• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.1069-1084
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• 2016

This paper introduces a new and effective design amplification factor-based approach for reliable optimum design of trusses. This paper may be categorized as in the family of decoupled methods that aiming for a reliable optimum design based on a Design Amplification Factor (DAF). To reduce the computational expenses of reliability analysis, an improved version of Response Surface Method (RSM) was used. Having applied this approach to two planar and one spatial truss problems, it exhibited a satisfactory performance.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.443-462
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• 2015

Some model building codes stipulate that the design displacement of a building can be computed using the elastic static analysis results multiplied by the deflection amplification factor, $C_d$. This approach for estimating the design displacement is essential and appealing in structural engineering practice when nonlinear response history analysis (NRHA) is not required. Furthermore, building codes stipulate the consideration of accidental torsion effects using accidental eccentricity, whether the buildings are symmetric-plan, or asymmetric-plan. In some model building codes, the accidental eccentricity is further amplified by the torsional amplification factor $A_x$ in order to minimize the discrepancy between statically and dynamically estimated responses. Therefore, this warrants exploration of the reliability of statically estimated design displacements in accordance with the building code requirements. This study uses the discrepancy curves as a way of assessing the reliability of the design displacement estimates resulting from the factors $C_d$ and $A_x$. The discrepancy curves show the exceedance probabilities of the differences between the statically estimated design displacements and NRHA results. The discrepancy curves of 3-story, 9-story, and 20-story example buildings are investigated in this study. The example buildings are steel special moment frames with frequency ratios equal to 0.7, 1.0, 1.3, and 1.6, as well as existing eccentricity ratios ranging from 0% to 30%.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.121-129
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• 2012

All contemporary seismic Codes have adopted smooth design acceleration response spectra, which have derived by statistical analysis of many elastic response spectra of natural accelerograms. The above smooth design spectra are characterized by two main branches, an horizontal branch that is 2.5 times higher than the peak ground acceleration, and a declining parabolic branch. According to Eurocode EN/1998, the period range of the horizontal, flat branch is extended from 0.1 s, for rock soils, up to 0.8 s for softer ones. However, from many natural recorded accelerograms of important earthquakes, the real spectral amplification factor appears to be much higher than 2.5 and this means that the spectrum leads to an unsafe seismic design of the structures. This point is an issue open to question and it is the object of the present study. In the present paper, the spectral amplification factor of the smooth design acceleration spectra is re-calculated on the grounds of a known "reliability index" for a desired probability of exceedance. As a pilot scheme, the seismic area of Greece is chosen, as it is the most seismically hazardous area in Europe. The accelerograms of the 82 most important earthquakes, which have occurred in Greece during the last 38 years, are used. The soil categories are taken into account according to EN/1998. The results that have been concluded from these data are compared with the results obtained from other strong earthquakes reported in the World literature.

• 대한건축학회논문집:구조계
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• 제35권12호
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• pp.137-148
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• 2019

Korean piloti-type buildings are comprised of pilotis in the first story and shear walls in the upper stories. This vertical irregularity causes excessive lateral plastic deformation on the first story while the upper stories stay elastic. Meanwhile, asymmetric position of structural components such as core walls and columns of RC piloti-type buildings tends to produce torsional irregularities of the structures. Korean Building Code(KBC2016) requires the special seismic load and torsional amplification factor to apply to the piloti-type buildings lower than six-story or 20m if it has vertical and torsional irregularities when the building corresponds to seismic design category C or D. Many Korean low-rised RC buildings fall into the class. Therefore, the special earthquake load and torsional amplification factor are often applied to a building simultaneously. However, it has not been studied enough how much influence each parameter has on buildings with vertical and torsional irregularities at the same time. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of factor special seismic load and torsional amplification on seismic performance of irregular buildings. In this study, a damaged 4^th story piloti-type building by the Pohang earthquake was selected and the earthquake response analysis was carried out with various seismic design methods by the KBC 2016. The effect of the design parameters on seismic performance was analyzed by the dynamic analysis of models with special seismic load and torsional amplification factor based on the selected building. It was concluded that the application of the torsional amplification factor to the reference model to which special seismic design was applied, does not significantly affect the seismic performance.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.159-169
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• 2020

변전소 구조물 내부에 설치되는 전력설비의 내진설계 시 사용되는 변수인 가속도 증폭계수는 미국, 일본과 국내의 변전소 내진설계기준에서 제시되어 있다. 국내 설계기준에 제시된 가속도 증폭계수는 미국, 일본의 설계기준에서 제시된 계수와는 달리 변전소 구조물의 층수가 4층 이상일 경우에는 동적해석을 수행하여 가속도 증폭계수를 구하게 되어 있다. 국내의 변전소 구조물은 대부분 층수가 4~5층이므로 기존의 가속도 증폭계수는 실제 변전소 구조물에 적용하기에 미흡한 상황이다. 국내 변전소 구조물 형식에 적합한 가속도 증폭계수를 제시하기 위하여 대표적인 7가지 구조형식의 변전소 구조물에 대하여 가속도 증폭계수를 평가하였다. 가속도증폭계수는 변전소 구조물에 대하여 원거리 지진과 근거리 지진을 사용하여 내부-구조물 응답스펙트럼을 작성하여 이로부터 평가하였다. 미국, 일본 전력설비 내진설계 기준에 따른 각각의 가속도 증폭계수 α_J, α_A는 근거리 및 원거리 지진을 사용한 동적 해석으로 구한 가속도 증폭계수에 비하여 다소 과대평가하는 경향이 있다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2020

