• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.511-523
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• 2015

Damaged steel-concrete composite girders can be repaired and retrofitted by epoxy-bonded carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets to the critical areas of tension flanges. This paper presents the results of a study on the behavior of damaged steel-concrete composite girders repaired with CFRP sheets under static loading. A total of seven composite girders made of I20A steel sections and 80mm-thick by 900mm-wide concrete slabs were prepared and tested. CFRP sheets and prestressed CFRP sheets were used to repair the specimens. The specimens lost the cross-sectional area of their tension flanges with 30%, 50% and 100%. The results showed that CFRP sheets had no significant effect on the yield loads of strengthened composite girders, but had significant effect on the ultimate loads. The yield loads, elastic stiffness, and ultimate bearing capacities of strengthened composite girders had been changed as a result of prestressed CFRP sheets, the utilization ratio of CFRP sheets could be effectively improved by applying prestress to CFRP sheets. Both the yield loads and ultimate bearing capacities had been changed as a result of steel beam's flange damage level and CFRP sheets could cover the girders' shortage of bearing capacity with 30% and 50% flange damage, respectively.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제82권3호
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• pp.343-354
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• 2022

An understanding of the mechanism of concrete girders repaired with CFRP plates and its influence on the dynamic parameters is presented in this paper. Dynamic parameters are governed by the relationship with the physical properties of concrete girders and CFRP plates as well as the adhesive layer between them. A brief explanation of the mechanism of the composite action of concrete girders repaired with CFRP is also given in this paper. Experimental work was carried out to validate the theory of the composite action. The results show a decrease in the modal parameters of CFRP repaired girders that were turned over during the repair procedure, which contrasts with the proven static-based results that CFRP plates increase the stiffness of repaired girders. The composite action theory has explained the results based on the tension and compression forces' growth at the adhesive layer between the CFRP plates and girder surface during the repair procedure. Other girders were prepared and repaired without turning over in order to avoid tension and compression forces at the adhesive layer. The experimental results show an increase in the dynamic parameters of CFRP repaired girders that were not turned over during the repair procedure, which aligns with the static-based results. The study concludes that the dynamic parameters are excellent indicators for the assessment of CFRP repaired concrete girders. The study also suggests that researchers should not turn over damaged concrete girders to repair them with CFRP plates if they intend to study the dynamic parameters, in order to avoid the proposed composite action effect on modal parameters.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.833-849
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• 2016

Pre-stressing of existing structures using steel cables, FRP cables or FRP laminates has been successfully tried in the past. Retrofitting of beams using pre-stressed laminates does not utilize the full strength of the FRP due to de-bonding of the laminates before the fibre fracture. In the present study attempt has been made to overcome this problem by replacing the FRP laminates by the FRP sheets. In the present paper the effect of initial damage level and pre-stress level on strength, stiffness, cracking behaviour and failure mode of girders retrofitted using pre-stressed CFRP sheets has been studied. The results indicate that rehabilitation of initially damaged girders by bonding pre-stressed CFRP sheets improves the flexural behaviour of beams appreciably. However, it has been observed that with increase in pre-stressing force the load carrying capacity of the girders increases up to a particular level up to which the mode of failure is fibre fracture. Thereafter, the mode of failure shifts from fibre fracture to de-bonding and there is no appreciable increase in load carrying capacity with further increase in pre-stressing force.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 1998년도 가을 학술발표대회 논문집(III)
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• pp.815-820
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• 1998

Many composite girder bridges have been constructed for about thirty five years. Nowadays they are aged or deteriorated because of th increase in traffic and vehicle loads. In this study, the effect of strengthening with glass fiber sheet is investigated to estimate the possibility for appling for damaged prestressed concrete bridges. One normal and eight cracked specimens which had been preloaded were tested. The cracked specimens were strengthened with either external prestressing or bonding glass fiber sheet, or using both methods. The results showed that the maximum loads are almost same for both methods. So it seems that the strengthening with glass fiber sheet can be used for strengthening damaged prestressed concrete girders. It is important that proper devices should be selected to prevent glass fiber sheet from premature bonding failure below its maximum load, which is similar to end anchorage problem in external prestressing method. It is proved that the devices proposed in this paper have sufficient anchoring capability to increase load carrying capacity.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.257-289
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• 2015

