• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.197-208
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• 2019

The objective of this study is to propose new seismic intensity parameters based on the Hilbert spectrum and to associate them with the seismic damage potential. In recent years the assessment of even more seismic features derived from the seismic acceleration time-histories was associated with the structural damage. For a better insight into the complex seismic acceleration time-history, Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) analysis is utilized for its processing, and the Hilbert spectrum is obtained. New proposed seismic intensity parameters based on the Hilbert spectrum are derived. The aim is to achieve a significant estimation of the seismic damage potential on structures from the proposed new intensity parameters confirmed by statistical methods. Park-Ang overall structural damage index is used to describe the postseismic damage status of structures. Thus, a set of recorded seismic accelerograms from all over the word is applied on a reinforced concrete frame structure, and the Park-Ang indices through nonlinear dynamic analysis are provided and considered subsequently as reference numerical values. Conventional seismic parameters, with well-known seismic structural damage interrelation, are evaluated for the same set of excitations. Statistical procedures, namely correlation study and multilinear regression analysis, are applied on the set of the conventional parameters and the set of proposed new parameters separately, to confirm their interrelation with the seismic structural damage. The regression models are used for the evaluation of the structural damage indices for every set of parameters, respectively. The predicted numerical values of the structural damage indices evaluated from the two sets of seismic intensity parameters are inter-compared with the reference values. The numerical results confirm the ability of the proposed Hilbert spectrum based new seismic intensity parameters to approximate the postseismic structural damage with a smaller Standard Error of Estimation than this accomplished of the conventional ones.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.477-496
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• 2021

The main objective of this paper is to study vibration of sandwich open cylindrical panel with damaged core and FG face sheets based on three-dimensional theory of elasticity. The structures are made of a damaged isotropic core and two external face sheets. These skins are strengthened at the nanoscale level by randomly oriented Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and are reinforced at the microscale stage by oriented straight fibers. These reinforcing phases are included in a polymer matrix and a three-phase approach based on the Eshelby-Mori-Tanaka scheme and on the Halpin-Tsai approach, which is developed to compute the overall mechanical properties of the composite material. Three complicated equations of motion for the panel under consideration are semi-analytically solved by using 2-D differential quadrature method. Several parametric analyses are carried out to investigate the mechanical behavior of these multi-layered structures depending on the damage features, through-the-thickness distribution and boundary conditions. It is seen that for the large amount of power-law index "P", increasing this parameter does not have significant effect on the non-dimensional natural frequency parameters of the FG sandwich curved panel. Results indicate that by increasing the value of isotropic damage parameter "D" up to the unity (fully damaged core) the frequency would tend to become zero. One can dictate the fiber variation profile through the radial direction of the sandwich panel via the amount of "P", "b" and "c" parameters. It should be noticed that with increase of volume fraction of fibers, the frequency parameter of the panels does not increase necessarily, so by considering suitable amounts of power-law index "P" and the parameters "b" and "c", one can get dynamic characteristics similar or better than the isotropic limit case for laminated FG curved panels.

• Composites Research
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2009

복합재료가 항공기 구조물 및 기계 부품 등에 폭 넓게 적용됨에 따라, 복합재료 구조들에서 가장 취약한 복합재료 체결부의 설계는 매우 중요한 연구분야로 대두되긴 있다. 본 논문에서는 접착 체결구조와 기계적 체결구조의 조합으로 되어 있는 하이브리드 조인트의 파손강도를 평가하고 예측하였다. 피착제의 두께, w/d, e/d가 서로 다른 10가지 하이브리드 조인트 시험편을 제작하여 평가하였다. 접착 체결구조와 기계적 체결구조의 파손 판정을 위해 파손영역법과 파괴면적지수법이 각각 적용 되었으며, 두 체결부위 중 어느 한족이 먼저 파손기준에 도달할 경우, 하이브리드 조인트가 파손되었다고 가정하였다. 이상의 실험과 해석결과로부터, 하이브리드 조인트 시편의 파손강도는 25.5%, 오차 범위 내에서 예측할 수 있었다.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.315-328
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• 2023

