• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.83-99
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• 2022

The two, NBD and SCB tests using gypsum circular discs each containing a single notch have been experimentally accomplished in a rock mechanics laboratory. These specimens have also been numerically modelled by a two-dimensional particle flow which is based on Discrete Element Method (DEM). Each testing specimen had a thickness of 5 cm with 10 cm in diameter. The specimens' lengths varied as 2, 3, and 4 cm; and the specimens' notch angles varied as 0°, 45° and 90°. Similar semi-circular gypsum specimens were also prepared each contained one edge notch with angles 0° or 45°. The uniaxial testing machine was used to perform the experimental tests for both NBD and SCB gypsum specimens. At the same time, the numerical simulation of these tests were performed by PFC2D. The experimental results showed that the failure mechanism of rocks is mainly affected by the orientations of joints with respect to the loading directions. The failure mechanism and fracturing patterns of the gypsum specimens are directly related to the final failure loading. It has been shown that the number of induced tensile cracks showing the specimens' tensile behavior, and increases by decreasing the length and angle of joints. It should be noted that the fracture toughness of rocks' specimens obtained by NBD tests was higher than that of the SCB tests. The fracture toughness of rocks usually increases with the increasing of joints' angles but increasing the joints' lengths do not change the fracture toughness. The numerical solutions and the experimental results for both NDB and SCB tests give nearly similar fracture patterns during the loading process.

• 한국건설순환자원학회논문집
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.514-522
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 시멘트 복합체에 시멘트계 재료로 구성된 자기치유 캡슐을 적용하여 콘크리트 구조물의 자기치유 성능을 향상시키기 위한 연구의 일환으로 PCC(Powder Compacted Capsule) 크기 및 혼입율에 따른 모르타르의 공학적 특성을 비교ㆍ분석하였다. 이를 위해 PCC 크기 및 혼입율에 따른 모르타르의 유동성, 압축강도, 하중재부하 시험, 탄산화, 초음파속도, 투수 특성 등을 측정하였다. 측정 결과, PCC의 혼입율이 증가할수록 유동성과 압축강도가 증가하였으며, 치유특성 검토를 위해 진행한 하중재부하 시험의 경우 03PC 배합에서 PCC 혼입율이 증가할수록 치유율이 증가하였다. 정수위투수 시험의 경우 PCC를 사용할 경우 유출수량 감소율이 Plain 배합에 비해 최대 35 % 높은것으로 나타났으며, 크기 0.3~0.6 mm의 PCC를 15 % 혼입할 시 모르타르의 균열 치유율 향상에 효과적인 것으로 나타났다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.797-818
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• 2022

Steel-precast ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) composite beams with demountable high-strength friction-grip bolt (HSFGB) shear connectors can be used for accelerated bridge construction (ABC) and achieve excellent structural performance, which is expected to be dismantled and recycled at the end of the service life. However, no investigation focuses on the demountability and reusability of such composite beams, as well as the installation difficulties during construction. To address this issue, this study conducted twelve push-out tests to investigate the effects of assembly condition, bolt grade, bolt-hole clearance, infilling grout and pretension on the crack pattern, failure mode, load-slip/uplift relationship, and the structural performance in terms of ultimate shear strength, friction resistance, shear stiffness and slip capacity. The experimental results demonstrated that the presented composite beams exhibited favorable demountability and reusability, in which no significant reduction in strength (less than 3%) and stiffness (less than 5%), but a slight improvement in ductility was observed for the reassembled specimens. Employing oversized preformed holes could ease the fabrication and installation process, yet led to a considerable degradation in both strength and stiffness. With filling the oversized holes with grout, an effective enhancement of the strength and stiffness can be achieved, while causing a difficulty in the demounting of shear connectors. On the basis of the experimental results, more accurate formulations, which considered the effect of bolt-hole clearance, were proposed to predict the shear strength as well as the load-slip relationship of HSFGBs in steel-precast UHPC composite beams.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.365-381
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• 2023

The existing vision-based techniques for inspection and condition assessment of civil infrastructure are mostly manual and consequently time-consuming, expensive, subjective, and risky. As a viable alternative, researchers in the past resorted to deep learning-based autonomous damage detection algorithms for expedited post-disaster reconnaissance of structures. Although a number of automatic damage detection algorithms have been proposed, the scarcity of labeled training data remains a major concern. To address this issue, this study proposed a semi-supervised learning (SSL) framework based on consistency regularization and cross-supervision. Image data from post-earthquake reconnaissance, that contains cracks, spalling, and exposed rebars are used to evaluate the proposed solution. Experiments are carried out under different data partition protocols, and it is shown that the proposed SSL method can make use of unlabeled images to enhance the segmentation performance when limited amount of ground truth labels are provided. This study also proposes DeepLab-AASPP and modified versions of U-Net++ based on channel-wise attention mechanism to better segment the components and damage areas from images of reinforced concrete buildings. The channel-wise attention mechanism can effectively improve the performance of the network by dynamically scaling the feature maps so that the networks can focus on more informative feature maps in the concatenation layer. The proposed DeepLab-AASPP achieves the best performance on component segmentation and damage state segmentation tasks with mIoU scores of 0.9850 and 0.7032, respectively. For crack, spalling, and rebar segmentation tasks, modified U-Net++ obtains the best performance with Igou scores (excluding the background pixels) of 0.5449, 0.9375, and 0.5018, respectively. The proposed architectures win the second place in IC-SHM2021 competition in all five tasks of Project 2.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.97-105
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• 2009

