• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.615-627
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• 2013

One of the most common defects in reinforced concrete bridge decks is corrosion of steel reinforcing bars. This invisible defect reduces the deck stiffness and affects the bridge's serviceability. Regular monitoring of the bridge is required to detect and control this type of damage and in turn, minimize repair costs. Because the corrosion is hidden within the deck, this type of damage cannot be easily detected by visual inspection and therefore, an alternative damage detection technique is required. This research develops a non-destructive method for detecting reinforcing bar corrosion. Experimental modal analysis, as a non-destructive testing technique, and finite element (FE) model updating are used in this method. The location and size of corrosion in the reinforcing bars is predicted by creating a finite element model of bridge deck and updating the model characteristics to match the experimental results. The practicality and applicability of the proposed method were evaluated by applying the new technique to a two spans bridge for monitoring steel bar corrosion. It was shown that the proposed method can predict the location and size of reinforcing bars corrosion with reasonable accuracy.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.111-121
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• 2018

It has been argued that fracture energy of composite laminates depends on their thickness and number of layers. In this paper a modified direct energy balance approach (DEBA) has been developed to evaluate the mode-II shear fracture energy for E-glass/Epoxy laminates from finite element model at an arbitrary thickness. This approach considers friction and damage/plasticity deformations using cohesive zone modeling (CZM) and nonlinear finite element modeling. The presence of compressive stress and resulting friction was argued to be a possible cause for the thickness dependency of fracture energy. In the finite element modeling, CZM formulation has been developed with bilinear cohesive constitutive law combined with friction consideration. Also ply element have been developed with shear plastic damage model. Modified direct energy balance approach has been proposed for estimation of mode-II shear fracture energy. Experiments were performed on laminates of glass epoxy specimens for characterization of material parameters and determination of mode-II fracture energies for different thicknesses. Effect of laminate thickness on fracture energy of transverse crack tension (TCT) and end notched flexure (ENF) specimens has been numerically studied and comparison with experimental results has been made. It is shown that the developed numerical approach is capable of estimating increase in fracture energy due to size effect.

• 국제강구조저널
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.1200-1209
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• 2018

In this study, a probabilistic framework of the damage assessment of pipelines subjected to extreme hazard scenario was developed to mitigate the risk and enhance design reliability. Nonlinear 3D finite element models of T-joint systems were developed based on experimental tests with respect to leakage detection of black iron piping systems, and a damage assessment analysis of the vulnerability of their components according to nominal pipe size, coupling type, and wall thickness under seismic wave propagations was performed. The analysis results showed the 2-inch schedule 40 threaded T-joint system to be more fragile than the others with respect to the nominal pipe sizes. As for the coupling types, the data indicated that the probability of failure of the threaded T-joint coupling was significantly higher than that of the grooved type. Finally, the seismic capacity of the schedule 40 wall thickness was weaker than that of schedule 10 in the 4-inch grooved coupling, due to the difference in the prohibition of energy dissipation. Therefore, this assessment can contribute to the damage detection and financial losses due to failure of the joint piping system in a liquid pipeline, prior to the decision-making.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제13권2호통권54호
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• pp.231-242
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• 2009

통계적 구조물 손상진단에서 기저분포는 구조물에 손상이 없을 때 획득된 동적 응답 특성이 이루는 통계 분포이다. 일반적으로 구조물에 손상이 발생했을 때 손상에 민감한 구조물의 동적 응답 특성은 기저분포의 꼬리 부근에 주로 나타나게 된다. 최근 연구자들은 기저분포의 꼬리 부분을 정확하게 모사하기 위해 극치분포에 주목하고 있으나, 구조물 손상진단의 관점에서 극치분포의 이론적 이해에 대한 연구는 거의 이루어지지 않았다. 이 연구에서는 신뢰성 있는 통계적 구조물 손상진단을 위해 필요한 극치분포의 점근적 수렴성을 매개변수 추정법을 이용하여 규명한다. 특히, 극치 추출에 필요한 표본크기와 극치분포의 점근적 수렴성의 관계를 정량적으로 보인다. 또한, 극치분포 추정에서 표본크기와 통계적 구조물 손상진단에서 발생하는 손상오류경보 빈도에 대한 관계를 정량적으로 규명한다. 차량 이동하중을 받는 2경간 트러스 교량에서 수치해석 기법을 통해 모사된 가속도 데이터를 이용하여 제안된 기법의 타당성을 검증한다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.67-82
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• 2008

