• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2005년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.619-627
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• 2005

An initial member sections of steel structures is selected by experience of expert building structural designers. And appropriate member section is designed by repeat calculation through structural analysis. Therefore an initial assumption of member section is necessary for saving the time for structural design and is important to acquire safety of building structures. Also brace damper are generally used to prevent or decrease structural damage by its hysteretic behavior in building structures subjected to strong earthquake. Based on plastic design, the initial section of members for architectural steel structures with brace hysteretic dampers is presented and seismic effect of structural behavior by the ratio of damper stiffness to structural story stiffness is estimated in this paper.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.129-150
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• 2018

This paper presents the structural performance monitoring of an urban footbridge located in Hangzhou, China. The structural health monitoring (SHM) system is designed and implemented for the footbridge to monitor the structural responses of the footbridge and to ensure the structural safety during the period of operation. The monitoring data of stress and displacement measured by the fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based sensors installed at the critical locations are used to analyze and assess the operation performance of the footbridge. A linear regression method is applied to separate the temperature effect from the stress monitoring data measured by the FBG-based strain sensors. In addition, the static vertical displacement of the footbridge measured by the FBG-based hydrostatic level gauges are presented and compared with the dynamic displacement remotely measured by a machine vision-based measurement system. Based on the examination of the monitored stress and displacement data, the structural safety evaluation is executed in combination with the defined condition index.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 1999년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.50-57
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• 1999

Structural analysis of large-scale structures involving large amount of computational load and data storage requires high-performance computing resources. We have previously developed PC-level distributed structural analysis algorithms based on substructuring technique where each personal computer assigned to a slave node has been involved in the computations for single substructures. Recently, it has been proved by the authors that the performance of distributed structural analysis algorithm can be further enhanced by changing substructuring schemes. Therefore a new distributed structural analysis algorithm with one PC to multiple substructures scheme is presented in this paper. The algorithm is implemented on the network of multiple personal computers and applied to structural analysis of two dimensional frame structures.

• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.185-190
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• 2014

Based on a 405m high super-tall building, the influence of outriggers, different shapes and layouts of structural plane and elevation on structural efficiency under lateral forces is studied in this paper. A calculation formula concerning the structural efficiency is given. The study shows that structural efficiency can be improved by triangulating the plane shape, using mega columns, the peripherization of the plane layout, tapering the elevation shape and setting bracing structure in the elevation. The arrangement of outriggers between the core tube and flange frame can reduce the shear lag effect in order to improve structural efficiency. The essence of improving structural efficiency of super-tall buildings is to maximize the plane bending stiffness and to make its deformation approach to plane section assumption.

• Computational Structural Engineering : An International Journal
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.71-80
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• 2001

A reliability approach to evaluate structural performance has gained increased acceptability and usage over the past two decades. Most reliability analyses are based on the reliability of an individual component without examining the entire structural system. These analyses often result in either unnecessary repairs or unsafe structures. This study uses examples of series, parallel, and series-parallel models of structural systems to illustrate how the component reliabilities affect the reliability of the entire system. The component-system reliability interaction can be used to develop optimum lifetime inspection and repair strategies for structural systems. These examples demonstrate that such strategies must be based on the reliability of the entire structural system. They also demonstrate that the location of an individual component in the system has a profound effect on the acceptable reliability of that component. Furthermore, when a structure is deteriorating over time, the reliability importance of various components is a1so changing with time. For this reason, the most critical component in the early life of the structure may not tie the most critical later.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.5-12
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• 2003

This paper discusses about the thickness effects on the structural durability of a bileaflet mechanical heart valve (MHV). In the study on the design and the mechanical characteristics of a bileaflet mechanical heart valve, the fluid mechanics analysis on the blood flow passing through leaflets, the kinetodynamics analysis on the rigid body motion of the leaflet induced by the pulsatile blood flow, and the structural mechanics analysis for the deformed leaflet are required sequentially and simultaneously. Fluid forces computed in the fluid mechanics analysis on the blood flow are used in the kinetodynamics analysis for the leaflet motion. Thereafter, the structural mechanics analysis for the deformed leaflet follows to predict the structural strength variation of the leaflet as the leaflet thickness changes. Analysis results show that structural deformations and stresses increase as the fluid pressure increases and the leaflet thickness decreases. Analysis results also show that the leaflet becomes structurally weaker and weaker as the leaflet becomes thinner and thinner.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 파랑하중과 지진하중 하에서의 방파제 설계와 관련한 해석에 대한 하나의 설계지침을 제시하였다. 이를 위해서 파랑하중 중 쇄파대내에서 일어날 수 있는 충격파랑하중을 정량적으로 하나의 모델에 대해 제안된 식에 의해 산출 해 보았다. 널리 사용되는 모리슨 방정식에 의한 파력과 쇄파력으로 야기되는 충격하중을 산술적으로 합하는 방식으로 계산해보았다. 결과적으로 충격하중이 크지 않아, 일반적으로 쇄파파력산정에 있어서 오차범위가 큰 불규칙파의 쇄파대내의 파력공식인 고다식을 사용하는 것은 큰 문제가 없다는 가정을 할 수 있었다. 이에 파랑하중의 경우 항만구조물에 사용되는 고다식을 이용하여 방파제 구조물의 거동을 해석해 보았다. 지진하중의 경우 단주기, 장주기, 인공지진파에 의한 수치해석을 수행하여 방파제의 거동을 해석하였다. 방파제의 설계에 있어서 중요한 것은 설치해역에 적합한 방파제를 선택하는 문제이며 다음으로는 파랑하중과 지진하중의 중요도를 판단하는 것이라 판단된다. 모델을 선정하여 계산해본 결과 파랑하중에 의한 구조물의 거동과 지진하중에 의한 거동이 같은 정도의 구조적인 변화를 나타내는 것으로 판단되어 방파제 설계 시 두 하중을 같은 비중으로 다루어야 할 것으로 판단되어 진다. 방파제 설계의 주요 항목으로 파랑하중과 지진하중이 동시에 중요하다는 점을 제시하였다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.139-149
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• 2020

