• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권9호
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• pp.6325-6332
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• 2015

곡선 박스 거더의 뒤틀림은 곡률 효과로 인하여 직선 박스 거더에 비하여 더욱 취약하지만, 국내 설계기준에서는 곡선 박스 거더의 중간 다이아프램 간격을 제시하고 있지 않다. 본 연구에서는 직선 및 곡선 박스 거더의 선형 유한요소해석을 통하여 뒤틀림 응력을 고려한 중간 다이아프램의 간격에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 해석에 이용한 대상 교량은 단경간곡선 박스 거더로써, 기존에 우리나라에서 건설되고 있는 교량의 데이터를 바탕으로, 매개변수는 중간 다이아프램의 개수 1-6개, 곡률중심각은 0-30도, 지간장은 30m 및 60m, 플랜지의 폭과 높이는 2, 3m로 선정하였다. 휨-뒤틀림 응력비는 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%인 경우에 대해서 직선 및 곡선 박스 거더의 곡률 중심각 및 뒤틀림 응력비에 따른 적정 중간 다이아프램의 간격을 제시하였다. 또한, 해석 결과와 설계기준과의 비교를 통하여, 제안된 중간 다이아프램의 적합성을 평가하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제78권2호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2021

In this paper, the effects of Tuned Mass dampers (TMDs) on the reduction of the vertical vibrations of a real horizontally curved steel box-girder bridge due to different traffic loads are numerically investigated. The performance of TMDs to reduce the bridge vibrations can be affected by the parameters such as dynamic characteristics of TMDs, the location of TMDs, the speed and weight of vehicles. In the first part of this study, the effects of mass ratio, damping percentage, frequency ratio, and location of TMDs on the performance of TMDs to decrease vertical vibrations of different sections of bridge deck are evaluated. In the second part, the performance of TMD is investigated for different speeds and weights of traffic loads. Results show that the mass ratio of TMDs is the more effective parameter in reducing imposed vertical vibration in comparison with the damping ratio. Furthermore, it is found that TMD is very sensitive to its tuned frequency, i.e., with a little deviation from a suitable frequency, the expected performance of TMD significantly decreased. TMDs have a positive and considerable performance at certain vehicle speeds and this performance declines when the weight of traffic loads is increased. Besides, the results reveal that the highest impact of TMD on the reduction of the vertical vibrations is when free vibrations occur for the bridge deck. In that case, maximum reductions of 24% and 59% are reported in the vertical acceleration of the bridge deck for the forced and free vibration amplitudes, respectively. The maximum reduction of 13% is also obtained for the maximum displacement of the bridge deck. The results are mainly related to the resonance condition.