• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.317-331
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• 2014

An experimental study was performed to investigate the seismic performance of solid steel reinforced concrete (SRC) frames with special-shaped columns that are composed of SRC special-shaped columns and reinforced concrete beams. For this purpose, two models of two-bay and three-story frame, including an edge frame and a middle frame, were designed and tested. The failure process and patterns were observed. The mechanical behaviors such as load-displacement hysteretic loops and skeleton curves, load bearing capacity, drift ratio, ductility, energy dissipation and stiffness degradation of test specimens were analyzed. Test results show that the failure mechanism of solid SRC frame with special-shaped columns is the beam-hinged mechanism, satisfying the seismic design principle of "strong column and weak beam". The hysteretic loops are plump, the ductility is good and the capacity of energy dissipation is strong, indicating that the solid SRC frame with special-shaped columns has excellent seismic performance, which is better than that of the lattice SRC frame with special-shaped columns. The ultimate elastic-plastic drift ratio is larger than the limit value specified by seismic code, showing the high capacity of collapse resistance. Compared with the edge frame, the middle frame has higher carrying capacity and stronger energy dissipation, but the ductility and speed of stiffness degradation are similar. All these can be helpful to the designation of solid SRC frame with special-shaped columns.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.463-471
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• 2016

이 연구에서는 롯드 앵커에 강재 링을 추가한 고전단 링앵커의 전단실험을 바탕으로 강도평가 모델을 개발하였다. 고전단 링앵커의 전단강도는 콘크리트 압축강도의 3/4 제곱에 비례하여, 강-콘크리트 합성구조에 사용되는 전단연결재와 유사한 강도 특성을 발현하였다. 콘크리트 압축강도, 측면연단거리, 롯드 묻힘깊이를 고려한 단일 고전단 링앵커 전단강도 평가 모델을 개발하였다. 22개 실험결과와 비교한 결과 [실험값]/[예측값]의 평균이 1.01 변동계수 7.57%로 나타났다. 한면에 4개씩 총 8개의 고전단 링앵커에 대한 Push 실험을 수행하고, 개발된 전단강도 모델과 비교하였다. 다수의 고전단 링앵커 Push 실험 결과, 단일 고전단 링앵커와 유사하게 측면 연단거리 100 mm에서는 쪼갬파괴가 발생되고, 측면 연단거리 150 mm에서는 쪼갬파괴와 지압파괴가 혼합되어 발생하였다. 쪼갬 파괴가 발생된 경우, 가력방향으로 고전단 링앵커 간격이 측면 연단거리의 4배인 400 mm이면 파괴면이 독립적으로 발생되어, 앵커 사이 간섭이 발생되지 않았다. 지압 파괴가 발생된 경우, 지압파괴의 영향 길이가 150 mm 미만으로 가력방향으로 고전단 링앵커의 간격이 200 mm를 확보하면 앵커 사이 상호 간섭이 발생되지 않았다. 다수 고전단 링앵커 Push실험에 의한 전단강도는 이 연구에서 개발된 예측강도의 평균 98%가 발현되었다. 개발된 전단강도 모델이 다수의 고전 단 링앵커의 전단강도 예측에도 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.317-330
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• 2022

This paper investigated computationally and experimentally the interaction here between a notch as well as a micropore under uniaxial compression. Brazilian tensile strength, uniaxial tensile strength, as well as biaxial tensile strength are used to calibrate PFC2d at first. Then, uniaxial compression test was conducted which they included internal notch and micro pore. Experimental and numerical building of 9 models including notch and micro pore were conducted. Model dimensions of models are 10 cm × 10 cm × 5 cm. Joint length was 2 cm. Joints angles were 30°, 45° and 60°. The position of micro pore for all joint angles was 2cm upper than top of the joint, 2 cm upper than middle of joint and 2 cm upper than the joint lower tip, discreetly. The numerical model's dimensions were 5.4 cm × 10.8 cm. The fractures were 2 cm in length and had angularities of 30, 45, and 60 degrees. The pore had a diameter of 1 cm and was located at the top of the notch, 2 cm above the top, 2 cm above the middle, and 2 cm above the bottom tip of the joint. The uniaxial compression strength of the model material was 10 MPa. The local damping ratio was 0.7. At 0.016 mm per second, it loaded. The results show that failure pattern affects uniaxial compressive strength whereas notch orientation and pore condition impact failure pattern. From the notch tips, a two-wing fracture spreads almost parallel to the usual load until it unites with the sample edge. Additionally, two wing fractures start at the hole. Both of these cracks join the sample edge and one of them joins the notch. The number of wing cracks increased as the joint angle rose. There aren't many AE effects in the early phases of loading, but they quickly build up until the applied stress reaches its maximum. Each stress decrease was also followed by several AE effects. By raising the joint angularities from 30° to 60°, uniaxial strength was reduced. The failure strengths in both the numerical simulation and the actual test are quite similar.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제60권6호
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• pp.939-952
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• 2016

