• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.569-581
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• 2019

Corrugated steel plate shear wall (CSPSW) as an innovative lateral load resisting system provides various advantages in comparison with the flat steel plate shear wall, including remarkable in-plane and out-of-plane stiffnesses and stability, greater elastic shear buckling stress, increasing the amount of cumulative dissipated energy and maintaining efficiency even in large story drifts. Employment of low yield point (LYP) steel web plate in steel shear walls can dramatically improve their structural performance and prevent early stage instability of the panels. This paper presents a comprehensive structural performance assessment of corrugated low yield point steel plate shear walls having circular openings located in different positions. Accordingly, following experimental verification of CSPSW finite element models, several trapezoidally horizontal CSPSW (H-CSPSW) models having LYP steel web plates as well as circular openings (for ducts) perforated in various locations have been developed to explore their hysteresis behavior, cumulative dissipated energy, lateral stiffness, and ultimate strength under cyclic loading. Obtained results reveal that the rehabilitation of damaged steel shear walls using corrugated LYP steel web plate can enhance their structural performance. Furthermore, choosing a suitable location for the circular opening regarding the design purpose paves the way for the achievement of the shear wall's optimal performance.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제69권3호
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• pp.257-268
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• 2019

Infills are as important members in structural design as beams, columns and braces. They have significant effect on structural behavior. Because of lots of variables in infills like material non-linear behavior, the interaction between frames and infill, etc., the infills performance during an earthquake is complicated, so have led designers do not consider the effect of infills in designing the structure. However, the experimental studies revealed that the infills have the remarkable effect on structure behavior. As if these effects ignored, it might occur soft-story phenomena, torsion or short-column effects on the structures. One simple and appropriate method for considering the infills effects in analyzing, is replacing the infills with diagonal compression strut with the same performance of real infill, instead of designing the whole infill. Because of too many uncertainties, codes and researchers gave many expressions that were not as the same as the others. The major intent of this paper is calculation the width of this diagonal strut, which has the most characteristics of infill. This paper by comprehensive on different parameters like the modulus of young or moment of inertia of columns presents a new formula for achieving the equivalent strut width. In fact, this new formula is extracted from about 60 FEM analyses models. It can be said that this formula is very efficient and accurate in estimating the equivalent strut width, considering the large number of effective parameters relative to similar relationships provided by other researchers. In most cases, the results are so close to the values obtained by the FEM. In this formula, the effect of out of plane buckling is neglected and this formula is used just in steel structures. Also, the thickness of infill panel, and the lateral force applied to frame are constant. In addition, this new formula is just for modeling the lateral stiffness. Obtaining the nearest response in analyzing is important to the designers, so this new formula can help them to reach more accurate response among a lot of experimental equations proposed by researchers.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.295-307
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• 2022

The objective of this research is to study experimentally the behavior of stiffened steel tubes (CFSTs). Considered parameters are stiffening methods by through-bolts or shear connectors with different configurations. In addition, the effect of global (ratio between length to diameter) and local (proportion between diameter to thickness) slenderness ratios are investigated. Load application either applied on steel only or both steel and concrete is studied as well. Case of loading on steel only happens when concrete inside the column shrinks. The purpose of the research is to improve the behavior of CFSTs by load transfer between them and different stiffening methods. A parametric experimental study that incorporates thirty-three specimens is carried out to highlight the impact of those parameters. Different outputs are recorded for every specimen such as load capacities, vertical deflections, longitudinal strains, and hoop strains. Two modes of failure occur, yielding and global buckling. Shear connectors and through-bolts improve the ultimate load by up to 5% for sections loaded at steel with different studied global slenderness and local slenderness equal 63.5. Meanwhile, shear connectors or through bolts increase the ultimate load by up to 6% for global slenderness up to 15.75 for sections loaded on composite with local slenderness equals 63.50. Recommendations for future design code development are outlined.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제83권5호
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• pp.627-644
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• 2022

In past major earthquakes (1994 Northridge, 1995 Kobe, Chi-Chi 1999, Kocaeli 1999), significant damages occurred in the liquid storage tanks. The basic failure patterns were observed to be the buckling of the tank wall and uplift of the anchorage system. The damages in the industrial facilities and nuclear power plants have caused the spread of toxic substances to the environment and significant fires. Seismic isolation can be used in liquid storage tanks to decouple the structure and decrease the structural demand in the superstructure in case of ground shaking. Previous studies on the use of seismic isolation systems on liquid storage tanks show that an isolation system reduces the impulsive response but might slightly increase the convective one. There is still a lack of understanding of the seismic response of seismically isolated liquid storage tanks considering the fluid-structure interaction. In this study, one broad tank, one medium tank, and one slender tank are selected and designed. Two- and three-dimensional elastomeric bearings are used as seismic isolation systems. The seismic performance of the tanks is then investigated through nonlinear dynamic time-history analyses. The effectiveness of each seismic isolation system on tanks' performance was investigated. Isolator tension forces, modal analysis results, hydrodynamic stresses, strains, sloshing heights and base shear forces of the tanks are compared. The results show that the total base shear is lower in 3D-isolators compared to 2D-isolators. Even though the tank wall stresses, and strains are slightly higher in 3D-isolators, they are more efficient to prevent the tension problem.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.48-55
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• 2023

