• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제64권5호
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• pp.567-577
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• 2017

The traditional design procedure of a prestressed concrete (PC) cable-stayed bridge is complex and time-consuming. The designers have to repeatedly modify the configuration of the large number of design parameters to obtain a feasible design scheme which maybe not an economical design. In order to efficiently achieve an optimum design for PC cable-stayed bridges, a multi-parameter optimization technique is proposed. In this optimization technique, the number of prestressing tendons in girder is firstly set as one of design variables, as well as cable forces, cable areas and cross-section sizes of the girders and the towers. The stress and displacement constraints are simultaneously utilized to ensure the safety and serviceability of the structure. The target is to obtain the minimum cost design for a PC cable-stayed bridge. Finally, this optimization technique is carried out by a developed PC cable-stayed bridge optimization program involving the interaction of the parameterized automatically modeling program, the finite element structural analysis program and the optimization algorithm. A low-pylon PC cable-stayed bridge is selected as the example to test the proposed optimization technique. The optimum result verifies the capability and efficiency of the optimization technique, and the significance to optimize the number of prestressing tendons in the girder. The optimum design scheme obtained by the application can achieve a 24.03% reduction in cost, compared with the initial design.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.341-344
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• 2006

A study for the nonlinear analysis of segmentally erected curved PSC(prestressed concrete) cable-stayed bridge considering the effects due to large deflections is presented. Various case studies regarding the effects of the material nonlinearities and the geometric nonlinearities on the behavior of segmentally erected curved PSC cable-stayed bridge are conducted. The numerical results on the bridge which has relatively low stress profile through the bridge deck section like the example herein show that the geometric nonlinearities has more significant effects on the structural behavior than the material nonlinearities.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.495-514
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• 2014

The performance of passive control system for the seismic protection of a multi-tower cable-stayed bridge with the application of partially longitudinal constraint system is investigated. The seismic responses of the Jiashao Bridge, a six-tower cable-stayed bridge using the partially longitudinal constraint system are studied under real earthquake ground motions. The effects of the passive control devices including the viscous fluid dampers and elastic cables on the seismic responses of the bridge are examined by taking different values of parameters of the devices. Further, the optimization design principle of passive control system using viscous fluid dampers is presented to determine the optimized parameters of the viscous fluid dampers. The results of the investigations show that the control objective of the multi-tower cable-stayed bridge with the partially longitudinal constraint system is to reduce the base shears and moments of bridge towers longitudinally restricted with the bridge deck. The viscous fluid dampers are found to be more effective than elastic cables in controlling the seismic responses. The optimized parameters for the viscous fluid dampers are determined following the principle that the peak displacement at the end of bridge deck reaches to the maximum value, which can yield maximum reductions in the base shears and moments of bridge towers longitudinally restricted with the bridge deck, with slight increases in the base shears and moments of bridge towers longitudinally unrestricted with the bridge deck.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.51-73
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• 2014

A three-dimensional finite element model for the Jiashao Bridge, the longest multi-span cable-stayed bridge in the world, is established using the commercial software package ANSYS. Dynamic characteristics of the bridge are analyzed and the effects of structural system measures including the rigid hinge, auxiliary piers and longitudinal constraints between the girders and side towers on the dynamic properties including modal frequency, mode shape and effective mass are studied by referring to the Jiashao Bridge. The analysis results reveal that: (i) the installation of the rigid hinge significantly reduces the modal frequency of the first symmetric lateral bending mode of bridge deck. Moreover, the rigid hinge significantly changes the mode shape and effective mass of the first symmetric torsional mode of bridge deck; (ii) the layout of the auxiliary piers in the side-spans has a limited effect on changing the modal frequencies, mode shapes and effective masses of global vibration modes; (iii) the employment of the longitudinal constraints significantly increases the modal frequencies of the vertical bending modes and lateral bending modes of bridge deck and have significant effects on changing the mode shapes of vertical bending modes and lateral bending modes of bridge deck. Moreover, the effective mass of the first anti-symmetric vertical bending of bridge deck in the longitudinal direction of the fully floating system is significantly larger than that of the partially constrained system and fully constrained system. The results obtained indicate that the structural system measures of the multi-span cable-stayed bridge have a great effect on the dynamic properties, which deserves special attention for seismic design and wind-resistant design of the multi-span cable-stayed bridge.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.483-499
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• 2014

