• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.483-503
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• 2016

This study aims to evaluate seismic performance of existing low and mid-rise reinforced concrete buildings by comparing their displacement capacities and displacement demands under selected ground motions experienced in Turkey as well as demand spectrum provided in 2007 Turkish Earthquake Code for design earthquake with 10% probability of exceedance in 50 years for soil class Z3. It should be noted that typical residential buildings are designed according to demand spectrum of 10% probability of exceedance in 50 years. Three RC building sets as 2-, 4- and 7-story, are selected to represent reference low-and mid-rise buildings located in the high seismicity region of Turkey. The selected buildings are typical beam-column RC frame buildings with no shear walls. The outcomes of detailed field and archive investigation including approximately 500 real residential RC buildings established building models to reflect existing building stock. Total of 72 3-D building models are constructed from the reference buildings to include the effects of some properties such as structural irregularities, concrete strength, seismic codes, structural deficiencies, transverse reinforcement detailing, and number of story on seismic performance of low and mid-rise RC buildings. Capacity curves of building sets are obtained by nonlinear static analyses conducted in two principal directions, resulting in 144 models. The inelastic dynamic characteristics are represented by "equivalent" Single-Degree-of- Freedom (ESDOF) systems using obtained capacity curves of buildings. Nonlinear time history analysis is used to estimate displacement demands of representative building models idealized with (ESDOF) systems subjected to the selected ground motion records from past earthquakes in Turkey. The results show that the significant number of pre-modern code 4- and 7-story buildings exceeds LS performance level while the modern code 4- and 7-story buildings have better performances. The findings obviously indicate the existence of destructive earthquakes especially for 4- and 7-story buildings. Significant improvements in the performance of the buildings per modern code are also obvious in the study. Almost one third of pre-modern code buildings is exceeding LS level during records in the past earthquakes. This observation also supports the building damages experienced in the past earthquake events in Turkey.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.625-641
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• 2020

The realistic modeling of the beam-column semi-rigid connection in steel frames attracted the attention of many researchers in the past for the seismic analysis of semi-rigid frames. Comparatively less studies have been made to investigate the behavior of steel frames with semi-rigid connections under different types of earthquake. Herein, the seismic behavior of semi-rigid steel frames is investigated under both far and near-field earthquakes. The semi-rigid connection is modeled by the multilinear plastic link element consisting of rotational springs. The kinematic hysteresis model is used to define the dynamic behavior of the rotational spring, describing the nonlinearity of the semi-rigid connection as defined in SAP2000. The nonlinear time history analysis (NTHA) is performed to obtain response time histories of the frame under scaled earthquakes at three PGA levels denoting the low, medium and high-level earthquakes. The other important parameters varied are the stiffness and strength parameters of the connections, defining the degree of semi-rigidity. For studying the behavior of the semi-rigid frame, a large number of seismic demand parameters are considered. The benchmark for comparison is taken as those of the corresponding rigid frame. Two different frames, namely, a five-story frame and a ten-story frame are considered as the numerical examples. It is shown that semi-rigid frames prove to be effective and beneficial in resisting the seismic forces for near-field earthquakes (PGA ≈ 0.2g), especially in reducing the base shear to a considerable extent for the moderate level of earthquake. Further, the semi-rigid frame with a relatively weaker beam and less connection stiffness may withstand a moderately strong earthquake without having much damage in the beams.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.713-739
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• 2007

Nowadays computers can perform symbolic computations in addition to mere number crunching operations for which they were originally designed. Symbolic computation opens up exciting possibilities in Structural Mechanics and engineering. Classical areas have been increasingly neglected due to the advent of computers as well as general purpose finite element software. But now, classical analysis has reemerged as an attractive computer option due to the capabilities of symbolic computation. The repetitive cycles of simultaneous - equation sets required by the finite element technique can be eliminated by solving a single set in symbolic form, thus generating a truly closed-form solution. This consequently saves in data preparation, storage and execution time. The power of Symbolic computation is demonstrated by six examples by applying symbolic computation 1) to solve coupled shear wall 2) to generate beam element matrices 3) to find the natural frequency of a shear frame using transfer matrix method 4) to find the stresses of a plate subjected to in-plane loading using Levy's approach 5) to draw the influence surface for deflection of an isotropic plate simply supported on all sides 6) to get dynamic equilibrium equations from Lagrange equation. This paper also presents yet another computationally efficient and accurate numerical method which is based on the concept of derivative of a function expressed as a weighted linear sum of the function values at all the mesh points. Again this method is applied to solve the problems of 1) coupled shear wall 2) lateral buckling of thin-walled beams due to moment gradient 3) buckling of a column and 4) static and buckling analysis of circular plates of uniform or non-uniform thickness. The numerical results obtained are compared with those available in existing literature in order to verify their accuracy.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.65-75
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• 2005

