• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.803-824
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• 2014

The dynamic characterization is important in making accurate predictions of the seismic response of the hybrid structures dominated by different damping mechanisms. Different damping characteristics arise from the construction of the tower with different materials: steel for the upper part; reinforced concrete for the lower main part and interaction with supporting soil. The process of modeling damping matrices and experimental verification is challenging because damping cannot be determined via static tests as can mass and stiffness. The assumption of classical damping is not appropriate if the system to be analyzed consists of two or more parts with significantly different levels of damping, such as steel/concrete mixed structure - supporting soil coupled system. The dynamic response of structures is critically determined by the damping mechanisms, and its value is very important for the design and analysis of vibrating structures. An analytical approach capable of evaluating the equivalent modal damping ratio from structural components is desirable for improving seismic design. Two approaches are considered to define and investigate dynamic characteristics of hybrid tower of cable-stayed bridges: The first approach makes use of a simplified approximation of two lumped masses to investigate the structure irregularity effects including damping of different material, mass ratio, frequency ratio on dynamic characteristics and modal damping; the second approach employs a detailed numerical step-by step integration procedure in which the damping matrices of the upper and the lower substructures are modeled with the Rayleigh damping formulation.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.383-401
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• 2014

Over the past years, hybrid building systems, consisting of reinforced concrete frames in bottom and steel frames in top are used as a cost-effective alternative to traditional structural steel or reinforced concrete constructions. Dynamic analysis of hybrid structures is usually a complex procedure due to various dynamic characteristics of each part, i.e. stiffness, mass and especially damping. In hybrid structures, one or more transitional stories with composite sections are used for better transition of lateral and gravity forces. The effect of transitional storey has been considered in no one of the studies in the field of hybrid structures damping. In this study, a method has been proposed to determining the equivalent modal damping ratios for hybrid steel-concrete buildings with transitional storey. In the proposed method, hybrid buildings are considered to have three structural systems, reinforced concrete, composite steel and concrete (transitional storey) and steel system. In this method, hybrid buildings are substituted appropriately with 3-DOF system.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.429-437
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 수평관과 수직관의 단면이 다른 액체기둥흡진기(LCVA)의 제진효과를 극대화하기 위한 최적형상을 수치 해석에 의한 변수연구를 통해 찾았다. 특정 진동수에 동조되고, 동일한 총질량을 가지면서 치수 및 수위와 관련된 구속조건을 만족하는 다양한 형상의 LCVA를 설계하고, 이 가운데 가장 큰 등가감쇠비를 획득하는 형상을 찾았다. 그 결과 LCVA 형상의 설계에서 수위변동폭이 최적형상을 결정하는 중요한 구속조건 역할을 한다는 것을 확인하였다. 유체가 운동하는 평면과 직교하는 방향의 LCVA 수평폭을 증가시킬수록 등가감쇠비가 증가하였으며, 증가율은 점차 둔화되는 것으로 나타나 적정 수평폭의 결정이 중요한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2013

축소모형 원형기둥 실험체 8개를 제작하여 일정한 축력 하에서 반복 횡하중을 가력하는 실험을 수행하였다. 실험체들은 형상비 4.5인 실험체로 설계되었다. 실험체의 주요변수는 횡방향철근비, 축방향철근비, 축방향철근 항복강도와 축력비이다. 기둥 실험체들의 실험결과들은 축방향철근비, 횡철근비와 축력비에 따라 등가점성비, 잔류변형, 유효강성등과 같은 내진성능이 다르게 나타났다. 낮은 항복강도의 축방향철근이 적용된 실험체는 등가점성감쇠비와 잔류변형과 같은 내진성능이 낮게 나타났다. 국내의 도로교설계기준에 휨 초과강도 규정이 2012년에 채택되었다. 실험결과들은 공칭강도, 비선형 모멘트-곡률 해석 결과, AASHTO LRFD 및 도로교설계기준 (한계상태설계법)과 같은 기준들과 비교하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.850-854
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• 2009

Approximate analysis for a building installed with a friction damper is revisited to get insight of its dynamic behavior. Energy balance equation is used to have a closed analytical form solution of dynamic magnification factor (DMF) for the building with combined viscous and friction damping. It is found out that DMF is dependent on friction force ratio and resonance frequency. Linear transfer function from input external force to output building displacement is obtained by simplifying DMF equation. Root mean square of building displacement is derived under earthquake-like random excitation. Finally, design of friction damper is proposed by processing target control ratio, damping ratio factor, and friction force in sequence.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.22-28
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• 2010

