• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.8 no.1 s.35
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• pp.57-65
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• 2007

Rebar work is a labor intensive operation, and with labor shortage and high-wage era, the cost is rising, so re-bar manufacturing system in plant is adapted. However there remains a lot of problems. Although manufacturing system in plant, which greatly effects the building's safety, endurance, and construction time, is an important phase in construction, it holds serious problem of quality and productivity deterioration due to its characteristic of intensive-labor and maintaining of old work methods resulting in poor management, and costs increase. Therefor in this study to investigate current situation and problems of rebar work in plant and to find methods of betterment, a survey was conducted to factory engineers in 18 companies.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.529-532
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 철근가격 급등과 배근시공도 작성 인력 부족에 대비하여 SDM# 제품군을 사용하여 이음/정착을 고려한 3차원 철근 배근 자동화 기술(RAP)로 철근 배근 자동생성 및 배근시공도 작성 시스템을 개발하였다. 최근 철근가격 급등으로 인한 공사원가상승/인건비 상승/배근시공도 작성 인력 부족 등의 기존현황의 문제점 등을 SDM# 제품군의 철근 배근 자동화 기술(RAP)을 이용하여 자동 철근배근/배근시공도 작성/정밀 골조물량 산출/인력절감/시공 정밀도 향상/골조 공사비 절감 등의 효과와 기존의 현장가공으로 인한 철근 손실률 8%를 공장가공을 적용함으로써 3% 수준으로 낮출 수 있어 5% 내외의 절감효과를 얻을 수 있다. 철근현장가공에서 공장가공 전환으로 골조물량 절감을 기대할 수 있고, 이음/정착/응력분포가 고려된 3차원 철근 배근 자동화 기술(RAP)을 이용하여 자동배근 알고리즘에 의한 배근시공도/가공도 작성 효율을 높이고, 기술 자립을 통해 건설시공 분야의 기술력 향상을 기대할 수 있다.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.66-76
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• 1993

철근콘크리트 구조물의 공사중 뼈대공사라고 할 수 있는 철근공사에 있어서, 현행 철근의 절단 절곡 가공방법은 현장 인력 수작업에 의한 가공 즉 노동집약적 형태로 운영되어 왔으며, 특히 절단가공에 있어서는 철근의 강도저하가 우려되는 산소를 사용한 가열절단으로 행해지고 있어, 본고에서는 이와같은 현장여건을 개선하고, 궁극적으로 인력절감, 현장 생산성 및 품질 향상을 꾀하기 위하여 철근 가공(절단,절곡) 기계화 시스템을 적용한 시공사례를 중심으로 소개하기로 한다.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.58-66
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• 2009

Due to a shortage of professional labor and the stagnant construction industry in recent days, there has been an increasing demand for securing profitability through cost reduction. Though its importance in the cost and its great influence on the safety and durability of structures, the labor intensiveness of rebar work has caused a serious problem of rising cost accompanied by the loss of rebar materials. In the plant manufacturing process, rebar is cut and bent at the automated facilities and conveyed to the construction site, which makes it possible to manufacture higher-quality bars and to reduce the losses from rebar materials. Different from the expectation, however, this type of plant manufacturing still has not been active since its first introduction in 1990s. In this study, a research on the actual condition of rebar manufacturing plant has been implemented and a standardized rebar manufacturing has been provided as a way to activate rebar manufacturing.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.106-117
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• 2012

The proportion of rebar factory manufacturing which has been settled down in Korea recently seems to increase because of their strength such as high decreasing rate of rebar loss and manufacturing accuracy and the external factors such as an increase of downtown projects and a decrease of skilled workers. However, factory manufacturing using straight rebars causes a certain amount of rebar loss and an environmental problem including $CO_2$ emissions. To solve these problems, Bar in coil (BIC) has been introduced; however its application is very rare because it has not been produced so far in Korea and manufacturing machines of BIC are very expensive. Also, although BIC's application is expected to expand due to its strengths, few analysis of its application has been conducted. Therefore in this study, analysis of the BIC's characteristics and the influence to the rebar manufacturing industry are conducted for the advancement of rebar work as a basic research. To achieve this, inquiry on the present condition of rebar manufacturing industry in Korea is implemented. Then, the validation of BIC's applications by aspects of industry and the analysis of stakeholders' economical profit and loss are conducted.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.492-498
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• 2017

