• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.481-501
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• 2023

Over-coating is one of the most popular engineering practices to strengthen Reinforced Concrete (RC) structures, due to the relative quickness and ease of construction. It consists of an external coat bonded to the outer surface of the structural RC element, either by the use of chemical adhesives, mechanical anchor bolts or simply mortar injection. In contrast to these constructive advantages, the numerical estimation of the bearing capacity of the strengthened reinforced concrete element is still complicated, not only for the complexity of modelling a flexible membrane or plate attached to a quasi-rigid solid, but also for the difficulties that raise of simulating any potential delamination between both materials. For these reasons, the standard engineering calculations used in the practice remain very approximated and clumsy. In this work, we propose the formulation of a new 2D solid-layer finite element capable to link a solid body with a flexible thin layer, as it were the "skin" of the body, allowing the potential delamination between both materials. In numerical terms, this "skin" element is intended to work as a transitional region between a solid body (modelled with a classical formulation of a standard quadrilateral four-nodes element) and a flexible coat layer (modelled with cubic beam element), dealing with the incompatibility of Degrees-OfFreedom between them (two DOF for the solid and three DOF for the beam). The aim of the solid-layer element is to simplify the mesh construction of the strengthened RC element being aware of two aspects: a) to prevent the inappropriate use of very small solid elements to simulate the coat; b) to improve the numerical estimation of the real bearing capacity of the strengthened element when the coat is attached or detached from the solid body.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제43권8호
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• pp.699-705
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• 2015

항공기가 적은 동력으로 장시간 체공을 하기 위해서는 높은 양항비(Lift Drag Ratio)와 구조경량화가 요구된다. 일반적으로 고고도 장기체공 비행기에는 가로세로비가 큰 날개가 적용된다. 또한 기체의 주요 구조물에 고강도, 고강성 탄소섬유복합재료를 사용하고, 날개의 표피(Skin)에 박막(Membrane) 소재인 얇은 마일러(Mylar)를 사용된다. 그 결과 날개 구조물이 다른 구조물에 비하여 유연해진다. 그리고 박막 소재인 얇은 마일러의 강성이 동적 안정성에 영향을 미치게 된다. 본 연구에서는 비선형 갭(Gap) 요소를 사용하여 마일러의 박막 특성을 모사하였다. 그리고 비선형해석 결과를 이용하여 등가강성을 갖는 선형 쉘(Shell) 요소로 등가모델링 하는 방법을 제시하였다. 선형 등가 쉘 모델은 멤브레인 요소법를 이용한 비선형해석 결과와 비교하여 결과의 타당성을 검증하였다. 제안된 선형등가 쉘 모델은 모드 해석에 적용하여 마일러의 기계적 물성이 고유진동수에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다.

• 멤브레인
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.194-200
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• 2014

본 연구의 목적은 대기공 정밀여과(Large Pore Micro-Filtration, LPMF)막의 수처리 응용을 위한 실험실 규모에서의 성능을 평가한 것으로 이를 통해 문제점 및 해결방안을 제시하는 것이다. 본 연구에 사용된 평균 기공이 $5{\mu}m$ LPMF막은 PET Braid가 보강되어 있는 PVDF 재질의 외압형 중공사막으로 여과실험은 30 cm의 수두차 혹은 1.5 bar 이하의 압력차로 수행하였으며, 역세는 여과수에 압축공기로 약 4 bar의 압력을 가한 후 수초 내에 순간 역세하는 가압역세였다. 0.2 bar의 TMP (Trans Membrane Pressure)에서 $0.05{\mu}m$ UF로 전처리한 시수로 $0.4{\mu}m$의 MF와 flux를 비교한 결과 UF에 비해 LPMF의 flux가 약 2배 정도 높았으며, 동일한 시수에 대해 15~30 cm의 수두차에 따른 flux를 측정한 결과 30 cm 수두차에서 800 LMH 이상의 높은 flux를 확인하였다. 또한 여과수의 탁도 향상과 여과 flux의 안정적 유지를 위해 여러 가지 무기응집제에 대한 $5{\mu}m$ 기공의 여지를 이용한 Time-To-Filter (TTF)를 통해 적정 응집제 및 그 주입량을 결정하였다. 고농도 무기응집제 주입 및 30 cm 이상의 수두차로 LPMF를 중력식으로 운전하였을 때 flux는 80 LMH 이상이었고, 탁도 제거율은 93.5~99.5%이었다. 특히 약 4 bar의 압력의 순간 가압역세를 한 결과 막의 충진율이 19%인 경우 여과수의 회수율을 약 97%로 유지하면서도 여과 flux가 안정적으로 유지되었으나, 막충진율을 약 43%인 경우 순간 가압역세만으로는 역세가 불안정하였던 관계로 여과압력이 지속적으로 상승하는 등의 여과공정이 불안정한 문제점을 보였다.

• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.111-121
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• 2012

The research presented in this paper analytically examines the fire performance of flat plate buildings. The modeling parameters for the mechanical and thermal properties of materials are calibrated from relevant test data to minimize the uncertainties involved in analysis. The calibrated models are then adopted to perform a nonlinear finite element simulation on a flat plate building subjected to fire. The analysis examines the characteristics of slab deflection, in-plane deformation, membrane force, bending moment redistribution, and slab rotational deformation near the supporting columns. The numerical simulation enables the understanding of structural performance of flat plate under elevated temperature and, more importantly, identifies the high risk of punching failure at slab-column connections that may trigger large-scale failure in flat plate structures.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.35-52
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• 1999

Realistic steel-concrete bond/slip relationships proposed in the literature are usually uniaxial. They are based on phenomenological theories of deformation and degradation mechanisms, and various pull-out tests. These relationships are usually implemented using different analytical methods for solving the differential equations of bond along the anchored portion, for particular situations. This paper justifies the concepts, and points out the assumptions underlying the construction and use of uniaxial bond laws. A finite element implementation is proposed using 2-D membrane elements. An application example on an interior beam-column joint illustrates the possibilities of this approach.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2000년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.501-506
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• 2000

An iterative numerical computational algorithm is presented to design a plate or shell element subjected to membrane and flexural forces. Based on equilibrium consideration, equations for capacities of top and bottom reinforcements in two orthogonal directions have been derived. The amount of reinforcement is determined locally, i.e., for each sampling point, from the equilibrium between applied and internal forces. Based on nonlinear analyses performed in a hyperbolic cooling tower, the analytically calculated ultimate load exceeded the design ultimate load from 50% to 55% for an analysis with relatively low to high tension stiffening, cases $\gamma$=10 and 15. For these cases, the design method gives a lower bound on the ultimate load with respect to Lower bound theorem, This shows the adequacy of th current practice at least for this cooling tower shell case studied. To generalize the conclusion more designs - analyses should be reformed with different shell configurations.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 1997년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.275-280
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• 1997

An experimental study to evaluate corrosion protection systems was undertaken with 47 reinforced concrete slab specimens subjected to cyclic wet and dry saltwater exposure. Corrosion measurements included monitoring marcrocell corrosion currents, which are generally accepted in United States practice. Test results indicate that specimens containing 2 kg/$\textrm{m}^3$ of NaCl an exposed to a 10 percent of NaCl show high values of corrosion currents. For the specimens with water repellent membrane currents kept relatively low numerical values, while test specimens with surface corrosion inhibitor hyprotective systems show high values of corrosion currents. No clear indication of the corrosion inhibitor protective systems might be due to the extremely high chloride exposure of the specimens, which has brought the accelerated corrosion. It would be expected that evaluation of the corrosion protective systems need long-term measurement with specimen exposed les chloride but simulating the real condition.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2000년도 가을 학술발표회논문집
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• pp.182-189
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• 2000

