• Computers and Concrete
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.647-675
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• 2011

Our ability to predict hydration behavior is becoming increasingly relevant to the concrete community as modelers begin to link material performance to the dynamics of material properties and chemistry. At early ages, the properties of concrete are changing rapidly due to chemical transformations that affect mechanical, thermal and transport responses of the composite. At later ages, the resulting, nano-, micro-, meso- and macroscopic structure generated by hydration will control the life-cycle performance of the material in the field. Ultimately, creep, shrinkage, chemical and physical durability, and all manner of mechanical response are linked to hydration. As a way to enable the modeling community to better understand hydration, a review of hydration models is presented offering insights into their mathematical origins and relationships one-to-the-other. The quest for a universal model begins in the 1920's and continues to the present, and is marked by a number of critical milestones. Unfortunately, the origins and physical interpretation of many of the most commonly used models have been lost in their overuse and the trail of citations that vaguely lead to the original manuscripts. To help restore some organization, models were sorted into four categories based primarily on their mathematical and theoretical basis: (1) mass continuity-based, (2) nucleation-based, (3) particle ensembles, and (4) complex multi-physical and simulation environments. This review provides a concise catalogue of models and in most cases enough detail to derive their mathematical form. Furthermore, classes of models are unified by linking them to their theoretical origins, thereby making their derivations and physical interpretations more transparent. Models are also used to fit experimental data so that their characteristics and ability to predict hydration calorimetry curves can be compared. A sort of evolutionary tree showing the progression of models is given along with some insights into the nature of future work yet needed to develop the next generation of cement hydration models.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.49-62
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 평면 PC 사장교의 시장교의 각 단계를 고려할 뿐 아니라 재료의 비선형성은 물론 기하학적 비선형도 고려하는 해석방법을 제시했다. 재료의 시간의존적 특성들로는 콘크리트의 크리프, 건조수축, 강도증가와 PC 강재 및 케이블의 이완을 고려했다. 시공중의 각 단계를 표현하기 위해 시공명령어를 정의하여 임의의 해석단계마다 하중과 경계조건의 변화, 구조계의 변화와 가설장비의 이동을 고려했다. 본 해석방법을 실제적인 PC 사장교의 해석에 적용하여 시공의 진행에 따른 PC 사장교의 비선형거동 및 응력과 변형의 변화를 검토했고 또한 시공단계를 고려한 해석에 있어서 재료의 시간의존적 특성이 끼치는 영향을 검토했다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.233-254
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• 2011

The consolidation behavior of Sri Lankan peaty clay is analyzed using an elasto-viscoplastic model. The model can describe the secondary compression behavior as a continuous process and it can also account for the effect of structural degradation on the consolidation analysis. The analysis takes into account all the main features involved in the process of peat consolidation, namely, finite strain, variable permeability, and the secondary compression. The material parameters required for the analysis and the procedures to evaluate them, using both standard laboratory and field tests, are explained. Initially, the model performance is assessed by comparing the predicted and the observed peat consolidation behavior under laboratory conditions. The results indicate that the model is capable of predicting the observed creep settlements and the effect of layer thickness on the settlement analysis of peaty clay. Then, the model is applied to predict the consolidation behavior of peaty clay under different field conditions. In this context, firstly, the one-dimensional field consolidation of peaty clay, brought about by the construction of compacted earth fill, is predicted. Then, the two-dimensional peat foundation response upon embankment loading is simulated. A good agreement is seen in the comparison of the predicted results with the field observations.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제72권2호
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• pp.275-291
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• 2019

In a super-large underground with "large span and high side wall", it is buried in mountains with uneven lithology, complicated geostress field and developed geological structure. These surrounding rocks are more susceptible to stability issues during the construction period. This paper takes the left bank of Baihetan hydropower station (span is 34m) as a case study example, wherein the deformation mechanism of surrounding rock appears prominent. Through analysis of geological, geophysical, construction and monitoring data, the deformation characteristics and factors are concluded. The failure mechanism, spatial distribution characteristics, and evolution mechanism are also discussed, where rock mechanics theory, $FLAC^{3D}$ numerical simulation, rock creep theory, and the theory of center point are combined. In general, huge underground cavern stability issues has arisen with respect to huge-scale and adverse geological conditions since settling these issues will have milestone significance based on the evolutionary pattern of the surrounding rock and the correlation analyses, the rational structure of the factors, and the method of nonlinear regression modeling with regard to the construction and development of hydropower engineering projects among the worldwide.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제77권5호
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• pp.627-635
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• 2021

