• 한국연초학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.65-73
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• 1988

The fragilities of the tobacco has been considered to be one of the most Important factor in determing not only the quality of the tobacco but also the economic effect to cigarettes manufacturing. The three blender methods to determine relative fragilities were compared with the Korea Tabacco & Ginseng Research Institute Standared Fragilities Test in order to established a suitable method for measuring the fragilities of Korea tobacco leaves. Fragilities measurement by the blender methods expressed either sieve aperture or fineness index and a statistical comparison of the three blender methods was made to short the mirror variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, slope, correlation, sensitivity index, etc.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.217-230
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• 2006

This paper describes a procedure to develop fragility curves for woodframe structures subjected to lateral wind loads. The fragilities are cast in terms of horizontal displacement criteria (maximum drift at the top of the shearwalls). The procedure is illustrated through the development of fragility curves for one and two-story residential woodframe buildings in high wind regions. The structures were analyzed using a monotonic pushover analysis to develop the relationship between displacement and base shear. The base shear values were then transformed to equivalent nominal wind speeds using information on the geometry of the baseline buildings and the wind load equations (and associated parameters) in ASCE 7-02. Displacement vs. equivalent nominal wind speed curves were used to determine the critical wind direction, and Monte Carlo simulation was used along with wind load parameter statistics provided by Ellingwood and Tekie (1999) to construct displacement vs. wind speed curves. Wind speeds corresponding to a presumed limit displacement were used to construct fragility curves. Since the fragilities were fit well using a lognormal CDF and had similar logarithmic standard deviations (${\xi}$), a quick analysis to develop approximate fragilities is possible, and this also is illustrated. Finally, a compound fragility curve, defined as a weighted combination of individual fragilities, is developed.

• 방재저널
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.126-127
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• 2012

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.19-43
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• 2014

A risk assessment framework for evaluating building structures is implemented in this study. This framework allows considering sources of uncertainty both on structural capacity and seismic demand. In particular randomness on seismic load, incident angle, material properties, floor mass and structural damping are considered; in addition the choice of fibre modelling versus plastic hinge model is also considered as a source of uncertainty. The main objective of this work is to study the contribution of these sources of uncertainty on the fragilities of steel and steel-reinforced concrete composite 3D building structures. The fragility curves are expressed in the form of a two-parameter lognormal distribution where vertical statistics in conjunction with metaheuristic optimization are implemented for calculating the two parameters.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.493-500
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 농업시설물 중 내재해형 비닐하우스와 축사에 대한 화산재 취약도를 평가하였다. 이들 농업시설물에 대한 화산재 취약도를 평가하기 위해 화산재 하중의 확률밀도함수와 대상 시설물 저항성능의 확률밀도함수를 비교하는 해석적 접근법 기반의 FOSM(first-order second-moment) 방법이 이용되었다. 화산재 취약도 평가를 위하여 폭과 높이 그리고 단면 및 재료적 특성이 상이한 6종의 내재해형 비닐하우스와 표준형, 해안형, 산간형으로 구분된 3종의 축사가 사용되었다. 또한 FOSM 방법으로 평가된 내재해형 비닐하우스와 축사의 취약도는 GEV(generalized extreme value) 분포함수의 모수 형태로 최적화된 후 데이터베이스화되었다. 본 연구에서 평가한 화산재 취약도는 백두산 화산분화에 따른 화산재 퇴적에 대한 농업시설물의 위험도 평가를 위하여 활용될 수 있다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.285-295
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• 2018

