• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.811-830
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• 2014

A numerical study has been carried out to simulate an innovative monitoring procedure to detect and localize damage in reinforced concrete beams retrofitted with carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) unidirectional laminates. The main novelty of the present simulation is its ability to conduct the electromechanical admittance monitoring technique by considerably compressing the amount of data required for damage detection and localization. A FEM simulation of electromechanical admittance-based sensing technique was employed by applying lead zirconate titanate (PZT) transducers to acquire impedance spectrum signatures. Response surface methodology (RSM) is finally adopted as a tool for solving inverse problems to estimate the location and size of damaged areas from the relationship between damage and electromechanical admittance changes computed at PZT transducer surfaces. This statistical metamodel technique allows polynomial models to be produced without requiring complicated modeling or numerous data sets after the generation of damage, leading to considerably lower cost of creating diagnostic database. Finally, a numerical example is carried out regarding a steel-reinforced concrete (RC) beam model monotonically loaded up to its failure which is also retrofitted by a CFRP laminate to verify the validity of the present metamodeling monitoring technique. The load-carrying capacity of concrete is predicted in the present paper by utilizing an Ottosen-type failure surface in order to better take into account the passive confinement behavior of retrofitted concrete material under the application of FRP laminate.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.51-68
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• 2007

High-strength concrete (HSC) is becoming increasingly attractive for various construction projects since it offers a multitude of benefits over normal-strength concrete (NSC). Unfortunately, current design provisions for shear capacity of RC slender beams are generally based on data developed for NSC members having a compressive strength of up to 50 MPa, with limited recommendations on the use of HSC. The failure of HSC beams is noticeably different than that of NSC beams since the transition zone between the cement paste and aggregates is much denser in HSC. Thus, unlike NSC beams in which micro-cracks propagate around aggregates, providing significant aggregate interlock, micro-cracks in HSC are trans-granular, resulting in relatively smoother fracture surfaces, thereby inhibiting aggregate interlock as a shear transfer mechanism and reducing the influence of compressive strength on the ultimate shear strength of HSC beams. In this study, a new approach based on genetic algorithms (GAs) was used to predict the shear capacity of both NSC and HSC slender beams without shear reinforcement. Shear capacity predictions of the GA model were compared to calculations of four other commonly used methods: the ACI method, CSA method, Eurocode-2, and Zsutty's equation. A parametric study was conducted to evaluate the ability of the GA model to capture the effect of basic shear design parameters on the behaviour of reinforced concrete (RC) beams under shear loading. The parameters investigated include compressivestrength, amount of longitudinal reinforcement, and beam's depth. It was found that the GA model provided more accurate evaluation of shear capacity compared to that of the other common methods and better captured the influence of the significant shear design parameters. Therefore, the GA model offers an attractive user-friendly alternative to conventional shear design methods.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2010

교량의 내하력을 평가할 때 수행되는 구조해석은 재하시험을 통한 구조물의 실제거동과 유사한 거동특성을 구현하여야 되나 지점의 거동특성, 구조해석시 모델링 방법, 재하시험의 오류, 단면손상에 따른 강도 및 강성변화 등으로 인해 그렇지 못하는 경우가 있다. 특히, 교량받침이 손상하였거나 설치되지 않아 받침의 기능수행이 미비한 교량에서 이를 고려하지 않고 일률적으로 모델링을 하는 경우에는 이러한 문제가 더욱 심화될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 단일보의 내민구간을 구속시켜 얻어진 실측처짐($\delta$실측)과 비구속상태에서의 계산처짐($\Delta$계산)과의 차이값인 $\Delta{\delta}$으로부터 얻어진 지점모멘트를 구조해석모델에 작용시켜 실제거동과 유사한 해석결과를 얻었다. 이에 따라 실제 공용중인 교량을 대상으로 지점의 구속조건을 고려하여 내하력을 평가한 결과 기존 방법에 의한 내하력에 비해 15~19% 적게 평가되었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제58권2호
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• pp.199-216
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• 2016

