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Numerical investigation of buckling-restrained steel plate shear wall under fire loading

  • Masoumi-Zahaneh, Fereydoon;Hoseinzadeh, Mohamad;Rahimi, Sepideh;Ebadi-Jamkhaneh, Mehdi
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.59-73
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    • 2022
  • In this study, the seismic behavior of an all-steel buckling-restrained (AB) steel plate shear wall (SPSW) with incline slits under fire and cyclic loading was investigated. ABSPSW was composed of two thin steel infill plates with a narrow distance from each other, which were embedded with incline slits on each plate. These slits were in opposite directions to each other. The finite element (FE) numerical model was validated with three test specimens and after ensuring the modeling strategy, the parametric study was performed by considering variables such as wall plate thickness, slit width, strip width between two slits, and degree of temperature. A total of 256 FE numerical models were subjected to coupled temperature-displacement analysis. The results of the analysis showed that the high temperature reduced the seismic performance of the ABSPSW so that at 917℃, the load-bearing capacity was reduced by 92%. In addition, with the increase in the temperature, the yield point of the infill plate and frame occurred in a small displacement. The average decrease in shear strength at 458℃, 642℃, and 917℃ was 18%, 46%, and 92%, respectively, compared to the shear strength at 20℃. Also, with increasing the temperature to 917℃, ductility increased by an average of 75%

Printing Optimization of 3D Structure with Lard-like Texture Using a Beeswax-Based Oleogels

  • Hyeona Kang;Yourim Oh;Nam Keun Lee;Jin-Kyu Rhee
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.32 no.12
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    • pp.1573-1582
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    • 2022
  • In this study, we investigated the optimal conditions for 3D structure printing of alternative fats that have the textural properties of lard using beeswax (BW)-based oleogel by a statistical analysis. Products printed with over 15% BW oleogel at 50% and 75% infill level (IL) showed high printing accuracy with the lowest dimensional printing deviation for the designed model. The hardness, cohesion, and adhesion of printed samples were influenced by BW concentration and infill level. For multi-response optimization, fixed target values (hardness, adhesiveness, and cohesiveness) were applied with lard printed at 75% IL. The preparation parameters obtained as a result of multiple reaction prediction were 58.9% IL and 16.0% BW, and printing with this oleogel achieved fixed target values similar to those of lard. In conclusion, our study shows that 3D printing based on the BW oleogel system produces complex internal structures that allow adjustment of the textural properties of the printed samples, and BW oleogels could potentially serve as an excellent replacement for fat.

Application of GMDH model for predicting the fundamental period of regular RC infilled frames

  • Tran, Viet-Linh;Kim, Seung-Eock
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.123-137
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    • 2022
  • The fundamental period (FP) is one of the most critical parameters for the seismic design of structures. In the reinforced concrete (RC) infilled frame, the infill walls significantly affect the FP because they change the stiffness and mass of the structure. Although several formulas have been proposed for estimating the FP of the RC infilled frame, they are often associated with high bias and variance. In this study, an efficient soft computing model, namely the group method of data handling (GMDH), is proposed to predict the FP of regular RC infilled frames. For this purpose, 4026 data sets are obtained from the open literature, and the quality of the database is examined and evaluated in detail. Based on the cleaning database, several GMDH models are constructed and the best prediction model, which considers the height of the building, the span length, the opening percentage, and the infill wall stiffness as the input variables for predicting the FP of regular RC infilled frames, is chosen. The performance of the proposed GMDH model is further underscored through comparison of its FP predictions with those of existing design codes and empirical models. The accuracy of the proposed GMDH model is proven to be superior to others. Finally, explicit formulas and a graphical user-friendly interface (GUI) tool are developed to apply the GMDH model for practical use. They can provide a rapid prediction and design for the FP of regular RC infilled frames.

