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Two-dimensional shear-wave velocity structures of the Korea peninsula from large explosions (대규모 발파를 통한 한반도 지각의 2차원적 횡파 속도구조 연구)

  • Kim, Ki-Young;Hong, Myung-Ho;Lee, Jung-Mo;Moon, Woo-Il;Baag, Chang-Eob;Jung, Hee-Ok
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.75-79
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    • 2007
  • To investigate the shear-wave velocity structures of the Korean peninsula, exploded seismic signals were recorded for 120 s along a 294-km WNW-ESE line and 150 s along a 335-km NNW-SSE line in 2002 and 2004, respectively. First arrival times of shear wave were inverted to derive the velocity tomograms. Initial shear-wave 1-D models were built using the initial P-wave velocity models used by Kim et al. and $V_p/V_s$ ratios of the IASP91 model. The raypaths indicate existence of mid-crust interfaces at the depth of 2-3 km and 16 km. The deepest significant interface corresponding to the Moho discontinuity varies in depth from 32 km to 36 km. The refraction velocity along the interface varies from 4.4 km/s to 4.6 km/s. The velocity tomograms also indicate existence of a low-velocity zone at the depth of 7.8 km under the Okchon fold belt.

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Comparative in-plane pushover response of a typical RC rectangular wall designed by different standards

  • Dashti, Farhad;Dhakal, Rajesh P.;Pampanin, Stefano
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.667-689
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    • 2014
  • Structural walls (also known as shear walls) are one of the common lateral load resisting elements in reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in seismic regions. The performance of RC structural walls in recent earthquakes has exposed some problems with the existing design of RC structural walls. The main issues lie around the buckling of bars, out-of plane deformation of the wall (especially the zone deteriorated in compression), reinforcement getting snapped beneath a solitary thin crack etc. This study compares performance of a typical wall designed by different standards. For this purpose, a case study RC shear wall is taken from the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Christchurch which was designed according to the 1982 version of the New Zealand concrete structures standard (NZS3101:1982). The wall is redesigned in this study to comply with the detailing requirements of three standards; ACI-318-11, NZS3101:2006 and Eurocode 8 in such a way that they provide the same flexural and shear capacity. Based on section analysis and pushover analysis, nonlinear responses of the walls are compared in terms of their lateral load capacity and curvature as well as displacement ductilities, and the effect of the code limitations on nonlinear responses of the different walls are evaluated. A parametric study is also carried out to further investigate the effect of confinement length and axial load ratio on the lateral response of shear walls.

Modified DEBA for determining size dependent shear fracture energy of laminates

  • Goodarzi, M. Saeed;Hosseini-Toudeshky, Hossein
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.111-121
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    • 2018
  • It has been argued that fracture energy of composite laminates depends on their thickness and number of layers. In this paper a modified direct energy balance approach (DEBA) has been developed to evaluate the mode-II shear fracture energy for E-glass/Epoxy laminates from finite element model at an arbitrary thickness. This approach considers friction and damage/plasticity deformations using cohesive zone modeling (CZM) and nonlinear finite element modeling. The presence of compressive stress and resulting friction was argued to be a possible cause for the thickness dependency of fracture energy. In the finite element modeling, CZM formulation has been developed with bilinear cohesive constitutive law combined with friction consideration. Also ply element have been developed with shear plastic damage model. Modified direct energy balance approach has been proposed for estimation of mode-II shear fracture energy. Experiments were performed on laminates of glass epoxy specimens for characterization of material parameters and determination of mode-II fracture energies for different thicknesses. Effect of laminate thickness on fracture energy of transverse crack tension (TCT) and end notched flexure (ENF) specimens has been numerically studied and comparison with experimental results has been made. It is shown that the developed numerical approach is capable of estimating increase in fracture energy due to size effect.

Multi-Frequency Crosswell Seismic Experiment (다중 주파수 송신원에 의한 공대공 탄성파 실험)

  • Lee, Doo-Sung
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.223-228
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    • 2007
  • First arrival signals of multi-frequency crosswell seismic data, acquired in wells drilled in granitic rock, were analyzed to investigate the characteristic behavior of the signals at the shear zones. Dominant frequencies of the sources were; 10-, 20-, 40-, 56-, and 80 kHz. No obvious changes in the waveform at the shear zones were found; however, at the shear zones, some degree of velocity reductions were observed in the signals of all frequency sources. The 80 kHz signal is slightly faster than 10 kHz signal in the survey region, and the velocity difference between the two signals were found largest at the shear zone where the permeability measured greatest in the survey interval.

Seismic performance enhancement of a PCI-girder bridge pier with shear panel damper plus gap: Numerical simulation

  • Andika M. Emilidardi;Ali Awaludin;Andreas Triwiyono;Angga F. Setiawan;Iman Satyarno;Alvin K. Santoso
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.69-82
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    • 2024
  • In the conventional seismic design approach for a bridge pier, the function of the stopper, and shear key are to serve as mechanisms for unseating prevention devices that retain and transmit the lateral load to the pier under strong earthquakes. This frequently inflicts immense shear forces and bending moments concentrated at the plastic hinge zone. In this study, a shear panel damper plus gap (SPDG) is proposed as a low-cost alternative with high energy dissipation capacity to improve the seismic performance of the pier. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the seismic performance of the pre-stressed concrete I girder (PCI-girder) bridge equipped with SPDG. The bridge structure was analyzed using nonlinear time history analysis with seven-scaled ground motion records using the guidelines of ASCE 7-10 standard. Consequently, the implementation of SPDG technology on the bridge system yielded a notable decrease in maximum displacement by 41.49% and a reduction in earthquake input energy by 51.05% in comparison to the traditional system. This indicates that the presence of SPDG was able to enhance the seismic performance of the existing conventional bridge structure, enabling an improvement from a collapse prevention (CP) level to an immediate occupancy (IO).

