• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.667-689
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• 2014

Structural walls (also known as shear walls) are one of the common lateral load resisting elements in reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in seismic regions. The performance of RC structural walls in recent earthquakes has exposed some problems with the existing design of RC structural walls. The main issues lie around the buckling of bars, out-of plane deformation of the wall (especially the zone deteriorated in compression), reinforcement getting snapped beneath a solitary thin crack etc. This study compares performance of a typical wall designed by different standards. For this purpose, a case study RC shear wall is taken from the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Christchurch which was designed according to the 1982 version of the New Zealand concrete structures standard (NZS3101:1982). The wall is redesigned in this study to comply with the detailing requirements of three standards; ACI-318-11, NZS3101:2006 and Eurocode 8 in such a way that they provide the same flexural and shear capacity. Based on section analysis and pushover analysis, nonlinear responses of the walls are compared in terms of their lateral load capacity and curvature as well as displacement ductilities, and the effect of the code limitations on nonlinear responses of the different walls are evaluated. A parametric study is also carried out to further investigate the effect of confinement length and axial load ratio on the lateral response of shear walls.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.539-546
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• 2018

Making a transverse opening in concrete beams in order to accommodate utility services through the member instead of below or above of that, sometimes may be necessary. It is obvious that inclusions of an opening in a beam decreases its flexural and shear strengths. Fabricated steel bars are usually used to increase the capacity of the opening section, but details of reinforcements around the opening are dense and complex resulting in laborious pouring and setup process. The goal of this study was to investigate the possibility of using steel fibers in concrete mixture instead of complex reinforcement detailing order to strengthen opening section. Nonlinear finite element method was employed to investigate the behavior of steel fiber reinforced concrete beams. The numerical models were validated by comparison with experimental measurements tested by other investigators and then used to study the influence of fiber length, fiber aspect ratio and fiber content on the shear performance of SFRC slender beams with opening. Finally, it was concluded that the predicted shear strength enhancement is considerably influenced by use of steel fibers in concrete mixture but the effect of fiber length and fiber aspect ratio wasn't significant.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.181-198
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• 2003

Six large scale models of conventionally reinforced concrete coupling beams with span/depth ratios ranging from 1.17 to 2.00 were tested under monotonically applied shear loads to study their nonlinear behavior using a newly developed test method that maintained equal rotations at the two ends of the coupling beam specimen and allowed for local deformations at the beam-wall joints. By conducting the tests under displacement control, the post-peak behavior and complete load-deflection curves of the coupling beams were obtained for investigation. It was found that after the appearance of flexural and shear cracks, a deep coupling beam would gradually transform itself from an ordinary beam to a truss composed of diagonal concrete struts and longitudinal and transverse steel reinforcement bars. Moreover, in a deep coupling beam, the local deformations at the beam-wall joints could contribute significantly (up to the order of 50%) to the total deflection of the coupling beam, especially at the post-peak stage. Finally, although a coupling beam failing in shear would have a relatively low ductility ratio of only 5 or even lower, a coupling beam failing in flexure could have a relatively high ductility ratio of 10 or higher.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.491-506
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• 2019

Literature regarding concrete walls reinforced by super elastic shape memory alloy (SMA) bars is rather limited. The seismic behavior of a system concurrently including a distinct steel reinforced concrete (RC) wall, as well as another wall reinforced by super elastic SMA at the first story, and steel rebar at upper stories, would be an interesting matter. In this paper, the seismic response of such a COMBINED system is compared to a conventional system with steel RC concrete walls (STEEL-Rein.) and also to a wall system with SMA rebar at the first story and steel rebar at other stories ( SMA-Rein.). Nonlinear time history analysis at maximum considered earthquake (MCE) and design bases earthquake (DBE) levels is conducted and the main responses like maximum inter-story drift ratio and residual inter-story drift ratio are investigated. Furthermore, incremental dynamic analysis is used to accomplish probabilistic seismic studies by creating fragility curves. Results demonstrated that the SMA-Rein. system, subjected to DBE and MCE ground motions, has almost zero and 0.27% residual maximum inter-story drifts, while the values for the COMBINED system are 0.25% and 0.51%. Furthermore, fragility curves show that using SMA rebar at the base of all walls causes a larger probability of exceedance 3% inter-story drift limit state compared to the COMBINED system. Static push over analysis demonstrated that the strength of the COMBINED model is almost 0.35% larger than that of the two other models, and its general post-yielding stiffness is also approximately twice the corresponding stiffness of the two other models.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.555-562
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• 2016

