical model experiment using the geo-centrifugal testing equipment. 3D non-linear finite element models were used to analyze the structural response and energy-dissipating capability of dolphins which were deeply embedded in the seabed. The dolphin structure secures external stability and internal stability for ordinary loads such as wave and current pressure. Considering failure mechanism, stability assessment was performed for the strength limit state and service limit state of the dolphins. The friction angle of the crushed stone as a filling material was reduced to $38^{\circ}$ considering the possibility of contracting behavior as the impact.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.66-73
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• 2024

사장교에서 케이블 부재는 하중을 전달하는 가장 중요한 부재 중 하나이다. 따라서 사장교의 구조적 상태 및 안정성을 평가하기 위해서는 케이블의 상태를 파악하기 위해 지속적인 모니터링을 수행하는 것이 중요하다. 이러한 모니터링 시스템은 케이블에 부착된 가속도계를 통해 진동을 측정하고 이를 토대로 케이블 장력과 감쇠비를 추정하고, 이를 토대로 케이블의 상태 평가의 기초자료로 활용한다. 이러한 상시 모니터링 시스템은 지속적으로 진동 데이터를 측정하기 때문에 데이터 수집 시스템을 포함한 하드웨어가 안정적이고 전력 효율성이 높아야 한다. 또한 지속적으로 생성되는 대량의 진동 신호들을 사람의 개입을 최소화하며 안정적으로 분석할 수 있는 자율모니터링 시스템이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 IoT를 활용한 도메인 지식 기반 자율 모니터링 시스템을 개발하였다. 케이블 자율 모니터링 시스템을 구현하기 위한 가장 중요한 요소는 케이블의 장력과 감쇠비의 추정을 위한 진동 신호의 주파수 영역 내 발생하는 첨두의 자동 추정이다. 본 연구에서는 도메인 지식 기반 첨두 자동 추정 알고리즘을 데이터 수집 및 On-Board Processing이 가능한 IoT 시스템에 내장하여 IoT 센서 단에서 Edge computing이 가능한 효율적인 IoT 자율 모니터링 시스템을 구현하였다. 개발된 자율 모니터링 시스템을 국내 사장교에 설치하여 장기간 현장 운영 성능을 평가하였으며, 그 결과 장기 데이터 수신률, 장력 추정의 정확성, 효율성 측면에서 기존 시스템과 비교하여 작동 성능을 확인하고 검증하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2017

The long-term effect of ambient temperature on bridge strain is an important and challenging problem. To investigate this issue, one year data of strain and ambient temperature of a long-span cable-stayed bridge is studied in this paper. The measured strain-time history is decomposed into two parts to obtain the strains due to vehicle load and temperature alone. A linear regression model between the temperature and the strain due to temperature is established. It is shown that for every $1^{\circ}C$ increase in temperature, the stress is increased by 0.148 MPa. Furthmore, the extreme value distributions of the strains due to vehicle load, temperature and the combination effect of them during the remaining service period are estimated by the average conditional exceedance rate approach. This approach avoids the problem of declustering of data to ensure independence. The estimated results demonstrate that the 95% quantile of the extreme strain distribution due to temperature is up to $1.488{\times}10^{-4}$ which is 2.38 times larger than that due to vehicle load. The study also indicates that the estimated extreme strain can reflect the long-term effect of temperature on bridge strain state, which has reference significance for the reliability estimation and safety assessment.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.341-356
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• 2007

A good understanding of normal modal variability of civil structures due to varying environmental conditions such as temperature and wind is important for reliable performance of vibration-based damage detection methods. This paper addresses the quantification of wind-induced modal variability of a cable-stayed bridge making use of one-year monitoring data. In order to discriminate the wind-induced modal variability from the temperature-induced modal variability, the one-year monitoring data are divided into two sets: the first set includes the data obtained under weak wind conditions (hourly-average wind speed less than 2 m/s) during all four seasons, and the second set includes the data obtained under both weak and strong (typhoon) wind conditions during the summer only. The measured modal frequencies and temperatures of the bridge obtained from the first set of data are used to formulate temperature-frequency correlation models by means of artificial neural network technique. Before the second set of data is utilized to quantify the wind-induced modal variability, the effect of temperature on the measured modal frequencies is first eliminated by normalizing these modal frequencies to a reference temperature with the use of the temperature-frequency correlation models. Then the wind-induced modal variability is quantitatively evaluated by correlating the normalized modal frequencies for each mode with the wind speed measurement data. It is revealed that in contrast to the dependence of modal frequencies on temperature, there is no explicit correlation between the modal frequencies and wind intensity. For most of the measured modes, the modal frequencies exhibit a slightly increasing trend with the increase of wind speed in statistical sense. The relative variation of the modal frequencies arising from wind effect (with the maximum hourly-average wind speed up to 17.6 m/s) is estimated to range from 1.61% to 7.87% for the measured 8 modes of the bridge, being notably less than the modal variability caused by temperature effect.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.99-117
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• 2015

