• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.499-509
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• 2020

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the degradation law of stiffness of steel-concrete composite beams after certain fatigue loads. First, six test beams with stud connectors were designed and fabricated for static and fatigue tests. The resultant failure modes under different fatigue loading cycles were compared. And an analysis was performed for the variations in the load-deflection curves, residual deflections and relative slips of the composite beams during fatigue loading. Then, the correlations among the stiffness degradation of each test beam, the residual deflection and relative slip growth during the fatigue test were investigated, in order to clarify the primary reasons for the stiffness degradation of the composite beams. Finally, based on the stiffness degradation function under fatigue loading, a calculation model for the residual stiffness of composite beams in response to fatigue loading cycles was established by parameter fitting. The results show that the stiffness of composite beams undergoes irreversible degradation under fatigue loading. And stiffness degradation is associated with the macrobehavior of material fatigue damage and shear connection degradation. In addition, the stiffness degradation of the composite beams exhibit S-shaped monotonic decreasing trends with fatigue cycles. The general agreement between the calculation model and experiment shows good applicability of the proposed model for specific beam size and fatigue load parameters. Moreover, the research results provide a method for establishing a stiffness degradation model for composite beams after fatigue loading.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.239-251
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• 2023

The stiffness evaluation of cracked base metal is of great guidance to fatigue crack reinforcement. By carrying out fatigue tests and numerical simulation of typical cracking details in steel box girder, the strain-degradation law of cracked base metal was analyzed and the relationship between base metal stress and its displacement (stiffness) was explored. The feasibility of evaluating the stress of cracked base metal based on the stress field at the crack tip was verified. The results demonstrate that the stiffness of cracked base metal shows the fast-to-slow degradation trend with fatigue cracking and the base metal at 50mm or more behind the crack tip basically lose its bearing capacity. Drilling will further accelerate stiffness degradation with the increase of hole diameters. The base metal stress has a negative linear relation with its displacement (stiffness), The stress of cracked base metal is also related to stress intensity factor and its relative position (distance, included angle) to the crack tip, through which the local stiffness can be effectively evaluated. Since the stiffness is not uniformly distributed along the cracked base metal, the reinforcement patch is suggested to be designed according to the stiffness to avoid excessive reinforcement for the areas incompletely unloaded.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.335-349
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• 2019

A low-cycle loading experiment of 16 transfer column specimens was conducted to study the influence of parameters, likes the extension length of shape steel, the ratio of shape steel, the axial compression ratio and the volumetric ratio of stirrups, on the shear distribution between steel and concrete, the concrete damage state and the degradation of lateral stiffness. Shear force of shape steel reacted at the core area of concrete section and led to tension effect which accelerated the damage of concrete. At the same time, the damage of concrete diminished its shear capacity and resulted in the shear enlargement of shape steel. The interplay between concrete damage and shear force of shape steel ultimately made for the failures of transfer columns. With the increase of extension length, the lateral stiffness first increases and then decreases, but the stiffness degradation gets faster; With the increase of steel ratio, the lateral stiffness remains the same, but the degradation gets faster; With the increase of the axial compression ratio, the lateral stiffness increases, and the degradation is more significant. Using more stirrups can effectively restrain the development of cracks and increase the lateral stiffness at the yielding point. Also, a formula for calculating the yielding lateral stiffness is obtained by a regression analysis of the test data.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.89-110
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• 2014

Nonlinear dynamic analyses are carried out to investigate the influence of the pinching hysteretic response of the exterior RC beam-column joints on the seismic behavior of multistory RC frame structures. The effect of the pinching on the local and global mechanisms of an 8-storey bare frame and an 8-storey pilotis type frame structure is evaluated. Further, an experimental data bank extracted from literature is used to acquire experimental experience of the range of the real levels that have to be considered for the pinching effect on the hysteretic response of the joints. Thus, three different cases for the hysteretic response of the joints are considered: (a) joints with strength and stiffness degradation characteristics but without pinching effect, (b) joints with strength degradation, stiffness degradation and low pinching effect and (c) joints with strength degradation, stiffness degradation and high pinching effect. For the simulation of the beam-column joints a special-purpose rotational spring element that incorporates the examined hysteretic options developed by the authors and implemented in a well-known nonlinear dynamic analysis program is employed for the analysis of the structural systems. The results of this study indicate that the effect of pinching on the local and global responses of the examined cases is not really significant at early stages of the seismic loading and especially in the cases when strength degradation in the core of exterior joint has occurred. Nevertheless in the cases when strength degradation does not occur in the joints the pinching may increase the demands for ductility and become critical for the columns at the base floor of the frame structures. Finally, as it was expected the ability for energy absorption was reduced due to pinching effect.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.327-335
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• 2011

본 연구의 목적은 강구조 비가새 골조의 열화특성에 영향을 미치는 구조적 인자들을 해석적인 방법으로 평가하고 설계 초기 단계에서 열화 현상을 근사적으로 평가할 수 있는 방안을 제안하는데 있다. 해석적 연구를 위해 arc length method를 적용한 2차원 2차 수정 소성힌지 해석법을 적용하였으며, 단층 단스팬 골조와 다층 단스팬, 다층 다스팬 골조에 대해 해석을 수행하였다. 해석의 주요 변수로는 축력비와 기둥 보의 강성변화를 적용하였다. 연구 결과 무차원 열화강성은 부재의 강성과 축력비에 모두 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났으나, 축력비가 열화강성에 주는 영향이 더욱 큰 것으로 나타났다. 이를 바탕으로 축력비를 변수로 한 열화 강성 평가식을 제안하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.655-676
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• 2013

