• Wind and Structures
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.145-158
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• 2004

The evaluation of the accumulation of permanent set for inelastic structures due to wind action is important in establishing a criterion to select a reduced design wind load and in incorporating the beneficial ductile behaviour in wind engineering. A parametric study of the accumulation of the permanent set as well as the ductility demand for bilinear single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems is presented in the present study. The dynamic analysis of the inelastic SDOF system is carried out using the method of Newmark for artificially generated time history of wind speed. Simulation results indicate that the mean of the normalized damage rate is highly dependent on the natural frequency of vibration. This mean value is relatively insensitive to the damping ratio if the damping ratio is larger than 5%. The scatter associated with the accumulation of the permanent set is very significant. The consideration of the postyield stiffness can significantly reduce the accumulation of the permanent set if the ratio of the yield strength to the expected peak response is small. The results also show that the ductility demand due to the wind action over a period of one hour for flexible structures can be much less than that for rigid structures or structures with larger damping ratio if the SDOF systems are designed with a reduced peak response caused by the fluctuating wind.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제59권6호
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• pp.1037-1054
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• 2016

Structural parameter evaluation and external force estimation are two important parts of structural health monitoring. But the structural parameter identification with limited input information is still a challenging problem. A new simultaneous identification method in time domain is proposed in this study to identify the structural parameters and evaluate the external force. Each sampling point in the time history of external force is taken as the unknowns in force evaluation. To reduce the number of unknowns for force evaluation the time domain measurements are divided into several windows. In each time window the structural excitation is decomposed by orthogonal polynomials. The time-variant excitation can be represented approximately by the linear combination of these orthogonal bases. Structural parameters and the coefficients of decomposition are added to the state variable to be identified. The extended Kalman filter (EKF) is augmented and selected as the mathematical tool for the implementation of state variable evaluation. The proposed method is validated numerically with simulation studies of a time-invariant linear structure, a hysteretic nonlinear structure and a time-variant linear shear frame, respectively. Results from the simulation studies indicate that the proposed method is capable of identifying the dynamic load and structural parameters fairly accurately. This method could also identify the time-variant and nonlinear structural parameter even with contaminated incomplete measurement.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.87-93
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 평면 비대칭건물의 비탄성 변위를 주어진 목표까지 제한하기 위하여 필요한 추가적인 감쇠량을 구하는 방법에 관하여 연구하였다. 이를 위하여 먼저 비대칭구조물의 항복 후 거동을 분석하고 구조물에 발생하는 연성도 요구량을 이용하여 필요한 등가 감쇠비를 유도하였다. 이러한 방법을 지진하중을 받는 5층 비대칭구조물에 적용하였다. 시간이력해석 결과와의 비교에 따르면 제안된 방법에 따라 점성감쇠기를 설치한 경우 주어진 지진하중에 대하여 약변 및 강변 모두 만족할만한 거동을 보이는 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.279-284
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• 2007

As a container vessel becomes larger, the bow flare becomes larger. The large bow flare structures are often subjected to dynamic pressure loads due to bow flare slamming occurring in rough seas. The aim of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of bow flare slamming pressure measured in a real voyage through the North Pacific Ocean. The characteristics of impact pressure load caused by slamming is addressed in terms of the pressure pulse-time history which involves rising time, peak pressure, decaying time and type of pressure decay. The values were presented using non-dimensional parameters.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.165-176
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• 2021

Existing research on confined concrete filled steel tubular (CCFT) columns has been mainly focused on static or cyclic loading. In this paper, square section CCFT and CFT columns were tested under both static and impact loading, using a 10,000 kN capacity compression test machine and a drop weight testing equipment. Research parameters included bonded and unbonded fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) wraps, with carbon, basalt and glass FRPs (or CFRP, BFRP, and GFRP), respectively. Time history curves for impact force and steel strain observed are discussed in detail. Experimental results show that the failure modes of specimens under impact testing were characterized by local buckling of the steel tube and cracking at the corners, for both CCFT and CFT columns, similar to those under static loading. For both static and impact loading, the FRP wraps could improve the behavior and increase the loading capacity. To analyze the dynamic behavior of the composite columns, a finite element, FE, model was established in LS-DYNA. A simplified method that is compared favorably with test results is also proposed to predict the impact load capacity of square CCFT columns.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.747-764
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• 2022