3-Arch터널 시공초기인 1990년대 중반에 시공된 4개소의 3-Arch터널을 대상으로 열화발생여부를 조사하였으며, 그 결과 4개 터널 모두 중앙기둥측 상, 하선 아치부에서 발생형태가 유사한 종방향 균열이 조사되었다. 4개 터널 줄 3개소의 터널에서는 종방향 균열의 발생빈도가 높고 1개의 터널에서는 종방향 균열의 발생빈도가 낮아 이 2개군의 시공과정상 차이점을 분석하였으며 비파괴시험 및 정밀육안조사, 지반조건이 취약한 1개의 터널을 대상으로 안전성평가를 실시하여 이러한 열화들의 원인과 이에 따른 안전성여부를 판단하였다. 그 결과 안전성은 확보되었으며 중앙터널 기둥측 상, 하선아치부에 발생한 열화는 중앙터널굴착에 앞서 선시공되는 상, 하선 콘크리트라이닝의 철근배근불량과 이후의 시공단계인 중앙터널 굴착시의 영향이 큰 것으로 분석되었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제84권3호
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• pp.345-360
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• 2022

In this paper, the impact on seismic performance of an economical effective technique for retrofitting reinforced concrete (RC) columns using high-strength steel strips under high axial compression ratios was presented. The experimental program included a series of cyclic loading tests on one nonretrofitted control specimen and three retrofitted specimens. The effects of the axial compression ratio and spacing of the steel strips on the cyclic behavior of the specimens were studied. Based on the test results, the failure modes, hysteretic characteristics, strength and stiffness degradation, displacement ductility, and energy dissipation capacity of the specimens were analyzed in-depth. The analysis showed that the transverse confinement provided by the high-strength steel strips could effectively delay and restrain diagonal crack development and improve the failure mode, which was flexural-shear failure controlled by flexural failure with better ductility. The specimens retrofitted using high-strength steel strips showed more satisfactory seismic performance than the control specimen. The seismic performance and deformation capacity of the retrofitted RC columns increased with decreasing axial compression ratio and steel strip spacing. Based on the test results, a hysteretic model for RC columns that considers the transverse confinement of high-strength steel strips was then established. The hysteretic model showed good agreement with the experimental results, which verified the effectiveness of the proposed hysteretic model. Therefore, the aforementioned analysis can be used for the design of retrofitted RC columns.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.339-355
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• 2022

The high cost of ultra-high-performance engineered cementitious composite (UHP-ECC) is currently a crucial issue, especially in terms of the polyethylene (PE) fibers use. In this paper, cheap calcium carbonate whiskers (CW) were evaluated on the feasibility of hybrid with PE fibers. Diverse combinations of PE fibers and CW were employed to investigate the multi-scale enhancement on the UHP-ECC performance. A probabilistic-based UHP-ECC tensile strain reliability analysis approach was utilized, which was in general agreement with the experimental results. Furthermore, a multi-dimensional integrated representation was conducted for the comprehensive assessment of UHP-ECC. Results illustrated that CW improved the compressive strength and energy dissipation capacity of UHP-ECC owing to the microscopic strengthening mechanism. CW and PE fiber further promoted the saturated cracking of composite by multi-scale crack arresting effect. In particular, PE1.75-CW0.5 specimen possessed the best overall performance. The ultimate cracking width of PE1.75-CW0.5 group had 98 ㎛, which was 46.18% lower compared to PE2-CW0 group, the 28d compressive strength were slightly improved, the tensile strain capacity was comparable to that of PE2-CW0 group. The results above demonstrated that combinations of PE fiber and CW could significantly enhance the comprehensive performance of UHP-ECC, which was beneficial for large-scale engineering applications.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.465-474
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• 2023