This paper presents a simple and reliable constitutive model for predicting the nonlinear response of reinforced concrete subjected to general membrane loadings. Based on the concept of equivalent uniaxial strain, constitutive relations of concrete are presented in the axes of orthotropy. The behavior of cracked concrete is described by a system of orthogonal cracks, which follows the principal strain directions and rotates according to the loading history. Simple hysteretic rules defining the cyclic stress-strain curves of concrete and steel are used. In addition, the stiffness and strength degradation of cracked concrete is included in the formulation. Correlation studies between analytical results and experimental values from idealized shear panel tests are conducted with the objective to establish the validity of the proposed model.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.224-224
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• 2012

For decades, carbon fiber has expanded their application fields from reinforced composites to energy storage and transfer technologies such as electrodes for super-capacitors and lithium ion batteries and gas diffusion layers for proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Especially in fuel cell, water repellency of gas diffusion layer has become very important property for preventing flooding which is induced by condensed water could damage the fuel cell performance. In this work, we fabricated superhydrophobic network of carbon fiber with high aspect ratio hair-like nanostructure by preferential oxygen plasma etching. Superhydrophobic carbon fiber surfaces were achieved by hydrophobic material coating with a siloxane-based hydrocarbon film, which increased the water contact angle from $147^{\circ}$ to $163^{\circ}$ and decreased the contact angle hysteresis from $71^{\circ}$ to below $5^{\circ}$, sufficient to cause droplet roll-off from the surface in millimeter scale water droplet deposition test. Also, we have explored that the condensation behavior (nucleation and growth) of water droplet on the superhydrophobic carbon fiber were significantly retarded due to the high-aspect-ratio nanostructures under super-saturated vapor conditions. It is implied that superhydrophobic carbon fiber can provide a passage for vapor or gas flow in wet environments such as a gas diffusion layer requiring the effective water removal in the operation of proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Moreover, such nanostructuring of carbon-based materials can be extended to carbon fiber, carbon black or carbon films for applications as a cathode in lithium batteries or carbon fiber composites.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.59-70
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• 1992

풍하중(風荷重)을 받는 쌍곡 냉각탑의 비탄성(非彈性), 비선형(非線型) 극한(極限) 거동(擧動)을 Cray Y-MP 슈퍼 컴퓨터에 개발(開發)한 유한요소(有限要素)컴퓨터 프로그램으로 연구(研究)하였다. 유한요소 망(mesh)을 각각 잘게 잘라서 3모델을 만들고, 이 모델들을 이용하여 탄성과 비탄성 해석으로 유한요소 망의 수렴관계(mesh convergence)를 연구하였다. 연구결과 유한요소의 크기가 냉각탑의 극한거동을 예측하는데 매우 중요한 역할을 하고있음을 볼 수 있었다. 비록 쌍곡 냉각탑이 풍하중(風荷重)에 대해서 막응력(膜應力)(membrane stress)으로 저항하나, 본 연구(研究) 결과(結果) 휨응력(應力)(bending stress)도 냉각탑의 파괴와 거동(擧動)에 매우 중요한 역할을 하고 있음을 알아 내었다. 해석(解析)한 냉각탑은 형성값(Shape factor)이 1.48에 이르렀고, 이는 냉각탑의 자오선 응력(meridional stress)이 원둘레방향으로 상당히 재분배 되고 있음을 보여주는 것이다. 이러한 재분배에 대한 사실은 배치된 철근의 항복이 바람방향 자오선으로부터 $30^{\circ}C$에 까지 나타난 것으로 더욱더 뚜렷하였다. 현재의 탄성해석을 이용하는 냉각탑 설계(設計) 방법은 안전(安全)측에 있음을 보여 주었으며, 1보다 큰 형상값을 설계시에 활용하기 위해서는 더욱더 많은 연구가 선행되어야 할 것이다.