• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제76권6호
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• pp.751-763
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• 2020

Available records of recent earthquakes show that near-field earthquakes have different characteristics than far-field earthquakes. In general, most of these unique characteristics of near-fault records can be attributed to their forward directivity. This phenomenon causes the records of ground motion normal to the fault to entail pulses with long periods in the velocity time history. The energy of the earthquake is almost accumulated in these pulses causing large displacements and, accordingly, severe damages in the building. Damage to structures caused by past earthquakes raises the need to assess the chance of future earthquake damage. There are a variety of methods to evaluate building seismic vulnerabilities with different computational cost and accuracy. In the meantime, fragility curves, which defines the possibility of structural damage as a function of ground motion characteristics and design parameters, are more common. These curves express the percentage of probability that the structural response will exceed the allowable performance limit at different seismic intensities. This study aims to obtain the fragility curve for low- and mid-rise structures of reinforced concrete moment frames by incremental dynamic analysis (IDA). These frames were exposed to an ensemble of 18 ground motions (nine records near-faults and nine records far-faults). Finally, after the analysis, their fragility curves are obtained using the limit states provided by HAZUS-MH 2.1. The result shows the near-fault earthquakes can drastically influence the fragility curves of the 6-story building while it has a minimal impact on those of the 3-story building.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.183-191
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• 2024

Accurate seismic vulnerability assessment requires high quality and large amounts of ground motion data. Ground motion data generated from time series contains not only the seismic waves but also the background noise. Therefore, it is crucial to determine the high-pass cut-off frequency to reduce the background noise. Traditional methods for determining the high-pass filter frequency are based on human inspection, such as comparing the noise and the signal Fourier Amplitude Spectrum (FAS), f² trend line fitting, and inspection of the displacement curve after filtering. However, these methods are subject to human error and unsuitable for automating the process. This study used a deep learning approach to determine the high-pass filter frequency. We used the Mel-spectrogram for feature extraction and mixup technique to overcome the lack of data. We selected convolutional neural network (CNN) models such as ResNet, DenseNet, and EfficientNet for transfer learning. Additionally, we chose ViT and DeiT for transformer-based models. The results showed that ResNet had the highest performance with R² (the coefficient of determination) at 0.977 and the lowest mean absolute error (MAE) and RMSE (root mean square error) at 0.006 and 0.074, respectively. When applied to a seismic event and compared to the traditional methods, the determination of the high-pass filter frequency through the deep learning method showed a difference of 0.1 Hz, which demonstrates that it can be used as a replacement for traditional methods. We anticipate that this study will pave the way for automating ground motion processing, which could be applied to the system to handle large amounts of data efficiently.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.13-23
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• 2022

교량 기초의 지반-구조물 상호작용은 지진 시 교량의 거동에 영향을 미치는 주요한 요인으로 지적되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 지반의 특성 및 기초의 특성이 교량 기초의 지진취약도에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 지반의 특성 변화 및 기초의 크기 변화를 고려한 등가정적해석 결과, 상재하중이 작용하는 경우 같은 수준의 횡방향 변위를 발생시키기 위해 요구되는 하중이 증가되는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, 비선형성은 상재하중이 없는 경우가 더 큰 것으로 나타났다. 느슨한 지반에서 조밀한 지반으로 갈수록 기초의 크기가 증가할수록 동일한 변위를 발생시키기 위해 더 큰 하중을 필요로 하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 교량의 지진취약도를 합리적으로 획득하기 위한 접근법을 도출하기 위하여 교량 기초의 지진취약도를 4가지의 조건(고정단 조건, 도로교 설계기준-등가선형강성, 상재하중 고려 시 및 미고려 시 비선형 강성)을 고려하여 비교하였다. 단주교각에 대한 지진해석은 Opensees를 이용하여 수행하였다. 지진취약도 분석 결과, 보수적인 접근법으로 확대기초는 고정단으로 고려할 수 있으며, 말뚝기초의 크기가 작은 경우는 고정단으로 고려하여 안전측 설계를 검토할 수 있으나, 말뚝의 크기가 대형화 하는 경우는 비경제적인 설계가 될 수 있으므로, 지반조건에 따라 기초의 강성을 평가할 수 있는 도로교 등가 선형 스프링 강성을 고려하는 것이 합리적인 접근법으로 판단된다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.411-425
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• 2011

This paper illustrates the results of a seismic vulnerability study aimed to derive the fragility curves for typical Algerian reinforced concrete bridge piers using an analytical approach. Fragility curves express the probability of exceeding a certain damage state for a given ground motion intensity (e.g., PGA). In this respect, a set of 41 worldwide accelerometer records from which, 21 Algerian strong motion records are included, have been used in a non-linear dynamic response analyses to assess the damage indices expressed in terms of the bridge displacement ductility, the ultimate ductility, the cyclic loading factor and the cumulative energy ductility. Combining the damage indices defined for 5 damage rank with the ground motion indices, the fragility curves for the bridge piers were derived assuming a lognormal distribution.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.1153-1179
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• 2015

This paper focuses on presenting modeling considerations and insight into the performance of typical straight, curved, and skewed box-girder bridges in California which form the bulk of the bridge inventory in the state. Three case study bridges are chosen: Meloland Road Overpass, Northwest Connector of Interstate 10/215 Interchange, and Painter Street Overpass, having straight, curved, and skewed superstructures, respectively. The efficacy of nonlinear dynamic analysis is established by comparing the response from analytical models to the recorded strong motion data. Finally insights are provided on the component behavioral characteristics and shift in vulnerability for each of the bridge types considered.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.733-738
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• 2004

Recently continuous welded rail is generally used to ensure running performances and to overcome the problems such as structural vulnerability and fastener damage at the rail expansion joint. Though the use of continuous welded rail on bridge has the advantage of decreasing the vibration and damage of rail, it still the risk of buckling and breaking of rail due to change of temperature, starting and/or breaking force, axial stress concentration and so on. So, VIC code and many methods has been developed by researchers considering rail-bridge interaction. Although there are many research concerning stability of continuous welded rail about temperature change on bridge and starting and/or breaking force, the study of continuous welded mil for earthquake load is still unsufficient. In this study, the nonlinear seismic response analysis of continuous welded rail on bridge considering soil-structure interaction, geotechnical characteristic of foundation and earthquake isolation equipment has been performed to examine the stability of continuous welded rail.

