• Title/Summary/Keyword: structural safety and serviceability

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A Study on the Displacement Measuring Method of High-rise Buildingas using LiDAR (라이다를 이용한 고층 건물의 변위 계측 기법에 관한 연구)

  • Lee Hong-Min;Park Hyo-Seon
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.151-158
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    • 2006
  • Structural health monitoring is concerned with the safety and serviceability of the users of structures, especially for the case of building structures and infrastructures. When considering the safety of a structure, the maximum stress in a member due to live load, earthquake, wind, or other unexpected loadings must be checked not to exceed the stress specified in a code. It will not fail at yield, excessively large displacements will deteriorate the serviceability of a structure. To guarantee the safety and serviceability of structures, the maximum displacement in a structures must be monitored because actual displacement is a direct assessment index on its stiffness. However, no practical method has been reported to monitor the displacement, especially for the case of displacement of high-rise buildings because of not to easy accessive. In this paper, it is studied displacement measuring method of high-rise buildings using LiDAR The method is evaluated by analyzing accuracy of measured displacements for existing building.

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Research on serviceability indicators and evaluation method for the revision of Special Act on Safety and maintenance of facilities (시특법 개정을 위한 서비스 성능 지표 설정 및 평가 방법 연구)

  • Park, Taeil;Park, Wonyoung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.312-313
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    • 2018
  • As global climate change leaded to extensive natural disaster and radical deterioration of infrastructures, there was increased attentions for the evaluation of infrastructures. After the collapse of Seongsu Bridge in 1994, Korea has enacted the "Special act on safety and maintenance of facilities" and secured the safety of facilities using systematic and periodic safety inspections. However, current facility inspections are mainly performed by the physical defect and structural analysis, and do not properly consider the serviceability of infrastructure such as capacity of facility and user's satisfaction. Thus, the purpose of the study is to develop an evaluation criteria for serviceability of infrastructures and finally leading to the revision of "Special Act on safety and maintenance of facilities in rational manner.

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TMD-Based Adaptive Smart Structural Control System for Multi-Hazard (TMD 기반 적응형 스마트 구조제어시스템의 멀티해저드 적응성 평가)

  • Kim, Hyun-Su
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.720-725
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    • 2017
  • This paper evaluated the safety and serviceability of a building structure considering the multi-hazard and proposed TMD-based adaptive smart control system to improve the structural performance. To make multi-hazard loads, an artificial earthquake and artificial wind loads were generated based on representative regions of strong seismicity and strong wind in U.S.A. The safety and serviceability of a 20-story example building structure were investigated using the generated artificial loads. A smart TMD was employed to improve the safety and serviceability of the example structure and its capacity of structural performance improvement was evaluated. The smart TMD was comprised of a MR (magnetorheological) damper. Numerical analysis showed that the example building structure could not satisfy the design limit of safety and serviceability with respect to multi-hazard. The smart TMD effectively reduced the seismic responses associated with the safety and wind-induce responses associated with serviceability.

Displacement Measuring Method using Terrestrial LiDAR for Safety and Serviceability Monitoring of Steel Beams (지상 LiDAR를 이용한 철골보의 안전 및 사용성 모니터링을 위한 변위 계측기법)

  • Lee Hong-Min;Park Hyo-Seon;Lee Im-Pyeong
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2005.04a
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    • pp.190-197
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    • 2005
  • To monitor the safety and serviceability of a structures, structural responses including displacements due to various design and unexpected loadings must be measured. The maximum displacement and its distributions of a structure can be used as a direct assessment index on its stiffness. For this reason, there have been diversely studied on measuring of the maximum displacement of a structure. However, there is no practical method for measuring displacement of a structure. Therefore, in this paper, new displacement measuring method is developed and accuracy of LiDAR is examined in detail for development of a new method for measuring displacement of a structure.

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Challenges in Structural Design of W-Project

  • Kim, Jong Soo
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.199-204
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    • 2014
  • W-Project is 70-story mixed-use residential building complex project in Busan, the second biggest city in South Korea. As it is a high rise building complex located at the coast, the residents have great ocean view from the height. Though, there were many difficult challenges to be solved to secure structural safety and meet the serviceability requirements. As it is located on the reclaimed land, securing the foundation bearing capacity on soft soil is the first issue to be solved for the stable structure. W-Project. Busan on the way usual track of typhoon, wind load on structure is also critical for structural safety and serviceability for occupants due to wind vibration. This paper will address process of lateral load resisting structural system of W-Project.

