• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.319-330
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• 2022

Retrofit of soft-story buildings due to seismic loads using Gap-Inclined-Brace (GIB) system is considered a new retrofit technique that aims to maintain both strength and stiffness of structure. In addition, it provides more ductility and less P-delta effect, and subsequently better performance is observed. In this paper, the effect of the eccentricity between GIB and the retrofitted column due to installation on the efficiency of the retrofitting system is studied. In addition, a modification in the determination method of GIB properties is introduced to reduce the eccentricity effect. Also, the effect of GIB system on the seismic response of mid-rise buildings with different heights considering soft-story at various heights has been studied. A numerical model is developed to study the impact of such system on the response of retrofitted soft-story buildings under the action of seismic loads. To achieve that goal, this model is used to perform a numerical investigation, by considering five case study scenarios represent several locations of soft-story of two mid-rise reinforced concrete buildings. At first, Non-linear static pushover analysis was carried out to develop the capacity curves for case studies. Then, Non-linear time history analyses using ten earthquake records with five peak ground accelerations is performed for each case study scenario before and after retrofitting with GIB. The results show that large GIB eccentricity reduce the ultimate lateral resistance and deformation capacity of the retrofitting system. Moreover, the higher the retrofitted building, the more deformation capacity is observed but without significant increase in ultimate lateral resistance.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.193-203
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• 2021

The time-history finite element analysis is usually used to evaluate the seismic response of shallow foundations. However, the literature lacks studies on the influence of the soil constitutive model complexity on the seismic response of shallow foundations. This study, thus, aims to fill this gap by investigating the seismic response of shallow foundation resting on dry silica sand using the linear elastic (LE) model, elastic-perfectly-plastic (EPP) model, and hardening soil with small strain stiffness (HS small) model. These models have been used because it is intended to compare the results of a soil constitutive model that accurately captures the seismic response of the soil-structure interaction problems (which is the HS small model) with simpler models (the LE and EPP models) that are routinely used by practitioners in geotechnical designs. The results showed that the LE model produces a very small seismic settlement value which is approximately equal to zero. The EPP model predicts a seismic settlement higher than that produced using the HS small model for earthquakes with a peak ground acceleration (PGA) lower than 0.25 g for a relative density of 45% and 0.40 g for a relative density of 70%. However, the HS small model predicts a seismic settlement higher than the EPP model beyond the aforementioned PGA values with the difference between both models increases as the PGA rises. The results also showed that the LE and EPP models predict similar trend and magnitude of the acceleration-time relationship directly below the foundation, which was different than that predicted using the HS small model. The results reported in this paper provide a useful benchmark for future numerical studies on the response of shallow foundations subjected to seismic shake.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.119-126
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• 2022

본 연구는 내진설계가 되어 있지 않은 필로티 건축물의 부족한 횡력을 보강할 수 있는 외부부착형 내진보강공법(Binding Column Method, BCM)을 제안하였다. 또한, 제안된 내진보강공법을 대상으로 보강실험체 4개, 기준 실험체 1개를 제작하여 반복가력 실험을 통하여 보강 전·후의 내진성능향상 효과를 검토하였다. 실험 결과, 기준 실험체(SC1)는 급격한 강도저하와 함께 취성적인 전단파괴의 양상을 나타낸 반면, BCM 공법을 적용한 실험체(SC2, SC3, SC4, SC5)는 강도 및 강성의 증가와 함께 에너지 흡수 능력이 큰 타원형의 이력특성을 나타내었다. 또한, 간격이 좁고 토크가 크며, L자형 강판의 두께가 두꺼울수록 보강효과가 향상됨을 알 수 있다. BCM공법 중 전단보강간격이 작고, 조임력 값이 크며, 연결철물이 두꺼운 SC4실험체가 가장 뛰어난 내진성능보강 효과를 나타내었다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.285-297
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• 2024

