• Computers and Concrete
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.141-161
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• 2015

A significant portion of residential areas of Turkey is located in active earthquake zones. In Turkey occurred major earthquakes in last twenty years, such as Erzincan (1992), Kocaeli and $D{\ddot{u}}zce$ (1999), $Bing{\ddot{o}}l$ (2003), Van (2011). These earthquakes have demonstrated that reinforced concrete (RC) buildings having horizontal and vertical irregularities are significantly damaged, which in turn most of them are collapsed. Architectural design and arrangement of load-bearing system have important effect on RC building since architectural design criteria in design process provide opportunity to make this type of buildings safer and economical under earthquake loads. This study aims to investigate comparatively the effects of weak story irregularity on earthquake behavior and rough construction costs of RC buildings by considering different soil-conditions given in the Turkish Earthquake Code. With this aim, Sta4-CAD program based on matrix displacement method is utilized. Considering that different story height and compressive strength of concrete, and infill walls or their locations are the variables, a set of structural models are developed to determine the effect of them on earthquake behavior and rough construction costs of RC buildings. In conclusion, some recommendations and results related to making RC buildings safer and more economical are presented by comparing results obtained from structural analyses.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.517-539
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• 2011

This paper presents the seismic responses of a 1:5-scale five-story reinforced concrete building model, which represents a residential apartment building that has a high irregularity of weak story, soft story, and torsion simultaneously at the ground story. The model was subjected to a series of uni- and bi-directional earthquake simulation tests. Analysis of the test results leads to the following conclusions: (1) The model survived the table excitations simulating the design earthquake with the PGA of 0.187 g without any significant damages, though it was not designed against earthquakes; (2) The fundamental mode was the torsion mode. The second and third orthogonal translational modes acted independently while the torsion mode showed a strong correlation with the predominant translational mode; (3) After a significant excursion into inelastic behavior, this correlation disappeared and the maximum torsion and torsion deformation remained almost constant regardless of the intensity of the two orthogonal excitations; And, (4) the lateral resistance and stiffness of the critical columns and wall increased or decreased significantly with the large variation of acting axial forces caused by the high bi-directional overturning moments and rocking phenomena under the bi-directional excitations.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 제20권1호
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• pp.253-256
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• 2008

본 연구는 목적은 1층에 연층/약층 및 비틀림 비정형성을 동시에 보유한 우리나라 비내진 현존 필로티형 저층 집합주택의 내진 취약성을 평가하는 것이다. 해석 구조물로서 4층 RC 집합 주택이 선정되었고, 선형 동적 해석법을 사용하여 해석되었으며, FEMA356에 의하여 평가되었다. 해석 결과 본 구조물은 FEMA356의 선형 동적 해석법 규정을 만족하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.774-779
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 RNN 순환 신경망 (Recurrent Neural Network) 모델을 사용하여 스마트 중간층 면진 시스템의 지진 응답 제어 성능을 수치 해석을 통하여 검토하였다. 이를 위해서 지진 하중을 받는 건물의 동적 지진 응답 예측을 위한 RNN 모델을 개발하였다. 보다 실제적인 연구를 위하여 중간층 면진 시스템이 설치된 실존하는 건물인 시오도메 스미토모 건물을 예제 구조물로 선택하였다. 스마트 중간층 면진 시스템은 기존의 납 댐퍼를 대신하여 MR (Magnetorheological) 댐퍼를 사용하여 구성하였다. 그 외 고무 베어링이나 강재 댐퍼는 그대로 사용 하였다. 수치 해석을 통하여 개발된 RNN 모델이 기존의 FEM (Finite Element Method) 모델과 비교해서 매우 정확한 응답을 예측하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. RNN 모델을 사용하면 자유도가 많은 FEM 모델을 사용한 경우에 비하여 해석 시간을 대폭 줄일 수 있다. 개발된 RNN 모델을 사용한 수치 해석 결과 스마트 중간층 면진 시스템이 기존의 수동 중간층 면진 시스템에 비하여 구조물의 지진 응답을 대폭 저감시킬 수 있는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.165-172
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• 2002

