• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.793-808
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• 2018

In this study, the seismic performance of the connections between L-shaped columns composed of concrete-filled steel tubes (L-CFST columns) and H-beams used in high-rise steel frame structures was investigated. Seven full-scale specimens were tested under quasi-static cyclic loading. The variables studied in the tests included the joint type, the axial compression ratio, the presence of concrete, the width-to-thickness ratio and the internal extension length of the side plates. The hysteretic response, strength degradation, stiffness degradation, ductility, plastic rotation capacity, energy dissipation capacity and the strain distribution were evaluated at different load cycles. The test results indicated that both the corner and exterior joint specimens failed due to local buckling and crack within the beam flange adjacent to the end of the side plates. However, the failure modes of the interior joint specimens primarily included local buckling and crack at the end plates and curved corners of the beam flange. A design method was proposed for the flexural capacity of the end plate connection in the interior joint. Good agreement was observed between the theoretical and test results of both the yield and ultimate flexural capacity of the end plate connection.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.451-472
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• 2009

Based on a numerical method to analyse the full-range behaviour of prestressed concrete beams with unbonded tendons, parametric studies are carried out to investigate the influence of 11 parameters on the curvature ductility of unbonded prestressed concrete (UPC) beams. It is found that, among various parameters studied, the depth to prestressing tendons, depth to non-prestressed tension steel, partial prestressing ratio, yield strength of non-prestressed tension steel and concrete compressive strength have substantial effects on the curvature ductility. Although the curvature ductility of UPC beams is affected by a large number of factors, rather simple equations can be formulated for reasonably accurate estimation of curvature ductility. Conversion factors are introduced to cope with the difference in partial safety factors, shapes of equivalent stress blocks and the equations to predict the ultimate tendon stress in BS8110, EC2 and ACI318. The same equations can also be used to provide conservative estimates of ductility of UPC beams with compression steel.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제66권2호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2018

This study investigated the behaviour of the simply supported hollow steel tube (HST) beams, either concrete filled or unfilled when strengthened with carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets. Eight specimens with varied tubes thickness (sections classification 1 and 3) were all tested experimentally under static flexural loading, four out of eight were filled with normal concrete (CFST beams). Particularly, the partial CFRP strengthening scheme was used, which wrapped the bottom-half of the beams cross-section (U-shaped wrapping), in order to use the efficiency of high tensile strength of CFRP sheets at the tension stress only of simply supported beams. In general, the results showed that the CFRP sheets significantly improved the ultimate strength and energy absorption capacities of the CFST beams with very limited improvement on the related HST beams. For example, the load and energy absorption capacities for the CFST beams (tube section class 1) were increased about 20% and 32.6%, respectively, when partially strengthened with two CFRP layers, and these improvements had increased more (62% and 38%) for the same CFST beams using tube class 3. However, these capacities recorded no much improvement on the related unfilled HST beams when the same CFRP strengthening scheme was adopted.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.225-231
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• 2002

Severe cracks on Reinforced Concrete (RC) structures caused by structural displacement can be often one of the main reasons for the degradation of tensile and flexural rigidities of RC structures and for the deterioration of durability and serviceability of RC structures through accelerated steel corrosion. These combined factors adversely affect the performance of RC concrete, leading to shortened life time of RC structures. In consideration of these problems, we conducted 3 point bending experiments by employing three different types of concrete specimens: fiber-net reinforced concrete (FNRC), polypropylene-fiber reinforced concrete (PFRC), and plain concrete (PC). FNRC is well known for its strong corrosion resistance, light self-weight, and excellent tensile strength, while PFRC is known to be effective in crack control. FNRC was found to have the best first and final crack resistances followed by PFRC and PC, as evidenced by the highest initial crack load and the smallest final crack width, respectively. The FNRC specimens with various tensile strength of fiber net exhibited greater ultimate strengths than those for PFRC and PC. Furthermore, the crack widths of FNRC specimens were smaller than those calculated by the crack-width estimation equation of the KCI and ACI code. Therefore, we conclude that fiber net reinforcement is effective not only on crack control, but also on loading share.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.291-305
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• 2022

