• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.136-145
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• 2013

Social interest in the seismic retrofit of the structure is growing massive earthquake that occurred recently. The brittle fracture of Non-seismically designed Columns lead to full collapse of the building. In the past, cross-sectional expansion method, a steel plate reinforcing method is applied mainly in recent years, fiber-reinforced method utilizing the advantages of the composite material are preferred. However, the reinforcement methods such as this, there is a drawback to induce physical damage to structures, and time consuming work space is large. IIn this study, FRP seismic reinforcement was developed using the Aluminum connector and the composite material (Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer). Then, the optimum quantities of FRP seismic reinforcement was determined using a nonlinear finite element analysis program. Finally, the quantity decision process through the design and analysis of FRP reinforcement was suggested.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.24-33
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• 2017

Domestic urban railway underground station structures, which were built in the 1970s ad 1980s, had been constructed as Cut-and-Cover construction system without seismic design. Because the trends of earthquake occurrence is constantly increasing all over the world as well as the Korean Peninsula, massive human casualties and severe properties and structures damage might be occurred in an non-retrofitted underground station during an earthquake above a certain scale. Therefore, to evaluate the retrofit effect and soil-structure interaction of seismic retrofitted underground station, a centrifugal shaking table test with enhanced stiffness on its structural main member are carried out on 1/60 scaled model using the Kobe and Northridge earthquakes. The seismic retrofitted members, which are columns, side walls, and slabs, are evaluated to comparing with existing non-retrofitted centrifuge test results Also, to simulate the scaled ground using variation of shear velocity according to site conditions such as ground depth and density, resonant column test is performed. From the test results, the relative displacement behavior between ground and structures shows comparatively similar in ground, but is increased on ground surface. The seismic retrofit effects were measured using relative displacements and moment behavior of column and side walls rather than slabs. Additionally, earthquake wave can be used to main design factor due to large structural deformation on Kobe earthquake wave than Norhridge earthquake wave.

• Magazine of the Korea Institute for Structural Maintenance and Inspection
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2017

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.87-98
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• 2009

It is well known that reinforcement details in the plastic hinge region of bridge piers give the most important effects on the seismic performance of bridges, from investigations of bridge failures in many earthquake events and in laboratory tests. Longitudinal reinforcement details give larger effects than lateral reinforcement details do. The lap-spliced longitudinal steel shows slip during earthquake events, which results in low ductility and inadequate seismic performance. However, before the issue of the earthquake design code, a considerable number of bridge piers were constructed with lap-spliced longitudinal steel in the plastic hinge region. Therefore, a large amount of research has been conducted on the seismic performance and retrofit of circular and rectangular shaped bridge columns with lap-spliced longitudinal steel. However, research on wall type piers is very limited. This paper investigates the seismic performance of a pier wall by a quasi-static test in the weak axis direction and proposes a retrofit method. From the test with variables being the longitudinal steel detail and the transverse steel amount, it is shown that the currently used definition of yield displacement is not adequate. Therefore a new definition of yield displacement for the ductility investigation for a pier wall is proposed. In addition, a retrofit method by steel plates and bolts is proposed to improve ductility, and test results show that slip of the longitudinal steel is prevented by up to a considerably large displacement.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.1 s.47
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• pp.25-32
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• 2006

In this study the seismic performance of welded steel moment connections to built-up box columns in the existing building built before 1994 Northridge earthquake was evaluated by cyclic tests. According to the test results, the pre-Northridge steel moment connections to the box columns also suffered from brittle fracture similar to that in the H-shaped column connections. However, the flange force transfer mechanism of the box column connections was substantially different from that of the H-shaped column connections, and the patterns of crack propagation may be changed due to the shape of the box column. Therefore, it is required to develop proper details for the box column connections instead of using the research results for H-shaped column connections in order to enhance the seismic performance the connections.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.13-22
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• 2018

In this study, seismic performance of existing RC frames reinforced with steel chevron bracing systems was experimentally evaluated. For this purpose, the unreinforced base specimen and seismically reinforced specimens with steel chevron bracing systems were fabricated and tested. Both strength and stiffness of the reinforced specimens were targeted about 2-3 times larger than the base specimen. Test results showed that the stiffness, strength, and ductility of the reinforced specimens considerably improved than those of unreinforced base specimen. Therefore, the results from this study could offer the basic information on the developing design guideline for the seismic reinforcement of RC frames.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.16 no.2 s.69
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• pp.247-255
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• 2004