The main goal of the present study was to assess the effects of eggshell powder (ESP) and halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) on the mechanical properties of abaca fiber (AF)-reinforced natural composites. For this purpose, a limited number of indentation tests were first performed on the AF/polypropylene (PP) composites for different HNT and ESP loadings (0 wt.% ~ 6 wt.%), load amplitudes (150, 200, and 250 N), and two types of indenters (Vickers or conical). The Young's modulus, hardness and plasticity index of each specimen were calculated using the indentation test results and Oliver-Pharr method. The accuracy of the experimental results was confirmed by comparing the values of the Young's modulus obtained from the indentation test with the results of the conventional tensile test. Then, a feed-forward shallow artificial neural network (ANN) with high efficiency was trained based on the obtained experimental data. The trained ANN could properly predict the variations of the mentioned mechanical properties of AF/PP composites incorporated with different HNT and ESP loadings. Furthermore, the trained ANN demonstrated that HNTs increase the elastic modulus and hardness of the composite, while the incorporation of ESP reduces these properties. For instance, the Young's modulus of composites incorporated with 3 wt.% of ESP decreased by 30.7% compared with the pure composite, while increasing the weight fraction of ESP up to 6% decreased the Young's modulus by 34.8%. Moreover, the trained ANN indicated that HNTs have a more significant effect on reducing the plasticity index than ESP.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.627-634
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 폭발에 의한 국부손상이 철근콘크리트 보의 잔류 휨강도 및 연성에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위하여 $160{\times}290{\times}2200mm$의 철근콘크리트 보에 대하여 근접 폭발 시험과 정하중 휨시험을 수행하였다. 또한 이 시험을 통해 강섬유 및 FRP 시트로 보강한 철근콘크리트 보의 폭발저항성능을 평가하였다. 장약량 1kg, 이격거리 0.1m의 폭발 시험을 수행하였으며, 시험 후 시험체의 crater, spall 지름과 무게손실(weight loss)을 측정하여 시험체의 국부손상을 평가하였다. 또한 폭발하중을 받지 않은 시험체와 폭발하중을 받아 국부손상이 발생한 시험체의 정하중 휨시험을 수행하여 휨강도 및 연성지수를 측정하였다. 시험결과, 보통콘크리트 시험체(NC)는 비교적 큰 crater와 spall이 발생하였으며 국부손상에 의한 무게 손실이 23.5kg 발생하였다. 반면 강섬유보강콘크리트 시험체(SFRC)와 FRP 시트 보강 시험체(NC-F, NC-FS)는 NC에 비해 crater 크기와 무게손실이 감소하며 향상된 폭발저항성능을 나타내었다. 또한 폭발하중에 의해 국부손상이 발생한 시험체들은 휨강도와 연성지수가 감소하였다. 특히 NC는 잔류 휨강도가 기존 강도에 비해 크게 감소하였고 압축철근의 좌굴현상이 나타나며 취성적으로 파괴되었다. 강섬유와 FRP 시트로 보강한 시험체의 경우 잔류 휨강도 및 연성지수가 NC에 비해 증가하였다. 이를 통해 폭발이 발생할 경우, 충분한 이격거리를 확보하지 못하면 장약량이 적더라도 구조부재에 심각한 국부손상을 발생 시킬 수 있다는 것을 알 수 있었으며, 강섬유와 FRP 시트에 의한 보강 방법이 폭발저항성능을 향상시킨다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.751-759
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• 2018

Glass fibre reinforced polymers (GFRP) are widely exploited in many industrial branches. Due to this Structural Health Monitoring systems containing embedded fibre optics sensors are applied. One of the problems that can influence on composite element durability is water contamination that can be introduced into material structure during manufacturing. Such inclusion can be a damage origin significantly decreasing mechanical properties of an element. A non-destructive method that can be applied for inspection of an internal structure of elements is THz spectroscopy. It can be used for identifications of material discontinuities that results in changes of absorption, refractive index or scattering of propagating THz waves. The limitations of THz propagation through water makes this technique a promising solution for detection of a water inclusion. The paper presents an application of THz spectroscopy for detection and localisation of a water drop inclusion embedded in a GFRP material between two fibre optics with fibre Bragg grating sensors. The proposed filtering method allowed to determine a 3D shape of the water drop.

• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• 제18권2E호
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• pp.79-87
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• 2006

The main objective of this research is to examine the behavior of high-strength concrete(HSC) columns. Eight test columns in one-third scale were tested under the conditions of cyclic lateral force and a constant axial load equal to 30% of the column axial load capacity. The $200{\times}200mm$ square columns were reinforced with eight DB bars constituting a longitudinal steel ratio of 2.54% of the column cross-sectional area. The main experimental parameters were volumetric ratio of transverse reinforcement(${\rho}_s$=1.58, 2.25 percent), tie configuration(Type H, Type C, Type D) and tie yield strength($f_{yh}$=548.8 and 779.1 MPa). It was found that the hysteretic behaviour and ultimate deformability of HSC columns were influenced by the amount and details of transverse reinforcement in the potential plastic hinge regions. Columns of transverse reinforcement in the amount 42 percent higher than that required by seismic provisions of ACI 318-02 showed ductile behavior. At 30% of the axial load capacity, it is recommended that the yield strength of transverse reinforcement be held equal to or below 548.8 MPa. Correlations between the calculated damage index and the damage progress are proposed.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.151-158
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• 2012

This study will not only prove experimental dynamic properties which are classified to slump, compressed strength, bending strength and toughness index blast-furnace cement concrete with polypropylene (PP) fiber that refer properties and volume of it, but also establish a basic data in order to use PP fiber reinforced blast-furnace cement concrete. The slump didn't changed by PP fiber volume $5kgf/m^3$ because of flexibility of fiber in despite of loose mixing. The reason why the slump decreased steadily by PP fiber volume $3kgf/m^3$ was rising contact surface of water. The compressed strength indicated a range of 19.49~26.32 MPa. The tensile strength indicated a range of 2.10~2.44 MPa. The bending strength was stronger about 3~16 % in case of mixing with PP fiber volume than normal concrete. The flexure strength indicated a range of 4.30~4.83 MPa. The toughness indicated a range of $0{\sim}19.88N{\cdot}mm$ and was stronger about 6.7 times in case of PP fiber volume $9kg/m^3$ than PP fiber volume $1kg/m^3$. The pavement with PP fiber volume over such a fixed quantity in the roads of a respectable amount load can have a effect to prevent not only resistance against clack but also rip off failures.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집(II)
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• pp.409-412
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• 2006

In process of reinforced concrete(RC) box structure, the heat of hydration may cause serious thermal cracking problems. In order to eliminate hydration heat of mass concrete, this paper reports results of hydration heat control in mass concrete using the OCHP(Oscillating Capillary tube Heat Pipe). Recently OCHP is drawn special attention from these points of low cost as well as short construction schedule for the manufacturing of heat exchanger, flexibility, simplification and high performance. There were three RC box molds$(1.2{\times}1.2{\times}1.2m)$ which shows a difference as compared with each other. One was not equipped with OCHP. While others were equipped with OCHP and these were cooled with air natural convection and spraying water respectively. The OCHP was composed of copper pipe with 12 turns(O.D : 4mm, I.D : 2.8mm). The working fluid was R-22 and its charging ratio was 30(Vol. %). In order to analyze the distribution of temperature and index figure of thermal crack in sequential placement of mass concrete, we used HYCON of computer program. As a result of the experiment, the peak temperature decreased about $15.6\sim23.4^{\circ}C$ than the general specimen and the probability of thermal crack generated in mass concrete decreased up to 0%.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2009년도 춘계 학술대회 제21권1호
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• pp.493-494
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• 2009

와이어로프 유닛으로 보강된 철근콘크리트 기둥의 T형 강판 정착효과를 알아보기 위해 중심축하중과 횡하중을 동시에 받는 3개의 기둥 시험체가 휨 실험되었다. 주요변수는 T형 강판의 정착 유무이다. 실험된 기둥의 연성비는 기존 연구자들의 띠철근의 실험결과와 비교되었다. 실험결과 T형 강판의 정착으로 횡하중 내력 및 연성비는 각각 무보강 기둥에 비해 40%와 130% 향상되었다. 특히, 동일한 유효횡보강지수에서 T형 강판이 정착된 보강기둥의 연성비는 띠철근 기둥에 비해 현저히 높았다.