• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.141-148
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• 1998

The chloride attack of the top mat of reinforcing bars is a major cause of deterioration of comcrete deck of plate girder bridges. This is caused by a current design method which requires a top mat of reinforcing bars to resist a negative bending moment in bridge decks. In recently, empirical evidence has indicated that the top transverse reinforcing bars can patially or fully be eliminated without jeopardizing the structural integrity of a deck. So, one of the most efficient way to increase durability of concrete deck of bridges is the development of new design method that reduce or eliminate the top mat reinforcing bars, mad it is possible by the exact analysis that considering the negative bending moment reducing effect which introduced by relative deflection of plate girders. In this study, we develop the new bridge deck analysis method that considered the effect of relative girder deflection by applying the principles of slope deflection method of frames, and that is fine tuned with results of finite element analysis. This new approach evaluate a bending moment in a deck based on the effect of relative girder deflection as well as the magnitude of wheel loads, the girder spacing and stiffness, deck stiffness and the span length

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.227-236
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• 2002

The purpose of this study makes a retrofit and rehabilitation practice trough the analysis and the improvement for the underlying problem of current retrofit and rehabilitation methods. Therefore, the deterioration process, the damage cause, the condition classification, the fatigue mechanism and the applied quantity of strengthening methods for RC deck slabs were analyzed. Artificial neural networks are efficient computing techniques that are widely used to solve complex problems in many fields. In this study, a back-propagation neural network model for estimating a management on existing reinforced concrete bridge decks from damage cause, damage type, and integrity assessment at the initial stage is need. The training and testing of the network were based on a database of 36. Four different network models were used to study the ability of the neural network to predict the desirable output of increasing degree of accuracy. The neural networks is trained by modifying the weights of the neurons in response to the errors between the actual output values and the target output value. Training was done iteratively until the average sum squared errors over all the training patterns were minimized. This generally occurred after about 5,000 cycles of training.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.557-566
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• 2002

This paper presents an optimum deck and girder system design for minimizing the life-cycle cost(LCC) of steel box girder bridges. The problem of optimum LCC design of steel box girder bridges is formulated as that of minimization of the expected total LCC that consists of initial cost, maintenance cost and expected retrofit costs for strength, deflection and crack. To demonstrate the cost effectiveness of LCC design of steel box girder bridges, the LCC optimum design is compared with conventional design method for steel box girder bridges. From the numerical investigations, it may be positively stated that the optimum design of steel box girder bridges based on LCC will lead to mote rational, economical and safer design.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.565-570
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• 2007

Fiber reinforced polymer(FRP) composite decks are new to bridge applications and hence not much literature exists on their structural mechanical behavior. As there are many differences between numerical displacements through static analysis of the primary model and experimental displacements through static load tests, system identification (SI)techniques such as Neural Networks (NN) and support vector machines (SVM) utilized in the optimization of the FE model. During the process of identification, displacements were used as input while stiffness as outputs. Through the comparison of numerical displacements after SI and experimental displacements, it can note that NN and SVM would be effective SI methods in modeling an FRP deck. Moreover, two methods such as response surface method and iteration were proposed to optimize the estimated stiffness. Finally, the results were compared through the mean square error (MSE) of the differences between numerical displacements and experimental displacements at 6 points.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Advanced Composite Structures
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.30-35
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• 2011

This study investigates the optimum section properties of newly developed steel-concrete composite beam. For that purpose we developed computer program calculating section properties. The suggested new beam section highly contribute to save inter-story height and reduce construction duration and cost compared with conventional steel works such as H-beam and column + RC slab system. But the section shape have different section modulus with upper and lower fiber because of the unsymmetric cross section. Therefore the parametric study on thickness-ratio of top and bottom flange plate is needed. In this paper the change of neutral axis and section modulus for thickness-ratio of up and down flage plate is analysed and discussed.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.719-725
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• 2008

In this paper, noise and vibration reduction for floating-floored ship cabin is studied. A mock-up is built by using 6 mm steel plate, and two identical cabins are made for simulation of ship cabins. When a speaker is used as a sound and vibration sources, it is shown that floating floor is more effective in isolating sound than bare deck by 2-5 dB. It is also shown that structure-borne noise of the bare deck is greater than that of floating-floored deck by 3-10 dB. For tapping machine excitation, it is found that the effect of floating floor in airborne noise and structure-borne noise reduction reaches up to 40-50 dB for high frequency ranges.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.33-41
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• 2017

