• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.93-115
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• 2012

This paper presents a numerical investigation of the mechanical behaviour of extended end - plate steel connections including comparison with full size experiments. Contact and friction laws have been taken into account with nonlinear, three dimensional finite element analysis. Material and geometric nonlinearities have been implemented to the model, as well. Results are then compared with experimental tests conducted at the Jordan University of Science and Technology. According to the most significant observation of the analysis, a separation of the column flange from the extended end - plate occurs. Other important structural parameters of the connection, like the impact of some column stiffeners on the overall response, local buckling of the column and friction of the beam to column interface, have been examined as well.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.625-638
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• 2017

The flexural behavior of Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) sheets has gained much research interest in the flexural strengthening of reinforced concrete beams. The study on flexure includes various parameters like increase in strength of the member due to the externally bonded (EB) Fiber reinforced polymer, crack patterns, debonding of the fiber from the structure, scaling, convenience of using the fibers, cost effectiveness, etc. The present work aims to study experimentally about the reasons behind the failure due to flexure of an externally bonded FRP concrete beam. In the design of FRP-reinforced concrete structures, deflection control is as critical as much as flexural strength. A numerical model is created using Finite element (FEM) software and the results are compared with that of the experiment.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권8호
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• pp.1983-1990
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• 2019

Spray deposited Molybdenum trioxide (MoO₃) thin film of thickness nearly 379 nm were irradiated with 200 MeV Ag¹⁵⁺ ion beam at different fluences (Ø) of 5 ×10¹¹, 1 × 10¹², 5 × 10¹² and 1 × 10¹³ ions/㎠. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern of the pristine film confirms orthorhombic structure and the crystallinity decreased after irradiation with the fluence of 5 × 10¹¹ ions/㎠ due to irradiation induced defects and became amorphous at higher fluence. In pristine film, Raman modes at 665, 820, 996 cm^-1 belong to Mo-O stretching, 286 cm^-1 belong to Mo-O bending mode and those below 200 cm^-1 are associated with lattice modes. Raman peak intensities decreased upon irradiation and vanished completely for the ion fluence of 5 ×10¹² ions/㎠. The percentage of optical transmittance of pristine film was nearly 40%, while for irradiated films it decreased significantly. Red shift was observed for both the direct and indirect band gaps. The pristine film surface had densely packed rod like structures with relatively less porosity. Surface roughness decreased significantly after irradiation. The electrical transport properties were also studied for both the pristine and irradiated films by Hall effect. The results are discussed.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.141-155
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• 2017

This paper presents an investigation into the magneto-thermo-mechanical vibration and damping of a viscoelastic functionally graded-carbon nanotubes (FG-CNTs)-reinforced curved microbeam based on Timoshenko beam and strain gradient theories. The structure is surrounded by a viscoelastic medium which is simulated with spring, damper and shear elements. The effective temperature-dependent material properties of the CNTs-reinforced composite beam are obtained using the extended rule of mixture. The structure is assumed to be subjected to a longitudinal magnetic field. The governing equations of motion are derived using Hamilton's principle and solved by employing differential quadrature method (DQM). The effect of various parameter like volume percent and distribution type of CNTs, temperature change, magnetic field, boundary conditions, material length scale parameter, central angle, viscoelastic medium and structural damping on the vibration and damping behaviors of the nanocomposite curved microbeam is examined. The results show that with increasing volume percent of CNTs and considering magnetic field, material length scale parameter and viscoelastic medium, the frequency of the system increases and critically damped situation occurs at higher values of damper constant. In addition, the structure with FGX distribution type of CNTs has the highest stiffness. It is also observed that increasing temperature, structural damping and central angle of curved microbeam decreases the frequency of the system.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.213-233
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• 2006

Over the past years techniques for non-linear analysis have been enhanced significantly via improved solution procedures, extended finite element techniques and increased robustness of constitutive models. Nevertheless, problems remain, especially for real world structures of softening materials like concrete. The softening gives negative stiffness and risk of bifurcations due to multiple cracks that compete to survive. Incremental-iterative techniques have difficulties in selecting and handling the local peaks and snap-backs. In this contribution, an alternative method is proposed. The softening diagram of negative slope is replaced by a saw-tooth diagram of positive slopes. The incremental-iterative Newton method is replaced by a series of linear analyses using a special scaling technique with subsequent stiffness/strength reduction per critical element. It is shown that this event-by-event strategy is robust and reliable. First, the model is shown to be objective with respect to mesh refinement. Next, the example of a large-scale dog-bone specimen in direct tension is analyzed using an isotropic version of the saw-tooth model. The model is capable of automatically providing the snap-back response. Subsequently, the saw-tooth model is extended to include anisotropy for fixed crack directions to accommodate both tensile cracking and compression strut action for reinforced concrete. Three different reinforced concrete structures are analyzed, a tension-pull specimen, a slender beam and a slab. In all cases, the model naturally provides the local peaks and snap-backs associated with the subsequent development of primary cracks starting from the rebar. The secant saw-tooth stiffness is always positive and the analysis always 'converges'. Bifurcations are prevented due to the scaling technique.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 제20권1호
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• pp.313-316
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• 2008

