• Wind and Structures
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.79-100
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• 2017

The use of wind energy resources is developing rapidly in recent decades. There is an increasing number of wind farms in high wind-velocity areas such as the Pacific Rim regions. Wind turbine towers are vulnerable to tropical cyclones and tower failures have been reported in an increasing number in these regions. Existing post-disaster failure case studies were mostly performed through forensic investigations and there are few numerical studies that address the collapse mode simulation of wind turbine towers under strong wind loads. In this paper, the wind-induced failure analysis of a conventional 65 m hub high 1.5-MW wind turbine was carried out by means of nonlinear response time-history analyses in a detailed finite element model of the structure. The wind loading was generated based on the wind field parameters adapted from the cyclone boundary layer flow. The analysis results indicate that this particular tower fails due to the formation of a full-section plastic hinge at locations that are consistent with those reported from field investigations, which suggests the validity of the proposed numerical analysis in the assessment of the performance of wind-farms under cyclonic winds. Furthermore, the numerical simulation allows to distinguish different failure stages before the dynamic collapse occurs in the proposed wind turbine tower, opening the door to future research on the control of these intermediate collapse phases.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.251-267
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• 1991

평면 골조 구조물로 이상화된 Web frame의 최종강도를 합리적으로 추정하기 위해 기존의 탄성해석 방법 대신에 구조물의 소성붕괴를 최종상태로 가정하여 구조해석을 수행하는 소성 해석 방법으로 선형 계획법과 Compact procedure를 정식화 하였고, 그 결과를 탄소성 해석과 비교하여 Web frame의 안전성 평가에 있어서 소성강도 해석 방법의 유용성을 검토하였다. 또한 구조해석에 사용되는 변수들의 확률적 특성을 고려하여 구조물의 안전성 평가를 하는 신뢰성 해석을 위해 소성붕괴 해석에서 얻어지는 구조물이 소성 파괴모드를 신뢰성 모델로서 사용 하였으나, 선체와 같이 과잉 구속되어 있는 부정정 구조물이 갖는 다수의 파괴모드 문제를 처리 하기 위해 기본 파괴모드 해석 방법과 자동 파괴모드 해석 방법을 이용하였고, 얻어진 파괴 모드로 부터 Web frame의 파괴확률을 계산하여 구조물의 안전성 평가에 있어서 확정론적인(deterministic)방법과 확률론적인(probabilistic)방법을 비교 검토하였다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2011

비탈면의 계측은 현장 접근성이 떨어지고 장기적인 계측이 어려워 이론적이거나 경험에 의존하는 것이 일반적이기 때문에 재난, 재해에 대한 조짐을 예측하기란 매우 어려운 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 비탈면의 붕괴를 예측하는 효과적인 방법과 현장 적용성에 대한 내용을 실험적 연구를 실시한 내용을 다루었다. 비탈면의 붕괴를 예측하는 방법은 재료의 파괴시 발생되는 음파를 WEAD라 불리는 AE센서를 이용하여 지반분야에 적용함으로써 비탈면의 붕괴를 예측 할 수 있었다. 비탈면 붕괴시 발생되는 AE파라미터는 전단 실험과 휨 실험을 실시하여 확보하였고 이를 토대로 파괴기준을 마련하였다. 시험시공은 비탈면 붕괴이력이 있고 붕괴가능성이 존재하는 비탈면에 적용해 보았고 실험결과 AE파라미터는 파괴기준에 넘지 않아 안정한 것으로 나타났으며 실제 비탈면의 붕괴 증후는 없는 것으로 나타나 적용성이 우수한 것으로 분석되었다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.163-172
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• 2014

일반교량 내진설계의 목적은 붕괴방지설계이고 도로교설계기준 내진설계편은 교량구조의 연성파괴메카니즘을 구성하는 설계방식을 제시하고 있다. 그러나 구조형식 또는 현장여건에 의해 연성파괴메카니즘을 구성하는 것이 비합리적인 경우 차선책으로 취성파괴메카니즘을 구성하여 붕괴방지설계를 수행할 수 있다. 연성파괴메카니즘을 구성하는 기존 설계방식과 함께 내진설계편은 연성도 내진설계를 부록으로 제시하고 있다. 연성도 내진설계는 철근콘크리트 교각으로 구성되는 교량에 적용하며 설계자가 하부구조의 소요응답수정계수를 결정하고 이로부터 심부구속철근을 설계하는 방식이다. 이 연구에서는 철근콘크리트 교각기둥과 강재받침으로 설계된 일반교량을 선정하여 기존 설계방식과 연성도 내진설계를 모두 적용한 결과로부터 차이점을 확인하고 설계자가 내진설계를 수행하는 과정에서 두 설계방식을 모두 고려하는 설계절차를 제안하였다.

