• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제60권5호
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• pp.875-890
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• 2016

A new structural damage index for seismic fragility analysis of reinforced concrete columns is developed based on a local tensile damage variable of the Lee and Fenves plastic-damage model. The proposed damage index is formulated from the nonlinear regression of experimental column test data. In contrast to the response-based damage index, the proposed damage index is well-defined in the form of a single monotonically-increasing function of the volume weighted average of local damage distribution, and provides the necessary computability and objectivity. It is shown that the present damage index can be appropriately zoned to be used in seismic fragility analysis. An application example in the computational seismic fragility evaluation of reinforced concrete columns validates the effectiveness of the proposed damage index.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2022

In this paper, a reliability-based approach has been implemented to develop seismic analytical fragility curves of highway bridges. A typical bridge class of the Central and South-eastern United States (CSUS) region was selected. Detailed finite element modelling is presented and Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) is used to capture the behavior of the bridge from linear to nonlinear behavior. Bayesian linear regression method is used to define the demand model. A reliability approach is implemented to generate the analytical fragility curves and the proposed approach is compared with the conventional fragility analysis procedure.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제69권3호
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• pp.317-326
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• 2019

This research aims to assess the tight seismic risk curve of the intake tower at Geumgwang reservoir by considering the recorded historical earthquake data in the Korean Peninsula. The seismic fragility, a significant part of risk assessment, is updated by using Bayesian inference to consider the uncertainties and computational efficiency. The reservoir is one of the largest reservoirs in Korea for the supply of agricultural water. The intake tower controls the release of water from the reservoir. The seismic risk assessment of the intake tower plays an important role in the risk management of the reservoir. Site-specific seismic hazard is computed based on the four different seismic source maps of Korea. Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA) method is used to estimate the annual exceedance rate of hazard for corresponding Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA). Hazard deaggregation is shown at two customary hazard levels. Multiple dynamic analyses and a nonlinear static pushover analysis are performed for deriving fragility parameters. Thereafter, Bayesian inference with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is used to update the fragility parameters by integrating the results of the analyses. This study proves to reduce the uncertainties associated with fragility and risk curve, and to increase significant statistical and computational efficiency. The range of seismic risk curve of the intake tower is extracted for the reservoir site by considering four different source models and updated fragility function, which can be effectively used for the risk management and mitigation of reservoir.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제78권3호
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• pp.333-350
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• 2021

Motivated by the demand of seismic protection of museum collections and development of performance-based seismic design guidelines, this paper investigates the seismic fragility of sliding artifacts based on incremental dynamic analysis and three-dimensional finite element model of the artifact-showcase-museum system considering nonlinear behavior of the structure and contact interfaces. Different intensity measures (IMs) for seismic fragility assessment of sliding artifacts are compared. The fragility curves of the sliding artifacts in both freestanding and restrained showcases placed on different floors of a four-story reinforced concrete frame structure are developed. The seismic sliding fragility of the artifacts within a real-world museum subjected to bi-directional horizontal ground motions is also assessed using the proposed IM and engineering demand parameter. Results show that the peak floor acceleration including only values initiating sliding is an efficient IM. Moreover, the sliding fragility estimate for the artifact in the restrained showcase increases as the floor level goes higher, while it may not be true in the freestanding showcase. Furthermore, the artifact is more prone to sliding failure in the restrained showcase than the freestanding showcase. In addition, the artifact has slightly worse sliding performance subjected to bi-directional motions than major-component motions.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.283-291
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• 2023

Unlike other facilities, maintaining processes is essential in industrial facilities. Pipe racks, which support pipes of various diameters, are important structures used in industrial facilities. Since the transport process of pipes directly affects the operation of industrial facilities, a fragility curve should be derived based on considering not only the pipe racks' structural safety but also the pipes' transport process. There are several studies where the fragility curves have been determined based on the structural behavior of pipe racks. However, few studies consider the damage criteria of pipes to ensure the transportation process, such as local buckling and tensile failure with surface defects. In this study, an analysis model of a typical straight pipe rack used in domestic industrial facilities is constructed, and incremental dynamic analysis using nonlinear response history analysis is performed to estimate the parameters of the fragility curve by the maximum likelihood estimation. In addition, the pipe rack's structural behavior and the pipe's damage criteria are considered the limit state for the fragility curve. The limit states considered in this paper to evaluate fragility curves are more reasonable to ensure the transportation process of the pipe systems.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.199-211
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• 2018