철근 콘크리트 구조물의 철근 부식은 구조물의 성능 저하의 주요한 원인 중 하나이다. 철근 부식은 구조물의 수명을 단축시켜 막대한 유지 관리 비용을 요구하게 된다. 또한 이러한 철근의 부식은 주기적인 반복하중을 받는 교량이나 도로와 같은 구조물들의 구조적 성능저하를 가중시키는 요인이 되고 있다. 이러한 이유들로 인해 철근을 대체할 수 있는 FRP 보강근의 사용에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 그러나 국내외적으로 FRP 보강근의 피로시험에 대한 연구는 전무한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 국내외로 상용화된 FRP(GFRP, CFRP) 보강근의 실제 구조물에 대한 적용가능성을 고찰하기위해 휨 보강시험체의 인장부 보강근으로 사용하여 정적 및 피로 성능을 검증하고자 한다. 본 연구에서 사용된 시험체는 ACI 440.1R-06으로 설계되었으며, CFRP 보강근으로 보강된 시험체(CR)와 GFRP 보강근으로 보강된 시험체(GR)는 과보강 단면으로 설계되었다. 정적 휨 실험을 수행한 결과, CR 시험체와 GR 시험체 모두 콘크리트 보의 상단 압축부가 파괴되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 피로 실험시 피로응력수준은 정적 휨 강도의 60%, 70%, 80%로 하여 실험을 수행하였다. 대부분의 시험체가 압축 파괴 양상을 보였지만 CR-60과 CR-70 시험체는 인장부 보강근의 파단으로 인한 파괴를 확인할 수 있었다. 피로 실험결과를 바탕으로 회귀분석을 통해 S-N 상관도를 적용하여 S-N 관계식을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.6673-6678
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• 2015

최근 빈번히 건설되고 있는 비정형 건축물들은, 개별부재의 수직/수평적 연결방식 에서 벗어나, 외관 및 내부 구성요소들의 단면이 자유롭게 변화되는 곡선의 형태를 띠고 있다. 이러한 구조물의 안정성 평가를 위해서 고전적 방식의 유한요소 해석기법이 적용된 상용프로그램이 사용되고 있으나, 과도한 절점분할 방식 또는 유한요소망(Finite Element Mesh)의 도입으로 인하여 해석시간이 길어지고 사용성 및 해석 정밀도가 낮은 문제점을 안고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는, 전술된 문제점을 개선하기 위하여, 임의의 곡률을 가진 단위 부재 및 단위요소에 대한 수학적 해석모형을 활용하여 비정형구조물에 대한 구조안정성 평가를 효과적으로 수행할 수 있는 전후처리 모듈을 개발하였다. 본 연구에서 개발된 전후처리 모듈은 곡선형 부재의 곡률을 NURBS 제어점을 이용하여 제어할 수 있도록 개발되었으며, 그로 인해 상용프로그램보다 빠른 형상 모델링이 가능하였다. 또한, 자유로운 형상에 대한 시각적 확인이 가능하여 비정형 건축물의 형상과 거동양상의 현실적인 묘사가 가능하였다.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.17-23
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• 1992

Simple chest radiography is the most frequently performed examination in radiologic practice. However, with transmitted dose through chest which has the problem of wide variations in absorption, conventional Film/Screen Combinations Method make it difficult to delineate lung field mediastinum & cardia portion and subdiaphragmatic structures. In order to overcome this problem, we have been tried several methods as follows. High Kilovoltage Technique, Rare Earth Screen/Wide Lattitude Film, Use of Compensating Filter and Digital Beam Attenuator and recently Insigh System has been developed. In this paper, we'd like to discuss Insight film through apperciation by measuring the difference of contrast. In order to evaluate insight film. We have done experiments using Insight System with Simple Phase, Picker 550. We could get an result which was able to overcome the limitted dynamic range of conventional Film/Screen System remarkably.

• 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가시화정보학회 2004년도 Proceedings of 2004 Korea-Japan Joint Seminar on Particle Image Velocimetry
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• pp.1-13
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• 2004

A scanning stereo-PIV system was developed to measure the three-dimensional distribution of three-component velocity in a turbulent round jet. A laser light beam produced by a high repetition rate YLF pulse laser was expanded vertically by a cylindrical lens to form a laser light sheet. The light sheet is scanned in a direction normal to the sheet by a flat mirror mounted on an optical scanner, which is controlled by a programmable scanner controller. Two high-speed mega-pixel resolution C-MOS cameras captured the particle images illuminated by the light sheet, and stereoscopic PIV method was adopted to acquire the 3D-3C-velocity distribution of turbulent round jet in an octagonal tank filled with water. The jet Reynolds number was set at Re=1000 and the streamwise location of the measurement was fixed at approximately x = 40D. Time evolution of three-dimensional vortical structure, which is identified by vorticity, is visualized. It revealed that the existence of a group of hairpin-like vortex structures was quite evident around the rim of the shear layer of the jet. Turbulence statistics shows good agreement with the previous data, and divergence of a filtered (unfiltered) velocity vector field was $7\%\;(22\%)$ of root-me an-squared vorticity value.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.411-425
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• 2010

The effect of dead loads on dynamic responses of uniform elastic beams is examined by means of a governing equation which takes into account initial bending stress due to dead loads. First, the governing equation of beams which includes the effect of dead loads is briefly presented from the author's paper (Takabatake 1990). In the formulation the effect of dead loads is considered by strain energy produced by conservative initial stresses produced by the dead loads. Second, the effect of dead loads on dynamical responses produced by live loads in simply supported beams and clamped beams is confirmed by the results of numerical computations with the Galerkin method and Wilson-${\theta}$ method. It is shown that the dynamical responses, like dynamic deflections and bending moments produced by dynamic live loads, are decreased in a heavyweight beam when the effect of dead loads is included. Third, an approximate solution for dynamic deflections including the effect of dead loads is presented in closed-form. The proposed solution shows good in agreement with results of numerical computations with the Galerkin method and Wilson-${\theta}$ method. Finally, a method reflecting the effect of dead loads for dynamic responses of beams on the magnitude of live loads is presented by an example.