• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.681-695
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• 2021

Many existing transmission or communication towers designed several decades ago have undergone nonreversible performance degradation, making it hardly meet the additional requirements from upgrades in wind load design codes and extra services of electricity and communication. Therefore, a new-type non-destructive reinforcement method was proposed to reduce the on-site operation of drilling and welding for improving the quality and efficiency of reinforcement. Six built-up steel angle members were tested under compression to examine the reinforcement performance. Subsequently, the cyclic loading test was conducted on a pair of steel angle tower sub-structures to investigate the reinforcement effect, and a simplified prediction method was finally established for calculating the buckling bearing capacity of those new-type retrofitted built-up steel angles. The results indicates that: no apparent difference exists in the initial stiffness for the built-up specimens compared to the unreinforced steel angles; retrofitting the steel angles by single-bolt clamps can guarantee a relatively reasonable reinforcement effect and is suggested for the reduced additional weight and higher construction efficiency; for the substructure test, the latticed substructure retrofitted by the proposed reinforcement method significantly improves the lateral stiffness, the non-deformability and energy dissipation capacity; moreover, an apparent pinching behavior exists in the hysteretic loops, and there is no obvious yield plateau in the skeleton curves; finally, the accuracy validation result indicates that the proposed theoretical model achieves a reasonable agreement with the test results. Accordingly, this study can provide valuable references for the design and application of the non-destructive upgrading project of steel angle towers.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.48-55
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• 2023

In this study, on the structure simulation for manufacturing a high strength/light weight 48V battery housing for a mild hybrid vehicle was conducted. Compression analysis was performed in accordance with the international safety standards(ECE R100) for existing battery housings. The effect of plastic materials on compressive strength was analyzed. Three models of truss, honeycomb and grid rib for the battery housing were designed and the strength characteristics of the proposed models were analyzed through nonlinear buckling analysis. The effects of the previous existing rib, double-sided grid rib, double-sided honeycomb rib and double-sided grid rib with a subtractive draft for the upper cover on the compressive strength in each axial direction were examined. It was confirmed that the truss rib reinforcement of the battery housing was very effective compared to the existing model and it was also confirmed that the rib of the upper cover had no significant effect. In the results of individual 3-axis compression analysis, the compression load in the lateral long axis direction was the least and this result was found to be very important to achieve the overall goal in designing the battery housing. To reduce the weight of the presented battery housing model, the cell molding method was applied. It was confirmed that it was very effective in reducing injection pressure, clamping force and weight.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2020

In domestic construction sites, when installing steel pipe scaffolding and system scaffolding, the guardrails are installed after the installation of the work platforms. This conventional guardrail system (CGS) is always exposed to the risk of falls because the safety railing is installed later. In order to prevent fall disasters during erecting and dismantling scaffolds, it is necessary to introduce the advanced guardrail system (AGS) which installs railings in advance of climbing onto a work platform. For the introduction of the AGS, the structural performance of the system scaffolding applying the CGS and the AGS was compared and evaluated. The structural analysis of the system scaffold (height: 31 m and width: 27.4 m) with AGS confirmed that structural safety was ensured because the maximum stress of each element of the system scaffolding satisfies the allowable stress of each element. As a result of performance comparison of CGS and AGS for each element, the combined stress ratio of vertical posts in AGS was 6.4% lower than that of CGS. In addition, in the case of ledger and transom, the combined stress ratios of AGS and CGS were almost the same. The compression test of the assembled system scaffolding (three-storied, 1 bay) showed that the AGS had better performance than the CGS by 9.7% (8.91 kN). The cross bracing exceeds the limit on slenderness ratio of codes for structural steel design. But the safety factor for the compressive load of the cross bracing was evaluated as meeting the design criteria by securing 3 or more. In actual experiments, it was confirmed that brace buckling did not occur even though the overall scaffold was buckled. Therefore, in the case of temporary structures, it was proposed to revise the standards for limiting on slenderness ratio of secondary or auxiliary elements to recommendations. This study can be used as basic data for the introduction of AGS for installing guardrails in advance at domestic construction sites.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.469-475
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• 2022

최근의 구조물공사는 건물과 근접하여 대규모, 대심도 지하굴착 공사로 흙막이벽과 버팀보의 설치가 복잡해지고, 구조물 슬래브의 간섭을 피하기 위한 버팀보의 단수가 많아졌다. 이러한 시공공정은 구조물의 시공이음 개소의 증가와 누수 및 벽체균열 증가를 유발하는 요인이 되어 구조물 전체의 내구성과 시공성 저하 및 공사기간의 증대로 이어졌다. 본 연구는 시공이음 개소를 축소하기 위한 방안으로서 버팀보 2단을 동시에 해체하는 것을 계획하고, 이를초기가정토압에 의한 반력 값과 현장의 계측치를 응답비로 가정하여 토압을 보정하였다. 반복시산법을 통해 보정토압을 재 산정한 후, 버팀보 2단 동시해체가 가능함을 수치해석으로 검증하였다. 최종 보정 토압을 적용한 수치해석결과, 설계반력에 대한 계측 값이 최대 197%로 나타났다. 이는 지반에 시행한 그라우팅의 효과와 설계 시 지반 특성치를 다소 과소평가한 데에서 기인된 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구에서 수행한 응답비를 고려한 보정토압 산정결과를 바탕으로 버팀보 해체공정의 개선이 가능함을 해석적으로 입증하였다. 또한 이를 바탕으로 시공이음 축소로 누수에 의한 균열 감소와 시공성도 개선되어 전체적인 공기의 단축도 가능할 것으로 검토되었다. 그러나 현장마다 지반여건과 가시설 및 보강공법 등의 차이가 있어 이를 적용하기 위해서는 충분한 검토와 확인이 필요할 것으로 판단된다.