• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1141-1169
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• 2014

This study is aimed to investigate the seismic performance of low-rise precast wall system with base isolation. Three types of High Damping Rubber Bearing (HDRB) were designed to provide effective isolation period of 2.5 s for three different kinds of structure in terms of vertical loading. The real size HDRB was manufactured and tested to obtain the characteristic stiffness as well as damping ratio. In the vertical stiffness test, it was revealed that the HDRB was not an ideal selection to be used in isolating lightweight structure. Time history analysis using 33 real earthquake records classified with respective peak ground acceleration-to-velocity (a/v) ratio was performed for the remaining two types of HDRB with relatively higher vertical loading. HDRB was observed to show significant reduction in terms of base shear and floor acceleration demand in ground excitations having a/v ratio above $0.5g/ms^{-1}$, very much lower than the current classification of $0.8g/ms^{-1}$. In addition, this study also revealed that increasing the damping ratio of base isolation system did not guarantee better seismic performance particularly in isolation of lightweight structure or when the ground excitation was having lower a/v ratio.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.303-309
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• 2017

Structural control through seismic isolation using elastomeric rubber bearing, which is also known as High Damping Rubber Bearing (HDRB), has seen an increase in use to provide protective from earthquake, especially for new buildings in earthquake zones. Besides, HDRB has also been used in structural rehabilitation of older yet significant buildings, such as museums and palaces. However, the present design approach applied in normal practice has often resulted in dissimilar HDRB dimension requirement between structural designers and bearing manufacturers mainly due to ineffective communication. Therefore, in order to ease the design process, most HDRB manufacturers have come up with catalogs that list all necessary and relevant product lines specifically for structural engineers to choose from. In fact, these catalogs contain physical dimension, compression property, shear characteristic, and most importantly, the total rubber thickness. Nonetheless, other complicated issues, such as the relationship between target isolation period and displacement demand (which determines the total rubber thickness), are omitted due to cul-de-sac fixing of these values in the catalogs. As such, this paper presents a formula, which is derived and extended from the present design approach, in order to offer a simple guideline for engineers to estimate the required HDRB size. This improved design formula successfully minimizes the discrepancies stumbled upon among structural designers, builders, and rubber bearing manufacturers in terms of variation order issue at the designing stage because manufacturer of isolator is always the last to be appointed in most projects.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2003년도 추계 학술발표회논문집
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• pp.411-418
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• 2003

This paper presents the results of experimental studies on the equipment isolation effect in the nuclear containment. for this Purpose, shaking table tests were performed. The natural rubber bearing (NRB) and high damping rubber bearing (HDRB) were selected for the isolation. Peak ground acceleration, damping characteristics of isolation system and frequency contents of selected earthquake motions were considered. finally, it is presented that the NRB and HDRB systems are effective for the small equipment isolation and the damping of isolation systems can be affected to the seismic isolation effect.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.601-611
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• 2016

최근 빈번하게 발생하는 크고 작은 지진에 대비하여 구조물의 지진에 대한 안전성을 확보하기 위한 방안으로 지진격리시스템을 이용한 연구개발과 사용이 점차 증가하고 있다. 지진격리시스템의 하나인 고감쇠 고무받침(HDRB)는 특수한 고감쇠 고무(HDR)를 이용한 적층형 고무받침으로서 유사 지진격리장치인 납 고무받침에 비해 감쇠기능이 다소 떨어지는 단점이 있어 활용도가 높지 않았다. 그러나, 고감쇠 고무받침은 재료와 형상이 유사한 천연고무받침의 비해 우수한 감쇠력을 가지고 있으며 기존 납 고무받침의 경우 납의 유해성이 문제되어 납을 사용하지 않은 고감쇠 고무받침에 대한 연구가 증가하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고감쇠 고무받침을 대상으로 압축응력 의존성 및 주파수 의존성, 반복하중 의존성 등 다양한 특성에 대하여 실험을 실시하였다. 그리고 여러 계기지진파 상태에서 고감쇠 고무받침의 내진성능을 평가하기 위해 진동대 실험과 분석을 수행하였다. 축소교량에 고감쇠 고무받침을 적용한 모델을 사용했고, 지진격리와 비 지진격리로 구분하여 진행하였다. 그 결과 고감쇠 고무받침을 적용할 경우 비 지진격리의 경우에 비해 높은 감쇠효과를 보였으나 Mexico City와 같은 연약지반의 구조물에 지진격리를 적용할 경우 오히려 구조물의 응답이 증가하는 양상을 나타내 지진격리장치 적용성에 주의해야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2005년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.497-504
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• 2005

This paper presents the results of experimental studies on the equipment isolation effect considering the floor response. For this purpose, shaking table tests were performed. For the measuring the floor response, numerical analysis was performed. For the isolation for the equipment, Natural Rubber Bearing(NRB), High Damping Rubber Bearing(HDRB) and Friction Pendulum System(FPS) were used. Finally, it is presented that the isolation systems used in this test can be adopted for the small equipment isolation. But the rubber bearing used in this study affected to the temperature change very sensitively.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.603-619
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• 2014

