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Spatial mechanical behaviors of long-span V-shape rigid frame composite arch bridges

  • Gou, Hongye;Pu, Qianhui;Wang, Junming;Chen, Zeyu;Qin, Shiqiang
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.59-73
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    • 2013
  • The Xiaolan channel super large bridge is unique in style and with greatest span in the world with a total length of 7686.57 m. The main bridge with spans arranged as 100m+220m+100m is a combined structure composed of prestressed concrete V-shape rigid frame and concrete-filled steel tubular flexible arch. First of all, the author compiles APDL command flow program by using the unit birth-death technique and establishes simulation calculation model in the whole construction process. The creep characteristics of concrete are also taken into account. The force ratio of the suspender, arch and beam is discussed. The authors conduct studies on the three-plate webs's rule of shear stress distribution, the box girder's longitudinal bending normal stress on every construction stage, meanwhile the distribution law of longitudinal bending normal stress and transverse bending normal stress of completed bridge's box girder. Results show that, as a new combined bridge, it is featured by: Girder and arch resist forces together; Moment effects of the structure are mainly presented as compressed arch and tensioned girder; The bridge type brings the girder and arch on resisting forces into full play; Great in vertical stiffness and slender in appearance.

Load carrying capacity of CFRP retrofitted broken concrete arch

  • Wang, Peng;Jiang, Meirong;Chen, Hailong;Jin, Fengnian;Zhou, Jiannan;Zheng, Qing;Fan, Hualin
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.187-194
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    • 2017
  • To reuse a broken plain concrete (PC) arch, a retrofitting method was proposed to ensure excellent structural performances, in which carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) were applied to repair and strengthen the damaged PC arch through bonding and wrapping techniques. Experiments were carried out to reveal the deformation and the load carrying capacity of the retrofitted composite arch. Based on the experiments, repairing and strengthening effects of the CFRP retrofitted broken arch were revealed. Simplified analysing model was suggested to predict the peak load of the CFRP retrofitted broken arch. According to the research, it is confirmed that absolutely broken PC arch can be completely repaired and reinforced, and even behaves more excellent than the intact PC arch when bonded together and strengthened with CFRP sheets. Using CFRP bonding/wrapping technique a novel efficient composite PC arch structure can be constructed, the comparison between rebar reinforced concrete (RC) arch and composite PC arch reveals that CFRP reinforcements can replace the function of steel bars in concrete arch.

Experimental Study on Natural Period for Arch Structure with Column (하부기둥에 따른 아치구조물의 고유주기 변화에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kang, Joo-Won;Seok, Keun-Yung;Lee, Sang-Hoon;Kim, Gee-Cheol
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2009
  • The previous studies for dynamic behavior of spatial structure have been zoomed in on roof structure by numerical analytic method. But the roof structure of real spatial structures is supported by lower structure as column and wall. So, when earthquake is occurred, it is predicted that dynamic behavior of roof structure is affected by lower structure. Therefore, on this study, natural period characteristics of arch structures are analyzed according to section, length and the modulus of elasticity of brass column and polycarbonate column and additional mass of roof structure by the scale-down model of arch structure as the most simple structure of spatial structures. The changes of natural periods are generally alike. But, when Polycarbonate column is connected to roof structure, the change of natural period for change of section is relatively large. That means that change of section and section and length of column and additional mass of roof structure have less influence on change of stiffness because the modulus of elasticity of brass is relatively large.

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Ergodicity of Nonlinear Autoregression with Nonlinear ARCH Innovations

  • Hwang, S.Y.;Basawa, I.V.
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.565-572
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    • 2001
  • This article explores the problem of ergodicity for the nonlinear autoregressive processes with ARCH structure in a very general setting. A sufficient condition for the geometric ergodicity of the model is developed along the lines of Feigin and Tweedie(1985), thereby extending classical results for specific nonlinear time series. The condition suggested is in turn applied to some specific nonlinear time series illustrating that our results extend those in the literature.

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Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis on Tunnel Behaivor Reinforced by Umbrella Arch Method (3차원 유한요소해석에 의한 Umbrella Arch 공법으로 보강된 터널의 거동 해석)

  • 유충식;신승우
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 1995.10a
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    • pp.211-216
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    • 1995
  • In recent years, Natm has been successfully applied to difficult ground conditions with the use of soil-perservention methods which promote face stability and restrict excessive ground movement. When the tunnle excavation od made through difficult ground like highly weathered rock, the umbrella arch method is often adopted which pre-reinforceas tunnel crown periphery using a stiff shell-shaped structure. The umbrella arch method was originally developed in Itali, and has recently been confirmed its effectiveness in Korea as well. However, no in depth study on the umbrella arch method has been conducted ans as a result no rational analysis/design method is available at present. Therefore this study was undertaken with the aim of identifying the basic reinforcing mechanism and satablishing both qualitative and quantiative relationships between various design parameters and ground movements.

