• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 3th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.83-90
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• 2009

Natural disasters, such as the recent floods in the Midwest, Hurricane Ike in the Gulf coast region (U.S.), and the earthquake in Sichuan (China), cause severe damage to the infrastructure as well as the associated industries and communities that rely on the infrastructure. The estimated damages due to Hurricane Ike in 2008 were a staggering $27 billion, the third worst in U.S. history. In addition, the worst earthquake in three decades in Sichuan resulted in about 90,000 people dead or missing and $20 billion of the estimated loss. A common observation in the analyses of these natural disaster events is the inadequacy of critical infrastructure to withstand the forces of natural calamities and the lack of mitigation strategies when they occur on the part of emergency-related organizations, industries, and communities. If the emergency-related agencies could identify and fortify the vulnerable critical infrastructure in the preparedness stage, the damage and impacts can be significantly reduced. Therefore, it is important to develop a decision support system (DSS) for identifying region-specific mitigation strategies based on the inter-relationships between the infrastructure and associated industries and communities in the affected region. To establish effective mitigation strategies, relevant data were collected from the affected areas with respect to the technical, social, and economic impact levels. The data analysis facilitated identifying the major factors, such as vulnerability, criticality, and severity, for developing a DSS. Customized mitigation strategies that will help agencies prepare, respond, and recover according to the disaster response were suggested.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.984-991
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• 2022

The use of the sustainability rating systems in infrastructure construction projects is not as common in comparison to building construction projects. While the sustainability rating systems share some commonalities, they differ from one another in certain ways. Thus, project teams cannot make reliable decisions when choosing the best sustainability rating tools for a given infrastructure projects. The Department of Transportation (DOT) in several states are developing its own rating system to address the infrastructure sustainability, but not in the case of California. Therefore, this paper presents the statistical results on the important sustainability determinants that affects the success of meeting sustainability goals of infrastructure construction projects. The authors conducted an online survey using the structured questionnaires. The categories considered include site, water/wastewater, energy, materials/resources, environmental, and others. The statistical analyses such as Kruskal-Wallis and ANOVA are conducted using a total of 25 valid and complete data out of 59 surveys collected. The results demonstrate several factors under each of six major sustainable categories have received higher ranks than other factors. The results also show that a statistically significant difference can be found from water, energy, and environmental categories against the other category based on the pairwise comparisons.

• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.1-2
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• 2017

• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.153-155
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• 2016

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2005년도 학술발표회(2)
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• pp.1020-1022
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• 2005

• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.77-79
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• 2016

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권11호
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• pp.259-272
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• 2019

강-콘크리트 편개형 방폭문은 외피 구조로서의 강재 박스와 내부의 철근콘크리트 슬래브 부재로 구성된 방호 구조물이다. 국내 방폭문 설계의 경우 폭압의 크기, 철근량 및 강박스의 강판두께와 같은 설계변수의 변화가 구조거동에 미치는 영향에 대해서 연구결과가 많지 않은 관계로 방폭문의 구조가 효율적으로 설계되지 않고 있다. 본 연구에서는 배근 간격 및 강재 박스의 강판 두께, 하중조건 등을 변수로 하여 유한요소 해석에 의한 구조거동 특성을 분석하였으며, 또한 방폭문의 구조성능을 구분하기 위해 산정되는 회전연성도 및 변위연성도를 재검토하고자 하였다. 유한요소해석 결과에 따르면, 배근 간격을 변수로 할 때 보다 강재 박스의 강판 두께가 변할 경우가 처짐과 같은 구조거동에 있어서 더 큰 변화를 나타내고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이와 같은 결과는 외피의 강재 박스의 강판 두께를 증가시킬 때 방폭문에 흡수된 변형 에너지가 더 큰 폭으로 감소하고, 결과적으로 전체적인 구조거동으로서의 처짐이 더 작게 발생하기 때문인 것으로 분석되었다. 또한, 방폭문의 구조성능을 구분하기 위한 방법으로서 회전 연성도 및 변위 연성도를 비교한 결과, 해석 대상 방폭문들의 성능은 회전 연성도 1도 및 변위 연성도 3을 기준으로 분류될 수 있었다. 폭발압에 대한 방폭문의 손상 수준을 분류하기 위해서는 향후 다수의 폭발시험 및 해석적 연구가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.765-784
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• 2015

Connections are usually designed either as pinned usually associated with simple construction or rigid normally is associated with continuous construction. However, the actual behaviour falls in between these two extreme cases. The use of partial strength or semi-rigid connections has been encouraged by Euro-code 3 and studies on semi-continuous construction have shown substantial savings in steel weight of the overall construction. Composite connections are proposed in this paper as partial or full strength connections. Standardized connection tables are developed based on checking on all possible failure modes as suggested by "component method" for beam-to-column composite connection on major axis. Four experimental tests were carried out to validate the proposed standardised connection table. The test results showed good agreement between experimental and theoretical values with the ratio in the range between 1.06 to 1.50. All tested specimens of the composite connections showed ductile type of failure with the formation of cracks occurred on concrete slab at maximum load. No failure occurred on the Trapezoidal Web Profiled Steel Section as beam and on the British Section as column.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.33-49
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• 2016

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has been attracting numerous research efforts around the world because it targets at monitoring structural conditions and performance to prevent catastrophic failure, and to provide quantitative data for engineers and infrastructure owners to design a reliable and economical asset management strategy. In the past decade, with supports from Australian Research Council (ARC), Cooperative Research Center for Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM), CSIRO and industry partners, intensive research works have been conducted in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Western Australia and Centre for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection, Curtin University on various techniques of SHM. The researches include the development of hardware, software and various algorithms, such as various signal processing techniques for operational modal analysis, modal analysis toolbox, non-model based methods for assessing the shear connection in composite bridges and identifying the free spanning and supports conditions of pipelines, vibration based structural damage identification and model updating approaches considering uncertainty and noise effects, structural identification under moving loads, guided wave propagation technique for detecting debonding damage, and relative displacement sensors for SHM in composite and steel truss bridges. This paper aims at summarizing and reviewing the recent research advances on SHM of civil infrastructure in Western Australia.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.377-389
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• 2023

In this study, an improved modular arch system with the lower arch space composed of a precast arch block and an outrigger was proposed as an underground culvert, and its applicability and structural behaviors were confirmed. This modular arch culvert structure with vertical walls was designed using precast blocks and by adjusting the placement spacing of concrete blocks to the upper part form an arch shape and the lower part form a vertical wall shape, based on previously researched modular arch systems. Owing to the vertical wall of the proposed modular arch system, it is possible to secure a load-carrying capacity and an arch space that can sufficiently resist the earth pressure generated from the backfill soil and loading on the arch system. To verify the structural characteristics, and applicability of the proposed modular precast arch culvert structure, a full-scale modular culvert specimen was fabricated, and a loading test was conducted. By examining its construction process and loading test results, the applicability and constructability of the proposed structure were analyzed along with its structural characteristics. In addition, its the structural predictability and safety for the applicability were evaluated by comparing the construction process and loading test results with the FE analysis results.