Piles are widely used in structural foundations of engineering projects. However, the deformation of the soil around the pile caused by driving process has an adverse effect on adjacent existing underground buildings. Many previous studies have addressed related problems in sand and saturated clay. Nevertheless, the failure mechanism of pile driving in unsaturated soil remains scarcely reported, and this issue needs to be studied. In this study, a modeling test system based on particle image velocimetry (PIV) was developed for studying deformation characteristics of pile driving in unsaturated silt with different water contents. Meanwhile, a series of direct shear tests and soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) tests also were conducted. The test results show that the displacement field shows an apparent squeezing effect under the pile end. The installation pressure and displacement field characteristics are sensitive to the water content. The installation pressure is the largest and the total displacement field is the smallest, for specimens compacted at water content of 11.5%. These observations can be reasonably interpreted according to the relevant unsaturated silt theory derived from SWCC tests and direct shear tests. The variation characteristics of the soil displacement field reflect the macroscopic mechanical properties of the soil around the pile.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.405-429
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• 2014

In this paper, it is aimed to determine the structural behavior of suspension bridges considering construction stages and different soil conditions. Bosporus Suspension Bridge connecting the Europe and Asia in Istanbul is selected as an example. Finite element model of the bridge is constituted using SAP2000 program considering existing drawings. Geometric nonlinearities are taken into consideration in the analysis using P-Delta large displacement criterion. The time dependent material strength of steel and concrete and geometric variations is included in the analysis. Time dependent material properties are considered as compressive strength, aging, shrinkage and creep for concrete, and relaxation for steel. To emphases the soil condition effect on the structural behavior of suspension bridges, each of hard, medium and soft soils are considered in the analysis. The structural behavior of the bridge at different construction stages and different soil conditions has been examined. Two different finite element analyses with and without construction stages are carried out and results are compared with each other. At the end of the analyses, variation of the displacement and internal forces such as bending moment, axial forces and shear forces for bridge deck and towers are given in detail. Also, displacement and stresses for bridge foundation are given with detail. It can be seen from the analyses that there are some differences between both analyses (with and without construction stages) and the results obtained from the construction stages are bigger. It can be stated that the analysis without construction stages cannot give the reliable solutions. In addition, soil condition have effect on the structural behavior of the bridge. So, it is thought that construction stage analysis using time dependent material properties, geometric nonlinearity and soil conditions effects should be considered in order to obtain more realistic structural behavior of suspension bridges.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.29-40
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• 1999

주거용 건축물은 구조적 측면에서 고려해야할 많은 문제점을 안고 있다. 특히 건물이 고층화 될수록 동적인 특성으로 인해 바람 또는 지진과 같은 황하중의 영향애 커진다. 풍하중과는 달리 지진하중은 비슷한 구조물일지라도 동적특성에 의해 결정되고 예측이어렵다. 본 연구의 목적은 지진 발생이 아파트 옥탑층 물탱크가 건물의 거동에 미치는 영향을 파악하는 것이다. 옥탑층 물탱크가 건물의 거동에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위하여 옥탑층 물탱크를 고려한 경우와 고려하지 않은 경우에 대하여 동적해석을 수행하였다 또한 옥탑층 물탱크가 구조부재에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위하여 아파트 건물의 구조설계를 수행하였으며 지진하중의 영향을 평가하기 위하여 최대지진가속도를 변화시키면서 구조설계를 수행하였다 옥탑층 물탱크가 건물의 전체적인 거동에는 많은 큰 영향을 미친 것으로 나타났으나 각 부재의 설계에는 영향을 미치지 않았으며 0.4g의 최대지진가속도에서 일부 부재가 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다.