• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제76권6호
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• pp.709-724
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• 2020

The typical inerter system, the tuned viscous mass damper (TVMD), has been proven to be efficient. It is characterized by an energy-dissipation-enhancement effect, whereby the dashpot deformation of TVMD can be amplified for enhanced energy dissipation efficiency. However, existing studies related to TVMD have mainly been performed on elastic structures, so the working mechanism remains unclear for nonlinear structures. To deal with this, an energy-spectrum analysis framework is developed systematically for classic bilinear hysteretic structures with TVMD. Considering the soil effect, typical bedrock records are propagated through the soil deposit, for which the designed input energy spectra are proposed by considering the TVMD parameters and structural nonlinear properties. Furthermore, the energy-dissipation-enhancement effect of TVMD is quantitatively evaluated for bilinear hysteretic structures. The results show that the established designed input energy spectra can be employed to evaluate the total energy-dissipation burden for a nonlinear TVMD structure. Particularly, the stiffness of TVMD is the dominant factor in adjusting the total input energy. Compared with the case of elastic structures, the energy-dissipation-enhancement effect of TVMD for nonlinear structures is weakened so that the expected energy-dissipation effect of TVMD is replaced by the accumulated energy dissipation of the primary structure.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.1089-1109
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• 2016

Modified two-surface model (M2SM) is one of the steel elasto-plastic hysteretic constitutive models that consider both analysis accuracy and efficiency. However, when M2SM is used for complex strain history, sometimes the results are irrational due to the limitation of stress-strain path judgment. In this paper, the defect of M2SM was re-modified by improving the judgment of stress-strain paths. The accuracy and applicability of the improved method were verified on both material and structural level. Based on this improvement, the nonlinear time-history analysis was carried out for a deck-through steel arch bridge with a 200 m-long span under the ground motions of Chi-Chi earthquake and Niigata earthquake. In the analysis, we compared the results obtained by hysteretic constitutive models of improved two-surface model (I2SM) presented in this paper, M2SM and the bilinear kinematic hardening model (BKHM). Results show that, although the analysis precision of displacement response of different steel hysteretic models differs little from each other, the stress-strain responses of the structure are affected by steel hysteretic models apparently. The difference between the stress-strain responses obtained by I2SM and M2SM cannot be neglected. In significantly damaged areas, BKHM gives smaller stress result and obviously different strain response compared with I2SM and M2SM, and tends to overestimate the effect of hysteretic energy dissipation. Moreover, at some position with severe damage, BKHM may underestimate the size of seismic damaged areas. Different steel hysteretic models also have influences on structural damage evaluation results based on deformation behavior and low cycle fatigue, and may lead to completely different judgment of failure, especially in severely damaged areas.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.29-48
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• 2015

The main purpose of this work is to compare different criteria for the seismic strengthening of RC framed buildings in order to find the optimal combinations of these retrofitting techniques. To this end, a numerical investigation is carried out with reference to the town hall of Spilinga (Italy), an RC framed structure with an L-shaped plan built at the beginning of the 1960s. Five structures are considered, derived from the first by incorporating: carbon fibre reinforced polymer (FRP)-wrapping of all columns; base-isolation, with high-damping-laminated-rubber bearings (HDLRBs); added damping, with hysteretic damped braces (HYDBs); FRP-wrapping of the first storey columns combined with base-isolation or added damping. A three-dimensional fibre model of the primary and retrofitted structures is considered; bilinear and trilinear laws idealize, respectively, the behaviour of the HYDB, providing that the buckling be prevented, and the FRP-wrapping, without resistance in compression, while the response of the HDLRB is simulated by using a viscoelastic linear model. The effectiveness of the retrofitting solutions is tested with nonlinear dynamic analyses based on biaxial accelerograms, whose response spectra match those in the Italian seismic code.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.1743-1750
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• 2001

This paper presents an analysis of nonlinear response of the seismically isolated structure against earthquake excitation to evaluate isolation performances of a rubber bearing. In the analysis of the vibration of building, the building is modeled by lumped mass system where the restoring force is considered as linear, bilinear and trilinear. Fundamental equations of motion are derived for the base isolated structure, and hysteretic and nonlinear-elastic characteristics are considered for a numerical calculation. The excitation levels are magnified fur the recorded strong earthquake motions in order to examine dynamic stability of the structure. Seismic responses (of the building are compared fur the each restoring force type. As a result, it is shown that the effect of the motion by the nonlinear response of the building is comparatively not so large from a seismic design standpoint. The responses of the isolated structures reduce sufficiently and controled the motion of the building well in a practical range. By increasing the acceleration of the earthquake, the yielding of the farce was occurred in the concrete and steel frame, which shows the necessity of the exact nonlinear dynamic analysis.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.95-107
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• 2022