Due to the imbalanced vibration of the adjacent buildings, the pounding phenomenon occurs as a result of an insufficient gap between them. Providing enough gap between adjacent structures is the most efficient approach to preventing the pounding effect. This paper calculated the required separation gaps between adjacent buildings, including two, four, eight, twelve and twenty stories steel moment-resisting frames, and investigated their related influencing parameters such as time periods, damping ratios, and the number of bays. The linear and nonlinear dynamic time-history analyses under real seismic event records were conducted to calculate the required separation gaps by obtaining relative displacement and velocity functions of two adjacent frames. The results showed that the required separation gap increased when the time periods of adjacent frames were not the same. The resulting separation gaps values of linear and nonlinear analyses were similar only for two and four stories frames. In other frames, the resulting separation gap values of linear analyses surpassed the corresponding nonlinear analyses. Although increasing the damping ratios in adjacent frames causes a decrease in the required separation gaps, the number of bays had no significant effect on them.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.55-70
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• 2021

In urban cities, buildings were built in the neighborhood, these buildings influence each other through structure-soilstructure interaction (SSSI) and seismic pounding due to limited separation distance in-between. Generally, the effects of the interaction between soil and structure are disregarded during seismic design and analysis of superstructure. However, the system of soil-base adversely changes structural behavior and response demands. Thus, the vibration characteristics plus the seismic response of a building are not able to be independent of those in adjacent buildings. The interaction between structure, soil, and structure investigates the action of the attendance of adjacent buildings to the others by the interaction effect of the sub-soil under dynamic disturbances. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the effects of SSSI and seismic pounding on the behavior of adjacent buildings. The response of a single structure or two adjacent structures with shallow raft base lying on soft soil are studied. Three dimensions finite element models are developed to investigate the effects of pounding; gap distance; conditions of soil; stories number; a mass of adjacent building and ground excitation frequency on the seismic responses and vibration characteristics of the structures. The variation in the story displacement, story shear, and story moment responses demands are studied to evaluate the presence effect of the adjacent buildings. Numerical results acquired using conditions of soil models are compared with the condition of fixed support and adjacent building models to a single building model. The peak responses of story displacement, story moment, and story shear are studied.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2009

우리나라 기존철도 교량의 40% 이상이 무도상 강판형교로 구성되어 있으며, 이들 중 대부분은 1970년대 이전에 건설되었기에 일반적으로 지진하중의 고려 없이 설계되었다. 이들 무도상 강판형 철도교의 내진성능을 향상시키기 위해서는 내진성능이 부족한 요소들에 대하여 여러가지 방법의 내진보강을 수행할 수 있는데, 내진보강의 적정수위를 정하기 위해서는 이에 대한 지진위험도 평가가 필수적이라 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 확률적 지진 위험도 해석과 확률적 손상해석을 통해서 무도상 강판형교에 대한 지진위험도 평가를 수행하였다. 먼저 받침 및 교각을 교량의 지진 응답에 주 영향을 미치는 주요 요소로 정의하고 각 요소 별로 지진취약도를 작성하였다. 그 후 작성된 취약도를 지진재해도함수와 결합하여 각 손상상태에 해당하는 연간 손상확률을 산정하였다. 지진 위험도 해석을 통하여 50년 초과손상확률을 계산한 결과, 무근콘크리트로 되어 있는 무도상 강판형 철도교의 교각은 우리나라의 지진상황에서 위험도가 매우 낮게 나타났다. 이는 무도상 강판형교의 특성 상 가벼운 상부구조로 인하여 지진 시 하부구조에 전달되는 횡하중이 상대적으로 적기 때문인 것으로 분석된다. 반면에 선받침으로 구성된 무도상 강판형교의 받침요소들의 50년 초과 손상확률은 상대적으로 크게 나타났는데, 그 중 자유단 받침의 경우 slight damage에 대한 초과손상확률이 12.78%로 고정단 받침의 4.23%보다 높게 나타난 반면 complete damage에 대해서는 자유단 받침과 고정단 받침 모두 비슷한 수준의 초과손상확률($0.18%{\sim}0.19%$)을 보였다. 본 연구에서 수행한 지진 위험도 평가는 추후 강판형 철도교의 내진보강을 수행함에 있어서 의사결정을 뒷받침할 수 있는 자료로 효과적으로 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.342-348
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• 2018