The speed of rail vehicles become higher and higher over two decades, and China has unveiled a prototype high-speed train in October 2020 that has been able to reach 400 km/h. At such high speeds, wheel-rail force items that had previously been ignored in common computational model should be reevaluated and reconsidered. Aiming at this problem, a new model for investigating the vehicle-bridge interaction at high moving speed is proposed. Comparing with the common model, the new model was more accurate and applicable, because it additionally considers the second-order pseudo-inertia forces effect and its modeling equilibrium position was based on the initial deformed curve of bridge, which could include the influences of temperature, pre-camber, shrinkage and creep deformation, and pier uneven settlement, etc. Taking 5 km/h as the speed interval, the dynamic responses of the classical vehicle-bridge system in the speed range of 5 km/h to 400 km/h are studied. The results show that ignoring the second-order pseudo-inertia force will underestimate the dynamic response of vehicle-bridge system and make the high-speed railway bridge structure design unsafe.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.457-465
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• 2001

고층건물 콘크리트 슬래브에 발생하는 건조수축변형은 기둥이나 벽체 등의 구조부재에 의해 변형발생이 제한되고 이로 인한 인장응력이 부재의 인장강도를 초과하게 되면 균열이 발생한다. 이 논문에서는 건조수축과 크리프, 철근효과 등 콘크리트의 재료특성과 시공단계에 따른 건조수축을 고려하여 슬래브에 발생하는 응력을 산정하는 실용적인 해석방법을 제안하였다. 건조수축으로 인해 부재에 작용하는 인장응력은 건조수축변형을 등가온도하중으로 치환하여 계산할 수 있으며, 건조수축과는 달리 응력을 이완시켜 주는 크리프의 영향은 콘크리트의 탄성계수 Ec 대신에 크리프를 고려한 콘크리트의 유효탄성계수 E eff를 사용하고, 배근된 철근은 등가의 보요소로 모델링하여 해석에 반영할 수 있다. 또한 고층건물 슬래브에서 발생하는 건조수축응력은 그 층에서 발생한 건조수축량과 하부 층의 건조수축량의 차이인 유효건조수축에 의한 응력임을 고려하여 각 시공단계마다 발생하는 응력을 단계별 해석을 수행하여 구하고 이를 합산함으로서 슬래브에 최종적으로 발생하는 응력을 산정한다. 10층 규모에 예제건물을 대상으로 해석한 결과, 상부 층으로 갈수록 점차 건조수축응력이 줄어들며 전체 구조물에 발생한 응력은 저층부(1~2층)에서는 기준강도를 초과하나 3층 이상의 고층부에서는 기준강도의 27.9~92.8% 수준으로 나타났다.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.281-290
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• 2005

이 연구에서 중심축 하중을 받는 각형 CFT 기둥의 장기거동에 관한 실험과 해석을 수행하였으며, 이를 통해 각형 CFT 기둥의 장기거동을 예측할 수 있는 방법을 모색하고 그 거동 특성을 파악해 보고자 하였다. 중심축 하중에 대해 두 가지 가압 방법이 고려되었다. 첫째는 콘크리트에만 하중이 가해지는 경우이고, 둘째는 콘크리트와 강관에 동시에 하중이 가해지는 경우이다. 각형 CFT 기둥 실험체에 대한 삼차원 유한요소 모델로 해석을 수행하였으며, 해석결과는 실험결과를 매우 정확히 모사하였다. 따라서 강관과 콘크리트의 부착거동을 고려한 3차원 유한요소 모델링으로부터 실제 각형 CFT 기둥에 대한 장기거동 예측이 가능할 것으로 판단된다. 또한 실험과 해석결과로부터 다음의 거동 특성을 파악하였다. 콘크리트에만 하중이 가해지는 경우 구속압에 의해 유발되는 부착응력은 시간에 따라 증가하며, 강관과 콘크리트 사이의 미끄럼 또한 시간에 따라 증가한다. 강관에 의한 구속압은 시간에 따라 증가하는 반면. 가압판에 의한 구속압은 시간에 따라 감소한다. 강관과 콘크리트에 동시에 하중이 가해지는 경우 강관에 의한 콘크리트의 구속 효과와 미끄럼은 발생하지 않는다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.207-222
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• 2010

Fire incident in buildings is common, so the fire safety design of the framed structure is imperative, especially for the unprotected or partly protected bare steel frames. However, software for structural fire analysis is not widely available. As a result, the performance-based structural fire design is urged on the basis of using user-friendly and conventional nonlinear computer analysis programs so that engineers do not need to acquire new structural analysis software for structural fire analysis and design. The tool is desired to have the capacity of simulating the different fire scenarios and associated detrimental effects efficiently, which includes second-order P-D and P-d effects and material yielding. Also the nonlinear behaviour of large-scale structure becomes complicated when under fire, and thus its simulation relies on an efficient and effective numerical analysis to cope with intricate nonlinear effects due to fire. To this end, the present fire study utilizes a second-order elastic/plastic analysis software NIDA to predict structural behaviour of bare steel framed structures at elevated temperatures. This fire study considers thermal expansion and material degradation due to heating. Degradation of material strength with increasing temperature is included by a set of temperature-stress-strain curves according to BS5950 Part 8 mainly, which implicitly allows for creep deformation. This finite element stiffness formulation of beam-column elements is derived from the fifth-order PEP element which facilitates the computer modeling by one member per element. The Newton-Raphson method is used in the nonlinear solution procedure in order to trace the nonlinear equilibrium path at specified elevated temperatures. Several numerical and experimental verifications of framed structures are presented and compared against solutions in literature. The proposed method permits engineers to adopt the performance-based structural fire analysis and design using typical second-order nonlinear structural analysis software.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.567-577
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• 2023

