• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.666-674
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• 2010

There is a few problems in the preliminary seismic performance evaluation procedure of subway infrastructures, such as cut-and-cover tunnel structures and bridge structures, recently because the characteristics of subway infrastructures are not properly considered in the procedure. In particular, the evaluation procedure of vehicular bridge structures is applied to subway bridges without any modification. Moreover, the present evaluation procedure is lack of both theoretical and empirical backgrounds, which makes the evaluation less reliable. This paper presents problems in the existing preliminary evaluation procedure and proposes possible modification(revision) to the procedure.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.19-31
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• 2011

The current Korean criteria for seismic performance evaluated by dynamic analysis regulates that the horizontal displacement and vertical settlement of a dam body, including the static deformation, should be within 1% of the dam height. However, there has been weak theoretical support, so that the current criteria have to be validated. Korea is in a region of low or moderate seismicity located inside the Eurasian plate, and few earthquakes with considerable magnitudes and intensities have been recorded in the area. Therefore, in this study, published data measured in overseas countries were collected in order to construct a database and validate the current criteria. In addition, dynamic centrifuge tests and a parametric study using numerical simulations were performed in order to investigate the effect on the horizontal displacement and settlement of a dam body and to validate the current criteria.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.2-5
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• 2010

최근 공동주택 거주자의 공간변화 욕구에 대응하기 위하여 가변성 평면이 가능한 구조시스템에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이에 따라 건식벽체 구조시스템, 복합 무량 벽체 구조시스템, 격간벽 시스템 등 구조적으로 안정성이 확보되면서 공간가변성이 뛰어난 구조시스템이 대안으로 제시되었다. 본 연구에서는 격간벽 시스템의 지진해석을 통해 내진성능을 평가하였다. 비선형 정적해석 및 동적해석 결과 격간벽 시스템은 벽식 구조시스템에 비하여 초과강도가 작고, 연성이 다소 감소하지만 FEMA-356에서 정하는 붕괴 방지 수준을 만족하여 충분한 내진성능을 보유한 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.117-127
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• 2012

As increasing number of large-size earthquake around Korean peninsula, many interests have been focused to the earthquake strengthening of existing structures. Fiber reinforced plastic composite material is one of strengthening material widely used to increase seismic performance of structures. It should have high stiffness as well as large ductility to provide best strengthening result. Thus selection of stiffener and fiber in composite is of important. In this study, the optimal combination of fiber and stiffener is selected with variety of tensile tests. In order to investigate performance of chosen composite material, several finite element analyses are performed with proposed FRP composite material for existing RC columns. It is discussed that the seismic performance of strengthened columns through the load-displacement relationship. It is shown that the proposed composite material can increase the strength as well as ductility of exiting RC columns.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.22-29
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• 2014

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.424-424
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• 1999

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.3-20
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• 1998

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.477.2-477.2
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.253-256
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• 2008

The objective of this study is to evaluate the seismic weakness of existing nonseismic low-rise piloti-type apartment buildings which have the irregularities of weak story, soft story, and torsion simultaneously. A prototype 4-story RC building was selected, analyzed using linear dynamic procedure and finally evaluated according to the acceptance criteria of FEM356. This building satisfies the criteria.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.1-12
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• 2008

As internal and external seismic experiment results, the seismic performance of RC bridge piers is largely dependent on the ratio of lap-spliced bars to all longitudinal reinforcing bars in plastic hinge regions, and confining effects of transverse reinforcements. Capacity and displacement ductility of non-seismically designed existing RC piers are reduced by lap splices in plastic hinge regions. The provision for the lap splice of longitudinal reinforcing bars was not specified in KBDS (Korean Bridge Design Specifications) before the implementation of 1992 seismic design code, but the ratio of lap-spliced bars to all longitudinal reinforcing bars in plastic hinge regions is restricted to 50% in the 2005 version of KBDS. This paper presents a seismic assessment of RC piers at lap-splicing ratios of 0%, 50%, and 100%. Through a comparison of experimental and analytic results of RC piers, we introduce an appropriate ultimate strain of confined concrete in plastic hinge regions with lap-splices, and propose a method for estimating displacement ductility ratios of non-seismically designed existing RC piers using fiber element analysis.