• 한국복합재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국복합재료학회 2000년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.84-87
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• 2000

Square tubes used for vehicle structure components have an important role on keeping its stiffness and preserving occupant safety in vehicle collision and rollover in which it experience axial collapse, bending collapse or both. Bending collapse, which absorbs kinetic energy of the impact and retains a survival space for the occupant, is a dominant failure mode in oblique collision and rollover. Thus, in this paper, the bending collapse characteristics such as the maximum bending moment and energy absorption capacity of the square tube replaced by light-weight material were evaluated and presented. The bending test of cantilever tubes which were fabricated with aluminum, GFRP and aluminum/ GFRP hybrid by co-curing process was performed. Then the maximum bending moment and the energy absorption capacity from the moment-angle curve were evaluated. Based on the test results, it was found that aluminum/ GFRP hybrid tube can show better specific energy absorption capacity compared to the pure aluminum or GFRP tube and can convert unstable collapse mode which may occur in pure GFRP tube to stable collapse mode like a aluminum tube in which plastic hinge is developed.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제78권5호
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• pp.623-635
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• 2021

Previous studies have suggested the maximum experimental story shear force of beam-column joint frame does not reach its theoretical value due to beam-column joint failure when the column-to-beam moment capacity ratio was close to 1.0. It was also pointed out that under a certain amount of axial force, an axial collapse and a sudden decrease of lateral load-carrying capacity may occur at the joint. Although increasing joint transverse reinforcement could improve the lateral load-carrying capacity and axial load-carrying capacity of beam-column joint frame, the conditions considering varying axial force were still not well investigated. For this purpose, 7 full-scale specimens with no-axial force and 14 half-scale specimens with varying axial force are designed and subjected to static loading tests. Comparing the experimental results of the two types of specimens, it has indicated that introducing the varying axial force leads to a reduction of the required joint transverse reinforcement ratio which can avoid the beam-column joint failure. For specimens with varying axial force, to prevent beam-column joint failure and axial collapse, the lower limit of joint transverse reinforcement ratio is acquired when given a column-to-beam moment capacity ratio.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 1998년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.422-430
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• 1998

This paper presents the results of a major parametric study on the collapse cause of the Sungsoo Grand Bridge, a Gerber-type continuous truss bridge, which had collapsed just at the 15th year since opening to traffic. Among the various collapse causes such as poor design, poor welding, poor maintenance, and heavy traffic loads, this study focuses on the collapse cause assessment incorporating the effects of braket and H-beam members right below the expansion joint of the suspended truss. A local FEM analysis using fine shell elements is carrided out for the more precise estimation of stress range of the vertical pin-connected hanger whose fatigue fracture triggered the collapse of the bridge. Both the conventional S-N approach and the Ang-Munse's fatigue reliability method are used for the evaluation of the fatigue life and fatigue failure probability for the assessment based on all the available results of various field and labolatory tests. From these observations, It may be affirmatively stated that the effects of bracket and H-beam members accelerated the fatigue failure, and thus should be regarded as one of major causes that triggered the bridge collapse

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.473-494
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• 2014

Progressive collapse, which is referred to as the collapse of the entire building under local damages, is a common failure mode happened by earthquakes. The collapse process highly depends on the whole structural system. Since, asymmetry of the building plan leads to the local damage concentration; it may intensify the progressive collapse mechanism of asymmetric buildings. In this research the progressive collapse of regular and irregular 6-story RC ordinary moment resisting frame buildings are studied in the presence of the earthquake loads. Collapse process and collapse propagation are investigated using nonlinear time history analyses (NLTHA) in buildings with 5%, 15% and 25% mass asymmetry with respect to the number of collapsed hinges and story drifts criteria. Results show that increasing the value of mass eccentricity makes the asymmetric buildings become unstable earlier and in the early stages with lower number of the collapsed hinges. So, with increasing the mass eccentricity in building, instability and collapse of the entire building occurs earlier, with lower potential of the progressive collapse. It is also demonstrated that with increasing the mass asymmetry the decreasing trend of the number of collapsed beam and column hinges is approximately similar to the decreasing trend in the average story drifts of the mass centers and stiff edges. So, as an alternative to a much difficult-to-calculate local response parameter of the number of collapsed hinges, the story drift, as a global response parameter, measures the potential of progressive collapse more easily.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.217-235
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• 2017

The stability prediction of shallow buried tunnels is one of the most difficult tasks in civil engineering. The aim of this work is to predict the state of collapse in shallow tunnel in layered soils by employing non-associated flow rule and nonlinear failure criterion within the framework of upper bound theorem. Particular emphasis is first given to consider the effects of dilation on the collapse mechanism of shallow tunnel. Furthermore, the seepage forces and surface settlement are considered to analyze the influence of different dilation coefficients on the collapse shape. Two different curve functions which describe two different soil layers are obtained by virtual work equations under the variational principle. The distinct characteristics of falling blocks up and down the water level are discussed in the present work. According to the numerical results, the potential collapse range decreases with the increase of the dilation coefficient. In layered soils, both of the single layer's dilation coefficient and two layers' dilation coefficients increase, the range of the potential collapse block reduces.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2007년도 정기 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.771-776
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• 2007

Widespread propagation of failure can be triggered by localized damage to a structure because of fires, impact and explosion etc. In this paper, the progressive collapse analysis program is developed to automatically check the failed members and construct the modified structural model at each step. OpenSees, that is widely used in many research groups, was used for the developed progressive collapse analysis control program. The control program developed in this study automatically computes the damage indices of all the structural members and performance a progressive collapse analysis after the first failed member is selected. Using the developed program, we compared the progressive collapse behaviors of the example structures considering dynamic effects or not, and the difference of progressive collapse mechanism according to the modeling method of the failed members.