• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.157-165
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• 1999

When the ultimate strength of a concrete flexural member is evaluated, the effect of member size is usually not considered. For various types of loading, however, the strength always decreases with the increment of member size. In this paper the size effect of a flexural compression member is investigated by experiments. For this purpose, a series of C-shaped specimens subjected to axial compressive load and bending moment was tested using three different sizes of specimens with a compressive strength of 528 kg/$cm^2$. According to test results the size effect on flexural compressive strength was apparent, and more distinct than that for uniaxial compressive strength of cylinders. Finally a model equation was derived using regression analyses with experimental data.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.292-299
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• 1998

In this study, the size effect in flexural and shear behaviors of reinforced concrete beams with stirrup has been studied. The specimens of different size with same longitudinal reinforcement ratio are tested. The major variables of test include the size(relative depth) of the members as well as the longitudinal reinforcement ratios. The nominal resistances in flexure and shear are obtained for various sizes and steel ratios. It is found from the present study that the size effect is also very pronounced for the flexural resistance in reinforced concrete structures. The prediction formulas for the size effect of reinforced concrete beams in flexure and shear are proposed. The proposed equations agree relatively well with experimental data. The present study will provide useful bases for more accurate analysis and design of reinforced concrete structures.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.449-456
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• 2002

Recently, the application of high strength and high performance concrete has been gradually increased as an important construction material for high rise and huge scaled construction. However, high performance concrete has undesirable characteristics of spalling subjected to high temperature due to its dense microstructure content. A spalling by fire brings surface failure and falling off concrete member. It is considered that spalling by fire should be taken into account for the safety of the concrete structure under fire. Therefore, in this paper, tests are carried out using high performance concrete containing polypropylene(PP) fiber in order to improve the fire resistance performance. PP fiber contents and member sizes are varied. According to experimental results, as for the influence of PP fiber contents, all the test specimens without PP fiber show entire failure in W/C of 35％, while they show nearly sound shape except some kinds of surface fracture in W/C of 55％. When PP fiber is contained more than 0.07％, favorable prevention effects of spatting by fire are obtained. As for the effects of test specimens size, it tends to increase the possibilities of spatting by fire as test specimens become larger. And spatting by fire at the edge of test specimens occurs more frequently than at the surface of test specimens. Residual compressive and tensile strength shows 45∼65 ％ of its original strength at W/C of 35％, and 30∼40％ at W/C of 55 ％.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.153-160
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• 2001

In this study, the size effect on axial compressive strength for concrete members was experimentally investigated. Experiment of mode I failure, which is one of the two representative compressive failure modes, was carried out by using double cantilever beam specimens. By varying the eccentricity of applied loads with respect to the axis on each cantilever and the initial crack length, the size effect of axial compressive strength of concrete was investigated, and new parameters for the modified size effect law (MSEL) were suggested using least square method (LSM). The test results show that size effect appears for axial compressive strength of cracked specimens. For the eccentricity of loads, the influence of tensile and compressive stress at the crack tip are significant and so that the size effect is present. In other words, if the influence of tensile stress at the crack tip grows up, the size effect of concrete increases. And the effect of initial crack length on axial compressive strength is present, however, the differences with crack length are not apparent because the size of fracture process zone (FPZ) of all specimens in the high-strength concrete is similar regardless of differences of specimen slenderness.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.75-82
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• 2009

This paper investigates the variation of post-buckling behaviours of spatial structures after sizing optimization with linear assumptions. The mathematical programming technique is used to produce the optimum member size of spatial structures against external load. Total weight of structure is considered as the objective function to be minimized and the displacement occurred at loading point and member stresses of structures are used as the constraint functions. The finite difference method is used to calculate the design sensitivity of objective function with respect to design variables. The post-buckling analysis carried out by using the geometrically nonlinear finite element analysis code ISADO-GN. It is found to be that there is a huge difference between the post buckling behaviours of the initial and optimized structures. Therefore, the stability of optimized spatial structures with linear assumption should be throughly checked by appropriate nonlinear analysis techniques. Finally, the present numerical results are provided as benchmark test suite for future study of large spatial structures.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.400-403
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 평판 스페이스 프레임 구조물의 크기 및 형상최적화 기법을 개발하고자 한다. 이를 위해 평판 스페이스 프레임의 물량에 영향을 미치는 요소인 격자분할 수와 상 하부 평판사이의 높이를 주요 설계변수로 선정함으로써 부재크기 최적화뿐만 아니라 형상최적화 방안도 제시하였다. 또한 평판 스페이스 프레임의 절점 및 부재 자동생성방안이 고려되며 감도해석기법을 이용하여 개발된 최적화 프로그램을 예제모델에 적용하여 설계변수 변화에 따른 구조시스템의 최적의 대안을 강구하고자 한다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.71-80
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• 1990

The fracture characteristics of concrete under various rates of loading are investigated. The static and dynamic fracture energies of concrete are determined and the size-dependency of fracture energy is clarified from the present study. To this end, a series of experiments were conducted. The maximum failure loads, fracture energies and nominal failure stresses were calculated from those test results. It is found that the fracture energies are increased with the increase of loading rate. The fracture energy values were also greatly influenced with the size of the specimen. The size-dependent prediction eguations for the static and dynamic fracture energies of concrete are proposed in the present study. The present paper provides useful data for the dynamic fracture analysis of concrete structures.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.16 no.28
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• pp.109-112
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• 1993

본 논문은 품절기간 중 수요의 일부는 부재고되고 나머지 일부는 유실되는 재고 모형을 제시한다. 부재고되는 수요량은 불확실하다. 따라서 부재고되는 수요의 양을 확률변수로 놓고, 부재고되는 수요량의 표준편차가 누적품절량의 크기에 비례하는 경우를 다루었다. 투영에 의한 분해법(decomposition by projection)을 사용하여 최적 재고 정책을 도출하였다.

• Proceeding of KASS Symposium
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.107-112
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• 2008

This paper investigates the variation of post-buckling behaviours of 2-dimensional shallow arch type truss after sizing optimization. The mathematical programming technique is used to produce the optimum member size of 2D arch truss against a central point load. Total weight of structure is considered as the objective function to be minimized and the displacement occurred at loading point and member stresses of truss are used as the constraint functions. The finite difference method is used to calculate the design sensitivity of objective function with respect to design variables. The postbuckling analysis carried out by using the geometrically nonlinear finite element analysis code ISADO-GN. It is found to be that there is a huge change of post-buckling behaviour between the initial structure and optimum structure. Numerical results can be used as useful information for future research of large spatial structures.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.373-381
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• 2002

The cost on transmission and erection of the precast prestressed concrete members largely depends on the weight of them. Optimum process is performed on a U-beam section to control the prestressing force, to reduce the self-weight, and to meet the required strength and stability. The strength, deflection, and concrete stress at the top and bottom of the section considered are required to check according to each construction step in this process. The weight of the original rectangular concrete beam could be reduced up to 39∼50％ from this method. Two full scale prototype U-beams were proposed and tested in this study. It was found that the U-beams in the test showed good performance in strength and serviceability within the limits of ultimate strength design method.