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Time-dependent creep analysis of a functionally graded beam with trapezoidal cross section using first-order shear deformation theory

  • Mirzaei, Manouchehr Mohammad Hosseini;Loghman, Abbas;Arefi, Mohammad
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.567-576
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    • 2019
  • Time-dependent creep analysis of a rotating functionally graded cantilever beam with trapezoidal longitudinal cross section subjected to thermal and inertia loading is investigated using first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT). The model described in this paper is a simple simulation of a turbine blade working under creep condition. The material is a metal based composite reinforced by a ceramic where the creep properties of which has been described by the Sherby's constitutive model. All mechanical and thermal properties except Poisson's ratio are assumed to be variable longitudinally based on the volume fraction of constituent. The principle of virtual work as well as first order shear deformation theory is used to derive governing equations. Longitudinal distribution of displacements and stresses are investigated for various volume fractions of reinforcement. Method of successive elastic solution is employed to obtain history of stresses and creep deformations. It is found that stresses and displacements approach their steady state values after 40000 hours. The results presented in this paper can be used for selection of appropriate longitudinal distribution of reinforcement to achieve the desired stresses and displacements.

Nonlinear responses of energy storage pile foundations with fiber reinforced concrete

  • Tulebekova, Saule;Zhang, Dichuan;Lee, Deuckhang;Kim, Jong R.;Barissov, Temirlan;Tsoy, Viktoriya
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.71 no.4
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    • pp.363-375
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    • 2019
  • A renewable energy storage pile foundation system is being developed through a multi-disciplinary research project. This system intends to use reinforced concrete pile foundations configured with hollowed sections to store renewable energy generated from solar panels attached to building structures in the form of compressed air. However previous research indicates that the compressed air will generate considerable high circumferential tensile stresses in the concrete pile, which requires unrealistic high hoop reinforcement ratio to avoid leakage of the compressed air. One possible solution is to utilize fiber reinforced concrete instead of placing the hoop reinforcement to resist the tensile stress. This paper investigates nonlinear structural responses and post-cracking behavior of the fiber reinforced concrete pile subjected to high air pressure through nonlinear finite element simulations. Concrete damage plasticity models were used in the simulation. Several parameters were considered in the study including concrete grade, fiber content, and thickness of the pile section. The air pressures which the pile can resist at different crack depths along the pile section were identified. Design recommendations were provided for the energy storage pile foundation using the fiber reinforced concrete.

A Study on the Application of Facility Standard of Rural Public Health Center to city Public Health Center with a Focus on Area Ratio (면적구성을 중심으로 한 농어촌 보건소 표준시설 기준의 도시 보건소 적용에 관한 연구 - 대구광역시 보건소를 중심으로 -)

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    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • no.40
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    • pp.102-108
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    • 2003
  • Currently, there is no facility standard for a city public health center. The facility standard of rural public health center is referred to architectural plan of city public health center. This study is about architectural plan of the city public health center and have been in 7 public health centers in Daegu investigated. Conclusions can be summarized as follows: 1) The Mother and child hygienic section, area ratio which is presented by the facility standard of rural public health center must be increased in case of city public health center since function-reinforcement of the mother and child hygienic section is required. 2) Business section, the area ratio which is presented by the facility standard of rural public health center must be diminished for city public health center because it has been excessively allocated.

A Reliability Analysis on the To-Box Reinforcement Method of PSC Beam Bridges (PSC보의 박스화 보강방법의 신뢰성해석)

  • Bang, Myung-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.21 no.3 s.75
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    • pp.94-100
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    • 2006
  • The goal of this study is to show the way to increase the safety of deteriorated PSC beam bridges by the to-box reinforcing method. This method is to change the open girder section into the closed box section by connecting bottom flanges of neighboring PSC girders with the precast panels embedding PS tendons at the anchor block. The box section is composed of three concrete members with different casting ages, RC slab, PSC beam, precast panel. This different aging requires a time-dependent analysis considering construction sequences. Reliability index and failure probability are produced by the AFOSM reliability analysis. Transversely five schemes and longitudinally two schemes are considered. The full reinforcing scheme, transversely and longitudinally, shows the highest reliability index, but it requires more cost for retrofit. The partial reinforcing scheme 4, 4-1 are recommended in this study as the economically best scheme.

Simultaneous neural machine translation with a reinforced attention mechanism

  • Lee, YoHan;Shin, JongHun;Kim, YoungKil
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.43 no.5
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    • pp.775-786
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    • 2021
  • To translate in real time, a simultaneous translation system should determine when to stop reading source tokens and generate target tokens corresponding to a partial source sentence read up to that point. However, conventional attention-based neural machine translation (NMT) models cannot produce translations with adequate latency in online scenarios because they wait until a source sentence is completed to compute alignment between the source and target tokens. To address this issue, we propose a reinforced learning (RL)-based attention mechanism, the reinforced attention mechanism, which allows a neural translation model to jointly train the stopping criterion and a partial translation model. The proposed attention mechanism comprises two modules, one to ensure translation quality and the other to address latency. Different from previous RL-based simultaneous translation systems, which learn the stopping criterion from a fixed NMT model, the modules can be trained jointly with a novel reward function. In our experiments, the proposed model has better translation quality and comparable latency compared to previous models.