The design codes and calculation methods related to soil-steel composite bridges and culverts only specify the minimum soil cover depth. This value is connected with the bridge span and shell height. In the case of static and dynamic loads (like passing vehicles), such approach seems to be quite reasonable. However, it is important to know how the soil cover depth affects the behaviour of soil-steel composite bridges under seismic excitation. This paper presents the results of a numerical study of soil-steel bridges with different soil cover depths (1.00, 2.00, 2.40, 3.00, 4.00, 5.00, 6.00 and 7.00 m) under seismic excitation. In addition, the same soil cover depths with different boundary conditions of the soil-steel bridge were analysed. The analysed bridge has two closed pipe-arches in its cross section. The load-carrying structure was constructed as two shells assembled from corrugated steel plate sheets, designed with a depth of 0.05 m, pitch of 0.15 m, and plate thickness of 0.003 m. The shell span is 4.40 m, and the shell height is 2.80 m. Numerical analysis was conducted using the DIANA programme based on the finite element method. A nonlinear model with El Centro records and the time history method was used to analyse the problem.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 교량 모니터링 시스템의 일부분으로 서해대교에 설치된 교량 하중측정 시스템(BWIM system)으로부터 획득한 신호를 분석하여 통행차량의 정보를 추출하기 위한 알고리즘의 개발과정과 이를 위해 수행한 현장 차량주행시험에 대하여 기술하였다. 개발된 BWIM 시스템은 포장층에 매설하는 축감지기가 없는 형태로, 바닥판과 가로보에 설치된 변형률계로부터 측정한 시간이력 변형률신호만을 이용하였다. 이들 측정신호로부터 추출하고자 하는 차량의 정보는 통과차로, 통과속도, 차 축수 및 총 중량이며, 이들 정보의 추출을 위해 패턴인식기법의 일종인 인공신경망(Aritificial Neural Network, ANN) 기법을 사용하였다. 현장 차량주행시험을 통하여 기지차량 및 미지차량 통행시의 BWIM 응답 데이터를 측정하였으며, 이들 실측데이터를 사용하여 인공신경망의 학습 및 성능검증을 수행하였다. 개발된 기법을 사용하여 추출되는 차량의 정보들은 현재의 교량상태 및 피로수명 평가시 활용될 수 있을 것이며, 향후 설계트럭 하중모델의 개정시 기초자료로도 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.657-678
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• 2013

For economical earthquake resistant design of cable-stayed bridge tower, the use of energy dissipation systems for the earthquake protection of steel structures represents an alternative seismic design method where the tower structure could be constructed to dissipate a large amount of earthquake input energy through inelastic deformations in certain positions, which could be easily retrofitted after damage. The design of energy dissipation systems for bridges could be achieved as the result of two conflicting requirements: no damage under serviceability limit state load condition and maximum dissipation under ultimate limit state load condition. A new concept for cable-stayed bridge tower seismic design that incorporates sacrificial link scheme of low yield point steel horizontal beam is introduced to enable the tower frame structure to remain elastic under large seismic excitation. A nonlinear dynamic analysis for the tower model with the proposed energy dissipation systems is carried out and compared to the response obtained for the tower with its original configuration. The improvement in seismic performance of the tower with supplemental passive energy dissipation system has been measured in terms of the reduction achieved in different response quantities. Obtained results show that the proposed energy dissipation system of low yield point steel seismic link could strongly enhance the seismic performance of the tower structure where the tower and the overall bridge demands are significantly reduced. Low yield point steel seismic link effectively reduces the damage of main structural members under earthquake loading as seismic link yield level decreases due their exceptional behavior as well as its ability to undergo early plastic deformations achieving the concentration of inelastic deformation at tower horizontal beam.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.937-942
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• 2008

이 논문은 건설이 완료된 700MW급 발전소의 시운전 기간 중 주 급수펌프 임펠러에서 반복적으로 발생된 웨어링 이탈 및 고착, 슈라우드 손상 그리고 축 절단 등의 절손이 부분부하 조건에서 증폭되는 압력맥동과 연관이 있는 것으로 규명되었다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2008

주기적으로 진동이 발생하는 도로 하부에 매설되어 있는 가스 배관의 안정성을 검토하고 동특성을 분석하기 위하여 도로 설계 기준 및 가스공사 배관관리 규정에 의거, 현재 매설 실정을 타당하게 모사할 수 있는 유한요소모델을 구성하였으며, DB-24 하중의 진행속도에 따른 배관 발생 응력분포를 검토하였다. 매설 심도 1.5 m, 차량 이동 속도 $40{\sim}160\;km/h$에 대하여 해석을 실시하였으며, 그 결과, 80 km/h를 정점으로 응력의 증가 추세가 감소로 돌아서는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. DB-24하중에 의하여 최대 약 10 MPa의 응력이 증가 하였으나 설계압력에서 API 5L Gr. X65 매설 배관은 차량의 진동에 대하여 충분한 안정성을 확보하고 있는 것으로 판단된다.