• 국제강구조저널
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1577-1588
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• 2018

As the excellent mechanical performance and easy construction of concrete filled steel tubes (CFST) composite structure, it has the potential to be used to strengthen RC pier columns. Therefore, tests were conducted on 2 reinforcement concrete (RC) stub columns and 9 RC columns strengthened with circular CFST under axial loading. The test results show that the circular CFST strengthening method is effective since the mean bearing capacity of the RC columns is increased at least 3.69 times and the ductility index is significantly improved more than 30%. One of the reasons for enhancement is obvious confinement provided by steel tube besides the additional bearing capacity supplied by the strengthening materials. From the analysis of the enhancement ratio, the strengthening structure has at least an extra 20% amplification except for taking full advantage of the strength of the strengthening material. Through the analysis of confining stress provided by steel tube and the stress-strain relationship of confined concrete, it is found that the strength of the core concrete can be increased by 21-33% and the ultimate strain can be enhanced to beyond $15,000{\mu}{\varepsilon}$.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.111-126
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• 2021

Concrete cracking due to brittle tension strength significantly prevents fully utilization of the materials for "flexural-shear failure" type shear walls. Theoretical and experimental studies applying fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) have achieved fruitful results in improving the seismic performance of "flexural-shear failure" reinforced concrete shear walls. To come to an understanding of an optimal design strategy and find common performance prediction method for design methodology in terms to FRC shear walls, seismic performance on shear walls with PVA and steel FRC at edge columns and plastic region are compared in this study. The seismic behavior including damage mode, lateral bearing capacity, deformation capacity, and energy dissipation capacity are analyzed on different fiber reinforcing strategies. The experimental comparison realized that the lateral strength and deformation capacity are significantly improved for the shear walls with PVA and steel FRC in the plastic region and PVA FRC in the edge columns; PVA FRC improves both in tensile crack prevention and shear tolerance while steel FRC shows enhancement mainly in shear resistance. Moreover, the tensile strength of the FRC are suggested to be considered, and the steel bars in the tension edge reaches the ultimate strength for the confinement of the FRC in the yield and maximum lateral bearing capacity prediction comparing with the model specified in provisions.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제32권10호
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• pp.67-79
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• 2016

파형 마이크로파일은 기존 마이크로파일과 제트 그라우팅 공법을 접목하여 그라우트체를 파형의 형상으로 시공하는 공법으로, 파형 구근에 의한 마찰저항 성능을 높여 마이크로파일의 지지력 및 경제성을 개선하기 위해 개발되었다. 본 연구에서는 파형 마이크로파일의 시공 타당성 및 지지성능 개선 효과를 검증하기 위해 총 2회의 현장시험을 수행하였다. 파형 마이크로파일의 시공성 분석을 위해 제트 그라우팅 공법을 활용하여 시간 및 압력 조절을 통한 파형 그라우트 형성 실험을 수행하고 지중 말뚝 굴착을 통해 파형 형성 여부를 확인하였다. 확인 결과, 제트 그라우팅의 압력 및 시간 조절을 통해 파형 마이크로파일의 요구 형상을 적절히 시공할 수 있는 것을 확인하였으며, 하중재하시험 결과에서는 전단키가 없는 마이크로파일과 비교해 파형 마이크로파일의 지지력이 형상에 따라 1.4 배에서 2.3배까지 증가해 파형 마이크로파일의 지지력 개선효과가 우수한 것으로 나타났다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.495-511
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• 2003

New material applications and transparency are desired by contemporary architects. Its superb transparency and high strength make glass a very suitable building material -in spite of its brittleness- even for primary load bearing structures. Currently we will focus on load bearing glass beams, subjected to different loading types. Since glass beams have a very slender, rectangular cross section, they are sensitive to lateral torsional buckling. Glass beams fail under a critical buckling load at stresses that lie far below the theoretical simple bending strength, due to the complex combination of torsion and out-of-plane bending, which characterises the instability phenomenon. The critical load can be increased considerably by preventing the upper rim from moving out of the beam's plane. Different boundary conditions are examined for different loading types. The load carrying capacity of glass beams can be increased three times and more using relatively simple, cheap lateral restraints.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.475-485
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• 2022

This paper presents a comparative experimental study on structural behavior of the interlocking masonry walls under in-plane cyclic loading. The main purpose of this study is to increase lateral load-bearing capacities of masonry walls by using interlocking units. The interlocking units were designed by considering failure modes of masonry walls and produced using lightweight foamed concrete. To this end, three masonry walls which are hollow, fully grouted, and reinforced were constructed with interlocking units. Also, a traditional masonry brick wall was built for comparison reasons. The walls were tested under in-plane cyclic loading. Then, structural parameters of the walls such as lateral load bearing and total energy dissipation capacities, ductility, stiffness degradation as well as failure modes obtained from the tests were compared with each other. The results have shown that the walls with the interlocking units have better structural performance than traditional masonry brick walls and they may be used in the construction of low-rise masonry structures in rural areas to improve in-plane structural performance.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.405-421
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• 2023

