• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.93-96
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• 2008

This paper deals with the shaking table test(STT), the Quasi-Static Test(QST), and the Pseudo-Dynamic Test(PDT) to evaluate the seismic performance of RC bridge piers under near fault ground motion. Five scaled specimens were constructed the weight of the superstructure was applied through the prestressing strand at the centroid of the column section during the QST and PDT. However, the STT was simulated. The lateral inertia force of the superstructure by the mass frame which was linked with the pier because of the limited payload of shaking table. Particularly for the STT, friction underneath the mass frame was minimized by special details and it was verified by a series of pre-load test. Scale factor of the RC piers was 4.25.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2002.05b
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• pp.922-927
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• 2002

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.88-97
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• 2012

The objective of this research is to investigate the seismic performance and flexure-shear behavior of square reinforced concrete bridge piers with solid and hollow cross section. Test specimens were nonseismically designed with the aspect ratio 4.5 Two reinforced concrete columns were tested under constant axial load while subjected to lateral load reversals with increasing drift levels. Longitudinal steel ratio was 2.217 percent. The transverse reinforcement ratio As/($s{\cdot}h$), corresponding to 58 percent of the minimum lateral reinforcement required by Korean Bridge Design Specifications for seismic detailing, which represent existing columns not designed by the current seismic design specifications or designed by limited ductility concept. This study are to provide quantitative reference data for the limited ductility design concept and tendency for performance or damage assessment based on the performance levels such as cracking, yielding, collapse, etc. Failure behavior, ultimate displacement/drift ratio, displacement ductility, response modification factor, equivalent viscous damping ratio, residual deformation, effective stiffness, plastic hinge length, strain of reinforcements and nonlinear analysis are investigated and discussed in this paper.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.7 no.1 s.23
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• pp.63-70
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• 2007

To improve the land use of urban, Construction of the circular steel column is required recently. The circular steel columns have a advantage for improving a load carrying rapacity as wall as reducing a effective section area. However, the circular steel columns under service load, such as earthquake, shows a tendency to cause local buckling and large deformation. To prevent these phenomena, use of longitudinal stiffeners is considered. The application of longitudinal stiffeners at the circular steel columns is expected to increase a load carrying capacity, buckling strength and seismic performance of circular steel column. However, increasing the loading carving rapacity of buckling which constructed the longitudinal stiffeners, was not investigated yet. Therefore it needs study on effect of longitudinal stiffener in pipe-section steel pier. In this study, the load rallying capacity of buckling of steel pier was investigated by using elastic-plastic finite element analysis considered geometrical and material non-linearity. Also, this study investigated the effect of longitudinal stiffeners on loading carrying capacity of buckling and the relationship between width and thickness of longitudinal stiffeners. And also, a Influence of longitudinal stiffeners on seismic performance of circular steel columns was investigated by numerical analysis

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.457-458
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• 2009

Totally, 12 precast RC piers were constructed and tested to evaluate the seismic performance. Experimental variables of the specimens were confinement steel amount, longitudinal steel ratio, aspect ratio, segment connecting method. Only deformed bars were used for longitudinal steel to maximize economical efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1358-1362
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• 2007

자연하천에서 합류부 흐름 및 하상변동 특성이 매우 복잡하기 때문에 하천 복원 사업을 수행하면서 합류부에서 이에 대한 분석이 간과되고 있다. 특히 합류부 주변에 설치된 교량이 흐름에 미치는 영향에 대해 연구가 매우 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 실제 교각의 배치, 형상 및 제원이 고려된 격자망을 이용하여 합류부 주변에 위치한 교량에 의한 흐름 특성을 분석하였다. 연구 대상 구간은 대전광역시를 관통하여 흐르는 갑천과 지류인 유등천이 합류하는 지점으로서, 빈도별 홍수량(200년 빈도)에 대하여 흐름특성을 분석하였다. 유등천은 합류점 상류부에서 갑천 고속화도로를 위한 교량이 건설되기 전보다 설치 후에 유속 분포 변화가 크게 나타나며, 특히 우안 고수부지 지역에서 유속 감소가 뚜렷하게 나타났다. 또한 교각 설치 후 수심 분포는 배수영향으로 증가하지만 증가량은 0.2m 미만으로 크지 않았다. 합류 후 단면에서는 수심 분포가 교량 설치 전후 전체적으로 일치하는 형태를 나타내고 있지만, 유속은 좌안에서 우안으로 갈수록 교량 설치 전 유속이 설치 후 유속보다 크게 나타나는 현상이 나타나고 있다. 교량 설치 후 좌안에 단위 폭당 유량과 유속이 증가하고, 우안에서는 유속이 감소하며 홍수량이 증가할수록 그 특징은 뚜렷하게 나타나고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1353-1357
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• 2007