A large number of bridges were built several decades ago, and most of which have gradually suffered serious deteriorations or damage due to the increasing traffic loads, environmental effects, and inadequate maintenance. However, very few studies were conducted to investigate the vibration behaviors of a damaged bridge under moving vehicles. In this paper, the vibration behaviors of such vehicle-bridge system are investigated in details, in which the effects of the concrete cracks and bridge surface roughness are particularly considered. Specifically, two vehicle models are introduced, i.e., a simplified four degree-of-freedoms (DOFs) vehicle model and a more complex seven DOFs vehicle model, respectively. The bridges are modeled in two types, including a single-span uniform beam and a full scale reinforced concrete high-pier bridge, respectively. The crack zone in the reinforced concrete bridge is considered by a damage function. The bridge and vehicle coupled equations are established by combining the equations of motion of both the bridge and vehicles using the displacement relationship and interaction force relationship at the contact points between the tires and bridge. The numerical simulations and verifications show that the proposed modeling method can rationally simulate the vibration behaviors of the damaged bridge under moving vehicles; the effect of cracks on the impact factors is very small and can be neglected for the bridge with none roughness, however, the effect of cracks on the impact factors is very significant and cannot be neglected for the bridge with roughness.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.997-1018
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• 2015

Structural health monitoring along with damage detection and assessment of its severity level in non-accessible reinforced concrete members using piezoelectric materials becomes essential since engineers often face the problem of detecting hidden damage. In this study, the potential of the detection of flexural damage state in the lower part of the mid-span area of a simply supported reinforced concrete beam using piezoelectric sensors is analytically investigated. Two common severity levels of flexural damage are examined: (i) cracking of concrete that extends from the external lower fiber of concrete up to the steel reinforcement and (ii) yielding of reinforcing bars that occurs for higher levels of bending moment and after the flexural cracking. The purpose of this investigation is to apply finite element modeling using admittance based signature data to analyze its accuracy and to check the potential use of this technique to monitor structural damage in real-time. It has been indicated that damage detection capability greatly depends on the frequency selection rather than on the level of the harmonic excitation loading. This way, the excitation loading sequence can have a level low enough that the technique may be considered as applicable and effective for real structures. Further, it is concluded that the closest applied piezoelectric sensor to the flexural damage demonstrates higher overall sensitivity to structural damage in the entire frequency band for both damage states with respect to the other used sensors. However, the observed sensitivity of the other sensors becomes comparatively high in the peak values of the root mean square deviation index.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.631-637
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• 2005

This paper presents a stiffness analysis method for a low-DOF parallel manipulator, which takes into account of elastic deformations of joints and links. A low-DOF parallel manipulator is defined as a spatial parallel manipulator which has less than six degrees of freedom. Differently from the case of a 6-DOF parallel manipulator, the serial chains in a low-DOF parallel manipulator are subject to constraint forces as well as actuation forces. The reaction forces due to actuations and constraints in each limb can be determined by making use of the theory of reciprocal screws. It is shown that the stiffness model of an F-DOF parallel manipulator consists of F springs related to the reciprocal screws of actuations and 6-F springs related to the reciprocal screws of constraints, which connect the moving platform to the fixed base in parallel. The $6{times}6$ stiffness matrix is derived, which is the sum of the stiffness matrices of actuations and constraints. The six spring constants can be precisely determined by modeling the compliance of joints and links in a serial chain as follows; the link can be considered as an Euler beam and the stiffness matrix of rotational or prismatic joint can be modeled as a $6{times}6$ diagonal matrix, where one diagonal element about the rotation axis or along the sliding direction is zero. By summing the elastic deformations in joints and links, the compliance matrix of a serial chain is obtained. Finally, applying the reciprocal screws to the compliance matrix of a serial chain, the compliance values of springs can be determined. As an example of explaining the procedure, the stiffness of the Tricept parallel manipulator has been analyzed.

