• Computers and Concrete
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.365-386
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• 2010

This paper presents the physical formulation of a 1D material model suitable for seismic applications. It is written within the framework of thermodynamics with internal variables that is, especially, very efficient for the phenomenological representation of material behaviors at macroscale: those of the representative elementary volume. The model can reproduce the main characteristics observed for concrete, that is nonsymetric loading rate-dependent (viscoelasticity) behavior with appearance of permanent deformations and local hysteresis (continuum plasticity), stiffness degradation (continuum damage), cracking due to displacement localization (discrete plasticity or damage). The parameters have a clear physical meaning and can thus be easily identified. Although this point is not detailed in the paper, this material model is developed to be implemented in a finite element computer program. Therefore, for the benefit of the robustness of the numerical implementation, (i) linear state equations (no local iteration required) are defined whenever possible and (ii) the conditions in which the presented model can enter the generalized standard materials class - whose elements benefit from good global and local stability properties - are clearly established. To illustrate the capabilities of this model - among them for Earthquake Engineering applications - results of some numerical applications are presented.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 토사사면의 안전율을 산정하고 최소임계단면을 탐색하기 위하여 개별요소법과 유전자 알고리즘으로 조합된 새로운 해석방법이 제안되었다. 안전율 산정시, 한계평형법에 근거한 통상적인 사면안정 해석법들은 전체적인 힘평형을 만족하지 못하기 때문에 절편간에 작용하는 힘의 경사와 위치에 대한 가정이 불가피하다. 개별요소법에 근거하여 개발된 사면안정해석법은 힘과 변위간의 적합조건을 만족할 수 있다. 또한 제안된 해석기법에서는 최소임계 단면을 탐색하기 위하여 실수형 유전자 알고리즘이 적용되었다. 이 방법은 지역해에 쉽게 수렴하는 간편한 최적화기 법보다 안정적으로 전역해를 탐색할 수 있다 제안된 해석기법의 적용성을 검토하기 위하여 예제해석이 수행되었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.135-154
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• 2002

This paper presents the convected material frame approach to study the nonlinear behavior of inelastic frame structures. The convected material frame approach is a modification of the co-rotational approximation by incorporating an adaptive convected material frame in the basic definition of the displacement vector and strain tensor. In the formulation, each discrete element is associated with a local coordinate system that rotates and translates with the element. For each load increment, the corresponding strain-displacement and nodal force-stress relationships are defined in the updated local coordinates, and based on the updated element geometry. The rigid body motion and deformation displacements are decoupled for each increment. This modified approach incorporates the geometrical nonlinearities through the continuous updating of the material frame geometry. A generalized nonlinear function is used to derive the inelastic constitutive relation and the kinematic hardening is considered. The equation of motion is integrated by an explicit procedure and it involves only vector assemblage and vector storage in the analysis by assuming a lumped mass matrix of diagonal form. Several numerical examples are demonstrated in close agreement with the solutions obtained by the ANSYS code. Numerical studies show that the proposed approach is capable of investigating large deflection of inelastic planar structures and providing an excellent numerical performance.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.291-302
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• 2012

Frequently, steel silos are supported by discrete supports or columns to permit easy access beneath the barrel. In such cases, large loads are transferred to the limited number of supports, causing locally high axial compressive stress concentrations in the shell wall above the supports. If not dealt with properly, these increased stresses will lead to premature failure of the silo due to local instability in the regions above the supports. Local stiffening near the supports is a way to improve the buckling resistance, as material is added in the region of elevated stresses, levelling these out to values found in uniformly supported silos. The aim of a study on the properties of local stiffening will then be to increase the failure load, governed by an interaction of plastic collapse and elastic instability, to that of a discrete supported silo. However, during the course of such a study it was found that, although the failure remains local, the cylinder height is also a parameter that influences the failure mechanism, a fact that is not properly taken into account in current design practice and codes. This paper describes the mechanism behind the effect of the cylinder height on the failure load, which is related to pre-buckling deformations of the shell structure. All results and conclusions are based on geometrically and materially non-linear finite element analyses.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제9권2호통권42호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2005

이산폰툰형 부유식교량의 시간영역 지진응답해석을 지진파의 공간분포를 고려하여 수행하였다. 지반운동의 공간변화는 파의 통과 영향, 엇결성 뎡향 및 국부지반 영향을 반영하는 결맞음 함수 모델로 고려하였다. 부유식 교량의 상부구조는 공간뼈대요소와 탄성현수케이블요소를 이용하여 모델링 하였고, FHWA 가이드라인의 스프링 모델을 사용하여 교대의 지반 구조물 상호작용에 대한 영향을 고려하엿으며, 경계요소법으로 산정한 폰툰 동수력계수의 주파수 의종성을 고려하기 위해서 시간지연함수를 사용하였다. 지반운동의 공간변화를 고려한 다중지점 지진입력을 교량의 양단에 도입하였고 응답의 시간이력을 동시 가진 시와 비교하였다. 장주기의 동적특성을 갖는 이산폰툰형 부유식 교량의 지진응답 해석에서 지반운동의 공간분포를 고려할 경우에 주몰할만한 응답의 증폭이 나타날 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1403-1419
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• 2015