A compression to tensile load transforming (CTT) device was developed to determine indirect tensile strength of concrete material. Before CTT test, Particle flow code was used for the determination of the standard dimension of physical samples. Four numerical models with different dimensions were made and were subjected to tensile loading. The geometry of the model with ideal failure pattern was selected for physical sample preparation. A concrete slab with dimensions of $15{\times}19{\times}6cm$ and a hole at its center was prepared and subjected to tensile loading using this special loading device. The ratio of hole diameter to sample width was 0.5. The samples were made from a mixture of water, fine sand and cement with a ratio of 1-0.5-1, respectively. A 30-ton hydraulic jack with a load cell applied compressive loading to CTT with the compressive pressure rate of 0.02 MPa per second. The compressive loading was converted to tensile stress on the sample because of the overall test design. A numerical modeling was also done to analyze the effect of the hole diameter on stress concentrations of the hole side along its horizontal axis to provide a suitable criterion for determining the real tensile strength of concrete. Concurrent with indirect tensile test, the Brazilian test was performed to compare the results from two methods and also to perform numerical calibration. The numerical modeling shows that the models have tensile failure in the sides of the hole along the horizontal axis before any failure under shear loading. Also the stress concentration at the edge of the hole was 1.4 times more than the applied stress registered by the machine. Experimental Results showed that, the indirect tensile strength was clearly lower than the Brazilian test strength.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2017

The fatigue fracture of studs is the main reason for failure of composite beams based on massive engineering practices. Hence, studying the laws of cracks initiation and propagation are of great directive significance. eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) is an effective method in solving moving discontinuous problems in recent years. This paper extends our recent work on the fatigue damage analysis of stud shear connectors in the steel and crumble rubber concrete (RRFC) composite beams based on XFEM. The process of crack initiation to failure of the stud is simulated and an effective calculation criteria for the fatigue life of the composite beams is put forward. After the reliability of the numerical analysis is verified based on tests results, the extensive parametric study is conducted concerning effects of different rubber contents, shear connection degrees and the stress amplitudes. Results show that with the increasing rubber contents and shear connection degrees, the fatigue lives of composite beams increase obviously. Furthermore, the relationship between the fatigue life of the stud at the edge of the shear span and the whole composite beams is studied. Finally, the S-N curves of the single stud and the whole composite beams are put forward based on XFEM.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.75-86
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• 1993

The punching shear strength of concrete flat plates is one of the topics of intensive research in recent years by various concrete structures researchers. This paper reviews four current methods of analysing the punching shear strength at the corner-and edge-column positions of reinforced concrete flat plates. They include those recommended in the Australian Standard AS3600-1988, the American Concrete Institute ACI318-89 and the British Standard on Concrete Practices (BS8110) as well as the approach developed at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Based on half-scale model test results, a comparative study of these four analysis methods is made with regard to their limitation, accuracy and reliability. It is found that the Wollongong approach in general gives the best performance in predicting the punching shear strength of flat plates with torsion strips and those with spandrel beams. The Australian Standard procedure performs just as satisfactorily for flat plates with torsion strips but tends to be unsafe for those with spandrel beams. Both the ACI and the British methods are applicable only to flat plates with torsion strips; they also tend to give unsafe predictions for the punching shear strength.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.185-198
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• 2005