Soft storey buildings are characterised by having a storey that has a large amount of open space. This soft storey creates a major weak point during an earthquake. As the soft stories are typically associated with retail spaces and parking garages, they are often on the lower levels of tall building structures. Thus, when these stories collapse, the entire building can also collapse, causing serious structural damage that may render the structure completely unusable. The use of special soft storey is predominant in the tall building structures constructed by several local developers, making the issue important for local building structures. In this study, the effect of the incorporation of an isolator on the seismic behaviour of tall building structures is examined. The structures are subjected to earthquakes typical of the local city, and the isolator is incorporated with the appropriate isolator time period and damping ratio. A FEM-based computational relationship is proposed to increase the storey height so as to incorporate the isolator with the same time period and damping ratio for both a lead rubber bearing (LRB) and high-damping rubber bearing (HDRB). The study demonstrates that the values of the FEM-based structural design parameters are greatly reduced when the isolator is used. It is more beneficial to incorporate a LRB than a HDRB.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제30권2A호
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• pp.121-129
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 고감쇠 고무받침 시험체의 다양한 특성실험을 통하여 전단특성 의존성을 파악하였다. 파악하고자 하는 고감쇠 고무받침의 특성은 변위의존성, 면압 의존성, 주파수 의존성, 온도 의존성 등이다. 특성실험결과 고감쇠 고무받침의 특성치는 온도에 가장 큰 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났으며, 주파수가 증가할수록 전단강성과 등가감쇠비 모두 증가하나 반복횟수가 증가 할수록 고무의 온도상승으로 인하여 그 값들은 감소하였다. 그리고 면압이 증가할수록 유효강성은 감소하고 등가감쇠비는 증가하는 것으로 타나났다. 본 실험결과에 의하면 고감쇠 고무받침의 설계의 주요한 변수인 전단강성과 등가감쇠비를 산정함에 있어 설계변위와 가진속도 및 온도의 면밀한 검토가 필요하다고 판단된다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.53-60
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• 2009

지진격리 구조물은 하부구조에서 상부구조로 전달되는 지진력의 현저한 감소가 요구되는 경우 고감쇠 고무받침(HDRB)과 같은 지진격리받침을 사용하는 구조물로서 내진설계의 도입 이후부터 많이 설계, 시공되고 있다. 적층고무받침은 지진격리장치에서 가장 중요한 구조부재이다. 적층형 고무받침의 기본 특성은 압축시험, 압축전단시험, 크리프시험 등을 통하여 얻는 것이 일반적이다. 본 연구에서는 축 응력 7.5MPa, 8.37MPa인 지진격리받침(고감쇠 고무받침)을 실물크기로 제작하여 실험실에서 1000시간동안 크리프 시험을 실시하였다. 고감쇠 고무받침과 같은 지진격리받침을 실제 교량환경 상태에서 장기간 압축 크리프 시험한 결과 1000시간 후 최대크리프 변형은 전체 고무두께의 $0.3{\sim}1.92%$로 변형하였다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제8권5호통권39호
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• pp.65-77
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 원전기기의 내진안전성을 향상시키기 위한 진동대 실험을 수행하였다. 원전 격납건물과 유사한 진동수 특성을 가지는 구조물을 제작하여 실험에 사용하였으며 구조물 내부에 설치된 기기를 모사 하기 위하여 면진장치가 설치된 강체블럭을 층바닥에 설치하였다. 주파수 특성이 상이한 3종류의 지진파를 이용하여 진동대 실험을 수행하였다. 면진장치로는 천연고무베어링(NRB)과 고감쇠고무베어링(HDRB)을 사용하여 고무의 감쇠특성에 따른 면진기기의 효율성을 분석하였다. 또한 입력지진동의 주파수 특성에 따라 적절한 면진장치의 기기면진효과를 평가하였다. 실험결과 적절한 면진장치를 사용함으로써 기기의 지진응답을 크게 줄일 수 있으며 지진에 대한 안전성을 향상키킬 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.503-529
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• 2015

Traditionally, multi-story buildings are designed to provide stiffer structural support to withstand lateral earthquake loading. Introducing flexible elements at the base of a structure and providing sufficient damping is an alternative way to mitigate seismic hazards. These features can be achieved with a device known as an isolator. This paper covers the design of base isolators for multi-story buildings in medium-risk seismicity regions and evaluates the structural responses of such isolators. The well-known tower building for police personnel built in Dhaka, Bangladesh by the Public Works Department (PWD) has been used as a case study to justify the viability of incorporating base isolators. The objective of this research was to establish a simplified model of the building that can be effectively used for dynamic analysis, to evaluate the structural status, and to suggest an alternative option to handle the lateral seismic load. A finite element model was incorporated to understand the structural responses. Rubber-steel bearing (RSB) isolators such as Lead rubber bearing (LRB) and high damping rubber bearing (HDRB) were used in the model to insert an isolator link element in the structural base. The nonlinearities of rubber-steel bearings were considered in detail. Linear static, linear dynamic, and nonlinear dynamic analyses were performed for both fixed-based (FB) and base isolated (BI) buildings considering the earthquake accelerograms, histories, and response spectra of the geological sites. Both the time-domain and frequency-domain approaches were used for dynamic solutions. The results indicated that for existing multi-story buildings, RSB diminishes the muscular amount of structural response compared to conventional non-isolated structures. The device also allows for higher horizontal displacement and greater structural flexibility. The suggested isolation technique is able to mitigate the structural hazard under even strong earthquake vulnerability.