The present investigation deals with the production of the innovative lightweight fly ash angular aggregates (FAA) first time in India using local class 'F' fly ash, its characterization, and exploring the potential for its utilization as alternative coarse aggregates in structural concrete applications. Two types of aggregates are manufactured using two different kinds of binders. The manufacturing process involves mixing fly ash, binder, and water, followed by the briquetting process, sintering and crushing them into suitable size aggregates. Tests are conducted on fly ash angular aggregates to measure their physical properties such as crushing value, impact value, specific gravity, water absorption, bulk density, and percentage of voids. Study shows that the physical parameters are significantly enhanced as compared to commercially available fly ash pellets (FAP). The developed FAA are used in concrete vis-à-vis conventional granite aggregates and FAP to determine their compressive, split tensile and flexural strengths. Although being lightweight, the strength parameters for concrete containing FAA are well compared with conventional concrete. This might be due to the high pozzolanic reaction between fly ash angular aggregates and cement paste. Also, RCC beams are cast and the load-deflection behaviour and ultimate load carrying capacity signify that FAA can be suitably used for RCC construction. Hence, the utilization of fly ash as angular aggregates can reduce the dead load of the structure and at the same time serves as a solution for fly ash disposal and mineral depletion problem.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.743-767
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• 2020

Due to the impressive flexural performance, enhanced compressive strength and more constrained crack propagation, Fibre-reinforced concrete (FRC) have been widely employed in the construction application. Majority of experimental studies have focused on the seismic behavior of FRC columns. Based on the valid experimental data obtained from the previous studies, the current study has evaluated the seismic response and compressive strength of FRC rectangular columns while following hybrid metaheuristic techniques. Due to the non-linearity of seismic data, Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) has been incorporated with metaheuristic algorithms. 317 different datasets from FRC column tests has been applied as one database in order to determine the most influential factor on the ultimate strengths of FRC rectangular columns subjected to the simulated seismic loading. ANFIS has been used with the incorporation of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic algorithm (GA). For the analysis of the attained results, Extreme learning machine (ELM) as an authentic prediction method has been concurrently used. The variable selection procedure is to choose the most dominant parameters affecting the ultimate strengths of FRC rectangular columns subjected to simulated seismic loading. Accordingly, the results have shown that ANFIS-PSO has successfully predicted the seismic lateral load with R² = 0.857 and 0.902 for the test and train phase, respectively, nominated as the lateral load prediction estimator. On the other hand, in case of compressive strength prediction, ELM is to predict the compressive strength with R² = 0.657 and 0.862 for test and train phase, respectively. The results have shown that the seismic lateral force trend is more predictable than the compressive strength of FRC rectangular columns, in which the best results belong to the lateral force prediction. Compressive strength prediction has illustrated a significant deviation above 40 Mpa which could be related to the considerable non-linearity and possible empirical shortcomings. Finally, employing ANFIS-GA and ANFIS-PSO techniques to evaluate the seismic response of FRC are a promising reliable approach to be replaced for high cost and time-consuming experimental tests.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.937-974
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• 2016

While extensive efforts have been made in the past to develop finite element models (FEMs) for concrete-filled steel tubular columns (CFSTCs), these models may not be suitable to be used in some cases, especially in view of the utilisation of high strength steel and high strength concrete. A method is presented herein to predict the complete stress-strain curve of concrete subjected to tri-axial compressive stresses caused by axial load coupled with lateral pressure due to the confinement action in square and rectangular CFSTCs with normal and high strength materials. To evaluate the lateral pressure exerted on the concrete in square and rectangular shaped columns, an accurately developed FEM which incorporates the effects of initial local imperfections and residual stresses using the commercial program ABAQUS is adopted. Subsequently, an extensive parametric study is conducted herein to propose an empirical equation for the maximum average lateral pressure, which depends on the material and geometric properties of the columns. The analysis parameters include the concrete compressive strength ($f^{\prime}_c=20-110N/mm^2$), steel yield strength ($f_y=220-850N/mm^2$), width-to-thickness (B/t) ratios in the range of 15-52, as well as the length-to-width (L/B) ratios in the range of 2-4. The predictions of the behaviour, ultimate axial strengths, and failure modes are compared with the available experimental results to verify the accuracy of the models developed. Furthermore, a design model is proposed for short square and rectangular CFSTCs. Additionally, comparisons with the prediction of axial load capacity by using the proposed design model, Australian Standard and Eurocode 4 code provisions for box composite columns are carried out.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.2195-2209
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• 2013

