• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.719-730
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• 2007

This study presents a thin-walled space frame element based on the classical Timoshenko beam theory. The element is derived according to the assumed strain field in order to resolve the shear-locking phenomenon. The shape function is developed in accordance with the strain field which is assumed to be constant at a 2-noded straight frame element. In this study, the geometrically nonlinear analysis applies the Corotational procedure in order to evaluate unbalanced loads. The bowing effect is also considered faithfully. Two numerical examples are given; monosymmetric curved and nonsymmetric straight cantilever. When these example structures behave lateral-torsional bucking, the critical loads are obtained by this study and ABAQUS shell elements. Also, the post-buckling behavior is examined. The results give good agreement between this study and ABAQUS shell.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.305-310
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• 2013

In general, it is difficult to measure dynamic responses of a bridge with stepwise increasing speed of a train during commercial service on a high speed railroad. However, before opening the 2nd stage of the Gyeongbu high speed railroad, there was an opportunity for field tests and measurements of the bridge with stepwise increasing speed(from 170km/ h to 315km/h). The measured responses were compared with the results of a developed bridge/train interaction analysis. Although good agreement was found throughout almost the entire range of speeds, relatively large differences were found in the vicinity of the critical speed at which resonance behavior of the bridge occurs. To investigate the cause of this, reanalyses are performed with re-estimated damping ratios from field tests.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.73-80
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• 2012

It is well known that a considerable amount of scatter is shown in experimental results relating to fatigue crack growth even under identical and constant amplitude cyclic loading conditions. Moreover, flux cored arc welding (FCAW) is a common method used to join thick plates such as the structural members of large scale offshore structures and very large container ships. The objective of this study was to investigate the macro- and microscopic observations of the fatigue crack growth (FCG) behavior of the FCAWed API 2W Gr. 50 steel joints typically applied for offshore structures. In order to clearly understand the randomness of the fatigue crack growth behavior in the materials of three different zones, the weld metal (WM), heat affected zone (HAZ), and base metal (BM), experimental fatigue crack growth tests for each of five specimens were performed on ASTM standard compact tension (CT) specimens under constant amplitude cyclic loading. Special focus was placed on the fatigued fracture surfaces. As a result, a different behavior was observed at the macro-level, depending on the type of material property: BM, HAZ, or WM. The variability in the fatigue crack growth rate for WM was higher than that of BM and HAZ.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.49-58
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• 2013

Eight small scale circular reinforced concrete columns were tested under cyclic lateral load with constant axial load. Test specimens were designed with 4.5 aspect ratio. The selected test variables are longitudinal steel ratio, transverse steel ratio, yielding strength of longitudinal steel and axial load ratio. The test results of columns with different longitudinal steel ratio, transverse steel ratio and axial load ratio showed different seismic performance such as equivalent damping ratio, residual displacement and effective stiffness. It was found that the column with low strength of longitudinal steel showed significantly reduced seismic performance, especially for equivalent damping ratio and residual displacement. The regulation of flexural over-strength is adopted by Korea Bridge Design Specifications (Limited state design, 2012). The test results are compared with nominal strength, result of nonlinear moment-curvature analysis and the design specifications such as AASHTO LRFD and Korea Bridge Design Specifications (Limited state design).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.191-197
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• 2006

Recently, the earth scale disaster is occurring frequently. Under the effects of global warming, the weather has become unseasonable worldwide. Hence, the earth is experiencing unstable condition with many disasters such as storms and flood damages as well as earthquake. Therefore, it is necessary to consider what we can do to prevent disasters. A disaster like earthquake will inevitably occur in view of the probabilities. The active period of earthquakes and the inactive periods repeat alternatively. Consequently, recent warnings indicate that there is a potential risk of massive earthquakes. Consideration of the effects of tsunami to the moored ship is very important. Operational problems such as moored ship motions sometimes become remarkable with large amplitude and long periods in harbor. Moored ship motions may cause the breakage of mooring systems such as mooring lines, fenders or quay. Large and long period moored ship motions are caused by resonant effects. In this paper, the moored ship motions within a harbor by the large-scale tsunami and the effects on the motions and mooring loads with resonant effects are investigated by numerical simulations.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.195-202
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• 2012

This paper summarizes the seismic performance of two shear walls with different reinforcement details in boundary elements. One is a special shear wall designed by KBC2009 and the other is a shear wall with improved reinforcement details in boundary elements, which is a newly proposed type of special shear wall. Experimental tests under cyclic reversed loading were carried out with two 2/3 scale shear walls which were modelled from the lower part of seismic-resisting shear wall in 22-stories wall-slab apartment building. The experimental results show that seismic performance of shear wall with improved reinforcement details was almost similar to that of special shear wall with respect to the moment-drift ratio. However, energy dissipation capacity and ductility were slightly different. Also, shear wall with improved reinforcement details in boundary elements satisfied the inter-story drift limit of 1.5% from KBC2009.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.246-253
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• 2003

