• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.607-627
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• 2013

The application of shape memory alloys (SMAs) to the seismic response reduction of civil engineering structures has attracted growing interest due to their self-centering feature and excellent fatigue performance. The loading rate dependence of SMAs raises a concern in the seismic analysis of SMA-based devices. However, the implementation of micromechanics-based strain-rate-dependent constitutive models in structural analysis software is rather complicated and computationally demanding. This paper investigates the feasibility of replacing complex rate-dependent models with rate-independent constitutive models for superelastic SMA elements in seismic time-history analysis. Three uniaxial constitutive models for superelastic SMAs, including one rate-dependent thermomechanical model and two rate-independent phenomenological models, are considered in this comparative study. The pros and cons of the three nonlinear constitutive models are also discussed. A parametric study of single-degree-of-freedom systems with different initial periods and strength reduction factors is conducted to examine the effect of the three constitutive models on seismic simulations. Additionally, nonlinear time-history analyses of a three-story prototype steel frame building with special SMA-based damping braces are performed. Two suites of seismic records that correspond to frequent and design basis earthquakes are used as base excitations in the seismic analyses of steel-braced frames. The results of this study show that the rate-independent constitutive models, with their parameters properly tuned to dynamic test data, are able to predict the seismic responses of structures with SMA-based seismic response modification devices.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.469-479
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• 2018

The Brazilian tensile strength of concrete samples is a key parameter in fracture mechanics since it may significantly change the quality of concrete materials and their mechanical behaviors. It is well known that porosity is one of the most often used physical indices to predict concrete mechanical properties. In the present work the influence of porosity shape on concrete tensile strength characteristics is studied, using a bonded particle model. Firstly numerical model was calibrated by Brazilian experimental results and uniaxial test out puts. Secondly, Brazilian models consisting various pore shapes were simulated and numerically tested at a constant speed of 0.016 mm/s. The results show that pore shape has important effects on the failure pattern. It is shown that the pore shape may play an important role in the cracks initiation and propagation during the loading process which in turn influence on the tensile strength of the concrete samples. It has also been shown that the pore size mainly affects the ratio of uniaxial compressive strength to that of the tensile one in the simulated material samples.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.659-670
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• 2024

The mechanical behaviour of layered concrete samples containing an internal crack was numerically studied by modelling the geo-mechanical specimens in the particle flow code in two dimensions (PFC2D). The numerical modelling software was calibrated with the experimental results of the Brazilian tensile strengths gained from the laboratory disc-type specimens. Then, the samples with the bedding layers and internal notch were numerically simulated with PFC2D under uniaxial compressive loading. In each specimen, the layers' thickness was 10 mm but the layer's inclination angle was changed to 0°, 30°, 60°, 90°, 120° and 150°. Of course, the layers'interfaces are considered to have very low strengths. The internal notch was kept at 3 cm in length however, its inclination angle was changed to 0°, 40°, 60° and 90°. Therefore, a total, of 24 numerical models were made to study the failure mechanism of the layered concrete samples. Considering these results, it has been concluded that the inclination angles of both internal crack and bedding layers affect the failure mechanism and uniaxial compressive strength of the concrete.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.539-545
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• 2010

The field plate test has a good potential for determining since it measures both plate pressure and settlement. The deformation modulus of rock mass is differently measured for status of structures. The values of deformation modulus are obtained from laboratory test (uniaxial and triaxial test) and field test (pressuremeter test). Plate load test should be conducted by different loading plate sizes for geological structure of rock mass and scale of structures. In this paper, large plate load tests were performed to predict of structure's behavior and evaluate the ultimate bearing capacity of the foundation on soft rock. Simultaneously, deformation modulus of rock mass was estimated by back analysis of stresses measured in field test under rock mass. Finally, we verified the validation of deformation modulus of rock mass through result of large plate load test and numerical simulation.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.101-106
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• 2007

Uniaxial displacement controlled tests were performed on annealed Type 304 stainless steel at room temperature. A servo-controlled testing machine and strain measurement on the gage length were employed to measure the response to a given input. The test results exhibit that the flow stress increases nonlinearly with the strain rate and the relaxed stress at the end of the relaxation periods depends strongly on the strain rate preceding the relaxation test. The rate-dependent inelastic deformation behavior is simulated using a new unified viscoplasticity model that has the rate-dependent format of nonlinear kinematic hardening rule, which plays a key role in modeling the rate dependence of relaxation behavior. The model does not employ yield or loading/unloading criteria and consists of a flow law and the evolution laws of two tensor and one scalar-valued state variables.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.221-229
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• 1997

Disc-type and ring-type specimens of four different materials were tested to investigate the tensile characteristics and their brief results are presented. Materials tested were marble, granite, cement mortar and plaster. Unizxial tensile strengths are compared with Brazilian and ring test strengths. It was found that Brazilian strengths were usually greater than uniaxial tensile strengths and affected by loading rates. In the ring tests, tensile strengths were generally found to be decreased as relative hole radius being increased. Ring test strengths, however, converged to some value in r$\geq$0.45 of marble, r$\geqq$0.29 of cement mortar and r$\leq$0.5 of plaster specimens. In such range of r, furthermore, transverse cracking of specimens were observed.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.59-69
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• 2000

