• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.875-891
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• 2015

Earthquake can occur anywhere in the world and it is essential to design important members in special structures based on maximum possible forces that can be produced in them under severe earthquake. In addition, since the earthquake is an accidental phenomena and there are no similar earthquakes, therefore the possibility of strong earthquakes should be taken into account in earthquake-resistant design of important structures. Based on this viewpoint, finding the critical acceleration which maximizes internal forces is an essential factor in structural design. This paper proposes critical excitation method to compute the critical acceleration in design of important members in special structures. These critical accelerations are computed so that the columns' internal shear force at the base of the structure at each time step is maximized under constraints on ground motion. Among computed critical accelerations (of each time step), the one which produces maximum internal shear force is selected. A numerical example presents to show the efficiency of critical excitation method in determining the maximum internal shear force and base moment under variety of constraints. The results show that these method can be used to compute the resonant earthquake which have large enough effective duration of earthquake strong motion (between 12.86 sec to 13.38 sec) and produce the internal shear force and base moment for specific column greater than the same value for selected earthquakes in constructing the critical excitation (for different cases about 2.78 to 1.29 times the San Fernando earthquake). Therefore, a group of them can be utilized in developing the response spectrum for design of special structures.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.995-1016
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• 2015

The reliability or the safety index is a measure of how far a structure is from the state of collapse. Also it defined as the probability that a structure will not fail in its lifetime. Having any increase in the reliability index is typically interpreted as increasing in the safety of structures. On the other hand most of researchers acknowledged that one of the most effective means of increasing both the reliability and the safety of structures is to increase the structural redundancy. They also acknowledged that increasing the number of vertical seismic framing will make structural system more reliable and safer against stochastic events such as earthquakes. In this paper the reliability index and the behavior factor of a numbers of three dimensional RC moment resisting frames with the same story area, equal lateral resistant as well as different redundancy has been evaluated numerically using both deterministic and probabilistic approaches. Study on the reliability index and the behavior factor in the case study models of this research illustrated that the changes of these two factors do not have always the same manner due to the increasing of the structural redundancy. In some cases, structures with larger reliability index have smaller behavior factor. Also assuming the same ultimate lateral resistance of structures which causes an increase to a certain level of redundancy can enhance behavior factor of structures. However any further increase in the redundancy of that certain level might decrease the behavior factor. Furthermore, the results of this study illustrate that concerning any increase in the structural redundancy will make the reliability index of structure to be larger.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.51-73
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• 2014

A three-dimensional finite element model for the Jiashao Bridge, the longest multi-span cable-stayed bridge in the world, is established using the commercial software package ANSYS. Dynamic characteristics of the bridge are analyzed and the effects of structural system measures including the rigid hinge, auxiliary piers and longitudinal constraints between the girders and side towers on the dynamic properties including modal frequency, mode shape and effective mass are studied by referring to the Jiashao Bridge. The analysis results reveal that: (i) the installation of the rigid hinge significantly reduces the modal frequency of the first symmetric lateral bending mode of bridge deck. Moreover, the rigid hinge significantly changes the mode shape and effective mass of the first symmetric torsional mode of bridge deck; (ii) the layout of the auxiliary piers in the side-spans has a limited effect on changing the modal frequencies, mode shapes and effective masses of global vibration modes; (iii) the employment of the longitudinal constraints significantly increases the modal frequencies of the vertical bending modes and lateral bending modes of bridge deck and have significant effects on changing the mode shapes of vertical bending modes and lateral bending modes of bridge deck. Moreover, the effective mass of the first anti-symmetric vertical bending of bridge deck in the longitudinal direction of the fully floating system is significantly larger than that of the partially constrained system and fully constrained system. The results obtained indicate that the structural system measures of the multi-span cable-stayed bridge have a great effect on the dynamic properties, which deserves special attention for seismic design and wind-resistant design of the multi-span cable-stayed bridge.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.441-448
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• 2007