The Stonecutters Bridge (SCB) in Hong Kong is the third-longest cable-stayed bridge in the world with a main span stretching 1,018 m between two 298 m high single-leg tapering composite towers. A Wind and Structural Health Monitoring System (WASHMS) is being implemented on SCB by the Highways Department of The Hong Kong SAR Government, and the SCB-WASHMS is composed of more than 1,300 sensors in 15 types. In order to establish a linkage between structural health monitoring and maintenance management, a Structural Health Rating System (SHRS) with relevant rating tools and indices is devised. On the basis of a 3D space frame finite element model (FEM) of SCB and model updating, this paper presents the development of an SHR-oriented 3D multi-scale FEM for the purpose of load-resistance analysis and damage evaluation in structural element level, including modeling, refinement and validation of the multi-scale FEM. The refined 3D structural segments at deck and towers are established in critical segment positions corresponding to maximum cable forces. The components in the critical segment region are modeled as a full 3D FEM and fitted into the 3D space frame FEM. The boundary conditions between beam and shell elements are performed conforming to equivalent stiffness, effective mass and compatibility of deformation. The 3D multi-scale FEM is verified by the in-situ measured dynamic characteristics and static response. A good agreement between the FEM and measurement results indicates that the 3D multi-scale FEM is precise and efficient for WASHMS and SHRS of SCB. In addition, stress distribution and concentration of the critical segments in the 3D multi-scale FEM under temperature loads, static wind loads and equivalent seismic loads are investigated. Stress concentration elements under equivalent seismic loads exist in the anchor zone in steel/concrete beam and the anchor plate edge in steel anchor box of the towers.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제26권2A호
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• pp.371-382
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• 2006

사장교는 난류에 의해 불규칙한 진동을 일으키며 이 현상을 규명하기 위하여 버페팅해석을 수행한다. 버페팅해석을 위해서 는 구조적 변수, 공기역학적 변수, 그리고 구조물-바람 상호작용 효과를 고려하기 위한 공탄성 변수의 입력값을 적절히 선정해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 버페팅해석을 수행하기 위한 입력 변수 중 대표적 변수들에 대하여 변수연구를 수행함으로써 각 변수들이 해석 결과에 미칠 수 있는 민감도를 분석해 보고자 하였다. 풍동실험 자료가 가장 잘 구축되어 있는 서해대교를 대상교량으로 선정하였다. 검토 변수로서는 정적 삼분력계수의 기울기, 난류의 공간분포 상관관계감소계수, 조도길이, 변동풍속 스펙트럼, 구조감쇠율을 선정하였다. 검토결과 각 입력변수는 버페팅 응답에 미치는 영향이 큰 것으로 확인되었기 때문에 적정한 입력변수 선정의 중요성을 강조함과 동시에 일반적 결론 도출을 위하여 추후 연구가 필요함을 제시하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.956-963
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• 2002

In a recent construction industry, cable supported structures such as a cable-stayed bridge or space stadium have been increasingly constructed according to rapidly upgrade their related technologies. Generally stay cables as a critical member need to be rearranged for being satisfied with design tension forces. In this purpose, a vibration method has been applied to estimate the tension forces exerted on existing stay cables. In this study, cable vibration tests were tarried out to evaluate the cable tension forces comparing with theoretical and practical formulas. Using the measured frequencies obtained from free vibration and Impulsive tests, an accuracy of the estimated tension forces is confirmed according to use the first single mode only or higher multiple modes.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.367-382
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• 2001

Wind tunnel tests were conducted on a model of deck section from the Ting Kau cable stayed bridge. The purpose of the tests was to determine the set of aerodynamic derivatives conventionally used to describe the motion-induced forces arising from the wind flow, and to investigate the stability of the deck under different conditions of turbulence and angle of attack. The study shows that except for large negative angles of attack the deck section itself is stable up to a high wind speed, and that when instability does occur it is essentially a single degree of freedom (torsional) flutter.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2010년도 춘계 학술대회 제22권1호
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• pp.43-44
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• 2010

본 연구는 사장교에 적용이 용이하도록 프리캐스트화한 FRP-콘크리트 합성 바닥판 개발에 대한 것이다. 개발된 바닥판에 대해서 구조상세 별로 성능실험을 완료한 후, 실제 중차량이 통과하는 공사용가교 상에 시험시공을 수행하였으며 구조적 성능 및 현장 적용성을 살펴보았다.