• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2009

최근에 Active interaction control(AIC) 시스템이 준능동 제어 시스템의 하나로 제안되었다. AIC 시스템은 제어 대상 구조물과 보조 구조물로 구성되며, 두 구조물간의 실시간 결합-분리를 통해서 제어 대상 구조물을 제어하게 된다. 구조물간의 결합과 분리를 담당하는 장치의 실시간 변환은 스위칭 제어 알고리듬의 결합-분리 조건식에 의해 제어된다. 기존 스위칭 제어 알고리듬의 경우, 제어 대상 구조물의 응답을 효과적으로 감소시키는 반면 불필요하게 큰 제어력과 과도한 결합-분리 횟수를 필요로 하는 단점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 구조물간의 효율적인 결합-분리 조정을 위해서 스위칭 활성화 영역과 스위칭 비활성화 영역을 분리 표현하였으며, 결합-조건식에 의해 결정되는 스위칭 활성화 영역과 스위칭 비활성화 영역간의 일반적인 관계를 포괄 스위칭 틀을 이용하여 나타냈다. 과도한 결합-분리 횟수와 불필요하게 큰 제어력의 효과적인 감소를 위해서 새로운 스위칭 제어 알고리듬의 결합-분리 조건식은 포괄 스위칭 틀안에서 설계되었다. 또한 기존 논문에서 사용된 컨트롤 샘플링 주기(Control sampling period)의 역할을 결합-분리 횟수의 관점에서 재해석하였다. 제안된 알고리듬의 효용성과 컨트롤 샘플링 주기의 역할을 검증하기 위해서 단자유도 모델을 이용하여 자유진동에 대한 수치해석을 수행하였다. 수치해석결과, 총 스위칭 횟수를 감소시키기 위한 컨트롤 샘플링 주기의 인위적인 연장은 시스템의 제어 성능 향상에 필요한 구간 변환을 샘플링 주기 사이에서 억제시키는 단점을 가지고 있음을 확인하였다. 본 논문에서 제안된 알고리듬의 경우, 각각 과도한 결합-분리 횟수와 불필요하게 큰 제어력을 감소시키는데 효과적임을 알 수 있다.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.61-77
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• 2016

Seismic performance of structures depends on the force flow mechanism inside the structure. Discontinuity regions, like beam-column joints, are often affected during earthquake event due to the complex and discontinuous load paths. The evaluation of shear strength and identification of failure mode of the joint region are helpful to (i) define the strength hierarchy of the beam-column sub-assemblage, (ii) quantify the influence of different parameters on the behaviour of beam-column joint and, (iii) develop suitable and adequate strengthening scheme for the joints, if required, to obtain the desired strength hierarchy. In view of this, it is very important to estimate the joint shear strength and identify the failure modes of the joint region as it is the most critical part in any beam-column sub-assemblage. One of the most effective models is softened strut and tie model which was developed by incorporating force equilibrium, strain compatibility and constitutive laws of cracked reinforced concrete. In this study, softened strut and tie model, which incorporates force equilibrium equations, compatibility conditions and material constitutive relation of the cracked concrete, are used to simulate the shear strength behaviour and to identify failure mechanisms of the beam-column joints. The observations of the present study will be helpful to arrive at the design strategy of the joints to ensure the desired failure mechanism and strength hierarchy to achieve sustainability of structural systems under seismic loading.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.1091-1111
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• 2015

Base isolation is an effective method for protecting structures against earthquake hazard. It elongates the period of vibration and introduces supplemental damping to the structural system. The stiffness, damping and displacement are coupled forcing the code seismic design procedure to be unnecessarily complicated. In addition, the force reduction factor -a key parameter in the design procedurehas not been well addressed by seismic design codes at the high levels of damping due to the pronounced difference between pseudo and actual accelerations. In this study, a comparison has been conducted to evaluate eight different methods, in the literature, for calculating the force reduction factor due to damping. Accordingly, a simplified seismic analysis procedure has been proposed based on the well documented N2 method. Comprehensive analysis has been performed for base-isolated structure models for direct application and verification of the proposed procedure. The results have been compared with those of the European code EC8, the nonlinear time history analysis and investigations in the literature, where good agreement has been reported. In addition, a discussion has been elaborated for the resulted response of the base-isolated structure models with respect to the dynamic characteristics of the base isolation system.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.313-320
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• 2002