Plastic Shear Hinges for the Seismic Design for Steel Building Structures (철골 건축구조물의 내진설계를 위한 소성 전단 힌지)

  • 이승준
    • Computational Structural Engineering
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.25-29
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    • 1990
  • 고층건축구조물의 내진설계에서는 강성, 강도와 연성사이의 균형이 적절하게 유지되어야 한다. 이 글은 철골고층건물의 대표적인 구조시스템인 모멘트 골조와 가새골조의 내진거동에 대한 이해를 넓히고자 최근 연구되어온 Panel Zone과 Link Beam의 거동에 대한 결과와 설계시 유의사항을 간략하게 소개하였다.

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A Study on the Structural Performance of Slab-column Joint at Flat Plate Structure Using ECC (고인성 시멘트 복합재를 활용한 플랫플레이트 구조의 슬래브-기둥 접합부 구조성능 연구)

  • Choi, Kwang-Ho;Park, Byung-Chun;Choi, Sung-Woo;Ryu, Deug-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.209-216
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    • 2017
  • One of the important considerations in structural designing the flat plate system is ensuring the resistance to punching shear caused by axial loads and the ductile ability to follow horizontal deformation under earthquake. In this study, the ECC (Engineered Cementitious Composite) has been placed in the critical section zone of punching shear at slab-column joint to improve ductility and the advanced details of shear reinforced area nearby critical section zone has been developed using stud and steel fiber. The shear performance tests were performed on the specimens with parameters of fiber type mixed with ECC, stud and steel fiber set into the shear reinforced area in which the failure pattern, joint strength, displacement and strain of the specimen were compared and analyzed. The test results showed that the strength and ductility of specimens with ECC applied to joint were better than those of RC flat plate system. Also, the shear reinforcement effect of stud and the ductility improvement of steel fiber concrete were confirmed in the shear reinforcement area.

Mechanical and metallurgical properties of diffusion bonded AA2024 Al and AZ31B Mg

  • Mahendran, G.;Balasubramanian, V.;Senthilvelan, T.
    • Advances in materials Research
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.147-160
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    • 2012
  • In the present study, diffusion bonding was carried out between AZ31B magnesium and AA2024 aluminium in the temperature range of $405^{\circ}C$ to $475^{\circ}C$ for 15 min to 85 min and 5MPa to 20 MPa uniaxial loads was applied. Interface quality of the joints was assessed by microhardness and shear testing. Also, the bonding interfaces were analyzed by means of optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectrometer and XRD. The maximum bonding and shear strength was obtained at $440^{\circ}C$, 12 MPa and 70 min. The maximum hardness values were obtained from the area next to the interface in magnesium side of the joint. The hardness values were found to decrease with increasing distance from the interface in magnesium side while it remained constant in aluminium side. It was seen that the diffusion transition zone near the interface consists of various phases of $MgAl_2O_4$, $Mg_2SiO_4$ and $Al_2SiO_5$.

Numerical Simulation on Turbulent Shear Flows over Surface-Mounted Obstacles (표면에 부착된 장애물 주위의 난류전단유동에 관한 수치해석)

  • Myeong, Hyeon-Guk
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.20 no.8
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    • pp.2593-2600
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    • 1996
  • A modified k-$\varepsilon$ turbulence model having a generality is proposed in the present study, in which the constant $C_{\varepsilon2}$in the $\varepsilon$-equation is simply changed as a functional form of a new parameter both satisfying the tensor invariant condition and representing the extra straining effect on complex shear flows. With this model turbulent shear flows over two-dimensional obstacles placed in a channel are numerically studied for different blockage ratios and aspect ratios. Comparing with the available experimental data, the predicted results with the present model provide definite improvements over the standard model's results and work fairly well with the experimental data on the size of the recirculation zone, as well as mean velocity, wall static pressure, turbulent kinetic energy and Reynolds stresses.

The Study on Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Mild Steel Joined with Various Spot Welding Conditions (점용접 조건에 의한 연강의 미세조직 및 기계적특성에 관한 연구)

  • 강연철;김대영;김완기;김석원
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.52-58
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    • 2000
  • Spot welding, namely a kind of electric resisting welding has been used widely in field of automobile and aircraft industries because of easiness to apply. Specimens used in this study was a mild steel of 1.2mm thickness and the electrode was a Cu-Cr alloy of 6mm diameter. The surface sheared of specimens after testing of tensile shear was observed by SEM(scanning electron microscope) after ultrasonic cleaning for 10min., and microstructures and grain size of all specimens were measured with using of O.M.(Optical microscope). By the means of measurement and observations of tensile shear load, fatigue strength and share surface, the weldability of spot welding was evaluated. When tensile shearing testing, fracture starting point in all specimens was took place at the bond between HAZ(Heat affected zone) and nugget. With increasing in number of layers, fatigue strength was decreased. With increasing in electric current, grain size in the HAZ became more fine.

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