지진하중을 받는 철근콘크리트 접합부의 거동은 전단과 부착 메커니즘에 의해 결정된다. 하지만 전단과 부착은 반복하중에 매우 취약하기 때문에 접합부는 항상 탄성 영역 내에 있어야 한다. 내진 설계 기준에서는 보에 소성힌지를 발생시켜 기둥과 접합부는 탄성 상태를 유지하면서 보에서 에너지소산이 이루어지도록 하는 것을 원칙으로 한다. 하지만 접합부와 인접한 보에 소성힌지가 발생할 경우, 보에서 발생한 소성힌지에서의 철근 변형률이 접합부 철근의 변형에 영향을 미쳐 결국 접합부의 전단 및 부착강도를 떨어뜨리는 결과를 가져오게 된다. 본 논문에서는 보 인장 철근량을 변수로 한 다섯 개의 철근콘크리트 보-기둥 접합부를 제작하고 보에 소성힌지를 발생시킨 후 그 결과를 분석하였다. 실험 결과, 보 인장철근량이 적을수록 접합부의 연성은 증가하였다. 또한 소성힌지 영역의 철근이 항복함에 따라 접합부의 연성률이 증가하고 접합부의 보 부재축 방향 인장변형률도 증가하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.1155-1171
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• 2016

Post-tensioned (PT) steel moment resisting frames (MRFs) with semi-rigid connections (SRC) can be used to control the hysteretic energy demands and to reduce the maximum inter-story drift (${\gamma}$). In this study the seismic behavior of steel MRFs with PT connections is estimated by incremental nonlinear dynamic analysis in terms of dissipated hysteretic energy ($E_H$) demands. For this aim, five PT steel MRFs are subjected to 30 long duration earthquake ground motions recorded on soft soil sites. To assess the energy dissipated in the frames with PT connections, a new expression is proposed for the hysteretic behavior of semi-rigid connections validated by experimental tests. The performance was estimated not only for the global $E_H$ demands in the steel frames; but also for, the distribution and demands of hysteretic energy in beams, columns and connections considering several levels of deformation. The results show that $E_H$ varies with ${\gamma}$, and that most of $E_H$ is dissipated by the connections. It is observed in all the cases a log-normal distribution of $E_H$ through the building height. The largest demand of $E_H$ occurs between 0.25 and 0.5 of the height. Finally, an equation is proposed to calculate the distribution of $E_H$ in terms of the normalized height of the stories (h/H) and the inter-story drift.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.62-66
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• 2017

최근 발생한 기록적인 5.8 규모의 경주지진으로 한반도에서 발생 가능한 지진규모에 대한 관심과 해안구조물에 대한 내진 설계검토에 대한 요구가 고조되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기상청에서 제공하는 지진규모 자료(규모 3.5, 4.0 이상의 자료)를 이용하여 비모수적인 극치해석 기법을 이용하여 재현기간에 따른 지진규모와 신뢰구간을 추정하였다. 지진규모 4.0 이상의 자료를 이용하여 추정한 결과, 재현기간 50, 100년에 해당하는 지진규모는 각각 5.81, 5.94, 추정 지진규모의 90% 신뢰구간은 각각 5.52-6.11, 5.62-6.29 범위로 추정되었다. 본 연구에서 추정한 지진규모는 공간적인 지진위험 영향을 반영하지 못하는 한계가 있으나, 한반도에서 발생 가능한 지진규모를 극치해석과 가용한 자료의 한정된 기간을 반영하여 신뢰구간을 추정하였기 때문에 다양한 연안 구조물의 설계 관점에서 활용이 가능하다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.386-392
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• 2008

