• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.695-702
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• 2007

The Thermal Prestressing Method for continuous composite girder bridges is a new design and construction method developed to induce initial composite stresses in the concrete slab at negative bending regions. Due to the induced initial stresses, prevention of tensile cracks at the concrete slab, reduction of steel girder section, and reduction of reinforcing bars are possible. Thus, the construction efficiency can be improved and the construction can be made more economical. The method for determining the optimum heating region of the thermal prestressing method has not been established although such method is essential for improving the efficiency of the design process. The trial-and-error method used in previous studies is far from efficient, and a more rational method for computing optimal heating region is required. In this study, an efficient method for determining the optimum heating region in using the thermal prestressing method was developed based on the neural network algorithm, which is widely adopted to pattern recognition, optimization, diagnosis, and estimation problems in various fields. Back-propagation algorithm, commonly used as a learning algorithm in neural network problems, was used for the training of the neural network. Through case studies of two-span and three-span continuous composite girder bridges using the developed procedure, the optimal heating regions were obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.80-80
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• 2015

만곡부가 연속적으로 발생하는 사행하천은 만곡의 영향으로 2차류가 발생한다. 이러한 2차류의 영향은 하상변동, 제방침식 등의 문제를 발생시켜 사행수로의 흐름특성을 분석하기 위한 많은 연구들이 진행되어 왔다. 하지만, 대부분의 연구들은 실규모 하천의 유속측정의 어려움, 측정이 가능한 시설 및 경제적 제한으로 인해 주로 실내실험에서 측정된 자료를 이용하여 분석을 수행하여 흐름조건이 상이한 실제 하천에서 적용성에 한계가 있어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 상세한 3차원 유속 측정이 가능한 최신 계측기기인 초음파도플러유속계(ADCP)를 활용하여 실제하천과 유사한 흐름 상태 및 지형을 재현한 한국건설기술연구원 안동하천실험센터의 사행도 1.2, 1.5, 1.7의 실규모 사행수로에서 횡단면 측정을 수행하였다. 또한 초음파지점유속계(ADV)를 사행도 1.2의 ADCP 측정 단면과 동일한 횡단면에서 측정하여 공간평균된 ADCP 유속자료를 이용한 흐름패턴 분석의 적용성을 검증하였다. 그 결과 공간평균된 ADCP 유속분포는 시간평균한 ADV 유속분포와 다소 크기의 차이는 발생하였지만 패턴은 매우 유사하게 나타났다. 따라서, 공간평균된 ADCP 유속분포를 이용하여 2차류에 의한 흐름패턴 분석을 수행하였다. 2차류 패턴은 만곡의 위치에 따라 매우 복잡한 형태로 나타났다. 2차류에 의한 최대유속선과 최대수심선의 발생위치를 분석한 결과, 만곡의 정점부를 기준으로 만곡 전인 유입부에서는 이격되고 만곡 후인 유출부에서는 유사한 경로를 나타내고 있었다. 이때의 2차류강도(Secondary Current Intensity; SCI)는 만곡의 정점부 부근에서 최대로 증가했다가 다시 감소하는 결과를 보였다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.169-177
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• 2016

Sliding slab track system, which consists of low friction sliding layer between track slab and bridge deck, is recently devised to reduce track-bridge interaction effect of continuously welded rail(CWR) without applying special devices such as rail expansion joint(REJ). In this study, a series of track-bridge interaction analyses of a long-span bridge with sliding slab track and REJ are performed respectively and the results are compared. The bridge model includes PSC box girder bridge with 9 continuous spans, and steel-concrete composite girder bridge with 2 continuous spans. The total length of the bridge model is 1,205m, and the maximum spacing between the two fixed supports is 825m. Analyses results showed that the sliding slab track system is highly effective on interaction reduction since lower rail additional axial stress is resulted than REJ application. Additionally, horizontal reaction forces in fixed supports were also reduced compared to the results of REJ application. However, higher slab axial forces were developed in the sliding slab track due to the temperature load. Therefore, track slab section of the sliding slab track system should be carefully designed against slab axial forces.