• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.1-20
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• 2016

The strength and stiffness of the steel beams to concrete-filled tubular columns connections are significantly reduced if the thick-walled components are used. However, the thick-walled tubes used for columns can largely reduce the demand for space and increase the strength-to-weight ratio. This paper describes the cyclic performance of extended through-diaphragm connections between steel beams and thick-walled concrete-filled tubular columns improved with fillets around the diaphragm corners. Test on one full-scale connection was conducted to assess the seismic behavior of the connection in terms of strength, stiffness, ductility, deformation, energy dissipation, and strain distribution. It is shown that the fillets and extended through-diaphragm can alleviate the stress concentration in the connection and thus improve the seismic performance. The test results demonstrate that the through-diaphragm connections with thick-walled concrete-filled tubular columns can offer sufficient energy dissipation capacity and ductility appropriate for its potential application in seismic design.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.105-123
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• 2016

In this paper, using the probabilistic methods, the seismic demand of buckling restrained braced frames subjected to earthquake was evaluated. In this regards, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14-storybuildings with different buckling restrained brace configuration (including diagonal, split X, chevron V and Inverted V bracings) were designed. Because of the inherent uncertainties in the earthquake records, incremental dynamical analysis was used to evaluate seismic performance of the structures. Using the results of incremental dynamical analysis, the "capacity of a structure in terms of first mode spectral acceleration", "fragility curve" and "mean annual frequency of exceeding a limit state" was determined. "Mean annual frequency of exceeding a limit state" has been estimated for immediate occupancy (IO) and collapse prevention (CP) limit states using both Probabilistic Seismic Demand Analysis (PSDA) and solution "based on displacement" in the Demand and Capacity Factor Design (DCFD) form. Based on analysis results, the inverted chevron (${\Lambda}$) buckling restrained braced frame has the largest capacity among the considered buckling restrained braces. Moreover, it has the best performance among the considered buckling restrained braces. Also, from fragility curves, it was observed that the fragility probability has increased with the height.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.81 no.4
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• pp.429-441
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• 2022

A probabilistic assessment of the seismic-excited buildings with a multiple-tuned-mass-damper (MTMD) system is carried out in the presence of uncertainties of the structural model, MTMD system, and the stochastic model of the seismic excitations. A free search optimization procedure of the individual mass, stiffness and, damping parameters of the MTMD system based on the snap-drift cuckoo search (SDCS) optimization algorithm is proposed for the optimal design of the MTMD system. Considering a 10-story structure in three cases equipped with single tuned mass damper (STMS), 5-TMD and 10-TMD, sensitivity analyses are carried out using Sobol' indices based on the Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) method. Considering different seismic performance levels, the reliability analyses are done using MCS and kriging-based MCS methods. The results show the maximum structural responses are more affected by changes in the PGA and the stiffness coefficients of the structural floors and TMDs. The results indicate the kriging-based MCS method can estimate the accurate amount of failure probability by spending less time than the MCS. The results also show the MTMD gives a significant reduction in the structural failure probability. The effect of the MTMD on the reduction of the failure probability is remarkable in the performance levels of life safety and collapse prevention. The maximum drift of floors may be reduced for the nominal structural system by increasing the TMDs, however, the complexity of the MTMD model and increasing its corresponding uncertainty sources can be caused a slight increase in the failure probability of the structure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05b
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• pp.369-376
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• 1998

원자로 압력용기는 원자력발전소의 일차 압력경계를 구성하는 핵심 부품으로 이의 건전성은 원전의 안전성과 수명관리에 결정적인 영향을 미친다. 탄소강으로 구성된 압력용기는 노심에 근접하게 위치하여 운전중 계속되는 고속중성자 조사로 인하여 인성이 감소한다. 운전중 비상노심 냉각수가 주입되어 압력용기가 급격하게 냉각되면서 압력이 높게 유지되거나 재가압이 되는 가압열충격 현상이 발생하는 경우 조사취화된 압력용기가 적절한 안전여유를 가지지 못할 수도 있다. USNRC에서는 이에 대한 종합적인 연구결과를 바탕으로 가압열충격 규정을 제정하여 가압열충격 기준온도(RT$_{PTS}$)의 계산 방법과 심사기준온도를 제시하였다. 가압열충격 심사기준온도의 결정근거가 기술되어 있는 SECY 82-465에 의하면 축방향 용접부에 대한 위험도를 평가하여 270℉를 심사기준온도로 정하고 원주방향 용접부에 대해서는 30℉를 더하여 300℉를 심사기준온도로 제시하였다. 이 연구에서는 이렇게 제정된 원주방향 용접부에 대한 심사기준온도의 적정성을 평가하기 위하여 균열방향에 따른 가압열충격 위험도를 VISA-II 코드로 평가하였다. 우선 가압열충격 기준온도 제정 시 사용된 방법과 결과들을 검토하고 NRC의 계산결과를 재현하였다. 이를 바탕으로 원주방향 용접부에 대한 위험도를 평가한 결과 균열방향의 차이를 고려하기 위해 적용된 기술적 여유도인 30℉는 과도한 보수성을 내포하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 원주방향 용접부가 축방향 용접부와 동일한 수준의 가압열충격 위험도를 가지기 위한 심사기준온도 차이는 50℉ 이상인 것으로 평가되었다.을 수 있었다.ngineering because this field has large uncertainties on predicting the effect of earthquake on structures. This paper is based on the presented paper at the Bertero Symposium held in January 31an4 February 1 at Berkeley, California, USA which was entitled "Needs to Evaluate Real Seismic Performance of Buildings-Lessons from 1995 Hyogoken-Nambu Earthquake-". The lessons for buildings from the damage due to the Hyogoken-Nambu Earthquake are necessity to develop more rational seismic design codes based upon a performance-based design concept, and to evaluate seismic performance of existing buildings. In my keynote lecture at the Korean Association for Computational Structural Engineering, the history of seismic design and use of structural analysis in Japan, the lessons for buildings from

