• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2012

As old concrete pavements of over 20years in age are increasing in expressways, the repair and rehabilitation of concrete pavement have become an important issue. Although asphalt overlay is widely used as an alternative to rehabilitate the old concrete pavement, problems due to infiltrated water such as reflection crack and pothole are imposing a very serious threat to its performance. This study proposes waterproof membrane as a solution to minimize the damage due to reflection crack and infiltrated water, and accelerated pavement testing was carried out for the performance comparison of composite pavement with waterproof membrane and ordinary tack coating. The experiment used water spraying to simulate rainfall, and the behavior and moisture resistance characteristics of overlay pavement were analyzed. The experimental result indicated that the strain pattern of waterproof membrane section differed from ordinary tack coating section because waterproof membrane caused the asphalt pavement and concrete pavement to move together. Additionally, since waterproof membrane minimized the infiltration of water and delayed the occurrence of reflection crack by about 70% in comparison to ordinary tack coating method. Moreover, the damage due to infiltrated water also decreased.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.175-184
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• 2002

Ground reaction curve is very useful information for estimating the installation time of the tunnel support. The ground reaction curve can be estimated by analytical closed form solutions derived in case of circular section and isotropic stress condition. The nature of the ground reaction, however, depends significantly on tunnel configurations. Nevertheless, few purely analytical and experimental studies of this problem due to tunnel configurations appear to have been carried out. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the influence of tunnel configurations in order to use simply in practical design. This paper describes a numerical study for the intial elastic displacement in the ground reaction curve due to configuration of tunnel excavation. In order to evaluate the applicability of analytical closed form solution in practical design, the parametric studies were carried out by numerical analysis in elastic tunnel behaviour. In the studies, S value, namely configuration factor, defined as the ratio between tunnel height (b) and width (a), varies between 0.5 and 3.0, initial ground vertical stress varies between 5~30 MPa for each S values. The results indicated that the self-supportability of ground is larger in the ground having low S value. It, however, is suggested that the applicability of closed form solution may not be adequate to determine directly the installation time of the support and self-supportability of ground. It should be necessary to perform the additional numerical analysis.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.307-313
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• 2014

In order to predict the post-cracking tensile behavior of fiber reinforced concrete, it is necessary to evaluate the fiber orientation factor which indicates the number of fibers bridging a crack. For investigation of fiber orientation factor on a circular cross-section, in this paper, cylindrical steel fiber reinforced concrete specimens were casted with the variables of concrete compressive strength, circular cross-section size, fiber type, and fiber volumetric ratio. The specimens were cut perpendicularly to the casting direction so that the fiber orientation factor could be evaluated through counting the number of fibers on the circular cross-section. From the test results, it was investigated that the fiber orientation factor on a circular cross-section was lower than 0.5 generally adopted, as fibers tended to be perpendicular to the casting direction. In addition, it was observed that the fiber orientation factor decreased with an increase of the number of fibers per unit cross-section area. For rational prediction of the fiber orientation factor on a circular section, a rigorous model and a simplified equation were derived through taking account of a possible fiber inclination angle considering the circular boundary surface. From the comparison of the measured data and the predicted values, it was found that the fiber orientation factor was well predicted by the proposed model. The test results and the proposed model can be useful for researches on structural behavior of steel fiber reinforced columns with a circular cross-section.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.16 no.3 s.70
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• pp.325-332
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• 2004

Cross sections of steel-plate girder bridges are divided into three cross sections of non-composite, partially composite, and fully composite sections, according to their composite characteristics. The Korean provision for the partially and fully composite sections specifies general usage of the stud of shear connectors, whereas the one for the non-composite section specifies empirical usage of slab anchors. However, the actual behavior of the cross sections of steel-plate girder bridges using slab anchors is close not to the non-composite action, but to the partially composite action. Therefore analytical and experimental studies on partial composites of steel-plate girder bridges using slab anchors are performed in this study. Intial stiffness of the slab anchor is obtained by the experimental study for the first time, and the composite characteristic of simple-span and two-span continuous steel-plate girder bridges is investigated by the finite element analyses for the second time. Based on the obtained initial stiffness, the reduction effect of tensile stresses in the concrete-slab on the intermediate support of the continuous bridge is also considered herein.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.643-653
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• 2007

The ultimate bending strength and flexural ductility performance of longitudinally stiffened plate girders fabricated with mild steel were investigated utilizing nonlinear incremental finite element analysis. AASHTO LRFD (2002) design specifications were reviewed for possible application of longitudinally stiffened plate girders as compact sections. In order to investigate compact section requirements for plate girders with longitudinal stiffeners in webs, a number of full-scale plate girders were modeled and analyzed up to the collapse under pure bending condition. It was found that the slenderness of sub panel of the webs, the stiffness of longitudinal stiffeners, and the slenderness of compression flanges are key parameters governing the flexural ductility of the plate girders. It was also found from finite element analysis that longitudinally stiffened plate girder sections can satisfy compact section requirements both in full plastic moment capacity and flexural ductility requirement. New design equations have been proposed for longitudinally stiffened plate girders to be treated as compact sections.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.596-602
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• 2018

Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is an emerging technology that enables cost-effective and high-throughput nanofabrication. In ultraviolet (UV) NIL, low-cost and high-speed production can be achieved using a non-vacuum environment at room temperature and low pressure. However, there are problems with the formation of bubble defects in such an environment. This paper investigates the shape of the mold cavity and the bubble defect formation in UV NIL in a non-vacuum environment. The bubble defect formation was simulated using two-dimensional flow analysis and the VOF method for commonly used cavity mold shapes (rectangular, elliptical, and triangular). The characteristics of the resist flow front and various contact angles were also analyzed. The shape of the mold cavity had a very significant effect on the bubble defect formation. For all cavity shapes, a smaller contact angle with the mold and larger contact angle with the substrate decreased the possibility of bubble defect formation. The elliptical shape was the most effective for preventing bubble defect formation.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.982-988
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• 2002

Current design equations for shear strength of reinforced concrete columns generally overestimate the shear strength contribution by the circular transverse reinforcement. This is due to the simplification of the discrete distribution of the reinforcement to the continuous one and the imprudent application of the classical truss model to the circular section, which is different in shear-resisting mechanism from the rectangular section. This study presents a rational model for the prediction of shear strength contribution by the circular transverse reinforcement considering the starting location of a diagonal crack, the number of transverse reinforcing bars crossing the main crack and the geometrical strength component of the transverse resistance. It was found that, for lower amount transverse reinforcement, the crack starting point and the number of crack crossing bars greatly influence the shear-resisting capacity. Proposed model leads to a reliable design equation which is derived using a linear regression method and is in good agreement with the lower bound of exact strength curve.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.13-30
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• 2016

This paper concerns the development of an optimized TBM segmental lining design system for a subsea tunnel. The subsea tunnel is normally laid down under the sea water and submarine ground which consists of soil or rock. The design system is the series of process which can predict segmental lining member forces by ANN (artificial neural network system), analyze suitable section for the designated ground, construction and tunnel conditions. Finally, this lining design system aims to be connected with a BIM system for designing the subsea tunnel automatically. The lining member forces are predicted based on the ANN which was calculated by a FEM (finite element analysis) and it helps designers determine its segmental lining dimension easily without any further FE calculations.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.19 no.1 s.71
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• pp.63-71
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• 2006

This study presents the effective stiffness-based optimal technique to control Quantitatively lateral drift for shear wall-frame structure system using sensitivity analysis. To this end, the element stiffness matrices are constituted to solve the compatibility problem of displacement degree of freedom between the frame and shear wall. Also, lateral drift constraint to introduce the approximation concept that can preserve the generality of the mathematical programming and can effectively solve the large scaled problems is established. And, the section property relationships for shear wall and frame members are considered in order to reduce the number of design variables and differentiate easily the stiffness matrices. Specifically, constant-shape assumption which is uniformly varying in size during optimal process is applied in frame structure. The thickness or length of shear wall can be changed depending on user's intent. Two types of 20 story shear wall-frame structure system are presented to illustrate the features of the stiffness-based optimal design technique.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.23-23
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• 2021

영상유속계는 영상을 이용한 비접촉식 유속계로 하천과 같은 넓은 범위의 유속 및 유량을 쉽고 간편하게 측정할 수 있다는 장점이 있어 최근 국내외에서 영상유속계의 실용화 연구가 다양하게 수행되고 있다. 특히 영상유속계는 별도의 고가의 장비 없이 카메라만을 이용하기 때문에 비교적 경제적이고 간편하며 비접촉식 유속 측정 방법이기 때문에 안전하게 홍수기 하천 유속 및 유량을 측정할 수 있다. 또한 넓은 범위의 유속을 순간적으로 측정할 수 있기 때문에 시간에 따라 수위가 급변하는 중규모 이하의 하천 유량을 측정하는데 적합하다. 하지만 영상유속계로 측정한 유속은 표면유속이기 때문에 하천 유량을 산정하기 위해서는 표면유속에 환산계수를 곱해 평균유속으로 환산하는 과정이 필요하다. 환산계수는 이전 연구에서 실험을 통해 0.84~0.90의 값을 갖는다고 하였고 일반적으로 0.85를 사용하지만, 하상, 수심 및 단면에서의 측정 위치에 따라 달라지므로 확실하게 결정하기 어렵다(Turnipseed and Sauer, 2010). 특히 국내의 많은 하천은 산책로를 포함한 복잡한 복단면으로 이루어져 있어 환산계수를 일률적으로 0.85로 사용하면 유량 측정 정확도가 낮아질 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 서울시 탄천 대곡교에서 영상유속계를 이용하여 홍수기 유량 측정을 수행하여 흐름 특성에 따른 수위변화에 따라 적정 환산계수를 산정하였다. 탄천 대곡교 지점은 환경부의 자동유량계측 장비가 설치되어 있고 다년간의 검증된 유량 자료를 확보할 수 있기 때문에 환경부 유량측정 결과와 영상유속계로 산정한 유량을 비교하며 환산계수 변화를 분석하였다. 분석 결과 수위에 따라 환산계수는 0.7~1.3의 범위를 갖으며 둔치수위 이하에서는 0.85와 유사한 경향을 보였고, 둔치를 넘는 수위에서는 1 이상으로 환산계수가 증가하였다가 둔치가 완전히 잠기는 수위에서는 다시 0.85 정도로 변화하는 경향을 확인하였다. 향후 영상유속계를 이용한 다양한 홍수기 계측을 통해 복단면에서의 적정 환산계수 검토가 필요할 것으로 생각한다.