• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.583-607
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• 2016

One of the main applications of seismic risk assessment is that an specific design could be selected for a bridge from different alternatives by considering damage losses alongside primary construction costs. Therefore, in this paper, the focus is on selecting the shape of pylon, which is a changeable component in the design of a cable-stayed bridge, as a double criterion decision-making problem. Different shapes of pylons include H, A, Y, and diamond shape, and the two criterion are construction costs and probable earthquake losses. In this research, decision-making is performed by using developed seismic risk assessment process as a powerful method. Considering the existing uncertainties in seismic risk assessment process, the combined incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) and uniform design (UD) based fragility assessment method is proposed, in which the UD method is utilized to provide the logical capacity models of the structure, and the IDA method is employed to give the probabilistic seismic demand model of structure. Using the aforementioned models and by defining damage states, the fragility curves of the bridge system are obtained for the different pylon shapes usage. Finally, by combining the fragility curves with damage losses and implementing the proposed cost-loss-benefit (CLB) method, the seismic risk assessment process is developed with financial-comparative approach. Thus, the optimal shape of the pylon can be determined using double criterion decision-making. The final results of decision-making study indicate that the optimal pylon shapes for the studied span of cable-stayed bridge are, respectively, H shape, diamond shape, Y shape, and A shape.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2006년도 정기 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.759-763
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• 2006

Cable Stayed Bridge is mainly composed of three element. Composed element are cable. stiffening girder and Pylon. The characteristic of bridge's behavior depend on these three element's relative stiffness, shape and system of bridge. The purpose of this paper is to exame the characteristic of bridge's behavior and buckling strength of stiffening girder according to shape and flexure stiffness of pylon

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2000년도 봄 학술발표회논문집
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• pp.246-252
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• 2000

The nonlinearity of a cable-stayed bridge results in the large displacement of main girder due to a long span, the large axial forces reduce the catenary action of cables and the flexural stiffness. Therefore, the static and dynamic behavior of pylon for a cable-stayed bridge plays an important role in determining its safety. This study was performed to find the behavior of pylon of cable-stayed bridge for the first-order analysis considering of axial load only and for the second-order analysis considering of lateral deflection due to axial load. The axial force and moment values of pylon were different from the results of the first-order analysis and second-order analysis according to pylon shape and cross beam stiffness when the pylon was subjected to earthquake and wind loads. In the second-order analysis, comparing the numerical values of the member forces for the dynamic analysis, types 3 and 4 (A type) were relatively more advantageons types than types 1 and 2 (H type). Considering the stability for pylon of cable-stayed bridge (whole structural system), types 3 and 4 (A type) with pre-buckling of girder were proper types than types 1 and 2 (H type) with buckling of pylon.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.119-128
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• 2020

In seismic design of a pylon supporting transmission lines in an overhead electricity transmission system, an estimation of the fundamental periods of the pylon in two orthogonal vertical planes is necessary to compute the seismic forces required for sizing pylon members and checking pylon deflections. In current practice, the fundamental periods of a pylon in two orthogonal vertical planes are typically obtained from eigenvalue analyses of a model consisting of the pylon of interest as well as some adjacent pylons and the transmission lines supported by these pylons. Such an approach is onerous and numerically inconvenient. This research focused on development of a simplified method to determine the fundamental periods of pylons. The simplified method is rooted in Rayleigh's quotient and is based on a single-pylon model. The force vectors that can be used to generate the shape vectors required in Rayleigh's quotient are presented in detail. Taking three pylons selected from representative overhead electricity transmission systems having different design parameters as examples, the fundamental periods of the chosen pylons predicted from the simplified method were compared with those from the rigorous eigenvalue analyses. Result comparisons show that the simplified method provides reasonable predictions and it can be used as a convenient surrogate for the tedious approach currently adopted.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.403-413
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• 2017

Dual-point aerodynamic design optimization is conducted for DLR-F6 wing-body-nacelle-pylon configuration adopting an efficient surface mesh movement method for complex junction geometries. A three-dimensional unstructured Euler solver and its discrete adjoint code are utilized for flow and sensitivity analysis, respectively. Considered design conditions are a low-lift condition and a cruise condition in a transonic regime. Design objective is to minimize drag and reduce shock strength at both flow conditions. Shape deformation is made by variation of the section shapes of inboard wing and pylon, nacelle vertical location and nacelle pitch angle. Hicks-Henne shape functions are employed for deformation of the section shapes of wing and pylon. By the design optimization, drag coefficients were remarkably reduced at both design conditions retaining specified lift coefficient and satisfying other constraints. Two-point design results show mixed features of the one-point design results at low-lift condition and cruise conditions.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.114-123
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• 2012

본 연구는 국내에 시공이 완료되어 공용중인 해안 구조물 중 현수교를 대상으로 그 기하형상을 결정하고, 이를 이용하여 공용 이후의 대상 현수교의 변위를 결정함으로써, 케이블 교량의 안정성을 평가하는데 그 목적을 둔다. 이를 위해 공용 이후 시기별 주경간의 길이, sag, sag 비, 그리고 주탑의 변위를 산정하였다. 이는 대상 현수교 주탑의 거동에 따른 단계별 관리기준과 비교해 볼 때, 대상 현수교가 유지관리기준 범위 내에서 안정적으로 거동하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이상과 같이 현수교의 거동을 정확히 파악하기 위해서는 그 기하형상의 결정이 우선시된다. 따라서 공용기간 및 교통량의 증가에 따른 주기적인 실측형상모델의 결정이 필요하며, 이는 현수교 유지관리에 있어서 그 안정성 확보에 크게 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.35-48
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• 2001

