• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.278-285
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• 2013

The suppression of residual settlement is required on earthwork sections as concrete track is introduced. Use of pile-slab structure is one of the settlement restraining methods applied on soft ground. The slab distributes the upper embankment load and piles transfer the load from the slab to the stiff ground. While this method is very effective in terms of load transfer, it has not yet been established for dealing with the vibration transfer effects and interaction characteristics between a structure and the ground. It is possible that vibration caused by a moving train load is propagated in the upper embankment, because the slab acts as a reflection layer and waves are multi-reflected. In this present paper, wave propagation generated by a moving train load is evaluated in the time and frequency domains to consider a roadbed structure using an artificial impact load and field measured train load. The results confirmed the wave reflection effect on the pile-slab structure, if the embankment height is sufficient, vibration propagation can be stably restrained, whereas if the height is not sufficient, the vibration amplitude is increased.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.487-496
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• 2012

Recently, utilization of building foundations as ground-coupled heat exchangers has attracted much attention because they reduce the cost and enhance the heat transfer. The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of energy-slab ground-coupled heat exchanger installed in a commercial building. In order to demonstrate the energy transfer characteristics of the energy-slab, experiments were conducted from October 2010 to September 2011. The 1-year measurement results showed that the mean EWTs of brine returning from the energy-slab were $9.6^{\circ}C$ in heating season and $24.9^{\circ}C$ in cooling season, which were in a range of design target temperatures. In addition, the geothermal heat pump system with the energy-slab showed on-off operation according to the setting temperatures of secondary fluid in water storage tank. The results also showed that the energy-slab extracted heat of 198.6 kW from the ground and injected heat of 318.9 kW to the ground, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.341-349
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• 2012

Recently, as structures in Korea and other countries become much taller, larger, and more specialized, concrete used for constructions of these structures is required to have high performance characteristics. Especially, seismic performance of concrete must be improved to resist cyclic loading from earthquakes. Consequently, this study was performed to focus on developing optimal mixtures of high ductile fiber reinforced mortar with high ductility and durability, which have good serviceability, stability and reliability performances. Eventually, this material is expected to improve seismic performance of concrete structures such as load carrying capacity, ductility capacity, and energy dissipation capacity when applied to critical regions of flat plate slab-column joint. Ultimately, this research is intended to develop a material for basic designs and practical constructions of reinforced concrete structures. Test results showed that the maximum load carrying capacity, the ductility capacity, and the energy dissipation capacity of the test specimens titled RCFPP series were increased by 15%~34%, by 33%~37%, and by 2.14 times, respectively, compared to those of the standard specimen titled SRCFP.

• The Magazine for Energy Service Companies
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• s.54
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• pp.64-69
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• 2008

야간의 잉여전력으로 열을 저장해두었다 주간에 이용하는 축열공조에는 50여년에 걸친 긴 역사가 있었다. 이 방식이 가지는 효용에 일찍부터 눈뜬 선각자들의 노력에도 불구하고 당초 보급은 늦어져 그다지 진전이 없었다고 한다. 이러한 정세가 일변한 것은 전력공급에 병목현상이 생겨 부하 평준화가 안정공급에 있어 필요불가결의 과제가 되었기 때문이다. 특히 공조는 피크성이 강한 수요이므로 공조용 전력을 야간으로 옮기는 작업의 이점이 큰 것은 당연하다. 비 수요시간대의 요금이 큰 폭으로 떨어짐으로써 수요자측에서 보아도 야간의 전력을 어떻게 활용할까하는 것은 매력적인 연구테마였다. 이리하여 축열공조가 관심을 불러 보급이 기도에 놓인 지 2O년 가까이 되었다. 처음에는 물을 사용한 축열이 대부분이었으나, 축열조 용량의 제약으로 얼음을 만들어 저장하는 빙축열방식이 도입되어 현재의 표준적인 축열방식이되었다. 그러나 빙축열에도 비용상의 문제가 있어 전면적인 보급에 이르기까지는 아직 연구의 여지가 더 남아있는 듯하다. 한편, 교토의정서의 발효 등에 의해 지구환경에 대한 관심이 높아지게 되었다. 이 같은 배경 속에 건물및 건축설비의 에너지절약 기술의 중요성이 대두되고, 특히 창 주변의 공조방식, 조광제어, 축열 공조시스템 등, 건물부하의 직접적인 저감과 전력부하 평준화에 의한 환경부하저감 및 운영비용의 저감을 목적으로 한 건물일체형 설비시스템을 적극적으로 도입하기에 이르렀다. 환경을 배려한 건축구조.설비시스템의 채택 사례가 증가하며 건축물 종합환경성능 평가시스템과 성능검증 등 건물설비의 평가.검증 수법도 연구되어 건물에 적합한 운용면에서의 사고가 중요함이 인식되었다. 이와 같이 건축구조와 설비시스템의 양면에서 에너지절약성 및 환경성, 쾌적성, 편리성의 추구가 적극적으로 도입되는 가운데, 슬래브축열시스템은 건축구조와 공조설비가 균형있게 융합됨으로써 초기비용의 삭감과 부하 평준화에 의한 경제성 향상, 복사에의한 실내환경의 향상 등의 효과를 기대할 수있는 시스템으로 추목받고 있다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.31-38
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• 2016

