• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.149-168
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• 2015

In the bolted connections, bolt placements are generally described and are generally made in the direction of design effects and in the perpendicular direction to design effects. In these both directions, the reliability of the distance of bolts to the edges of connection plate and the distance of bolts to each other is investigated for high strength steel connections built up with high strength bolts in this study. For this purpose, simple SL (bearing type shear connection) and SLP (bearing type shear connection for body-fit bolts) type steel connections with St 52 grade steel plates with 8 different thicknesses and with 8.8D grade high strength bolts (HV) were constituted and analyzed under H (Dead Loads+Live Loads+Snow Loads+Roof Loads) and HZ (H Loads+Wind Loads+Earthquake Loads) loadings. Geometric properties, material properties and design actions were taken as random variables. Monte Carlo Simulation method was used to compute failure risk and the first order second moment method was used to determine the reliability indexes of those different distances describing the placement of bolts. Results obtained from computations have been presented in graphics and in a Table. Then, they were compared with some values proposed by some structural codes. Finally, new equations were constituted for minimum and maximum values of distances describing bolt placement by regression analyses performed on those results.

• Composites Research
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2010

이 연구에서는 볼트로 겹침이음된 펄트루젼 복합재의 접합부에 대한 구조적 거동을 실험적 연구를 통해 조사하였다. 펄트루젼 복합재 접합부의 구조적 거동 조사에 앞서 재료의 역학적 성질을 파악하기 위해 펄트루젼 복합재의 인장 및 전단실험을 수행하였고, 이를 바탕으로 볼트의 수와 배열을 변수로 3종류의 겹침이음 시편을 제작하였다. 겹침이음 접합부 실험은 접합부를 중심으로 인장하중이 작용하도록 하중을 재하하였고, 하중증가에 따른 접합부의 구조적 거동 및 파괴모드를 조사하였다. 실험결과 접합부에 대한 파괴는 대부분 전단파괴로 나타났으며, 실험을 통해 얻어진 데이터를 분석하여 설계를 위한 기초자료로 활용될 수 있도록 하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.99-112
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• 2019

Semi-rigid joints have been widely studied in literature in recent decades because they affect greatly the structural response of frames. In literature, the behavior of semi-rigid joints is commonly assumed to be identical under positive and negative moments which are obviously incorrect in many cases where joint details such as bolt arrangement or placement of haunch are vertically asymmetrical. This paper evaluates two common types of steel frames with asymmetrical beam-to-column joints by Direct Analysis allowing for plasticity. A refined design method of steel frames using a proposed simple forth order curved-quartic element with an integrated joint model allowing for asymmetrical geometric joint properties is presented. Furthermore, the ultimate behavior of six types of asymmetrical end-plate connections under positive and negative moment is examined by the Finite Element Method (FEM). The FEM results are further applied to the proposed design method with the curved-quartic element for Direct Analysis of two types of steel frames under dominant gravity or wind load. The ultimate frame behavior under the two different scenarios are examined with respect to their failure modes and considerably different structural performances of the frames were observed when compared with the identical frames designed with the traditional method where symmetrical joints characteristics were assumed. The finding of this research contributes to the design of steel frames as their asymmetrical beam-to-column joints lead to different frame behavior when under positive and negative moment and this aspect should be incorporated in the design and analysis of steel frames. This consideration of asymmetrical joint behavior is recommended to be highlighted in future design codes.