• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.171-185
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• 2006

응답면기법, 유한요소법, 일차신뢰도법 그리고 반복 선형보간기법을 합리적으로 결합한 정교한 신뢰성해석 기법이 지진하중을 포함하는 단기 동적하중을 받는 복잡한 실제 비선형 동적구조계의 신뢰성 평가를 위하여 제안되었다. 기법은 하중 및 저항과 관련된 랜덤변수의 비선형성과 불확실성의 모든 중요 원천을 명시적으로 고려한다. 본 기법의 특징은 전통적 랜덤진동방법의 대안으로서 지진하중을 시간영역에서 적용하는 것이다. 실제 강프레임의 연결부에 대한 유연성을 표현하기 위하여 4-매개변수 리차드 모델을 사용하였다. 리차드 매개변수의 불확실성에 대한 고려도 알고리즘에 포함하였다. 다음으로 횡방향으로 유연한 강프레임을 철근콘크리트 전단벽으로 보강하였다. 균열 발생 후 전단벽에서의 강도저감 또한 고려되었다. 강절 연결부를 갖는 횡방향으로 유연한 강프레임, 각기 다른 강성의 부분강절 연결부를 갖는 강프레임, 그리고 콘크리트 전단벽으로 보강된 강프레임의 세 구조물을 고려함으로써 실제 구조물의 신뢰성평가를 위한 기법의 적용성을 검증하였다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.281-288
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• 2014

가스폭발은 해양플랜트 산업에서 발생할 수 있는 치명적인 사고 중 하나이며, 탑사이드 플랫폼은 폭발압력에 따른 구조 건전성을 확보해야만 한다. 따라서, 해양플랜트 분야에서는 이러한 폭발사고에 대비한 방폭설계에 관한 많은 연구가 수행되었지만, 여전히 추가적으로 세밀한 분석이 더 필요한 실정이다. 폭발 설계하중 계산과정에서 도출된 충격량은 CFD 해석결과로 계측된 폭발 압력 응답에서의 곡선 아래 면적의 절대 값에 의해 결정되어 진다. 하지만 가스폭발에서의 부압구간은 TNT 폭발이나 가스폭발과는 달리 상당부분 존재한다. 본 연구의 목표는 이러한 부압구간이 구조물의 거동에 미치는 영향에 대해서 분석하는 것이다. 따라서 방폭설계가 필수적으로 요구되어지는 FPSO 탑사이드의 방화벽을 폭발하중에 따른 구조 응답을 분석하기 위한 대상물로 선정하였다. 폭발 하중-시간이력 데이터는 FLACS를 이용한 폭발 시뮬레이션 과정을 통해 획득하였으며, LS-DYNA는 비선형 과도 응답해석을 위해 사용되었다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.49-56
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• 2024

구조물의 동적 해석 자동화는 구조 통합 시스템에서 중요한 역할을 한다. 해석 결과에 따른 신속한 대피 또는 경고 조치가 신속하게 이루어지도록 해석 모듈은 짧은 실시간에 해석 결과를 출력해야 한다. 구조 해석법으로 세계적으로 가장 많이 사용되는 방법은 유한요소법이다. 유한요소법이 널리 사용되는 이유 중 하나는 사용의 편리다. 그러나 사용자가 유한요소망을 입력해야 하는데 요소망의 요소 수는 계상량과 정비례하고 요소망의 적절성은 에러와 연관된다. 본 연구는 시간 영역 동적 해석에서 전 단계 해석 결과를 사용하여 계산된 대표 변형률 값으로 오차를 평가하고, 요소 세분화는 절점 이동인 r-법과 요소 분할인 h-법의 조합으로 효율적으로 계산하는 적응적 요소망 형성 전략을 제시한다. 적용한 캔틸레버보와 간단한 프레임 예제를 통하여 적절한 요소망 형성, 정확성, 그리고 연산 효율성을 검증하였다. 이 방법의 간단함이 지진 하중, 풍하중, 비선형 해석 등에 의한 복잡한 구조 동적 해석에도 효율적으로 사용될 수 있는 것을 보여 준다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제36권11호
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• pp.1361-1370
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• 2012