이 연구의 목적은 부드러운 면의 시공줄눈을 가지는 콘크리트 경계면에서의 횡보강근의 전단전달력을 평가하는 것이다. 횡보강근의 배근은 전단마찰 면에 수직으로 배근한 그룹(V-type)과 $45^{\circ}$의 X형으로 교차배근 한 그룹(X-type)으로 나누었다. 전단마찰면에서 횡보강근비는 V형 철근배근의 경우 0.0045~0.0135로, X형 철근의 경우 0.0064 및 0.0045이다. 소성론의 상계치 이론(upper-bound theorem)을 기반으로 한 일체화된 콘크리트의 전단마찰모델을 수정하여, 부드러운 면의 시공줄눈을 갖는 콘크리트의 전단마찰내력을 평가하였다. 실험결과, 시공줄눈이 있는 두 부재사이의 전단마찰 내력에 대한 콘크리트 단위용적중량의 영향은 미미하였다. 시공줄눈에서 상대 미끄러짐 제어 및 전단마찰내력에 대해서는 X형 배근이 V형 배근에 비해 다소 유리하였다. 부드러운 면을 갖는 시공줄눈의 전단마찰내력에 대한 실험결과와 제안모델에 의한 예측값의 비들의 평균과 표준편차는 각각 1.07과 0.14로 나타났다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2006

본 연구는 도로교의 교각으로 널리 사용되고 있는 2주형 철근 콘크리트 교각의 내진성능과 보강방안을 실험적으로 수행하였다. 실험체는 지름 400mm, 높이 2,000mm인 2주형 원형교각 10기를 제작하였으며, 하중은 $0.1f_{ck}A_g$ 크기의 축방향하중하에서 교축방향과 교축직각방향의 이축 횡방향하중을 교번 반복재하하였다. 실험변수는 심부구속철근비, 주하중방향, 주철근 겹침이음 그리고 보강방안을 선택하였다. 주철근 겹침이음이 있는 교각에 대한 보강방안으로 steel band, steel jacket, 그리고 prestress 강선을 이용하였다. 실험 결과 주하중방향이 교축직각인 실험체가 소성힌지구간이 교각의 상 하부 양측에 발생하면서 주하중 방향이 교축방향인 실험체보다 연성 능력이 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 프리스트레스 강선으로 보강한 실험체는 과보강으로 인한 소성힌지구간의 이동으로 연성도 저하가 나타났으나, steel jacket 및 steel band로 보강한 실험체는 모두 요구연성도를 만족하는 것으로 나타났다. 특히, steel band에 의한 보강방안은 시공성 등을 감안하여 바람직한 철근 콘크리트 교각의 내진 보강방안으로 고려될 수 있다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.485-496
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• 2017

The behavior of 8 steel reinforced high-strength concrete (SRHSC) columns, which comprised of four identical columns with cross-shaped steel and other four identical columns with square steel tube, was investigated experimentally under cyclic uniaxial and biaxial loading independently. The influence of steel configuration and loading path on the global behavior of SRHSC columns in terms of failure process, hysteretic characteristics, stiffness degradation and ductility were investigated and discussed, as well as stress level of the longitudinal and transverse reinforcing bars and steel. The research results indicate that with a same steel ratio deformation capacity of steel reinforced concrete columns with a square steel tube is better than the one with a cross-shaped steel. Loading path affects hysteretic characteristics of the specimens significantly. Under asymmetrical loading path, hysteretic characteristics of the specimens are also asymmetry. Compared with specimens under unidirectional loading, specimens subjected to bidirectional loading have poor carrying capacity, fast stiffness degradation, small yielding displacement, poor ductility and small ultimate failure drift. It also demonstrates that loading paths affect the deformation capacity or deformation performance significantly. Longitudinal reinforcement yielding occurs before the peak load is attained, while steel yielding occurs at the peak load. During later displacement loading, strain of longitudinal and transverse reinforcing bars and steel of specimens under biaxial loading increased faster than those of specimens subjected to unidirectional loading. Therefore, the bidirectional loading path has great influence on the seismic performance such as carrying capacity and deformation performance, which should be paid more attentions in structure design.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 반복하중을 받는 외부 보-기둥 접합부에 정착된 57mm 확대머리철근의 정착성능을 평가하였다. 총 4개의 외부 보-기둥 접합부 실험체를 계획하였으며, 콘크리트 압축강도, 측면피복두께, 횡보강근비 및 파괴유형을 주요 실험 변수로 설정하여 정착성능평가를 수행하였다. 성능평가 결과, 접합부에 정착된 대구경 확대머리철근의 정착성능에 가장 큰 영향을 주는 요소는 측면피복두께 및 횡보강근으로 나타났으며, 외부 보-기둥 접합부에 정착된 57mm 대구경 확대머리철근은 반복하중하에서도 충분한 정착성능이 발현되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제74권5호
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• pp.657-670
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• 2020

