• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.223-232
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• 2021

The spatial variation characteristics of seismic motions at the nuclear power plant's site and structures were analyzed using earthquake records obtained at the Fukushima nuclear power plant during the Great East Japan Earthquake. The ground responses amplified as they approached the soil surface from the lower rock surface, and the amplification occurred intensively at about 50 m near the ground. Due to the soil layer's nonlinear characteristics caused by the strong seismic motion, the ground's natural frequency derived from the response spectrum ratio appeared to be smaller than that calculated from the shear wave velocity profile. The spatial variation of the peak ground acceleration at the ground surface of the power plant site showed a significant difference of about 0.6 g at the maximum. As a result of comparing the response spectrums at the basement of the structure with the design response spectrum, there was a large variability by each power plant unit. The difference was more significant in the Fukushima Daiichi site record, which showed larger peak ground acceleration at the surface. The earthquake motions input to the basement of the structure amplified according to the structure's height. The natural frequency obtained from the recorded results was lower than that indicated in the previous research. Also, the floor response spectrum change according to the location at the same height was investigated. The vertical response on the foundation surface showed a significant difference in spectral acceleration depending on the location. The amplified response in the structure showed a different variability depending on the type of structure and the target frequency.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.151-160
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• 2014

Probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis (PTHA) is based on the approach of probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) which is performed using various seismotectonic models and ground-motion prediction equations. The major difference between PTHA and PSHA is that PTHA requires the wave parameters of tsunami. The wave parameters can be estimated from tsunami propagation analysis. Therefore, a tsunami simulation analysis was conducted for the purpose of evaluating the wave parameters required for the PTHA of Uljin nuclear power plant (NPP) site. The tsunamigenic fault sources in the western part of Japan were chosen for the analysis. The wave heights for 80 rupture scenarios were numerically simulated. The synthetic tsunami waveforms were obtained around the Uljin NPP site. The results show that the wave heights are closely related with the location of the fault sources and the associated potential earthquake magnitudes. These wave parameters can be used as input data for the future PTHA study of the Uljin NPP site.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 등가 에너지 개념에 근거하여 비좌굴 가새골조의 간편한 내진설계방법을 제안하였다. 단자유도계로 치환된 구조물의 지진 입력에너지를 응답 스펙트럼으로부터 구한 후, 탄성에너지와 소성에너지를 등가 에너지 개념을 이용하여 산정한다. 이렇게 구한 소성에너지를 분배비에 따라 각 층에 분배하고, 모든 소성에너지는 가새에 의하여 소산된다고 가정하여 각 가새의 단면적을 산정할 수 있다. 제안된 방법을 검증하기 위하여 3층, 6층, 20층 가새골조를 제안된 방법으로 주어진 목표변위를 만족하도록 설계하고, 인공지진을 이용하여 결과를 검증하였다. 해석결과에 의하면 저층 건물의 최상층 변위는 비교적 목표변위를 만족하였으나, 20층 건물의 최상층 변위는 목표변위보다 매우 작아 가새가 과다하게 설계된 것으로 나타났다.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.545-553
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• 2017

A pounding tuned mass damper (PTMD) can be considered as a passive device, which combines the merits of a traditional tuned mass damper (TMD) and a collision damper. A recent analytical study by the authors demonstrated that the PTMD base on the energy dissipation during impact is able to achieve better control effectiveness over the traditional TMD. In this paper, a PTMD prototype is manufactured and applied for seismic response reduction to examine its efficacy. A series of shaking table tests is conducted in a three-story building frame model under single-dimensional and two-dimensional broadband earthquake excitations with different excitation intensities. The ability of the PTMD to reduce the structural responses is experimentally investigated. The results show that the traditional TMD is sensitive to input excitations, while the PTMD mostly has improved control performance over the TMD to remarkably reduce both the peak and root-mean-square (RMS) structural responses under single-dimensional earthquake excitation. Unlike the TMD, the PTMD is found to have the merit of maintaining a stable performance when subjected to different earthquake loadings. In addition, it is also indicated that the performance of the PTMD can be enhanced by adjusting the initial gap value, and the control effectiveness improves with the increasing excitation intensity. Under two-dimensional earthquake inputs, the PTMD controls remain outperform the TMD controls; however, the oscillation of the added mass is observed during the test, which may induce torsional vibration modes of the structure, and hence, result in poor control performance especially after a strong earthquake period.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.45-56
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• 2020

