• Computers and Concrete
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.11-20
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• 2020

Concrete are the most widely used manmade materials for infrastructure construction across the world. These constructions gradually aged and damaged due to long-term use. However, there does not exist an efficient concrete recycling method with low energy consumption. In this study, concrete was regarded as a heterogeneous material composed of coarse aggregate and cement mortar. And the failure mode of concrete under ultrasonic dynamic loading was investigated by finite element (FE) analysis. Simultaneously, a 3D random aggregate concrete model was programmed by APDL and imported into ABAQUS software, and the damage plastic constitutive model was applied to each phase to study the damage law of concrete under dynamic loading. Meanwhile, the dynamic damage process of concrete was numerically simulated, which observed ultrasonic propagating and the concrete crushing behavior. Finally, the FE simulation considering the influence of different aggregate volume and aggregate size was carried out to illustrate the damage level of concrete.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.107-116
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• 1999

The damage in concrete structures generally starts with microcracking and thus it is important to find and explore these microcracks in concrete in order to ensure appropriate safety and serviceability. The purpose of the present study is to identify the damage characteristics of concrete structures due to cracking by employing the acoustic emission techniques. A comprehensive experimental study has been done. The cracking damage under tensile and flexural loadings have been identified and the bond damage between steel and concrete have been also characterized. It is seen that the amplitudes and energy level of Acoustic Emission(AE) events are found to be relatively small for bond cracking damages and large for tensile cracking damages. The characteristic equations of the AE events for various cracking damages have been proposed based on the present test data. The internal microcracks are progressively developed ahead of a visible actual crack and the present study clearly exhibits these damage mechanism for various types of cracking in concrete. The present study provides useful data which can be used to identify the various types of cracking damages in concrete structures. This will allow efficient maintenance of concrete structures through monitoring of internal cracking based on acoustic emission.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.60-72
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• 2016

This study proposes a multi-robot system, using multiple autonomous robots, to explore concrete structures and assist in their maintenance by sealing any cracks present in the structure. The proposed system employed a new self-localization method that is essential for autonomous robots, along with a visualization system to recognize the external environment and to detect and explore cracks efficiently. Moreover, more efficient crack search in an unknown environment became possible by arranging the robots into search areas divided depending on the surrounding situations. Operations with increased efficiency were also realized by overcoming the disadvantages of the infeasible logical behavioral model design with only six basic behavioral strategies based on distributed control-one of the methods to control swarm robots. Finally, this study investigated the efficiency of the proposed multi-robot system via basic sensor testing and simulation.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.467-488
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• 2023

Seismic retrofit of an existing steel-reinforced concrete hospital building that features innovative use of a continuous energy-dissipative steel column (CEDC) system is presented in this paper. The special system has been adopted to provide an efficient solution taking into account the difficulties of applying traditional intervention techniques to minimize the impact on architectural functionality and avoid the loss of building function and evacuation during the retrofit implementation. The lateral stiffness and strength of the CEDC system were defined based on the geometric and mechanical properties of the steel strip dampers. The hysteretic behavior under cyclic loadings was defined using a simplified numerical model. Its effectiveness was validated by comparing the results of full-scale experimental data available from the literature. All the main design considerations of the retrofitting plan are described in detail. The effectiveness of the proposed retrofitting system was demonstrated by nonlinear time-history analyses under different sets of earthquake-strong ground motions. The analysis results show that the CEDC system is effective in controlling the deformation pattern and significantly reducing damage to the existing structure during major earthquakes.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2013

PURPOSES : About 35% of air pollutant is occurred from road transport. NOx is the primary pollutant. Recently, the importance of NOx removal has arisen in the world. $TiO_2$ is very efficient for removing NOx by photocatalytic reaction. The mechanism of removing NOx is the reaction of photocatalysis and solar energy. Therefore, $TiO_2$ in concrete need to be contacted with solar radiation to be activated. In general, $TiO_2$ concrete are produced by substitute $TiO_2$ as a part of concrete binder. However, 90% of $TiO_2$ in the photocatalysis can not contacted with the pollutant in the air and solar radiation. Coating and penetration method are attempted as the alternative of mixing method in order to locate $TiO_2$ to the surface of structure. METHODS : The goal of this study was to attempt to locate $TiO_2$ to the surface of concrete, so we can use the concrete in pavement construction. The distribution of $TiO_2$ along the depth were confirmed by basing on the comparison of $TiO_2$ compare by using the EDAX(Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy). RESULTS : $TiO_2$ were distributed within 3mm from concrete surface. This distribution of $TiO_2$ is desirable, since the $TiO_2$ induce photocatalysis are located to where they can be contacted with the air pollutant and solar radiation. CONCLUSIONS : Nano size $TiO_2$ is easily penetration in the top 3mm of concrete surface. By the penetration $TiO_2$ concrete can be produced with the use of only 10% of $TiO_2$, by comparing the mixing types.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.950-953
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• 2006