최근 국내에서도 일정 규모이상의 구조물과 건축물에 대한 내진설계가 필수적으로 되어 가고 있지만, 연구자료의 부족으로 외국문헌에서 인용 또는 참고하고 있어 실제 측정한 자료와 비교하는 것이 일반적이다. 그러나 외국문헌의 값은 우리나라의 지질특성과는 상당한 차이를 보이기 때문에 우리나라 화강암지대의 암질별 탄성파속도($V_p,\;V_s$)의 특성 및 동적특성치($E_d,\;G_d\;K_d$)와의 상관관계를 규명하여 국내 지질특성에 적합한 동적특성치의 특성을 제시하고자 한다.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제12권4호통권47호
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• pp.387-395
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• 2000

본 연구는 콘크리트충전 각형강관(CFT) 기둥의 강도와 변형능력의 평가 및 내진성능에 대한 기초 자료의 제시를 목적으로 한다. 실험체는 초고층 건물의 최하단기둥의 응력분포를 가정하여 켄틸레버형 기둥으로 하고, 총 18개의 실험체가 일정 축력과 반복 횡하중 하에서 실험되었다. 본 실험에 적용된 주요변수는 강관의 폭/두께 비, 세장비 (LO/D), 그리고 축력비이다. 각 변수가 기둥의 강도, 변형능력, 그리고 에너지 흡수능력에 미치는 영향이 기술되었고, 각국 규준식과 실험결과를 비교하였다. 분석결과, 피복형 한국강구조학회 규준은 합성 단면적과 탄성계수를 AIJ와 AISC-LRFD 수준으로 수정한다면, 충전형에도 적용가능 할 것으로 판단된다. 마지막으로, 구속효과를 고려하여 단면의 소성해석을 통하여 구한 B. Kato의 CFT 기둥의 휨내력 제안식은 실험결과와 좋은 대응을 나타내고 있다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2017

이 연구에서는 유체저장탱크의 내진 설계 고도화에 활용하기 위하여 정사각형 수조의 슬러싱 진동대실험에 대한 상관해석을 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 CFD 프로그램인 ANSYS CFX를 이용하였다. CFD 해석 프로그램 검증을 위해 슬러싱 공진이 발생하는 운동에 대한 해석모델의 요소크기 및 난류모델에 대한 슬러싱응답의 민감도해석을 수행하였다. 그 결과, 수직방향 요소크기 뿐만 아니라 수평방향 요소크기에 따라 수위 예측에 민감한 영향을 미치는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한, SST 난류모델을 사용한 CFD해석 결과가 실험 결과와 매우 잘 일치하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이로부터 결정된 CFX 해석모델을 사용하여, 가진 주파수와 가진 진폭이 다른 3가지 실험 결과에 대하여 상관해석을 수행하였다. 그 결과, CFD해석모델을 사용하여 지진해석을 수행할 경우, 슬러싱응답이 실험 결과와 매우 잘 일치하는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.131-146
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• 2020

Evaluation of earthquake impacts in settlements with a high risk of earthquake occurrence is important for the determination of site-specific dynamic soil parameters and earthquake-resistant structural planning. In this study, dynamic soil properties of Karliova (Bingol) city center, located near to the intersection point of the North Anatolian Fault Zone and the East Anatolian Fault Zone and therefore having a high earthquake risk, were investigated by one-dimensional equivalent linear site response analysis. From ground response analyses, peak ground acceleration, predominant site period, 0.2-sec and 1-sec spectral accelerations and soil amplification maps of the study area were obtained for both near-field and far-field earthquake effects. The average acceleration spectrum obtained from analysis, for a near-field earthquake scenario, was found to exceed the design spectra of the Turkish Earthquake Code and Eurocode 8. Yet, the average acceleration spectrum was found to remain below the respective design spectra of the two codes for the far-field earthquake scenario. According to both near- and far-field earthquake scenarios in the study area, the low-rise buildings with low modal vibration durations are expected to be exposed to high spectral acceleration values and high-rise buildings with high modal vibration durations will be exposed to lower spectral accelerations. While high amplification ratios are observed in the north of the study area for the near-distance earthquake scenario, high amplification ratios are observed in the south of the study area for the long-distance earthquake scenario.