• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.73-74
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• 2010

The objective of this research is to improve the flexural capacity of RC Beams. To delay prematured tension failure of concrete specimen and to improve flexural capacity of RC beam by increasing the contribution of FRP strengthening plates, a method for inserting a laminate to the interface between concrete and FRP materials. This method makes it possible to increase overall flexural performance of RC beam by FRP plate compared to normal RC beams and RC beam strengthened by bonded FRP plates. The new bonding technique is applicable to all types of reinforcement available FRP laminate, and in principle is also applicable to materials other than FRP.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.39-48
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• 2015

Reinforced concrete (RC) structures strengthened with FRP materials would cause the loss of the reinforcing effect and the sudden failure of the structure due to the debonding of FRP. The debonding fracture strength of the FRP-strengthened concrete structures has been evaluated using the same strength method as applied in RC structures based on the debonding strain of FRP. However, the values of the FRP debonding strain are different according to design guidelines. Thus, this study carried out an experimental study on RC beams reinforced with GFRP and evaluated the debonding fracture strength of the strengthened beams from each design guideline. Since the debonding failure occurs prior to reaching the ultimate value of concrete compressive strain, this study accounts for the nonlinear stress distribution of concrete. This study also proposed equations that can evaluate the debonding strength of GFRP-strengthened RC beams with similar safety to the ultimate flexural strength of non-strengthened RC beams.

• Proceedings of the Speleological Society Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.83-84
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• 1997

동굴의 파괴현상은 크게 퇴적물공해와 환경공해의 두가지로 대별되는데 그중 퇴적물공해는 파손공해, 녹색공해, 그리고 흑색공해, 박리공해 등의 네가지로 구분된다. 즉 파손공해는 시설작업 또는 관광객들의 출입통로 개척을 위한 개발작업으로 동굴퇴적물들이 파손, 오손되는 경우를 말한다. 그리고 녹색공해는 조도, 온도, 습도와 관련된 하등식물의 공해이고 흑색공해는 탄소분의 공해인 경우도 있고 아니면 균류의 박리공해에 의한 경우도 있다.(중략)

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.185-192
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• 2011

A CFRP (Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastic) strengthening method being widely used to increase the load-carrying capacity of structures is very suitable for existing bridge structures. However, not only flexure and shear failures but also debonding failure might be additionally occured in reinforced concrete(RC) beams strengthened with the CFRP plates. The CFRP debonding failure would cause a brittle fracture of the beam. Therefore, health monitoring for the CFRP bonding condition is strongly required. In this study, a feasibility of the impedance-based damage detection method using PZT sensors was investigated through a series of experimental studies for realtime structural health monitoring(SHM) for the CFRP laminated concrete structures.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.177-186
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• 1999

The purpose of this study is to analyze the interface debonding of RC beams strengthened by carbon fiber sheet(CFS). The behavior of damaged RC beams strengthened with CFS is analytically investigated next using linear elastic fracture mechanics(LEFM) approach and the finite element method. The study includes an investigation of the separation mode by interface fracture of the strengthening materials due to the interfacial shear and normal stresses. The numerical method is presented to obtain the value of interfacial fracture parameter such as the strain energy release rate. Based on the results of this study, it is found that the critical case occurs when the interfacial cracks occur within a short region of the flexural crack. The CFS strengthening has not an adequate factor of safety against interfacial debonding of CFS. Furthermore, for the thicknesses of the adhesive studied[1mm~3mm], it is no noticeable effect on the strain energy release rate.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.377-385
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• 2003

Flexural characteristics of the R.C beams strengthened with newly-developed grid-type carbon fiber plastics(CFRP-GRIDS) were investigated. The tests were conducted under the four-points load to the failure to investigate the strengthening effects of CFRP-GRIDS on the beams. Results showed that initial cracks appeared in the boundary layers of fibers embedded in the newly-placed mortar concrete slowly progressed to the direction of supports and showed fracture of fiber plastics and brittle failure of concrete in compression in sequence after the yielding of steel reinforcement. Accordingly, the appropriate area of Grid-type carbon-fiber plastics in the strengthening design of deteriorated RC structures should be limited and given based on the ultimate strength design method to avoid the brittle failure of concrete structures.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.16 no.4 s.82
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• pp.493-500
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• 2004

