• Wind and Structures
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.59-73
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• 2020

Wind fragility analysis (WFA) of concrete chimney is often executed disregarding temperature effects. But combined wind and temperature effect is the most critical limit state to define the safety of a chimney. Hence, in this study, WFA of a 70 m tall RC chimney for combined wind and temperature effects is explored. The wind force time-history is generated by spectral representation method. The safety of chimney is assessed considering limit states of stress failure in concrete and steel. A moving-least-squares method based dual response surface method (DRSM) procedure is proposed in WFA to alleviate huge computational time requirement by the conventional direct Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) approach. The DRSM captures the record-to-record variation of wind force time-histories and uncertainty in system parameters. The proposed DRSM approach yields fragility curves which are in close conformity with the most accurate direct MCS approach within substantially less computational time. In this regard, the error by the single-level RSM and least-squares method based DRSM can be easily noted. The WFA results indicate that over temperature difference of 150℃, the temperature stress is so pronounced that the probability of failure is very high even at 30 m/s wind speed. However, below 100℃, wind governs the design.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.491-504
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• 1999

The initiation of toppling is explored for a uniform stack of blocks that rotates slowly about its mid-base. As the stack passes through its vertical position ($\theta$=0), it is in free-fall rotation, and a critical inclination angle ${\theta}_c$ is reached at which the toppling stack "fails" or begins to crack or separate. For tall stacks (high aspect ratios), two modes of failure are hypothesized, for which the dynamic failure analyses are shown to correlate with experimental results. These block failure modes are similar to those observed for tall, toppling masonry structures with weak binding material between their brick or stone blocks.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.276-284
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• 2019

국내의 사회기반시설물인 교량이나 댐, 원전에 대한 내진 연구는 일찍부터 활발한 연구가 진행되어왔지만 화력발전소 구조물의 경우 사회적 중요성에 비해 지진에 대한 안전성 평가기술에 대한 연구가 미비한 실정이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 16개의 실제 발생한 지진파와 12개의 PGA에 대해 총 192회의 동적해석을 수행하였다. 그 결과 콘크리트의 압축강도와 연돌 구조물의 상대변위의 경우 적용한 지진파별로 PGA값이 증가함에 따라서 파괴확률이 증가하는 양상을 보여주었지만 지진파 별로 상이하였다. 이는 연돌의 고유치 해석 결과 주된 모드와 유사한 장주기 성분이 많은 지진파에서는 취약하기 때문인 것으로 분석되었다. 이를 바탕으로 취약도 곡선을 도출하여 우리나라 지역계수 0.22G를 기준으로 분석한 결과 콘크리트 압축이 한계상태에 도달한 비율은 25%이고 상대 변위가 한계상태에 도달한 비율은 13%이다. 따라서 지진이 발생했을 경우 상대 변위에 의해 붕괴될 확률보다 압축파괴에 의한 붕괴 확률이 높다. 이에 본 연구대상인 연돌에 대한 취약도 곡선은 지진이 발생했을 때 대상 구조물에 대한 한계상태를 판별하는 정량적 근거가 되고 화력발전 연돌 구조물의 지진에 대한 안전설계시 활용될 수 있다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.559-567
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• 2017

Slender structures like reinforced concrete (RC) chimneys are severely damaged or collapsed during severe wind storms or strong ground motions all over the world. Today, with the improvement in technology and industry, most factories need these slender structures with increasing height and decreasing in shell thickness causing vulnerable to winds and earthquakes. Main objectives in this study are to make structural wind and earthquake analysis of RC chimneys by using a well-known international standard CICIND 2001 and real recorded time history accelerations and to clarify weak points of these tall and slender structures against these severe natural actions. Findings of this study show that maximum tensile stress and shear stress approximately increase 103.90% and 312.77% over or near the openings on the body of the RC chimneys that cause brittle failure around this region of openings.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.60-66
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• 2002

Iksan city is planning to construct a waste incinerator on the site of about $110,000\textrm{m}^2$ in size that will be selected from a public bid(Oct.~Nov.2002)in the wake of expiration by June 2003 of use for Hamyeol fill-up ground. Science it has usually been difficult to find sites for filling-up or incinerating facilities owing to NIMBY phenomenon, it is badly requested to employ up-to-date technology for processing wastes without environmental pollution. The conflicts between the administrative authorities and community people with regard to construction of incineration facilities, fill-up ground and facilities for waste processing or recycling are not the matters of just today but are increasingly deepening and spreading countrywide. There seems to be no prospect for these conflicts to be amicably settled through dialogues. They rather become a social disease inflicting the whole country like an epidemic. It is therefore believed to be necessary to introduce measures to design and build environment-friendly facilities that may be accepted by residents as not abominable ones but be used as amusing place while they watch the daily operation of them as watchdogs. Iksan city's plan to construct environment-friendly waste incineration facilities of pyrolysis type without chimney has undergone the process of public hearings and explanatory gatherings from every class of Iksan citizens to get consensus but is still delayed due mainly to be the failure of inducing foreign investments. Pyrolysis technology has two advantages ; first, environment-friendly due to less emission of second pollutants ; second, production of by-products highly valuable as resources. It Is known that Germany has recently begun installation and operation of pyrolysis facility urban wastes, an evidence indicating that pyrolysis method will be widely applied to cope with the tightened regulation to preserve environment worldwide.