• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.411-426
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• 2001

This paper treats the failure analysis of prestressing steel wires with different kinds of localised damage in the form of a surface defect (crack or notch) or as a mechanical action (transverse loads). From the microscopical point of view, the micromechanisms of fracture are shear dimples (associated with localised plasticity) in the case of the transverse loads and cleavage-like (related to a weakest-link fracture micromechanism) in the case of cracked wires. In the notched geometries the microscopic modes of fracture range from the ductile micro-void coalescence to the brittle cleavage, depending on the stress triaxiality in the vicinity of the notch tip. From the macroscopical point of view, fracture criteria are proposed as design criteria in damage tolerance analyses. The transverse load situation is solved by using an upper bound theorem of limit analysis in plasticity. The case of the cracked wire may be treated using fracture criteria in the framework of linear elastic fracture mechanics on the basis of a previous finite element computation of the stress intensity factor in the cracked cylinder. Notched geometries require the use of elastic-plastic fracture mechanics and numerical analysis of the stress-strain state at the failure situation. A fracture criterion is formulated on the basis of the critical value of the effective or equivalent stress in the Von Mises sense.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2018

This paper reports an experimental study that was accomplished to assess the seismic behavior of steel tube reinforced concrete bridge columns (SBCs). The motivation of this study was to verify a supposition that the core steel tube may be terminated at a rational position in the column to minimize the material cost while maintaining the seismic behavior of this composite column. Four SBC specimens were tested under combined constant axial load and cyclic reversed lateral loads. The unique variable in the test matrix was the core steel tube embedment length, which ranged from 1/3 to 3/3 of the column effective height. It is observed that SBCs showed two distinctly different failure patterns, namely brittle shear failure and ductile flexural failure. Tests results indicate that the hysteretic responses of SBCs were susceptible to the core steel tube embedment length. With the increase of this structural parameter, the lateral strength of SBC was progressively improved; the deformability and ductility, however, exhibited a tendency of first increase and then decrease. It is also found that in addition to maintained the rate of stiffness degradation and cumulative energy dissipation basically unchanged, both the ductility and deformability of SBC were significantly improved when the core steel tube was terminated at the mid-height of the column, and these were the most unexpected benefits accompanied with material cost reduction.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.39-59
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• 2011

Results of an experimental investigation on the behavior and ultimate shear capacity of 27 reinforced concrete Transfer (deep) beams are summarized. The main variables were percent longitudinal(tension) steel (0.28 to 0.60%), percent horizontal web steel (0.60 to 2.40%), percent vertical steel (0.50to 2.25%), percent orthogonal web steel, shear span-to-depth ratio (1.10 to 3.20) and cube concrete compressive strength (32 MPa to 48 MPa).The span of the beam has been kept constant at 1000 mm with100 mm overhang on either side of the supports. The result of this study shows that the load transfer capacity of transfer (deep) beam with distributed longitudinal reinforcement is increased significantly. Also, the vertical shear reinforcement is more effective than the horizontal reinforcement in increasing the shear capacity as well as to transform the brittle mode of failure in to the ductile mode of failure. It has been observed that the orthogonal web reinforcement is highly influencing parameter to generate the shear capacity of transfer beams as well as its failure modes. Moreover, the results from the experiments have been processed suitably and presented an analytical model for design of transfer beams in high-rise buildings for estimating the shear capacity of beams.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제72권4호
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• pp.469-477
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• 2019

The understanding of tool-rock interaction mechanism is of high essence for improving the rock breaking efficiency and optimizing the drilling parameters in mechanical rock breaking. In this study, the tool-rock interaction models of indentation and cutting are carried out by employing the discrete element method (DEM) to examine the rock failure modes of various brittleness rocks and critical indentation and cutting depths of the ductile to brittle failure mode transition. The results show that the cluster size and inter-cluster to intra-cluster bond strength ratio are the key factors which influence the UCS magnitude and the UCS to BTS ratio. The UCS to BTS strength ratio can be increased to a more realistic value using clustered rock model so that the characteristics of real rocks can be better represented. The critical indentation and cutting depth decrease with the brittleness of rock increases and the decreasing rate reduces dramatically against the brittleness value. This effort may lead to a better understanding of rock breaking mechanisms in mechanical excavation, and may contribute to the improvement in the design of rock excavation machines and the related parameters determination.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.13-23
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• 2022