FREP(Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Panel) are used for strengthening the damaged RC beams due to its good tensile strength, low weight, resistance to corrosion, and easy applicability. This study sets up structure equation for FREP bending reinforcement before and during the usage of RC beam. It finds the difference and finds the mechanical characteristics of rip-off failure that is caused by stress concentration in reinforcement material cutting part to estimate the performance of bending reinforcement. The result of this research can be summarized as two main consequences. The main failure of FREP reinforced concrete beam is rip-off failure and it evaluated rip-off failure of RC reinforcing bean based on the test and analytical conditions of this study. It found that stress was concentrated due to rapid change of bending rigidity in reinforced cutting part as a result of excessive reinforcement thickness of FREP. It resulted in rip-off failure. It means that it should evaluate the rip-off failure when designing reinforcement. It analyzed the reinforcement effect according to reinforced period for FREP. It found that reinforcement effect of P-Type that was reinforced during the usage decreased compared to I-Type that was reinforced before the usage. So when reinforcing a existing structure that is being used, it should consider the stress that is produced due to the fixed load.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.243-254
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• 1997

최근들어 구조물의 노후화와 차량하중 등의 증가로 구조물의 손상이 커지고 있으며 보강의 필요성이 절실히 대두되고 있다. 강판보강공법은 강성의 확실한 증가와 내구성 등으로 인하여 그 동안 폭넓게 사용되어 오고 있으나 효율적 보강을 위한 공법과 이론이 아직까지도 정립되지 않은 상태이다. 따라서 본 연구의 목적은 그 동안의 실험결과를 중심으로 보강도니 철근콘크리트보의 파괴기구와 박리거동을 분석하고 이로부터 합리적인 박리하중 산정이론을 제한하는데 그 목적을 두고 있다. 보강된 강판의 길이와 두께 등의 영향을 고찰하고,기존의 이론을 분석하여 기존이론의 불합리한 점을 밝혔으며, 이들을 보완한 수정이론을 제시하엿다. Roberts의 이론은 강판의 두께가 증가함에 따라 오히려 박리하중이 약간 증가하고 있어 실제적인 실험거동과 차이가 나고 있다. 본 연구의 제안식은 실제 거동을 합리적으로 표현하고 있으며, 앞으로 보강설계에 유용한 자료가 될 것으로 기대되고 있다.

• Composites Research
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.23-31
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• 2009

This paper investigated acoustic emission (AE) characteristics in association with various fracture processes of glass fiber reinforced plastic skin/ aluminum honeycomb core (GF-AH) hybrid composites under compressive and bending loads. Various failure modes such as skin layer fracture, skin/core interfacial fracture, and local plastic yield buckling and cell wall adhesive fracture occurring in the honeycomb cell wall were classified through the fracture identification in association with the AE frequency and amplitude analysis. The distribution of the event-rate in which it has a high amplitude showed a procedure of cell wall adhesive fracture, skin/core interfacial debonding and fiber breakage, whereas distribution of different peak frequencies indicated the plastic deformation of aluminum cell wall and the friction between honeycomb walls. Consequently, the fracture behaviors of GF-AH hybrid composites could be characterized through a nondestructive evaluation employing the AE technique.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.7
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• pp.743-749
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• 2014

In this study, a noncircular drawing (NCD) sequence for manufacturing high-strength and high-ductility pearlitic steel wires was investigated. Multipass NCD was conducted up to the 12th pass at room temperature with two processing routes (defined as the NCDA and NCDB), and compared with the wire drawing (WD). During the torsion test, delamination fracture in the drawn wire was observed in the 10th pass of the WD whereas it was not observed until the 12th pass of the NCDB. From X-ray diffraction, the circular texture component that increases the likelihood of delamination fracture of the drawn wire was rarely observed in the NCDB. Thus, the improved ability of the multipass NCDB to manufacture high-strength pearlitic steel wires with high torsional ductility compared to the WD (by reducing the likelihood of delamination fracture) was demonstrated.