Steel plate shear walls are recently used as efficient seismic lateral resisting systems. These lateral resistant structures are implemented to provide more strength, stiffness and ductility in limited space areas. In this study, the seismic behavior of the multi-story steel frames with steel plate shear walls are investigated for buildings with 4, 8, 12 and 16 stories using verified computational modeling platforms. Different number of steel moment bays with distinctive lengths are investigated to effectively determine the deflection amplification factor for low-rise and high-rise structures. Results showed that the dissipated energy in moment frames with steel plates are significantly related to the inside panel. It is shown that more than 50% of the dissipated energy under various ground motions is dissipated by the panel itself, and increasing the steel plate length leads to higher energy dissipation capability. The deflection amplification factor is studied in details for various verified parametric cases, and it is concluded that for a typical multi-story moment frame with steel plate shear walls, the amplification factor is 4.93 which is less than the recommended conservative values in the design codes. It is shown that the deflection amplification factor decreases if the height of the building increases, for which the frames with more than six stories would have less recommended deflection amplification factor. In addition, increasing the number of bays or decreasing the steel plate shear wall length leads to a reduction of the deflection amplification factor.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제36권11호
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• pp.21-33
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 국내 내진설계기준 공통적용사항(MOIS, 2017)의 지반증폭계수를 활용하여 지표면 최대가속도를 산출하는 방법의 적절성을 검토하기 위해 포항지역 전역의 시추공을 대상으로 1차원 등가선형해석프로그램을 통해 지반응답해석을 수행하였다. 지반응답해석을 위한 지진파는 내진설계기준 공통적용사항에 따라 지진 재현주기 500년, 1000년, 2400년의 표준설계응답스펙트럼에 맞추었고, 지반데이터는 국토지반정보 포털시스템을 활용하여 확보하였다. 그 결과 내진설계기준 공통적용사항에서 제시하는 응답스펙트럼과 지반응답해석에서 얻어진 응답스펙트럼은 지반분류에 상관없이 대략적으로 일치하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 하지만, 증폭계수를 활용하여 지표면최대가속도를 산출할 경우 지반응답해석에서 얻어진 결과와 상당한 차이를 나타내는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.193-202
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• 2024

Modern high-rise tower designs incorporating recessed balcony cavity spaces can be prone to high-frequency and narrow-band Rossiter aerodynamic excitations under glancing incident winds that can harmonize and compete with recessed balcony volume acoustic Helmholtz modes and facade elastic responses. Resulting resonant inertial wind loading to balcony facades responding to these excitations is additive to the peak design wind pressures currently allowed for in wind codes and can present as excessive facade vibrations and sub-audible throbbing in the serviceability range of wind speeds. This paper presents a methodology to determine Cavity Amplification Factors to account for façade resonant inertial wind loads resulting from balcony cavity aero-acoustic-elastic resonances by drawing upon field observations and the results of full-scale monitoring and model-scale wind tunnel tests. Recessed balcony cavities with single orifice type openings and located within curved façade tower geometries appear particularly prone. A Cavity Amplification Factor of 1.8 is calculated in one example representing almost a doubling of local façade design wind pressures. Balcony façade and tower design recommendations to mitigate wind induced aero-acoustic-elastic resonances are provided.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2012

지진하중에 의해 발생하는 비정형 건물의 피해를 줄이기 위하여 내진설계기준에서는 비틀림 증폭계수를 도입하였다. 이 계수는 내진설계기준에 따라 다르게 적용되었으며 같은 시기의 설계기준에서조차 다르게 적용되었다. 본 연구에서는 서로 다른 설계편심으로 설계된 건물의 최종 정적편심의 크기, 연약단부의 횡강성과 비틀림 강성비를 비교하였다. 비틀림 증폭계수가 증가할수록 연약단부의 횡강성이 증가하여 건물의 최종 정적편심의 크기는 감소하였으나 이 계수가 최대값 3.0에 도달한 이후부터 건물의 최종 정적편심의 크기는 다시 증가하였다. 우발편심과 정적편심의 합에 비틀림 증폭계수를 곱하여 구한 설계편심으로 설계된 건물의 최종 정적편심의 크기는 수직부재의 위치에 따라 0 또는 음수로 측정되었다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.123-128
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• 2020

Analysis of the 2016 Gyeongju earthquake and the 2017 Pohang earthquake showed the characteristics of a typical high-frequency earthquake with many high-frequency components, short time strong motion duration, and large peak ground acceleration relative to the magnitude of the earthquake. Domestic nuclear power plants were designed and evaluated based on NRC's Regulatory Guide 1.60 design response spectrum, which had a great deal of energy in the low-frequency range. Therefore, nuclear power plants should carry out seismic verification and seismic performance evaluation of systems, structures, and components by reflecting the domestic characteristics of earthquakes. In this study, high-frequency amplification factors that can be used for seismic verification and seismic performance evaluation of nuclear power plant systems, structures, and equipment were analyzed. In order to analyze the high-frequency amplification factor, five sets of seismic time history were generated, which were matched with the uniform hazard response spectrum to reflect the characteristics of domestic earthquake motion. The nuclear power plant was subjected to seismic analysis for the construction of the Korean standard nuclear power plant, OPR1000, which is a reactor building, an auxiliary building assembly, a component cooling water heat exchanger building, and an essential service water building. Based on the results of the seismic analysis, a high-frequency amplification factor was derived upon the calculation of the floor response spectrum of the important locations of nuclear power plants. The high-frequency amplification factor can be effectively used for the seismic verification and seismic performance evaluation of electric equipment which are sensitive to high-frequency earthquakes.