• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.559-571
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• 2018

In current engineering practice, circular concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns have been used as effective structural components due to their significant structural and economic benefits. To apply these structural components into steel-concrete composite moment resisting frames, increasing number of research into the column-base connections of circular CFST columns have been found. However, most of the previous research focused on the strength, rigidity and seismic resisting performance of the circular CFST column-base connections. The present paper attempts to investigate the demountability of bolted circular CFST column-base connections using the finite element method. The developed finite element models take into account the effects of material and geometric nonlinearities; the accuracy of proposed models is validated through comparison against independent experimental results. The mechanical performance of CFST column-base connections with both permanent and demountable design details are compared with the developed finite element models. Parametric studies are further carried out to examine the effects of design parameters on the behaviour of demountable circular CFST column-base connections. Moreover, the initial stiffness and moment capacity of such demountable connections are compared with the existing codes of practice. The comparison results indicate that an improved prediction method of the initial stiffness for these connections should be developed.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.73-85
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• 2014

CFT 기둥은 시공이 간단하고 경제적이며 구조성능이 우수한 현장타설 매입형 연결 형식이다. 본 연구에서는 모듈러 교각에 적용되는 CFT 기둥-기초 연결부 형식을 제안하고, 실험을 통하여 구조성능을 평가하였다. 기둥-기초 연결부의 구조성능을 평가하기 위해서 기초부 콘크리트에 매입되는 CFT 기둥의 매입깊이를 변수로 총 4개의 실험체를 제작하여 실험을 수행하였다. 준정적 실험결과, 매입깊이가 0.6D인 실험체에서는 낮은 하중단계에서 기초부의 콘파괴로 인하여 상대적으로 낮은 연성능력을 보였다. 그러나 매입깊이가 0.9D 이상인 실험체에서는 기초부의 콘파괴가 방지되고 CFT 기둥 하단부에서 전형적인 휨파괴 거동을 보이며 높은 연성능력을 발휘하였다. 하중-변위 이력곡선, 변위 연성도 및 에너지 소산능력 등을 분석한 결과, 제안된 CFT 기둥-기초 연결부의 매입깊이는 0.9D~1.2D 수준이 내진성능을 발휘하는 합리적인 수준인 것으로 평가되었다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2004년도 춘계 학술발표회 제16권1호
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• pp.48-51
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• 2004

This paper is to study the response of flat plate slab-column connections consisting of various types of shear reinforcement and steel plate subjected to gravity loadings, mainly punching shear forces using the non-destructive testing, spectral analysis of surface waves and structural experiments. The base specimen failed due to punching shear generated from the gravity. The three other types of slab shear reinforcement and steel plate showed effective in resisting punching shear for these types of connections under gravity loading. This study has focused in evaluating the velocity response of a Surface wave during the early age as the poured concrete specimens have been hardened, the possibility of damage detection in the slab-column connection and the relationship between the punching shear forces and the surface wave velocities under the condition that the punching shear forces had gradually increased until the flat plate slab in slab-column connection had been failed.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.34-45
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 소규모 철골조에 대한 기존 건축물의 접합부 현황조사와 분석을 통해 노출형 주각부에 대한 내진성능을 평가하였다. 총 9개의 주각부에 대한 반복가력 실험을 통해 휨강도, 변형능력, 그리고 초기강성 등이 조사되었다. 실험의 주요 변수는 베이스 플레이트의 두께, 앵커볼트의 개수와 매립깊이, 앵커볼트 후크의 유무, 그리고 리브 플레이트의 유무이다. 본 실험결과에 의하면, 주각부의 휨거동은 앵커볼트의 개수와 매립깊이, 그리고 베이스 플레이트의 두께에 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. 반면에, 주각부에 설치된 리브플레이트는 휨강도에 큰 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 종합적으로 노출형 철골 주각부와 기초부 그리고 앵커볼트 등이 모두 현행 구조기준을 만족한다고 할지라도, 앵커볼트와 기초부 콘크리트 사이의 부착력이 충분하지 않을 경우, 슬립형 거동이 관측되어 개선이 필요한 것으로 파악되었다. 앵커볼트의 매립깊이가 현행 구조기준을 만족하고, 앵커볼트에 후크가 설치된 경우, 노출형 주각부의 초기강성은 주각부가 구속되었을 때의 휨강성 하한값의 약 15% 수준인 것으로 나타났다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.357-373
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• 2019