Risk that breed large size disaster is happening variously for cause at social. natural a management. Incidence and damage scale are trend that increase rapidly than past. In these circumstance, to keep operational continuity of organization, area, society, risk management action that establish systematic counter measure estimating and analyze occurrence possibility and expectation damage of risk is essential indispensable issue and the best countermeasure. Risk management action does by main purpose establish optimum disaster reduction countermeasure. To deduce various countermeasure, process that estimate and analyze occurrence possibility and expectation damage of risk is essential indispensable issue. Therefore, this paper studies process design that can presume risk occurrence frequency and damage scale through distribution of probability.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2002년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.197-204
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• 2002

The resent earthquakes in worldwide have caused extensive damage to highway reinforced concrete bridge piers. It has been observed in the Korean Peninsula that the number of minor or low earthquake motions have increased year by year. Since the concern about the earthquake hazards is increased, the objective of this research is to evaluate the damage of reinforced concrete bridge piers subjected to probable earthquake motions. Experimental investigation was conducted to study the seismic performance of the full-scale specimens in size D=1.2m H=4.8m, which were constructed with different longitudinal lap splice and loading pattern, through the quasi-static test and the pseudo-dynamic test. It is thought that this result could contribute to establish the retrofit decision-making and disaster planning of reinforced concrete bridge piers in earthquake regions. And it could be also possible to quantify the damage of reinforced concrete bridge piers under cyclic loading

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제24권7호
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• pp.1833-1840
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• 2000

Commercially pure copper is tested to obtain creep curves at 2500C. Constitutive relations adopting continuum damage mechanics concept is found to be appropriate to model the creep defor mation up to the tertiary stage. Microscopic observation by SEM reveals that creep condition induces cavities and microcracks subsequently. The constitutive equations along with evaluated creep parameters are implemented into finite element analysis code. The analysis reproduces creep curves under step loading as well as constant loading with reasonable accuracy. Distribution and evolution of damage under creep loading are numerically simulated for two different types of notched specimen. Predicted creep life agrees quite well with rupture test results. The influence of mesh size at notch tip on rupture time prediction is studied, and a degree of refinement is suggested for the specific notched specimens.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.26-33
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• 2007

Finite element simulation of elastic wave propagation in a concrete plate was carried out to investigate its modeling and damage detection procedures. For the numerical stability three criteria were introduced and tested. With a proper element size and time increment, two different kinds of damage scenarios (crack and deterioration) were applied to verify the feasibility of the finite element simulation. It is shown that the severities of those damages are sensitive to the received displacement signals.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1-10
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• 1986

This paper describes a new, effective method developed at the National Research Council Canada for rolling element bearing incipient failure detection. This method can detect not only outer race damage, previously published, but also inner race damage with a 100% detection rate based on a sample size of 32. The prediction of the exact angular location of the damage spot along the raceway is illustrated and experimental confirmation is presented. For the first time, a statically measurable parameter for inner and outer race damage is introduced as a means of verifying other techniques which do not offer absolute proof, but resort only to "overwhelming evidence". A brief comparison with other methods such as Shock Pulse Method, Kurtosis Analysis and High Frequency Resonance Technique is presented. A computerized automatic monitoring system utilizing the new method is described and experimental results are presented.presented.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.637-644
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 콘크리트 댐체의 균열 발생 및 진전해석을 포함하는 비선형 지진해석에서 유한요소망 의존성을 제거시키고 안정적인 해를 얻기 위하여 균열모형으로 사용되는 소성손상모형 및 손상역학모형을 duvaut-lions모형에 기초한 점소성모형으로 정규화하는 방법을 기술하였다. 제안된 방법으로 정규화된 소성손상모형과 그렇지 않은 소성손상모형를 이용하여 지진하중을 받는 콘크리트 댐체의 동적 손상해석을 수행하여 여러 형태의 유한요소망이 해석결과에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 해석결과로부터 정규화한 소성손상모형은 유한요소망의 크기 및 배열에 영향을 크게 받지 않고 객관적이며 안정적인 해를 계산하는 반면, 정규화되지 않은 균열모형은 요소망에 의존적인 불안정한 결과를 산출함을 관찰할 수 있었다.