• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.189-213
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• 2020

Stainless-clad (SC) bimetallic steels that are manufactured by metallurgically bonding stainless steels as cladding metal and conventional mild steels as substrate metal, are kind of advanced steel plate products. Such advanced composite steels are gaining increasingly widespread usage in a range of engineering structures and have great potential to be used extensively for large civil and building infrastructures. Unfortunately, research work on the SC bimetallic steels from material level to structural design level for the applications in structural engineering field is very limited. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to investigate the material behaviour of the SC bimetallic steels under the cyclic loading which structural steels usually could encounter in seismic scenario. A number of SC bimetallic steel coupon specimens are tested under monotonic and cyclic loadings. The experimental monotonic and cyclic stress-strain curves of the SC bimetallic steels are obtained and analysed. The effects of the clad ratio that is defined as the ratio of the thickness of cladding layer to the total thickness of SC bimetallic steel plate on the monotonic and cyclic behaviour of the SC bimetallic steels are studied. Based on the experimental observations, a cyclic constitutive model with combined hardening criterion is recommended for numerical simulation of the cyclic behaviour of the SC bimetallic steels. The parameters of the constitutive model for the SC bimetallic steels with various clad ratios are calibrated. The research outcome presented in this paper may provide essential reference for further seismic analysis of structures fabricated from the SC bimetallic steels.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.325-333
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• 2010

이 연구에서는 시공성과 경제성이 향상되고 중진 지역에서 사용할 수 있는 새로운 프리캐스트 콘크리트 보-기둥 접합부 상세를 복합구조로 개발하고 실험을 통하여 이를 검증하였다. 이 상세는 기둥 속에 매립된 각형강관과 보U형 단부를 갖는 보 단부에 매립된 플레이트를 볼트로 결합시킬 수 있는 구조로 되어있다. 하이브리드 스틸-콘크리트 접합합부에 앞서 콘크리트가 조기에 파괴되는 것을 막기 위하여 접합부 부분에 ECC(engineered cementitious composite)를 사용하였다. 개발된 접합부 상세에 대한 성능을 검증하기 위하여 보-기둥 접합부 실험체를 계획하여 이에 대한 내진성능 실험을 실시하였다. 내부 접합부에 있어서는 접합부 횡보강근 유무와 현장타성 범위를 변수로 3개의 실험체를 제작하였다. 실험은 기둥에 일정 축력을 가한 상태에서 PC기둥 단부에 액츄에이터를 설치하여 변위제어로써 반복가력 하여 실시하였다. 실험에서 얻은 자료를 접합부 내력, 강성, 에너지 소산능력 등에 대하여 분석하였으며, 그 결과 이 연구에서 제시한 새로운 보-기둥 접합부 상세는 강재와 콘크리트 그리고 ECC 사이에서의 다른 부착 특성 때문에 구조거동에서 차이점이 관찰되었으며, 기준 실험체를 제외한 두 실험체의 경우 ECC 및 철골연결재에 의해 소성힌지를 유도할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 프리캐스트 접합부는 높은 일체성과 모멘트 저항 능력을 보이며 중진 지역에서 사용가능함을 보였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제48권5호
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• pp.599-610
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• 2023

To avoid debonding failure, a novel type of hybrid anchorage (HA) is proposed in this study that uses a slotted plate to lock the ends of the fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) sheet in addition to the usual bonding over the substrate of the strengthened member. An experimental investigation was performed on three groups of RC beams, which differed from one another in either concrete strength or steel reinforcement ratio. The test results indicate that the end self-locking of the CFRP sheet can improve the failure ductility, ultimate capacity of the beams and its utilization ratio. Although intermediate debonding occurred in all the strengthened beams, it was not a fatal mode of failure for the three specimens with end anchorage. Among them, FRP rupture occurred in the beam with higher concrete strength and lower steel reinforcement ratio, whereas the other two failed by concrete crushing. The beam strengthened by HA obtained a relatively high percentage of increase in ultimate capacity when the rebar ratio or concrete strength decreased. The expressions in the literature were inspected to calculate the critical loads at intermediate debonding, FRP rupturing and concrete crushing after debonding for the strengthened beam. Then, the necessity of further research is addressed.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2005년도 추계 학술발표회 제17권2호
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• pp.149-152
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• 2005

In recent years, the repair of damaged reinforced concrete members strengthened by the external bonding of fiber-reinforced polymer laminates has received considerable attention. This paper investigates shear capacity of RC beams strengthened in the shear span with the Glass-Fiber and Steel-Composite Plate(GSP) experimentally. There are 2 types of strengthening method by GSP in RC beams. Test results are compared with that of each reference specimen which is not strengthened with GSP.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.105-120
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• 2011

The strengthening and rehabilitation of reinforced concrete structures with externally bonded carbon fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) laminates has shown excellent performance and, as a result, this technology is rapidly replacing steel plate bonding techniques. This paper addresses this issue, and presents results deals with the influence of external bonded CFRP-reinforcement on the time-dependent behavior of reinforced concrete beams. A total of eight reinforced concrete beams with cracked and un-cracked section, with and without externally bonded CFRP laminates, were investigated for their creep and shrinkage behavior. All the beams considered in this paper were simply supported and subjected to a uniform sustained loading for the period of six months. The main parameters of this study are two types of sustained load and different degrees of strengthening scheme for both cracked and un-cracked sections of beams. Both analytical and experimental work has been carried out on strengthened beams to investigate the cracking and deflection performance. The applied sustained load was 56% and 38% of the ultimate static capacities of the un-strengthened beams for cracked and un-cracked section respectively. The analytical values based on effective modulus method (EMM) are compared to the experimental results and it is found that the analytical values are in general give conservative estimates of the experimental results. It was concluded that the attachment of CFRP composite laminates has a positive influence on the long term performance of strengthened beams.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2024

Aluminum foams sandwich panel (AFSP) has been used in engineering field, where cyclic loading is used in most of the applications. In this paper, the fatigue life of AFSP prepared by the bonding method was investigated through a three-point bending test. The mathematical statistics method was used to analyze the influence of different plate thicknesses and core densities on the bending fatigue life. The macroscopic fatigue failure modes and damage mechanisms were observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results indicate that panel thickness and core layer density have a significant influence on the bending fatigue life of AFSP and their dispersion. The damage mechanism of fatigue failure to cells in aluminum foam is that the initial fatigue crack begins the cell wall, the thinnest position of the cell wall or the intersection of the cell wall and the cell ridge, where stress concentrations are more likely to occur. The fatigue failure of aluminum foam core usually starts from the semi-closed unit of the lower layer, and the fatigue crack propagates layer by layer along the direction of the maximum shear stress. The results can provide a reference for the practical engineering design and application of AFSP.