암석 재료의 변형에 따른 미시적 파괴 현상으로부터 발생하는 미소파괴음(Acoustic Emission, AE)을 측정하여 암석 구조물 내의 미세균열의 생성과 전파를 탐지하는 연구는 지하 암반 구조물의 안정성을 비파괴검사로 평가하는데 대단히 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 암반 구조물의 보강재로 사용되는 콘크리트와 대리석 암석 시험관에 대하여 전과정 응력-변형률 곡선을 얻기 위한 강성압축시험을 실시하였고, 시험 중에 미소파괴음 발생을 측정하여 미소파괴음 파라미터 분석 및 음원추적을 수행하여 대리석과 콘크리트의 변형 및 파괴거동 특성을 살펴보았다. 또한 시험편에 계단식 반복재하시험을 수행하여 그 변형거동을 고찰하였으며, 미소파괴음 측정을 통하여 재료의 손상, 암반의 현지응력 및 콘크리트 구조물의 응력이력 등과 관련된 카이저효과를 검증하였다

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.83-99
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• 2022

The two, NBD and SCB tests using gypsum circular discs each containing a single notch have been experimentally accomplished in a rock mechanics laboratory. These specimens have also been numerically modelled by a two-dimensional particle flow which is based on Discrete Element Method (DEM). Each testing specimen had a thickness of 5 cm with 10 cm in diameter. The specimens' lengths varied as 2, 3, and 4 cm; and the specimens' notch angles varied as 0°, 45° and 90°. Similar semi-circular gypsum specimens were also prepared each contained one edge notch with angles 0° or 45°. The uniaxial testing machine was used to perform the experimental tests for both NBD and SCB gypsum specimens. At the same time, the numerical simulation of these tests were performed by PFC2D. The experimental results showed that the failure mechanism of rocks is mainly affected by the orientations of joints with respect to the loading directions. The failure mechanism and fracturing patterns of the gypsum specimens are directly related to the final failure loading. It has been shown that the number of induced tensile cracks showing the specimens' tensile behavior, and increases by decreasing the length and angle of joints. It should be noted that the fracture toughness of rocks' specimens obtained by NBD tests was higher than that of the SCB tests. The fracture toughness of rocks usually increases with the increasing of joints' angles but increasing the joints' lengths do not change the fracture toughness. The numerical solutions and the experimental results for both NDB and SCB tests give nearly similar fracture patterns during the loading process.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.11-16
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• 2013

양방향재하시험의 성공여부는 상향력과 하향력의 균형을 이룰 수 있는 재하장치 위치 선정에 달려있다. 상향력과 하향력의 균형을 이루기 위해서는 발휘되는 단위주면마찰력과 단위선단지지력의 산정이 중요한데, 국내에서 시행되는 양방향재하시험은 주로 사용말뚝에 적용되어 극한지지력까지 재하되지 않고 설계지지력을 확인하는 것이 일반적이다. 하지만 국내 외 제안된 암반층의 극한단위주면마찰력 및 허용단위주면마찰력 산정식은 암반의 일축압축강도를 기반으로 되어있고, 또한 국내 풍화암층과 RQD가 극히 낮은 연암층은 일축압축강도시험을 할 수 있는 코아를 얻기가 어려워 적용이 어려운 실정이다. 따라서 이 연구에서는 국내에서 시행되었던 양방향재하시험에서 얻은 각 지층별 발휘된 단위주면마찰력과 환산된 SPT N/cm과 관계도표를 제안하고 이 관계도표를 이용하여 실제 국내 현장의 양방향재하시험을 위한 상향력과 하향력의 균형위치를 선정하였다. 또한 선정된 균형위치에 양방향재하장치를 설치한 후 재하시험을 실시하여 측정된 각 지층의 발휘된 단위주면마찰력 값들과 균형위치 선정 시 적용한 관계도표의 값들을 비교하여 관계도표의 적정성을 분석하였다. 분석결과 풍화토층과 풍화암층에서는 거의 유사한 결과를 보였고, 연암층에서는 재하장치 상부연암층과 하부연암층에서 발휘된 측정값(상부 $1,151kN/m^2$, 하부 $1,500kN/m^2$)의 평균값($1,325kN/m^2$)도 산정값($1,250kN/m^2$)과 큰 차이를 보이지 않아 관계도표는 적정한 것으로 판단되었다.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.19-19
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• 1991

인장/비틀림 조합을력하에서 하중경로에 따른 Al₂O₃튜브 시편의 파괴거동을 조사하였다. 인장 후 비틀림을 한 하중경로(I)에서의 거시적인 균열의 전파방향과 파괴강도는 최대 주응력 파괴조건과 일치하였다. 전단응력(τ)/인장응력(σ)의 비가 일정한 하중경로(Ⅱ)에서의 거시적인 균열의 전파 방향은 최대 주응력 파괴조건과 일치한, 최대 주응력 파괴강도는τ/ σ의 비에 다라 일축인장 파괴 강도보다 증가 또는 감소하였다. Welbull 이론은 수누 비틀림에서의 최대 주응력 파괴 강도가 일죽이장 파괴강도보다 증가함은 예측하였으나, 하중경로(Ⅱ)에서 파괴 강도가 감소함은 예측할 수 없었다. 파괴강도가 일죽인장 파과강도보다 증가 또는 감소하는 현상은 미세조직의 관찰로 부터 미세결함면에 존재하는 전단응력이 파괴에 미치는 영향으로 설명하였다. 끝으로, 인위적 균열에서의 파괴 조건과 인장/비틀림 조합응력하의 Al₂O₃튜브 시편의 파괴 실험치에 근거한 새로운 경험식을 제안하였다. 제안된 파괴 조건식은 하중경로에 따른거시적인 균열의 전파방향과 파괴강도의 실험치와 잘 일치하였다.