When precast concrete infill panels are connected to steel frames at discrete locations, interaction at the structural interface is neither complete nor absent. The contribution of precast concrete infill panels to the lateral stiffness and strength of steel frames can be significant depending on the quality, quantity and location of the discrete interface connections. This paper presents preliminary experimental and finite element results of an investigation into the composite behaviour of a square steel frame with a precast concrete infill panel subject to lateral loading. The panel is connected at the corners to the ends of the top and bottom beams. The Frame-to-Panel-Connection, FPC4 between steel beam and concrete panel consists of two parts. A T-section with five achor bars welded to the top of the flange is cast in at the panel corner at a forty five degree angle. The triangularly shaped web of the T-section is reinforced against local buckling with a stiffener plate. The second part consists of a triangular gusset plate which is welded to the beam flange. Two bolts acting in shear connect the gusset plate to the web of the T-section. This way the connection can act in tension or compression. Experimental pull-out tests on individual connections allowed their load deflection characteristics to be established. A full scale experiment was performed on a one-storey one-bay 3 by 3 m infilled frame structure which was horizontally loaded at the top. With the characteristics of the frame-to-panel connections obtained from the experiments on individual connections, finite element analyses were performed on the infilled frame structures taking geometric and material non-linear behaviour of the structural components into account. The finite element model yields reasonably accurate results. This allows the model to be used for further parametric studies.

• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.83-101
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• 2008

A derivation is given of two-scale models that are able to describe deformation and flow in a fluid-saturated and progressively fracturing porous medium. From the micromechanics of the flow in the cavity, identities are derived that couple the local momentum and the mass balances to the governing equations for a fluid-saturated porous medium, which are assumed to hold on the macroscopic scale. By exploiting the partition-of-unity property of the finite element shape functions, the position and direction of the fractures are independent from the underlying discretization. The finite element equations are derived for this two-scale approach and integrated over time. The resulting discrete equations are nonlinear due to the cohesive crack model and the nonlinearity of the coupling terms. A consistent linearization is given for use within a Newton-Raphson iterative procedure. Finally, examples are given to show the versatility and the efficiency of the approach.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.349-360
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 탄소성 유한요소해석 알고리즘과 연계한 확률장 생성기법과 근접터널 조건에서의 파괴확률을 분석하였다. 유한요소 해석을 위한 이산 확률장의 생성은 빠르고 정확하며 랜덤변수의 해상도를 자유롭게 조절할 수 있는 local average subdivision 기법을 사용하였으며 터널모델링을 위해 유한요소 크기와 형상 변화 등을 적절히 고려하여 지반물성치를 적용하는 방안을 제안하였다. 예제해석 조건에 대해 강도정수의 분산정도 및 공간상관길이에 따른 파괴확률을 파악하였으며 결정론적 안정성 해석결과 및 단일랜덤변수 해석결과와 비교하였다. 강도정수의 분산특성에 따라 강도감소기법에 의한 안전율과 단일랜덤변수 해석에 의한 파괴확률의 관계를 규명하였으며 확률유한요소 해석을 통해 공간상관길이가 파괴확률에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 이를 통해 강도감소기법에 의한 안전율과 분산계수로부터 단일랜덤변수에 의한 파괴확률을 도출할 수 있었으며 단일랜덤변수 해석결과가 근접터널의 실제적인 파괴확률을 과소평가 할 수 있음을 파악하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.713-732
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• 2002

A local radial point interpolation method (LRPIM) based on local residual formulation is presented and applied to solid mechanics in this paper. In LRPIM, the trial function is constructed by the radial point interpolation method (PIM) and establishes discrete equations through a local residual formulation, which can be carried out nodes by nodes. Therefore, element connectivity for trial function and background mesh for integration is not necessary. Radial PIM is used for interpolation so that singularity in polynomial PIM may be avoided. Essential boundary conditions can be imposed by a straightforward and effective manner due to its Delta properties. Moreover, the approximation quality of the radial PIM is evaluated by the surface fitting of given functions. Numerical performance for this LRPIM method is further studied through several numerical examples of solid mechanics.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2007

본 연구는 지진운동의 영향 하에서 강제 모멘트 골조로 이루어진 post-Northridge 연결부를 갖는 보의 탄성 및 비탄성 거동을 모델하기 위한 부등단면 보 요소를 제시한다. 단면감소 연결부를 갖는 부등단면 보의 탄성강성 행렬은 수치적분이 필요치 많은 수식으로 표현된다. 소성모델은 분포형이며 강체링크로 연결된 일련의 비선형 힌지로 구성 되어있고 경화법칙은 단조 및 임의 주기 하중에 대한 비탄성 거동과 국부좌굴의 효과를 고려할 수 있다. 모델의 대조와 검증은 동반논문에 제시되어있다.