This study examined the bending performance of high strength and seismic purpose reinforcing bars experimentally with various parameters. For the experimental approach on the bending performance, the specimens were prepared with parameters, such as steel grades, diameters of reinforcing bars, and bending angles of reinforcing bars. Tensile strength tests on the reinforcing bars, the bending tests and re-bending tests, and the second tensile strength tests on the re-bended reinforcing bars were conducted. According to the test results on high strength and seismic purpose reinforcing bars, defects did not appear when the yield strength of the reinforcing bar was 500 MPa or less and the diameter was D13 or less, even when the first bending process was performed with a $135^{\circ}$ bending angle and a $2d_b$ inner radius. The bending performance decreased asthe strength and diameter of the reinforcing bars was increased. In addition, there was no significant difference between the general reinforcing bars and seismic purpose-reinforcing bars.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.3638-3643
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• 2013

These days, workers in a construction site conduct a rebar bending process with a machine. This bending process has some problems such as long processing time and bad quality of the rebar. In order to manufacture a rebar having precision and machinability, we should study on Spring-back phenomenon. This phenomenon affects a shape of rebar after unloading due to restoration ability of material and it is influenced by bending angle, bending radius and a rebar diameter. The change of spring-back ratio according to the change of the parameters are analyzed by FEM. Consequently, Spring-back increases around $0.1^{\circ}$ as bending angle increases $10^{\circ}$. and it also increases around $0.6^{\circ}$ as diameter of rebar increases from ${\varphi}$ 10mm to ${\varphi}$ 16mm. while we can confirm that it decreases around $0.2^{\circ}$ as bending angle increases $10^{\circ}$.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.195-204
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• 2012

In the construction of high-rise buildings, bent re-bars are manually straightened to connect slabs to core-walls, which are usually cast before floor structures. During cold bending and straightening of re-bars, plastic deformation causing work hardening, Bauschinger effect and aging hardening is unavoidable. Tensile tests of coldly bent and straightened re-bars were conducted with test parameters of grade, diameter, and bend radius of re-bars as well as age between bending and straightening. Test results showed that proportional limits were lower and strain hardening occurred without yield plateaus. Inside and outside of re-bars with compression and tension deformations, respectively, during bending showed lower yield points due to Bauschinger effect and no yield plateaus due to work hardening, respectively. When re-bar grade was higher, yield point became significantly lower where Grade 400 re-bars had yield strengths lower than specified yield strength of 400 MPa. Because the surface of re-bar has higher strength than the core of re-bar, Bauschinger effect was more obvious for higher-grade re-bars. When age between bending and straightening was greater, yield strength increased and elongation decreased (i.e. embrittlement occurs). Using measured data, stress-strain relationship for straightened re-bars was developed based on Ramberg-Osgood model, which can be used to evaluate stiffness of joints when straightened re-bars are applied.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.211-216
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• 2008

이 논문은 철근 가공 산업 현장에서 스프레드쉬트에 의해 수작업으로 행하던 절단 작업의 계획 수립을 자동화된 시스템에 의해 최적의 절단 계획을 생성하도록 하는 소프트웨어의 개발을 다룬다. 이를 위하여, 먼저 시스템의 데이터 표현과 최적 문제 풀이를 위한 자동 계획 알고리듬의 설계가 요구된다. 이것은 다중 규격의 1차원 자재 절단 문제를 푸는 것으로, 동적계획법에 근거하여 자재 절단 문제를 재구성하고, 유한 범위의 조합 열에서도 근사 최적의 해를 찾을 수 있는 탐색 기법을 사용한 자재 절단 계획 알고리듬을 사용하였다. 그리고, 자동화된 철근 가공 산업용 소프트웨어는 작업 환경에 맞게 사용이 편리한 그래픽 화면과 사용자 인터페이스가 요구되는데, 공개 소프트웨어를 활용한 GUI 라이브러리 툴킷인 GTK+를 활용하여 이를 구현하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.53-61
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• 2013

A new deformation of reinforcing bar in coils was proposed to improve a machinability of straightening process, which has crescent-shaped transverse ribs with an inclination angle of 50 degrees, a crest width of $0.15d_b$, and a flank inclination of 55 degrees. The proposed deformation can increase contact area between a surface of re-bar and a groove of a roller during a straightening process and, therefore, it might reduce a damage of ribs, improve a final straightness, and enhance an efficiency of the straightening process. Splice tests were conducted to evaluate bond strengths of three types of re-bar in coils including the proposed re-bar, of which the inclination angles of transverse ribs were 50, 60, and 90 degrees, respectively. Test results show that the re-bars in coils have higher bond strengths than predicted strengths by equations of Orangun et al., ACI 408, and KCI by at least 10%. Correlation coefficients of bond strengths between a straight bar and re-bars in coils are 0.94 and more. Consequently, equations of the KCI code for determining development and splice lengths can be applied to the tested re-bars in coils.