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Vibration Serviceability Evaluation of a Single Span Steel-Concrete Composite Foot Bridge under Dynamic Pedestrian Loadings Considering Moving Mass Effect (이동 질량 효과를 고려한 단경간 강합성 보행교의 보행 하중 진동 사용성 평가)

  • Wonsuk Park
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.75-83
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, we present the analysis results on the vibration serviceability of a pedestrian bridge considering the effect of pedestrian moving mass inertia. Using dynamic finite element analysis, we considered different walking scenarios, including pedestrian density, walking speed, random walking, and synchronized walking, to analyze the acceleration response of a 40m long single-span bridge with a steel composite box cross section. We showed that the equivalent fixed mass analysis method did not significantly differ from the moving mass analysis in the random walk scenario and a wider frequency excitation band may be useful to consider when evaluating vibration serviceability in a random walk scenario.

Reliability-Based Capacity Rating of High-Speed Rail-Road Bridges (신뢰성에 기초한 고속철도 교량의 내하력평가)

  • 조효남;이승재
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 1995.04a
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    • pp.73-81
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    • 1995
  • In Korea, the pilot construction of the first high-speed railroad on the Seoul-Pusan has already started 2 years ago. In the thesis, an attempt is made to develop reliability-based integrity-assessment models for the computer-aided control and maintenance of high-speed railroad bridges. The strength limit state models for PC railroad bridges encompass the bending and shear strengths as well as the strength interaction equations which simultaneously take into the element and system reliablities of the proposed limit states and reliability models. Then, the actual load carrying capacity and the realistic safety of bridges are evaluated using the system reliability-based equivalent strength, and the results are compared with those of the element reliability-based or conventional methods. Various parametric studies are performed for the proposed reliability-based safety and integrity-assessment models using the actual PC box girder bridges used in the pilot construction. And the sensitivity analyses are performed for the basic random variables included in strength limit state models. It is concluded that proposed models may be practically applied for the rational assessment of safety and integrity of high speed railroad bridges.

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On Information Theoretic Index for Measuring the Stochastic Dependence Among Sets of Variates

  • Kim, Hea-Jung
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.131-146
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    • 1997
  • In this paper the problem of measuring the stochastic dependence among sets fo random variates is considered, and attention is specifically directed to forming a single well-defined measure of the dependence among sets of normal variates. A new information theoretic measure of the dependence called dependence index (DI) is introduced and its several properties are studied. The development of DI is based on the generalization and normalization of the mutual information introduced by Kullback(1968). For data analysis, minimum cross entropy estimator of DI is suggested, and its asymptotic distribution is obtained for testing the existence of the dependence. Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate the performance of the estimator, and show that is is useful not only for evaluation of the dependence, but also for independent model testing.

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An Empirical Characteristic Function Approach to Selecting a Transformation to Normality

  • Yeo, In-Kwon;Johnson, Richard A.;Deng, XinWei
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.213-224
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we study the problem of transforming to normality. We propose to estimate the transformation parameter by minimizing a weighted squared distance between the empirical characteristic function of transformed data and the characteristic function of the normal distribution. Our approach also allows for other symmetric target characteristic functions. Asymptotics are established for a random sample selected from an unknown distribution. The proofs show that the weight function $t^{-2}$ needs to be modified to have thinner tails. We also propose the method to compute the influence function for M-equation taking the form of U-statistics. The influence function calculations and a small Monte Carlo simulation show that our estimates are less sensitive to a few outliers than the maximum likelihood estimates.

Real Time Road Lane Detection with RANSAC and HSV Color Transformation

  • Kim, Kwang Baek;Song, Doo Heon
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.187-192
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    • 2017
  • Autonomous driving vehicle research demands complex road and lane understanding such as lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping and centering, lane change and turn assist, and driving under complex road conditions. A fast and robust road lane detection subsystem is a basic but important building block for this type of research. In this paper, we propose a method that performs road lane detection from black box input. The proposed system applies Random Sample Consensus to find the best model of road lanes passing through divided regions of the input image under HSV color model. HSV color model is chosen since it explicitly separates chromaticity and luminosity and the narrower hue distribution greatly assists in later segmentation of the frames by limiting color saturation. The implemented method was successful in lane detection on real world on-board testing, exhibiting 86.21% accuracy with 4.3% standard deviation in real time.