Shear connectors are generally used to link the slab and girders together in slab-on-girder bridge structures. Damage of shear connectors in such structures will result in shear slippage between the slab and girders, which significantly reduces the load-carrying capacity of the bridge. Because shear connectors are buried inside the structure, routine visual inspection is not able to detect conditions of shear connectors. A few methods have been proposed in the literature to detect the condition of shear connectors based on vibration measurements. This paper proposes a different dynamic condition assessment approach to identify the damage of shear connectors in slab-on-girder bridge structures based on power spectral density transmissibility (PSDT). PSDT formulates the relationship between the auto-spectral densities of two responses in the frequency domain. It can be used to identify shear connector conditions with or without reference data of the undamaged structure (or the baseline). Measured impact force and acceleration responses from hammer tests are analyzed to obtain the frequency response functions at sensor locations by experimental modal analysis. PSDT from the slab response to the girder response is derived with the obtained frequency response functions. PSDT vectors in the undamaged and damaged states can be compared to identify the damage of shear connectors. When the baseline is not available, as in most practical cases, PSDT vectors from the measured response at a reference sensor to those of the slab and girder in the damaged state can be used to detect the damage of shear connectors. Numerical and experimental studies on a concrete slab supported by two steel girders are conducted to investigate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed approach. Identification results demonstrate that damages of shear connectors are identified accurately and efficiently with and without the baseline. The proposed method is also used to evaluate the conditions of shear connectors in a real composite bridge with in-field testing data.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제26권4A호
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• pp.611-620
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• 2006

강합성 플레이트 2-거더교는 피로균열에 의해 한 개의 거더에 심각한 손상이 발생되는 경우 교량의 붕괴가 유발되는 단재 하경로 구조로 인식되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 강합성 2-거더교의 거더 손상시 교량의 여유도를 평가하기 위한 해석적 연구를 수행하였다. 여유도 평가는 단경간 및 3경간 연속교를 대상으로 하였으며, 수직브레이싱은 I-단면 가로보로 적용하고 하부 수평브레이싱이 설치되는 경우와 설치되지 않는 경우를 고려하였다. 정상 상태 및 손상 상태의 교량에 대해 하부 수평브레이싱의 유 무에 따른 내하 성능을 재료 및 기하비선형 해석으로 구하고 각 경우의 여유도를 비교 평가하였다. 해석 결과에 따르면 정상 상태의 2-거더 교량은 단순교와 연속교 모두 수평브레이싱이 없어도 여유도가 충분하며, 손상 상태의 교량에서는 수평브레이싱이 여유도 향상에 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로 분석되었다.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.413-421
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• 2020

For steel-concrete girders made composite using shear studs, initial damage on studs induced by weld defect, unexpected overloading, fatigue and others might degrade the service performance and even threaten the structural safety. This paper conducted a numerical study to investigate the static behavior of damaged stud shear connectors that were embedded in ultra high performance concrete (UHPC). Parameters included damage degree and damage location. The material nonlinear behavior was characterized by multi-linear stress-strain relationship and damage plasticity model. The results indicated that the shear strength was not sensitive to the damage degree when the damage occurred at 2/3d (d is the stud diameter) from the stud root. An increased stud area would be engaged in resisting shear force as the distance of damage location from stud root increased and the failure section becomes inclined, resulting in a less reduction in the shear strength and shear stiffness. The reduction factor was proposed to consider the degradation of the shear strength of the damaged stud. The reduction factor can be calculated using two approaches: a linear relationship and a square relationship with the damage degree corresponding to the shear strength dominated by the section area and the nominal diameter of the damaged stud. It was found that the proposed method is preferred to predict the shear strength of a stud with initial damage.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.137-146
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 단재하경로 구조로 인식되는 강합성 2-거더교에서 가로보의 제원 및 배치 간격에 따른 여유도 평가를 위한 해석적인 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위해 수평브레이싱은 생략하고 수직브레이싱은 I-단면 가로보로 적용한 40+50+40m의 2차로 연속교를 대상으로 하였다. 본 교량에 대해 정상 상태 및 한 개 거더에 심각한 균열을 가정한 손상 상태로 구분하고 가로보의 제원과 배치 간격을 변수로 하여 재료 및 기하비선형 해석을 수행하였다. 해석으로부터 구해진 각 경우에 대한 내하력을 토대로 정상 상태 및 손상 상태 교량의 여유도를 평가하였다. 평가 결과, 정상 상태 및 손상 상태 모두 가로보의 제원과 배치 간격에 따른 여유도 차이는 거의 없었다.

