• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.87-94
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• 1998

Increasing flexibility and lightness of recently built high-rise buildings make the structures susceptible to loads such as earthquakes and winds. Therefore, higher performance vibration control systems to reduce the vibration levels are demanded more than any time in the past. One of the typical active vibration control systems is the active mass driver (AMD). In this paper, an active vibration control system consisting of small shaking table, building model, sensors, signal processing board and AMD is constructed. The dynamic characteristics of these individual systems are investigated through the experimental study. The performance of the active vibration control system is verified through the El Centro earthquake(1940,NS) on the building model.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.9 no.2 s.31
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• pp.269-275
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• 1997

Wind tunnel test results and their interpretations, which were performed to study the aerodynamic stability of tower of self-anchored suspension bridge, are presented in this paper. Tower and full models were tested under smooth and turbulent flow conditions. In the case of the tower with inclined two columns, the vibration due to wakes were occurred at wide velocity zone because the wakes with various frequencies were generated by inclined upstream column. It has to be emphasized that the vibration characteristics of the tower in the self-anchored suspension bridge may be very sensitive to the longitudinal boundary conditions of the girder at the supports. Because of the two natural frequency of the tower, out-of-plane bending and torsional, were not well separated, coupled motions were observed in a wide range of wind velocity. The effectiveness of corner cut, countermeasure to reduce the tower vibrations, was also studied. It has been found that 1:10, comer cut size to column width, may be the most effective ratio for reducing the vibrations.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.161-165
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 고유진동수 조절이 가능한 새로운 형태의 액체댐퍼를 개발하였다. 동조댐퍼는 구조물의 설계단계에서 응답평가를 통해 필요성이 요구된다. 건물은 설계단계에서 고유진동수와 시공 후 고유진동수가 상이하다. 액체댐퍼의 형태는 설계단계에서 건물의 고유진동수를 동조시킬 수 있도록 설계되기 때문에 고유진동수가 고정이 될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 제안한 댐퍼의 전체적인 형태는 기존의 Liquid Column Vibration Absorber(LCVA)와 같다. 기존의 LCVA는 시공 후 건물의 고유진동수에 동조시키기 위해 물높이를 조절하나 층고 때문에 제한이 있다. 우리가 제안한 새로운 형태의 액체댐퍼는 물높이 조절 뿐 아니라 수직관의 면적을 조절하여 고유진동수를 조절 할 수 있도록 개발하였다. LCVA의 수직관을 일정한 면적의 독립된 셀로 나누었으며 이 셀을 각각 밀폐시킬 수 있도록 하였다. 밀폐된 셀 안으로는 공기압력에 의해 물이 차지 않고 차 있는 물도 움직이지 않게 된다. 밀폐된 셀의 개수를 조정하여 수직관의 면적이 조절하여 고유진동수를 변화시킬 수 있다. 제작된 액체댐퍼의 밀폐된 셀 개수를 조절하여 진동대 실험을 통해 댐퍼의 고유진동수를 파악하였다. 실험으로 나온 고유진동수와 이론적으로 산정한 고유진동수를 비교하여 댐퍼의 사용성을 평가하였다. 개발된 액체 댐퍼의 수직관의 면적 조절을 통해 고유진동수 조절이 용이하여 실제로 사용이 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2023

In the seismic design of structures, seismic forces are calculated based on structural models and analysis. In order to accurately address the dynamic characteristics of the actual structure in the structural model, calibration based on actual measurements is required. In this study, a 4-story frame test specimen was manufactured to simulate frame building, accelerometers were attached at each floor, and 1-axis shaking table test was performed. The natural period of the specimen was similar to that of the actual 4 story frame building, and the columns were designed to behave with double-curvature having the infinite stiffness of the horizontal members. To investigate the effects seismic waves characteristics, historical and artificial excitations with various frequencies and acceleration magnitudes were applied. The natural frequencies, damping ratios, and mode shapes were obtained using frequency response functions obtained from dynamic response signals, and the mode vector deviations according to the input seismic waves were verified using the Mode assurance criterion (MAC). In addition, the damping ratios obtained from the vibration tests were applied to the structural model, and the method with refined dynamic characteristics was validated by comparing the analysis results with the experimental data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.139-144
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• 1993

