• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.523-528
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• 2000

In multi-span bridges, a shear key is often used to distribute the seismic force to the case, the shear key is sometimes required to be reinforced to withstand the seismic force. To improve the strength of shear key, the strength and failure mode of shear key have to be carefully estimated and the proper reinforcement scheme should be elaborated. The test results show that the strength of shear key is 2.5 times higher than the strength calculated by PCI design handbook. Also the strength of shear key is greatly improved by placing PT bars into shear key. In this study, the analytical method to evaluate the strength of sheat key and the reinforcement scheme are proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.143-144
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• 2009

This study is a development of new PSC girder overcomes weakness of the existing PSC girder and has advantage of construction mark, economical efficiency and maintenance. The gole of this study is reducing dead-load and long-span as HWPC girder has same section through hole and multi-prestressing.

• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.99-112
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• 2016

During earthquake, reinforced concrete walls show complicated post-yield behavior varying with shear span-to-depth ratio, re-bar detail, and loading condition. In the present study, a macro-model for the nonlinear analysis of multi-story wall structures was developed. To conveniently describe the coupled flexure-compression and shear responses, a reinforced concrete wall was idealized with longitudinal and diagonal uniaxial elements. Simplified cyclic material models were used to describe the cyclic behavior of concrete and re-bars. For verification, the proposed method was applied to various existing test specimens of isolated and coupled walls. The results showed that the predictions agreed well with the test results including the load-carrying capacity, deformation capacity, and failure mode. Further the proposed model was applied to an existing wall structure tested on a shaking table. Three-dimensional nonlinear time history analyses using the proposed model were performed for the test specimen. The time history responses of the proposed method agreed with the test results including the lateral displacements and base shear.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.451-452
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• 2010

Prestressed concrete I girder bridge has been one of the most widely used bridges in the world because of its excellent construction feasibility, economic efficiency, serviceability, and safety. But in Korea, the PSC bridge has not been utilized for long span because of high girder height in its standard design. Thus, the results confirm that it is possible to applicate the continuous PSC girder with end cross beam anchorage system using multi-stage prestressing technique.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.958-967
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• 2005

The mathematical model for tension behaviors of a moving web by Shin (2000) is extended to the tension model considering the thermal strain due to temperature variation in furnace. The extended model includes the terms that take into account the effect of the change of the Young's Modulus, the thermal coefficient, and the thermal strain on the variation of strip tension. Computer simulation study proved that the extended tension model could be used to analyze tension behaviors even when the strip goes through temperature variation. By using the extended tension model, a new tension control method is suggested in this paper. The key factors of suggested tension control method include that the thermal strain of strip could be compensated by using the velocity adjustment of the helper-rollers. The computer simulation was carried out to confirm the performance of the suggested tension control method. Simulation results show that the suggested tension control logic not only overcomes the problem of the traditional tension control logic, but also improves the performance of tension control in a furnace of the CAL (Continuous Annealing Line).

• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.431-454
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• 2009

This paper presents a simple model for studying the dynamic response of multi-span bridges resting on piers with different heights and subjected to earthquake forces acting transversely to the bridge, but varying spatially along its length. The analysis is carried out using the modal superposition technique, while the solution of the resulting integral-differential equations is obtained via the Laplace transformation. It has been found that the piers' height and the quality of the foundation soil can affect significantly the dynamic behavior of such bridges. Typical examples showing the effectiveness of the method are presented with useful results listed.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.275-289
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• 2013

The cross sections of multi-span beams are sometimes suddenly increased at the interior support of continuous beams to resist high negative moment. An earlier study on elastic lateral torsional buckling of stepped beams was conducted to propose new design equations. This research aims to continue the earlier study by considering the effect of inelastic buckling of stepped beams subjected to pure bending and general loading condition. A three-dimensional finite element-program ABAQUS and a statistical program MINITAB were used in the development of new design equations. The inelastic lateral torsional buckling strengths of 36 and 27 models for singly and doubly stepped beams, respectively, were investigated. The general loading condition consists of 15 loading cases based on the number of inflection point within the unbraced length of the stepped beams. The combined effects of residual stresses and geometrical imperfection were also considered to evaluate the inelastic buckling strengths. The proposed equations in this study will definitely improve current design methods for the inelastic lateral-torsional buckling of stepped beams and will increase efficiency in building and bridge design.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.287-294
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• 2001

Dynamic responses of multi-span simply supported bridges are investigated to examine the effect of damaged bearings under seismic excitations. The damaged bearings are modeled as sliding elements with friction between the super-structure and the pier top. Various values of the friction coefficients for damaged bearings are examined with increasing magnitudes of peak ground accelerations. It is found that the g1oba1 seismic behaviors are significantly influenced by the occurrence of bearing damage. It should be noticed that the most possible location of unseating failure of superstructures differs with that in the model without consideration of the bearing damage. It can be concluded that the bearing damage may play the major role in the unseating failure of a bridge system, so that the damage of bearings should be included to achieve more rational seismic safety evaluation.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.13-22
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• 2001

지진하중을 받는 다경간 단순형교의 낙교방지대책으로 적용되는 cable restrainer를 적절하게 설계하기 위해서는 restrainer의 보강효과에 대한 분석이 우선적으로 이루어져야한다. 본 연구에서는 단순지지 다경간 교량시스템을 중심으로 restrainer로 보강된 교량의 보강효과와 다양한 교량의 영향 요소를 고려할 수 있는 단순화된 해석모형을 개발하였으며, 이를 바탕으로 대상교량의 인접 진동계간의 상대거리, 충돌력, 하부교각으로 전달되는 전단역과 휨모멘트의 변화 등의 동적거동특성을 조사하여 restrainer의 보강효과를 분석하였다. 또한, restrainer의 여유길이 변화, 강성변화, 그리고 restrainer 길이변화에 따른 응답특성을 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.1464-1469
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• 2010

In this paper, the dynamic stability evaluation of special bridge for high speed railway under ground excitation is performed. The mass, damping, stiffness matrices of bridge are derived from the modal frequencies and mode shape vectors which can be obtained by commercial program. And the high speed train is modeled as multi-single d.o.f models for the sake of vehicle-bridge interaction analysis. In the vehicle-bridge interaction analysis, the vertical directional interaction is only considered. As a numerical example, the 3 span Extradosed bridge which is expected to be installed in Ho-Nam high speed railroad is considered. The analysis results show that the example bridge satisfies the criteria of dynamic stability.