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Development of an Eddy Current Type Magnetic Floor Hinge

  • Lee, Kapjin;Kim, Chulsoo;Park, Kyihwan
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.118.4-118
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    • 2002
  • $\textbullet$ Magnetic floor hinge $\textbullet$ Recovering torque $\textbullet$ Eddy Currents $\textbullet$ Magnetic damper $\textbullet$ Optimal design $\textbullet$ Cost optimization

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Optimum of Parts Design in Large Floor Hinge (대형 플로어 힌지 부품의 최적화)

  • Lim, Hwoa-Seob;Chung, Han-Shik;Jeong, Hyo-Min;Huh, Sun-Chul
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.11a
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    • pp.815-820
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    • 2001
  • According as industry is complex, architecture is changing into the complex and diverse style and also customer's demands are becoming diversified. Among these, a door field is very important as much as saying nothing of more explanation. In this paper, in order to develop large floor hinge, mechanical properties of component parts are measured by vickers hardness tester, microstructure analysis and at the same time, these are designed by the FEM analysis.

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Study on the Assessment of the Criteria on a Door Closer for the Optimum Design of the Access Door of a Smoke Control Zone (제연구역 출입문의 최적 설계를 위한 도어클로저의 기준 산정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jae-Ou;Choi, Chung-Seog
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.66-71
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study is to assess the criteria on a floor hinge and door closer for the optimum design of the access door of a smoke control room. The door opening force due to differential pressure is 60.75 N, 40.5 N, 32.91 N and 12.66 N when the differential pressure is 60 Pa, 40 Pa, 32.5 Pa and 12.5 Pa, respectively. The door opening force of the floor hinge and door closer to which the criteria of KS F 2806 are applied is 27.5 N, 40 N, 75 N, 100 N and 125 N for the Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 class floor hinges and door closers, respectively. This study compared the differential pressure and opening force limits of floor hinges and door closers with the values specified in NFSC 501A and found that they exceeded the criteria specified in NFSC 501A. Therefore, it is necessary to reflect the differential pressure and smoke control wind speeds as well as the opening forces specified in NFSC 501A on the design of floor hinges and door closers. The installation conditions of floor hinges and door closers of access doors differ depending on the type and name of a smoke control damper. This study found that Nos. 1, 2 and 3 floor hinges and door closers could be installed for access doors with low differential pressure and that Nos. 1 and 2 floor hinges and door closers could be installed for access doors with normal differential pressure.

The Application of Articulation Systems based on the Number of Carbody Modules of the Low-Floor Tram (저상트램 모듈 수량에 따른 아티큘레이션 장치의 적용 검토)

  • Lee, Jae-Ik;Jang, Sung-Chan;Eom, Kyong;Lee, Joung-Yul;Kim, Kuk-Jin
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.842-848
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    • 2011
  • The low-floor tram is a kind of railway vehicles which is operated on the street way track. For reducing the radius of curvature of the track, the tram consists of some carbody modules, and the articulation systems connect and support these carbody modules. The kind of articulation systems would be the hinge type and the pitching type. The hinge type articulation could allow only the yawing motion of the carbody modules, and the pitching type articulation could allow the pitching and yawing motions of the carbody modules simultaneously. With these function of the articulation systems, the tram could be operated on the horizontal and vertical curvature of the track. The number of each type of articulation could be decided with the number of carbody modules, and the manufacturer would decided the position of each type of the articulation in the view of the stability of carbody modules in the operation condition.

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Determination of collapse safety of shear wall-frame structures

  • Cengiz, Emel Yukselis;Saygun, Ahmet Isin
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.135-148
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    • 2007
  • A new finite shear wall element model and a method for calculation of 3D multi-storied only shear walled or shear walled - framed structures using finite shear wall elements assumed ideal elasto - plastic material are developed. The collapse load of the system subjected to factored constant gravity loads and proportionally increasing lateral loads is calculated with a method of load increments. The shape functions over the element are determined as a cubic variation along the story height and a linear variation in horizontal direction because of the rigid behavior of the floor slab. In case shear walls are chosen as only one element in every floor, correct solutions are obtained by using this developed element. Because of the rigid behavior of the floor slabs, the number of unknowns are reduced substantially. While in framed structures, classical plastic hinge hypothesis is used, in nodes of shear wall elements when vertical deformation parameter is exceeded ${\varepsilon}_e$, this node is accepted as a plastic node. While the system is calculated with matrix displacement method, for determination of collapse safety, plastic displacements and plastic deformations are taken as additional unknowns. Rows and columns are added to the system stiffness matrix for additional unknowns.

