• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.167-172
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• 2011

This paper investigated optimal design for slim wall mount arm for flat TV. Recently the number of flat TV sets in use went on increasing in TV market. As the flat TV sets are getting common, consumers came to need another requirements like aesthetic factor besides display performances. As the new TV sets tend to be slimmer due to aesthetic design, Wall mount also requires to be slimmer for aesthetic balance. Slim structures, however, are vulnerable to structural rigidity. In this study, slim wall mount arm has been designed by 3D CAD and DOE (Design of Experiments) and finite element analysis for optimal structural design were carried out to determine the design variables for minimize working stress of wall mount arm. Finally two optimal design conditions were selected through DOE and FEM and one of those was chosen under constraint of minimizing blanking developed length.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.527-536
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• 2020

The paper represents an optimization algorithm for reinforced concrete retaining wall design. The proposed method, called Rao-3 optimization algorithm, is a recently developed algorithm. The total weight of the steel and concrete, which are used for constructing the retaining wall, were chosen as the objective function. Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-05) and Rankine's theory for lateral earth pressure were considered for structural and geotechnical design, respectively. Number of the design variables are 12. Eight of those express the geometrical dimensions of the wall and four of those express the steel reinforcement of the wall. The safety against overturning, sliding and bearing capacity failure were regarded as the geotechnical constraints. The safety against bending and shear failure, minimum and maximum areas of reinforcement, development lengths of steel reinforcement were regarded as structural constraints. The performance of proposed algorithm was evaluated with two design examples.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2017

Nonlinear dynamic analysis is performed to calculate the response of U-shaped cantilever retaining structure under seismic loading using the finite element (FE) analysis program OpenSees. A particular interest of the study is to evaluate whether the moment demand in the cantilever can be accurately predicted, because it is an important component in the seismic design. The numerical model is validated against a centrifuge test that was performed on cantilever walls with dry medium dense sand in backfill. Seismic analysis is performed using the pressure-dependent, multi-yield-surface, plasticity based soil constitutive model implemented in OpenSees. Normal springs are used to simulate the soil-structure interface. Comparison with centrifuge show that FE analysis provides good estimates of both the acceleration response and bending moment. The lateral earth pressure near the bottom of the wall is overestimated in the numerical model, but this does not contribute to a higher prediction of the moment.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.237-251
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• 2021

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the performance of the proposed hybrid teaching-learning based optimization algorithm on the optimum design of reinforced concrete (RC) cantilever retaining walls. For this purpose, three different design examples are optimized with 100 independent runs considering continuous and discrete variables. In order to determine the algorithm performance, the optimization results were compared with the outcomes of the nine powerful meta-heuristic algorithms applied to this problem, previously: the big bang-big crunch (BB-BC), the biogeography based optimization (BBO), the flower pollination (FPA), the grey wolf optimization (GWO), the harmony search (HS), the particle swarm optimization (PSO), the teaching-learning based optimization (TLBO), the jaya (JA), and Rao-3 algorithms. Moreover, Rao-1 and Rao-2 algorithms are applied to this design problem for the first time. The objective function is defined as minimizing the total material and labor costs including concrete, steel, and formwork per unit length of the cantilever retaining walls subjected to the requirements of the American Concrete Institute (ACI 318-05). Furthermore, the effects of peak ground acceleration value on minimum total cost is investigated using various stem height, surcharge loads, and backfill slope angle. Finally, the most robust results were obtained by HTLBO with 50 populations. Consequently the optimization results show that, depending on the increase in PGA value, the optimum cost of RC cantilever retaining walls increases smoothly with the stem height but increases rapidly with the surcharge loads and backfill slope angle.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2002

널말뚝의 보다 편리한 설계를 위하여 지하수위가 굴착선 위에 있을 때 설계시 수계산을 하지 않고 근입깊이, 앵커장력, 그리고, 최대 휨모멘트를 구할 수 있는 설계용 도표가 개발되어 있다. 그러나 기존의 설계용 도표는 지하수위가 굴착선 위에 있을 경우와 앵커의 설치위치와 단위중량비가 제한적인 경우(Stock, 1992)에 한하여 개발되어 있어 설계에 많은 제약을 받는다. 다양한 설계조건에서도 설계에 편리하게 이용할 수 있는 간편식을 개발하였다. 널말뚝의 기하학적 조건과 흙의 토성치를 변화시켜 근입깊이, 앵커장력 그리고 최대 휨모멘트 등의 결과값을 얻어 이를 회귀분석을 통하여 사용하기 편리한 간편식을 개발하였다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.909-935
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• 2014

