• Wind and Structures
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.85-112
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• 2011

Wind turbine structures are long slender columns with a rotor and blade assembly placed on the top. These slender structures vibrate due to dynamic environmental forces and its own dynamics. Analysis of the dynamic behavior of wind turbines is fundamental to the stability, performance, operation and safety of these systems. In this paper a simplied approach is outlined for free vibration analysis of these long, slender structures taking the soil-structure interaction into account. The analytical method is based on an Euler-Bernoulli beam-column with elastic end supports. The elastic end-supports are considered to model the flexible nature of the interaction of these systems with soil. A closed-form approximate expression has been derived for the first natural frequency of the system. This new expression is a function of geometric and elastic properties of wind turbine tower and properties of the foundation including soil. The proposed simple expression has been independently validated using an exact numerical method, laboratory based experimental measurement and field measurement of a real wind turbine structure. The results obtained in the paper shows that the proposed expression can be used for a quick assessment of the fundamental frequency of a wind turbine taking the soil-structure interaction into account.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.295-308
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 기 개발된 유한요소-경계요소 조합을 통한 지반구조물 상호작용해석기법을 이용하여 주파수 특성이 다른 여러 가지 지진파를 이용한 수치해석을 통하여 지진파에 따른 거동특성을 분석하였다. 사용한 기본해의 검증을 위하여 적용된 다층 반무한 해를 Estorff 등의 연구결과와 비교하였으며, 기본해를 이용하여 개발된 지반-구조물 상호작용해석기법의 검증을 위하여 자유장해석을 수행하였다. 자유장 해석결과는 1차원 파전달 이론에 의하여 개발된 자유장응답해석 프로그램인 SHAKE의 결과와 비교하여 그 타당성을 검증하였다. 검증된 해석기법을 이용하여 특성이 다른 3종류의 지진파가 적용된 2차원 평면상의 지반-구조물 상호작용해석을 수행함으로써 지진파와 말뚝유무에 따른 지반-구조물 상호작용거동특성을 분석하였다. 해석결과 지진이 작용할 때는 말뚝기초를 사용하는 것이 반드시 유리한 결과를 주지는 않는다는 것을 알았으며, 지반의 비선형성을 고려 할때는 말뚝의 유무가 지진응답결과에 큰 영향을 미치지 않는다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.155-170
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• 2022

An accurate analysis of structures supported on soft soils and subjected to seismic loading requires the consideration of the soil-foundation-structure interaction. An important aspect of this interaction lies with the energy dissipation due to soil material damping. Unlike advanced constitutive models that can induce energy loss, the use of simple elastoplastic constitutive models requires additional damping. The frequency dependent Rayleigh damping is a formulation that is frequently used in dynamic analysis. The main concern of this formulation is the correct selection of the target damping ratio and the frequency range where the response is frequency independent. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of the Rayleigh damping parameters in soil-pile-structure and soil-inclusion-platform-structure systems in the presence of soft soil under seismic loading. Three-dimensional analyses of both systems are carried out using the finite difference software Flac3D. Different values of target damping ratios and minimum frequencies are utilized. Several earthquakes are used to study the influence of different excitation frequencies in the systems. The soil response in terms of accelerations, displacements and strains is obtained. For the rigid elements, the results are presented in terms of bending moments and normal forces. The results show that when the frequency of the input motion is close to the minimum (central) frequency in the Rayleigh damping formulation, the overdamping amount is reduced, and the surface spectral acceleration of the analyzed pile and inclusion systems increases. Thus, the bending moments and normal forces throughout the piles and inclusions also increase.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 단독말뚝의 측면에서 시공되는 터널에 의한 말뚝의 거동에 대하여 3차원 수치해석을 통하여 분석하였다. 수치해석을 통하여 터널-말뚝-지반의 상호거동에 대한 심도 있는 분석을 실시하였다. 수치해석을 통해 말뚝의 침하, 말뚝과 주변지반 사이의 상대변위, 전단응력 및 말뚝의 축력변화를 고찰하였다. 특히 터널굴착에 의한 전단응력의 전이과정에 대한 심도 있는 분석을 실시하였다. 터널굴착에 의한 말뚝과 인근지반에서의 상대변위 변화로 인하여 말뚝에 작용하는 전단응력 및 축력의 분포가 변하게 되는 것으로 나타났다. 터널 중심부의 상부에서는 하향의 전단응력이 발생하는 반면(Z/L=0.0-0.7~0.8), 그 하부에서는 (Z/L=0.7~0.8-1.0) 상향의 전단응력이 발생하여 말뚝에 압축력이 발생된다, 이때 Z는 임의의 심도, L은 말뚝의 길이다. 터널굴착이 종료된 후 말뚝에는 최대 $0.475P_a$의 압축력이 발생하였다, 이때 $P_a$는 말뚝의 설계지지력이다. 수치해석을 통해서 도출된 터널굴착이 말뚝 거동에 미치는 영향에 대해 상세히 고찰하였다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2022

