• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제84권3호
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• pp.345-360
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• 2022

In this paper, the impact on seismic performance of an economical effective technique for retrofitting reinforced concrete (RC) columns using high-strength steel strips under high axial compression ratios was presented. The experimental program included a series of cyclic loading tests on one nonretrofitted control specimen and three retrofitted specimens. The effects of the axial compression ratio and spacing of the steel strips on the cyclic behavior of the specimens were studied. Based on the test results, the failure modes, hysteretic characteristics, strength and stiffness degradation, displacement ductility, and energy dissipation capacity of the specimens were analyzed in-depth. The analysis showed that the transverse confinement provided by the high-strength steel strips could effectively delay and restrain diagonal crack development and improve the failure mode, which was flexural-shear failure controlled by flexural failure with better ductility. The specimens retrofitted using high-strength steel strips showed more satisfactory seismic performance than the control specimen. The seismic performance and deformation capacity of the retrofitted RC columns increased with decreasing axial compression ratio and steel strip spacing. Based on the test results, a hysteretic model for RC columns that considers the transverse confinement of high-strength steel strips was then established. The hysteretic model showed good agreement with the experimental results, which verified the effectiveness of the proposed hysteretic model. Therefore, the aforementioned analysis can be used for the design of retrofitted RC columns.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.150-168
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• 2023

암석의 이방성 거동은 조암광물들의 방향성 배열과 미세균열의 분포 특성이 주된 원인이다. 특히, 퇴적암과 변성암은 횡등방성 강도 및 변형 특성을 또렷이 나타내는 경우가 많다. 그러므로 암석역학적 설계과정에서는 횡등방성 암석의 변형 및 파괴 특성을 정확하게 이해하는 것이 중요하다. 횡등방성 암석의 변형은 실내시험을 통해 측정할 수 있는 5개의 독립된 탄성정수를 이용하여 기술된다. 이 연구에서는 문헌에 보고된 실험자료를 이용하여 횡등방성 암석의 겉보기 탄성정수의 방향성 변화 특성을 분석하였다. 임의 방향으로 회전된 직각좌표계에서 겉보기 탄성정수 값을 효율적이고 체계적으로 계산하기 위해 Mehrabadi & Cowin의 구성방정식을 도입하였다. 문헌에 보고된 4개 횡등방성 암석을 선택하여 연약면의 방향 변화가 겉보기 탄성계수, 겉보기 전단 탄성계수, 겉보기 포아송비의 변화에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 이러한 분석 결과를 바탕으로 새로운 탄성정수 제약 조건식을 제안하였다. 제안한 제약 조건식을 만족하면 횡등방성 암석에서 겉보기 탄성정수의 방향성 변화는 직관적으로 예측되는 경향과 일치하게 된다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.72-76
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• 2003

This paper presents the design concept and operation results of float-off for FSO (340,000 DWT Class, ELF AMENAM KPONO Project) built on the ground, without dry dock facilities. It was the first attempt to build FSO, completely, on the ground and launch it using DBU (Double Barge Unit, which was connected by rigid frame structure.) The major characteristics of FSO, which are similar to general VLCC type hull, including topside structure, weigh 51,000 metric ton. In order to have sufficient stability during the deck immersion of DBU, while passing through a minimum water plane area zone, proper trim control was completed with LMC (Load Master Computer). The major features of the monitoring system include calculation for transverse bending moment, shear force, local strength check of each connector, based on component stress, and deformation check during the load-out and float-off. Another major concern during the operation was to avoid damages at the bottom and sides of FSO, due to motion & movement after free-floating; therefore, adequate clearances between DBU and FSO were to be provided, and guide posts were installed to prevent side damage of the DBU casings. This paper also presents various measures that indecate the connector bending moment, damage stability analysis, and mooring of DBU during float off.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.541-557
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• 2018

This paper presents the influence of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) waviness and aspect ratio on the vibrational behavior of functionally graded nanocomposite sandwich annular sector plates resting on two-parameter elastic foundations. The carbon nanotube-reinforced (CNTR) sandwich plate has smooth variation of CNT fraction along the thickness direction. The distributions of CNTs are considered functionally graded (FG) or uniform along the thickness and their mechanical properties are estimated by an extended rule of mixture. In this study, the classical theory concerning the mechanical efficiency of a matrix embedding finite length fibers has been modified by introducing the tube-to-tube random contact, which explicitly accounts for the progressive reduction of the tubes' effective aspect ratio as the filler content increases. Effects of CNT distribution, volume fraction, aspect ratio and waviness, and also effects of Pasternak's elastic foundation coefficients, sandwich plate thickness, face sheets thickness and plate aspect ratio are investigated on the free vibration of the sandwich plates with wavy CNT-reinforced face sheets. The study is carried out based on three-dimensional theory of elasticity and in contrary to two-dimensional theories, such as classical, the first- and the higher-order shear deformation plate theories, this approach does not neglect transverse normal deformations. The sandwich annular sector plate is assumed to be simply supported in the radial edges while any arbitrary boundary conditions are applied to the other two circular edges including simply supported, clamped and free.