The floor impact noise of concrete structures in apartments buildings is affected from the flexural wave propagation characteristics. Accordingly, the measurement of wave propagation characteristics is required for suggestion of efficient method to reduce the impact noise. The purpose of this article is to propose an experimental technique to measure dynamic properties of concrete structures. The method was proposed using the flexural wave propagation characteristics. Wave speeds, bending stiffness and their loss factors are estimated from which the vibration dissipation capabilities are investigated. Several different concrete beam structures were custom-built for measurement. The damping treatments using viscoelastic materials for reducing noise generation are also tested. The beam transfer function of the damped beam is predicted using the compressional damping model from which the mechanism of the vibration energy dissipation is investigated.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2009

부존자원의 대량소비로 인해 자원고갈 문제와 이에 따라 발생하는 폐기물처리 문제가 대두되고 있는 가운데 두 가지 문제를 동시에 해결하기 위해 현재의 사회구조를 자원소비형에서 자인순환형으로 변화하기 위할 노력이 진행되고 있다. 이런 노력의 일환으로 국내 발생 폐기물 중 가장 높은 비중을 차지하고 있는 건설폐기물에 관심이 급증하고 있지만 종합적인 처리에 대한 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 건설폐기물의 가장 많은 단일 물질인 폐콘크리트의 자원순환을 위한 고품질 순환골재 생산 공정 연구를 진행하였다. 굵은 골재, 잔골재, 시멘트 등이 수화물의 형태로 결합되어 있는 폐콘크리트를 가열전처리 방법과 Autogenous mill을 이용한 단체분리를 통해 고품질의 콘크리트용 순환 굵은 골재를 회수하였으며, 파분쇄 후 생산된 폐콘크리트 미분은 sink/float 분리를 통한 비중분리 특성을 파악한 후 간섭침강분리를 통해 정제과정을 거쳐 고품질의 콘크리트용 순환 잔골재를 생산하였다. 따라서 본 연구를 통해 전체 건설폐기물 중 가장 높은 비중을 차지하는 폐콘크리트를 고품질 순환골재로 재활용 할 수 있는 자원순환형 처리 공정을 개발하였다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집(II)
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• pp.625-628
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• 2006

It is known that cement production not only consumes large amount of energy but also contributes substantially to the green house gas emission. Therefore, there is a demand to develope a new technology to produce energy efficient and environmental conscious cements. The most recent, wood wool ceramic board is being applied in various building material field, for example thermal insulating and acoustic absorption material. This paper focused on improvement of alumino-silicate binder's physical properties for wood wool ceramic board. As the result of this experiment, what we could obtain best fitted alumino-silicate binder's properties such as initial setting time, flow and compressive strength of 3 days aged, was 58min, 110% and 66.0Mpa. This result can be applicable to commercial wood wool ceramic board.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.853-856
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• 2006

It is known that cement production not only consumes large amount of energy but also contributes substantially to the green house gas emission. Therefore, there is a demand to develope a new technology to produce energy efficient and environmental conscious cements. The most recent, wood wool ceramic board is being applied in various building material field, for example thermal insulating and acoustic absorption material. This paper focused on improvement of the physical properties for wood wool ceramic board applied inorganic polymer binder. As the result of this experiment, what we could obtain better wood wool ceramic board's properties such as density, water contests, water resistance and band strength, was 0.46, $10{\sim}12%$, 1.9% and $40kgf/cm^2$. This result can be applicable to commercial wood wool ceramic board.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2001

일정한 축하중과 반복적인 횡하중을 받는 콘크리트충전 강합성 기둥의 내진성능에 관한 실험적인 연구가 수행되었다. 강합성 기둥은 충전콘크리트가 강판의 국부좌굴로 인한 내측방향의 변형을 억제하고, 강판의 콘크리트 측압에 대한 구속효과와 같은 상호작용에 의해서 콘크리트와 강재의 단순누가강도 이상의 강도증진효과를 가지며, 강재 및 콘크리트기둥에 비해 우수한 연성 및 에너지 흡수능력을 나타내었다. 단면분할법을 이용하여 콘크리트충전 강합성 기둥의 비선형 모멘트-곡률 관계를 예측해 보았으며, 이는 실험결과와 비교적 잘 일치하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 구조물의 내진설계의 중요한 요소인 강합성 기둥의 연성 및 응답수정계수를 평가해 보았다. 실험결과 강합성 기둥은 효과적인 내진구조 부재로 판단되었다.