동적 하중 재하시 지반-구조물 상호작용 확인을 위해 최근까지 단말뚝을 고려한 진동대 실험이 많이 시행됐다. 그러나, 실제 구조물의 대부분은 군말뚝 기초로 지지되는 기둥 형태의 다자유도 구조물이므로 본 연구에서는 이를 고려하여 대형 진동대 실험 및 수치해석을 통해 지반-구조물 상호 작용을 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 다자유도 기둥 구조물은 가속도의 증가 및 구조물의 고유 진동수와의 일치 여부에 따라 말뚝의 모멘트는 증가하였다. 또한, 동적 p-y 곡선의 기울기는 가속도 및 입력 진동수의 변화에 상관없이 일정한 기울기를 나타내었다. 다자유도 기둥 구조물의 동적 p-y 중추 곡선 및 군말뚝의 모멘트에 대한 분석 결과, 반복하중에 의해 배후말뚝 조건인 양 측면말뚝보다 선두말뚝의 중심말뚝에서 큰 지반 저항력을 나타내며, 군말뚝 효과는 기존 연구와는 상이하게 7D 이상에서도 발현되는 것으로 나타났다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.523-538
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• 2017

A series of field vibration tests are conducted on the Runyang Suspension Bridge during both the construction and operational stages. The purpose of this study is devoted to the analysis of the dynamic characteristics of the suspension tower. After the tower was erected, an array of accelerometers was deployed to study the evolution of its modal parameters during the construction process. Dynamic tests were first performed under the freestanding tower condition and then under the tower-cable condition after the superstructure was installed. Based on the identified modal parameters, the effect of the pile-soil-structure interaction on dynamic characteristics of the suspension tower is investigated. Moreover, the stiffness of the pile foundation is successfully identified using a probabilistic finite model updating method. Furthermore, challenges of identifying the dynamic properties of the tower from the coupled responses of the tower-cable system are discussed in detail. It's found that compared with the identified results from the freestanding tower, the longitudinal and torsional natural frequencies of the tower in the tower-cable system have changed significantly, while the lateral mode frequencies change slightly. The identified modal results from measurements by the structural health monitoring system further confirmed that the vibrations of the bridge subsystems (i.e., the tower, the suspended deck and the main cable) are strongly coupled with one another.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제24권9호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2023

지진 시 상부구조물을 지지하는 말뚝기초에 가해지는 수평 하중은 상부구조물의 관성력과 지반의 운동력으로 구분된다. 상부구조물의 관성력과 지반의 운동력은 서로 다른 복잡한 메커니즘을 통해 말뚝기초에 피해를 입힐 수 있기 때문에 지반-말뚝-구조물의 상호작용을 적절히 예측하고 평가하는 것이 말뚝기초의 안전한 내진설계를 위해 필요하다. 지반-말뚝-구조물의 상호작용은 구조물의 동적특성, 말뚝의 길이, 두부 경계조건 및 지반의 상대밀도에 영향을 받는다. 지반의 상대밀도가 달라지면 그에 따른 구속압 및 지반 강성이 변화하며 결과적으로 지반반력계수도 각 시스템에 따라 달라지게 된다. 말뚝기초의 수평방향 지지거동 및 극한 지지력은 수평방향 하중조건 및 모래지반의 상대밀도에 따라 다르게 나타난다. 이에 본 연구에서는 건조된 모래지반의 상대밀도가 상부구조물을 지지하는 무리말뚝의 동적거동에 미치는 영향을 확인하기 위해 1g 진동대 모형실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과 상대밀도가 증가함에 따라 상부구조물의 가속도는 증가하고 말뚝캡의 가속도는 감소하는 것으로 확인되었으며, 말뚝의 p-y 곡선의 기울기는 감소하는 것으로 확인되었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.187-200
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• 2020