• 콘크리트학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.167-175
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• 1999

현재 국내에는 지난 35년간 프리스트레스트 콘크리트보를 이용한 합성형 교량이 매우 널리 건설, 사용되어 왔으나, 교통량의 증가와 차량하중의 증가로 노후화가 점차 가속화되고 있는 형편이다. 본 연구에서는 유리섬유를 이용하여 손상된 프리스트레스트 콘크리트 교량을 보강하는 방법의 효과를 평가하기 위하여 무보강 표준시험체와 선행 하중의 재하로 균열이 발생한 8개의 시험체에 대하여 유리섬유 보강, 외부강선 보강 및 두가지 보강 방법을 병행한 보강을 실시하여 각 보강방법의 효과를 비교, 분석하였다. 실험결과, 최대하중은 외부강선 보강 시험체와 유리섬유 보강 시험체가 모두 거의 유사한 정도의 보강효과를 발휘함으로써 유리섬유 보강공법이 손상된 프리스트레스트 콘크리트 교량의 보강에 적용될 수 있는 것으로 판명되었다. 외부강선 보강공법에서의 가장 큰 문제가 단부의 정착장치인 것과 마찬가지로 유리섬유 보강 공법의 경우에도 최대하중에 도달하기 이전에 보강재의 부착이 파괴되지 않도록 적절한 방법을 선정하는 것이 매우 중요하며, 본 연구에서 검증된 두가지 방법이 단부의 정착기능을 충분히 발휘하는 것으로 판명되어, 이들 방법들이 적절히 사용될 경우에는 설계된 내하력의 증가를 기대할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.751-762
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• 2022

강합성 교량에서 강 거더와 콘크리트 바닥판의 합성을 위한 전단연결재로는 용접접합 머리붙이 스터드가 주로 사용된다. 용접접합 전단연결재의 경우, 손상 또는 노후화된 바닥판 철거 시에 파쇄에 따른 소음, 비산먼지 등이 발생하여 환경적 문제가 지적되고 있다. 따라서 환경적 문제 및 생애주기비용 관점의 효율적인 유지관리를 위해서는 노후화된 콘크리트 바닥판의 교체가 용이한 분리식 전단연결재 개발이 필요하다. 기존의 볼트접합 전단연결재로는 매립너트 방식이 주로 연구되었으나 낮은 강성과 전단저항강도, 초기슬립 증가 등으로 교량과 같은 토목구조물에는 활용되지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점들을 개선하기 위해 매립너트 부분이 스터드 기둥에 일체화되고 확대 기둥 하단에 테이퍼진 형상을 갖는 분리식 볼트접합 전단연결재를 제안하였다. 제안된 분리식 스터드볼트의 정적 전단강도와 슬립 변위에 대한 성능 검증을 위해 수평전단실험을 수행하였고, 기존 용접접합 스터드와 성능을 비교하였다. 제안된 분리식 볼트접합 전단연결재가 전단성능이 매우 우수하고, 슬립변위 또한 연성설계기준을 만족함으로써 기존 용접 스터드를 충분히 대체하여 적용 가능함을 확인하였다.