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Top-Down Crack Modeling of Asphalt Concrete based on a Viscoelastic Fracture Mechanics

  • Kuai, Hai Dong;Lee, Hyn-Jong;Zi, Goang-Seup;Mun, Sung-Ho
    • 한국도로학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.93-102
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    • 2008
  • An energy based crack growth model is developed in this study to simulate the propagation of top-down cracking in asphalt pavements. A viscoelastic fracture mechanics approach, generalized J integral, is employed to model the crack growth of asphalt concrete. Laboratory fatigue crack propagation tests for three different asphalt mixtures are performed at various load levels, frequencies and temperatures. Disk-shaped specimens with a proper loading fixture and crack growth monitoring system are selected for the tests. It is observed from the tests that the crack propagation model based on the generalized J integral is independent of load levels and frequencies, while the traditional Paris' law model based on stress intensity factor is dependent of loading frequencies. However, both models are unable to take care of the temperature dependence of the mixtures. The fatigue crack propagation model proposed in this study has a good agreement between experimental and predicted crack growth lives, which implies that the energy based J integral could be a better parameter to describe fatigue crack propagation of viscoelastic materials such as asphalt mixtures.

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Assessment of capacity curves for transmission line towers under wind loading

  • Banik, S.S.;Hong, H.P.;Kopp, Gregory A.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2010
  • The recommended factored design wind load effects for overhead lattice transmission line towers by codes and standards are evaluated based on the applicable wind load factor, gust response factor and design wind speed. The current factors and design wind speed were developed considering linear elastic responses and selected notional target safety levels. However, information on the nonlinear inelastic responses of such towers under extreme dynamic wind loading, and on the structural capacity curves of the towers in relation to the design capacities, is lacking. The knowledge and assessment of the capacity curve, and its relation to the design strength, is important to evaluate the integrity and reliability of these towers. Such an assessment was performed in the present study, using a nonlinear static pushover (NSP) analysis and incremental dynamic analysis (IDA), both of which are commonly used in earthquake engineering. For the IDA, temporal and spatially varying wind speeds are simulated based on power spectral density and coherence functions. Numerical results show that the structural capacity curves of the tower determined from the NSP analysis depend on the load pattern, and that the curves determined from the nonlinear static pushover analysis are similar to those obtained from IDA.

An Evaluation Method of Deformation Moduli using Finite Element Analysis of Cyclic Plate Load Tests (반복재하 평판재하시험의 유한요소해석을 이용한 변형계수의 추정기법)

  • Oh, Seboong;Seo, Wonseok;Kwon, Ohkyun
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.61-68
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    • 2007
  • The problem on cyclic plate load tests was analyzed by finite element method using an anisotropic hardening constitutive model. The constitutive model was coded to user subroutine in ABAQUS. Using the result of the analysis, Young's moduli corresponding to various strain levels were evaluated by a back calculation method and were very similar to those of input. On the basis of the back calculation method plate loading tests were verified. As a result, deformation moduli could be evaluated practically from cyclic plate load tests with respect site conditions.

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A Study on the Harmonic Current Characteristic and Emission Value Assess Method Considering the Linear Load (선형부하가 고려된 고조파 전류 특성 및 방출값 평가)

  • Park, Yong-Up;Choi, Seung-Hoon;Chang, Joon-Soo
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.59 no.1
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    • pp.33-39
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    • 2010
  • In order to operate the power system satisfactory for both system operators and customers, it is important to limit the harmonic currents to the allowable levels which injected into the system from the distorting installations. In this regard, the principles for the allocation of emission limits on individual customer were introduced in the technical report of IEC61000-3-6. According to these general principles, the emission limits are dependent on the agreed power of the customer, the power of the harmonic-generating equipment, and the system characteristics. The considerations in this report are very comprehensive and the process introduced is practical enough to implement as it is. However, there is a fact not appropriately dealing in the report that could be a very tickle but has a huge impact on determining the emission limit. This is the effect of non-harmonic load currents. More precisely, these are from the equipments which do not emit any harmonic or may emit harmonics but this specific order under the consideration by themselves if the source power is sinusoidal. The load currents originated from these equipments have an effect of active filter against the specific order of harmonic therefore, these should be dealt as a significant factoron the process of determining the emission limits for individual customer.

Assessment and Management Method of Flicker Emission Level Based on IEC 61000-3-7 for Domestic Extra-high Voltage Customers (국내 특고압 고객에 대한 IEC 61000-3-7 기반의 플리커 방출한계 평가 및 관리 방안 연구)

  • Han, Su-Kyoung;Shin, Hoon-Chul;Park, Sang-Ho;Kim, Kern-Joong;Cho, Soo-Hwan
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.67 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2018
  • IEC 61000-3-7 provides guidance for limiting flicker and enabling the connection of fluctuating load installations, that is, producing flicker in MV, HV and EHV power systems. In Korea, the flicker have been restricted by Japanese standard of ${\Delta}V_{10}$ method. ${\Delta}V_{10}$ was developed only for arc furnaces in 1960's. And now it is revealed that it is not suitable for application to other fluctuating load installations through many researches. $P_{st}$ which is a flicker index used in IEC 61000-3-7, indicates visual inconvenience due to voltage fluctuation across large range of frequency and can be applied to fluctuating load installations as well as arc furnaces. In this paper, we introduce how to calculate and assess flicker emission level for the individual fluctuating load installations connected in EHV system and how to manage the emission levels in the power system according to IEC 61000-3-7.