Experimental Study on RC Frame Structures with Non-Seismic Details Strengthened by Externally-Anchored Precast Wall-Panel Method (EPWM) (외부 앵커압착형 프리캐스트 벽체로 보강된 비내진 상세를 갖는 철근콘크리트 골조에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Choi, Seung-Ho;Hwang, Jin-Ha;Lee, Deuck Hang;Kim, Kang Su;Kwon, Yong-Keun;Kim, Kil-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.451-458
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    • 2015
  • The infill-wall strengthening method has been widely used for the seismic performance enhancement of the conventional reinforced concrete (RC) frame structures with non-seismic detail, which is one of the promising techniques to secure the high resisting capacity against lateral forces induced by earthquake. During the application of the infill-wall strengthening method, however, it often restricts the use of the structure. In addition, it is difficult to cast the connection part between the wall and the frame, and also difficult to ensure the shear resistance performances along the connection. In this study, an advanced strengthening method using the externally-anchored precast wall-panel (EPCW) was proposed to overcome the disadvantages of the conventional infill-wall strengthening method. The one-third scaled four RC frame specimens were fabricated, and the cyclic loading tests were conducted to verify the EPCW strengthening method. The test results showed that the strength, lateral stiffness, energy dissipation capacity of the RC frame structures strengthened by the proposed EPCW method were significantly improved compared to the control test specimen.

A Study on Implementation System of 'Design Charrette' for Sustainable Community Design -Focused on Sensitive Urban Infill Charrette in Canada (지속가능한 커뮤니티 계획을 위한 디자인샤렛 실행체계 연구 -캐나다 Sensitive Urban Infill Charrette 프로젝트를 중심으로)

  • Choi, Soon-Sub
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.12
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    • pp.153-161
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    • 2016
  • Urban design claiming the notion of 'Sustainability', which inevitably includes ecological complexity, is normally geared towards the reflection of environmentally-friendly technical guidelines in the existing planning process. Although physical planning should be combined with economic, social, cultural, environmental issues, and policies, it is conducted conventionally as the sum of the closed sectoral approaches of planning. To overcome this limit, Design Charrette was invented for sustainable urban design or community design, which should consider the complexity of diverse issues. This design process unveils complicated and divergent problems and a variety of stakeholders participate in the integrated design simultaneously and cooperatively. Because Design Charrette must also be a process of agreement, it is used for sustainable community design. The aim of this study was to introduce Design Charrette as an alternative of Korean sustainable urban design, which is regarded as 'making guidelines related to green principles'. For such a purposes, the definition and differentiation of Design Charrette will be explained with an analysis of the introduction background, benefit and procedure. The contents, system and process of Design Charrette will be analyzed through case studies in Canada, where this method of design is widespread. In the last part, the implementation system (the comprehensive system of organization / content and direction of planning / process and output) will be deduced after concentrated analysis of one respected case, 'Sensitive Urban Infill Charrette' of the City of Surrey. This implementation system will be a crucial reference to develop Korean Design Charrette.

A Study on Production Well Placement for a Gas Field using Artificial Neural Network (인공신경망 시뮬레이터를 이용한 가스전 생산정 위치선정 연구)

  • Han, Dong-Kwon;Kang, Il-Oh;Kwon, Sun-Il
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.59-69
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    • 2013
  • This study presents development of the ANN simulator for well placement of infill drilling in gas fields. The input data of the ANN simulator includes the production time, well location, all inter well distances, boundary inter well distance, infill well position, productivity potential, functional links, reservoir pressure. The output data includes the bottomhole pressure in addition to the production rate. Thus, it is possible to calculate the productivity and bottomhole pressure during production period simultaneously, and it is expected that this model could replace conventional simulators. Training for the 20 well placement scenarios was conducted. As a result, it was found that accuracy of ANN simulator was high as the coefficient of correlation for production rate was 0.99 and the bottomhole pressure 0.98 respectively. From the resultes, the validity of the ANN simulator has been verified. The term, which could produce Maximum Daily Quantity (MDQ) at the gas field and the productivity according to the well location was analyzed. As a result, the MDQ could be maintained for a short time in scenario C-1, which has the three infill wells nearby aquifer boundary, and a long time in scenario A-1. In conclusion, it was found that scenario A maintained the MDQ up to 21% more than those of scenarios B and C which include parameters that might affect the productivity. Thus, the production rate can be maximized by selecting the location of production wells in comprehensive consideration of parameters that may affect the productivity. Also, because the developed ANN simulator could calculate both production rate and bottomhole pressure, respectively, it could be used as the forward simulator in a various inverse model.