Development of design framework based on reliability analysis using MATLAB (MATLAB 을 이용한 신뢰도 기반 설계 시스템 개발)

  • Sung, Young-Hwa;Kwak, Byung-Man;Maute, Kurt
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.1642-1647
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    • 2007
  • The aim of this research is to implement a design framework based on reliability analysis and make it possibly used for a reliable and robust design under uncertainties. Different types of reliability methods and algorithms are programmed to explore their characteristics. In our work, RIA and the PMA are employed for formulating the reliability analysis problems. A number of reliability methods are introduced in this program such as FORM, AMV/AMV+ and MCS. Reliability analysis can be easily performed with this tool box only if a drive file is ready to run. Users need to select random design variables and define their distributions and correlation.

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Computer Model for Fibrinogen Adsorption on Polyurethane Surface

  • Kim, Jong-Won;Shin, In-Sun;Ryu, Gyu-Ha;Lee, Kyu-Back;Han, Dong-Keun;Kim, Young-Ha;Min, Byoung-Goo
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 1994
  • Protein adsorption on the polyurethane surface was modelled by a modified random sequential adsorption(RSA) process. In this model, polyurethane surface was modelled as a mixed domain of hydrophobic and hydrophilic parts which was implemented by a 2 dimensional $150{\times}150$ lattice in the computer. Protein adsorption was simulated using a small box which represents a particle of the protein, and polyurethane lattice by considering their hydrophobic interaction. In order to validate the model, we perfonned fibrinogen adsorption on polyurethane surface. Isotherms of the adsorbed protein were calculated and compared to the experimental data. The protein adsorption on the polyurethane surface could be well described using this computer model.

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Probabilistic shear-lag analysis of structures using Systematic RSM

  • Cheng, Jin;Cai, C.S.;Xiao, Ru-Cheng
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.507-518
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    • 2005
  • In the shear-lag analysis of structures deterministic procedure is insufficient to provide complete information. Probabilistic analysis is a holistic approach for analyzing shear-lag effects considering uncertainties in structural parameters. This paper proposes an efficient and accurate algorithm to analyze shear-lag effects of structures with parameter uncertainties. The proposed algorithm integrated the advantages of the response surface method (RSM), finite element method (FEM) and Monte Carlo simulation (MCS). Uncertainties in the structural parameters can be taken into account in this algorithm. The algorithm is verified using independently generated finite element data. The proposed algorithm is then used to analyze the shear-lag effects of a simply supported beam with parameter uncertainties. The results show that the proposed algorithm based on the central composite design is the most promising one in view of its accuracy and efficiency. Finally, a parametric study was conducted to investigate the effect of each of the random variables on the statistical moment of structural stress response.

Analysis of the Issues of Gacha System in Online Games (온라인 게임에서 가챠 시스템의 현항과 문제점 분석)

  • Park, Ye-Jin;Kim, Yong-Ju;Choi, Seong-Bok;Kwon, O-Hyeon;Choi, Dong-Jun;Lee, Jong-Won
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2018.07a
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    • pp.85-86
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    • 2018
  • 최근 들어 가챠 시스템이 없는 게임을 찾기 어려울 만큼 많은 게임들이 가챠 시스템을 사용하고 있다. 그중에서도 가챠 시스템이 메인 콘텐츠라고 할 수 있을 만큼 큰 비중을 차지하고 있는 게임이 있고, 반대로 메인 콘텐츠가 따로 있어 부가적인 요소로 사용하는 게임이 있다. 본 연구에서는 현재 게임에서 사용되고 있는 가챠 시스템의 현황과 규제 및 개발사의 대안에 대해 알아보고, 이로 인해 생기는 문제점을 분석한다.

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Reliability sensitivity analysis of dropped object on submarine pipelines

  • Edmollaii, Sina Taghizadeh;Edalat, Pedram;Dyanati, Mojtaba
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.135-155
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    • 2019
  • One of the safest and the most economical methods to transfer oil and gas is pipeline system. Prediction and prevention of pipeline failures during its assessed lifecycle has considerable importance. The dropped object is one of the accidental scenarios in the failure of the submarine pipelines. In this paper, using Monte Carlo Sampling, the probability of damage to a submarine pipeline due to a box-shaped dropped object has been calculated in terms of dropped object impact frequency and energy transfer according to the DNV-RP-F107. Finally, Reliability sensitivity analysis considering random variables is carried out to determine the effect intensity of each parameter on damage probability. It is concluded that impact area and drag coefficient have the highest sensitivity and mass and add mass coefficient have the lowest sensitivity on probability of failure.