Service load response prediction of reinforced concrete flexural members

  • Ning, Feng;Mickleborough, Neil C.;Chan, Chun-Man
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2001
  • A reliable and accurate method has been developed to predict the flexural deformation response of structural concrete members subject to service load. The method that has been developed relates the extent of concrete cracking, measured as a function of the magnitude of applied moment in a member, to the reduction in the effective moment of inertia of cracked reinforced concrete members under service load conditions. The ratio of the area of the moment diagram where the moment exceeds the cracking moment, to the total area of the moment diagram for any loading, provides the basis for the calculation of the effective moment of inertia. This ratio also represents mathematically a probability of crack occurrence. Verification of this method for the determination of the effective moment of inertia has been achieved from an experimental test program, and has included beam tests with different loading configurations, and shear wall tests subjected to a range of vertical and lateral load levels. Further verification of this method has been made with reference to the experimental investigation of other recently published work.

A Study on the Residual Mechanical Properties of Fiber Mixed Concrete with High Temperature and Load (고온 및 하중에 따른 섬유혼입 콘크리트의 잔존역학적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, Dae-Ki;Kim, Gyu-Yong;Choe, Gyeong-Choel;Lee, Tae-Gyu;Koo, Kyung-Mo;Kim, Hong-Seop
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.119-120
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    • 2011
  • Recently, the effects of high temperature and fiber content on the residual mechnical properties of high-strength concrete were experimentally investigated. In this paper, residual mechanical properties of concrete with water to cement (w/c) ratios of 55%, 42% and 32% exposed to high temperature are compared with those obtained in fiber reinforced concretes of similar characteristics with the ranging of 0,05% to 0,20% polypropylene (PP) fibers by volume of concrete, and considered factors include pre-load levels (20% and 40% of the maximum load at room temperature). Outbreak time and water contents were tested and were determined the compressive strength. In the result, it is showed that to prevent the explosive spalling of 50MPa grade concretes exposed to high temperature need more than 0.05Vol.% PP fibers. Also, the cross-sectional area of PP fiber can influence on the residual mechanical properties and the spalling tendency of fiber reinforced concrete exposed to high temperature. Especially, the external loading increases not only the residual mechanical properties of concrete but also the risk of spalling and the brittle tendency.

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Analytical Prediction of Transmission Error and Load Distribution for a Plugin HEV (플러그인 HEV용 변속기전달오차와 하중분포에 관한 연구)

  • Zhang, Qi;Kang, Jae-Hwa;Yun, Gi-Baek;Lyu, Sung-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.116-121
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    • 2012
  • In recent years, world is faced with a transportation energy dilemma, and the transportation is dependent on a single fuel - petroleum. However, Hybrid Electric Vehicle(HEV) technology holds more advantages to reduce the demand for petroleum in the transportation by efficiency improvements of petroleum consumption. Therefore, there is a trend that lower gear noise levels are demanded in HEV for drivers to avoid annoyance and fatigue during operation. And meshing transmission error(T.E.) is the excitation that leads to the tonal noise known as gear whine, and radiated gear whine is also the dominant source of noise in the whole gearbox. This paper presents a method for the analysis of gear tooth profile and lead modification, and the predictions of transmission error and load distribution are shown under one loaded torque for the 1st gear pair of HEV gearbox. The test is also obtained before tooth micro-modification under the torque. At last, the appropriate tooth modification is used to minimize the transmission error and load distribution under the loaded torque. It is a good approach which the simulated result is used to improve the design in order to minimize the radiation gear whine noise.

S-N Curve Deduction of a KTX High-Speed Train Structure for an Accelerated Life Testing (가속수명시험을 위한 KTX고속열차 구조물의 S-N 선도 추정)

  • Jung, Dal-Woo;Choi, Nak-Sam;Park, Su-Han
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.388-395
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    • 2009
  • An accelerated fatigue test is essentially required to maintain the reliability of the actual structures of KTX under operation conditions. However, actual fatigue life cannot be obtained because the conventional fatigue tests are not adequate to the real load conditions. Moreover foreign component makers have not provided data of the loading stresses (S) versus cycles at the failure (N). In this study, we suggested a deduction method of the S-N curve for establishing an accelerating test under various load levels. Load history was acquired from the field tests. A Rainflow method was used on the cycle counting of the field load data. After that, an S-N curve was obtained through the iteration process under the condition that the damage index satisfies to 1 in the Miner's rule. The deduced S-N curve was applied to the performance evaluation of Korean-made sealed knuckles compared with imports.

Development of ADWHM(Advanced Digital Watt-Hour Meter) for Remote Management of Distribution Systems (배전원격관리를 위한 차세대 디지털 적산전력계 개발)

  • 고윤석;윤상문;서성진;강태규
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.53 no.6
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    • pp.316-323
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    • 2004
  • This paper develops an ADWHM(Advanced Digital Watt-Hour Meter) which integrates and implements the voltage management data record function and the load management data record function in the electronic watt-hour meter. ADWHM is developed based on PIC16F874 which is 8bit micro-controller of RISK type for the easy of programing and maintenance, and electronic power signal processing module is located at front of it to reduce the computing load of processor. Also, a 16kbyte EEPROM is used to record the voltage management data and load management data for a week as well as watt-hour data and USART communication mode is used to transfer data from ADWHM to PC. The accuracy of the voltage and unt measuring for ADWHM is verified by identifying the LCD display values of the ADWHM after the voltage signals of id levels from digital function generator is applied to PT(Potential Transformer) and CT(Current Transformer) output under state which it is separated from real power line. On the its basic functions such as watt-hour data recording function, voltage management data recording function and load management data recording function was verified by showing data for three days among the collected data to PC by RS232C communication from ADWHM which was connected to real power lines for a week.