• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.219-229
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• 2018

This paper presents an analytical model to analyze the mapping relationship between bridge lateral deformation and track geometry of high-speed railway. Based on the rail deformation mechanisms, the deformation of track slab and rail at the locations of fasteners are analyzed. Formulae of rail lateral deformation are derived and validated against a finite element model. Based on the analytical model, a rail deformation extension coefficient is presented, and effects of different lateral deformations on track geometry are evaluated. Parametric studies are conducted to evaluate the effects of the deformation amplitude, fastener stiffness and mortar layer stiffness on the rail deformation. The rail deformation increases with the deformation of the girder, and is dependent on the spacing of the fasteners, the elastic modulus of the rail's material, and the moment of inertia of the rail's section.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.15-28
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• 2021

Digging well foundation has been widely used in railway bridges due to its good economy and reliability. In other instances, bridges with digging well foundation still have damage risks during earthquakes. However, there is still a lack of knowledge of lateral behavior of digging well foundation considering the soil-foundation interaction. In this study, scaled models of bridge pier-digging well foundation system are constructed for quasi-static test to investigate their lateral behaviors. The failure mechanism and responses of the soil-foundation-pier interaction system are analyzed. The testing results indicate that the digging foundations tend to rotate as a rigid body under cyclic lateral load. Moreover, the depth-width ratio of digging well foundation has a significant influence on the failure mode of the interaction system, especially on the distribution of foundation displacement and the failure of pier. The energy dissipation capacity of the interaction system is discussed by using index of the equivalent viscous damping ratio. The damping varies with the depth-width ratio changing. The equivalent stiffness of soil-digging well foundation-pier interaction system decreases with the increase of loading displacement in a nonlinear manner. The absolute values of the interaction system stiffness are significantly influenced by the depth-width ratio of the foundation.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.77-84
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 횡하중을 받는 합성부재를 이용한 고층평면골조의 횡변위를 정량적으로 제어할 수 있는 효율적인 강성최적설계기법을 제시하고자 한다. 이를 위해 합성부재를 이용한 고층 구조물의 거동특성을 고려한 민감도 해석을 수행하며, 아울러 수학적계획법의 일반성을 유지하면서도, 큰 규모의 문제도 효율적으로 다룰 수 있는 근사화 개념을 도입하여 구속조건식을 설정한다. 특히 초기에 주어진 단면형상이 최적설계 과정동안 계속 유지된다는 가정을 이용하여 최적설계결과에서 구해진 단면특성에 따라 합성부재의 치수를 산출하는 방안을 강구한다. 제시된 정량적인 횡변위 제어 방안의 효용성을 검토하기 위해 두 가지의 50층 골조 예제가 고려된다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.110-119
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• 1997

Four wheel steering(4WS) systems which can control the lateral and yaw motions of vehicles by steering front and rear wheels simultaneously, have been regarded as effective for improving the stability and handing performance of vehicles. However, since the 4WS systems depend only on the lateral force of tire, they have some limitation due to the nonlinear characteristics of tire related with the saturation phenomenon of lateral force to the slip angle of tire in a near-limit-performance maneuvering range. In this study, in other to evaluate the effect of nonlinear characteristics of tire on the dynamic performance of vehicles, a new concept for driving the cornering stiffness of nonlinear tire by using the "Magic Formula" tire model is proposed. In addition, the nonlinear 4WS vehicle model is constructed based on the proposed cornering stiffness of nonlinear tire. It is noted from simulation that the nonlinear characteristics of tire affect greatly on the 4WS vehicle performance.rformance.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.123-130
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 횡하중을 받는 아웃리거 시스템의 횡변위를 정량적으로 제어할 수 있는 효율적인 강성최적설계기법을 제시하고 이를 이용하여 아웃리거 시스템의 거동특성 및 효율성을 평가하고자 한다. 이를 위해 아웃리거를 이용한 고층 구조물의 거동특성을 고려한 민감도 해석을 수행하며 아울러 수학적계획법의 일반성을 유지하면서도, 큰 규모의 문제도 효율적으로 다룰 수 있는 근사화 개념을 도입하여 구속조건식을 설정한다. 특히 초기에 주어진 단면형상이 최적설계 과정동안 계속 유지된다는 가정을 이용하여 부재재설계 기법을 개발한다. 제시된 정량적인 횡변위 제어 방안의 효용성을 검토하기 위해 네 가지 형태의 50층 고층구조물 예제가 고려된다.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2017

The demand for skyscrapers is increasing worldwide. Until now, various lateral resistance structures have been used for lateral displacement control of high-rise buildings. An outrigger damper system has been introduced recently to improve lateral dynamic response control performance further. However, a study of outrigger damper system is yet to be sufficiently investigated. In this study, time history analysis was performed to investigate the control performance of an outrigger damper system of high-rise building under eccentric loading. To do this, an actual scale 3-dimensional tall building model with an outrigger damper system was prepared. The control performance of the outrigger damper system was evaluated by varying stiffness and damping values. On the top floor torsional angle response to the earthquake load, was greatly affected by damping value. And the displacement response was affected greatly by the stiffness value and damping value of damper system. In conclusion, it is necessary to select the proper damping and stiffness values of the outrigger damper system.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제81권6호
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• pp.751-767
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• 2022

