• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2022

Urban deep excavation will affect greatly on the deformation of adjacent existing buildings, especially those with shallow foundations. Isolation piles has been widely used in engineering to control the deformation of buildings adjacent to the excavation, but its applicability is still controversial. Based on a typical engineering, numerical calculation models were established and verified through monitoring data to study the influence characteristics of isolation piles on the deformation of existing shallow foundation buildings. Results reveal that adjacent buildings will increase building settlement δ_v and the deformation of diaphragm walls δ_h, while the isolation piles can effectively decrease these. The surface settlement curve is changed from "groove" type to "double groove" type. Sufficiently long isolation pile can effectively decrease δ_v, while short isolation piles will lead to a negative effect. When the building is within the range of the maximum settlement location P, maximum building rotation θ_m will increase with the pile length L and the relative position between isolation pile and building d/D increase (d is the distance between piles and diaphragm walls, D is the distance between buildings and diaphragm walls), instead, θ_m will decrease for buildings outside the location P, and the optimum was obtained when d/D=0.7.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.155-163
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• 2023

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the coupled effect of SSI and pounding on dynamic responses of unequal height adjacent buildings with insufficiently separation distance subjected to seismic loading. Numerical investigations were conducted to evaluate effect of the pounding coupling SSI on a Reinforced Concrete Frame Structure system constructed on different soil fields. Adjacent buildings with unequal height, including a 9-storey and a 3-storey reinforced concrete structure, were considered in numerical studies. Pounding force response, time-history and root-mean-square (RMS) of displacement and acceleration with different types of soil and separations were presented. The numerical results indicate that insufficient separation could lead to collisions and generate severe pounding force which could result in acceleration and displacement amplifications. SSI has significant influence of the seismic response of the structures, and higher pounding force were induced by floors with stiffer soil. SSI is reasonable neglected for a structure with a dense soil foundation, whereas SSI should be taken into consideration for dynamic analysis, especially for soft soil base.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.57-71
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• 2015

This study investigates the feasibility of retrofitting an existing building by connecting the existing building to a new building using connecting dampers. The new building is base-isolated and viscoelastic dampers are assigned as connecting dampers. Scaled models are tested under three different earthquake records using a shaking table. The existing building and the new building are 9 and 8 stories respectively. The existing building model shows more than 3% increase in damping ratio. The maximum dynamic responses and the root mean square responses of the existing building model to earthquakes are substantially reduced by at least 20% and 59% respectively. Further, numerical models are developed by conducting time-history analysis to predict the performance of the proposed seismic mitigation system. The predictions agree well with the test results. Numerical simulations are carried out to optimize the properties of connecting dampers and base isolators. It is demonstrated that more than 50% of the peak responses can be reduced by properly adjusting the properties of connecting dampers and base isolators.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 1993년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.57-62
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• 1993

Settlements of maximum 23cm have occurred in and Apartment building consturcted on a fill layer with pile foundations. The main reason of the settlements was due to the negative skin friction applied to the pile, and settlement of adjacent ground since most pile tips are acted as a floating foundation founded on the stratum where the SPT N value was mostly less than 30. To underpin this building, the Jumbo Special Pile grouging was adopted, and instrumented data showed little differential settlement after the JSP underpinning.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표회 논문집(I)
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• pp.450-453
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• 2006

Coupling adjacent building with supplemental damping devices is a developing method of reduced structural response due to wind and seismic excitations. The philosophy is to allow structures, vibrating at different frequencies, to exert control forces upon one another to reduce the overall responses of the system. This paper studies the effect of installing vibration control devices of two high rise building structures(49 stories and 42 stories) connected by sky-bridge. According to the analysis results the use of sky-bridge can be effective in increasing damping ratio of the system.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.352-362
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• 2019

