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Development of the Braket for External Prestressing Method in Slab Bridge (슬래브교 외부 강선 보강용 정착구 개발)

  • 한만엽;이상열
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.93-98
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    • 2001
  • This study is to develop the end anchorage of external steel reinforcement of RC slab bridges. External prestress method using the existing steel is that When the anchorage is installed in slab end, a plenty of anchor bolts were required because the only tangential stress of anchor bolt received a tendon force. Then, for this reason, the wide end anchorage was required and the shape was complicate. But this reinforcement method using method that inserts anchor key at concrete surface cut a groove gets big internal force comparing to the anchorage using existing anchor bolt. Furthermore, the number of anchor bolt for installing apparently will be reduced, and the operation will be convenient because a small anchorage of a simple shape will be received a great tendon force

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Development of the Bracket for External Prestressing Method for Slab Bridge (콘크리트 교량의 외부강선 보강을 위한 앵커키 정착장치의 개발 연구)

  • 한만엽;이상열
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2001.11a
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    • pp.1009-1014
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    • 2001
  • This study is to develop the end anchorage of external steel reinforcement of RC slab bridges. External prestress method using the existing steel is that When the anchorage is installed in slab end, a plenty of anchor bolts were required because the only tangential stress of anchor bolt received a tendon force. Then, for this reason, the wide end anchorage was required and the shape was complicate. But this reinforcement method using method that inserts anchor key at concrete surface cut a groove gets big internal force comparing to the anchorage using existing anchor bolt. Furthermore, the number of anchor bolt for installing apparently will be reduced, and the operation will be convenient because a small anchorage of a simple shape will be received a great tendon force.

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Topic directed Web Spidering using Reinforcement Learning (강화학습을 이용한 주제별 웹 탐색)

  • Lim, Soo-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.395-399
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we presents HIGH-Q learning algorithm with reinforcement learning for more fast and exact topic-directed web spidering. The purpose of reinforcement learning is to maximize rewards from environment, an reinforcement learning agents learn by interacting with external environment through trial and error. We performed experiments that compared the proposed method using reinforcement learning with breath first search method for searching the web pages. In result, reinforcement learning method using future discounted rewards searched a small number of pages to find result pages.

Research on the railroad reinforcement subgrade with short reinforcement and rigid facing (강성벽체와 단보강재를 갖는 철도보강노반에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Dang-Sang;Kim, Ki-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2009.09a
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    • pp.350-358
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    • 2009
  • To enhance the application of the reinforced retaining walls in the railway industry, this paper suggested a type of reinforcement subgrade with short reinforcement and rigid facing. To become popular the reinforced retaining walls in the industry, the deformation of retaining walls should be controlled below some limited level. In this paper, small scale and full scale tests of the proposed retaining walls were performed and their deformation characteristics were evaluated. Even though it has short reinforcement, the rigid type retaining wall had small deformation to the external train loading than the segmental type retaining wall had.

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Seismic improvement of infilled nonductile RC frames with external mesh reinforcement and plaster composite

  • Kamanli, Mehmet;Korkmaz, Hasan H.;Unal, Alptug;Balik, Fatih S.;Bahadir, Fatih;Cogurcu, Mustafa T.
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.761-778
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    • 2015
  • The objective of this paper is to report the result of an experimental program conducted on the strengthening of nonductile RC frames by using external mesh reinforcement and plaster application. The main objective was to test an alternative strengthening technique for reinforced concrete buildings, which could be applied with minimum disturbance to the occupants. Generic specimen is two floors and one bay RC frame in 1/2 scales. The basic aim of tested strengthening techniques is to upgrade strength, ductility and stiffness of the member and/or the structural system. Six specimens, two of which were reference specimens and the remaining four of which had deficient steel detailing and poor concrete quality were strengthened and tested in an experimental program under cyclic loading. The parameters of the experimental study are mesh reinforcement ratio and plaster thickness of the infilled wall. The effects of the mesh reinforced plaster application for strengthening on behavior, strength, stiffness, failure mode and ductility of the specimens were investigated. Premature and unexpected failure mode has been observed at first and second specimens failed due to inadequate plaster thickness. Also third strengthened specimen failed due to inadequate lap splice of the external mesh reinforcement. The last modified specimen behaved satisfactorily with higher ultimate load carrying capacity. Externally reinforced infill wall composites improve seismic behavior by increasing lateral strength, lateral stiffness, and energy dissipation capacity of reinforced concrete buildings, and limit both structural and nonstructural damages caused by earthquakes.

