Since 1960's, structural engineers have recognized that tile inherent random nature of loadings and materials as well as the imperfect structural analysis may be important factors in tile structural safety evaluation. Based on the successful developments of the reliability based structural analysis and design, the design criteria of tile standards are recently developed(or modified) in the light of the probabilistic concepts. To develop the probability-based design criteria for tile domestic buildings, the probabilistic characters of loadings acting on structures should be defined first. In this study, therefore, live load data on apartment buildings have collected and analyzed in a systematic manner, and their probabilistic characteristics have been studied. Based oil the results, the lifetime extreme values are computed and compared with current design loads. More rational design loads are suggested, which are more consistent in the probabilistic concepts.

In this study, the basic concept of design response spectrum is briefly revi-ewed. To generate the artificial earthquake acceleration, the method of superpo-sition of cosine waves is used. Theoretical developments using F.F.T. and spect-ral density function are compared. The amplitude was derived by use of the peak factor and the phase angle is d-erived by use of Monte Carlo simulation. To smoothen the match, the calculated pseudo velocity respon-se spectrum is compared with input pseudo velocity response spectrum at a set of control frequencies. With the modified spectral density function, a new acceleration and pseudo velocity response spectrum are generat-ed.

This paper presents a fatigue reliability model for the reliability-based evaluation of remaining fatigue life of existing rail-road bridges. It is demonstrated that the simple fatigue reliability model based on the Weibull distribution of fatigue life can be extended by incorporating various effects due to the rate of the train-traffic increase and in-service Inspections. The paper also suggests the system fatigue reliability analysis using an approximate formulation and 2nd-order bound solutions. The application of the proposed model to existing rail-road brdiges based on field load tests shows that it may be practically used for the assessment of fatigue reliability, remaining life, and in-service inspection scheduling of existing rail-road bridges.

SSI2D/3D is a computer program to calculate dynamic stiffness matrix of the foundation for soil-structure-interaction problem in frequency demain. It is written in FORTRAN 77 and applicable to two or three dimensional situations. In this paper the program structure is summarized. Two examples aye shown to demonstrate the possibilities of the Boundary Element Method applied to dynamic problems in infinite domains.

This paper presents a study of soil-structure interaction problems using infinite elements. The infinite elements are formulated for homogeneous and layered soil media, based on approximate expressions for three components of propagating waves, namely Rayleigh, compressive and shear waves. The integration scheme which was proposed for problems with single wave component by Zienkiewicz is expanded to the multi-wave problem. Verifications are carried out on rigid circular footings which are placed on and embedded in elastic half space. Numerical analysis is performed for a containment structure of a nuclear power plant subjected seismic excitation.

최근에 건설된 여러 토목구조물에서 평행사변형 모양으로 이루어진 구조 요소들이 점차 생겨나고있다. 특히 미국의 일부 I-75 고속도로에서 쓰여진 평행사변형 모양의 슬라브구조나 지형학적 또는 구조역학적인 이유로 인한 고량의 평행사변형 모양 슬라브는 하중의 편심재하로 인한 구조역학의 정확한 해석의 필요성을 야기시켰다. 이에 본 연구는 유한요소법에 의한 평행사변형 요소의 강성매트릭스와 하중매트릭스를 유도하여 평행사변 유한요소를 해석할수있는 구조해석용 서브루틴 프로그램(Subroutine Program)을 만들고 특히 경사 죠인트를 가진 도로구조 해석용 쇼프트웨어(Software)를 만드는데 목적이있다.

According to the Rayleigh-Ritz approximation method, a solution can be represented as a finite series consisting of space-dependent functions, which satisfy all the geometric boundary conditions of the problem and appropriate smoothness requirement in the interior of the domain. In this paper, an efficient formulation for solving structural dynamics systems in frequency domain is presented. A general procedure called Ritz modes (or vectors) generation algorithm is used to generate the admissible functions, i.e. Ritz modes, Then, the use of direct superposition of the Ritz modes is utilized to reduce the size of the problem in spatial dimension via geometric coordinates projection. For the reduced system, the frequency domain approach is applied. Finally, a numerical example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