In the hogging bending moment area, continuous composite beams are subjected to the ultimate limit state of lateral-torsional buckling (LTB), which depends on web stiffness as well as concrete slab and shear connection stiffnesses. The design of the LTB and the determination of the elastic critical moment are produced approximately, using the European Standard EN 1994-1-1:2004, for continuous composite steel beams, but is applicable only for those with a plane web steel profile. Also, and from the previous researches, the elastic critical moment of the continuous composite beams with corrugated sinusoidal web steel profiles was determined. In this paper, a finite element analysis (FEA) model was developed using the ANSYS 16 software, to determine the elastic critical moments of continuous composite steel beams with various corrugated web profiles, such as trapezoidal, zigzag, and rectangular profiles, which were evaluated against numerical data of the sinusoidal one from the literature. Ultimately, the failure load of a composite steel beam with various web profiles was predicted by studying 46 models, based on FEA modeling, and a procedure for predicting the elastic critical moment of composite beams with various web steel profiles was proposed. When compared to sinusoidal web profiles, the trapezoidal, zigzag, and rectangular web profiles required an average increase in load capacity and stiffness of 7%, 17.5%, and 28%, respectively, according to the finite element analysis. Also, the rectangular web steel profile has a greater stiffness and load capacity. In contrast, the sinusoidal web has lower values for these characteristics.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.73-80
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• 2010

건축물의 풍진동은 건축물의 사용성평가에 중요한 구조설계 요인 중 하나이다. 신뢰성있는 풍하중 및 풍진동을 구하기 위해서는 정확한 고유주기의 예측이 필요하며 이러한 고유주기에 오차가 있을 경우 하중을 과대 또는 과소평가하게 되는 문제를 유발한다. 본 논문에서는 최근 본격적으로 증가하고 있는 초고층 무량판 구조시스템의 건축물에 대하여 계측을 통한 횡강성 산정식의 유효성을 검정하였다. 이를 위하여 최근 건설된 초고층 무량판 구조시스템이 적용된 3개의 건물에 대하여 계측 결과와 해석 모델의 고유주기를 비교 분석하였다. 이때, 무량판 구조물의 횡강성에 영향을 미치는 요인들에 대하여 각 케이스별로 해석을 수행하였으며, 특히 일반적으로 사용되고 있는 콘크리트의 할선탄성계수와 동탄성계수가 적용 되었을 때의 구조물의 고유주기 변화를 비교하였다. 그 결과 풍진동에 의한 건물의 변형률은 매우 적기 때문에 할선탄성계수의 적용보다는 동탄성계수의 적용이 보다 정확한 해석의 결과를 가져올 것으로 판단된다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.383-393
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• 2024

Monopile foundations of offshore wind turbines embedded in soft clay are subjected to the long-term cyclic lateral loads induced by winds, currents, and waves, the vibration of monopile leads to the accumulation of pore pressure and cyclic strains in the soil in its vicinity, which poses a threat to the safety operation of monopile. The researchers mainly focused on the hysteretic stress-strain relationship of soft clay and kinds of stiffness degradation models have been adopted, which may consume considerable computing resources and is not applicable for the long-term bearing performance analysis of monopile. In this study, a modified cyclic stiffness degradation model considering the effect of plastic strain and pore pressure change has been proposed and validated by comparing with the triaxial test results. Subsequently, the effects of cyclic load ratio, pile aspect ratio, number of load cycles, and length to embedded depth ratio on the accumulated rotation angle and pore pressure are presented. The results indicate the number of load cycles can significantly affect the accumulated rotation angle of monopile, whereas the accumulated pore pressure distribution along the pile merely changes with pile diameter, embedded length, and the number of load cycles, the stiffness of monopile can be significantly weakened by decreasing the embedded depth ratio L/H of monopile. The stiffness degradation of soil is more significant in the passive earth pressure zone, in which soil liquefaction is likely to occur. Furthermore, the suitability of the "accumulated rotation angle" and "accumulated pore pressure" design criteria for determining the required cyclic load ratio are discussed.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.375-392
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• 2005

Cable supported structures offer an elegant and economical solution for bridging over long spans with resultant low material content and ease of construction. In this paper, a model of shallow cable supported footbridge with reverse profiled pre-tensioned cables is treated and its load deformation characteristics under different quasi-static loads are investigated. Effects of important parameters such as cable sag and pre-tension are also studied. Numerical results performed on a 3D model show that structural stiffness of this bridge (model) depends not only on the cable sag and cross sectional areas of the cables, but also on the pre-tension in the reverse profiled cables. The tension in the top supporting cables can be adjusted to a high level by the pre-tension in the reverse profiled bottom cables, with the total horizontal force in the bridge structure remaining reasonably constant. It is also evident that pre-tensioned horizontally profiled cables can greatly increase the lateral horizontal stiffness and suppress the lateral horizontal deflection induced by eccentric vertical loads.