• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.09a
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• pp.43-50
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• 2002

부지고유의 강지진동모사를 위해 한반도 남부의 지각감쇠(Q)에 대한 두 가지 특성을 비선형 역산을 통해 규명하였다. 한 특성은 한반도 남부의 주요 지체구조구 및 특정 주향각에 대한 Q의 이방성이고 다른 특성은 Q의 수평방향으로의 공간적 변화 특성이다. 0의 이방성은 주향에 평행한 Q와 이에 수직한 Q의 비로 정의되었다. 사용된 지진자료는 190개 지진에 대한 3,400개 기록의 푸리에스펙트럼으로서 기록의 파선 분포는 한반도 남부 대부분을 조밀하게 덮었다. 역산 방법은 Levenberg-Marquardt 비선형역산 방법을 보다 안정화시킨 수정된 Levenberg-Marquardt 방법이 사용되었으며 기존에 도출된 광역적인 지진동파라미터를 초기해로 활용하였다. 역산 결과 국내의 중요 지체구조구 중 소백산육괴와 경상분지는 서로 다른 방향의 강한 Q 이방성을 나타내었으며 Q의 공간적 분포는 지진발생위치와 매우 밀접한 상관관계를 보여주었다

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.364-372
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• 2001

An orifices fluid damper(OFD) having the capacity of about 2 tons was designed and fabricated and applied to a 6-story steel structure under random excitation and seismic excitation for the confirmation of its validity on structural vibration absorbtion. The experimental results demonstrated that the addition of an OFD to the test structure is very effective in reduction of vibration level of the higher modes as well as the fundamental mode. Maxwell model was adopted to described the frequency-dependent characteristics of the fabricated OFD and the numerical simulation was carried for the test structure. It was confirmed that the experimental and numerically simulated results agree well.

• KCI Concrete Journal
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.27-34
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• 2001

This paper presents the results of a study on the effects of pounding at expansion joints of concrete bridges under earthquake ground motions. An engineering approach, rather than continuum mechanics, is emphasized. First, the sensitivity analysis of the gap element stiffness is performed. Second, usefulness of the analysis method for simulation of pounding phenomena is demonstrated. Third, the effects of pounding on the ductility demands measured in terms of the rotation of column ends are investigated. Two-dimensional FE analysis using a bilinear hysterestic model for bridge substructure joints and a nonlinear gap element for the expansion joint is performed on a realistic bridge with an expansion joint. Effects of the primary factors on the ductility demand such as gap sizes and characteristics of earthquake ground motion are investigated through a parametric study. The major conclusions are that pounding effect is generally negligible on the ductility demand for wide practical ranges of gap size and peak ground acceleration, but is potentially significant at the locations of impact.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Advanced Composite Structures
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.25-32
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• 2013

In real world applications, the response of structures may be dependent on the rate of loading and thus can be affected by transient loading, especially when the rate of loading is significant. In such situations, the rate of loading may become a major issue to understand structures during earthquake excitation or under blast or high velocity impact. In some cases, the rate effect on structures under strong earthquake excitation cannot be ignored when attempting to understand inelastic behavior of structures. Many researchers developed the constitutive theories in cyclic plasticity and viscoplasticity. In this study, numerical simulation by cyclic visocoplasticity models is introduced and analyzed. Finally, the analytical results are compared with experimental results as a means to evaluate and verify the model.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.55-62
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• 2016

It is important to select an accurate set of ground motions when conducting linear and nonlinear response history analyses of structures. This study proposes a method for selecting ground motions from a ground motion library with response spectra that match the target response spectrum mean, variance and correlation structures. This study also has addressed the determination of an appropriate value for the weight factor of a correlation structure. The proposed method is conceptually simple and straightforward, and does not involve a simulation algorithm. In this method, a desired number of ground motions are sequentially selected from first to last. The proposed method can be also used for selecting ground motions with response spectra that match the conditional spectrum. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed procedure are verified with numerical examples.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.128-135
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• 1998

In this study, the unseating failure of the bridge spans under seismic excitations is examined by investigation the nonlinear response behaviors of the bridge system with reinforced concrete piers. To reduce the computational effort and to consider the effect of the foundation motions, a simplified 3 degree-of-freedom model is proposed, which retains the dynamic characteristics of the original bridge motions in concern. To imply the nonlinear behaviors of the RC piers to the system. a hysteresis model is utilized from the calculated force-deformation curve for the piers. The statistical characteristics of the maximum response displacements are obtained from the simulation results of 1000 time history analysis.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.687-703
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• 2014

This paper develops a new nonlinear model for active control of three-dimensional (3D) irregular building structures. Both geometrical and material nonlinearities with a neuro-controller training algorithm are applied to a multi-degree-of-freedom 3D system. Two dynamic assembling motions are considered simultaneously in the control model such as coupling between torsional and lateral responses of the structure and interaction between the structural system and the actuators. The proposed control system and training algorithm of the structural system are evaluated by simulating the responses of the structure under the El-Centro 1940 earthquake excitation. In the numerical example, the 3D three-story structure with linear and nonlinear stiffness is controlled by a trained neural network. The actuator dynamics, control time delay and incident angle of earthquake are also considered in the simulation. Results show that the proposed control algorithm for 3D buildings is effective in structural control.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.135-142
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• 1999

Although the vibration control effects of viscoelastic dampers in building structures have been well proved by numerous theoretical and practical examples it is difficult to find an outstanding method for analysis of viscoelastically damped structures satisfying both exactness and efficiency. Thus in this study four analysis methods for viscoelastically damped structures that are currently used or can be applied for the those system are speculated and compared to provide bass for developing a better method for analysis of viscoelastically damped structures. The seismic response time history inter-story drfts and analysis time recorded by computer simulation of four different methods are compared. Among these methods complex modal superposition approach turns out to be ecomomic and accurate procedure.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.8
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• pp.1179-1185
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• 2012

This paper presents a new approach for the detection of seismic events using accumulated changes on time-frequency domain and variable threshold. To detect seismic P-wave arrivals with rapidness and accuracy, it is that the changes on the time and the frequency domains are simultaneously used. Their changes are parameters appropriated to reflect characteristics of earthquakes over moderate magnitude(${\geq}$ magnitude 4.0) and microearthquakes. In addition, adaptively controlled threshold values can prevent false P-wave detections due to low SNR. We tested our method on real earthquakes those have various magnitudes. The proposed algorithm gives a good detection performance and it is also comparable to STA/LTA algorithm in computational complexity. Computer simulation results shows that the proposed algorithm is superior to the conventional popular algorithm (STA/LTA) in the seismic P-wave detection.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.442-449
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• 2003

This paper presents a robust hybrid control system for seismic response control of a cable-stayed bridge. Because multiple control devices are operating, a hybrid control system could alleviate some of restirctions and limitations that exist when each system is acting alone. A LQG algorithm with on-off control scheme, H$_2$ and H$_{\infty}$ control algorithms with various frequency weighting filters are used to improve the controller robustness of the active control part in the hybrid control system. The numerital simulation results show that control performances of robust hybrid control systems are similar to those of the hybrid control system with LQG algorithm. Furthermore, it is verified that robust hybrid control systems are more robust than the hybrid control system with LQG algorithm and there are no signs of instabilities in the $\pm$5％ stiffness matrix perturbed system. Therefore, the proposed hybrid control system have a good robustness for stiffness matrix perturbation without loss of control effectiveness.