In this study, strength reduction factors and inelastic displacement ratios are investigated for SDOF systems with period range of 0.1-3.0 s considering soil structure interaction for earthquake motions recorded on soft soil. The effect of stiffness degradation on strength reduction factors and inelastic displacement ratios is investigated. The modified-Clough model is used to represent structures that exhibit significant stiffness degradation when subjected to reverse cyclic loading and the elastoplastic model is used to represent non-degrading structures. The effect of negative strain - hardening on the inelastic displacement and strength of structures is also investigated. Soil structure interacting systems are modeled and analyzed with effective period, effective damping and effective ductility values differing from fixed-base case. For inelastic time history analyses, Newmark method for step by step time integration was adapted in an in-house computer program. New equations are proposed for strength reduction factor and inelastic displacement ratio of interacting system as a function of structural period($\tilde{T}$, T) ductility (${\mu}$) and period lengthening ratio ($\tilde{T}$/T).

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1531-1548
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• 2015

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between Barcol hardness (H) and flexural modulus (E) degradation of composite sheets subjected to flexural fatigue. The resin transfer molding (RTM) method was used to produce 3-mm-thick composite sheets with fiber volume fraction of 44%. The composite sheets were subjected to flexural fatigue tests and Barcol scale hardness measurements. After these tests, the stiffness and hardness degradations were investigated in the composite sheets that failed after around one million cycles (stage III). Flexural modulus degradation values were in the range of 0.41-0.42 with the corresponding measured hardness degradation values in the range of 0.25-0.32 for the all fatigued composite sheets. Thus, a 25% reduction in the initial hardness and a 41% reduction in the initial flexural modulus can be taken as the failure criteria. The results showed that a reasonably well-defined relationship between Barcol hardness and flexural modulus degradation in the distance range.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2000년도 봄 학술발표회논문집
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• pp.347-354
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• 2000

The seismic behaviors of a bridge system with several simple spans are examined to see the effects of the longitudinal stiffness degradation due to abutment-soil interaction. The abutment-backfill system is modeled as one degree-of-freedom-system with nonlinear spring and linear damper. various soil-conditions surrounding the abutment such as loose sand, medium dense sand, and dense sand are considered in the bridge seismic analysis. The idealized mechanical model for the whole bridge system is modeled by adopting the multiple-degree-of-freedom system, which can consider components such as pounding phenomena, friction at the movable supports, rotational and translational motions of foundations, and the nonlinear pier motions. The stiffness of the abutment is found to be rapidly reduced at the beginning of the earthquakes, and to be converged to constant values shortly after the displacement approaches to the Predefined critical values. It is observed that the maximum relative distanced an maximum relative displacements are generally Increased as the relative density of a soil decreases As the peak ground acceleration increases, the response ratio of the case considering stiffness degradation to the case considering constant stiffness decreases.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2007

약액으로 개량된 지반의 액상화 저항은 약액의 농도에 따라 달라지며 현재는 일축압축강도를 기준으로 농도가 결정되는 것이 일반적이다. 하지만 액상화에 대한 저항력을 나타내는 강성저하율을 적극적으로 평가하여 합리적이고 경제적인 설계를 확립해야 할 필요성이 몇몇 연구자들에 의해 지적되어 왔다. 이에 본 논문에서는 반복전단 삼축압축시험을 이용하여 개량토의 강성저하율을 평가하였으며 이를 바탕으로 약액 농도 산정의 합리성을 검토하였다. 실험결과, 개량토는 유효응력의 감소, 강성의 저하 측면에서 모두 액상화에 대한 저항력을 갖고 있었으며, 설계에서 사용하는 5~6%의 약액 농도보다 적은 2%의 약액 농도에서도 액상화 저항이 향상되었다. 이러한 점을 바탕으로 생각하면, 기존의 일축압축강도를 기준으로 한 약액농도의 설정은 과다설계의 가능성이 있는 것으로 판단되었으며, 결국 과도하게 일축압축강도를 증가 시키지 않고도 강성저하가 방지되며 이를 반영한다면 약액 농도를 보다 합리적으로 줄여 갈 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.466-472
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• 2013

국내외적으로 도시철도 및 고속철도에서 콘크리트궤도 부설이 증가하고 있는 추세에 있다. 콘크리트궤도에서 필수적으로 사용되고 있는 레일체결장치의 탄성패드는 열차하중에 대한 충격을 완화시켜주는 중요한 역할을 담당하고 있다. 일반적으로 탄성패드의 강성변화를 평가하기 위해서는 단순피로시험[1]이 시행되고 있으나 이는 실제 철도환경조건과는 상이할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 실제 철도현장에서 통과톤수를 받은 탄성패드에 대한 정적스프링계수를 측정하였다. 또한, 신품 탄성패드에 대해서 단순피로시험과 복합가속열화시험을 수행하였다. 사용한 탄성패드의 강성값은 사용시간과 반복횟수에 따른 시험결과값과 비교되었다. 시험결과의 비교를 통해 사용한 탄성패드의 정적스프링계수 변화경향이 반복하중과 열이 함께 고려된 복합가속열화시험결과와 동일한 경향을 보이는 것을 확인하였다. 또한, 복합가속열화와 관련된 T-NT식을 이용하여 탄성패드의 복합가속열화 모델을 도출하였으며, 약 2.62의 가속계수를 가지는 것을 확인하였다. 최종적으로 본 연구를 통해 폴리우레탄 탄성패드에 대한 복합가속열화 모델식을 제안하였다.