가로변 이면지역에 위치한 노후된 공동주택은 주도로의 교통소음의 피해를 받는다. 이면지역의 소음은 가로면 건물의 높이와 주도로와의 이격거리, 그리고 도로변 건물간의 이격거리 및 도로변 건물간의 높이차이에 의하여 영향을 받는다. 본 연구는 한 도시 내의 15개의 블록을 선정하여 가로변 건물배치형태를 1)블록에 단일건물이 배치된형태, 2)블록에 다수의 건물이 하나의 축으로 연속하여 배치된 형태로 분류하였으며, 가로변과 이면지역에서 도로교통소음을 동시에 측정하여 가로변의 건물 배치형식에 따른 이면지역소음의 상관성을 분석하였다. 분석결과, 이면지역으로 전달된 도로교통소음은 가로변에 배치된 건물의 높이, 건물과 건물간의 이격된 거리, 인접한 건물의 높이차에 영향을 받으며 건물의 너비에 의한 소음도의 감소는 나타나지 않았다. 가로변에 위치한 건물의 높이가 4 m(단층)인 경우 이면지역의 소음도는 12 dB(A)감소하였으며 높이가 4 m 증가할 때마다 2 dB(A)씩 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 인접한 두 건물의 높이차가 4 m 증가할 때마다 이면지역의 소음도는 1 dB(A)씩 증가하였으며, 인접한 두 건물의 이격된 거리가 0.5 m 증가할 때마다 이면지역의 소음도는 1 dB(A)씩 증가하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2004년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.397-408
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• 2004

The aim of this paper is to study the interaction between adjacent buildings with different foundation levels under earthquake loading conditions. Buildings and soil are represented by two different models. In the first case, the building itself is modeled with standard frame elements, whereas the soil behavior is simulated by a special grid model, In the second case, the building and soil are represented by plane stress or plane strain elements. The modulus of elasticity of the ground as well as the varying relations of inertia have a strong influence on the section forces within the buildings. The interaction between the two buildings is demonstrated and discussed via numerical examples using the proposed method.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2006년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.495-502
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• 2006

Seismic performance of semi-active fuzzy control algorithm to operate MR dampers for coupling adjacent building is investigated in this paper. In the proposed semi-active control technique, the fuzzy logic is used as a method to adjust input voltage to MR damper. In order to validate control performance of proposed technique, the seismic performance of the semi-active fuzzy control system is compared with that of passive control system where the input voltage to MR damper is set to display maximum damping force. The simulated results show that the semi-active fuzzy control technique effectively regulates the trade-off existing between seismic responses of two buildings subject to various earthquake excitations.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.17-29
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• 2019

The present study aims to present a comprehensive understanding of the performance of neighboring multi-story buildings with different dynamic characteristics under blast loads. Two different scenarios are simulated in terms of explosion locations with respect to both buildings. To investigate the effect of interaction between the neighboring buildings in terms of the induced responses, the separation gap is set to be sufficiently small to ensure collisions between stories. An adequately large separation gap is set between the buildings to explore responses without collisions under the applied blast loads. Several blast loads with different peak pressure intensities are employed to perform the dynamic analysis. The finite-element toolbox Computer Aided Learning of the Finite-Element Method (CALFEM) is used to develop a MATLAB code to perform the simulation analysis. The dynamic responses obtained in the scenarios considered herein are presented comparatively. It is found that the obtained stories' responses are governed mainly by the location and intensity of the applied blast loads, separation distances, and flexibility of the attacked structures. Moreover, explosions near a light and flexible building may lead to a significant decrease in blast resistance because explosions severely influence the dynamic responses of the building's stories.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2009년도 세계 도시지반공학 심포지엄
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• pp.1301-1306
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• 2009

Recently, urban excavations are one of most frequent geotechnical work according to construction of a high rise building and subway. These kind of excavation affect to a adjacent ground or structure and it can trigger various severe accidents. Generally, the ground is closer to the excavation site, the deformation become larger. In this study, special ground settlement case due to adjacent ground excavation is presented and a cause of deformation is examined by various geotechnical exploration, lab-testing and numerical analysis.