Approximate analysis for a building installed with a friction damper is performed to get insight of its dynamic behavior. Energy balance equation is used to have a closed analytical form solution of dynamic magnification factor(DMF). It is found out that DMF is dependent on friction force ratio and resonance frequency. Approximation of DMF and equivalent damping ratio of a friction damper is proposed with such assumption that the building with a friction damper shows harmonic steady-state response and narrow banded response behavior near resonance frequency. Linear transfer function from input external force to output building displacement is suggested from the simplified DMF equation. Root mean square of a building displacement is derived under earthquake-like random excitation. Finally, design procedure of a friction damper is proposed by finding friction force corresponding to target control ratio. Numerical analysis is carried out to verify the proposed design procedure.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.641-652
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• 2022

High-rise structures prone to large vibrations under the action of strong winds, resulting in fatigue damage of the structural components and the foundation. A novel compound damping cable system (CDCS) is proposed to suppress the excessive vibrations. CDCS uses tailored double cable system with increased tensile stiffness as the connecting device, and makes use of the relative motion between the high-rise structure and the ground to drive the damper to move back-and-forth, dissipating the vibration mechanical energy of the high-rise structure so as to decaying the excessive vibration. Firstly, a third-order differential equation for the free vibration of high-rise structure with CDCS is established, and its closed form solution is obtained by the root formulas of cubic equation (Shengjin's formulas). Secondly, the analytical solution is validated by a laboratory model experiment. Thirdly, parametric analysis is conducted to investigate how the parameters affect the vibration control performance. Finally, the dynamic responses of the high-rise structure with CDCS under harmonic and stochastic excitations are calculated and its vibration mitigation performance is further evaluated. The results show that the CDCS can provide a large equivalent additional damping ratio for the vibrating structures, thus suppressing the excessive vibration effectively. It is anticipated that the CDCS can be used as a good alternative energy dissipation system for vibration control of high-rise structures.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제85권5호
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• pp.655-664
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• 2023

Reinforced concrete (RC) shear wall structures are one of the most widely used structural systems to resist seismic loading all around the world. Although there have been several efforts to provide conceptually simple procedures to reasonably assess the seismic demands of structures over recent decades, it seems that lesser effort has been put on a number of structural forms such as RC shear wall structures. Therefore, this study aims to represent a simple linear response spectrum-based method which can acceptably predict the nonlinear displacements of a non-ductile RC shear wall structure subjected to an individual ground motion record. An effective period and an equivalent damping ratio are introduced as the dynamic characteristics of an equivalent linear SDOF system relevant to the main structure. By applying the fundamental mode participation factor of the original MDOF structure to the linear spectral response of the equivalent SDOF system, an acceptable estimation of the nonlinear displacement response is obtained. Subsequently, the accuracy of the proposed method is evaluated by comparison with another approximate method which is based on linear response spectrum. Results show that the proposed method has better estimations for maximum nonlinear responses and is more utilizable and applicable than the other one.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.249-267
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• 2023

Various methods for determining the damping ratio have been proposed by scholars both domestically and abroad. However, no comparative analysis of different determination methods has been seen yet. In this study, typical sand (Fujian standard sand) and cohesive soils were selected as experimental objects, and undrained strain-controlled dynamic triaxial tests were conducted. The differences between existing damping ratio determination methods were theoretically compared and analyzed. The results showed that the hysteresis curve of cohesive soils had better symmetry and more closely conformed to the definition of equivalent linear viscoelasticity. For non-cohesive soils, the differences in damping ratio determined by six methods were significant. The differences decreased with increasing confining pressure and relative density, but increased gradually with increasing shear strain, especially at high shear strains, where the maximum relative error reached 200%. For cohesive soils, the differences in damping ratio determined by six methods were relatively small, with a maximum relative error of about 50%. Moreover, they were less affected by effective confining pressure and had the same changing trend under different effective confining pressures. The damping ratio determination method has a large effect on the seismic response of soils distributed by non-cohesive soils, with a maximum relative error of about 15% for the PGA and up to about 30% for the Sa. However, for soil layers distributed by cohesive soils, the damping ratio determination method has less influence on the seismic response. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt a unified damping ratio determination method for non-cohesive soils, which can effectively avoid artificial errors caused by different determination methods.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.435-443
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 MR(Magneto-Reological)제어기가 설치된 단자유도 구조물의 응답을 예측하기 위하여 구조물의 운동방정식을 해석적으로 분석하고 주요변수를 파악하였다. MR제어기의 수치 모델로는 마찰 및 점성감쇠로 단순모델한 Bingham모델을 사용하였다. 자유진동과 조화진동일때의 응답감쇠를 결정짓는 주요변수가 각각 마찰력과 최대정적복원력의 비 $R_f$, 마찰력과 최대조화가진력의 비 $R_h$ 임을 파악하였다. 비선형 미분방정식을 등가의 선형 미분방정식으로 변환하기 위하여 마찰력에 의한 에너지 소산을 등가의 점성에너지로 치환하여 등가점성감쇠와 등가점성감쇠비를 유도하였다. 마지막으로 등가선형화과정을 검증하기 위하여 실제 지진에 대한 구조물의 응답을 비선형 미분방정식의 해와 비교하였다.