Seismic performance of prefabricated reinforced concrete column-steel beam sub-assemblages

  • Bai, Juju;Li, Shengcai
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.203-218
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, quasi-static tests were carried out on three prefabricated reinforced concrete column-steel beam (RCS) sub-assemblages with floor slabs and one comparison specimen without floor slab. The effects of axial compression and floor slab on the seismic performance were studied, and finite element simulations were conducted using ABAQUS. The results showed that the failure of prefabricated RCS sub-assemblages with floor occurred as a joint beam and column failure mode, while failure of sub-assemblages without floor occurred due to beam plastic hinge formation. Compared to the prefabricated RCS sub-assemblages without floor slab, the overall stiffness of the sub-assemblages with floor slab was between 19.2% and 45.4% higher, and the maximum load bearing capacity increased by 26.8%. However, the equivalent viscosity coefficient was essentially unchanged. When the axial compression ratio increased from 0.24 to 0.36, the hysteretic loops of the sub-assemblages with floor became fuller, and the load bearing capacity, ductility, and energy dissipation capacity increased by 12.1%, 12.9% and 8.9%, respectively. Also, the initial stiffness increased by 10.2%, but the stiffness degradation accelerated. The proportion of column drift caused by beam end plastic bending and column end bending changed from 35% and 46% to 47% and 36%, respectively. Comparative finite element analyses indicated that the numerical simulation outcomes agreed well with the experimental results.

Risk assessment of steel and steel-concrete composite 3D buildings considering sources of uncertainty

  • Lagaros, Nikos D.
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.19-43
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    • 2014
  • A risk assessment framework for evaluating building structures is implemented in this study. This framework allows considering sources of uncertainty both on structural capacity and seismic demand. In particular randomness on seismic load, incident angle, material properties, floor mass and structural damping are considered; in addition the choice of fibre modelling versus plastic hinge model is also considered as a source of uncertainty. The main objective of this work is to study the contribution of these sources of uncertainty on the fragilities of steel and steel-reinforced concrete composite 3D building structures. The fragility curves are expressed in the form of a two-parameter lognormal distribution where vertical statistics in conjunction with metaheuristic optimization are implemented for calculating the two parameters.

Effects of confinement reinforcement and concrete strength on nonlinear behaviour of RC buildings

  • Yon, Burak;Calayir, Yusuf
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.279-297
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    • 2014
  • This paper investigates the effects of confinement reinforcement and concrete strength on nonlinear behaviour of reinforced concrete buildings (RC). For numerical application, an eleven-storey and four bays reinforced concrete frame building is selected. Nonlinear incremental static (pushover) analyses of the building are performed according to various concrete strengths and whether appropriate confinement reinforcement, which defined in Turkish seismic code, exists or not at structural elements. In nonlinear analysis, distributed plastic hinge model is used. As a result of analyses, capacity curves of the frame building and moment-rotation curves at lower end sections of ground floor columns are determined. These results are compared with each other according to concrete strength and whether appropriate confinement reinforcement exists or not, respectively. According to results, it is seen that confinement reinforcement is important factor for increasing of building capacity and decreasing of rotations at structural elements.

Plastic Hinge Length of Reinforced Concrete Columns with Low Height-to-Width Ratio (전단경간비가 작은 철근콘크리트 기둥의 소성힌지 길이)

  • Park, Jong-Wook;Woo, Jae-Hyun;Kim, Byung-Il;Lee, Jung-Yoon
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.675-684
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    • 2010
  • The reinforced concrete members are designed to fail in flexural to lead ductile fracture. In the building structures, the failure is typically imposed on beams to prevent damages in columns. However, progression of plastic collapse mechanism may ultimately develop, a plastic hinge at the bottem end of the first floor column, which then can be subjected to shear or bond finally due to large axial force and small shear span-to-depth ratio. In this study, 10 RC column specimens failed in shear after flexural yielding was investigated to determine the factors affecting the plastic hinge length. The findings of this study showed that the most effective factor affecting the plastic hinge length was an axial force. As an axial force increase, an axial strain and a ductility ratio were decreased obviously. The test also shows the observed plastic hinge length was about 0.8~1.2d and the this result has difference compared with forward research.

A Study on the Methods of Enhancing the Seismic Performance for Reinforced Concrete School Buildings - Ordinary Moment Frame (철근콘크리트 보통모멘트 골조형식 학교건축물의 내전성능 향상 방안 연구)

  • Kim, Hyeon-Jin;Lee, Sang-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.74-81
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    • 2009
  • In this study, the seismic performance of RC school buildings which were not designed according to earthquake-resistance design code were evaluated by using response spectrum and push-over analyses. The torsional amplification effect due to plan irregularity is considered and then the efficiency of seismic retrofitting methods such as RC shear wall, steel frame, RC frame and PC wing wall was investigated. The analysis result indicate that the inter-story drift concentrated in the first floor and most plastic hinge forms at the column of the first story. Among the retrofitting methods, the PC wing wall has the highest seismic performance in strength and story drift aspect. Especially, it can make building ductile behavior due to the concentrated inter-story drift at the first column hinge is distributed overall stories. The axial force, shear force and moment magnitude of existing elements significantly decreased after retrofitting. However, the axial and shear force of the elements connected to the additional retrofitting elements increased, and especially the boundary columns at the end of the retrofitting shear wall should be reinforced for assuring the enhancement of seismic performance.