An earthquake of $M_L$ 5.8 hit the Gyeongju area on September 12, 2016. A sequence of foreshock-mainshock-aftershock of 588 events with equal to or greater than magnitude 1.5 occurred for six months in this area. Around ninety-nine percentage (98.8%) of the total energy was released intensively within a day, and about 80% of the total events took place within a month after the Gyeongju earthquake. The epicentral distribution of aftershocks of major events ($M_L$ 5.1, 5.8, 4.5, and 3.5) were elongated in the direction of $N30^{\circ}E$. They correlate well with the focal mechanism solution. These facts support the inference that the Gyeongju earthquakes occurred on a sub-parallel subsidiary fault of the Yangsan fault zone or on the linking damage zones between Deokcheon and Yangsan fault. During the last six years before the Gyeongju earthquake, there were few events within 10-km radius from the epicenter. This seismic gap area was filled with a sequence of the Gyeongju earthquakes. The b value for aftershock of the Gyeongju earthquakes is 1.09.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.231-252
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• 2010

Previous research on pounding between seismically isolated buildings during earthquakes has been focused on impacts at the bases of structures and the effect of simultaneous interactions at the bases and at the superstructures has not been studied in details. In this paper, the seismic responses of adjacent buildings supported on different or similar base systems considering impacts between bases and superstructures are numerically investigated. The study is carried out in three parts for the two types of adjacent buildings: (i) both structures have fixed bases; (ii) one structure has fixed base and the other is seismically isolated and (iii) both structures have base isolation systems. The results of the study indicate that the pounding-involved responses of the buildings depend mainly on the type of structural base systems and on the structural parameters of both buildings. For the base-isolated building, the variation of the peak accelerations and displacements of the storeys have been found to be relatively low. On the other hand, significant differences have been observed for the fixed base building. The results of the parametric study conducted for different values of the gap size between colliding structures show the reduction in the peak base displacements as the gap distance decreases.

• 한국해안해양공학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2002

과거, 울진원전 부지의 지진해일에 대한 안전성 평가는 가상최대 지진규모와 그에 상응하는 단층 파라미터를 이용하여 수행되었으나. 최근 지진공백역 이론에 근거하여, 과거 평가 규모 이상의 지진발생 가능성이 지진학자들에 의하여 제기되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 선형·비선형천수방정식 기반의 유한차분법을 이용하여 지진해일 안전성을 재평가하였다. 먼저, '83년 지진해일을 모의하고 이를 동해안 임원항의 최고 범람 수위와 비교하였다. 다음으로 '83년, '93년 지진해일과 위험 단층으로 분류되고 있는 5개 지진공백역 단층에 대하여 울진원전부지 도수로에서의 수위 상승과 저하를 계산하여, 울진원전이 평가대상 단층으로 의한 지진해일 발생시에도 필요 냉각수의 취수가 가능함을 보였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.289-308
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• 2018

Numerous urban seismic vulnerability studies have recognized pounding as one of the main risks due to the restricted separation distance between neighboring structures. The pounding effects on the adjacent buildings could extend from slight non-structural to serious structural damage that could even head to a total collapse of buildings. Therefore, an assessment of the seismic pounding hazard to the adjacent buildings is superficial in future building code calibrations. Thus, this study targets are to draw useful recommendations and set up guidelines for potential pounding damage evaluation for code calibration through a numerical simulation approach for the evaluation of the pounding risks on adjacent buildings. A numerical simulation is formulated to estimate the seismic pounding effects on the seismic response demands of adjacent buildings for different design parameters that include: number of stories, separation distances; alignment configurations, and then compared with nominal model without pounding. Based on the obtained results, it has been concluded that the severity of the pounding effects depends on the dynamic characteristics of the adjacent buildings and the input excitation characteristics, and whether the building is exposed to one or two-sided impacts. Seismic pounding among adjacent buildings produces greater acceleration and shear force response demands at different story levels compared to the no pounding case response demands.