Flight Trajectory Simulation via Reinforcement Learning in Virtual Environment (가상 환경에서의 강화학습을 이용한 비행궤적 시뮬레이션)

  • Lee, Jae-Hoon;Kim, Tae-Rim;Song, Jong-Gyu;Im, Hyun-Jae
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2018
  • The most common way to control a target point using artificial intelligence is through reinforcement learning. However, it had to process complicated calculations that were difficult to implement in order to process reinforcement learning. In this paper, the enhanced Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm was used to simulate finding the planned flight trajectory to reach the target point in the virtual environment. In this paper, we simulated how this problem was used to find the planned flight trajectory to reach the target point in the virtual environment using the enhanced Proximal Policy Optimization(PPO) algorithm. In addition, variables such as changes in trajectory, effects of rewards, and external winds are added to determine the zero conditions of external environmental factors on flight trajectory learning, and the effects on trajectory learning performance and learning speed are compared. From this result, the simulation results have shown that the agent can find the optimal trajectory in spite of changes in the various external environments, which will be applicable to the actual vehicle.

Evaluating performance of the post-tensioned tapered steel beams with shape memory alloy tendons

  • Hosseinnejad, Hossein;Lotfollahi-Yaghin, Mohammad Ali;Hosseinzadeh, Yousef;Maleki, Ahmad
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.221-229
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    • 2022
  • The external post-tension technique is one of the best strengthening methods for reinforcement and improvement of the various steel structures and substructure components such as beams. In the present work, the load carrying capacity of the post-tensioned tapered steel beams with external shape memory alloy (SMA) tendons are studied. 3D nonlinear finite element method with ABAQUS software is used to determine the effects of the increase in the flexural strength, and the improvement of the load carrying capacity. The effect of the different parameters, such as geometrical characteristics and the post-tension force applied to the tendons are also studied in this research. The results reveal that the external post-tension with SMA tendons in comparison with the steel tendons causes a significant improvement of the loading capacity. According to this, using SMA tendon for the reinforcement of the tapered beams causes a decrease in weight of these structures and as a consequence causes economic benefits for their application. This method can be used extensively for steel beams due to low executive costs and simplicity of the operation for post-tension.

The Buckling Analysis of Stiffened Plate with Hole(2nd Report) -Shear Buckling- (보강(補剛)된 유공판(有孔板)의 좌굴강도해석(挫屈强度解析)(제2보)(第2報) -전단좌굴(剪斷挫屈)-)

  • C.D.,Jang;S.S.,Na
    • Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 1983
  • When the perforated panels are under in-plane shear loads, shear buckling analysis is also necessary because of the presence of stress concentration around holes. To constrain it, we need some reinforcement. The methods of reinforcement are attaching doubler around hole and stiffeners in the arbitary directions. In this paper, two kinds of methods mentioned above are investigated, it is also clarified that which of the two is the more effective reinforcement. For the sake of convenience those arbitary directions were selected parallel ($90^{\circ}$) and oblique ($135^{\circ}$) to the edge. From the results of the above investigation, following conclusion was obtained. In case of parallel stiffeners, doubler reinforcement gives higher buckling strength than stiffener, however, in case of oblique stiffeners, doubler reinforcement gives higher buckling strength than doubler when the external load direction is known.

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Development of Application Technology of High-Strength Reinforcing Bars for Nuclear Power Plant Structure : Performance Evaluation Test of the Wall (원전 구조물의 고강도 철근 적용 기술개발 : 벽체의 성능평가 실험)

  • Kim, Seok-Chul;Lim, Sang-Joon;Lee, Byung-Soo;Bang, Chang-Joon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2012.11a
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    • pp.201-202
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    • 2012
  • Recently, High-Strength steel reinforcement has been studied throughout the internal and external. One of the advantages using High-Strength steel reinforcement in construction is the economic effect due to the decreasing of its quantity. Also, another good effect is the increases of workability by reason of reducing the congestion. But, realistically it is not used in nuclear power plant construction site because of the restriction of design standard. The purpose of this report secures the reliability and changes the code through the performance evaluation test of the wall using the high-strength steel reinforcement in nuclear power plant.

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Stability evaluation of reinforced earth walls based on large-scale modular blocks (대형 축조블록을 이용한 보강토옹벽의 안정성 평가)

  • Han, Jung-Geun;Kim, Min-Woo;Hong, Kikwon;Yun, Jung-Mann
    • Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.143-151
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    • 2014
  • This paper describes external and internal stability of reinforced earth wall using large-scale modular block and geogrid reinforcement. The evaluation for external and internal stability was conducted to analyze effect of wall height, reinforced soil (or backfill soils) and reinforcement strength. The external stability showed that the analysis cases were satisfied with design criteria, when the required minimum length and vertical spacing of reinforcement were 0.7H and 1m, respectively. The internal stability conformed that some cases were satisfied with design criteria in $25^{\circ}$ of internal friction angle of reinforced soil. Expecially, it will be applicable as wall structure considering a structural stability and economic efficiency based on evaluation of internal stability.