The application of critical excitation method with displacement-based objective function for multi degree of freedom (MDOF) systems is investigated. To this end, a new critical excitation method is developed to find the critical input motion of a MDOF system as a synthetic accelerogram. The upper bound of earthquake input energy per unit mass is considered as a new constraint for the problem, and its advantages are discussed. Considering this constraint, the critical excitation method is then used to generate synthetic accelerograms for MDOF models corresponding to three shear buildings of 10, 16, and 22 stories. In order to demonstrate the reliability of generated accelerograms to estimate dynamic response of the structures, three target ground motions with considerable level of energy contents are selected to represent "real critical excitation" of each model, and the method is used to re-generate these ground motions. Afterwards, linear dynamic analyses are conducted using these accelerograms along with the generated critical excitations, to investigate the key parameters of response including maximum displacement, maximum interstory drift, and maximum absolute acceleration of stories. The results show that the generated critical excitations can make an acceptable estimate of the structural behavior compared to the target ground motions. Therefore, the method can be reliably implemented to generate critical excitation of the structure when real one is not available.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.337-345
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• 2019

This work resumes a research that proposes the use of the technique based on the dissipation energy of the shape memory alloy (SMA) ties. It focuses principally on the assessment of the effectiveness of the use of these smart materials on displacements, accelerations and the stresses of the minaret of the great mosque of Ajloun in Jordan. The 3-D finite element model of the minaret is performed by the ANSYS software. First of all, the proposed model is calibrated and validated according to the experimental results gathered from ambient vibration testing results. Then, a nonlinear transient analysis is considered, when the El-Centro earthquake is used as the input signal. Different simulating cases concerning the location, number and type of SMA devices are proposed in order to see their influence on the seismic response of the minaret. Hence, the results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed SMA device.

• KCI Concrete Journal
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.191-199
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• 1999

A Precast frame system with hybrid beam-column connections was proposed in this study. An analytical study evaluated the system under seismic loadings. Four buildings with different heights were modeled in which each building had three types of joint details (A. B, C). Thus, twelve buildings were examined with variables such as building height and joint detail. Four earthquake records were applied to the buildings as input ground motions. All the records were normalized to the intensity of 0.25g to assess behavior under the same intensity of seismic excitation. All the joint types showed almost identical results except for the Mexico earthquake which was scaled up from 0. 1g to 0.25g. Buildings with the type C joint exhibited the largest deflection for the Mexico earthquake. It was concluded that type B joint could be used in a high seismic zone and the type C joint could possibly be used in the regions of low to medium seismic activity.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.187-192
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• 2009

This study is performing a seismic analysis on the steel frames structure with dampers and analyzing the dynamic behavior in order to examine their efficiency and study the optimum dampers position to the seismic design steel structure. To improve the ability against an earthquake, this study performed the time history analysis. Controling an earthquake is the way to minimize the damage of the steel structure by dissipating input energy generated by an earthquake.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2006

이 논문에서는 에너지 소산장치가 장착된 사장교의 지진 취약도 해석 방법을 제시하고 에너지 소산장치의 장착 및 주탑-보강형 연결 조건에 따른 지진 취약도 변화를 살펴본다. 입력지반운동, 에너지 소산장치 특성값 및 사장교 강성 모형에 확률 변수를 도입하여 불확실성을 고려하고 에너지 소산장치의 비선형 이력거동을고려하여 시간이력 해석을 수행한다. 해석결과의 회귀분석을 통한 최대 응답과 입력지반운동 세기(intensity) 사이의 관계식으로부터 취약도 해석을 위한 소요 역량(demand)을 수립한다. 역량(capacity)에 해당하는 한계상태는 주탑 하부의 전단력, 보강형의 교축방향 변위, 케이블 장력의 변동량 그리고 강주탑의 좌굴이 고려된다. 해석 예제로서 강주탑 사장교인 제 2 진도대교 모형에 대하여 취약도 해석을 수행하였다. 취약도 해석결과 에너지 소산장치의 사용을 통하여 구속 또는 비구속 연결조건시 높은 손상확률을 보이던 한계상태에 대하여 그 손상확률을 크게 줄일 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제86권5호
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• pp.589-605
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• 2023

This paper investigates the ductility demands of steel frames equipped with self-centring fuses under near-fault earthquake motions considering multiple yielding stages. The study is commenced by verifying a trilinear self-centring hysteretic model accounting for multiple yielding stages of steel frames equipped with self-centring fuses. Then, the seismic response of single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems following the validated trilinear self-centring hysteretic law is examined by a parametric study using a near-fault earthquake ground motion database composed of 200 earthquake records as input excitations. Based on a statistical investigation of more than fifty-two (52) million inelastic spectral analyses, the effect of the post-yield stiffness ratios, energy dissipation coefficient and yielding displacement ratio on the mean ductility demand of the system is examined in detail. The analysis results indicate that the increase of post-yield stiffness ratios, energy dissipation coefficient and yielding displacement ratio reduces the ductility demands of the self-centring oscillators responding in multiple yielding stages. A set of empirical expressions for quantifying the ductility demands of trilinear self-centring hysteretic oscillators are developed using nonlinear regression analysis of the analysis result database. The proposed regression model may offer a practical tool for designers to estimate the ductility demand of a low-to-medium rise self-centring steel frame equipped with self-centring fuses progressing in the ultimate stage under near-fault earthquake motions in design and evaluation.