This paper introduces a novel, rigorous, and efficient probabilistic methodology for the performance-based optimal design (PBOD) of semi-active tuned mass damper (SATMD) for seismically excited nonlinear structures. The proposed methodology is consistent with the modern performance-based earthquake engineering framework and aims to design reliable control systems. To this end, an optimization problem has been defined which considers the parameters of control systems as design variables and minimization of the probability of exceeding a targeted structural performance level during the lifetime as an objective function with a constraint on the failure probability of stroke length damage state associated with mass damper mechanism. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is illustrated through a numerical example of performance analysis of an eight-story nonlinear shear building frame with hysteretic bilinear behavior. The SATMD with variable stiffness and damping have been designed separately with different mass ratios. Their performance has been compared with that of uncontrolled structure and the structure controlled with passive TMD in terms of probabilistic demand curves, response hazard curves, fragility curves, and exceedance probability of performance levels during the lifetime. Numerical results show the effectiveness, simplicity, and reliability of the proposed PBOD method in designing SATMD with variable stiffness and damping for the nonlinear frames where they have reduced the exceedance probability of the structure up to 49% and 44%, respectively.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.689-707
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• 2008

This study presents a method to evaluate the seismic risk of an extradosed bridge with seismic isolators of lead rubber bearings (LRBs), and also to show the effectiveness of the LRB isolators on the extradosed bridge, which is one of the relatively flexible and lightly damped structures in terms of seismic risk. Initially, the seismic vulnerability of a structure is evaluated, and then the seismic hazard of a specific site is rated using an earthquake data set and seismic hazard maps in Korea. Then, the seismic risk of the structure is assessed. The nonlinear seismic analyses are carried out to consider plastic deformation of bridge columns and the nonlinear characteristics of soil foundation. To describe the nonlinear behaviour of a column, the ductility demand is adopted, and the moment-curvature relation of a column is assumed to be bilinear hysteretic. The fragility curves are represented as a log-normal distribution function for column damage, movement of superstructure, and cable yielding. And the seismic hazard at a specific site is estimated using the available seismic hazard maps. The results show that in seismically-isolated extradosed bridges under earthquakes, the effectiveness of the isolators is much more noticeable in the columns than the cables and girders.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제9권4호통권33호
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• pp.637-647
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• 1997

제1편에서 언급한 바와 같이 기초분리 장치의 사용은 지진의 위험으로부터 구조물의 안전을 유지시키고, 지진 응답 감소에 필요한 비선형 거동은 교체가 용이한 분리장치에 국한 함으로써 구조물의 중요 부재들은 탄성 거동을 확보할 수 있다. 본 연구는 강재 Damper를 사용한 교량의 지진 응답에 대하여 연구하였다. 강재 Damper의 특성에 따른 응답을 분리 장치의 매개 변수 영향 별로 분리하여 검토 함으로써 지진시 거동을 파악하고, 적정한 분리 장치를 선정 할 수 있는 기준과 단순화된 설계 방법을 제시하였다. 제시된 시방서 형식의 설계 방법은 비선형 스펙트럼에 의한 모드 해석법으로, 관성력 또는 기초 분리 장치를 포함한 연결부 및 하부 구조의 높이별 설계력을 비교적 정확하게 평가될 수 있다. 따라서 제시된 설계 방법은 기초 분리된 교량의 기본 또는 최종 설계용으로 사용될 수 있을 것이다. 또한, 설계 방법의 타당성 검증을 위해 bilinear 이력의 강재 Damper를 사용한 P.C 교량에 대해 인공 지진파를 이용한 비선형 시간 이력 해석과 설계 응답 스펙트럼에 의한 탄성 수치 해석을 수행하여 단순 설계 방법과 비교 검토하였다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.185-192
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 KBC2022의 풍직각방향 변동풍하중 스펙트럼을 이용하여 풍직각방향 풍하중을 생성하고 생성된 풍직각방향 풍하중이 작용하는 구조물의 비탄성 동적거동을 해석하는 프로그램을 개발하고자 한다. 풍응답은 일차 모드가 탁월하고 소성화에 의한 진동의 변화는 작고, 풍방향 진동과 풍직각방향 진동은 독립적이며, 비틀림 진동의 영향은 작다고 가정한다. 적용 구조물을 수평방향의 단자유도 모델로 가정하고, 구조물의 질량을 집중질량으로 치환하여 상부에 작용시킨다. 비탄성 해석을 위한 이력모델은 이선형 모델을 적용한다. 강성비(𝛼)와 항복점비(𝛽)를 변수로 비탄성 동적응답을 분석한 결과 강성비가 일정한 경우에 항복점비가 증가할수록 최대변위비는 감소하다가 최소값을 나타내고 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 강성비가 0.5이상인 경우 최대변위비가 1이하가 되는 항복점비가 존재하며, 이는 비탄성 내풍설계시 비탄성 거동을 허용하더라도 탄성설계된 건물보다 최대 변형이 감소함을 나타낸다.