Most of the methods presented in the literature to define the target service stresses (Objective Service Stage, OSS) of cable-stayed bridges rarely include the time-dependent phenomena effects. Nevertheless, especially in concrete structures, this assumption might be on the unsafe side because time-dependent phenomena usually modify service stresses. To fill this gap, this paper studies the time-dependent phenomena effects into service stresses of concrete cable-stayed bridges. After illustrating the important role of these phenomena in an asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge without backstay, a new method to include their effects into the OSS is presented. An important issue to be considered in this method is the target time in which the OSS is defined to be achieved. The application of this method to two different structures showed the convenience of defining the OSS to be achieved at early times because that way the envelope of service stresses is reduced.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2009년도 춘계 학술대회 제21권1호
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• pp.387-388
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• 2009

콘크리트 사장교는 콘크리트의 시간의존 효과를 고려하여 케이블 장력을 조정할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 콘크리트의 시간의존효과 중 크리프를 오차요인으로 고려하여 콘크리트 사장교에서 처짐과 케이블 장력의 측정값들로부터 크리프 계수를 추정하는 방법을 제안하고 크리프 계수 오차의 영향을 분석하였다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2010년도 춘계 학술대회 제22권1호
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• pp.109-110
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• 2010

한국건설기술연구원내에 테스트베드로서 UHPC 보도사장교(Super Bridge I)를 설계 및 완공하였고, 변형률, 가속도, 장력, 풍향풍속, 온도 등의 각종 데이터를 정기적으로 수집할 수 있는 장기계측시스템을 구축하였다. 이는 UHPC 부재의 역학적 특성 및 사용성 평가에 대한 기본 데이터를 제공하여 장대하이브리드사장교의 거동 특성을 추정하는데 큰 도움이 될 것으로 예상된다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.139-155
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• 2012

Structural health monitoring systems are often installed on bridges to provide assessments of the need for structural maintenance and repair. Damage or deterioration may be detected by observation of changes in bridge characteristics evaluated from measured structural responses. However, construction materials such as concrete and steel cables exhibit certain time-dependent behaviour, which also results in changes in structural characteristics. If these are not accounted for properly, false alarms may arise. This paper proposes a systematic and efficient method to study the time-dependent effects on the dynamic properties of cable-stayed bridges. After establishing the finite element model of a cable-stayed bridge taking into account geometric nonlinearities and time-dependent behaviour, long-term time-dependent analysis is carried out by time integration. Then the dynamic properties of the bridge after a certain period can be obtained. The effects of time-dependent behaviour of construction materials on the dynamic properties of typical cable-stayed bridges are investigated in detail.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.84-91
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• 2012

본 연구는 케이블 파단이 콘크리트사장교의 동적거동에 미치는 영향을 강합성사장교에 대한 것과 비교하여 검토하는데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위해, 강합성사장교를 대상으로 시간이력함수를 이용한 케이블 파단을 모사하는 적합한 해석기법을 검토하고, 동적확대계수를 평가하였다. 콘크리트사장교에서 계산된 동적확대계수를 설계기준을 기반으로 강합성사장교에 대한 것과 비교 검토하였다. 그 결과, 동적확대계수에 대한 현행 설계기준이 전반적으로 신뢰할 수 있는 것으로 판단되며 콘크리트사장교의 경우 동적확대계수 값이 강합성사장교에 비해 상대적으로 상승되는 경향을 보이나 설계기준을 만족한다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.155-162
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• 2012

최근의 토목분야의 프로젝트에 있어 장대교량의 건설이 주를 이루고 있으며, 장대교량의 여러 형식 가운데서도 사장교가 현재 계획, 설계 중인 프로젝트에서 상당한 비중을 차지하고 있다. 사장교가 대형화 및 장경간화 됨에 따라, 구조물의 경량화를 위하여 강재를 사용한 사장교가 건설되어 왔다. 그러나 많은 사례에서 주탑은 구조적, 경제적인 이유로 콘크리트로 시공되고 있다. 콘크리트는 재료적 특성상 크리프와 건조수축에 의한 장기거동의 영향을 크게 받는데, 이러한 특성으로 인하여 응력의 재분배와 시공 중 구조계의 변화 등 해석상 고려해야 할 부분이 많아진다. 본 연구에서는 철근콘크리트의 비선형성을 고려한 유한요소해석 프로그램 RCAHEST를 사용하여 콘크리트 주탑을 채택한 사장교 중에 국내 최장의 강사장교인 인천대교를 선택하여 해석을 수행하였다. 실제 시공된 교량의 시공단계해석과 완공 후 시간해석을 통하여 콘크리트 주탑만의 시간 의존적 효과가 사장교 전체계에 미치는 영향을 파악하였다.