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Experimental study on axial response of different pile materials in organic soil

  • Canakci, Hanifi;Hamed, Majid
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.899-917
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    • 2017
  • Sixty four tests were performed in a steel tank to investigate the axial responses of piles driven into organic soil prepared at two different densities using a drop hammer. Four different pile materials were used: wood, steel, smooth concrete, and rough concrete, with different length to diameter ratios. The results of the load tests showed that the shaft load capacity of rough concrete piles continuously increased with pile settlement. In contrast, the others pile types reached the ultimate shaft resistance at a settlement equal to about 10% of the pile diameter. The ratios of base to shaft capacities of the piles were found to vary with the length to diameter ratio, surface roughness, and the density of the organic soil. The ultimate unit shaft resistance of the rough concrete pile was always greater than that of other piles irrespective of soil condition and pile length. However, the ultimate base resistance of all piles was approximately close to each other.

Collision Test between Ice Floe and Ship Transiting the Pack Ice

  • Kim, Hyo-Il;Sawamura, Junji;Jun, Seung-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.37-39
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    • 2015
  • The ships transiting the Northern Sea Route (NSR) have been gradually increased so that the number of ship-ice collision accidents would be increased. The collision between ship and ice floe can lead to serious damage of hulls and decline of ship's maneuverability. In this study, collision tests that a model ship is forced to collide with disk-shaped synthetic ice floes are conducted in a towing tank. The synthetic ice floes made of polypropylene which has similar density with real ice are used. The ice load is measured by a load cell installed on the carriage rod. The ice floe's motion is measured by a motion sensor installed on the synthetic ice floe. The influences of contact conditions such as hull form and ship speed on the ship-ice collision response are investigated and discussed by measured peak force and ice floe's motion.

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Fatigue Crack Propagation Characteristics in HAZ of A106 Gr B Steel Weldments (A106 Gr B강 용접열영향부에서의 피로균열성장특성)

  • 김철한;조선영;김복기;배동호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 1999.05a
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    • pp.263-268
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    • 1999
  • With HAZ of A 106 Gr B steel weldment, fatigue test in air, electrochemical polarization test and corrosion fatigue test in 3.5wt.% NaCl solution were performed changing load ratio. Obtained results are as follows. 1) K$\sub$op/ was independent of K$\sub$max/ and load ratio in fatigue crack growth. 2) In variation of load ratio, the scatter band of crack growth curve was reduced by half considering crack closure 3) In the result of electrochemical polarization test, current density was increased abruptly when potential was larger than corrosion potential. 4) Fatigue crack growth rate in corrosive environment was markly higher than the rate in air because of corrosion characteristics of the material and anodization of inner surface crack.

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Security Assessment for Bus Voltages Using Probabilistic Load Flow (PLF(Probabilistic Load Flow)를 이용한 모선 전압 안전도 평가)

  • Lee, Seung-Hyuk;Jung, Chang-Ho;Kim, Jin-O;Kim, Tae-Kyun;Choo, Jin-Bu
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.28-30
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    • 2003
  • Probabilistic Load Flow(PLF) solution based on the method of moments is used for security assessment of bus voltages in power systems. Bus voltages, line currents, line admittances, generated real and reactive power, and bus loads are treated as complex random variables. These complex random variables are known in terms of probability density functions(PDF). Also, expressions for the convolutions of complex random variables in terms of moments and cumulants have been derived. Proposed PLF solution using the method of moments is fast, because the process of convolution of various complex random variables is performed in moment and cumulant domain. Therefore, the method is applied to security assessment of power systems in this paper. Finally, system operator also can be used information of security assessment to improve reliability of power systems.

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A Study on The characteristics based on the stauration effects of traction motor for korea High Speed Train (한국형 고속전철용 견인전동기의 포화현상에 따른 특성연구)

  • 이상우;김근웅;윤종학;한성수
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.360-367
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    • 1999
  • An inverter-driven induction motor is used as the traction motor for a high speed drive system that required safety, reliabillity, performance, compact size owing to the space and weight alloted for attaching to train, etc. particularly it is possible to happen the saturation effects of flux density at constant voltage-frequency region and then increase very higher than the at lowed capacity of no-load current and temperature in any case. therefore the optimum design of core, optimum voltage-frequency ratio, adoption of high grade magnetic core have been developed and researched for preventing these problems. this paper show the saturation effects of traction rotor by measuring the induced voltage of search coil at stator teeth and presents optimum voltage-frequency ratio as well as optimum core design through the comparison with efficiency, power factor, load current and no-load current for korea high speed train.