국내에서 홍수 범람과 농지침수 분석에 이용되는 FLUMEN 모형은 원형섬 주변 처오름 현상과 급변류 해석만이 검증되어 소개되었다. 따라서 FLUMEN 모형의 만곡부나 합류부 등 개수로에서 적용가능성을 파악하기 위해서 하상경사 급변화, 원형 교각 주변 흐름변화, $180^{\circ}$ 만곡부 및 $90^{\circ}$ 합류부 실험 결과와 비교 검토를 수행하였다. FLUMEN 모형은 유한 체적법을 이용한 수치 계산으로 천이구간에서 발생하는 불연속점에서도 수치 모의가 잘 이루어지며, 만곡 수로와 합류 수로에서 전체적인 수심 분포가 최대 6%미만의 오차를 보이고 있어 매우 양호한 수치 모의를 할 수 있다. 또한 임의의 기하학적 형상을 원하는 위치에 반영한 지형 격자망 생성이 가능하다. 따라서 FLUMEN은 교각 주변, 만곡부 및 합류부 흐름 특성을 비교적 정확한 모의가 가능하며, 실제 하천에 적용하기에 충분한 수치 모의 능력을 지닌 모형이라 판단된다.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.77-86
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• 2004

This paper introduces a shape memory alloy-restrainer-damper(SMA-RD) to protect multiple span continuous steel bridges from seismic loads. The type of bridges has only one fixed bearing condition on a pier and expansion bearings are located on the other piers and abutments. Due to this state and a big mass of the deck, these bridges are usually very vulnerable to column's damage on which fixed bearings are located and large deformation of abutments in passive action. Two types of SMA-RDs are developed, and their effect is inspected for protecting the bridges through seismic analyses. Conventional steel restrainer cables are also used to reduce the seismic vulnerability of the bridge and the results are compared to those of the SMA-RDs.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.25-35
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• 2003

Scale model tests were performed to investigate the seismic behavior of the solid and hollow rectangular RC piers with 50% of lap-spliced longitudinal bars in plastic hinge regions. Continuous bars and lap-spliced ones with a lap length of 39 times the bar diameter were arranged alternately in the sections. In order to clarify the influence of lap splice on a ductility the effect of axial force and lateral confinement were excluded in the test. The typical flexural failure conducting a ductile behavior were observed in both models. It is confirmed that the 50% of lap-spliced bars can be considered as an alternative of seismic detailing for longitudinal bars.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.715-725
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• 2003

This paper is a part of a research program to develop a new design method for reinforced concrete bridge columns under seismic loading. The objectives of this paper are to investigate the relationship between ductility and confinement steel amount and to propose a design equation for reinforced concrete bridge columns. Computer program NARCC was used for parametric study, which was proved to provide good and conservative analytical result especially for deformation capacity and ductility factor compared with test result. A total of 7,200 reinforced concrete columns confined with spirals or perfect circular hoops were selected by combination of variables such as section diameter, aspect ratio, concrete compressive strength, yielding strength of longitudinal and confinement steel, longitudinal steel ratio, axial load ratio, and confinement steel ratio. Based on the parametric study a new design equation for confinement steel amount considering ductility demand was proposed, which can be used in the new seismic design method, i.e. ductility-based seismic design, for RC bridge columns.