The killing of bacteria by mechanical forces on nanopatterned surfaces has been defined as a mechano-bactericidal effect. Inspired by nature, this method is a new-generation technology that does not cause toxic effects and antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to simulate the mechano-bactericidal effect of nanopatterned surfaces' geometric parameters and material properties against three implant-derived bacterial species. Here, in silico models were developed to explain the interactions between the bacterial cell and the nanopatterned surface. Numerical solutions were performed based on the finite element method. Elastic and creep deformation models of bacterial cells were created. Maximum deformation, maximum stress, maximum strain, as well as mortality of the cells were calculated. The results showed that increasing the peak sharpness and decreasing the width of the nanopatterns increased the maximum deformation, stress, and strain in the walls of the three bacterial cells. The increase in spacing between nanopatterns increased the maximum deformation, stress, and strain in E. coli and P. aeruginosa cell walls it decreased in S. aureus. The decrease in width with the increase in sharpness and spacing increased the mortality of E. coli and P. aeruginosa cells, the same values did not cause mortality in S. aureus cells. In addition, it was determined that using different materials for nanopatterns did not cause a significant change in stress, strain, and deformation. This study will accelerate and promote the production of more efficient mechano-bactericidal implant surfaces by modeling the geometric structures and material properties of nanopatterned surfaces together.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.603-616
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• 2007

Roy Huddle, having invented the coated particle in Harwell 1957, stated in the early 1970s that we know now everything about particles and coatings and should be going over to deal with other problems. This was on the occasion of the Dragon fuel performance information meeting London 1973: How wrong a genius be! It took until 1978 that really good particles were made in Germany, then during the Japanese HTTR production in the 1990s and finally the Chinese 2000-2001 campaign for HTR-10. Here, we present a review of history and present status. Today, good fuel is measured by different standards from the seventies: where $9*10^{-4}$ initial free heavy metal fraction was typical for early AVR carbide fuel and $3*10^{-4}$ initial free heavy metal fraction was acceptable for oxide fuel in THTR, we insist on values more than an order of magnitude below this value today. Half a percent of particle failure at the end-of-irradiation, another ancient standard, is not even acceptable today, even for the most severe accidents. While legislation and licensing has not changed, one of the reasons we insist on these improvements is the preference for passive systems rather than active controls of earlier times. After renewed HTGR interest, we are reporting about the start of new or reactivated coated particle work in several parts of the world, considering the aspects of designs/ traditional and new materials, manufacturing technologies/ quality control quality assurance, irradiation and accident performance, modeling and performance predictions, and fuel cycle aspects and spent fuel treatment. In very general terms, the coated particle should be strong, reliable, retentive, and affordable. These properties have to be quantified and will be eventually optimized for a specific application system. Results obtained so far indicate that the same particle can be used for steam cycle applications with $700-750^{\circ}C$ helium coolant gas exit, for gas turbine applications at $850-900^{\circ}C$ and for process heat/hydrogen generation applications with $950^{\circ}C$ outlet temperatures. There is a clear set of standards for modem high quality fuel in terms of low levels of heavy metal contamination, manufacture-induced particle defects during fuel body and fuel element making, irradiation/accident induced particle failures and limits on fission product release from intact particles. While gas-cooled reactor design is still open-ended with blocks for the prismatic and spherical fuel elements for the pebble-bed design, there is near worldwide agreement on high quality fuel: a $500{\mu}m$ diameter $UO_2$ kernel of 10% enrichment is surrounded by a $100{\mu}m$ thick sacrificial buffer layer to be followed by a dense inner pyrocarbon layer, a high quality silicon carbide layer of $35{\mu}m$ thickness and theoretical density and another outer pyrocarbon layer. Good performance has been demonstrated both under operational and under accident conditions, i.e. to 10% FIMA and maximum $1600^{\circ}C$ afterwards. And it is the wide-ranging demonstration experience that makes this particle superior. Recommendations are made for further work: 1. Generation of data for presently manufactured materials, e.g. SiC strength and strength distribution, PyC creep and shrinkage and many more material data sets. 2. Renewed start of irradiation and accident testing of modem coated particle fuel. 3. Analysis of existing and newly created data with a view to demonstrate satisfactory performance at burnups beyond 10% FIMA and complete fission product retention even in accidents that go beyond $1600^{\circ}C$ for a short period of time. This work should proceed at both national and international level.