The initiation and growth of short fatigue cracks in the simulated aircraft structure with a series of rivet holes was detected by acoustic emission (AE). The location and the size of short tracks were determined by AE source location techniques and the measurement with traveling microscope. AE events increased intermittently with the initiation and growth of short cracks to form a stepwise increment curve of cumulative AE events. For the precise determination of AE source locations, a region-of-interest (ROI) was set around the rivet holes based on the plastic zone size in fracture mechanics. Since the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was very low at this early stage of fatigue cracks, the accuracy of source location was also enhanced by the wavelet transform do-noising. In practice, the majority of AE signals detected within the ROI appeared to be noise from various origins. The results showed that the effort of structural geometry and SNR should be closely taken into consideration for the accurate evaluation of fatigue damage in the structure.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.52-61
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• 2010

The use of the friction coefficient is known to provide good discrimination ability in the classification of human constitutions, which are used in alternative medicine. In this study, a system that uses a multi-axis load cell and a hemi-circular probe is designed. The equipment consists of a sensor (load cell type, manufactured by the authors), an x-axis linear-bush guide motorized mobile stage that supports the hand being analyzed, and a signal conditioner. Using the proposed system, the friction coefficients from different constitutions were compared, and the relative repeatability error for the friction coefficient measurement was determined to be less than 2 %. The direction along the ring finger line was determined to be the optimum measurement region for a constitutional diagnosis between Tae-eumin and Soyangin types using the proposed system. There were some differences in the friction coefficient between the two constitutions, as reported in ancient literature. The proposed system is applicable to a quantitative constitutional diagnosis between Tae-eumin and Soyangin types within an acceptable level of uncertainty.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.42-42
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• 2019

유량조절을 위한 자동수문은 설정된 관리수위 이하에서는 수문이 개방되지 않으며, 유량이 증가하여 관리수위 이상이 되면 수문이 개방되어 방류를 시작하여 일정 수위를 유지하는 것을 의미한다. 자동수문의 운영 중 수문의 거동과 자동 개폐 시점을 예측하는 것은 정밀한 수문 설계를 위해 매우 중요하다. 수문 하단으로 흐름이 발생하면 수문 선단을 포함한 주변에서의 압력 차이로 인한 동수압 하중이 발생하고 진동을 유발, 수문 개방을 억제하는 하향력 등의 효과로 수문 운영에 큰 영향을 미친다. 본 연구에서는 부력식 수문의 모형실험을 통하여 정수압 상태의 부력 이론에 의한 수문 개방률과 측정에 의한 수문 개방률을 비교하였으며, 이론과 측정 수문 개방고의 차이를 하향력에 의한 효과임을 확인하였다. 부력식 수문의 하향력을 검토하기 위해 기존 이론식을 이용한 결과, 이론식은 부력식 수문에 적용하기 어려운 것으로 나타났다. 따라서, 기존 이론식을 이용하여 부력식 수문의 하향계수 산정을 위한 매개변수 관계식을 개방률을 이용하여 제시하였다. 제시된 매개변수 관계식의 결정계수는 0.721, 수정된 결졍계수는 0.690으로 나타났다. 부력식 수문의 형상비에 따른 하향력을 검토하기 위해서 수치모의를 수행하였다. 모형실험에서 측정된 자료와 수치모형 ANSYS-Fluent의 사용성을 검증하였고, 부력식 수문의 형상비를 0.24, 0.49, 0.69, 0.89, 1.09로 총 5가지로 설정하여 하향계수와 하향력을 분석하였다. 부력식 수문의 하향계수와 하향력 검토는 부력체, 스커트로 구분하여 분석을 수행하였다. 하향계수 분석결과, 하향계수는 개방률이 증가함에 따라 감소하였으며 하향계수가 부력체 부분에서는 0.465~1.542, 스커트 부분에서는 0.058~1.148의 범위로 나타났다. 하향력 분석결과, 하향력은 개방률 0.300 이하에서는 개방률이 증가함에 따라 하향력은 증가하였나 개방율 0.300 초과하면서부터 개방률이 증가함에 따라 하향력이 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 부력체 부분에서는 형상비가 증가함에 따라 하향력이 감소하였으나, 스커트 부분에서는 형상비가 증가함에 따라 하향력이 증가하였다. 이는 형상비가 증가함에 따라 스커트 부분의 면적이 증가하기 때문이다. 부력식 수문의 전체적인 하향력을 계산한 결과, 부력식 수문의 하향력은 0.002~0.015 kN의 범위를 가지며 형상비가 증가함에 따라 부력식 수문에 발생하는 하향력은 증가하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.39-46
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• 2019

The liquefaction is a phenomenon that the effective stress becomes zero due to the rapidly accumulated excess pore water pressure when a strong load acts on the ground for a short period of time, such as an earthquake or pile driving, resulting in the loss of the shear strength of the ground. Since the Geongju and Pohang earthquake, liquefaction brought increasing domestic attention. This liquefaction can be assessed mainly through the semi-empirical procedures proposed by Seed and Idriss (1982) and the liquefaction risk based on the penetration resistance obtained from borehole DB and SPT. However, the geotechnical information data obtained by the in-situ tests or boring information fundamentally have an issue of the representative of the target area. Therefore, this study sought to construct a ground information database by classifying and reviewing the ground information required for liquefaction assessment, and tried to solve the representative problem of the soil layer that is subject to liquefaction evaluation by performing spatial interpolation using GIS.