• Magazine of the Korea Institute for Structural Maintenance and Inspection
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.69-73
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• 2014

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.129-134
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• 2009

To ensure the safety and functionality of a railroad bridge, maintaining the integrity of the bridge via continuous structural health monitoring is important. However, most structural integrity monitoring methods proposed to date are based on modal responses which require the extracting process and have limited availability. In this paper, the applicability of the existing damage identification method based on free-vibration reponses to time-domain deflection shapes due to moving train load is investigated. Since the proposed method directly utilizes the time-domain responses of the structure due to the moving vehicles, the extracting process for modal responses can be avoided, and the applicability of structural health evaluation can be enhanced. The feasibility of the presented method is verified via a numerical example of a simple plate girder bridge.

• Magazine of the Korea Institute for Structural Maintenance and Inspection
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.10-16
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• 2014

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.559-560
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• 2009

This Study was performed to evaluate about load bearing capacity of PSC Girder with unbonded 2nd tendon. The evaluation was performed static loading test, dynamic loading test and structural analysis.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.1-9
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• 2016

Railroad bridges account for 25% of the entire high-speed rail network. Railway bridges are subject to gradual structural degradation or fatigue accumulation due to consistent and repeating excitation by fast moving trains. Wireless sensing technology has opened up a new avenue for bridge health monitoring owing to its low-cost, high fidelity, and multiple sensing capability. On the other hand, measuring the transient response during train passage is quite challenging that the current wireless sensor system cannot be applied due to the intrinsic time delay of the sensor network. Therefore, this paper presents a framework for monitoring such transient responses with wireless sensing systems using 1) real-time excessive vibration monitoring through ultra-low-power MEMS accelerometers, and 2) post-event time synchronization scheme. The ultra-low power accelerometer continuously monitors the vibration and trigger network when excessive vibrations are detected. The entire network of wireless smart sensors starts sensing through triggering and the post-event time synchronization is conducted to compensate for the time error on the measured responses. The results of this study highlight the potential of detecting the impact load and triggering the entire network, as well as the effectiveness of the post-event time synchronized scheme for compensating for the time error. A numerical and experimental study was carried out to validate the proposed sensing hardware and time synchronization method.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.84-93
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• 2016

The signal characteristic of radar wave on concrete decks is determined by the attenuation of the radar due to the conversion of EM(Electromagnetic) energy to thermal energy through electrical conduction, dielectric relaxation, scattering, and geometric spreading. In this study, it is found that the attenuation of radar signal received on top rebars in bare deck concrete with 2 way travel time shows a general decreasing linear trend because of its same relative permittivity and conductivity. The radar signal after depth-normalization, can then be interpreted as being principally influenced by the content of chlorides penetrating cover concrete, which caused corrosion of rebars in bridge decks.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.38-48
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• 2015

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.267-273
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• 2002

이 논문은 계측신호 분석에 의한 교량구조물의 건전성 모니터링에 관한 것으로, 2 단계 인공신경망을 사용한 구조물의 손상발견 기법에 대하여 제안하고 있다. 첫 번째 단계의 인공신경망은 구조물로부터 측정된 가속도 신호를 입력으로 사용하여 각각의 가속도계로부터 측정된 신호의 변형정도를 나타내는 신호변형지수를 출력하도록 설계되었다. 손상의 발생 여부를 나타내는 첫 번째 단계 인공신경망의 출력값은 다시 두 번째 단계 인공신경망의 입력으로 사용되어 손상의 위치와 정도를 파악하는데 쓰여진다. 모형교량을 사용한 실험으로부터 얻어진 가속도신호를 사용하여 제안된 방법의 타당성을 확인하였으며, 항후 실 교량에 대한 실험을 통하여 현장 적용의 가능성을 확인할 계획이다.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.85-92
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• 2003

This paper presents an electric power generating system for stand-alone health monitoring sensor unit of bridge structure based on ambient vibration of bridge. In this paper, a novel electric power generator which has minimum effect of armature reaction is proposed. The related mechanical and electrical design equations are obtained, and a pilot generator has been implemented. In addition, the charging system for extremely low generator current is discussed, and some improvements are identified for the system. This investigation reveals that diode characteristics of rectifier is dominant factor in the charging process. Finally, both the simulation, which uses real measurement data of the Namhae bridge as input of the pilot generator, and indoor test are carried out. The results showed the applicability and effectiveness of the stand-alone vibration powered generator.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.597-600
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 한강 상 교량인 올림픽대교를 대상으로 첨단 무선센서를 구조물 주요 부재에 설치하고 본 센서를 통해 취득되는 데이터를 활용하여 실시간 구조 건전도 모니터링 시스템을 구축하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 본 시스템은 유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크(USN, Ubiquitous Sensor Network)기술을 적용하여 림픽대교 주요 구조 부재 모니터링을 위한 센서 및 데이터 로깅 시스템으로 구성되어 운영된다. 본 연구에서는 1축 가속도계, 3축가속도계, 온도계, 경사계, 풍향풍속계 5종의 무선 센서를 총 10개 설치하였으며, 센서의 전원은 태양광 자가 전원공급 시스템으로 하였다. 데이터는 시스템 구축완료 후 9월1일부터 9월 7일까지의 일주일간의 데이터를 활용하여, 기존에 설치되어 있던 유선시스템으로부터 취득된 데이터와 비교분석하였으며, 이를 통행 USN 기반의 교량 계측시스템에 대한 실용성을 검증하였다.