• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.203-210
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• 2004

The fragility curves of seismic retrofitted bridges by steel jacketing at bridge columns and restrainers at expansion joints after the 1994 Northridge earthquake are developed. Fragility curves are represented by lognormal distribution functions with two parameters (median and log-standard deviation) and developed as a function of peak ground acceleration(PGA). Two parameters in the lognormal distribution are estimated by the maximum likelihood method. The sixty ground acceleration time histories for Los Angeles area developed for FEMA SAC project are used for the dynamic analysis of bridges. The comparison of fragility curves of the bridges before and after column retrofit demonstrates that the improvement of the bridges with steel jacketing on the seismic performance is excellent for the damage states defined in this study. The comparison of fragility curves of the bridges before and after the installation of restrainers at expansion joints also shows the improvement in the seismic performance of restrained bridges for the severe damage state.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.68-75
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• 2015

This study established key factors causing deck slab deterioration based on GPR database of 747 highway bridges, and predicted deck slab damage rates with respect to bridge service life. To minimize the influence of bridge service life on deck slab deterioration, the deck slab damage rate database was corrected based on a linear regression model of bridge service life vs. deck slab damage rate. The corrected deck slab damage rates were analyzed to determine correlation considering the number of snowy days, the amount of snowfalls, the number of freeze-thaw days, average winter temperature, altitude, the amount of deicing chemicals and equivalent traffic volume, and then both the number of freeze-thaw days and the amount of deicing chemicals were determined to be key factors causing deck slab deterioration. The complex deterioration considering both key factors was represented deck slab damage rate charts, and the average deck slab life was derived. The results of this study will be used as a guideline for highway bridge maintenance to identify the progress of deck slab deterioration for a given bridge and predict the time required deck slab rehabilitation.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2017.07a
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• pp.186-187
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• 2017

본 논문은 무선 전력 및 데이터를 동시에 전송하는 교량 구조 건전성 진단 시스템에 관한 것이다. 무선 전력 전송을 이용하여, 교량 내부에 위치한 구조 건전성 진단을 위한 센서에 전원을 공급한다. 그리고 센서에서 검출된 데이터를 부가적인 통신회로 없이, 교량 외부로 전송한다. 이러한 교량 구조 건전성 진단 시스템은 기존 방식에 비하여 교량 유지 보수 비용을 줄일 수 있는 장점을 가진다. 제안한 교량 구조 건전성 진단 시스템은 높은 효율로 전력을 전송하며, 동시에 8단계의 교량 손상도 데이터를 전송한다. 결과적으로, 제안한 시스템은 교량의 내부의 센서에 무선전력전송을 이용하여 안정적인 전원을 공급하며, 교량의 손상 정도에 관한 물리적 데이터를 부가회로없이 무선전력전송용 공진기를 통해서 전달할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.165-174
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• 2010

In this paper, a two-phase structural health monitoring system using acceleration response signatures are presented to firstly alarm the change in structural condition and to secondly detect the changed location for full-scale concrete girder bridges. Firstly, Mihocheon Bridge which is a two-span continuous concrete girder bridge is selected as the target structure. The dynamic response features of Mihocheon Bridge are extracted by forced vibration test using bowling ball. Secondly, the damage alarming occurrence and the damage localization techniques are selected to design two-phase structural health monitoring system for Mihocheon Bridge. As the damage alarming techniques, auto-regressive model using time-domain signatures, correlation coefficient of frequency response function and frequency response ratio assurance criterion are selected. As the damage localization technique, modal strain energy-based damage index method is selected. Finally, the feasibility of two-phase structural health monitoring systems is evaluated from static loading tests using a dump truck.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.209-215
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• 2017

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) was applied to an evaluation of the concrete condition of bridge decks with asphalt concrete. Deterioration was considered to have occurred when the relative permittivity of a concrete-faced asphalt concrete overlay showed more than 12. The relative permittivity of concrete varied considerably with the levels of porosity and water. In this study, GPR tests were carried out to determine the influence of weather and concrete condition on the relative permittivity for the research subject of an overlaid concrete bridge deck in public service. According to the test results, if bridge decks are in good condition, the relative permittivity of the top concrete of a bridge deck exhibited a normal distribution. After the deck concrete deteriorated, the relative permittivity varied with the amount of penetrated water according to the weather condition and deteriorated status of deck concrete.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.627-635
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• 2021

The fire damage and structural performance of a steel-concrete composite superstructure under a highway bridge exposed to fire loading was evaluated. To enhance the accuracy and efficiency of the numerical analysis, a proposed fluid-structure interaction fire analysis method was implemented in Ansys Fluent and Ansys Mechanical. The temperature distribution and performance evaluation of the steel-concrete composite superstructure according to the vertical distance from the fire source to the bottom flange were evaluated using the proposed analysis method. From the analysis, the temperature of the concrete slab and the bottom flange of the steel-concrete composite superstructure exceeded the critical temperature. Also, when the vertical distance from the fire source was 13 m or greater, the fire damage of the steel-concrete composite superstructure was found to within a safe limit.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.1-11
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• 2021

As the aging of large domestic SOC facilities accelerates, facility maintenance is also changing from safety evaluation based on the current condition to performance-oriented preventive and preemptive maintenance based on the prediction of the level of future obsolescence. In particular, in the case of bridges, class 1 and 2 bridges are systematically managed along with many studies, but for small and medium-sized class 3 bridges there is no collection and utilization of historical data presenting performance degradation during their service life. Therefore, in this study, 3D model-based demonstration DB system was designed and developed to intuitively check the damage change rate at the damage location by registering the maintenance history by life cycle for each member's exterior damage in the 3D bridge object and to enable API-based comprehensive performance evaluation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.157-160
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• 2008

Bridge decks are directly exposed to traffic loads and environmental conditions like rainfall water and de-icing chemicals. In this reason, there are often observed the deteriorations of asphalt overlay and concrete deck. In this study, 32 concrete decks were evaluated by the road inspection vehicle and the GPR mounted on the vehicle. The GPR could detect the deteriorations of concrete decks under asphalt overlay, even though the asphalt overlay looks like soundness. Therefore, for the efficient maintenance of concrete bridge decks, GPR examination should be performed with visual inspection.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.406-412
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• 2015

Recently, frequent earthquakes can cause serious damage to the bridge. So newly constructed bridge is considered earthquake resistant design, and for the existing old bridge evaluation of damage state is needed. In this paper, replacement of US-artificial earthquakes which are used for the construction of fragility curve for evaluating damage state to Korean artificial earthquakes to meet the Korean specifications is studied. For the generation of artificial earthquakes, the fragility curves are constructed for the PGA, for the cases of having isolated bearing and not having that.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.556-567
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• 2021

Purpose: In this study, various methods of deep learning-based automatic damage analysis technology were reviewed based on images taken through Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to more efficiently and reliably inspect the exterior inspection and inspection of railway bridges using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Method: A deep learning analysis model was created by defining damage items based on the acquired images and extracting deep learning data. In addition, the model that learned the damage images for cracks, concrete and paint scaling·spalling, leakage, and Reinforcement exposure among damage of railway bridges was applied and tested with the results of automatic damage analysis. Result: As a result of the analysis, a method with an average detection recall of 95% or more was confirmed. This analysis technology enables more objective and accurate damage detection compared to the existing visual inspection results. Conclusion: through the developed technology in this study, it is expected that it will be possible to analysis more accurate results, shorter time and reduce costs by using the automatic damage analysis technology using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in railway maintenance.