• Computational Structural Engineering : An International Journal
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.59-69
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• 2001

This study is intended to propose a systematic approach for reliability-based assessment of life cycle cost (LCC) effectiveness and economic efficiency for cost-effective seismic upgrading of existing bridges. The LCC function is expressed as the sum of the upgrading cost and all the discounted life cycle damage costs, which is formulated as a function of the Park-Ang damage index and structural damage probability. The damage costs are expressed in terms of direct damage costs such as repair/replacement costs, human losses and property damage costs, and indirect damage costs such as road user costs and indirect regional economic losses. For dealing with a variety of uncertainties associated with earthquake loads and capacities, a simulation-based reliability approach is used. The SMART-DRAIN-2DX, which is a modified version of the well-known DRAIN-2DX, is extended by incor-porating LCC analysis based on the LCC function developed in the study. Economic efficiencies for optimal seismic upgradings of the continuous PC segmental bridges are assessed using the proposed LCC functions and benefit-cost ratio.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.23-26
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• 2001

Seohae Grand Bridge is a part of the new West Coast Highway(353km) under construction, which connects Inchon and Mokpo. It is the longest bridge in Korea (7.31 km), and has 97 spans of 60m each precast segmental approach bridges, 2 main spans of 165m each free cantilever segmental bridge(500m), and 1 stay cable bridge of 990m In total length. During the seven year long construction period, many new construction technologies and methods were utilized for the first time in Korea, and gave invaluable opportunities to experience and master these in completing the project on time with safety and precision. I am proud of being a member of this project, and wish to express deep appreciations to those who participated in the project.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.161-169
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• 1998

프리스트레스트 콘크리트 교량의 건설공법인 프리캐스트 세그멘탈 공법에서선형관리 기술은 핵심기술 중 하나이다. 그럼에도 불구하고 , 우리나라에서는 몇몇 교량기술자들에게 경험적으로 이해되고 있는 수준을 넘지 못하고 있다. 특히, 세그멘트의 제작에서부터 반드시 필요한 선형관리용 S/W 및 그 운용기술은 아직까지도 선진기술에 의존하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 프리캐스트 세그멘탈 공법의 선형관리 기술에 대한 연구를 통하여 3차원적인 세그멘트 제작관리와 가설시 선형관리를 위한 제작선형을 자동적으로 계산할 수 있는 GEOCON을 개발하였다. 본 논문에서는 GEOCON의 알고리즘에 대하여 논하였으며, 특히 수치예제로서 제작오차의 발생위치에 따라 교량선형에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.71-81
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• 1994

A method is presented for the analysis of curved segmentally erected prestressed concrete box girder bridges including time-dependent effects due to load history, temperature history, creep, shrinkage, aging of concrete and relaxation of prestressing steel. The segments can be either precast or cast-in-place. Thin-walled beam theory and finite element method are combined to develop a curved nonprismatic thin-walled box beam element. The element consists of three nodes and each node has eight displacement degrees of freedom, including transverse distortion and longitudinal warping of the cross section.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1994.04a
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• pp.42-46
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• 1994

본 연구에서는 프리캐스트 PC 세그멘탈 교량 접합부의 전단거동을 파악하기 위하여 전단키 접합부의 전단거동과 전단강도 특성을 실험적으로 연구하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 접합부 형상에 따른 하중-변위 관계, 균열거동, 파괴모드, 전단강도 등을 규명하고, 접합부의 역학적 거동에 영향을 미치는 여러인자들에 대해 분석한다. 또한 이로부터 최적의 접합부 형상을 도출하고, 이에 따른 최적의 접합방식을 검토함으로써 접합부 설계의 지침과 해석의 근거를 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1990.10a
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• pp.101-104
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• 1990

The program which could determine cross-sectional dimensions of the box girder bridge at tile stage of preliminary design was developed using the optimal technique in this study. It could minimize the cost and time required in the design of box girder bridges and the construction with the prestressed precast segmental method. Objective cost function consisted of four independent variables such as widths and depth of the cross-section. The Nelder-Mead method was used to solve the nonconstrained nonlinear problem like this.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.1-13
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• 1993

In design of prestressed concrete structures, structural analysis is performed normally several times for selection of adequate sectional dimension and tendon amount. Especially for precast segmental multi-span bridges. time consuming structural analysis process due to time dependent material properties and structural system change could be effectively reduced by use of a reduced-span bridge model. 5-span and 3-span bridges are selected as reduced-span models for the 10-span full bridge to investigate the acceptability in practical design. The analytical results of deflection, total moment, statical moment, and ultimate moment of the reduced span-models are compared with those of the 10-span full bridge. Application of the load factors to structural analysis for ultimate moment calculation in prestressed concrete is reviewed and a rational method is proposed.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1-11
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• 1993

Precast/Prestressed concrete segmental bridges with moderate range of span length normally have a constant section height for economic segment manufacturing. Inside sectional dimension is often controlled for design of non-prismatic section between supports when variable stiffness is required. It is usual, in the preliminary design stage, to adopt trial bridge sections by past experience or by approximately estimated member forces. Three bridge models of different member stiffness have been selected to investigate flexural stiffness effects on member forces for preliminary design stage. The selected bridge stiffness has been determined by the flexibility index from review of the practically usable sections.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.17-25
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• 2010

This paper studied on stability of the U-channel segmental concrete bridge under vehicle-impact loads. The U-channel bridge has advantages in that it reduces an additional dead load and the edge beams role as a barrier. But it has a dangerous factor which collapses the bridge structure when the edge beams are ruptured. Therefore, it is necessary to verify behaviors of the bridge system under vehicle-impact loads. Static and dynamic vehicle impact simulations were carried out on the basis of AASHTO LRFD design specifications. In case of the static analysis, equivalent static loads specified in the AASHTO codes are loaded on the edge beams and in case of the dynamic analysis, FEM vehicle models are modeled by applying the dynamic test specifications of AASHTO codes. As a result, it is shown that U-channel bridge system has sufficient safety against static and dynamic impact loads specified in the AASHTO LRFD design specifications.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.49-62
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• 1994

An analysis method for the time-dependent nonlinear analysis of segmentally erected planar prestressed concrete cable-stayed bridges was described. To account for the time-dependent effects, load history, creep, shrinkage. aging of concrete and relaxation of prestress were considered. Changes in boundary conditions and loads, installing and removing frame elements, stressing, restressing and removing cables and prestressing tendons were incorporated for modeling segmental erection operations. One typical example on segmentally erected prestressed concrete cable-stayed bridge was presented to illustrate the analysis method. Results of this example show that it is important to follow the development of stresses and deformations at all stages of construction to predict the true response of the bridge through its various load history.