일반적으로 모멘트 지지 강구조물은 유한요소법에 의해 이상화되고 해석되어 왔으며 기둥과 기둥의 연결부, 기둥과 보의 접합부의 정확한 비선형 해석 결과를 위해 많은 노력을 해온 반면에 기둥의 지지부에 대한 해석은 고정단 또는 힌지로 간단하게 이루어져 왔다 그러나 실제로 기둥의 지지부는 고정단도 힌지도 아닌 그 중간인 반강성으로 거동한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 기둥 지지부를 반강성모델을 이용해서 해석하고 그 결과를 고찰하여 기둥 지지부의 강성 및 강도의 변화가 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 미국 시방서에 의해 설계된 전형적인 두개의 3층 모멘트지지 강구조물을 이미 개발된 강성도법 및 유연도법에 기초한 7iber 유한 요소를 사용하여 해석하였다. 기등의 지지부는 고정단과 힌지사이에 있는 반강성 지지부를 모델하기 위해 다양한 강성도를 갖는 회전 스프링을 사용하였다. 실제의 기둥 지지부와 가깝게 모델된 반강성 지지부를 갖는 구조물의 해석 결과는 고정지지부를 갖는 구조물과 어느 정도 비슷한 결과를 보여주었다. 또한 pushover 해석과 비선형 시간 이력 해석을 통해 기둥 지지부의 강성도가 감소함에 따라 1층 보의 소요 처짐각(rotational demand)이 증가하는 현상이 관찰되었다 시공상의 문제 및 노화로 인한 기동 지지부의 강성도 감소는1층의 접합부에 대한 소요 터짐각의 증가를 유발하고 그것은 곧 soft-story mechanism을 유발하게 된다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제91권3호
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• pp.279-289
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is to represent a useful alternative for the preliminary seismic vulnerability assessment of existing reinforced concrete buildings by introducing a statistical approach employing the binary logistic regression technique. Two different predictive statistical models, namely full and reduced models, were generated utilizing building characteristics obtained from the damage database compiled after 1999 Düzce earthquake. Among the inspected building parameters, number of stories, overhang ratio, priority index, soft story index, normalized redundancy ratio and normalized lateral stiffness index were specifically selected as the predictor variables for vulnerability classification. As a result, normalized redundancy ratio and soft story index were identified as the most significant predictors affecting seismic vulnerability in terms of life safety performance level. In conclusion, it is revealed that both models are capable of classifying the set of buildings being severely damaged or collapsed with a balanced accuracy of 73%, hence, both are able to filter out high-priority buildings for life safety performance assessment. Thus, in this study, having the same high accuracy as the full model, the reduced model using fewer predictors is proposed as a simple and viable classifier for determining life safety levels of reinforced concrete buildings in the preliminary seismic risk assessment.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2005년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.137-144
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• 2005

Seismic responses of a building are affected due to the site soil conditions. In this study, linear time history seismic analysis and nonlinear pushover static seismic analysis were performed to estimate the base shear forces of the 3, 5 and 7-story steel structure buildings considering the rigid and soft soil conditions. According to the study results, the steel structure buildings designed for the gravity loads and wind load showed the elastic responses with the moderate earthquake of 0.11g, and the soft soil layer increased the displacement and the base shear force of a building. Therefore it is more resonable to perform an elastic seismic analysis of a building structure with the moderate earthquakes considering the characteristics of the soft soil layer.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.615-626
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• 2018