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.603-608
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• 1998

유체내의 물체 주위에서 유동박리로 인해 생성되는 와류쉐딩은 열전달이나 물질전달을 촉진시키는 이점이 있으나, 항력을 증가시키거나 유동 및 온도의 요동에 의해 구조물을 손상시키는 단점이 있다. 특히 물체와 주위 유동 사이에 공진이 일어나면 항력값이 증가하면서 항력과 양력의 진폭이 급격히 증가하여 물체에 심각한 손상을 초래할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 레이놀즈수 200 이하의 층류유동에서 공진시 물체 주위의 유동현상과 이로 인한 양력과 항력의 변화들을 수치해석방법을 통하여 분석하였다 수치해석은 일반좌표계에서 유한체적법을 적용하여 Navier-Stokes 방정식을 차분화하였다. 이때 방정식의 종속변수로는 공변속도를 채택하였으며, 이산화된 방정식은 분리단계법을 이용하여 수치해를 구하였다. 입구유속의 강제진동에 의한 사각실린더 주위의 와류쉐딩시 공진이 발생하는 강제진동수의 범위는 원통실린더의 경우와 유사하였으나 상대적으로 폭이 더 좁았다 그리고 공진이 발생하는 강제진동수의 범위는 진폭이 증가할수록 증가하였다. 쉐딩 진동수가 일정하면서 입구유속의 진폭이 증가하면 이에 비례하여 실린더 주위의 유속이 상대적으로 증가하게 되어 와도가 강해지면서 입추유속 진폭에 비례하여 항력의 평균값 뿐 아니라 항력과 양력의 진폭도 증가하였다. 그리고 실린더 뒷면의 와류 생성영역은 진폭에 비례하여 감소하였다. 진폭의 변화에 따라 상변화가 서로 상이한 것은 실린더 뒤쪽의 와류들이 상하면의 합력차이를 변화시켰고 이것이 진폭변화에 따라 상변화를 상이하게 나타나게 한 원인으로 진폭이 클수록 실린더 뒤쪽에서 압력변화가 심하게 변하면서 실린더 앞쪽까지 더 많은 영향을 미쳤기 때문이다.선원의 사용자에게 제공되는 최종방사능을 평가하는데 유용하게 사용될 수 있다.r의 분포를 보였다.cting the effect of earthquake on structures. This paper is based on the presented paper at the Bertero Symposium held in January 31an4 February 1 at Berkeley, California, USA which was entitled "Needs to Evaluate Real Seismic Performance of Buildings-Lessons from 1995 Hyogoken-Nambu Earthquake-". The lessons for buildings from the damage due to the Hyogoken-Nambu Earthquake are necessity to develop more rational seismic design codes based upon a performance-based design concept, and to evaluate seismic performance of existing buildings. In my keynote lecture at the Korean Association for Computational Structural Engineering, the history of seismic design and use of structural analysis in Japan, the lessons for buildings from the Hyogoken-Nambu Earthquake, the

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.2A
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• pp.339-349
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to investigate the seismic behavior of circular reinforced concrete bridge piers with confinement steel and to provide the data for developing improved seismic design criteria. Fourteen circular reinforced concrete bridge piers were tested under a constant axial load and a cyclically reversed horizontal load. The accuracy and objectivity of the assessment process may be enhanced by the use of sophisticated nonlinear finite element analysis program. A computer program, named RCAHEST (Reinforced Concrete Analysis in Higher Evaluation System Technology), for the analysis of reinforced concrete structures was used. In the companion paper, the proposed numerical method for the seismic performance assessment of circular reinforced concrete bridge piers with confinement steel is verified by comparison with experimental results.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.91-100
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• 2018