• Advances in materials Research
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.337-359
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• 2019

Shape Memory Polymer Composites (SMPC) have gained popularity over the last few decades due to its flexible shape memory behaviour over wide range of strains and temperatures. In this paper, non-linear bending analysis has been carried out for SMPC beam under the application of uniformly distributed transverse load (UDL). Simplified C⁰ continuity Finite Element Method (FEM) based on Higher Order Shear Deformation Theory (HSDT) has been adopted for flexural analysis of SMPC. The numerical solutions are obtained by iterative Newton Raphson method. Material properties of SMPC with Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) as matrix and carbon fibre as reinforcements, have been calculated by theory of volume averaging. Effect of temperature on SMPC has been evaluated for numerous parameters for instance number of layers, aspect ratio, boundary conditions, volume fraction of carbon fiber and laminate stacking orientation. Moreover, deflection profile over unit length and behavior of stresses across thickness are also presented to elaborate the effect of glass transition temperature (T_g). Present study provides detailed explanation on effect of different parameters on the bending of SMPC beam for large strain over a broad span of temperature from 273-373K, which encompasses glass transition region of SMPC.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.543-560
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• 2006

In this paper, first, the equations of motion for a rectangular isotropic plate have been derived. This derivation is based on the Von Karmann theory and the effects of shear deformation have been considered. Introducing an Airy stress function, the equations of motion have been transformed to a nonlinear coupled equation. Using Galerkin method, this equation has been separated into position and time functions. By means of the dimensional analysis, it is shown that the orders of magnitude for nonlinear terms are small with respect to linear terms. The Multiple Scales Method has been applied to the equation of motion in the forced vibration and free vibration cases and closed-form relations for the nonlinear natural frequencies, displacement and frequency response of the plate have been derived. The obtained results in comparison with numerical methods are in good agreements. Using the obtained relation, the effects of initial displacement, thickness and dimensions of the plate on the nonlinear natural frequencies and displacements have been investigated. These results are valid for a special range of the ratio of thickness to dimensions of the plate, which is a characteristic of the Multiple Scales Method. In the forced vibration case, the frequency response equation for the primary resonance condition is calculated and the effects of various parameters on the frequency response of system have been studied.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.251-261
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• 2017

In this paper, thermal effect on the vibration and stability of initially stressed sandwich plates with functionally graded material (FGM) face sheets is analyzed. Material properties of FGM face sheet are graded continuously in the thickness direction. The variation of FGM properties assumes a simple power law distribution in terms of the volume fractions of the constituents. The governing equations of arbitrarily initially-stressed sandwich plates including the effects of transverse shear deformation and rotary inertia are derived. The initial stress is taken to be a combination of a uniaxial extensional stress and a pure bending stress in the examples. The eigenvalue problems are formed to study the vibration and buckling characteristics of simple supported initially stressed FGM/metal/FGM plates. The effects of volume fraction index, temperature rise, initial stress and layer thickness of metal on the natural frequencies and buckling loads are investigated. The results reveal that the volume fraction index, initial stresses and layer thickness of metal have significant influence on the vibration and stability of sandwich plates with FGM face sheets.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.639-648
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• 2000

충격하중을 받는 단순지지된 2층 원통쉘의 탄성 충격응답해석에 대한 모델해석을 실시하였다. 2층 원통쉘에 대한 지배방정식은 전단변형과 회전관성을 고려한 단층 수정쉘 이론을 적용하여 충격하중을 받는 철-콘크리트 원통쉘에 대해서 해석하였다. 수치결과에서 알 수 있듯이 응답의 기본적 특성 이해 및 유한요소법 등의 수치해법에 대한 정도 확립에 유효하게 이용될 수 있다고 생각한다.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.339-348
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 비선형 해석을 이용한 강뼈대 구조물의 자동화설계를 수행한다. 기하학적 비선형은 안정함수를 사용하여 고려한다. 보-기둥 부재에 대하여 전단변형 효과를 고려한다. 자동화 설계 기법으로는 직접 탐색법을 사용한다. LRFD의 상관방정식으로 각각의 부재의 상관 계수 값을 계산하여 가장 큰 상관 계수 값을 가지는 부재의 크기를 데이터베이스에서 단계별로 증가시킨다. 목적함수는 강뼈대 구조물의 중량을 사용하며, 계약조건식은 하중-저항능력, 처짐, 층간 수평변위 및 연성도를 고려한다. 2차원과 3차원 2층 강뼈대구조물에 대한 예제 해석을 수행한다.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.165-194
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• 2017

The present work proposes the thermo mechanically induced statistics of nonlinear transverse central deflection of elastically supported functionally graded (FG) plate subjected to static loadings with random system properties. The FG plate is supported on two parameters Pasternak foundation with Winkler cubic nonlinearity. The random system properties such as material properties of FG material, external loading and foundation parameters are assumed as uncorrelated random variables. The material properties are assumed as non-uniform temperature distribution with temperature dependent (TD) material properties. The basic formulation for static is based on higher order shear deformation theory (HSDT) with von-Karman nonlinear strain kinematics through Newton-Raphson method. A second order perturbation technique (SOPT) and direct Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) are used to compute the nonlinear governing equation. The effects of load parameters, plate thickness ratios, aspect ratios, volume fraction, exponent, foundation parameters, and boundary conditions with random system properties are examined through parametric studies. The results of present approaches are compared with those results available in the literature and by employing direct Monte Carlo simulation (MCS).