Peat soil has the characteristics of high moisture content, large void ratio and low shear strength. In this study, unconfined compressive strength and SEM tests are conducted to investigate the effects of ultrahigh moisture content, cement content, organic content and pH value on the strength of solidified peat. As an increase in the cement content and curing period, the failure mode of solidified peat soil changes from ductile failure to brittle failure. The influence of moisture content on the strength of solidified peat is greater than the cement content. As cement content increases from 10% to 30%, strength of solidified peat at a curing age of 28 days increases by 161%~485%. By increasing water content by 100%, decreases of solidified peat at a curing age of 28 days is 42%~79%. Compared with the strength of solidified peat with a pH value of 5.5, the strength of peat with a pH value of 3.5 reduces by 10% ~ 46%, while the strength of peat with a pH value of 7.0 increases by 8% ~ 38%. It is recommended to use filler materials for stabilizing peat soil with moisture content greater than 200%. Because of small size of clay particles, clay added in the cement solidified peat can improve much higher strength that that of sand.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권12호
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• pp.4647-4658
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• 2023

In this paper, elastic-plastic fracture mechanics analysis is performed to determine the critical crack sizes of the multipurpose canister (MPC) manufactured using austenitic stainless steel under dynamic loading conditions that simulate drop accidents. Firstly, dynamic finite element (FE) analysis is performed using Abaqus v.2018 with the KORAD (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency)-21 model under two drop accident conditions. Through the FE analysis, critical locations and through-thickness stress distributions in the MPC are identified, where the maximum plastic strain occurs during impact loadings. Then, the evaluation using the failure assessment diagram (FAD) is performed by postulating an external surface crack at the critical location to determine the critical crack depth. It is found that, for the drop cases considered in this paper, the principal failure mechanism for the circumferential surface crack is found to be the plastic collapse due to dominant high bending axial stress in the thickness. For axial cracks, the plastic collapse is also the dominant failure mechanism due to high membrane hoop stress, followed by the ductile tearing analysis. When incorporating the strain rate effect on yield strength and fracture toughness, the critical crack depth increases from 10 to 20%.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.275-283
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• 2024

Many school buildings are vulnerable to earthquakes because they were built before mandatory seismic design was applied. This study uses machine learning to develop an algorithm that rapidly constructs an optimal reinforcement scheme with simple information for non-ductile reinforced concrete school buildings built according to standard design drawings in the 1980s. We utilize a decision tree (DT) model that can conservatively predict the failure type of reinforced concrete columns through machine learning that rapidly determines the failure type of reinforced concrete columns with simple information, and through this, a methodology is developed to construct an optimal reinforcement scheme for the confinement ratio (CR) for ductility enhancement and the stiffness ratio (SR) for stiffness enhancement. By examining the failure types of columns according to changes in confinement ratio and stiffness ratio, we propose a retrofit scheme for school buildings with masonry walls and present the maximum applicable stiffness ratio and the allowable range of stiffness ratio increase for the minimum and maximum values of confinement ratio. This retrofit scheme construction methodology allows for faster construction than existing analysis methods.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.16-23
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• 2016