In this study, on the structure simulation for manufacturing a high strength/light weight 48V battery housing for a mild hybrid vehicle was conducted. Compression analysis was performed in accordance with the international safety standards(ECE R100) for existing battery housings. The effect of plastic materials on compressive strength was analyzed. Three models of truss, honeycomb and grid rib for the battery housing were designed and the strength characteristics of the proposed models were analyzed through nonlinear buckling analysis. The effects of the previous existing rib, double-sided grid rib, double-sided honeycomb rib and double-sided grid rib with a subtractive draft for the upper cover on the compressive strength in each axial direction were examined. It was confirmed that the truss rib reinforcement of the battery housing was very effective compared to the existing model and it was also confirmed that the rib of the upper cover had no significant effect. In the results of individual 3-axis compression analysis, the compression load in the lateral long axis direction was the least and this result was found to be very important to achieve the overall goal in designing the battery housing. To reduce the weight of the presented battery housing model, the cell molding method was applied. It was confirmed that it was very effective in reducing injection pressure, clamping force and weight.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.13-36
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• 2023

The Puebla-Morelos Earthquake (Mw 7.1) occurred in Mexico in 2017 causing 44 buildings to collapse in Mexico City. This work evaluates the non-linear response of a 6-story reinforced concrete (RC) frame prototype model with masonry infill walls on upper floors. The prototype model was designed using provisions prescribed before 1985 and was subjected to seismic excitations recorded during the earthquakes of 1985 and 2017 in different places in Mexico City. The building response was assessed through a damage index (DI) that considers low-cycle fatigue of the steel reinforcement in columns of the first floor, where the steel was modeled including buckling as was observed in cases after the 2017 earthquake. Isocurves were generated with 72 seismic records in Mexico City representing the level of iso-demand on the structure. These isocurves were compared with the location of 16 collapsed (first-floor column failure) building cases consistent with the prototype model. The isocurves for a value greater than 1 demarcate the location where fatigue failure was expected, which is consistent with the location of 2 of the 16 cases studied. However, a slight increase in axial load (5%) or decrease in column cross-section (5%) had a significant detrimental effect on the cumulated damage, increasing the intensity of the isocurves and achieving congruence with 9 of the 16 cases, and having the other 7 cases less than 2 km away. Including column special detailing (tight stirrup spacing and confined concrete) was the variable with the greatest impact to control the cumulated damage, which was consistent with the absence of severe damage in buildings built in the 70s and 80s.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제26권4A호
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• pp.727-734
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• 2006

강곡선복부판의 전단설계에서 Guide Specifications(AASHTO, 2003)에서는 여전히 후좌굴강도를 반영하고 있지 않다. 그러나 최근 강곡선 복부판의 전단거동에 관한 해석 및 실험연구를 통해서 탄성좌굴 후에 직선교 복부판과 같이 후좌굴강도를 발현하고 있으며, 일반적인 설계범위에서 직선교 복부판과 유사한 크기의 극한전단강도를 나타내고 있는 것으로 조사되었다. 본 연구에서는 강곡선복부판의 극한전단강도를 조사하기 위하여 유한요소해석과 실험연구를 수행하였다. 연구결과를 통해서 일반적으로 설계가 수행되는 기하학적인 범위 내에서 강곡선복부판은 후좌굴강도를 발현하며, 그 크기는 동일한 재료를 적용한 직선복부판과 유사하다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 그러므로 강도한계상태에서 강곡선복부판도 Lee and Yoo(1998)가 제안한 직선복부판의 극한전단강도를 이용하여 설계할 수 있음을 본 연구를 통해서 제안하였다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.73-84
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• 1993