The seismic characteristics of two semi-gravity reinforced concrete cantilever retaining walls are examined via an experimental program using an outdoor shake table (one with and the other without concrete masonry sound wall on top). Both walls are backfilled with compacted soil and supported on flexible foundation in a steel soil container. The primary damages during both tests are associated with significant lateral displacements of the wall caused by lateral earth pressure; however, no collapse occurs during the tests. The pressure distribution behind the walls has a nonlinear trend and conventional methods such as Mononobe-Okabe are insufficient for accurate pressure estimation.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2008

실용적인 관점에서 현재 주로 사용되고 있는 중력식 옹벽, 캔틸레버식 옹벽 및 보강토 옹벽은 원활한 배수의 확보가 어렵고 뒷채움 토공량이 증가하고 현장타설에 의해 공기가 길어지는 등 현실적인 문제점을 갖고 있다. 이에 대한 대안으로서 프리캐스트 콘크리트를 이용한 블럭식 옹벽공법이 개발되어 왔다. 이들 블럭식 옹벽은 공학적 안정성을 유지함과 동시에 다양한 전면판의 구성 및 녹화의 가능성 등의 이점을 갖고 있으므로 도심지나 주택지에서의 옹벽공사에 자주 사용되고 있다. 많은 장점에도 불구하고 블록식 옹벽은 모형 실험결과 옹벽 중앙부에서 발생하는 배부름 현상이 주로 관찰되었으며, 따라서 안정성 분석이나 설계시에는 반드시 개별블럭의 전도에 대한 안정분석을 실시하고 이를 바탕으로 최적단면을 산정해야 한다는 점을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.31-40
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• 1998

비정착식 보강토 됫채움으로 구성된 옹벽은 종래의 분리형 전면판요소와 보강재의 결합으로 이루어진 연성옹벽 형식과는 달리 일체식 강성옹벽으로 설계된다. 이 경우 옹벽의 됫채움 흙속에 설치된 띠보강재의 보강효과로 인하여 옹벽에 작용하는 토압이 감소할 것으로 기대되는데, 이를 확인하기 위하여 실내모형실첩을 수행하였다. 역T형 벽체의 뒷굽길이와 보강재의 배치를 달리하여 모형실험을 실시한 결과 본 모형옹벽의 경우 뒷굽길이가 벽체높이의 0.1배와 0.12배일 때 무보강상태에서는 전도파괴를 일으키는 반면에 보강재를 삽입한 경우에는 안정을 유지함으로서 보강재의 효과를 확실하게 증명하였다. 이 형상의 옹벽에 대해 효율적인 보강간격으로 보강재를 배치한 결과 벽체의 단위길이당 전 도모멘트가 무보강 상태에 비해 약 50% 정도 감소하였다. 또한 보강재의 길이가 옹벽 높이의 0.6배 이상이 되어야 보 강재의 보강효과가 발휘되는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 역T형 옹벽의 파괴면은 Rankine파괴면에 가깝게 가상배면 내·외측으로 형성된 두개의 곡선으로 관측되었다 이 때 외측 파괴면은 직선에 가까운 곡선형태이며, 보강재의 개수가 증가함에 따라 벽체쪽으로 가깝게 나타났다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2000년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.379-386
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• 2000

This paper presents the results of finite element analysis on the seismic response of a soil-reinforced segmental retaining wall subjected to a prescribed earthquake record. The results of finite element analysis indicate that the maximum wall displacement occurs at the top, exhibiting a cantilever type of wall movement. Also revealed is that the increase in reinforcement force is more pronounced in the upper part of the reinforced zone, resulting in a more or less uniform distribution. None of the design guidelines appears to be able to correctly predict the dynamic force increase when compared with the results of finite element analysis. The calculation model adopted by the NCMA guideline, however, appears to compare better with the results of finite element analysis as well as field survey than the FHWA guideline. Based on the findings from this study, a number of implications to the current design methods are discussed.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2000년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.101-108
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• 2000

This paper presents the results of finite element analysis on the seismic response of a soil-reinforced segmental retaining wall subjected to a prescribed earthquake record. The results of finite element analysis indicate that the maximum wall displacement occurs at the top, exhibiting a cantilever type of wall movement. Also revealed is that the increase in reinforcement force is more pronounced in the upper part of the reinforced zone, resulting in a more or less uniform distribution. None of the design guidelines appears to be able to correctly predict the dynamic force increase when compared with the results of finite element analysis. The results demonstrated that there exist critical stiffness and length of reinforcement beyond which further increase would not contribute to additional reinforcing effect. Based on the findings from this study, a number of implications to the current design methods are discussed.