하중 재하속도의 영향을 고려한 철근 콘크리트 부재의 거동을 예측하기 위한 해석모델이 layer modeling 기법에 의하여 개발되었다. 철근 콘크리트 부재의 압축 및 휨거동 해석 과정에서 하중에 따른 변형율 속도를 변수로 사용한 개발된 모델을 이용하여 얻은 해석결과는 여러가지 다른 하중재하 속도하에서 실험된 실험결과와 비교되었으며, 그의 비교결과는 만족스러웠다. 본 연구에서는 개발된 모델을 사용하여 철관 콘크리트 보 및 기둥에서 다양하게 사용될 수 있는 기하학적 형태 및 사용재료 등의 변수변환이 하중재하 속도에 따른 부재의 강도 및 강성에의 민감성을 조사하였다. 본 논문에서는 또한 하중재하 속도의 영향을 고려할 수 있는 철근 콘크리트 단면의 휨 및 압축강도를 계산할 수 있는 두개의 설계 공식도 제안하였다.

The primary purpose of using bracings is to improve tile lateral rigidity of main structural system, i.e., columns and beams, by reinforcing them with much smaller members. Conventional design methods consider bracings as tension-only mambers, since difficulties arise in the analysis to consider the P - effects and post-buckling behaviour of the bracing members. This is particulary true for X-bracings. Recently, however, both analytical and experimental studies have been conducted to investigate the more precise and real behaviour of bracing members, especially for the nonlinear un plastic behaviour under cyclic loads. In this study, an analytical model is proposed to investigate the nonlinear behavior of steel bracing members subjected to cyclic loads. Results of tile analysis were compared with previous experimental results, and good agreements were obtained between these results.

Piping systems are composed of pipes with various thickness, diameter and length. Accurate analysis of a piping system requires a complicated three dimensional finite element model and a computer system with large memory size, while simplified models result in system response prediction with deteriorated accuracy. An efficient analysis model for piping systems is proposed in this study. The proposed model is developed by introducing a joint model which accounts for the behavior of a pipe connection. Pipes are represented by beam elements and the effect of local deformation of pipe connections are replaced by joint element deformations. The proposed model which is as simple and efficient as a beam model can be used to obtain piping system response with accuracy close to that of a finite element model.

It is well known that the symmetric buildings have higher resistance than the unaymetric ones do under seismic load. However, it is sometimes inevitable to build an unsymmetric structure due to the site conditions or architectural needs. The unsymmetric building has structural disadvantages under seismic load. In such a case the structural seperation joints are often used to avoid those disadvantages. This paper presents a method to determine the width of the seperation joints for unsymmetric, reinforced concrete apartments structured by walls and slabs only. The variables of the study were the ratio of shear-wall stiffness to the building length in the same directron, the building height and the story mass.

In this study, measured and calculated responses are compared in order to give how the static and dynamic responses occurred in steel railway bridges Sue to train loads could be calculated appropriately. From this, it is known that the static response ratios (measures / calculated) is high comparing to the highway blisses, and the dynamic response should be obtained by the moving mass problem. And it is known that the factors specifies in the present railway bridge code are very safe under the present service speed below 100 km/h, but are not under the rapid transit system above 100 km/h.

Methods for identification of modal properties of linear structures are presented. The extended Kalman filtering technique is empolyed. The state equation is formulated by two different ways, namely by the time domain and frequency domain approaches. Verifications are carried out by using simulated records of ground acceleration and structural response. Then the techniques are applied to the estimation of modal parameters of a scaled model for a 3-story building which is installed on a shaking table.

Structural design, generally engineering design, is a complex process combinding design knowledges and analysis techniques. While analysis techniques can be automated in an algorithmic fashion, relatively little work has been done in the area of the design automation. An effect approach method for the automation of the engineering design may be a hybrid system, in which design knowledges, specification requirements and interpretations are represented using an expert system methodology and numerically intensive operations of the design process are implemented using an algorithmic language such as FORTRAN. The purpose of this paper is concentrated on the knowledge of K-CLIPS(KAIST-C Language Integrated Production System) used to design and implement this hybrid system. In K-CLIPS, some representation methods : frame, production rule, fact and user defined function are used to construct the knowledge base. The hierarchical knowledges could be expressed more naturally with a little number of rules than other plain production systems.