The point load test (PLT) is a widely-used alternative method in the field to determine the uniaxial compressive strength due to its simple testing machine and procedure. The point load test index can estimate the uniaxial compressive strength through conversion factors based on the rock types. However, the mechanism correlating these two parameters and the influence of the mechanical properties on PLT results are still not well understood. This study proposed a theoretical model to understand the mechanism of PLT serving as an alternative to the UCS test based on laboratory observation and literature survey. This model found that the point load test is a self-confined compression test. There is a compressive ellipsoid near the loading axis, whose dilation forms a tensile ring that provides confinement on this ellipsoid. The peak load of a point load test is linearly positive correlated to the tensile strength and negatively correlated to the Poisson ratio. The model was then verified using numerical and experimental approaches. In numerical verification, the PLT discs were simulated using flat-joint BPM of PFC3D to model the force distribution, crack propagation and BPM properties' effect with calibrated micro-parameters from laboratory UCS test and point load test of Berea sandstones. It further verified the mechanism experimentally by conducting a uniaxial compressive test, Brazilian test, and point load test on four different rocks. The findings from this study can explain the mechanism and improve the understanding of point load in determining uniaxial compressive strength.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.591-610
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• 2020

활성탄(Activated carbon) 및 이산화티탄(TiO₂)이 혼합된 콘크리트는 질소산화물(NOx) 저감에 있어 우수한 성능을 나타내기 때문에 지하공간 및 터널 내부의 미세먼지 저감 목적으로 활용되고 있다. 환경 및 구조물 노후 영향으로 터널 내부에 설치된 미세먼지 저감 콘크리트 표면에서 손상이 발생된다. 따라서 미세먼지 저감 콘크리트의 성능 유지를 위해 손상(박리) 유무평가가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 전기비저항 특성을 이용하여 콘크리트 박리 유무 평가를 위한 기초연구를 수행하였다. 활성탄(0~15%) 및 TiO₂ (0~25%) 혼합비(시멘트 중량 기준)가 증가함에 따라 전기비저항 값은 감소하였다. 건조 조건에서 활성탄 및 TiO₂가 혼합된 시멘트 경화시편은 일반 시멘트 경화시편보다 전기비저항 값이 최대 2.3배 감소되었다. 또한, 포화 조건(포화도 = 85~98%)에서 활성탄만 혼합된 경화시편은 일반 시멘트 경화시편보다 전기비저항 값이 최대 3.5배 감소하는 결과를 보였다. 시편 상태(건조 또는 포화)와 관계없이 활성탄(15%) 및 TiO₂ (25%)가 혼합된 미세먼지 저감 시편의 경우, 일반 시멘트 시편과 비교하여 전기비저항 값은 약 2.3~2.8배 차이를 보였다. 본 연구결과는 전기비저항을 이용하여 터널 내 미세먼지 저감 콘크리트의 박리를 평가하기 위한 기초자료로 유용하게 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국방재안전학회논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.47-60
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• 2021

최근 기후변동성으로 인하여 집중호우의 발생빈도 및 강우강도 증가로 노후화된 여수로 바닥슬래브 표면에서의 손상이 발생하여 잦은 보수·보강이 필요한 실정이다. 이를 위해 현장조사, 수리모형 실험 및 수치모형 실험을 통하여 여수로 방류에 따른 손상발생 원인 검토에 관한 연구가 많이 진행되어 왔다. 그러나 대부분의 연구는 일반적으로 여수로의 흐름특성 및 압력분포에 대한 검토를 수행하였을 뿐 손상의 근본적인 발생원인 규명에 관한 연구는 미비한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 여수로 바닥슬래브 손상발생 원인을 도출하기 위해 공동침식 및 수력잭킹(hydraulic jacking)으로 인한 콘크리트 탈락관점에서 3차원 수치모형인 FLOW-3D와 COMSOL Multiphysics를 사용하여 검토하였다. 또한 공동지수를 산정하고 압력분포로 인하여 구조물이 받는 응력과 콘크리트의 인장·굽힘강도를 비교하여 공동침식 및 수력잭킹으로 인한 콘크리트 탈락 발생 가능성을 확인하였다. 수문 완전개도 조건에서 여수로 방류에 따른 공동침식 및 수력잭킹에 대하여 수치모의를 수행한 결과, 여수로 하류부에서 공동지수가 0.3 미만으로 공동침식 발생 가능성을 확인하였고, 공동부 및 균열부에서 압력분포에 따라 콘크리트가 받는 응력은 4.6~5.0 MPa로 콘크리트 인장강도와 굽힘강도와 비교를 통하여 지속적인 압력변동으로 인한 콘크리트의 피로파괴 또는 휨파괴 가능성을 확인하였다. 따라서 여수로 고유속 흐름에 의한 공동 현상 및 수력잭킹이 여수로 바닥슬래브 손상발생의 다양한 원인 중 하나로 판단하였다. 그러나 본 연구는 다양한 형상 조건 및 방류 시나리오를 적용하고 유체-구조물 상호작용(Fluid-Structure Interaction, FSI)모의를 수행하지 못하였다는 한계점이 있다. 이에 향후에는 한계점을 보완하여 검토한다면 보다 효율적이고 효과적인 여수로 유지관리 방안 도출이 가능할 것으로 기대한다.