A new semi-active control strategy for seismic response reduction using a neuro-controller and a magnetorheological (MR) fluid damper is proposed. The proposed control system consists of the improved neuro-controller and the bang-bang-type controller. The improved neuro-controller, which was developed by employing the training algorithm based on a cost function and the sensitivity evaluation algorithm replacing an emulator neural network, produces the desired active control force, and then the bang-bang-type controller causes the MR fluid damper to generate the desired control force, so long as this force is dissipative. In numerical simulation, a three-story building structure is semi-actively controlled by the trained neural network under the historical earthquake records. The simulation results show that the proposed semi-active neuro-control algorithm is quite effective to reduce seismic responses. In addition, the semi-active control system using MR fluid dampers has many attractive features, such as the bounded-input, bounded-output stability and small energy requirements. The results of this investigation, therefore, indicate that the proposed semi-active neuro-control strategy using MR fluid dampers could be effectively used for control of seismically excited structures.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.25-35
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• 2023

Considering the non-linear behavior of structure and soil when evaluating a nuclear power plant's seismic safety under a beyond-design basis earthquake is essential. In order to obtain the nonlinear response of a nuclear power plant structure, a time-domain SSI analysis method that considers the nonlinearity of soil and structure and the nonlinear Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) effect is necessary. The Boundary Reaction Method (BRM) is a time-domain SSI analysis method. The BRM can be applied effectively with a Perfectly Matched Layer (PML), which is an effective energy absorbing boundary condition. The BRM has a characteristic that the magnitude of the response in far-field soil increases as the boundary interface of the effective seismic load moves outward. In addition, the PML has poor absorption performance of low-frequency waves. For this reason, the accuracy of the low-frequency response may be degraded when analyzing the combination of the BRM and the PML. In this study, the accuracy of the analysis response was improved by adjusting the PML input parameters to improve this problem. The accuracy of the response was evaluated by using the analysis response using KIESSI-3D, a frequency domain SSI analysis program, as a reference solution. As a result of the analysis applying the optimal PML parameter, the average error rate of the acceleration response spectrum for 9 degrees of freedom of the structure was 3.40%, which was highly similar to the reference result. In addition, time-domain nonlinear SSI analysis was performed with the soil's nonlinearity to show this study's applicability. As a result of nonlinear SSI analysis, plastic deformation was concentrated in the soil around the foundation. The analysis results found that the analysis method combining BRM and PML can be effectively applied to the seismic response analysis of nuclear power plant structures.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.93-101
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• 2024

This paper presents an experimental and analytical study on a steel slit damper designed as an energy dissipative device for earthquake protection of structures considering soil-structure interaction. The steel slit damper is made of a steel plate with a number of slits cut out of it. The slit damper has an advantage as a seismic energy dissipation device in that the stiffness and the yield force of the damper can be easily controlled by changing the number and size of the vertical strips. Cyclic loading tests of the slit damper are carried out to verify its energy dissipation capability, and an analytical model is developed validated based on the test results. The seismic performance of a case study building is then assessed using nonlinear dynamic analysis with and without soil-structure interaction. The soil-structure system turns out to show larger seismic responses and thus seismic retrofit is required to satisfy a predefined performance limit state. The developed slit dampers are employed as a seismic energy dissipation device for retrofitting the case study structure taking into account the soil-structure interaction. The seismic performance evaluation of the model structure shows that the device works stably and dissipates significant amount of seismic energy during earthquake excitations, and is effective in lowering the seismic response of structures standing on soft soil.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2009

교각의 합리적이고 경제적인 내진설계를 위해서는 연성도에 기반한 내진설계가 필요하며 이를 위해서는 신뢰성 있는 전단평가가 필수적이다. RC 기둥의 전단거동은 휨거동과 달리 부재의 단면크기, 형상비, 축력, 연성도 등 다양한 요인에 의하여 영향을 받아 거동이 매우 복잡하다.따라서,이들 요인을 고려한 많은 설계식 및 경험식이 제안되고 있으나 부재의 초기전단강도와 연성도에 따른 전단강도 저하를 평가하는데 상당한 차이를 보이고 있다. 본 연구에서는 형상비,단면의 중공비, 복부면적, 하중패턴을 변수로 하는 실험적 연구를 수행하여 중공단면 기둥의 초기 전단강도 특성을 살펴보았다. 실험결과는 기존의 다양한 전단평가식과 비교.검토하여 특성을 분석하였으며, 역학적 특성과 실험결과에 기초하여 보다 합리적인 초기 전단평가식을 제안하고 타당성을 검토하였다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.395-409
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• 2020

