• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.999-1028
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• 2015

Despite the fact that the fundamental period appears to be one of the most critical parameters for the seismic design of structures according to the modal superposition method, the so far available in the literature proposals for its estimation are often conflicting with each other making their use uncertain. Furthermore, the majority of these proposals do not take into account the presence of infills walls into the structure despite the fact that infill walls increase the stiffness and mass of structure leading to significant changes in the fundamental period numerical value. Toward this end, this paper presents a detailed and indepth analytical investigation on the parameters that affect the fundamental period of reinforce concrete structure. The calculated values of the fundamental period are compared against those obtained from the seismic code and equations proposed by various researchers in the literature. From the analysis of the results it has been found that the number of storeys, the span length, the stiffness of the infill wall panels, the location of the soft storeys and the soil type are crucial parameters that influence the fundamental period of RC buildings.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.1-9
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• 1997

본 논문은 고층건물의 지진응답해석에서 탄성 및 탄소성 응답스펙트럼 해석법에 대하여 고찰한 것이다. 선형 구조물의 지진응답 해석에 널리 사용되고 있는 응답스펙트럼법은 여러 연구자들에 의해 서로 다른 모드 조합방법으로 제안되었으며, 이들 조합방법에 따른 차이점을 상세히 검토하였다. 탄소성 지진응답해석에 응답스펙트럼법은 아직 널리 사용되고 있지 못한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 장주기를 갖는 고층 건물의 탄소성 지진응답해석에 응답스펙트럼을 확장하여 적용하는 방법을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 탄소성 응답스펙트럼법을 이용하면, 고층건물의 예비 설계에서 시간이력해석 대신으로 보다 간편히 탄소성 응답치를 예측하는 도구로서 활용할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1526-1532
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• 2011

Railway bridges are highly susceptible to resonance due to the equidistant axle load with constant speed of train. Thus, it is necessary to verify dynamic characteristics and quantities against dynamic guidelines. Recently, many newly developed bridge systems have been developed for medium span length between 30m and 40m. However, less variety of bridge systems are available for span length between 45m and 50m. Steel box girder is considered as an alternative for span length between 45m and 50m. This study is to investigate the dynamic properties and safety of steel box railway bridge. Modal properties are extracted and moving load analyses are performed using mode superposition method. The results are then compared to various standards.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.127-138
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• 2012

The composite materials may be exposed to environmental (thermal or hygral or both) condition during their service life. The effect of environmental condition is usually adverse from the point of view of design of composite structures. In the present research study the effect of hygrothermal condition on the design of laminated composite structures is investigated. The active fiber composite (AFC) which may be utilized as actuator or sensor is considered in the present analysis. The sensor layer is used to sense the level of response of the composite structures. The sensed voltage is fed back to the actuator through the controller. In this study both displacement and velocity feedback controllers are employed to reduce the response of the composite laminate within acceptable limit. The Newmark direct time integration scheme is employed along with modal superposition method to improve the computational efficiency. It is observed from the numerical study that the laminated composite structures become weak in the presence of hygrothermal load. The response of the structure can be brought to the acceptable level once the AFC layer is activated through the feedback loop.

• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.431-454
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• 2009

This paper presents a simple model for studying the dynamic response of multi-span bridges resting on piers with different heights and subjected to earthquake forces acting transversely to the bridge, but varying spatially along its length. The analysis is carried out using the modal superposition technique, while the solution of the resulting integral-differential equations is obtained via the Laplace transformation. It has been found that the piers' height and the quality of the foundation soil can affect significantly the dynamic behavior of such bridges. Typical examples showing the effectiveness of the method are presented with useful results listed.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회논문집A
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• pp.702-707
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• 2000

Under the rapid change of a new vehicle model, it is necessary to develop a durability analysis technique using computer simulation. In order to do this. reliable dynamic stress-time history for the vehicle components must be calculated on various road conditions. In this paper, a full vehicle simulation model which is composed of flexible frame and chassis components is proposed and verified its reliability from the comparison with field test data. Finally, dynamic stress-time history on the rear chassis components is predicted with hybrid and modal superposition method.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.94-100
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• 2004

A dynamic finite element analysis of a rig test model for truck chassis systems is conducted to establish an appropriate model designed to predict the fatigue life. A reference Belgian road input, which has been obtained from a field test, is imposed on the finite element model in the modal finite element analysis, and the resulting strain history is employed for the prediction of the fatigue life. This is compared with the prediction based upon the strain history measured in the field test. The two agree with each other within the limitation of the field data and the input data to the model. The high frequency responses over 50 Hz are confirmed to be negligible as far as their effect on the fatigue life is concerned.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.345-365
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• 2014

A significant problem met in engineering practice when designing cable-stayed bridges is the failure of cables. Many different factors can lead to sudden failure of cables, such as corrosion, continuous friction or abrasion, progressive and extended crevice created by fatigue and finally an explosion caused by sabotage or accident, are some of the causes that can lead to the sudden failure of one or more cables. This paper deals with the sudden failure of cables in a special form of cable-stayed bridges with a single line of cables anchored at the central axis of the deck's cross-section. The analysis is carried out by the modal superposition technique where an analytical method developed by the authors in a previous work has been employed.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권1A호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 경부고속철도상의 대표적인 교량인 2경간 연속보 형태의 고속철도 교량에 대하여 동적거동을 해석하고 공진발생의 감소방안들을 제시하였다. 하중은 한국형 고속철도하중인 총길이 380.15 m의 TGV-K 열차(2P+18T)가 일정한 속도로 이동하는 것으로 하였다. 동적거동을 모사하는 지배방정식은 질량과 강성이 분포된 연속계에서 만들어진 편미분방정식을 이용하여 구하였으며 Duhamel 적분을 이용한 모달계수의 처리를 수반하는 모드중첩법을 이용하여 동적해석을 수행하였다. 열차의 주행속도에 관계없이 동적거동을 급격히 감소시킬 수 있는 지간장이 존재하였으며 지금까지 연구된 단순보 형태의 교량에서 분석된 결과와는 달랐다. 열차의 주행속도에 의존하여 동적응답이 급격히 증가되어 공진현상을 일으키는 경우에도 공진을 감소시킬 수 있는 여러 방안들을 제시하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.47-65
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• 2015

A novel finite element (FE) model updating method based on multi-resolution analysis (MRA) is proposed. The true stiffness of the FE model is considered as the superposition of two pieces of stiffness information of different resolutions: the pre-defined stiffness information and updating stiffness information. While the resolution of former is solely decided by the meshing density of the FE model, the resolution of latter is decided by the limited information obtained from the experiment. The latter resolution is considerably lower than the former. Second generation wavelet is adopted to describe the updating stiffness information in the framework of MRA. This updating stiffness in MRA is realized at low level of resolution, therefore, needs less number of updating parameters. The efficiency of the optimization process is thus enhanced. The proposed method is suitable for the identification of multiple irregular cracks and performs well in capturing the global features of the structural damage. After the global features are identified, a refinement process proposed in the paper can be carried out to improve the performance of the MRA of the updating information. The effectiveness of the method is verified by numerical simulations of a box girder and the experiment of a three-span continues pre-stressed concrete bridge. It is shown that the proposed method corresponds well to the global features of the structural damage and is stable against the perturbation of modal parameters and small variations of the damage.