In this paper, the deformation-energy curves of the plastic hinges and the vessel bow, which are the major energy dissipation mechanism of a pile protective structures, were estimated, and the parametric study was performed by using those curves to apply the simplified collision model which developed in the previous study. Considered parameters were the mass of slab, the number of piles, the mass of vessel and the collision speed. As results, the difference of energy dissipation mechanism of two pile types (filled and non-filled) were revealed, and the collision behaviors of the protective structures could be tuned by the control of the inertia mass of capping slab. Therefore the simplified collision model can be used in a primary design and optimal design.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.75-85
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• 2011

In this study, the behavior were analyzed for the bow collision event. The model of protective Structure was consist of slab, RCP and non-linear soil spring. The ship was modeled by bow and midship. The bow model was composed by elastic-plastic shell elements, and the midship was composed by elastic solid element. According to the weight of the ship's change from DWT 10000 until DWT 25000 increments 5000. The head-on collision was assumed, its speed was 5knot. Analysis was carried out ABAQUS/Explicit. As the result, increasing the weight of the ship deformability in athletes and to increase the amount of energy dissipated by the plastic could be confirmed.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.511-521
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• 2015

The thermal bridge occurring in a building influences its thermal performance and durability. The domestic typical multi-unit residential buildings suffer thermal losses resulting from thermal bridges of the balcony slab. To minimize the thermal loss between inside and outside of the balcony slab, thermal bridge breaker(TBB) systems have been developed and applied in building construction. Although thermal bridge breaker systems for reinforced concrete(RC) wall-slab joints can improve the thermal performance of a building, it is necessary to verify the structural performance of TBB systems whether they provide proper resistance for cyclic loading. In order to investigate the structural characteristics of TBB systems embedded in RC slabs, cyclic tests of wall-slab joints were performed by applying two reversed cycles at each up to 30 cycles. The test results show that the RC slabs embedding TBBS systems can present excellent structural performance and the maximum moment capacity, energy dissipation capacity and ductility of TBBs systems are enhanced compared to those of the typical RC slabs.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.152-160
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• 2008

Since wall system apartment used the shear wall as main lateral resistance member, installation of openings which causing section loss of walls may cause significant problem to structure. Also, there are few studies for inducing coupling beam or slabs which are occurred by installing openings. Therefore, this study planned isolated 2-story shear walls which are reduced three half-scale specimen to find out walls behavior characteristic. The test results showed that strength reduction caused by loss of effective section of walls and different result of stiffness and energy dissipation regarding to the coupling beam and coupling slabs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.65-68
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• 2008

This paper verified the lateral resisting capacity of CFT column-RC flat plate connection in comparison with general RC column-flat plate connection and detected moment capacity and ductility capacity of connection according to lateral force-displacement ratio. We made and tested specimens which have different variables respectively and as a result derive a following conclusion. In CFT specimen a critical section was extended and initial stiffness and moment increased 35%, 25$^{\sim}$35% respectively in comparison to general RC column specimen. In all specimens generally shear governed behaviors and in CFT specimen complemented with seismic band, flexure behavior region of slab was extended and also ductility ratio and energy absorptance increased.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2017

The energy slab is a ground coupled heat exchanger equipped in building slab structures, which represents a layout similar to the horizontal ground heat exchanger (GHEX). The energy slab is installed as one component of the floor slab layers in order to utilize the underground structure as a hybrid energy structure. However, as the energy slab is horizontally arranged, its thermal performance is inevitably less than the conventional vertical GHEXs. Therefore, stainless steel (STS) pipes are alternatively considered as a heat exchanger instead of high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes in order to enhance thermal performance of GHEXs. Moreover, not only a floor slab but also a wall slab can be utilized as a heat-exchangeable energy slab in order to maximize the use of underground space effectively. In this paper, four field-scale energy slabs were constructed in a test bed, which consist of the STS and HDPE pipe, and a series of thermal response tests (TRTs) was conducted to evaluate relative heat exchange efficiency per unit pipe length according to the pipe material and the configuration of energy slabs. The energy slab equipped with the STS pipe shows higher thermal performance than the energy slab with the HDPE pipe. In addition, thermal performance of the wall-type energy slab is almost equivalent to the floor-type energy slab.