• 콘크리트학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.177-185
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• 1996

실물크기와 1/10축소모델의 부재거동 상사성을 검토하기 위하여 네 가지 형태의 실험을 수행하였다. : (1) P-$\Delta$효과를 가지는 장주의 실험, (2) 구속 띠철근의 유무에 따른 단주의 실험, (3)스터럽이 없는 단순보(전단)실험, (4) T형보 휨실험. 실험의 결과에 기초하여 다음의 결론을 도출하였다. : (1)장주의 P-$\Delta$효과는 1/10축소모델에서 거의 정확하게 상사할 수 있다. (2)단주의 띠철근에 의한 구속 효과는 1/10축소모델에서 대체로 상사할 수 있다. (3)스터럽이 없는 단순보의 파괴모드는 실물크기의 경우 전단취성파괴를 나타내었으나 1/10축소모델은 인장철근의 항복과 더불어 상당한 크기의 연성을 나타낸 후 사인장균열 심화에 뒤이은 압축 콘크리트 파괴를 나타내었다. (4) T형보에서 실물크기와 1/10축소모델의 거동은 매우 근사하게 나타났다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 추계 학술발표회 제20권2호
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• pp.985-988
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• 2008

철근콘크리트 구조물의 비탄성 내진설계를 위하여 할선강성을 사용한 선형해석법을 연구하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 기존의 탄성해석과 동일한 보-기둥 요소 및 면요소를 사용하여 구조물을 모델링하며, 비탄성거동의 영향을 반영하기 위하여, 비탄성변형이 예상되는 부재에 탄성강성 대신 할선강성을 사용한다. 할선강성을 사용하는 부재의 분포와 할선강성의 크기는 설계자가 의도하는 구조물의 소성메커니즘과 설계목표연성도에 의하여 결정된다. 이 구조해석모델에 대한 선형해석을 통하여 부재의 비탄성 설계강도를 직접 결정하고, 할선강성해석으로부터 구한 절점변위를 이용하여 할선강성보의 변형을 소성힌지에 발생된회전변형으로 변환한 후 소성변형에 대한 안전성을 평가한다. 제안된 방법을 이용하여 2차원 모멘트골조및 이중골조에 대한 내진설계를 수행하였으며, 3차원 골조에도 적용하였다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.385-390
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• 2005

LMTT(Linear Motor-based Transfer Technology)는 항만 자동화를 위한 수평 이송 시스템이며, 셔틀카(shuttle car)와 격자구조의 레일에 부착된 스테이터 모듈(stator module)로 구성된 PLMSL(Permanent Magnetic Linear Synchronous Motor)에 의해 구동된다. 본 논문에서는 LMTT시스템 부품인 이동체(mover)의 경량화를 위하여 직교배열표 및 크리깅 방법을 이용하여 최적설계를 수행한다. 설계변수로는 가로빔, 세로빔, 휠빔의 두께와 높이 방향의 치수를 결정하는 형상변수를 포함시켰다. 목적함수로는 중량, 제한조건 함수로는 안전율이 고려된 응력으로 설정하였다. 본 연구에서 제시된 방법으로 구한 최적해를 민감도기반 최적설계로 구해진 최적해와 비교, 검토하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제27권1B호
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• pp.114-124
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 실내 전파환경에서의 페이딩을 분석하기 위하여 영상법 기반의 3차원 광선추적법에 패치산란모델을 첨가한 모델을 제시하였다. 영상법 기반의 광선추적법은 정확한 경로를 얻을 수 있다는 장점 때문에, 안테나의 빔패턴 및 편파, 그리고 전파의 진행에 따른 편파를 고려함으로써 페이딩 특성 분석이 가능하다. 또한 실내 구조물을 모델링하기 위한 패치산란모델은 패치형태의 직사각형 평면에 대한 RCS (Radar Cross Section)를 이용하여 입사에 대한 산란현상을 정의한 것으로써, 책상이나 테이블 같은 평면적인 실내 구조물에 대한 산란현상을 각각의 구조물에 대한 영상 안테나를 발생시키는 복잡한 과정 없이 간단하게 해석하기 위한 것이다. 제안된 모델은 신호강도 뿐만 아니라 채널의 페이딩 특성을 예측할 수 있기 때문에 안테나 종류별 편파 다이버시티 기법의 성능을 분석하는데 이용될 수 있다.