In the current work, a series of three-dimensional finite element analyses have been conducted to investigate the behaviour of pre-existing single piles in response to adjacent tunnelling by considering the tunnel face pressures and the relative locations of the pile tips with respect to the tunnel. Via numerical modelling, the effect of the face pressures on the pile behaviour has been analysed. In addition, the analyses have concentrated on the ground settlements, the pile head settlements and the shear stress transfer mechanism at the pile-soil interface. The settlements of the pile directly above the tunnel crown (with a vertical distance between the pile tip and the tunnel crown of 0.25D, where D is the tunnel diameter) with a face pressure of 50% of the in situ horizontal soil stress at the tunnel springline decreased by approximately 38% compared to the corresponding pile settlements with the minimum face pressure, namely, 25% of the in situ horizontal soil stress at the tunnel springline. Furthermore, the smaller the face pressure is, the larger the tunnelling-induced ground movements, the axial pile forces and the interface shear stresses. The ground settlements and the pile settlements were heavily affected by the face pressures and the positions of the pile tip with respect to the tunnel. When the piles were inside the tunnel influence zone, tensile forces were induced on piles, while compressive pile forces were expected to develop for piles that are outside the influence zone and on the boundary. In addition, the computed results have been compared with relevant previous studies that were reported in the literature. The behaviour of the piles that is triggered by adjacent tunnelling has been extensively examined and analysed by considering the several key features in substantial detail.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.629-641
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• 2017

Foundation plays a significant role in safe and efficient turbo machinery operation. Turbo machineries generate harmonic load on the foundation due to their high speed rotating motion which causes vibration in the machinery, foundation and soil beneath the foundation. The problems caused by vibration get multiplied if the soil is poor. An improperly designed machine foundation increases the vibration and reduces machinery health leading to frequent maintenance. Hence it is very important to study the soil structure interaction and effect of machine vibration on the foundation during turbo machinery operation in the design stage itself. The present work studies the effect of harmonic load due to machine operation along with earthquake loading on the frame foundation for poor soil conditions. Various alternative foundations like rafts, barrette, batter pile and combinations of barrettes with batter pile are analyzed to study the improvements in the vibration patterns. Detailed computational analysis was carried out in SAP 2000 software; the numerical model was analyzed and compared with the shaking table experiment results. The numerical results are found to be closely matching with the experimental data which confirms the accuracy of the numerical model predictions. Both shake table and SAP 2000 results reveal that combination of barrette and batter piles with raft are best suitable for poor soil conditions because it reduces the displacement at top deck, bending moment and horizontal displacement of pile and thereby making the foundation more stable under seismic loading.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제12권3호통권29호
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• pp.19-30
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• 1998

In this paper, the dynamic analysis of a dolphin system for mooring a floating structure such as barge mounted plant is studied. The characteristics of the soil-pile system are simplified by a set of equivalent spring elements at the mudline. To evaluate the equivalent spring constants, the finite difference method is used. Since the characteristics of the soil-pile system are nonlinear in case of soft foundation, the nonlinear dynamic analysis technique is needed. The Newmark $beta$ method incorporating the modified Newton-Raphson method(initial stiffness method) is used. A numerical analysis is performed on two mooring dolphin systems on soft foundation and rock foundation. In case of the rock foundation, the characteristics are found to be nearly linear, so the linear dynamic analysis may be sufficient to consider the foundation effect. But in case of soft foundation, the non-linearity of the foundation appears to be very signigicant, so the nonlinear dynamic analysis si needed.