스트럿-타이 모델 방법을 이용하여 철근콘크리트 깊은 보를 정확하게 해석하고 안전하게 설계하기 위해서는 콘크리트 스트럿의 유효강도를 정확하게 결정하여야 한다. 이 연구에서는 여러 설계기준서 및 연구문헌에서 제안된 세 종류의 대표적인 철근콘크리트 깊은 보의 스트럿-타이 모델을 위하여 철근콘크리트 깊은 보의 전단경간 비, 콘크리트의 압축강도, 그리고 휨철근 및 전단철근 비 등의 주요 설계변수들의 영향을 정확하게 반영할 수 있는 콘크리트 스트럿의 유효강도 식을 개발, 제안하였다. 현행 설계기준서 및 여러 연구문헌의 콘크리트 스트럿의 유효강도 식과 이 연구에서 제안한 유효강도 식을 이용하여 파괴실험이 수행된 241개 철근콘크리트 깊은 보의 극한강도를 평가하였으며, 그 결과의 비교분석을 통해 이 연구에서 제안한 스트럿 유효강도 식의 적합성을 평가하였다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 추계 학술발표회 제20권2호
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• pp.801-804
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• 2008

FRP는 중량이 가볍고, 녹이 슬지 않으며 높은 인장 강도를 가진다. 철근에 비해 월등한 재료적 특성을 가지고 있는 FRP는 콘크리트 구조물에 철근이나 긴장재 대용으로 휨 보강재로써 널리 대체되어지고 있다. 현재 FRP 콘크리트 보의 전단강도를 산정함에 있어 설계지침들이 기존의 설계방식을 따르고 있지만 이들 설계 방식에서 제시한 식들은 매우 상이한 형태를 나타낸다. 이 연구에서는 FRP 콘크리트 보의 전단 강도를 예측하는 방법의 대안으로 인공신경망(이하 ANN) 기법을 채택하였다. 전단 강도에 미치는 영향 요소는 문헌조사에 의하여 선정된 후 ANN에 입력되었고, ANN은 데이터베이스를 통해 얻은 극한 전단 강도를 목표 값으로 하여 학습되었다. ANN을 이용하여 얻은 결과 값과 현존하는 이론식의 값을 비교한 결과 이 연구에서 개발한 ANN은 현재 사용하고 있는 예측 이론식에 비하여 더욱 정확하게 예측하였다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 제20권1호
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• pp.441-444
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• 2008

본 연구에서의 초고성능 콘크리트(Ultra High Performance Concrete, UHPC)는 모래, 시멘트, 실리카퓸, 석영미분말, 강섬유 및 고성능감수제 등으로 구성되며, 평균입경 약 0.5mm이하의 아주 작은 입자들로 구성된다. 일반적으로 석영미분말는 일정크기 이상의 공극을 메움으로써 물리적 성능개선의 효과가 있으며 또한 높은 $SiO_2$함량을 가지므로 고온 또는 고압의 양생조건에서 시멘트 수화물과의 화학반응을 통해서도 성능 향상효과가 있는 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 상압, $90^{\circ}C$ 증기양생 조건에서 석영미분말의 입자크기가 초고성능 콘크리트의 역학적 특성에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지에 대해 알아보고자 하였으며, 평가항목으로는 굳지 않은 상태에서의 유동성과 굳은 상태에서의 압축강도, 극한변형률, 탄성계수 및 휨강도를 평가하였다. 석영미분말의 입경크기의 영향은 약 $2{\mu}m$에서 $26{\mu}m$까지의 범위에서 고려하였으며, 입경 크기가 작을수록 유동성 및 강도특성이 모두 향상되는 것으로 나타났다.