• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.355-374
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• 2006

Thin walled steel bridge-piers/columns are vulnerable to damage, when subjected to earthquake excitations. Local buckling, global buckling or interaction between local and global buckling usually is the cause of this damage, which results in significant strength reduction of the member. In this study new innovative design concepts, "thin-walled corrugated steel columns" and "thin-walled cellular steel columns" are presented, which allow the column to undergo large plastic deformations without significant strength reduction; hence dissipate energy under cyclic loading. It is shown that, compared with the conventional designs, circular and stiffened box sections, these new innovative concepts might results in cost-effective designs, with improved buckling and ductility properties. Using a finite element model, that takes the non-linear material properties into consideration, it is shown that the corrugations will act like longitudinal stiffeners that are supporting each other, thus improving the buckling behavior and allowing for reduction of the overall wall thickness of the column.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방재학회 2008년도 정기총회 및 학술발표대회
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• pp.477-480
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• 2008

Hydraulic experiment was executed to identify the souring range of bride pier. The experiment categorized three kind of bridge pier shape, that is composed of circle shape, square shape and the special shape. Measured scouring data was compared with the results by empirical CSU formula which was generally used in practice. As empirical formula could not consider backfill, measured scouring range is by far smaller than results of CSU formula. Therefore in case of design anti-scouring structure, there is the possibility of overestimation in case of using empirical formula.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.193-200
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• 2017

To overcome the difficulty of performing multi-point response spectrum analysis for engineering structures under spatially varying ground motions (SVGM) using the general finite element code such as ANSYS, an approach has been developed by improving the modelling of the input ground motions in the spectral analysis. Based on the stochastic vibration analyses, the cross-power spectral density (c-PSD) matrix is adopted to model the stationary SVGM. The design response spectra are converted into the corresponding PSD model with appropriate coherency functions and apparent wave velocities. Then elements of c-PSD matrix are summarized in the row and the PSD matrix is transformed into the response spectra for a general spectral analysis. A long-span high-pier bridge under multiple support excitations is analyzed using the proposed approach considering the incoherence, wave-passage and site-response effects. The proposed approach is deemed to be an efficient numerical method that can be used for seismic analysis of large engineering structures under SVGM.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2002년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.220-227
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• 2002

This study introduces the fragility analysis method for the safety evaluation of reinforced concrete pier subject to earthquake. Damage probability is calculated instead of the failure probability from definition of the damage state in the fragility curve. Not only the damage model determined by the response of structure subject to earthquake, but also the plastic-damage model which can represent the local damage is applied to fragility analysis. The evaluation method of damage state by damage variable in global structure is defined by this procedure. This study introduces the fragility analysis method considering the features of nonlinear time history behavior of reinforced concrete element and the plastic behavior of materials. At last, This study gives one of the approach method for seismic margin evaluation with the result of fragility analysis to design seismic load.

• 한국BIM학회 논문집
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2013

In Korea highway bridges, most piers are the type of one-column or multi-column ones. So, in this study, under an environment applying BIM so fast, to activate researches on two-column piers subjected to bidirectional seismic loading, a 3D parametric modeling method was selected when the model of two-column piers and one-column piers were formed. Also, interface module between input data in structural analysis and 3D model of RC pier was developed. The module can create the input data for non-linear structural analysis like material, geometric properties and additional coefficients.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2001년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집 Proceedings of EESK Conference-Fall 2001
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• pp.131-138
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to investigate size effect on inelastic behavior of reinf bridge piers subjected to cyclic load. A computer program, named RCAHEST(Reinforced Co Analysis in Higher Evaluation System Technologr), for the analysis of reinforced concret was used. Material nonlinearity is taken into account by comprising tensile, compressiv models of cracked concrete and a model of reinforcing steel The smeared crack app incorporated. In boundary plane at which each member with different thickness is conne discontinuous deformation due to the abrupt change in their stiffness can be taken into introducing interface element. The effect of number of load reversals with the same d amplitude has been also taken into account to model the reinforcing steel. To determine th on bridge pier inelastic behavior, a 1/4-scale replicate model was also loaded for compar full-scale bridge pier behavior.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2002년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.141-146
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• 2002

In the present design concept, the nonlinear behavior of bridges is allowed under large earthquake. Therefore, demands for nonlinear analyses of bridges are increased more and more especially in the area of seismic assessment. It is, however, difficult to solve the problem how the nonlinearity of columns should be modelled. In this study, the fiber element Is adopted for model ins pier column. The element is a kind of structural elements like frame element, and it can model the distributed plasticity of plastic hinge. A 3 span continuos bridge is taken for seismic analysis. First, the nonlinear static analysis the column at fixed support are performed so that the characteristics of column is investigated. Second, the nonlinear dynamic analyses of the full bridge model is performed, considering 3 directional earthquake excitations.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.391-399
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• 2019

Residual deformation of high-speed railway bridge piers is cumulative under repeated earthquakes, and influences the safety and ride comfort of high-speed trains. This paper investigates the effects of the peak ground acceleration, longitudinal reinforcement ratio, and axial compression ratio on the cumulative deformation through finite element analysis. A simply-supported beam bridge pier model is established using nonlinear beam-column elements in OpenSees, and validated against a shaking table test. Repeated earthquakes were input in the model. The results show that the cumulative deformation of the bridge piers under repeated earthquakes increases with the peak ground acceleration and the axial compression ratio, and decreases with the longitudinal reinforcement ratio.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.183-196
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 헌치부를 갖는 교각구조물 및 지하철 박스구조물을 선형탄성 평면응력 유한요소해석, 설계기준 및 실험식, 그리고 스트럿-타이 모델 방법을 이용하여 설계하였으며, 설계결과의 비교$.$평가를 통하여 헌치부의 영향 및 설계방법간의 차이를 분석하였다. 또한 헌치부를 갖는 철근콘크리트 부재의 스트럿-타이 모델 설계결과의 신뢰성을 입증하기 위해 실제 실험$.$파괴된 헌치부를 갖는 철근콘크리트 보의 극한강도를 스트럿-타이 모델 해석을 통하여 평가하였다. 극한하중 상태의 거동을 고려하는 스트럿-타이 모델 설계방법은 하중직접전달작용 및 아치작용 등의 헌치부 영향을 나타내는 현상을 교각 및 박스구조물의 설계에 잘 반영하였으며, 따라서 기존의 방법에 의한 교각 및 박스구조물의 설계결과는 스트럿-타이 모델 설계를 통하여 보완되어야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2007

댐 안전성 평가를 위한 내진성능평가는 지속적으로 실시하였으나, 댐에서 취약부로 알려진 여수로 피어부에 대한 거동 분석에 대한 연구는 거의 이루어지지 않았다. 실제 지진발생시 여수로 피어가 국부 손상을 받기에 취약한 부분으로 추정되어 본 연구에서 댐의 내진성능 평가를 위한 기초 실험으로서 정적 시험을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 댐의 여수로 피어부에 대한 축소된 철근콘크리트 모형을 통한 강도모델을 구성하여 정적 모형 시험을 실시하고, 시험 결과의 분석, 구조해석을 통한 실제 구조물의 거동 및 균열하중, 극한하중에 대한 분석을 실시하였다. 대상 시험체에 대한 모형 시험 결과와 수치해석 결과는 서로 다른 파괴 거동을 나타내어 파괴하중이 서로 다르게 추정되었으나, 모형 시험체의 파괴 거동을 고려하는 경우에는 정적 시험과 해석을 통하여 실제 구조물의 균열 발생 하중과 극한하중을 추정할 수 있는 것으로 사료된다.