Composite Floor system infilled with PCM(Phase Change Material) between upper and lower steel plates was developed to apply the steel frame. When steel frames were applied this system, it can absolutely reduce the duration of construction due to dry construction method. However to apply this system as a structural floor member without fire resistance covering, it must have 2 hours fire resistance performance. Because PCM consisted of three quarters of section with thermal insulation performance, fire resistance performance of this floor system was expected to easily have 2 hours fire resistance performance. This paper was to investigate behavior characteristics of PCM infilled floor system at elevated temperature using FEM analysis to develop the fire resistance performance of it.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.233-239
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• 2002

Reinforced concrete deck slabs are directly affected by traffic loads and they are also susceptible to weather-related problems, such as cracking, reinforcement corrosion, spatting, scaling, delamination, leakage, efflorescence and so on. Some of these defects are caused by water which seeps through pavements and trapped between pavements and deck slabs. For durability of reinforced concrete deck slabs and pavements, it is very important to protect deck slabs and drain the trapped water out. To develop the trapped water drainage system, the following studies have been performed in Korea Highway Cooperation: related researches a re reviewed; for six bridges, deck slabs are thoroughly investigated; new system to effectively drain the trapped water out is proposed; the proposed system is installed and evaluated. The proposed system is proved to be effective to drain the trapped water out and is expected to increase the durability of reinforced concrete deck slabs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.699-699
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• 2012

하천 홍수량의 정확한 측정은 홍수 관리, 수자원 관리, 수공구조물의 설계와 시공, 수환경 관리에 있어서 매우 중요한 의미를 지닌다. 따라서 국가는 전문기관을 통하여 국가하천의 홍수량을 정확하게 측정하려는 노력을 하여왔고 이러한 목적에 따라 다양한 홍수량 측정방법이 개발되어 왔다. 전 세계적으로 이러한 움직임을 대변하고 있는 최신의 기술은 ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler)를 이용하여 하천을 횡단하면서 유속과 수심을 측정하여 유량을 측정하는 방법이며, 이러한 횡단 유량을 측정하기 위해서 원격으로 조정하는 유량 계측보트를 이용하는 방법이 각광을 받고 있다. 그러나 ADCP를 하천에서 이용할 때 수면 아래 10%, 하상 위 10% 정도는 ADCP를 이용하여 정확하게 유속을 측정하기가 어렵기 때문에 이론적인 가정에 근거한 유량산정 방법을 통하여 구하고 있다. 따라서 최신의 유량측정 방법이라고 하더라도 기본적으로 20% 정도의 유량측정 에러를 포함할 가능성이 많고 실제로도 5-15% 정도의 측정오차를 갖는 것이 일반적이다. 이러한 측정오차를 5% 이내로 줄일 수 있다면 홍수 관리, 수자원 관리, 수공구조물의 설계와 시공 등에서 보다 효율적이고 정확한 관리가 실행될 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 ADCP와 원격유량계측보트를 이용하여 하천의 홍수량 측정시 유량측정의 정확도를 향상시킬 수 있도록 1) 불규칙한 홍수량 횡단면을 갖는 측정결과로부터 최적 횡단면을 추출하는 기술과 2) 홍수량 측정시 바닥층 유속 프로파일을 산정할 수 있는 최적 유속분포 확정 기술에 대해 연구하고자 하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.61-69
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• 2011

The noise and vibration which are occurred by equipment and rail under the train are directly delivered to passenger and effect on comfort. For this reason, Floating floor structure has been applied to Rolling Sotck for minimizing the noise and vibration. And in respect of Floating floor, the strength is an important design element. Because the train has many heavy equipments and accommodates lots of passenger. At the early design stage of Floating floor, different joint type and thickness of plywood, etc. were applied and some problem happened. To solve the problems and apply to the future projects, the standard model of Floating floor structure was required. To find optimum design and standard model for Floating floor structure of Rolling Stock, the applied Floating floor models were analysed by CAE (computer-aided engineering).