본 연구에서는 액체를 이용한 위험속도 이상에서 불평형의 반대측으로 액체 를 이동시켜, 이것을 평형질량으로서 이용하여 축의 휘돌림 진폭을 감소시키 는 방안으로서 자기보상형 액체평형장치를 제안하고 기지의 정불평형에 대 한 이론과 실험을 통하여 그 유용성을 검증하고 결과를 나타낸다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.589-596
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• 2008

This study introduces the design of a bi-directional damper using a tuned mass damper(TMD) and a tuned liquid column damper(TLCD) and presents experimental verifications to confirm its control performance. The damper used in this study behaves as a TMD in a specific translational direction and acts as a TLCD in the other orthogonal direction. First, shaking table test is performed to investigate the coupled effect of control forces produced by TMD and TLCD. Then, the parameters that affect to dynamic characteristics of the proposed damper are quantitatively evaluated based on the experimental results. Testing results shows that the damper used in this study produces control forces coupled by TLCD and TMD, as it is excited by waves with an incident angle. Also, it is observed that the damper can be used to reduce bi-directional responses of building structures.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.26 no.8
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• pp.67-75
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• 2010

In this study, a series of 1 g shaking table tests were carried out for a single pile in soft clay with various input acceleration amplitudes and frequencies. Based on the results, dynamic p-y curves were drawn and, in turn, the dynamic p-y backbone curve was formed by connecting the peak points, corresponding to the maximum soil resistance, of the dynamic p-y curves. In order to represent the p-y backbone curve numerically, Matlock's p-y formulations for clay was used to find the initial stiffness ($k_{ini}$) and the ultimate capacity ($p_u$) of the clay, both of which are required to formulate the p-y backbone curve as a hyperbolic function. The suggested p-y backbone curve was verified through comparisons with currently available p-y curves as well as other researchers' centrifuge test results and numerical analysis results.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.25-32
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• 2022

As recently, there have been two earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater in Korea and the number of smaller earthquakes has increased, a lot of research and interest in earthquake-resistant design are increasing. Especially, the Pohang earthquake has also raised interest in earthquake-resistant design of port facilities. In this study, experiments and analysis were conducted on the dynamic behavior of upright and inclined breakwaters during earthquakes among port structures through the 1g shaking table test. To this end, three seismic waves were applied to the model to which the similarity law (scale effect) was applied: long period (Hachinohe), short period (Ofunato) and artificial seismic waves. The acceleration and displacement of the upright and inclined breakwaters were analyzed according to whether the DCM method was reinforced during earthquakes based on the results of shaking table test. As the result, the dynamic behavior of the upright and inclined breakwater shows a tendency to suppress the amplification of acceleration as bearing capacity and rigidity increase when DCM method is reinforced.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.123-131
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• 2005

In this research, shaking table tests for three types of gravity quay wall system were performed to analyze the influence of excess pore pressure in backfill soils on the natural frequency of gravity quay wall systems. The elastic modulus of backfill soils was also estimated from the back analyses using the results of the shaking table tests. From the test results, it was observed that as the magnitude of excess pore pressures increased, the natural frequency of the gravity quay wall system decreased and vice versa. The natural frequency was about 44Hz when no excess pore pressure was generated in backfill soils, and decreased to about 16Hz at the pore pressure ratio of 0.55. The elastic modulus of backfill soils reached the constant maximum value when the pore pressure ratio was less than 0.2, and abruptly decreased as the pore pressure ratio became larger than that. The elastic modulus of backfill soils decreased to $10\%$ of the maximum value when the pore pressure ratio was 0.55.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.67-74
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• 1995

This study develops 2-D analysis method of a base-isolated pool structure, and verifies the method through shaking table test using a scaled model. A wall of the pool structure is modeled as lumped mass, and added mass of the fluid is imposed on the nodes of the structure to consider the hydrodynamic effect of contained fluid. The equation of motion of base-isolated pool structure is obtained by coupling of two equations for superstructure composed of wall and fluid, and for bottom slab and isolator. The scaled model for shaking table test is made with transparent acryle, and 4-high damping laminated rubber bearings are used. The responses of the scaled model by the test are generally good agreement with those by the analysis. It is shown that 2-D analysis method gives somewhat conservative results.