An experimental program was undertaken to develop seismic retrofit methods of existing steel moment connections with floor slab for improved seismic performance. Five full-scale composite specimens were tested under cyclic loading. Conventional through-diaphragm connections [please check this; no search results were found for through-diaphragm connections] composed of square-tube column and H-beam were retrofitted by adding either a bottom-flange dogbone (RBS) or an improved welded horizontal stiffener at the beam bottom flange. The effectiveness of the proposed retrofit connections schemes was evaluated. The specimen retrofitted using the RBS concept at the bottom flange showed poor connection ductility. In contrast. specimens with the proposed horizontal stiffener details exhibited improved connection ductility.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.29-29
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• 2011

국내에서 기존건축물의 내진성능평가 기법이 연구되기 시작한지 20여 년간 다양한 평가방법이 제안되었다. 그러나, 제안된 평가방법은 미국이나 일본의 평가 방법을 도입 및 수정하는 내용이 주가 되어 국내실정에 맞지 않는 부분도 많이 발견되었다. 따라서 국내에서 제안된 기존 건축물의 내진성능 평가기법, 지진피해예측에 근거한 보강건축물의 합리적인 선정방법 및 이들 건축물에 적합한 내진보강방법 등의 연구는 아직까지 초보적인 단계라고 할 수 있다. 이에 본 연구의 목적은 이러한 평가 기법을 적용한 국내 저층구조물의 내진성능을 평가하는 것이다. 저층구조물의 내진성능을 평가하기 위하여 1988년 내진설계가 도입되기 이전에 건립된 4층 규모의 학교구조물을 해석대상 구조물로 선정하였다. 대상 해석구조물의 내진성능평가는 일본의 내진성능 평가법을 참고하여 평가절차가 다소 복잡한 부분을 국내 실정에 맞게 개선시킨 내진화 우선도 평가방법과 정밀한 내진성능을 평하는 방법으로 세계적으로 널리 사용되고 있는 ATC-40 성능평가방법에서 등가단자유 모델로 변환 과정에서 등가유효감쇠 및 등가유효주기 산정 관계식의 문제점을 개선한 FEMA-440의 선형화 성능평가방법(Linearization Method)을 사용하여 구조물의 성능을 평가하였다. 내진 성능 평가를 위해 현재 전 세계적으로 널리 사용되고 있는 구조물 비선형 전용 해석 프로그램인 Perform-3D를 이용하여 해석을 수행하였다. 본 연구를 통해 기존 저층구조물로 선정한 학교구조물에 대한 내진성능을 평가한 결과, 내진화 우선도 평가법 및 FEMA-440의 내진성능 평가는 유사한 경향의 결과를 나타내었고, 두 평가결과를 요약하면 Y방향은 보와 기둥에 끼인 조적벽체의 영향으로 별도의 내진성능이 향상 보강이 필요없으나, X방향은 창문하부 허리 조적벽 등의 영향으로 다소 취성적인 내진성능을 보유하고 있어 충분한 내진성능 확보를 위한 추가적인 보강이 필요한 것으로 판단된다.

• The magazine of the Korean Society for Advanced Composite Structures
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.25-30
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• 2015

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.287-297
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• 2022

This paper presents experimental and analytical studies on the lateral cyclic behavior of RC columns actively confined with iron-based shape memory alloy (Fe-SMA) strips. Based on the Anexperimental study, we investigated the effectiveness of active confinement through compression testings of concrete cylinders confined by Fe SMA strips and carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets. The test results showed that the specimens confined with Fe SMA strips significantly increased the deformation capacity of the concrete, even under lower confining pressures, compared to those specimensconfined with CFRP sheets. The experimental results were used to develop finite-element models of RC columns confined with Fe SMA or CFRP in their plastic-hinge region. After validating the proposed analytical model through comparison with the results from a previous RC column test, a series of lateral cyclic load analyses were carried out for the RC columns confined with Fe SMA and CFRP. The analytical results revealed that the lateral cyclic behavior of the Fe SMA-confined column was greatly enhanced in terms of deformation and energy dissipation capacities compared with tothat of the as-built and CFRP-confined columns.