In the design of reinforced concrete beams, it is a standard practice to use the yield stress of the steel reinforcement for the evaluation of the flexural strength. However, because of strain hardening, the tensile strength of the steel reinforcement is often substantially higher than the yield stress. Thus, it is a common belief that the actual flexural strength should be higher than the theoretical flexural strength evaluated with strain hardening ignored. The possible increase in flexural strength due to strain hardening is a two-edge sword. In some cases, it may be treated as strength reserve contributing to extra safety. In other cases, it could lead to greater shear demand causing brittle shear failure of the beam or unexpected greater capacity of the beam causing violation of the strong column-weak beam design philosophy. Strain hardening may also have certain effect on the flexural ductility. In this paper, the effects of strain hardening on the post-peak flexural behaviour, particularly the flexural strength and ductility, of reinforced normal- and high-strength concrete beams are studied. The results reveal that the effects of strain hardening could be quite significant when the tension steel ratio is relatively small.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제17권3호통권76호
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• pp.271-283
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• 2005

익스팬션 앵커인 셋트앵커를 대상으로 실험을 통하여 전단내력에 대해서 고찰하였다. 실험은 연단거리와 앵커간격을 변수로 하여 진행하였으며 전단하중을 받는 앵커의 파괴모드는 연단거리와 앵커의 강성 및 직경에 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. 앵커와 모재인 콘크리트의 파괴모드는 앵커의 설계식에 중요한 요소이며, 본 실험에서는 앵커의 전단파괴와 콘크리트 단부파괴가 나타났다. 앵커의 전단강도는 ACI 318-02 설계기준과 EOTA 기준을 비교 검토하여 평가하였으며, 콘크리트 단부파괴강도는 CCD 방법과 기존의 ACI349-90 설계기준을 비교.검토하여 평가하였다. 셋트앵커의 실험결과, (1) 셋트앵커의 전단강도에서 앵커의 계수는 5% 파괴확률을 적용하여 0.684로 평가되었다. 그러므로 ACI318-02와 EOTA의 앵커의 전단강도에 대한 각각의 계수 0.6과 0.5는 안전 측으로 판단된다. 따라서 셋트앵커의 전단강도를 다음과 같이 제시한다. $V_s=0.684 A_{se}f_{ut}$(N). (2) 콘크리트 단부파괴강도 예측값은 CCD방법을 적용한 예측값이 비교적 실험값에 근접했다. 그러므로 CCD방법에 근거하여 5% 파괴확률을 적용한 셋트앵커의 콘크리트 단부파괴강도를 다음과 같이 제시한다. $V_b=0.609(\frac{\iota}{d_o})^{0.2}\sqrt{d_0}\sqrt{f_c}(c_1)^{1.5}$(N). (3) 앵커간격에 따른 콘크리트 단부파괴강도 추정 시 CCD 설계기준이 합리적인 설계방법으로 사료된다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 1999년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집(I)
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• pp.727-732
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• 1999

In this research, we made an experiment on the 10 specimen beams that we made. The specimen beams consist of 4 steel plate strengthening beams and 5 carbon fiber sheet strengthening beams. We applied the methods of notch, rounding off a edge, anchor bolt and side shear strengening to the steel plate and for the case of carbon fiber sheet, we applied the methods of anchor bolt, line anchor and shear strengthening. After all the cases were applied, the beams was measured and analyzed about the behavior property of strengthened beams, th ability of strengthening method, the relation between load and the shape of failure, the crack load, the yield load, the shape of crack pattern, the increasing rate from yield load and maximum load and the strain of rebar. All the strengthening methods resulted in almost same value until the yield load, and it wasn't quite different from the theoretical value. In comparison with existing method, the SER, SEAS for the steel plate and the CEA, CESS, CCESS for carbon fiber sheet showed the increasement of ductility with big displacement.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.231-250
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• 2007

The influence of masonry infills with eccentric openings on the seismic performance of reinforced concrete (r/c) frames that were designed in accordance with current code provisions are investigated. Eight 1/3-scale, single-story, single-bay frame specimens were tested under cyclic horizontal loading up to a drift level of 4%. In all examined cases the shear strength of columns was higher than the cracking shear strength of solid infill. The parameters investigated include the shape and the location of the opening. Assessment of the behavior of the frames is also attempted, based on the observed failure modes, strength, stiffness, ductility, energy dissipation capacity and degradation from cycling loading. Based on these results there can be deduced that masonry infills with eccentrically located openings has been proven to be beneficial to the seismic capacity of the bare r/c frames in terms of strength, stiffness, ductility and energy dissipation. The location of the opening must be as near to the edge of the infill as possible in order to provide an improvement in the performance of the infilled frame.