• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.425-428
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• 2008

Concrete bridge decks, as well as asphalt pavement, are directly exposed to traffic loads and environmental conditions like rain water and deiceing chemicals. In this reason, there are often observed the deteriorations of asphalt overlay and of concrete deck under pavement. In this reason, it is important to identify the clear cause of concrete quality from a practical point of view. Therefore, in this paper it was initiated to ultimately suggest a protocol offering guidance as to assurance the quality control of concrete bridge deck on the part of void characteristics of concrete. Examinations such as visual inspection, deteriorated depth, and various void characteristic performed from cored specimens of 19 concrete bridge decks of various local conditions on the expressway. This paper discuss that the bridge deck condition analyses from the testing results were compared to a foreign guide line.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.217-224
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• 2004

In 1980's, the concrete bridge decks were constructed with 4cm wearing surface layer instead of asphalt concrete overlays. After about 15 year service periods, deteriorations were appeared on the surfaces of highway bridge decks. Various field NDTs and lab tests were done to analysis the cause of the deterioration on the concrete deck surface. The main cause was the corrosion of rebars with thinner concrete top cover than the design value. The rebars with thinner concrete top cover was earlier corroded by penetrated chloride ions. If the appropriate top cover could be achieved, the bare concrete bridge decks can be used without earlier deteriorations.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.73-76
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• 2008

The damage of earthquakes have to achieve by probabilistic evaluation because of uncertainty of earthquake. Fragility analysis is a useful tool for predicting the probability of damage induced by the probable earthquake. This paper presents the probability of damage as a function of peak ground acceleration and estimates the probability of five damage levels for the pier of prestressed concrete (PSC) bridge subjected to given ground acceleration. At each 100 artificial earthquake motions were generated in terms of soil conditions, and nonlinear time domain analyses were performed for the damage states of the pier of PSC bridge structures. These damage states are described by displacement ductility result from seismic performance based on existing research results. Using the damage states and ground motion parameters, five fragility curves for the pier of PSC bridges with five types of dominant frequencies were constructed assuming a log-nomal distribution. It was found that there was a significant effect on the fragility curves due to the dominant frequencies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.789-792
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• 2008

Recently, the deteriorations of RC bridge decks on express-way are frequently observed. The major cause of deterioration for the RC concrete bridge decks exposed to de-icing chemiclas would be chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion. Therefore, Waterproofing is necessary for improvement of bridge deck durability and comfortable utility. In this study is to investigate the appearance of deterioration and properties of concrete core from the collect in a bridge deck. The results of this study shows that penetration waterproofing agents shows low infiltration depth and low water-repellent. It appears that the damaging of concrete deck is primarily waterproofing system rather than physical property.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.121-125
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• 2018

This paper presents the assessment of 7-wire strand monitoring using acoustic emission technique for bridges. 7-wire strand is widely used construction materials to provide additional tensile force to bridges. PSC (PreStressed Concrete) bridge and cable-stayed bridge are representatives for such cases. However, as the bridge aging progresses recently, corrosion problems of strand are emerging. For this reason, various NDT (Non-Destructive Test) methods for cable inspection are being studied and applied to the field. One of the NDT methods, acoustic emission technique, is known as an effective technique to detect cable damage and breakage. In this study, to evaluate the applicability of acoustic emission technique to bridges, acoustic emission signals according to damage of the strand were acquired and analyzed by tensile test. Moreover, The optimal AE sensor type was selected for field application. As a result, it is considered that the acoustic emission technique will be able to detect corrosion breakage and signs of rupture.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.10 no.2 s.35
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• pp.279-290
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• 1998

An existing Damage Index Method is verified to demonstrate its feasibility for detecting structural damage in truss bridges (1) for which modal parameters are available for a few modes of vibration and (2) for which baseline modal information is not available from its as-built state. The theory of approach to detect locations of damage and to identify baseline modal model is summarized on the basis of system identification theory and modal sensitivity theory. The feasibility of the Damage Index Method is demonstrated using a numerical example of a truss bridge with 11 subsystems of 211 members and for which only two modes of vibration were recorded for post-damaged state.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.36-46
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• 2012

After the east Japan earthquake last March 2011, social interests are intensified in the area of increasing the earthquake resistant ability and the necessity of design method that can minimize the damage from earthquake. If bridges are damaged or collapsed, the social and economic effects are so severe that the evaluation of earthquake resistant ability becomes very important. The reviewing methods for earthquake resistant ability are many, but majority of these methods are deterministic. Thus, for the safety assessment of structures for earthquake, the method for evaluating fragility according to the stage of damage is necessary. In this paper, the fragility curves for PSC Box Girder bridge using LRB and RFPB are constructed for PGA, PGV, SA, SV, SI and the two isolators are compared.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.348-349
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• 2008

최근 PSC 교량, 사장교, 현수교 등 중장지간 교량의 건설이 증가하고 있으며 이러한 장대교량의 안정성 및 사용 확보를 위하여 장대교량의 계측 및 모니터링을 통한 손상도 및 안전도 평가에 보다 많은 관심과 연구개발이 집중되고 있다. 그러나, 인류의 경험과 이론의 지속적인 발전에도 불구하고 교량구조물의 실제 거동을 예측하고 안전성을 평가하는 것은 현재까지도 쉽지 않은 일이다. 본 연구에서는 GPS를 이용한 RTK 측정기법에 의하여 장대교량의 거동을 측정하고 기설된 교량의 모니터링 계측치를 비교 분석함으로써 GPS를 이용한 교량의 거동분석의 적용가능성 및 신뢰성 확보가능 여부를 파악하고자 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.110-113
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 무선센서노드을 이용하여 강판형 철도교량의 전형적인 손상유형인 거더부의 휨강성 저하와 지점부의 볼트풀림을 효과적으로 모니터링할 수 있는 하이브리드 모니터링 기법을 제안하였다. 이를 위해 다음과 같은 연구가 수행되었다. 첫째, 본 연구진에 의해 개발된 가속도 및 임피던스기반 무선센서노드를 간략하게 소개하였다. 둘째, 가속도 및 임피던스 신호를 이용하여 효과적인 손상모니터링이 가능한 기법들을 선정하였다. 마지막으로, 개발된 가속도 및 임피던스기반 무선센서노드를 모형 강판형 철도교에 설치하고, 일련의 손상 시나리오에 따른 하이브리드 모니터링을 수행하여 무선센서노드 및 모니터링 기법의 성능을 평가하였다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.663-673
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• 2011

In this study, we analysed the effect of the fire source in the warehouse under the bridge and the height of the bridge using FDS code. To compare accuracy of simulation results, we simulated the experimental result with unit combustibles which is heptane as well as the mock-up test. Using this method, we evaluated the fire safety of the bridge which contains spalling and strength damage of concrete as well as damage of reinforcements according to the fire source and the height of the bridge. Most of the bridges are vulnerable to spalling of concrete. The book combustion has the strongest fire intensity which is expected to damage the bridge less than 30m height in the three types of the fire sources. The bridge over the 30m height can ensure the fire safety in the case of the rubber combustion.