• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.99-107
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• 2018

The objective of the present study is to propose a reliable shape of supplementary V-ties in the section jacketing approach for seismic strengthening of reinforced concrete columns. A total of 24 pull-out specimens were prepared. The test parameters selected with regard to bond strength of V-ties were the shape of V-ties, embedment length of V-tie legs, and compressive strength of concrete. The measured bond strength of V-ties with different shapes were compared with that of the conventional V-ties and predictions using CEB-FIP equation. Ultimately, V-ties with pressed end-details at their legs could be recommended for the supplementary lateral reinforcement of strengthening columns with jacketing thickness less than the embedment length [= max (75mm, $6d_b$)] of conventional V-ties, where $d_b$ is the diameter of the reinforcing bar used for V-ties.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.133-140
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• 2018

The objective of this study is to propose a reliable mixing design procedure of concrete using artificial lightweight aggregate produced from expanded bottom ash and dredged soil. Based on test results obtained from 25 mixes, empirical equations to determine water-to-cement ratio, unit cement content, and replacement level of lightweight fine aggregates were formulated with regard to the targeted performance (compressive strength, dry density, initial slump, and air content) of lightweight aggregate concrete. From the proposed equations and absolute volume mixing concept, unit weight of each ingredient was calculated. The proposed mix design procedure limits the fine aggregate-to-total aggregate ratio by considering the replacement level of lightweight fine aggregates, different to previous approach for expanded fly ash and clay-based lightweight aggregate concrete. Thus, it is expected that the proposed procedure is effectively applied for determining the first trial mixing proportions for the designed requirements of concrete.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.66 no.5
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• pp.569-582
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• 2018

Effects of crack separation, bridge area, on the tensile behaviour of concrete are studied experimentally and numerically through the Brazilian tensile test. The physical data obtained from the Brazilian tests are used to calibrate the two-dimensional particle flow code based on discrete element method (DEM). Then some specially designed Brazilian disc specimens containing two parallel cracks are used to perform the physical tests in the laboratory and numerically simulated to make the suitable numerical models to be tested. The experimental and numerical results of the Brazilian disc specimens are compared to conclude the validity and applicability of these models used in this research. Validation of the simulated models can be easily checked with the results of Brazilian tests performed on non-persistent cracked physical models. The Brazilian discs used in this work have a diameter of 54 mm and contain two parallel centred cracks ($90^{\circ}$ to the horizontal) loaded indirectly under the compressive line loading. The lengths of cracks are considered as; 10 mm, 20 mm, 30 mm and 40 mm, respectively. The visually observed failure process gained through numerical Brazilian tests are found to be very similar to those obtained through the experimental tests. The fracture patterns demonstrated by DEM simulations are mostly affected by the crack separation but the tensile strength of bridge area is related to the fracture pattern and failure mechanism of the testing samples. It has also been shown that when the crack lengths are less than 30 mm, the tensile cracks may initiate from the cracks tips and propagate parallel to loading direction till coalesce with the other cracks tips while when the cracks lengths are more than 30 mm, these tensile cracks may propagate through the intact concrete itself rather than that of the bridge area.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.40-45
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• 2016

It should be noted that the use of the lathe scrap for making fiber reinforced cementitious composites raised friendly environmental effect as well as economy because the lathe scrap is a by-product of steel manefactures and is occurred when lathe and milling works of them are conducted to process steel manufactures. Thus, the purpose of this experimental research is to investigate workability and strength characteristics of lathe scrap reinforced cementitious composites(LSRCCs). For this purpose, three types of lathe scraps were collected from processing plants of metal, and then LSRCCs containing these were made for 2mm width and 40mm length. As a result, it was observed from the test results that the workability of LSRCCs was slightly decreased than plain mortar and the flexural strength of LSRCCs were much larger than these of plain mortar and effect of types of lathe scrap on the characteristics of LSRCCs were somewhat large.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.330-330
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• 2016

투명전극은 디스플레이, 터치스크린, 태양전지 등 폭넓은 분야에서 응용되고 있어 현재 각광 받는 연구 주제 중 하나이다. 특히, ITO(인듐산화물)을 이용한 투명전극은 뛰어난 효율성 때문에 가장 주목 받고 있는 전극 형태 중 하나이다. 그러나 ITO투명전극은 인듐 소재의 희소성으로 인한 자원고갈문제 및 복원력, 투명도 등에서 취약점을 지니고 있는 것으로 보고되어 있다. 이러한 ITO 투명전극의 취약점을 보완하고, 동시에 플렉서블 디스플레이(Flexible Display) 소자에 적용 가능한 대체 투명전극에 관한 연구는 현재 가장 주목할 만한 가치가 있는 연구분야로 부각되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 대체 투명전극 중 하나로 그래핀 투명전극(Graphene Transparent Electrode)을 주목했다. PEN(Polyethylene Naphthalate) 투명기판 상에 Wet-Transfer형식으로 그래핀을 전사하여 그래핀 투명전극을 구현했으며, 복원력 확인을 위해 그래핀에 2가지 (Compressive/Tensile) 압력을 가하며 구부러짐 실험(Bending Test)을 진행하며 그래핀 투명전극의 저항값을 측정했다. 일반 금속전극의 경우, 일정한 수준 이상의 압력 또는 구부러짐이 반복되는 실험의 횟수가 증가되면 원래의 복원력을 상실하며, 저항값이 상승하는 것으로 보고된바 있다. 그러나 이번 연구에서는 그래핀 투명전극을 사용해 PEN 기판 위에 투명전극을 제작한 경우, 일정한 수준의 구부러짐 반복횟수(~1,000회) 및 구부러짐 정도(~10%) 하에서 저항값이 일정하게 유지됨을 확인할 수 있었다. 별도로, 기존에 알려져 있던 순수 그래핀(Pristine Graphene)의 취약점 중 하나인 높은 저항값을 우려하여 본 연구에서는 그래핀에 도핑을 하고, 그 영향을 분석해 보았다. 그 동안 그래핀 도핑법에 대한 적지않은 연구들이 진행되었으며, 본 연구에서는 TFSA(Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amide)라는 물질을 이용한 그래핀 도핑법을 채택했다. 실험 결과, 도핑된 그래핀 투명전극은 위와 같은 수준의 그래핀 본연의 복원력을 유지하면서 저항값은 순수 그래핀 대비 약 70% 정도 낮아짐을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구를 통해 그래핀 투명전극이 그래핀 고유의 특성인 높은 투명도와 복원력, 도핑으로 인한 저항값 감소가능성을 확인함으로써, 그래핀 투명전극이 ITO 투명전극의 좋은 대체자가 될 수 있는 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Composites Research
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.310-315
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• 2017