본 논문은 응력 등가정하중을 이용하여 금속제조공정에서 원하는 성형품과 단조품의 최종형상을 얻기 위한 형상최적화 방법을 제안한다. 성형품의 최종형상은 블랭크의 형상에 따라 달라지고 단조품의 최종형상은 빌렛의 형상에 따라 달라진다. 따라서 원하는 형상의 제품을 얻기 위해 구조최적화방법 중 형상최적화방법을 적용하였다. 금속성형 공정은 비선형 동적해석을 수행하므로 등가정하중법을 이용한다. 등가정하중법 중 가상모델을 이용한 응력 등가정하중은 등가정하중을 산출하는 새로운 방법으로 재료 특성의 가치를 재정의하여 응력 등가정하중을 계산한다. 본 논문에 포함된 예제를 통해 원하는 제품의 최종형상을 얻기 위한 최적의 블랭크 및 빌렛 형상을 도출하여 제안한 방법의 유용성을 검증한다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.617-628
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• 2018

Steel shear wall possesses priority over many of the current lateral load-bearing systems due to reasons like higher elastic stiffness, desirable ductility and energy absorption, convenience in construction and implementation technology, and economic criteria. Besides these advantages, this system causes increase in the dimensions of other structural elements due to its high stiffness as one of its intrinsic characteristics. One of the methods for stiffness reduction is perforating the wall panel and creating openings in the wall that can also be used as windows or ducts in buildings service period. The aim of the present study is probing the appropriate geometric shape and location of opening to fulfil economic criterion plus technical and seismic design criteria. In the present research, a number of possible while reasonable opening shapes and locations are defined in various sizes for some steel shear wall specimens. The specimens are modelled in ABAQUS finite elements software and analyzed using nonlinear pushover analysis. Finally, the analyses' results are reported as force-displacement diagrams and the strength, the initial stiffness and the energy absorption are calculated for all specimens and compared together. The obtained results show that both shape and location of the openings affect the seismic parameters of the shear wall. The specimens in which the openings are further from the center and closer to the columns possess higher stiffness and strength while the specimens in which the openings are closer to the center show more considerable changes in their seismic parameters in response to increase in opening area.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제57권3호
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• pp.507-528
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• 2016

Reduced beam section (RBS) moment resisting connections are among the most economical and practical rigid steel connections developed in the aftermath of the 1994 Northridge and the 1995 Kobe earthquakes. Although the performance of RBS connection has been widely studied, this connection has not been subject to in the skewed conditions. In this study, the seismic performance of dogbone connection was investigated at different angles. The Commercial ABAQUS software was used to simulate the samples. The numerical results are first compared with experimental results to verify the accuracy. Nonlinear static analysis with von Mises yield criterion materials and the finite elements method were used to analyze the behavior of the samples The selected Hardening Strain of materials at cyclic loading and monotonic loading were kinematics and isotropic respectively The results show that in addition to reverse twisting of columns, change in beam angle relative to the central axis of the column has little impact on hysteresis response of samples. Any increase in the angle, leads to increased non-elastic resistance. As for Weak panel zone, with increase of the angle between the beam and the column, the initial submission will take place at a later time and at a larger rotation angle in the panel zone and this represents reduced amount of perpendicular force exerted on the column flange. In balanced and strong panel zones, with increase in the angle between the beam and the central axis of the column, the reduced beam section (RBS), reaches the failure limit faster and at a lower rotation angle. In connection of skewed beam, balanced panel zone, due to its good performance in disposition of plasticity process away from connection points and high energy absorption, is the best choice for panel zone. The ratio of maximum moment developed on the column was found to be within 0.84 to 1 plastic anchor point, which shows prevention of brittle fracture in connections.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.317-346
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• 2019

Performance assessment of pavements proves useful, in terms of handling the ride quality, controlling the travel time of vehicles and adequate maintenance of pavements. Roughness profiles provide a good measure of the deteriorating condition of the pavement. For the accurate estimates of pavement roughness from dynamic vehicle responses, vehicle parameters should be known accurately. Information on vehicle parameters is uncertain, due to the wear and tear over time. Hence, condition monitoring of pavement requires the identification of pavement roughness along with vehicle parameters. The present study proposes a scheme which estimates the roughness profile of the pavement with the use of accurate estimates of vehicle parameters computed in parallel. Pavement model used in this study is a two-layer Euler-Bernoulli beam resting on a nonlinear Pasternak foundation. The asphalt topping of the pavement in the top layer is modeled as viscoelastic, and the base course bottom layer is modeled as elastic. The viscoelastic response of the top layer is modeled with the help of the Burgers model. The vehicle model considered in this study is a half car model, fitted with accelerometers at specified points. The identification of the coupled system of vehicle-pavement interaction employs a coupled scheme of an unbiased minimum variance estimator and an optimization scheme. The partitioning of observed noisy quantities to be used in the two schemes is investigated in detail before the analysis. The unbiased minimum variance estimator (MVE) make use of a linear state-space formulation including roughness, to overcome the linearization difficulties as in conventional nonlinear filters. MVE gives estimates for the unknown input and fed into the optimization scheme to yield estimates of vehicle parameters. The issue of ill-posedness of the problem is dealt with by introducing a regularization equivalent term in the objective function, specifically where a large number of parameters are to be estimated. Effect of different objective functions is also studied. The outcome of this research is an overall measure of pavement condition.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.639-654
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• 2018