흙의 최대 전단탄성계수는 동적/정적 지반구조물 설계에서 중요하게 다루어야 하는 기본 토질상수이다. 본 연구에서는 서해안 송도 지역의 실트질 모래에 대해 표준관입시험, 콘관입시험, 자가굴착식 공내재하시험, 다운홀 시험, 탄성파 탐사 콘관입시험, 공진주 시험 등을 수행하여 최대 전단탄성계수를 구하고 그 결과를 통계적으로 분석하였다. 다운홀 시험을 기준으로 표준관입시험 및 콘관입시험에 대한 경험식으로 구한 최대 전단탄성계수를 비교하고 새로운 경험식물 제안하였다. 제안식으로 구한 전단탄성계수는 다운홀 시험 결과와 비교적 잘 일치하였으며, 제안식을 이용하여 적절히 지반의 최대 전단탄성계수를 평가할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.1555-1560
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• 2013

칼럼 타입의 전동조향장치(MDPS) 시스템은 차량 안전성과 연료 효율 향상을 보장하기에 승용차에 보편적으로 장착하고 있다. 시스템 해석과 제어기 개발을 위해서는 보통 Mechanical Simulation사에서 제작한 CarSim 프로그램과 매트랩 시뮬링크의 두 프로그램을 이용하여 제어 알고리즘과 차량 모델이 결합되어 하나의 시스템처럼 동시에 동작하도록 시뮬레이션을 수행한다. 매트랩 시뮬링크의 MDPS 제어 시스템과 완전 차량 모델의 동시시뮬레이션 기술개발에 대한 구체적이 방법이 소개된 적이 없기에 본 연구에서 상세히 소개하기로 한다. 본 연구에서는 사인 파형의 조향핸들입력을 이용한 시뮬레이션 결과가 보여 지고 실험결과와 잘 비교되었다. 이러한 동시시뮬레이션 기술은 차량의 핸들링 성능 평가나 CMDPS 평가 수행 및 로직 튜닝을 위해 효과적으로 사용될 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.197-215
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• 2015

Modeling water flow in variably saturated, porous media is important in many branches of science and engineering. Highly nonlinear relationships between water content and hydraulic conductivity and soil-water pressure result in very steep wetting fronts causing numerical problems. These include poor efficiency when modeling water infiltration into very dry porous media, and numerical oscillation near a steep wetting front. A one-dimensional finite element formulation is developed for the numerical simulation of variably saturated flow systems. First order backward Euler implicit and second order Crank-Nicolson time discretization schemes are adopted as a solution strategy in this formulation based on Picard and Newton iterative techniques. Five examples are used to investigate the numerical performance of two approaches and the different factors are highlighted that can affect their convergence and efficiency. The first test case deals with sharp moisture front that infiltrates into the soil column. It shows the capability of providing a mass-conservative behavior. Saturated conditions are not developed in the second test case. Involving of dry initial condition and steep wetting front are the main numerical complexity of the third test example. Fourth test case is a rapid infiltration of water from the surface, followed by a period of redistribution of the water due to the dynamic boundary condition. The last one-dimensional test case involves flow into a layered soil with variable initial conditions. The numerical results indicate that the Crank-Nicolson scheme is inefficient compared to fully implicit backward Euler scheme for the layered soil problem but offers same accuracy for the other homogeneous soil cases.

• 화약ㆍ발파
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2013

일반적으로 연쇄붕괴는 비정상하중에 의해 구조부재의 국부손상이 구조물의 국부파괴 또는 전체파괴가 발생되는 것을 나타낸다. 연쇄붕괴와는 달리 발파해체는 구조부재의 전체 또는 일부를 제거함으로써 구조물의 전체파괴를 유도하는 공법이다. 이러한 발파해체는 구조부재의 국부파괴를 발파에 의해 적절한 시차로 제어함으로써 구조물의 연쇄붕괴를 유도할 수 있으며, 붕괴거동을 제어할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 연쇄붕괴 과정을 철근 콘크리트 구조물 발파해체 설계에 적용하기 위해 응용요소법을 이용하여 비선형 동적해석을 수행하였다. 해석 모델의 층수, 기둥 높이, 스팬 길이에 따른 연쇄붕괴 발생 여부를 검토하고, 연쇄붕괴 저항성능을 평가하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제41권7호
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• pp.875-884
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• 2009