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On dynamic deflection analysis of sandwich beams under thermal and pulse loads

  • Mamoon A.A. Al-Jaafari;Haider Ali Hussein;Abdulaziz Saud Khider;Raad M. Fenjan;Nadhim M. Faleh
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.195-202
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    • 2023
  • Dynamic deflection analysis of sandwich beams with cellular core under thermal and pulse loads has been performed in the present article. The cellular core sandwich beam has two layers fortified by graphene oxide powder (GOP) which are micromechanically modeled by Halpin-Tsai formulation. The pulse load has blast type and is applied on the top side of sandwich beam. The system of equations has been developed based on higher-order beam theory and Ritz method. Then, they are solved in Laplace domain to derive the dynamic deflections. The dependency of beam deflection on temperature variation, GOP content, pulse load duration/location and core relative density has been studied in detail.

Dynamic Behavior Characteristics of Group Piles with Relative Density in Sandy Soil (건조 모래지반의 상대밀도에 따른 무리말뚝의 동적거동특성)

  • Heungtae Kim;Hongsig Kang;Kusik Jeong;Kwangkuk Ahn
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.24 no.9
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    • pp.33-40
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    • 2023
  • The lateral load which is applied to the pile foundation supporting the superstructure during an earthquake is divided into the inertia force of the upper structure and the kinematic force of the ground. The inertia force and the kinematic force could cause failure to the pile foundation through different complex mechanisms. So it is necessary to predict and evaluate interaction of the ground-pile-structure properly for the seismic design of the foundation. The interaction is affected by the lateral behavior of the structure, the length of the pile, the boundary conditions of the head, and the relative density of the ground. Confining pressure and ground stiffness change accordingly when the relative density changes, and it results that the coefficient of subgrade reaction varies depending on each system. Horizontal bearing behavior and capacity of the pile foundation vary depending on lateral load condition and relative density of the sandy soil. Therefore, the 1g shaking table tests were conducted to confirm the effect of the relative density of the dried sandy soil to dynamic behavior of the group pile supporting the superstructure. The result shows that, as the relative density increases, maximum acceleration of the superstructure and the pile cap increases and decreases respectively, and the slope of the p-y curve of the pile decreases.

Characteristics of Vertical Stress Distribution in Soil according to the Relative Density of Sandy Soil in case of Surface Loading (지표면 재하시 사질토 지반의 상대밀도에 따른 지중 연직응력분포 특성)

  • 임종석;이인형;정원중
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2003.03a
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    • pp.422-426
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    • 2003
  • Model soil tank tests were conducted in sandy soil to investigate the effect of surcharge strip loads on vertical stress distribution in soil. A total number of 6 tests were performed using one loading plate and two relative density(55%, 65%). The soil was considered as an elastic material, while no friction was allowed between the wall and the soil. Measured stress values were compared to predictions defined by Frohlich, Boussinesq and Westergaard. The comparison of measured values and predictions used the ratio between the soil pressure and load value. Results of this study demonstrated that experimental values were generally larger than predictions. The Frohlich analysis provided the best prediction, while the Boussinesq analysis and Westergaard theory not presented a satisfactional result.

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A Study on the Fatigue Strength of Lap Weld of LNG Tank (LNG탱크 겹침용접부의 피로강도에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Ho
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.3 s.33
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 1999
  • At the design of Mark III membrane type LNG tank, an analytical and experimental approach on the fatigue strengths of membrane and its welds are very important in order to assist designers and surveyors. In this study, fatigue tests of lap weld of Mark III membrane type LNG tank were carried out and cumulative damage factor was calculated in order to estimate the fatigue life by probability density function and rule methods. It contained the following tests and reviews : 1) The fatigue tests of lap weld of stainless steel according to statistical testing method recommended by JSME, 2)Preparation of S-N curve for lap welds considering the statistical properties of the results of fatigue tests. 3) Procedure for estimating the initiation life of fatigue crack of lap welds under variable loads by the rule lf classification society and probability density function, 4) Guideline for inspection of lap welds fo membrane type LNG tank.

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Study on Crack Propagation of Concrete beam under Mixed-Mode Loading by Minimum Strain Energy Density Failure Criterion (최소 변형 에너지 밀도 기준에 의한 콘크리트 보의 균열전파에 관한 연구)

  • 진치섭;이영호;신동익;오정민
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.529-534
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    • 1998
  • To find out an adequate failure criterion in two-dimensional linear elastic crack problems, finite element programs, SED, which determine stress intensity factors $K_I, K_{II}$, crack angle and peak load by the minimum strain energy density failure criterion were developed. In this program, the conventional quadratic isoparametric elements were used in all regions except the crack tip zone where triangular singular elements with 6 nodes were used. The results of SED were compared with the results of those which followed by the maximum circumferential tensile stress criteria and those by the maximum energy release rate criteria and those by Jenq and Shah`s experiments of the same geometry and material properties. The maximum energy release rate criteria were better close to those of the Jenq and Shah`s experiments than the maximum circumferential tensile stress criteria and the minimum strain energy density criteria.

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