• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.503-510
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• 2020

Concrete dams are important structures due to retaining amount of water on their reservoir. So such kind of structures have to be designed against static and dynamic loads. Especially considering on critical importance against blasting threats and environmental safety, dams have to be examined according to the blast loads. This paper aims to investigate structural response of concrete gravity dams under blast loads. For the purpose Sarıyar Concrete Gravity Dam in Turkey is selected for numerical application with its 85 m of reservoir height (H), 255 m of reservoir length (3H), 72 m of bottom and 7 m of top widths. In the study, firstly 3D finite element model of the dam is constituted using ANSYS Workbench software considering dam-reservoir-foundation interaction and a hydrostatic analysis is performed without blast loads. Then, nearly 13 tons TNT explosive are considered 20 m away from downstream of the dam and this is modeled using ANSYS AUTODYN software. After that explicit analyses are performed through 40 milliseconds. Lastly peak pressures obtained from analyses are compared to empirical equations in the literature and UFC 3-340-02 standard which provide unified facilities criteria for structures to resist the effects of accidental explosions. Also analyses' results such as displacements, stresses and strains obtained from both hydrostatic and blasting analysis models are compared to each other. It is highlighted from the study that blasting analysis model has more effective than the only hydrostatic analysis model. So it is highlighted from the study that the design of dams should be included the blast loads.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.281-301
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• 2004

The paper begins by presenting a unified variational approach to the lateral-torsional buckling (LTB) analysis of doubly symmetric prismatic and tapered thin-walled beams with open cross-sections, which accounts for the influence of the pre-buckling deflections. This approach (i) extends the kinematical assumptions usually adopted for prismatic beams, (ii) consistently uses shell membrane theory in general coordinates and (iii) adopts Trefftz's criterion to perform the bifurcation analysis. The proposed formulation is then applied to investigate the influence of the pre-buckling deflections on the LTB behaviour of prismatic and web-tapered I-section simply supported beams and cantilevers. After establishing an interesting analytical result, valid for prismatic members with shear centre loading, several elastic critical moments/loads are presented, discussed and, when possible, also compared with values reported in the literature. These numerical results, which are obtained by means of the Rayleigh-Ritz method, (i) highlight the qualitative differences existing between the LTB behaviours of simply supported beams and cantilevers and (ii) illustrate how the influence of the pre-buckling deflections on LTB is affected by a number of factors, namely ($ii_1$) the minor-to-major inertia ratio, ($ii_2$) the beam length, ($ii_3$) the location of the load point of application and ($ii_4$) the bending moment diagram shape.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.329-335
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• 2011

유한요소법은 수학과 공학을 비롯한 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있으나 해석대상을 유한 개의 다각형 요소로 분할하여 모델링하기 때문에 기하학적인 형상을 정확하게 기술하지 못하는 어려움이 있다. 그러나 최근에는 NURBS(Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline)를 기저함수로 사용하는 아이소-지오메트릭 해석법(Isogeometric analysis)이 개발되었는데 NURBS는 기하학적 모델을 정확하게 표현할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 해석의 기저함수로서 응답해석에 사용될 수 있다. 그러나 NURBS 기저함수를 해석에서 따로 구성하는 일은 유한요소해석에서 요소망을 구성하는 만큼 시간과 노력이 많이 요구된다. 아이소-지오메트릭 해석법은 CAD(Computer-Aided Design)와 기하학적 정보를 공유할 수 있기 때문에 CAD 코드로 부터 해석모델의 정보를 직접 얻는 것이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 상용 CAD 코드인 Rhinoceros 3D를 이용하여 CAD 모델을 작성하고 이를 STEP 파일로 출력하여 NURBS의 노트벡터와 조정점 등의 정보를 아이소-지오메트릭 해석법에 활용하는 기법을 소개한다. 몇몇 수치예제를 통하여 아이소-지오메트릭 해석법의 정확도를 유한요소해석 결과와 비교하여 검증하고, 상용 CAD와 CAE(Computer-Aided Engineering)가 결합된 아이소-지오메트릭 해석법의 효율성을 입증한다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.403-421
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• 2008

The design provisions for semi-rigid steel frames have been incorporated in codes of practice for steel structures. In order to do the same, it is necessary to know the experimental moment-relative rotation (M-${\theta}_r$) behaviour of beam-to-column connections. In spite of numerous publications and collection of several connection databases, there is no unified approach for the semi-rigid design of steel frames. Amongst the many connection models available, the Frye-Morris polynomial model, with its limitations reported in the literature, is simple to adopt at least for the linear design space. However this model requires more number of connection tests and regression analyses to make it a realistic prediction model. In this paper, 3D nonlinear finite element (FE) analysis of beam-column connection specimens, carried out using ABAQUS software, for evaluating the M-${\theta}_r$ behaviour of semi-rigid top and seat-angle (TSA) bolted connections are described. The finite element model is validated against experimental behaviour of the same connection with regard to their moment-rotation behaviour, stress distribution and mode of failure of the connections. The calibrated FE model is used to evaluate the performance of the Frye-Morris polynomial model. The results of the numerical parametric studies carried out using the validated FE model have been used in proposing modifications to the Frye-Morris model for TSA connection in terms of the powers of the size parameters.