In this study, we have investigated microstructure, mechanical properties and wear characteristic of aluminum metal matrix composites with a high volume fraction and uniformly dispersed SiC particles which produced by a liquid pressing process. The volume fraction of bimodal SiC/Al7075 composite was 12% higher than that of the monomodal SiC/Al7075 composite and a compressive strength is increased about 200 MPa. As a result of the abrasion test, the wear width and depth of the bimodal SiC/Al7075 composite were $285.1{\mu}m$ and $0.45{\mu}m$, respectively. The coefficient of friction of bimodal SiC/Al7075 was 0.16.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.125-132
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• 2015

This paper presents an experimental investigation in order to evaluate fresh and hardened properties of LP (Limestone Powder) blended cement concrete. The cement contents of the mixtures are replaced by LP in the range of 10%, 15%, 25%, and 35%, while a control mixture is prepared with only OPC (Ordinary Portland Cement). The fresh concrete properties like slump and air content are similar to those of control mixture up to 35% of replacement ratio of LP, however a delay in setting time is evaluated. The hardened properties including compressive strength, flexural strength, and rapid freezing and thawing resistance shows similar results of control mixture up to 15% of replacement. Relatively lower strength development is evaluated over 25% replacement of LP. For accelerated carbonation test, resistance to carbonation rapidly decreases with increasing LP replacement ratio due to the limited amount of $Ca(OH)_2$. From the study, LP replacement under 15% can be adopted considering reduction of strength and resistance to carbonation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.561-567
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• 2015

The research, in order to enhance the quality of recycled aggregate, was carried out the quality characteristics test of the recycled aggregates by applying the four kinds of surface treatment using a colloidal suspension of approximately 5nm~60nm particle size with the alkalinity of pH 10.2. The quality tests of recycled aggregate have been processed by specific gravity, water absorption, porosity, surface properties, and the compression and tensile tests. The colloidal suspension was coated effectively the surface of the old cement mortars of recycled aggregate with a constant thickness by colloidal suspension is being applied to the recycled aggregate surface under constant pressure of 100kpa and then it was dried in at $60^{\circ}C$. The surface treatment method by the Method C out of 4 kinds of surface treatment improved effectively the quality of the recycled aggregates, whereby it obtained the best compressive strength and tensile strength of the recycled aggregate concrete.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.715-725
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• 2003

This paper is a part of a research program to develop a new design method for reinforced concrete bridge columns under seismic loading. The objectives of this paper are to investigate the relationship between ductility and confinement steel amount and to propose a design equation for reinforced concrete bridge columns. Computer program NARCC was used for parametric study, which was proved to provide good and conservative analytical result especially for deformation capacity and ductility factor compared with test result. A total of 7,200 reinforced concrete columns confined with spirals or perfect circular hoops were selected by combination of variables such as section diameter, aspect ratio, concrete compressive strength, yielding strength of longitudinal and confinement steel, longitudinal steel ratio, axial load ratio, and confinement steel ratio. Based on the parametric study a new design equation for confinement steel amount considering ductility demand was proposed, which can be used in the new seismic design method, i.e. ductility-based seismic design, for RC bridge columns.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.86-93
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• 2009

The crack formation and the resistance of ITO film on PET substrate with a thickness of 20 nm were investigated as a function of strain. The onset strain for the increase of resistance increased with increasing strain rate, suggesting the crack initiation is dependent on the strain rate. Electrical resistance increased at the strain of 1.6% at the strain rates below $10^{-4}/sec$ while it increased at ${\sim}2%$ at the strain rates above $10^{-3}/sec$. The critical strain at which the cracks were formed is close to the proportional limit. Upon loading, the initial cracks perpendicular to the tensile axis were observed and propagated the whole sample width with increasing strain. The spacing between horizontal cracks is thought to be determined by the fracture strength and the interfacial strength between ITO and PET. The crack density increased with increasing strain. However, the effect of the strain rate on the crack density was less pronounced in ITO/PET with 20 nm ITO thickness than ITO/PET with 125 nm ITO thickness, the strength of ITO film is thought to increase as the thickness on ITO film decreases. The absence of cracks on ITO film at a strain as close as 1.5% can be attributed to the compressive residual stress of ITO film which was developed during cooling after the coating process. The higher critical strain for the onset of the resistance increase and the crack initiation of ITO/PET with a thinner ITO film (20 nm) can be linked with the higher strength of the thinner ITO film.