This paper deals with wind fragility and risk analysis of high rise buildings subjected to stochastic wind load. Conventionally, such problems are dealt in full Monte Carlo Simulation framework, which requires extensive computational time. Thus, to make the procedure computationally efficient, application of metamodelling technique in fragility analysis is explored in the present study. Since, accuracy by the conventional Least Squares Method (LSM) based metamodelling is often challenged, an efficient Moving Least Squares Method based adaptive metamodelling technique is proposed for wind fragility analysis. In doing so, artificial time history of wind load is generated by three wind field models: i.e., a simple one based on alongwind component of wind speed; a more detailed one considering coherence and wind directionality effect, and a third one considering nonstationary effect of mean wind. The results show that the proposed approach is more accurate than the conventional LSM based metamodelling approach when compared to full simulation approach as reference. At the same time, the proposed approach drastically reduces computational time in comparison to the full simulation approach. The results by the three wind field models are compared. The importance of non-linear structural analysis in fragility evaluation has been also demonstrated.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.207-214
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• 2006

In this paper, the stability of SA(Spectral Acceleration) fragility curves is studied for the two sets of elastic modulus of concrete. In doing that, general purpose structural analysis program and generally used probability density function are used. The results of structural analysis are represented by Bernoulli distribution which says damage or no damage. By the use of Maximum Likelihood Method, two parameters of lognormal distribution - median and standard deviation - are found. With them, the fragility curves are constructed.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 변전소 시스템의 지진취약도 분석을 수행하여 변전소에 대한 지진취약도 함수를 제시하였다. 변전소는 여러 개의 설비와 구조물이 복합적으로 구성되어 있는 시스템이므로 각 설비에 대한 지진취약도 분석을 수행하여 이를 바탕으로 고장수목을 작성하여 변전소 전체의 파괴확률을 산정함으로써 변전소에 대한 지진취약도 평가를 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 국내 변전소의 현황을 파악하여 지진피해추정을 위한 변전소의 분류형식을 결정하였으며, 결정된 대표변전소 형식에 대한 평가대상 기기를 선정하였다. 대표 변전소 형식으로는 765kV, 345kV, 154kV 변전소의 GIS형 변전소로 결정하였다. 각 변전소의 취약도 검토대상 기기로는 변압기와 절연 애자를 선택하였다. 각 변전소의 변압기와 절연애자의 파괴모드와 파괴기준을 설정하여 지진취약도 곡선을 도출하였다. 최종적으로 변전소에 대한 고장수목을 이용하여 각 기기의 지진취약도 곡선으로부터 변전소 전체의 파괴확률을 산정하여 정의된 손상상태별 변전소의 지진취약도 함수를 산정하였다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.255-263
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• 2014

본 연구에서 피뢰기의 지진취약도 해석은 역량스펙트럼 방법을 이용하여 수행하였다. 많은 구조부재를 가진 구조물의 지진취약도 해석은 수십 혹은 수백 개의 지진하중에 대한 비탄성 지진응답을 계산하는 것이 요구되기 때문에 역량스펙트럼 방법과 같은 간단한 방법이 응답이력해석 보다 적합하다. 일반적으로 역량스펙트럼 방법에 의해 평가된 지진응답의 정확성은 응답이력해석에 의한 결과의 정확성 보다 떨어진다. 역량스펙트럼 방법의 정확성을 향상시키기 위하여 등가단자유도 방법과 성능점 계산기법이 적용되었다. 지진취약도에 대한 지진에 대한 지반효과를 평가하기 위하여 60개의 다른 지반종류의 지반운동을 입력지진으로 선정하여 사용하였다. 역량스펙트럼 방법과 응답이력해석에 의한 지진취약도 곡선의 비교로부터 역량스펙트럼 방법에 의한 지진취약도 곡선이 응답이력해석에 의한 지진취약도 곡선과 상당히 유사함을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 피뢰기의 주된 지진에 의한 파괴모드는 부싱의 파손임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방재학회 2008년도 정기총회 및 학술발표대회
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• pp.269-272
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• 2008

구조물의 지진취약도곡선은 임의의 크기를 가진 지진에 대하여 구조물에 어느 규모이상의 손상이 발생할 확률을 의미하는 것으로 구조물의 내진성능평가 및 손실평가 하는데 아주 중요하다. 본 논문은 선진국의 지진취약도 추정기법을 분석하여 국내 실정에 적합한 지진취약도 추정 기법을 확립하기 위한 연구방법론을 제시하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 우선 지진취약도함수의 개발현황을 조사하였다. 그 다음 이러한 평가방법을 국내에 적용하기 위하여 국내의 교량구조물을 분류하였다. 마지막으로는 PSC Box 거더교에 대해서 지진취약도곡선을 평가하였다. 평가 결과 구조물의 분류와 손상상태는 구조물의 손상평가와 지진취약도해석에 아주 큰 영향을 미치는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.