Steel storage racks are slender structures whose overall behavior and the capacity depend largely on the flexural behavior of the base-plate to upright connections and on the behavior of beam-to-column connections. The base-plate upright connection assembly details, anchor bolt position in particular, associated with the high-rise steel storage racks differ from those of normal height steel storage racks. Since flexural behavior of high-rise rack base connection is hitherto unavailable, this investigation experimentally establishes the flexural behavior of base-plate upright connections of high-rise steel storage racks. This investigation used an enhanced test setup and considered nine groups of three identical tests to investigate the influence of factors such as axial load, base plate thickness, anchor bolt size, bracket length, and upright thickness. The test observations show that the base-plate assembly may significantly influence the overall behavior of such connections. A rigid plate analytical model and an elastic plate analytical model for the overall rotations stiffness of base-plate upright connections with concentric anchor bolts were constructed, and were found to give better predictions of the initial stiffness of such connections. Analytical model based parametric studies highlight and quantify the interplay of components and provide a means for efficient maximization of overall rotational stiffness of concentrically anchor bolted high-rise rack base-plate upright connections.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제70권2호
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• pp.221-231
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• 2019

This paper performs for the first time a simultaneous optimization for members sections along with semi-rigid beam-to-column connections for space steel frames with fixed, semi-rigid, and hinged bases using a biogeography-based optimization algorithm (BBO) and a genetic algorithm (GA). Furthermore, a member's sections optimization for a fully fixed space frame is carried out. A real and accurate simulation of semi-rigid connection behavior is considered in this study, where the semi-rigid base connections are simulated using Kanvinde and Grilli (2012) nonlinear model, which considers deformations in different base connection components under the applied loads, while beam-to-column connections are modeled using the familiar Frye and Morris (1975) nonlinear polynomial model. Moreover, the $P-{\Delta}$ effect and geometric nonlinearity are considered. AISC-LRFD (2016) specification constraints of the stress and displacement are considered as well as section size fitting constraints. The optimization is applied to two benchmark space frame examples to inspect the effect of semi-rigidity on frame weight and drift using BBO and GA algorithms.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2017

Seismic performance of hybrid steel frames defined as mixture of rigid and semi-rigid connections is investigated in this paper. Three frames with 10, 15 and 20 stories are designed with fully rigid connections and then with 4 patterns for semi-rigid connection placement, some of beam to column rigid connections would turn to semi-rigid. Each semi-rigid connection is considered with 4 different moment capacities and all rigid and semi-rigid frames consisting of 51 models are subjected to 5 selected earthquake records for nonlinear analysis. Maximum story drifts, roof acceleration and base shear are extracted for those 5 earthquake records and average values are obtained for each case. Based on numerical results for the proposed hybrid frames, story drifts remain in allowable range and the reductions in the maximum roof acceleration of 22, 29 and 25% and maximum base shear of 33, 31 and 54% occur in those 10, 15 and 20-story frames, respectively.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.715-723
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• 2001

이 논문은 T-스티프너보강된 GFT기둥-H형강보 실대형 접합부의 거동을 나타낸다. 수직요소와 수평요소로 구성된 6개 실험체의 T-스트프너는 보의 전소성모멘트에 대한 강도비를 주요변수로 하여 제작되었다. 실험을 통하여 얻은 주요 내용은 강도, 강성과 소성회전능력이다. 모든 실험체는 대체로 안정된 이력거동을 나타내었으며, 특히 수평요소는 수직요소보다 강도와 강성에 더욱더 큰 영향을 준다. 보의 소성회전성능에 있어서, 조기에 파단한 TS-2를 제외한 실험체들의 평균 보소성회전각은 2.97% rad.이다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.1035-1053
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• 2015

A genetic algorithm-based minimum weight design method is presented for steel frames containing composite beams, semi-rigid connections and column bases. Genetic Algorithms carry out optimum steel frames by selecting suitable profile sections from a specified list including 128 W sections taken from American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). The displacement and stress constraints obeying AISC Allowable Stress Design (ASD) specification and geometric (size) constraints are incorporated in the optimization process. Optimum designs of three different plane frames with semi-rigid beam-to-column and column-to-base plate connections are carried out first without considering concrete slab effects on floor beams in finite element analyses. The same optimization procedures are then repeated for the case of frames with composite beams. A program is coded in MATLAB for all optimization procedures. Results obtained from the examples show the applicability and robustness of the method. Moreover, it is proved that consideration of the contribution of concrete on the behavior of the floor beams enables a lighter and more economical design for steel frames with semi-rigid connections and column bases.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.29-42
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• 2017

This study presents algorithms for determining the fuzzy critical loads of planar steel frame structures with fixity factors of beam - column and column - base connections are modeled as triangular fuzzy numbers. The finite element method with linear elastic semi-rigid connection and Response Surface Method (RSM) in mathematical statistic are applied for problems with symmetric triangular fuzzy numbers. The ${\alpha}$ - level optimization using the Differential Evolution (DE) involving integrated finite element modeling is proposed to apply for problems with any triangular fuzzy numbers. The advantage of the proposed methodologies is demonstrated through some example problems relating to for the twenty - story, four - bay planar steel frames.