• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.65-72
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• 2003

The objective of this study is to estimate the frequency characteristics of group walking loads based on the information of measured responses. At first, dynamic properties such as natural frequencies and modes are obtained from input/output relation for building structures by heel drop test. Second, a method to estimate group walking loads by the transfer functions from measured responses to group walking loads is proposed. The method turned out to estimate the group walking loads accurately. Higher modes could be important in estimating the amplitude of group walking loads with the information of single walking load.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.9 no.4 s.44
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• pp.19-28
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• 2005

Long span structures with low natural frequencies such as shopping malls, large offices, and assembly rooms may experience signification dynamic responses due to human activities. In many cases, the group activities are common thing in comparison with the single activity. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the responses of building structure subjected to group human loads using mode shapes. For this purpose, equations to estimate the magnitudes ol responses ol structure subjected to group walking loads are derived. And the correlation of loads is verified for identifying the relation of each human load composing of group human loads using two load cells. The method is proposed for evaluating the responses of structure subjected to group loads using mode shapes and correlation function related to each human loads. The effectiveness ol the proposed method is verified analytically using a simple beam and floor and experimentally on a footbridge measuring the structural response induced by group pedestrians for the case of synchronization or not. Results indicate that the amplitudes of group walking loads can be easily estimated if the mode shapes are available, and that the corresponding structural responses can be estimated easily by the simple response measurement using the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.117-124
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• 2003

Long span structures with low natural frequencies such as shopping malls, large offices, and assembly rooms may experience signification dynamic responses due to human activities. In this study, equations to estimate the magnitudes of group walking loads are derived and a simple procedure to estimate and evaluate the corresponding response of the existing and new building structures subjected to human loads is proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified analytically using a simple floor and experimentally on a footbridge measuring the structural response induced by group pedestrians. Results indicate that the amplitudes of group walking loads can be easily estimated if the mode shapes are available, and that the corresponding structural responses can be estimated easily by the simple response measurement using the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1995.04a
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• pp.813-821
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• 1995

본 연구의 목적은 심리육체적 방법(Psychophysical method)을 이용하여 다양한 중량물운반 유형에서의 최대허용하중을 구하는 것이며 이의 타당성을 생리학적 방법(physiological method)을 이용하여 검토하는 것이다. 또한, 인체측정과 근력측정 자료를 이용하여 각 운반유형에서의 최대허용 하중을 예측하는 모형을 개발하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 네 가지의 운반유형(Front carrying, One-hand side carrying, Two-hands side carrying 그리고 Back carrying)과 두가지의 보행 속도 (50.0 그리고 79.2 m/min)를 주요변수로 8가지의 작업에 대해 무작위로 선택하여 각 작업에 대한 최대허용 하중을 시간과 경비의 감소측면에서 폭넓게 사용되고 있는 심리육체적 방법으로 구하였다. 피실험자는 운반작업의 경력이 있는 실제 작업자군(n=7)과 그렇지 않은 학생군(n=10)으로 구분하여 건강한 남성 피실험자를 대상으로 연구를 실시하였다. 주실험전에 인체측정과 근력측정을 실시하였다. 이후에 심리육체적 방법과 생리학적 방법을 실시간(on-line)으로 실시하였다. 연구결과로 학생군과 작업자군간의 신체조건은 뚜렷한 차이를 보이지 않았으나 근력은 작업자가 우월하였다. 심리육체적 방법을 사용하여 도출된 최대허용 하중은 학생군, 작업자군 모두 운반유형의 변화에 따라 유의함을 보였다.(학생군:p=.0001 작업자군:p=.0001). 반면에 속도의 변화는 유의하지 않았다(학생군:p=.7954 작업자군:p=.9231). 또한 학생군과 작업자군 모두 Back carrying에서 가증 큰 하중을 운반하였다(학생군:8.16kg 작업자군:12.9kg). 심박수를 이용한 생리학적 연구에서는 평균 심박수가 거의 100 이하를 유지하므로써 피실험자들이 8시간 작업기준으로 보아 무리가 없는 최대허용 하중을 결정하였음을 보였다. 또한 각 운반작업에 대한 최대허용 하중을 예측하는 회귀모형을 제시하였다.