The seismic vulnerability of Turkey is relatively high due to its active fault systems with potential to create destructive earthquakes. Thus, reducing the loss of life and property, the number of the earthquake-prone buildings and their retrofit requirements are considerably significant key issues under the scenario earthquakes. The street survey based rapid assessment (SSRA) method can be considered as a powerful tool to determine the seismic vulnerability of building stock of an earthquake-prone city/state. In this study, the seismic vulnerability of the building stock of the Kirikkale province in Turkey is aimed to be estimated adopting the street survey based rapid assessment method (SSRA). For this purpose, central 2074 existing reinforced concrete (R/C) buildings were structurally surveyed with rapid visual site screening and disadvantages such as, the existence of short-column, soft-story, heavy overhangs, pounding effect and local soil conditions were determined for obtaining the structural performance score of each. The results obtained from the study demonstrate that 11-25% of the surveyed buildings in the study region needs to be investigated through more advanced assessment methods. Besides, higher correlation between increasing story number and unsafe/safe building ratio is obtained for the buildings with soft-story parameter than that for those with heavy overhangs and short-column parameters. The conformity of the results of the current study with the previous documented cases of rapid assessment efforts in the recent earthquakes in Turkey shows that the SSRA method for the Kirikkale province performed well, and thus this methodology can be reliably used for similar settlement areas.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.55-70
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• 2021

In urban cities, buildings were built in the neighborhood, these buildings influence each other through structure-soilstructure interaction (SSSI) and seismic pounding due to limited separation distance in-between. Generally, the effects of the interaction between soil and structure are disregarded during seismic design and analysis of superstructure. However, the system of soil-base adversely changes structural behavior and response demands. Thus, the vibration characteristics plus the seismic response of a building are not able to be independent of those in adjacent buildings. The interaction between structure, soil, and structure investigates the action of the attendance of adjacent buildings to the others by the interaction effect of the sub-soil under dynamic disturbances. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the effects of SSSI and seismic pounding on the behavior of adjacent buildings. The response of a single structure or two adjacent structures with shallow raft base lying on soft soil are studied. Three dimensions finite element models are developed to investigate the effects of pounding; gap distance; conditions of soil; stories number; a mass of adjacent building and ground excitation frequency on the seismic responses and vibration characteristics of the structures. The variation in the story displacement, story shear, and story moment responses demands are studied to evaluate the presence effect of the adjacent buildings. Numerical results acquired using conditions of soil models are compared with the condition of fixed support and adjacent building models to a single building model. The peak responses of story displacement, story moment, and story shear are studied.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.144-157
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• 2000

This study was done to understand nonpharmacologic pain management for pediateric patients and nurses' knowledge and attitudes toward it. The aim of this study was that which method did the patient's use according to the nurses' age, and how did they effectively use these methods in their field. The subjects of this study were 77 nurses working in the Pediatric unit in the Kyung Medical Center from September 2 to 15, 1999 using questionnaire form. The results of this study were as follows : 1. We divided the subjects into four groups : Younger than one year old, 1-6 years, 6-12 years, 12-18 years group. In the group younger one year old, most of the nurses participating in this study used speaking in soft quiet tones, supportive touch, toys, pacifiers. In the group of 1-6 years, they used speaking in soft quiet tones, toys, distracting attention, story talking, and visual stimulus. In the group of 6-12 years. they used pop-up books, providing information, cold therapy, speaking in soft quiet tones, supportive touch. In the group of 12-19 years, most of them used providing information, controling respiration and supportive touch. 2. The effective nursing intervention used in their field are speaking in soft quiet tones, pacifiers and nesting with blanket in the group of younger than one year old. Un the group of 1-6 years old, speaking in soft quiet tones, toys, and supportive touch were effective method in the control of nonp-harmacologic pain management. In the group of 6-12 years old, story talking, supportive touch, and speaking in soft quiet tones were effective method and in the group of 12-18 years old, providing information, cold therapy and supportive touch were effectively used to control nonpharmacologic pain management. 3. To compare the general characteristics and non-pharmacologic pain nursing intervention, in the group of younger than one year, touching stimuli is widely used. In the groups of 1-6, and 6-12 years old, visual and audio method were widely used. In the group of 12-18 years old, sensitive intervention were used as well as education, information and guided imagery. In conclusion, there was no significant difference in nurses' demographic characteristics, child's age and nonpharmacologic pain management. There was significant difference only in the nurses working area, that is nurses working in the surgical department used more audio-visual-tactile pain management methods than medical department.