With verifications through many relevant researches in the past few decades, adopting the equivalent lateral force procedure for designing seismically isolated structures as a preliminary or even final design approach has become considerably mature and publicly acceptable, especially for seismic isolation systems that mechanically exhibit bilinear hysteretic behavior. During the design procedure, in addition to a given seismic demand, structural designers still need to previously determine three parameters, such as mechanical properties of seismic isolation systems or design parameters and performance indices of seismically isolated structures. However, an arbitrary or improper selection of given parameters might cause diverse or even unacceptable design results, thus troubling structural designers very much. In this study, first, based on the criterion that at least either two design parameters or two performance indices of seismically isolated structures are decided previously, the rationality and applicability of design results obtained from different conditions are examined. Moreover, to consider variations of design parameters of seismically isolated structures attributed to uncertainties of mechanical properties of seismic isolation systems, one of the conditions is adopted to perform bounding analysis for seismic isolation design. The analysis results indicate that with a reasonable equivalent damping ratio designed, considering a specific variation for two design parameters (the effective stiffness and equivalent damping ratio) could present more conservative bounding design results (in terms of isolation displacement and acceleration transmissibility) than considering the same variation but for two mechanical properties (the characteristic strength and post-yield stiffness).

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제87권2호
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• pp.151-164
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• 2023

The latest earthquake's costly repairs and economic disruption were brought on by excessive residual drift. Self-centering systems are one of the most efficient ways in the current generation of seismic resistance system to get rid of and reduce residual drift. The mechanics and behavior of the self-centering system in response to seismic forces were impacted by a number of important factors. The amount of post-tensioning (PT) force, which is often employed for the standing posture after an earthquake, is the first important component. The energy dissipater element is another one that has a significant impact on how the self-centering system behaves. Using the damper as a replaceable and affordable tool and fuse in self-centering frames has been recommended to boost energy absorption and dampening of structural systems during earthquakes. In this research, the self-centering steel moment frame connections are equipped with cushion flexural dampers (CFDs) as an energy dissipator system to increase energy absorption, post-yielding stiffness, and ease replacement after an earthquake. Also, it has been carefully considered how to reduce permanent deformations in the self-centering steel moment frames exposed to seismic loads while maintaining adequate stiffness, strength, and ductility. After confirming the FE model's findings with an earlier experimental PT connection, the behavior of the self-centering connection using CFD has been surveyed in this study. The FE modeling takes into account strands preloading as well as geometric and material nonlinearities. In addition to contact and sliding phenomena, gap opening and closing actions are included in the models. According to the findings, self-centering moment-resisting frames (SF-MRF) combined with CFD enhance post-yielding stiffness and energy absorption with the least amount of permeant deformation in a certain CFD thickness. The obtained findings demonstrate that the effective energy dissipation ratio (β), is increased to 0.25% while also lowering the residual drift to less than 0.5%. Also, this enhancement in the self-centering connection with CFD's seismic performance was attained with a respectable moment capacity to beam plastic moment capacity ratio.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2010

철근의 부식을 해결하기 위해 철근의 대체 재료로 적용 가능한 FRP에 대한 연구의 적용성이 대두되었다. 그러나 취성적인 성질과 탄성계수가 낮은 단점을 가지고 있어, FRP rebar로 보강된 휨 부재의 사용성 평가 즉 처짐에 대한 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 보강비를 변수로 한, CFRP rebar로 보강된 콘크리트 보의 휨 실험을 수행하였다. 실험 결과, CFRP rebar로 보강된 실험체는 보강비가 증가함에 따라 내력 및 강성이 증가하는 양상을 보였으며, 철근 실험체와 동일한 단면성능을 발휘하기 위해서는 약 1.3배의 보강비가 요구되는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 유효단면2차모멘트에 대한 기존 제안식의 비교 결과, Bischoff & Scanlon이 제안한 식이 가장 정밀해에 가까운 처짐을 예측하였다.