The new seismic retrofit system in study propose is the Dual system, which aims to be applied to the seismically vulnerable low-story buildings. The Dual system is composed of existing structure, external retrofit frame and hysteretic steel dampers installed between former two components. The Dual system dissipates the energy by plastic deformation of steel damper caused by relative displacement due to the differences in stiffness, weight, and eigenperiod of each components. The dynamic test with shaking table was performed to verify the seismic performance of the proposed Dual system. As a result of the dynamic test, it is expected that the Dual system will improve the seismic performance due to the reduction of strain of 56% and the damage reduction of 93%, even though the energy is 1.84 times higher than that of the dual system. And the results of the study are presented as basic data of the study for setting the design range of the dual system.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.78 no.5
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• pp.637-649
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• 2021

Great efforts have been conducted to investigate the seismic performances of the arch and rectangular underground structures, however, the differences between seismic responses of these two types of underground structures, especially the vault radian influencing the seismic responses of arch structures are not clarified. This paper presents a detailed numerical investigation on the seismic responses of arch underground structures with different vault radians, and aims to illustrate the rule that vault radian affects the seismic responses of underground structures. Five arch underground structures are built for nonlinear soil-structure interaction analysis. The internal forces of the structural components of the underground structures only under gravity are discussed detailedly, and an optimum vault radian for perfect load-carrying functionality of arch underground structures is suggested. Then the structures are analyzed under seven scaled ground motions, amounting to a total of 35 dynamic calculations. The numerical results show that the vault radian can have beneficial effects on the seismic response of the arch structure, compared to the rectangular underground structures, causing the central columns to suffer smaller axial force and horizontal deformation. The conclusions provide some directive suggestions for the seismic design of the arch underground structures.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.71-81
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• 2007

For the design of composite bridge piers, detail requirements for the reinforcements is not clear to satisfy the required seismic performance. Composite bridge piers were suggested to reduce the sectional dimensions and to enhance the ductility of the columns under earthquake loadings. In this paper, five specimens of concrete encased composite columns of 400mm diameter with single core steel were fabricated to investigate the seismic performance of the composite columns. Shaking table tests and a Pseudo-Dynamic test were carried out and structural behavior of small-scaled models considering near-fault motions was evaluated. Test parameters were the pace of the transverse reinforcement, lap splice of longitudinal reinforcement and encased steel member sections. The displacement ductility from shaking table tests was lower than that from the pseudo-dynamic test. Limited ductile design and 50% lap splice of longitudinal reinforcement reduced the displacement ductility. Steel ratio showed significant effect on the ultimate strength. Lap splice and low transverse reinforcements reduced the displacement capacity. The energy dissipation capacity of composite columns did not show significant difference according to details.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.329-350
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• 2016

A parametric study was conducted to investigate the seismic deformation demands in terms of drift ratio, plastic base rotation and compression strain on rectangular wall members in frame-wall systems. The wall index defined as ratio of total wall area to the floor plan area was kept as variable in frame-wall models and its relation with the seismic demand at the base of the wall was investigated. The wall indexes of analyzed models are in the range of 0.2-2%. 4, 8 and 12-story frame-wall models were created. The seismic behavior of frame-wall models were calculated using nonlinear time-history analysis and design spectrum matched ground motion set. Analyses results revealed that the increased wall index led to significant reduction in the top and inter-story displacement demands especially for 4-story models. The calculated average inter-story drift decreased from 1.5% to 0.5% for 4-story models. The average drift ratio in 8- and 12-story models has changed from approximately 1.5% to 0.75%. As the wall index increases, the dispersion in the calculated drifts due to ground motion variability decreased considerably. This is mainly due to increase in the lateral stiffness of models that leads their fundamental period of vibration to fall into zone of the response spectra that has smaller dispersion for scaled ground motion data set. When walls were assessed according to plastic rotation limits defined in ASCE/SEI 41, it was seen that the walls in frame-wall systems with low wall index in the range of 0.2-0.6% could seldom survive the design earthquake without major damage. Concrete compressive strains calculated in all frame-wall structures were much higher than the limit allowed for design, ${\varepsilon}_c$=0.0035, so confinement is required at the boundaries. For rectangular walls above the wall index value of 1.0% nearly all walls assure at least life safety (LS) performance criteria. It is proposed that in the design of dual systems where frames and walls are connected by link and transverse beams, the minimum value of wall index should be greater than 0.6%, in order to prevent excessive damage to wall members.