• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.13 no.4 s.56
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• pp.137-147
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• 2009

In this study, several flexural vibration characteristics of prestressed concrete girders due to changes in prestress forces are experimentally analyzed. In order to achieve the objective, the following approaches are implemented. First, several methods to extract vibration response features from output-only signal are selected. Next, a large-scaled prestressed concrete girder model is constructed to analyze relation between the prestress forces and the vibration features in the prestressed concrete girder. Then acceleration responses are measured from the girder for several prestress force scenarios. Finally, vibration characteristics of the prestressed concrete girder due to change in prestress force are experimentally analyzed. The values of features extracted by the selected methods are reduced due to prestress-loss. Especially, the value of features are linearly reduced in the early prestress-loss.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2020

The wind responses of twin buildings are determined by the characteristics of wind loads and the dynamic characteristics of the structural systems of the buildings. In this study, the characteristics of wind pressure that influence wind responses were identified for two different spacings between the twin buildings using a wind tunnel test and the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method. Structural dynamic characteristics were also identified using 3D structural system modeling. The double modal transformation method was utilized to evaluate the characteristics of wind pressure for across-wind and along-wind conditions and the effect of the dynamic characteristics of each structure on the wind responses. The channeling and vortex effects were identified through the POD method. Across-wind loads were significantly affected by the spacings between the twin buildings, whereas along-wind loads were minimally affected. Similarly, while using the double modal transformation method, a significant difference was noticed in case of the cross-participation coefficients in the across-wind direction condition for the different spacings between the buildings; however, the along-wind direction condition showed negligible difference. Therefore, the spacing between the two buildings plays a more important role in across-wind responses compared to along-wind responses.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.3 s.49
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• pp.65-75
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• 2006

Nonlinear pushover analysis is used to evaluate the earthquake response of building structures. To accurately predict the inelastic response of a structure, the prescribed story load profile should be able to describe the earthquake force profile which actually occurs during the time-history response of the structure. In the present study, a new modal combination method was developed to predict the earthquake load profiles of building structures. In the proposed method, multiple story load profiles are predicted by combining the modal spectrum responses multiplied by the modal combination factors. Parametric studies were performed far moment-resisting frames and walls. Based on the results. the modal combination factors were determined according to the hierarchy of each mode affecting the dynamic responses of structures. The proposed modal combination method was applied to prototype buildings with and without vertical irregularity. The results showed that the proposed method predicts the actual story load profiles which occur during the time-history responses of the structures.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.225-235
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• 2001

본 연구는 물리·역학적 특성을 고려한 점탄성 감쇠기의 수치모델에 의한 강뼈대구조물의 지진응답개선에 관해서 조사하고자 한다. 온도변화에 의한 감쇠기 이력거동에 미치는 영향을 고려하기 위하여, 점탄성 감쇠기의 모델은 온도-주기 등가원리와 더불어 개선된 분수도함수법에 기초하여 정식화하였다. 본 감쇠기 모델의 알고리즘을 일반화된 강뼈대구조물의 비선형 동적 해석 프로그램에 추가하였다. 강뼈대구조물에 대한 해석 예를 통하여, 제시된 모델에 의한 점탄성 감쇠기의 지진응답개선에 관한 효과를 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.662-665
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 전역적-국부적 구조건전성 모니터링을 위한 무선센서노드로서 가속도 및 임피던스 응답신호의 계측이 가능한 다기능 무선센서노드를 개발하였다. 이를 위해 첫째, 가속도 및 임피던스 응답의 계측이 가능한 다기능 무선센서노드를 설계 및 제작하였다. 둘째, 다기능 무선센서노드의 성능검증을 위하여 트러스교 모형을 대상으로 진동실험을 수행하였다. 셋째, 다기능 무선센서노드로부터 취득된 가속도 및 임피던스 응답을 이용하여 트러스 구조물의 구조 건전성 모니터링을 통해 다기능 무선센서노드의 적용성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.9 no.1 s.41
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• pp.1-7
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• 2005

The optimal seismic retrofitting of NPP(Nuclear Power Plant) cabinet structures that contain seismic category 1 relays was studied in this paper. During earthquake event, the failure modes of relays are not appeared in form of structural failure, but are appeared in form of contact chatter of relay. Therefore, the retrofitting of cabinet has to be aimed at the reducing of the structural response, such as acceleration. In this study, the optimal characteristic values of dampers were searched by ${\mu}$-GA (micro-Genetic Algorithm) scheme for several installation patterns. To keep accuracy and efficiency of analysis, the structural models of cabinet were considered as a frame structure. The responses of structure were obtained inform of acceleration response spectra derived from the results of nonlinear time history analysis including damping nonlinearity. The objective function of the optimum procedure was constructed based on the maximum ratio of maximum spectral value and target GERS (General Equipment Ruggedness Spectra). The results show the good improvements of fitness for adequate retrofitting pattern. Especially, the improvements of fitness were remarkable when the values of damping exponents are low.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.95-102
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• 2010

Spatial structures have the different dynamic characteristics from general rahmen structures and many studies on dynamic behavior of it is conducted. But most studies was conducted about the particular shape of spatial structures and, directly, the usable results of studies are very limited for seismic design of spatial structures with the lower structure. So, this study is conducted about the truss arch structure that the basic dynamic characteristics of spatial structure is inherent in, and the change of its seismic response is analyzed when columns have different length on both ends of it. According to the difference of column's length on both ends, the vertical acceleration response of truss arch structure is affected more than the horizontal acceleration response of it. Therefore, when the stiffness of lower structures that support the upper structure is different, the consideration of the vertical response is significantly required for the seismic design of spatial structures.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.105-118
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• 2005

As the number of users who ask and give answers in the query-answer documents retrieval system is growing exponentially, the query-answer document become a crucial information resource, as a new type of information retrieval service. A query-answer document Consists of three structural parts : a query, explanation on query, and answers Chosen by users who asked the query. To identify the role of each structural part in representing the topics of documents, the three structural parts were clustered automatically and the results of several clustering tests were compared in this study.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.13-23
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• 1992

본 소고는 철근콘크리트 구조물에 관련된 현재의 실험적, 해석적 연구의 수준을 정리 요약한 것으로서 이력모델에 따른 철근콘크리트 구조물의 응답과 모델의 선택시에 빈번히 만나게 되는 문제점 및 해석시 응답모델의 선택 등에 대해 기술하였다. 실제적으로 R/C 구조물의 비선형 이력모델은 그 범위가 매우 넓고 다양하기 때문에 일률적으로 설명하기가 매우 어려운 점이 있다. 여기서는 철근콘크리트 구조물의 이력모델의 종류 및 범위에 대하여 소개하고 그 특성 및 형성과정에 대해 간략하게 설명하기로 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.989-996
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• 2010

Statistical regression and/or interpolation models have been used for data analysis and response prediction using the results of the physical experiments and/or computer simulations in structural engineering fields. These models have been employed during the last decade to develop a variety of design methodologies. However, these models only handled responses with respect to space variables such as size and shape of structures and cannot handle time-variant dynamic responses, i.e. response varying with time. In this research, statistical space-time metamodels based on multiple response approach that can handle responses with respect to both space variables and a time variable are proposed. Regression and interpolation models such as the response surface model (RSM) and kriging model were developed for handling time-variant dynamic responses of structural engineering. We evaluate the accuracies of the responses predicted by the two statistical space-time metamodels by comparing them with the responses obtained by the physical experiments and/or computer simulations.