Dynamic Behaviour of Masonry inFilled Reinforced Concrete Frames with Non-Seismic Details (진동대실험을 통한 비내진상세를 가지는 RC 골조의 조적채움벽 유무에 따른 동적 거동 평가)

  • Baek, Eun-Rim;Kim, Kyung-Min;Cheon, Ju-Hyun;Oh, Sang-Hoon;Lee, Sang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.121-129
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, the shake table test for the masonry infilled reinforced concrete frame with non-seismic details was carried out in order to evaluate its dynamic behaviour and damage under seismic condition. The tested specimens were the RC frame and the masonry infilled RC frame and the dynamic characteristics, such as a resonant period, acceleration response, displacement response and base shear force response, were compared between them. As a result of the shake table test, RC frame specimen had flexural cracks at the top and bottom of the column and shear cracks at the joints. In the case of masonry infilled RC frame, the damage of the frame was relatively minor but the sliding cracks and diagonal shear cracks on the masonry wall were severe at the final excitation. The resonant period of infilled RC frame specimen was shorter than that of the RC frame specimen because the masonry infill contributed to increase the stiffness. The maximum displacement response of the infilled RC frame specimen was decreased by about 20% than the RC frame specimen. It was analyzed that the masonry infill wall applied in this study contributed to increase the lateral strength of the RC frame with non - seismic detail by about 2.2 times and the stiffness by about 1.6 times.

Seismic Performance of Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU) Infills in Reinforced Concrete Moment Framing System (철근콘크리트 모멘트 골조시스템에서 조적 끼움벽의 내진성능)

  • Hong, Jong-Kook
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2019
  • The masonry infill walls are one of the most popular components that are used for dividing and arranging spaces in building construction. In spite of the fact that the masonry infills have many advantages, the system needs to be used with caution when the earthquake load is to be considered. The infills tend to develop diagonal compression struts during earthquake and increase the demand in surrounding RC frames. If there are openings in the infill walls, the loading path gets even complicated and the engineering judgements are required for designing the system. In this study, a masonry infill system was investigated through finite element analysis (FEA) and the results were compared with the current design standard, ASCE 41. It is noted that the equivalent width of the compression strut estimated by ASCE 41 could be 32% less than that using detailed FEA. The global load resisting capacity was also estimated by 28% less when ASCE 41 was used compare to the FEA case. Rather than using expensive FEA, the adapting ASCE 41 for the analysis and design of the masonry infills with openings would provide a good estimation by about 25% conservatively.

Metallic FDM Process to Fabricate a Metallic Structure for a Small IoT Device (소형 IoT 용 금속 기구물 제작을 위한 금속 FDM 공정 연구)

  • Kang, In-Koo;Lee, Sun-Ho;Lee, Dong-Jin;Kim, Kun-Woo;Ahn, Il-Hyuk
    • Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.21-26
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    • 2020
  • An autonomous driving system is based on the deep learning system built by big data which are obtained by various IoT sensors. The miniaturization and high performance of the IoT sensors are needed for diverse devices including the autonomous driving system. Specially, the miniaturization of the sensors leads to compel the miniaturization of the fixer structures. In the viewpoint of the miniaturization, metallic structure is a best solution to attach the small IoT sensors to the main body. However, it is hard to manufacture the small metallic structure with a conventional machining process or manufacturing cost greatly increases. As one of solutions for the problems, in this work, metallic FDM (Fused depositon modeling) based on metallic filament was proposed and the FDM process was investigated to fabricate the small metallic structure. Final part was obtained by the post-process that consists of debinding and sintering. In this work, the relationship between infill rate and the density of the part after the post-process was investigated. The investigation of the relationship is based on the fact that the infill rate and the density obtained from the post-processing is not same. It can be said that this work is a fundamental research to obtain the higher density of the printed part.

A Study on the Open Housing Design Methods in the Netherlands and Finland (네덜란드와 핀란드의 오픈하우징 설계수법 연구)

  • 황은경;임석호;김수암
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.339-344
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    • 2002
  • The Purpose of this study Is to investigate Open Housing design methods on multi-family housing in the Netherlands and Finland. This study is based on the several actual field survey through visiting eight sites in the netherlands and Finland. we found a lot of design items applied to the Holland and Finnish multi-family housing for Open Housing. Open Housing design items are user participation design, layout flexibility, finishes selection, flexible utilities, interior components and use of modular grid.

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