고인성섬유보강콘크리트는 기존의 콘크리트에 비해 인성을 크게 개선한 재료로써, 콘크리트 구조물의 여러 분야에 적용 가능한 건설 신재료로 평가되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고인성섬유보강콘크리트와 리브를 갖는 FRP 판을 인장 보강재 및 영구거푸집으로 활용한 합성보의 파괴거동에 관한 실험을 실시하였다. 비교를 위해 일반콘크리트와 PVA계열인 RF4000과 PP계열인 PP-macro의 섬유를 사용하였으며, 각각 RF4000+RSC15, PP-macro+RSC15를 혼입하여 합성보를 제작하여 실험하였다. FRP 판에 잔골재를 미부착한 경우는 보의 중앙에 발생한 휨 균열이 크게 벌어지면서 FRP 판과 콘크리트가 미끄러짐에 의한 파괴형태를 보여주고 있음으로 잔골재 부착은 필수적 사항이라 판단되며, 파괴모드에 대한 섬유보강재의 영향은 크지 않은 것으로 판단된다. FRP 판에 잔골재를 부착한 실험 결과는 1200, 2000mm 모두 콘크리트와 FRP 사이에 충분한 부착이 형성되었다. 일반콘크리트보다 섬유보강재를 혼입한 경우 최대 하중이 높게 나타났고, 그 중 PP계열의 섬유보강재를 혼입한 경우 최대 하중이 가장 높게 나타났다. 균열이 섬유보강재에 의해 지연되면서 FRP 리브와의 합성작용에 의해 발생한 것으로 판단된다.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2004

활하중 4903Pa를 적용하여 최소깊이로 최적 설계한, 실물크기 U형 보에 대하여 전단경간과 내민보 길이를 다르게 하여 4번의 전단실험을 수행하였다. 토핑 콘크리트를 타설한 경간 10.5m 실물크기 U형 합성보는 보의 폭/깊이 비가 2이상이다. 이프리캐스트 프리스트레스트 보의 단부 전단거동을 평가하는 과정에서 다음과 같은 결론을 얻을 수 있었다. 1) 이 합성 U형 보는 최종파괴에 이를 때까지 일체 거동하였으며, 강도설계 규준에 합당한 휨과 전단거동을 보여주었다. 2) 본 연구결과의 범위 안에서, 본 연구에서 고려한 보깊이가 얕은 U형 보의 전체정착길이는 집중하중 위치에 대한 ACI 정착길이 요구식이 정착부착파괴의 가부를 결정하는 기준이 되었다 3) 단부쪽에 발생한 전단균열은 모두 정착파괴로 연결되는 것이 아니며, 선행된 슬립이 존재할 때 정착부착파괴로 유도될 수 있다. 4) 보 중앙축 부근의 일반휨철근은 보의 연성파괴를 유도하는 역할을 위하여 효과적으로 활용될 수 있다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.396-402
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• 2021

철근콘크리트 휨부재 단면은 휨강도를 확보함과 동시에 연성을 확보할 수 있도록 설계되어야 한다. 설계기준에서는 연성거동을 확보하기 위해 철근비나 중립축 깊이를 제한한다. 균형철근비 보다 적은 철근량이 배치된 단면은 연성이 확보되므로 균형철근비는 이론적인 최대철근비가 된다. 그러나 너무 적은 양의 철근량이 배치된 단면은 연성 거동과 관계 없이 균열 휨모멘트를 만족하지 못하고 취성 파괴될 수 있다. 또한, 최근 들어 고강도 재료의 사용이 증가함에 따라 최소철근비로 설계된 부재의 설계도 증가하고 있다. 이에 설계기준에서는 최소철근량에 대해서도 규정하고 있다. 콘크리트구조기준(2012)에서는 최소철근량에 대하여 철근과 콘크리트 강도의 항으로 직접적으로 규정하였다. 그러나 개정된 콘크리트구조 학회기준(2017)에서는 설계 휨강도와 균열 모멘트 사이의 관계를 통해 최소철근량을 간접적으로 제시하고 있다. 이는 피복두께에 대한 영향을 반영할 수 있지만, 재료 모델에 대한 정의가 필요하다. 따라서 이 연구에서는 콘크리트구조기준(2012)과 콘크리트구조 학회기준(2017)의 최소철근량에 대한 규정을 비교 검토하고, 다양한 해석 변수를 통해 최소철근량의 변화를 검토하여 합리적인 최소철근량 검토 방안에 대하여 고찰하였다.