Rocking motion have been used for achieving the 'resilient buildings' against earthquakes in recent studies. Low-rise buildings, unlike the tall ones, because of their small aspect ratio tend to slide rather than move in rocking mode. However, since rocking is more effective in seismic response reduction than sliding, it is desired to create rocking motion in low-rise buildings too. One way for this purpose is making the building's structure rock on its internal bay(s) by reducing the number of bays at the lower part of the building's skeleton, giving it a mushroom form. In this study 'mushroom skeleton' has been used for creating multi-story rocking regular steel buildings with square plan to rock on its one-by-one bay central lowest story. To show if this idea is effective, a set of mushroom buildings have been considered, and their seismic responses have been compared with those of their conventional counterparts, designed based on a conventional code. Also, a set of similar buildings with skeleton stronger than code requirement, to have immediate occupancy (IO) performance level, have been considered for comparison. Seismic responses, obtained by nonlinear time history analyses, using scaled three-dimensional accelerograms of selected earthquakes, show that by using appropriate 'mushroom skeleton' the seismic performance of buildings is upgraded to mostly IO level, while all of the conventional buildings experience collapse prevention (CP) level or beyond. The strong-skeleton buildings mostly present IO performance level as well, however, their base shear and absolute acceleration responses are much higher than the mushroom buildings.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제80권6호
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• pp.645-655
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• 2021

Performance-based reliability analysis is a practical approach to investigate the seismic performance and stochastic nonlinear response of structures considering a random process. This is significant due to the uncertainties involved in every aspect of the analysis. Therefore, the present study aims to evaluate the performance-based reliability within a stochastic finite element (FE) framework for reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls that are considered as one of the most essential elements of structures. To accomplish this purpose, deterministic FE analyses are conducted for both squat and slender shear walls to validate numerical models through experimental results. The presented numerical analysis is performed by using the ABAQUS FE program. Afterwards, a random-effects investigation is carried out to consider the influence of different random variables on the lateral load-top displacement behavior of RC members. Using these results and through utilizing the Monte-Carlo simulation method, stochastic nonlinear analyses are also performed to generate random FE models based on input parameters and their probabilistic distributions. In order to evaluate the reliability of RC walls, failure probabilities and corresponding reliability indices are calculated at life safety and collapse prevention levels of performance as suggested by FEMA 356. Moreover, based on reliability indices, capacity reduction factors are determined subjected to shear for all specimens that are designed according to the ACI 318 Building Code. Obtained results show that the lateral load and the compressive strength of concrete have the highest effects on load-displacement responses compared to those of other random variables. It is also found that the probability of shear failure for the squat wall is slightly lower than that for slender walls. This implies that 𝛽 values are higher in a non-ductile mode of failure. Besides, the reliability of both squat and slender shear walls does not change significantly in the case of varying capacity reduction factors.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.385-394
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• 2022

Recently, an increasing number of cutting-edged studies have shown that designing a smart active control for real-time implementation requires piles of hard-work criteria in the design process, including performance controllers to reduce the tracking errors and tolerance to external interference and measure system disturbed perturbations. This article proposes an effective artificial-intelligence method using these rigorous criteria, which can be translated into general control plants for the management of civil engineering installations. To facilitate the calculation, an efficient solution process based on linear matrix (LMI) inequality has been introduced to verify the relevance of the proposed method, and extensive simulators have been carried out for the numerical constructive model in the seismic stimulation of the active rigidity. Additionally, a fuzzy model of the neural network based system (NN) is developed using an interconnected method for LDI (linear differential) representation determined for arbitrary dynamics. This expression is constructed with a nonlinear sector which converts the nonlinear model into a multiple linear deformation of the linear model and a new state sufficient to guarantee the asymptomatic stability of the Lyapunov function of the linear matrix inequality. In the control design, we incorporated H Infinity optimized development algorithm and performance analysis stability. Finally, there is a numerical practical example with simulations to show the results. The implication results in the RMS response with as well as without tuned mass damper (TMD) of the benchmark building under the external excitation, the El-Centro Earthquake, in which it also showed the simulation using evolved bat algorithmic LMI fuzzy controllers in term of RMS in acceleration and displacement of the building.