• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.402-405
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• 2006

Inner support regions of continuous steel and concrete composite bridge decks, transverse crackings are easely developed by tensile forces due to live loads and primary and secondary effects of concrete shrinkage. Since these cracks have an influence on the durability of bridge decks, crack width should be controlled within allowable limit values. Although crack width is a function of steel stress, bar diameter, bar spacing, etc, the current code for the amount of longitudinal reinforcements provides only one value of 2 percent of the concrete area. In order to investigate cracking bahaviors of composite girders with the variation of the longitudinal steel ratios, negative flexural tests are conducted on five composite girders and crack width and crack spacing are compared to ACI Code and Eurocode. Based on the test results, it is discussed the suitability of the current code for the longitudinal steel ratio.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.169-172
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• 2003

Time dependent deflections of double composite box girders are investigated based on the on going laboratory experiments scheduled for 3months long. Two of 2-span double composite box girders with 2.5m each span length are cast and time dependent behaviors are measured using 30 strain gages and 2 LVDTs after 5 days' curing. The measured experimental results are compared with the numerical predictions performed based on the one dimensional finite element method adopting beam element. The FEM formulation adopts the time dependent concrete constitutive model which is derived in an incremental format by expanding the total form of stress-strain relation by the first order Taylor series with respect to the reference time. A good agreement between the measured and predicted results are observed and the effects of the bottom concrete placed at the negative moment region of the bridge girder are discussed.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.568-573
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• 2005

To the installed CWR (Continuously Welded Rail) on steel plate girder bridges without ballast, shoes were replaced by the shoe for reduced axial force. During 9 months, from summer to winter, expansion by a temperature on girders, axial forces by a temperature on CWR, etc. are tested and the results are evaluated. Also, with the numerical analysis, the results - axial forces by a temperature on CWR, deformations of girders, etc. are compared and evaluated. From the longitudinal displacement on girders, occurred by run of trains, because of looking for the stability, the bearings for reducing axial forces are applied to the railway bridges. It is verified that the bearings for reducing axial forces disperse the axial forces by a temperature from the measurement of the forces on CWR of plate girder bridges,.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.955-960
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• 2003

For box girders in which the longitudinal tendon is profiled in the inclined webs. longitudinal prestressing force will induce transverse effects as well as longitudinal ones. In this paper. the method estimating transverse effects induced by longitudinal prestressing is proposed. The transverse effects in the slabs of box girders due to longitudinal prestressing are investigated. Numerical analyses are carried out depending on the parameters such as web inclination and ratio of girder length to tendon eccentricity. Analysis results show that when only prestressing are considered the magnitude of stresses in the slabs of box grder is not so large. However. if the other stresses due to dead and live load et al. are superposed on these stresses. it may be that the longitudinal prestressing effects are significant.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.401-408
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• 2001

The main objective of this study is to analyze the distortion of curved steel box girders. For the distortional analysis of steel box girders, two approaches are presented. One is the development of approximate formulas obtained by applying Ritz method. The other is the formulation of stiffness matrix which is derived from the exact solution of the differential equation for distortion. Distortional analysis is carried out by utilizing 3-dimensional elements of a structural analysis computer program (SAP2000). The present analysis focuses on the distortional stress and the effects of the diaphragm. The results of several example cases are compared with those by the Nakai, Sakai, Heins, and Oleinik's theory and get the effect of diaphragm spacing on the distortional warping stress of the curved steel box girder.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.183-190
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• 1998

In this study, I-type girders, main members of a steel composite bridge, are designed by Load and Resistance Factor Design method as well as Allowable Stress Design method. The width, height web thickness and flange thickness of main girders are set as design variables. The design program connects optimization program ADS, which is coded with FORTRAN, and a main program coded with $C^{++}$. In this study, it is shown that in this particular steel composite bridge, the design by The Load and Resistance Factor Design method is more economical than that by The Allowable Stress Design method.d.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.254-261
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• 1997

In desingin plate bridges, the width-thickness ratio of flanges and webs are proportioned in such that the premature local buckling of flanges and webs prior to achievement of the full strength of plate-girders must be prevented. It is the common practive in most design codes that the flange local buckling strength and the web bend buckling strength are separately computed. In most practical plate girders, however, the flange buckles simultaneously when web bend-buckling occurs, vice versa. The primary purpose of the present study is to investigate the phenomenon, which may be called flange-web interactive buckling. Using the eight-node shell element available in the commercial multi-purpose program ABAQUS, the phenomenon was quantitatively investigated. Also presented are the effects of various factors such as the ratio of flange slenderness ratio to the web slenderness ratio, the ratio of flange width to the web depth, and the longitudinal stiffeners. A series of comparative studies with various design codes show that the present study provides more accurate and effective design basis in proportioning the flanges and webs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.508-514
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• 1997

RCS system consists of RC columns and Steel girders. Because RC columns are useful for compression and steel girders are for bending moment, RCS system has good structural performances. This system, however, has had no verification in the onstruction fields. This paper is a feasibility study on RCS system to verify the structural and economic efficiency of RCS system. On this study, we analyze 18 models selected by existing building data survey, and design these models as steel system,SRC system (Steel + RC system) and RCS system. To verify the economic efficiency of RCS system, we estimate the columns of these models. And we predict the construction procedure of RCS system to compare construction duration of RCS system with others So, in this study we find that RCS system is more economic than steel system and SRC system.

• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.47-56
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• 2009

The first diagonal cracking and ultimate shear load of reinforced girder made of ultra high performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) were investigated in this paper. Eleven girders were tested in which eight girders failed in shear. A simplified formulation for the first diagonal cracking load was proposed. An analytical model to predict the ultimate shear load was formulated based on the two bounds theory. A fiber reinforcing parameter was constituted based on the random assumption of steel fiber uniform distribution. The predicted values were compared with the conventional predictions and the test results. The proposed equation can be used for the first cracking status analysis, while the proposed equations for computing the ultimate shear strength can be used for the ultimate failure status analysis, which can also be utilized for numerical limit analysis of reinforced UHPFRC girder. The established fiber reinforcing theoretical model can also be a reference for micro-mechanics analysis of UHPFRC.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.881-901
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• 2016

In this study, a method to compensate the effect of temperature variation on impedance responses which are used for prestress-loss monitoring in prestressed concrete (PSC) girders is presented. Firstly, an impedance-based technique using a mountable lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT) interface is presented for prestress-loss monitoring in the local tendon-anchorage member. Secondly, a cross-correlation-based algorithm to compensate the effect of temperature variation in the impedance signatures is outlined. Thirdly, lab-scale experiments are performed on a PSC girder instrumented with a mountable PZT interface at the tendon-anchorage. A series of temperature variation and prestress-loss events are simulated for the lab-scale PSC girder. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed method is experimentally verified for prestress-loss monitoring in the PSC girder under temperature-varying conditions and prestress-loss events.