본(本) 연구(研究)에서는 분할기법(分割技法)을 이용하여 평면(平面)트러스구조물(構造物)의 형상최적화(形狀最適化)를 시도(試圖)하였다. 본(本) 연구(研究)의 제(第)1단계(段階)(Level 1)에서는 다른 연구(研究)와 달리 응력제약(應力制約)을 감도해석(感度解析)에 효율적(效率的)이라고 알려진 설계공간법(設計空間法)에 의해서 부재응력근사화(部材應力近似化)를 하므로서 비선형최적화문제(非線形最適化問題)가 선형계획문제(線形計劃問題)로 변환(變換)되어 해(解)를 효율적(效率的)으로 구할 수 있고 또한 감도해석(感度解析)을 위한 구조해석수(構造解析數)를 줄일 수 있다. 목적함수(目的凾數)는 구조물(構造物)의 중량(重量)이 최소(最小)가 되도록 중량함수(重量凾數)를 택하였다. 제약조건식(制約條件式)으로는 허용응력(許容應力), 좌굴응력(挫屈應力), 변위제약(變位制約) 및 설계변수(設計變數) 상하한치제약(上下限値制約)을 부과(附課)하였고 다(多) 재하조건(載荷條件)을 고려(考慮)하여 최적화문제(最適化問題)를 형성(形成)하였다. 제(第)2단계(段階)(Level 2)에서는 설계변수(設計變數) 및 조정변수(調整變數)를 절점좌표(節點座標)로 하고 목적함수(目的凾數)로는 중량함수(重量凾數)로 하여 최적화문제(最適化問題)를 형성(形成)하였다. 절점좌표(節點座標)만을 설계변수(設計變數)로 하므로서 무제약최적화문제(無制約最適化問題)로 형성(形成)되므로 최적화(最適化) 과정(過程)이 용이(容易)하다. 본(本) 연구(研究)의 제(第)1단계(段階)에서는 부재응력(部材應力)을 근사화(近似化)하여 단면(斷面)을 최적화(最適化)하고 제(第)2단계(段階)에서는 형상(形狀)만 최적화(最適化)하는 분할기법(分割技法)을 트러스구조물(構造物)에 적용(適用)한 결과 본(本) 연구(研究)는 트러스구조물(構造物)의 형태(形態), 제약조건식(制約條件式)에 구애받지 않고 최적해(最適解)에 부재응력근사화(部材應力近似化)로 인하여 효율적(效率的)으로 수렴(收斂)하였고 또한 타(他)의 연구(研究)와 거의 동일(同一)한 연구(研究) 결과(結果)를 얻었으며 형상최적화(形狀最適化)로 트러스구조물(構造物)의 중량(重量)을 5.4% - 15.4% 까지 감소(減少)시켰다.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2015

대형 구조물의 건설과 지하공간의 활용을 위한 대규모 굴착 공사에 축방향 압축력에 대한 저항성능이 뛰어난 버팀보가 요구된다. 팔각형강관은 2축대칭 폐단면구조로 단위 길이 당 중량이 같은 경우 사각형강관에 비하여 단면2차모멘트가 크고 판의 폭-두께비는 작아 휨좌굴 및 국부좌굴에 대한 압축강도가 더 크다. 또한, 원형강관에 비하여 실제 시공단계에서 버팀보의 설치, 해체, 운반 및 적재 시 유리한 장점이 있다. 이 연구에서는 길이 9.6m의 팔각형강관 2개를 현장에서 볼트로 맞대기 이음하고, 양 끝에 주철로 제작한 지점연결요소를 볼트로 접합시킨 길이 20m의 팔각강관 버팀보에 대해 설계기준, 중심축의 초기폄심에 따른 유한요소해석 결과, 그리고 버팀보 재하 시험에서 얻은 결과를 서로 비교하고, 버팀보의 성능을 평가하였다. 시험 결과, 모든 버팀보 시험체의 축방향 압축강도는 도로교설계기준(2012)에 따른 값과 거의 동일하거나 그 이상인 것으로 나타났다. 초기편심은 측정한 변형률 값을 이용하여 추정할 수 있으며, 모든 버팀보 시험체의 경우 L/450 이하인 것으로 나타났다. 초기편심이 증가하면 버팀보의 압축강도는 감소하며, 횡방향하중으로 상재하중이 재하된 버팀보는 자중만 작용하는 경우에 비하여 초기편심의 증가로 인한 영향이 작은 것으로 나타났다. 이 연구 결과, 제작 및 설치에 의해 발생하는 오차와 자중에 의한 처짐을 고려한 초기편심을 L/350 이하로 관리하면 도로교설계기준(2012)의 압축강도를 확보할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2020

In domestic construction sites, when installing steel pipe scaffolding and system scaffolding, the guardrails are installed after the installation of the work platforms. This conventional guardrail system (CGS) is always exposed to the risk of falls because the safety railing is installed later. In order to prevent fall disasters during erecting and dismantling scaffolds, it is necessary to introduce the advanced guardrail system (AGS) which installs railings in advance of climbing onto a work platform. For the introduction of the AGS, the structural performance of the system scaffolding applying the CGS and the AGS was compared and evaluated. The structural analysis of the system scaffold (height: 31 m and width: 27.4 m) with AGS confirmed that structural safety was ensured because the maximum stress of each element of the system scaffolding satisfies the allowable stress of each element. As a result of performance comparison of CGS and AGS for each element, the combined stress ratio of vertical posts in AGS was 6.4% lower than that of CGS. In addition, in the case of ledger and transom, the combined stress ratios of AGS and CGS were almost the same. The compression test of the assembled system scaffolding (three-storied, 1 bay) showed that the AGS had better performance than the CGS by 9.7% (8.91 kN). The cross bracing exceeds the limit on slenderness ratio of codes for structural steel design. But the safety factor for the compressive load of the cross bracing was evaluated as meeting the design criteria by securing 3 or more. In actual experiments, it was confirmed that brace buckling did not occur even though the overall scaffold was buckled. Therefore, in the case of temporary structures, it was proposed to revise the standards for limiting on slenderness ratio of secondary or auxiliary elements to recommendations. This study can be used as basic data for the introduction of AGS for installing guardrails in advance at domestic construction sites.