In this study, the effect of local site conditions (site class and site amplifications) and structural variability are investigated on fragility functions of typical building structures. The study area is chosen as Eastern Turkey. The fragility functions are developed using site-specific uniform hazard spectrum (UHS). The site-specific UHS is obtained based on simulated ground motions. The implementation of ground motion simulation into seismic hazard assessment has the advantage of investigating detailed local site effects. The typical residential buildings in Erzincan are represented by equivalent single degree of freedom systems (ESDOFs). Predictive equations are accomplished for structural seismic demands of ESDOFs to derive fragility functions in a straightforward manner. To study the sensitivity of fragility curves to site class, two sites on soft and stiff soil are taken into account. Two alternative site amplification functions known as generic and theoretical site amplifications are examined for these two sites. The reinforced concrete frames located on soft soil display larger fragilities than those on stiff soil. Theoretical site amplification mostly leads to larger fragilities than generic site amplification more evidently for reinforced concrete buildings. Additionally, structural variability of ESDOFs is generally observed to increase the fragility especially for rigid structural models.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.653-664
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• 2014

Wind fragility analysis provides a quantitative instrument for delineating the safety performance of civil structures under hazardous wind loading conditions such as cyclones and tornados. It has attracted and would be expected to continue to attract intensive research spotlight particularly in the nowadays worldwide context of adapting to the changing climate. One of the challenges encumbering efficacious assessment of the safety performance of existing civil structures is the possible incompleteness of the structural appraisal data. Addressing the issue of the data missingness, the study presented in this paper forms a first attempt to investigate the feasibility of using the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm and Bayesian techniques to predict the wind fragilities of existing civil structures. Numerical examples of typical linear or hysteretic shear frames are introduced with the wind loads derived from a widely used power spectral density function. Specifically, the application of the maximum a posteriori estimates of the distribution parameters for the story stiffness is examined, and a surrogate model is developed and applied to facilitate the nonlinear response computation when studying the fragilities of the hysteretic shear frame involved.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.321-331
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• 2003

지진취약도분석 기술은 원자력발전소의 구조물 및 기기의 실제 내진성능을 평가하기 위하여 이용된다. 이 논문에서는 원자력 발전소를 구성하는 구조물들의 지진취약도를 평가하는 개선된 기법에 대하여 요약하였다. 또한, 최근 몇 년간 한반도에서 발생된 소규모 기록지진의 응답스펙트럼에 대한 공학적 특성을 평가하고, 이러한 기록지진의 응답스펙트럼을 부지의 실제 지반운동으로 사용할 경우, 지진취약도 분석에 미치는 영향을 검토하였다. 몇가지 예제 구조물에 대한 지진취약도분석을 통하여 기록지진의 특성이 한국형 원자력발전소의 내진성능에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 평가하였다. 평가결과, 현재까지 부지의 실제 지반운동으로 사용되어 오던 Newmark 스펙트럼은 국내 시설물의 내진성능을 과대평가 할 수 있음을 보여주었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.337-352
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• 2013

Seismic performance of critical facilities has been focused on the structural components over the past decade. However, most earthquake damages were observed to the nonstructural components during and after the earthquakes. The primary objective of this research was to develop the seismic fragility of the piping system incorporating the nonlinear Tee-joint finite element model in the full scale piping configuration installed in critical facilities. The procedure for evaluating fragility curves corresponding to the first damage state was considered the effects of the top floor acceleration sensitivities for 5, 10, 15, and 20 story linear RC and steel building systems subjected to 22 selected ground motions as a function of ground motion uncertainties. The result of this study revealed that the conditional probability of failure of the piping system on the top floor in critical facilities did not increase with increased level of story height and in fact, story level in buildings can tune the fragilities between the building and the piping system.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2002년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.155-162
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• 2002

A technique for the seismic reliability evaluation of electric power transmission systems(EPTS) adapted to ground motion characteristics of Korea has been developed to evaluate reliability indices corresponding to the whole system and to each node within. A network model with nodes and links for EPTS has been established, and a seismic substation-fragility curve obtained from seismic fragilities of power system facilities has been derived. A point source model, the doubly truncated Gutenberg-Richter relationship, and earthquake intensity attenuation formula have been applied to simulate seismic events. Using Monte-Carlo simulation method, the seismic reliability of EPTS is evaluated and, it appeared that seismic effect on EPTS in low and moderate seismicity regions has to be considered.