• Architectural research
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2022

Irregularities in the structure are crucial factors in screening structural vulnerability under extreme loadings. Numerical analyses were carried out considering wind and seismic loadings for four structures with discrete irregularity: continuous and discontinuous beams with varied story levels, and L-shaped irregular buildings. Structural responses such as maximum displacements, bending moments, axial forces, torsions, and story drifts are evaluated as per the criteria and limits defined by ACI 318. The outcomes indicate that the frame system with beam discontinuity on the upper half of the height exhibits the best structural performance. The results also indicate that the asymmetrical design of the L-shaped model makes it more susceptible to damage when subjected to strong lateral loading conditions.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.349-356
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• 2018

본 논문은 국내에서 연구가 미진한 적재설비의 지진 취약도 평가에 적용할 수 있는 FE 해석 기반의 연결부 모델을 개발하는데 목적이 있다. 이러한 목표를 달성하기 위하여, 적재설비 거동을 파악하기 위한 진동대 실험과 Modal Test, 그리고 구성 부재를 대상으로 한 다양한 부재실험(8가지 Push-over Test)을 진행하였다. 실험결과를 바탕으로 지진취약도 평가에 적용하기 위한 적재설비의 연결부 모델을 개발하기 위하여, NX-Nastran 프로그램을 활용하여 연결부의 상세 모델링을 진행하였다. 특히, 단순 걸쇠 방식으로 연결되는 기둥 부재와 보 부재의 연결을 모사하기 위하여 면대면 표면접촉 요소와 스프링 요소를 적용하였으며, 스프링 요소의 모델은 ARX (Auto Regressive eXogenous) 기반의 수학적 모델을 개발하여 적용하였다. FE 모델 기반의 simulation 결과는 부재 실험 결과와 비교하였을 때, 상호 오차율 8% 미만의 우수한 신뢰도를 보여주었다. 결과적으로 연구에서 개발한 FE해석 기반의 연결부 모델은 적재설비의 지진 취약도 평가를 위한 해석 모델에 활용될 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.615-636
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• 2000

Some elevated water tanks have failed due to torsional vibrations in past earthquakes. The overall axisymmetric structural geometry and mass distribution of such structures may leave only a small accidental eccentricity between centre of stiffness and centre of mass. Such a small accidental eccentricity is not expected to cause a torsional failure. This paper studies the possibility of amplified torsional behaviour of elevated water tanks due to such small accidental eccentricity in the elastic as well as inelastic range; using two simple idealized systems with two coupled lateral-torsional degrees of freedom. The systems are capable of retaining the characteristics of two extreme categories of water tanks namely, a) tanks on staging with less number of columns and panels and b) tanks on staging with large number of columns and panels. The study shows that the presence of a small eccentricity may lead to large displacement of the staging edge in the elastic range, if the torsional-to-lateral time period ratio $({\tau})$ of the elevated tanks lies within a critical range of 0.7< ${\tau}$ <1.25. Inelastic behaviour study reveals that such excessive displacement in some of the reinforced concrete staging elements may cause unsymmetric yielding. This may lead to progressive strength deterioration through successive yielding in same elements under cyclic loading during earthquakes. Such localized strength drop progressively develop large strength eccentricity resulting in large localized inelastic displacement and ductility demand, leading to failure. So, elevated water tanks should have ${\tau}$ outside the said critical range to avoid amplified torsional response. The tanks supported on staging with less number of columns and panels are found to have greater torsional vulnerability. Tanks located near faults seem to have torsional vulnerability for large ${\tau}$.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.95-105
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• 2005

우리나라는 비교적 안정된 판 내부에 존재한다. 하지만, 1976년 안전지대로 평가된 중국 탕산지역의 대규모 지진이 발생한 것처럼 우리나라도 지진에 대해 안전한 지역이라고 단언할 수는 없다. 게다가, 지진학자들도 국내에서 중규모 이상의 지진발생 가능성이 높다고 지적하고 있다. 이러한, 지진은 자체를 예방할 수 없기 때문에 내진설계에 대한 연구와 지진재해 관리체계에 대한 연구가 전반적으로 이루어지고 있다. 그러나, 지진발생 시 초기 대응이나 수습과정에 대한 연구는 미비한 상태이며, 지진피해 평가시스템 구축을 위한 극소수의 연구가 진행되고 있는 실정이다. 따라서, 본 연구는 국내실정을 고려한 지진피해 평가시스템 구축을 위한 기초자료를 제시함을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위하여 강남구 비내진 철근콘크리트 아파트를 표준형 건축물로 선정하여 지진피해를 예측하고, 취약도 함수의 도출과 층간변위에 따른 피해평가를 행하여 HAZUS 프로그램 취약도 함수 적용결과와 비교 분석한다.