Experimental study of cyclic behavior of composite vertical shear link in eccentrically braced frames

  • Shayanfar, M.A.;Barkhordari, M.A.;Rezaeian, A.R.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.13-29
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    • 2012
  • This paper is an experimental study on the behavior of vertical shear link in normal (steel section with and without stiffener) and composite (steel section with concrete located at the area limited to web and flanges of the section) configurations. This study is mainly aimed to perceive failure mechanism, collect laboratory data, and consider the effect of number of transverse reinforcements on strength and ductility of composite vertical links. There have been four specimens selected for examining the effects of different details. The first specimen was an I section with no stiffener, the second composed of I section with stiffeners provided according to AISC 2005. The third and fourth specimens were composed of I sections with reinforced concrete located at the area between its flanges and web. The tests carried out were of quasi-static type and conducted on full scale specimens. Experimental findings show remarkable increase in shear capacity and ductility of the composite links as compared to the normal specimens.

Strengthening Effect of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened with NSM CFRP Reinforcements and Various Reinforcement Details (다양한 보강상세를 갖는 CFRP로 표면매립 보강된 철근콘크리트 보의 보강효과)

  • Jung, Woo-Tai;Park, Young-Hwan;Park, Jong-Sup;Kim, Chul-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.781-790
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    • 2011
  • This paper contains the experimental results on strengthening effect of RC beams strengthened with NSM CFRP reinforcement and various strengthening details. A total of 14 beams have been tested to analyze strengthening effects of NSMR with various reinforcement details. Variables were cross-sectional shape of CFRP reinforcements, strengthening areas, grooves the number and location etc. Test results revealed that failure modes of NSMR showed two types. One was bond failure at interface between concrete and filler and the other was CFRP rupture. Also, failure mode of specimens with two grooves occurred premature bond failure because of superposition of failure surfaces at concrete around grooves. failure mode of MI specimens considered the equivalent section have changed bond failure to CFRP rupture and CFRP efficiency has improved 83% to 100%.

A case Study on Settlement and Bearing Capacity Improvement for Soft Clay Applying the Reinforcement Method using Stabilized Soil (고화처리공법이 적용된 연약점토지반의 침하 및 지지력 개선에 관한 사례연구)

  • Ki, Wan-Seo;Kim, Sun-Hak
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.3923-3930
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    • 2014
  • In this study, the physical and dynamic characteristics of soil were analyzed by selecting 3 sections as research subjects among road and structure construction sections in the construction site of the Gwangyang ${\bigcirc}{\bigcirc}$ industry area, and conducted consolidation analysis and bearing capacity assessments through Midas-GTS according to the construction conditions of the structures and section conditions of reinforcement using stabilized soil. The effects of improving the settlement and bearing capacity according to the improved effects of the stability and sections of reinforcement using stabilized soil in applying the reinforcement method using stabilized soil were analyzed as a solution for improving the settlement and bearing capacity of soft clay for constructing roads and structures. The improvement effects of the settlement and bearing capacity were outstanding when the reinforcement method using stabilized soil to the soft clay was applied. After applying the reinforcement method using stabilized soil, the holdback effect of the consolidation settlement was excellent by decreasing the volume of the consolidation settlement from a minimum of 53% to a maximum of 82%. When the width of the reinforcement using stabilized soil was twice the width of the constructed structure, it was found that the holdback effect of the consolidation settlement ranged from 1% to 7% through the width of reinforcement using stabilized soil. In addition, when applying reinforcement more than 6m in width and 1m in depth using stabilized soil, it was found that the increase in the allowable bearing capacity was 2.3 to 3.3 times more than that before applying the reinforcement, which suggests that the increase in bearing capacity by applying the reinforcement method using stabilized soil was significant.

Experimental Study on Ductility of RC Columns According to Configuration of Transverse Reinforcement (횡보강근 배근형상에 따른 RC 기둥의 연성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Min Jun;Kim, Do Jin;Kim, Sang Woo;Lee, Jung Yoon;Kim, Kil Hee
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.18-25
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    • 2012
  • This paper estimates the ductility of reinforced concrete columns according to configurations of transverse reinforcement. A total of 8 reinforced concrete columns were cast and tested in flexure. The test variables in this study were the configurations, yield strength, and amount of transverse reinforcement. The specimens had a cross-section of $250{\times}250mm$ and had a shear span-to-depth ratio of 4.1 to induce flexural failure. In the test, cyclic lateral load was applied to the specimens with a constant axial load. The experimental result indicated that the specimens with proposed configurations of transverse reinforcement showed higher ductility and energy dissipation capacity than the specimens with rectangular tie.

Optimized Cross-section Suggestion of a New Concept Lining Board through Parametric Study (매개변수해석을 통한 신개념 복공판의 최적단면 제안)

  • Kim, Chun-Ho;Yi, Seong-Tae;Kim, In-Sic;Sim, Tae-Mu
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.84-91
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, to overcome disadvantages of existing lining boards, the parametric studies to evaluate safety and verify performance of newly suggested lining boards was performed. Since the calculated stresses of steel plates are lower than the allowable stress for considered all analytical variables, end reinforcement locations, and crane rail loads, it can be concluded that the suggested lining board is structurally safe. Where, "$3,000{\times}2,000{\times}6t$" was select to be optimized cross-section and the reinforcement from the end to 200mm to the internal direction looks like the best case. In addition, the suggested lining board is economical since the steel amount per unit area compared to existing lining board is reduced by 36% and it can apply to the lining structural system of subway and underpass since construction speed is past due to the less installation number of lining boards.