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Assessment of post-earthquake serviceability for steel arch bridges with seismic dampers considering mainshock-aftershock sequences

  • Li, Ran;Ge, Hanbin;Maruyama, Rikuya
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.137-150
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    • 2017
  • This paper focuses on the post-earthquake serviceability of steel arch bridges installed with three types of seismic dampers suffered mainshock-aftershock sequences. Two post-earthquake serviceability verification methods for the steel arch bridges are compared. The energy-absorbing properties of three types of seismic dampers, including the buckling restrained brace, the shear panel damper and the shape memory alloy damper, are investigated under major earthquakes. Repeated earthquakes are applied to the steel arch bridges to examine the influence of the aftershocks to the structures with and without dampers. The relative displacement is proposed for the horizontal transverse components in such complicated structures. Results indicate that the strain-based verification method is more conservative than the displacement-base verification method in evaluating the post-earthquake serviceability of structures and the seismic performance of the retrofitted structure is significantly improved.

WEAK SOLUTION OF AN ARCH EQUATION ON A MOVING BOUNDARY

  • DAEWOOK KIM;SUDEOK SHON;JUNHONG HA
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.49-64
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    • 2024
  • When setting up a structure with an embedded shallow arch, there is a phenomenon where the end of the arch moves. To study the so-called moving domain problem, one try to transform a considered noncylindrical domain into the cylindrical domain using the transform operator, as well as utilizing the method of penalty and other approaches. However, challenges arise when calculating time derivatives of solutions in a domain depending on time, or when extending the initial conditions from the non-cylindrical domain to the cylindrical domain. In this paper, we employ the transform operator to prove the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the shallow arch equation on the moving domain as clarifying the time derivatives of solutions in the moving domain.

Investigation for the deformation behavior of the precast arch structure in the open-cut tunnel (개착식 터널 프리캐스트 아치 구조물의 변형 거동 연구)

  • Kim, Hak Joon;Lee, Gyu-Phil;Lim, Chul Won
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.93-113
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    • 2019
  • The behavior of the 3 hinged precast arch structure was investigated by comparing field measurements with numerical analyses performed for precast lining arch structures, which are widely used for the open-cut tunnel. According to the field measurements, the maximum vertical displacement occurred at the crown with upward displacements during the backfilling up to the crown of the arch and downward displacements at the backfill height above the crown. The final crown displacement was 19 mm upward from the original position. The horizontal displacement at the sidewall, which had a maximum horizontal displacement, occurred inward of the arch when compacting the backfill up to the crown and returned to the original position after completing the backfill construction. According to the analysis of displacement measurements, economical design is expected to be possible for precast arch structures compared to rigid concrete structures due to ground-structure interactions. Duncan model gave good results for the estimation of displacements and deformed shape of the tunnel according to the numerical analyses comparing with field measurements. The earth pressure coefficients calculated from the numerical analyses were 0.4 and 0.7 for the left and the right side of the tunnel respectively, which are agreed well with the eccentric load acting on the tunnel due to topographical condition and actual field measurements.

Roof Ventilation Structure for Single Span Greenhouses of Arch Shape (아치형 단동 온실의 지붕 환기 구조)

  • Nam, Sang-Woon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.267-270
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    • 2001
  • It is difficult to install a ventilation window on the roof of single span greenhouse of arch shape. Investigation on the roof ventilation structure for those greenhouses was conducted. The effect of roof ventilation was evaluated by comparative experiments between greenhouse installing roof vent and having controlled side vent only. And ventilation efficiency was analyzed by experiments on the opening and closing operation of the roof and side vent.

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Effect of Transverse and Longitudinal Arch Support of Individual Discount rate on the Balance Ability of the Body (개인별 인솔의 족궁 지지가 신체 균형능력에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Seon-Chil;Bae, Jin-Woo;Jang, Ji-Pil
    • Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2014
  • The body to achieve an interaction that are connected to each other. Foot of which plays an important role in motor activity. Insole that has been recently used, have a dynamic functional elements. In particular, support of Arch plays a very important role in terms of a motor function of the human body as a whole. It is possible to predict the proper support Arch with insole, the overall structure of the body there can affect the balance. In this study, by applying the insole which supports the Longitudinal arch and Transverse arch, you are trying to assess the interaction of balance and the body's ability. To target the 20 there is no problem in the sense of balance, college student, and changes were observed by measuring the Center of Position area and distance through the Biorescue device worn before and after led by Arch support. As a result, I showed improved results significantly discount rate after wearing in the Center of Position area and distance to assess the balance ability. Therefore, the correction insole function is to support the Longitudinal arch and Transverse arch to an important role in the foot. It may be that it has a functional element for improving the balance of the function of preventing collapse of the arch during walking, to disperse the weight of the entire foot, us reduce fatigue in the end.

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