The objective of this study is to investigate the stability behavior of steel cable-stayed bridges by comparing the buckling loads obtained by means of finite element methods with eigen-solver. In recent days, cable-stayed bridges dramatically attract engineers' attention due to their structural characteristics and aesthetics. They require a number of design parameters and present a high degree of static indetermination, especially for long span bridges. Cable-stayed bridges exhibit several nonlinear behaviors concurrently under normal design loads due to the individual nonlinearity of substructures such as the pylons, stay cables, and bridge deck, and their interactions. The geometric nonlinearities arise mainly from large displacements of cables. Strong axial and lateral forces acting on the bridge deck and pylons cause structural nonlinear behaviors. The interaction is among the substructures. In this paper, a typical three-span steel cable-stayed bridge with a variety of design parameters has been investigated. The numerical results indicate that the design parameters such as the ratio of $L_1/L$ and $I_p/I_b$ are important for the structural behavior, where $L_1$ is the main span length, L is the total span length of the bridge, $I_p$ is the moment of inertia of the pylon, and $I_b$ is the moment of inertia of the bridge deck. When the ratio $I_p/I_b$ increases, the critical load decreases due to the lack of interaction among substructures. Cable arrangements and the height of pylon are another important factors for this type of bridge in buckling analysis. According to numerical results, the bridges supported by a pylon with harp-type cable arrangement have higher critical loads than the bridges supported by a pylon with fan-type cable arrangement. On contrary, the shape of the pylon does not significantly affect the critical load of this type of bridge. All numerical results have been non-dimensionalized and presented in both tabular and graphical forms.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2003

A three-dimensional aerodynamic shape optimization technique in inviscid compressible flows is developed by using a parallel continuous adjoint formulation on unstructured meshes. A new surface mesh modification method is proposed to overcome difficulties related to patch-level remeshing for unstructured meshes, and the effect of design sections on aerodynamic shape optimization is examined. Applications are made to three-dimensional wave drag minimization problems including an ONERA M6 wing and the EGLIN wing-pylon-store configuration. The results show that the present method is robust and highly efficient for the shape optimization of aerodynamic configurations, independent of the number of design variables used.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.577-584
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• 2019

최근 국내 사장교는 경관적인 요소를 위하여 비정형적인 형태가 시도되고 있다. 새로운 기하구조가 적용된 사장교는 그 특성을 명확히 분석하여 구조안전성을 확보할 필요가 있다. 본 연구 대상 교량은 S자형 곡선 보도사장교로 S자형 평면곡선과 역삼각형트러스 횡단면을 가진 보강거더, 곡선반경 내측에 1면으로 배치된 경사 주탑과 modified Fan 타입 주케이블, 수직 백스테이케이블이 적용되었다. 곡선사장교는 직선사장교와 같이 종방향의 거동에만 초점을 두고 장력을 조정할 경우 횡방향으로 과다한 변위와 모멘트가 발생 할 수 있다. 본 연구는 주케이블이 교량의 횡방향 거동에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위해서, 장력에 의한 주탑의 횡방향 변위 방향에 따라 케이블을 2개 그룹으로 나누었다. 지간중앙부 케이블 그룹을 GR1, 주탑지점부 케이블 그룹을 GR2라 할 때 GR1과 GR2의 조합비율이 보강거더, 받침, 주탑 그리고 수직앵커케이블에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 연구대상 교량에 적용된 장력비율을 1.0GR1+1.0GR2라 하였을 때, 1.2GR1+0.8GR2의 조합에서 주탑지점부 보강거더의 좌측과 우측 상현재 응력이 최소가 되었고, 좌우 부재의 편차도 최소가 되었다. 또한, 받침의 수평력, 주탑의 횡방향 변위와 모멘트, 수직백스테이케이블의 장력도 감소하였다. 본 연구는 유사한 기하구조를 가진 사장교의 장력 결정시 기초 자료로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.337-356
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• 2011

In this paper, cable-stayed bridges with single pylon and two equal side spans, with variations in geometry and span ranging from 120 m to 240 m have been studied. 3D models of the bridges considered in this study have been analysed using ANSYS. As the first step towards a detailed seismic analysis, free vibration response of different geometries is studied for their mode shapes and frequencies. Typical pattern of free vibration responses in different frequencies with change in geometry is observed. Further, three different seismic loading histories are chosen with various characteristics to find the structural response of different geometries under seismic loading. Effect of variation in pylon shape, cable arrangement with variation in span is found to have typical characteristics with different structural response under seismic loading. From the study, it is observed that the structural response is very much dependent on the geometry of the cable-stayed bridge and the characteristics of the seismic loading as well. Further, structural responses obtained from the study would help the design engineers to take decisions on geometric shapes of the bridges to be constructed in seismic prone zones.