An experimental study on six axially-loaded composite short columns with different thicknesses of steel tube and that of the concrete plate was carried out. Compared to the mechanical behavior of component specimens under axially compressed, the failure modes, compression deformation, and strain process were obtained. The two main parameters that have a significant enhancement to cross-sectional strength were also analyzed. The failure of an axially loaded UHPC-CFST short column is due to the crushing of the UHPC plate, while the CFST member does reach its maximum resistance. A reduction coefficient K'c, related to the confinement coefficient, is introduced to account for the contribution of CFST members to the ultimate load-carrying capacity of the UHPC-CFST composite short columns. Based on the regression analysis of the relationship between the confinement index ξ and the value of fcc/fc, a unified formula for estimating the axial compressive strength of CFST short columns was proposed, combined with the experimental results in this research, and an equation for reliably predicting the strength of UHPC-CFST composite short columns under axial compression were also proposed.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.19-31
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• 2021

마이크로파일은 소구경 현장타설말뚝으로 간단한 시공법과 비교적 저렴한 공사비용으로 각종 건축물 및 구조물 기초보강 및 내진보강 등에 활용되고 있다. 말뚝 선단에 단순한 메커니즘의 고정 지압 구조체를 장착하여, 상부하중 작용 시 지압구가 압축·팽창하면서 선단 면적의 확대와 주면으로의 쐐기수평력을 발휘하여 지지력을 증대시키는 "선단 확장형 마이크로파일"이 개발되었으나, 개발된 공법에 대한 정확한 검증이 부족하여 실제 현장에서 활용되지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는, 선단 확장형 마이크로파일의 지지 메커니즘과 일반 마이크로파일 대비 지지력 증대효과를 검증하고자 3차원 수치해석을 수행하였다. 선단 확장형 마이크로파일을 모델링하고 수치해석을 위한 입력 물성치를 산정하였으며, Lab-scale 수치해석을 통하여 고정 지압 구조체가 압축·팽창되면서 발현되는 수평력에 의한 지지 메커니즘을 확인하였다. 이와 더불어 Field-scale 수치해석을 통해 일반 마이크로파일과의 지지력을 비교·검증한 결과, 압축 및 인발지지력이 각각 20.0%와 38.9% 증대되는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2003년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.210-215
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• 2003

Seismic capacity of reinforced concrete bearing wall subjected to high axial loading and moment can be attained by improving the deformability of compression zone or by reducing the neutral axis depth. For this two existing options for ductility enhancement were reviewed and improved to conveniently apply to the seismic improvement of compression zone of the wall: (1) end confinement of concrete due to transverse steel and (2) boundary element.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.481-492
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• 2020

Twenty-two corrosion-damaged columns were simulated through accelerated steel corrosion tests. Eight specimens were directly tested to failure under axial load, and the remaining specimens were tested after concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) strengthening. This study aimed to investigate the damage of RC columns after corrosion and their restoration and enhancement after strengthening. The research parameters included different corrosion degrees of RC columns, diameter-to-thickness ratio of steel tube and the strengthening concrete strength. Experimental results showed that CFST strengthening method could change the failure mode of corrosion-damaged RC columns from brittleness to ductility. In addition to the bearing capacity provided by the strengthening materials, it can also provide an extra 26.7% amplification because of the effective confinement provided by steel tubes. The influence of corrosion on reinforcement and concrete was quantitatively analysed and considered in the design formula. The proposed formula accurately predicted the bearing capacity of the strengthened columns with a maximum error of only 7.68%.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제91권4호
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• pp.335-347
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• 2024

This paper presents the behavior of geopolymer concrete beams reinforced with glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars. In the study, ordinary Portland cement concrete and geopolymer concrete beams having GFRP bars were prepared and tested under four-point loading. The load-deflection diagrams and load capacities of the tested beams were obtained. It was observed that the tested beams exhibited good ductility and significant deflection capacity. The results showed that increasing the tension GFRP reinforcement ratio caused enhancement in the strength capacity of geopolymer concrete beams. In addition, the tested beams were analyzed to obtain the load capacity and the load-deflection responses. The theoretical load-deflection curves and load bearing capacities have been predicted well with the test results. Parametric study has been performed to determine the influences of concrete strength, shear span to depth ratio (a/d) and reinforcement ratio on the behavior of geopolymer concrete beams longitudinally reinforced with GFRP bars. It was concluded that increasing concrete strength led to an increase in load capacity. Besides, the ultimate load increased as the reinforcement ratio increased. On the other hand, increasing a/d ratio reduced the ultimate load value of GFRP reinforced geopolymer concrete beams.