Serviceability-oriented analytical design of isolated liquid damper for the wind-induced vibration control of high-rise buildings

  • Zhipeng Zhao;Xiuyan Hu;Cong Liao;Na Hong;Yuanchen Tang
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.27-39
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    • 2024
  • The effectiveness of conventional tuned liquid dampers (TLDs) in controlling the wind-induced response of tall flexible structures has been indicated. However, the impaired control effect in the detuning condition or a considerably high mass cost of liquid may be incurred in ensuring the high-level serviceability. To provide an efficient TLD-based solution for wind-induced vibration control, this study proposes a serviceability-oriented optimal design method for isolated TLDs (ILDs) and derives analytical design formulae. The ILD is implemented by mounting the TLD on the linear isolators. Stochastic response analysis is performed for the ILD-equipped structure subjected to stochastic wind and white noise, and the results are considered to derive the closed-form responses. Correspondingly, an extensive parametric analysis is conducted to clarify a serviceability-oriented optimal design framework by incorporating the comfort demand. The obtained results show that the high-level serviceability demand can be satisfied by the ILD based on the proposed optimal design framework. Analytical design formulae can be preliminarily adopted to ensure the target serviceability demand while enhancing the structural displacement performance to increase the safety level. Compared with conventional TLD systems, the ILD exhibits higher effectiveness and a larger frequency bandwidth for wind-induced vibration control at a small mass ratio.

Probabilistic Reliability Assessment of Steel Frame with Leaning Columns

  • Vaclavel, Leo;Marek, Pavel
    • Computational Structural Engineering : An International Journal
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.97-106
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    • 2001
  • Safety and serviceability of a planar steel frame are assessed. Attention is turned to the individual main steps in the assessment procedure, i.e., to the definition of loads, selection of transformation model, determination of the response of the structure to the loading, and to the definition of the limiting values (considering safely and serviceability of the structure). The potential of the method using direct Monte Carlo technique as a powerful tool is emphasized.

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An Experimental Study on Evaluation of Fatigue Safety and Serviceability for the Precast Half Deck Panel Joints (반단면 프리캐스트 판넬 이음부의 피로 안전성 및 사용성 평가를 위한 실험적 연구)

  • Park, Woo Jin;Hwang, Hoon Hee;Kwon, Nam Seung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.50-56
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    • 2019
  • Precast members have relatively good quality because they are manufactured in an environment suitable for quality control. A typical precast method in which pre-fabricated segments are assembled in the field requires a joint. Although the joint is a small part of the member, it greatly affects the behavior and quality of the structural member. In the previous study of this paper, the flexural strength of a joint, which is generally applied to half-depth precast deck systems, was verified to have higher strength than the design requirement. In addition, the proposed joint has been verified to have higher strength by reinforcing the connecting rebar. However, even if the flexural strength of the joints is sufficient, excessive deflection or lack of fatigue performance is likely to cause cracks in the half-depth precast deck system. In this study, the serviceability of the half-deck precast panel specimens with joints was evaluated and the experimental verification was conducted to evaluate the fatigue performance of the joint without connection rebar. As a result, the serviceability such as deflection and crack width was found to be higher than the design requirement in all the specimens. In the fatigue test, the fatigue effect was insignificant even in the absence of connection rebar.

Optimum Design of Reinforced Concrete frames Considering Serviceability (사용성을 고려한 RC뼈대 구조물의 최적설계)

  • 김기대;박성규
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.279-286
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    • 2002
  • This study is concerned wiか the practical optimum design of concrete framed structures considering serviceability - deflection, crack, fatigue. The optimizing problems of framed structure are formulated with the objective function and the constraints which take the section properties as the design variables. The objective functions are formulated as the total cost of the structures and the constraints are derived by using the criteria with respect to safety and serviceability based on the part of concrete bridge in the Korea standard code of road bridge. The SLP method is introduced to solve the formulated nonlinear programming problems in this study and tested out through the numerical examples. This developed optimizing algorithm is tested out and examined through the numerical examples for the practical use of design on the concrete framed structures. And their results are compared and analyzed to examine the possibility of optimization, the applicability and the convergency of this algorithm.

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