Due to the high compressive and tensile strength of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC), UHPC used in steel concrete composite structures provided thinner concrete layer compared to ordinary concrete. This leaded to the headed stud shear connectors embedded in UHPC had a low aspect ratio. In order to systematic investigate the effect of headed stud with low aspect ratio on the structural behaviors of steel UHPC composite structure s this paper firstly carried out a test program consisted of twelve push out specimens. The effects of stud height, aspect ratio and reinforcement bars in UHPC on the structural behaviors of headed studs were investigated. The push out test results shows that the increasing of stud height did not obviously influence the structural behaviors of headed studs and the aspect ratio of 2.16 was proved enough to take full advantage of the headed stud strength. Based on the test results, the equation considering the contribution of weld collar was modified to predict the shear strength of headed stud embedded in UHPC. The modified equation could accurately predict the shear strength of headed stud by comparing with the experimental results. On the basis of push out test results, bending tests consisted of three steel UHPC composite slabs were conducted to investigate the effect of shear connection degree on the structural behaviors of composite slabs. The bending test results revealed that the shear connection degree had a significantly influence on the failure modes and ultimate resistance of composite slabs and composite slab with connection degree of 96% in s hear span exhibited a ductile failure accompanied by the tensile yield of steel plate and crushing of UHPC. Finally, analytical model based on the failure mode of composite slabs was proposed to predict the ultimate resistance of steel UHPC composite slabs with different shear connection degrees at the interface.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.199-207
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 비접촉 겹침 이음에 대한 스트럿-타이 모델을 제시하여 유효 겹침 이음 길이(effective lap length, $l_p$)와 이음 강도에 영향을 주는 요인들을 분석하였다. 부착응력이 작용하여 이음 강도에 기여하는 유효 겹침 이음 길이는 전체 겹침 이음 길이보다 짧으며, 이음된 철근에 직각방향으로 배근된 횡보강량비$({\Phi})$와 (이음된 철근간 거리)/(겹침 이음 길이) 비$({\alpha})$의 영향을 받는다. 이음된 철근간 거리가 멀어질수록 동일 겹침 이음 길이에서 유효 겹침 이음 길이는 짧아지게 되어 이음 내력은 작아진다. (이음된 철근간 거리)/(겹침 이음 길이) 비$({\alpha})$가 유효 겹침 이음 길이 결정에 미치는 영향은 횡보강량비$({\Phi})$가 낮을수록 커지게 된다. 이것은 횡보강량비가 낮을수록 이음된 철근 사이에 존재하는 스트럿의 기울기가 커지므로, 이음된 철근 사이 거리가 유효 겹침 이음 길이 결정에 큰 영향을 주기 때문이다. 비접촉 겹침 이음에 대한 제안된 스트럿-타이 모델은 실제 힘의 흐름을 분석할 수 있어, 다양한 재료 및 기하학적 조건에 적합한 철근 상세 설계를 가능하게 한다. 기존 문헌의 실험에서 나타난 거동 특성과 횡보강량이 이음 강도에 미치는 영향을 제안된 스트럿-타이 모델을 이용하여 효과적으로 설명할 수 있으며, 25개 실험체에 대한 이음 강도를 변동계수 11.1% 범위 내에서 적절히 예측할 수 있었다.