We present three nuclear/hydrogen-related R&D activities being performed at KAIST: air-ingressed LOCA analysis code development, gas turbine analysis tool development, and hydrogen-production system analysis model development. The ICE numerical technique widely used for the safety analysis of water-reactors is successfully implemented into GAMMA, with which we solve the basic equations for continuity, momentum conservation, energy conservation of the gas mixture, and mass conservation of 6 species (He, N2, O2, CO, CO2, and H2O). GAMMA has been extensively validated using data from 14 test facilities. We developed a tool to predict the characteristics of HTGR helium turbines based on the throughflow calculation with a Newton-Raphson method that overcomes the weakness of the conventional method based on the successive iteration scheme. It is found that the current method reaches stable and quick convergence even under the off-normal condition with the same degree of accuracy. The dynamic equations for the distillation column of HI process are described with 4 material components involved in the HI process: H2O, HI, I2, H2. For the HI process we improved the Neumann model based on the NRTL (Non-Random Two-Liquid) model. The improved Neumann model predicted a total pressure with 8.6% maximum relative deviation from the data and 2.5% mean relative deviation, and liquid-liquid-separation with 9.52% maximum relative deviation from the data.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.603-610
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• 2008

A mathematical model was developed to understand how the presence of plants affects vertical profiles of electron acceptors, their reduced species, and trace metals in the wetland sediments. The model accounted for biodegradation of organic matter utilizing sequential electron acceptors and subsequent chemical reactions using stoichiometric relationship. These biogeochemical reactions were affected by the combined effects of oxygen release and evapotranspiration driven by wetland plants. The measured data showed that $SO_4{^{2-}}$ concentrations increased at the beginning of the growing season and then gradually decreased. Based on the measured data, it was hypothesized that the limitation of the solid phase sulfide in direct contact with the roots may result in the gradual decrease of $SO_4{^{2-}}$ concentrations. With the dynamic formulation for the limitation of the solid phase sulfide, model simulated time variable sulfate profiles using published model parameters. Oxygen release from roots produced divalent metal species (i.e. $Cd^{2+}$) as well as oxidized sulfur species (i.e. $SO_4{^{2-}}$) in the sediment pore water. Evapotranspiration-induced advection increased flux of divalent metal species from the overlying water column into the rhizosphere. The increased divalent metal species were converted to the metal sulfide with sufficient FeS around the rhizosphere, which contributed to the decrease of bioavailability and toxicity of divalent metal activity in the pore water. Since the divalent metal activity is a good predictor of the metal bioavailability, this model with a proper simulation of solid phase sulfide plays an essential role to predict the dynamics of trace metals in the wetland sediments.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• 제14권E호
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• pp.19-25
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• 1998

동적흡착방법을 사용하여 유사구조를 가진 DMMP와 IMPE의 흡착특성을 연구하였다. 유입농도를 4mg/I로 고정한 후 활성탄이 충진되어진 흡착 컬럼을 통과한 유출농도가 4.0$\times$$10^{-5}$mg/I에 다다를 때까지를 파과 시간으로 설정하였으며 여러 유속에서 동일한 방법을 사용하여 파과시간의 변화를 파악하였다. IMPF와 DMMP 증기에 대한 파과시간을 충진된 활성탄의 함수로 도시하여 활성탄의 동적흡착용량, 흡착속도상수 및 임계베드중량을 구하였다. 흡착속도상수의 경우 DMMP가 IMPF보다 높은 값을 나타낸 반면 임계버드중량은 반대의 결과가 나타났다. 동적흡착용량의 경우 과거 발표되어진 자료와 다르게 유속의 변화에 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났으며 본 연구에서는 실험결과에 적절한 수학적인 방정식을 제안하여 유속의 흡착용량과의 관계식을 유도하였다. 동일한 조건하에서 DMMP에 대한 파과시간이 IMPF보다 긴 것으로 나타났으며 두 파괴시간의 상호관계는 아래의 식으로 나타내어질 수 있는 것으로 밝혀졌다. Tb(IMPE) ＝ 0.9825 $\times$ Tb(DMMP)-15.368