• Wind and Structures
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.331-345
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• 2019

Long-span bridge decks are often shaped as streamlined to improve the aerodynamic performance of the deck. There are a number of important shaping parameters for a streamlined bridge deck. Their effects on aerodynamics should be well understood for shaping the bridge deck efficiently and for facilitating the bridge deck design procedure. This study examined the effect of various shaping parameters such as the bottom plate slope, width ratio and side ratio on aerodynamic responses of single box streamlined bridge decks by employing unsteady RANS simulation. Steady state responses and flow field were analyzed in detail for wide range of bottom plate slopes, width and side ratios. Then for a particular deck shape Reynolds number effect was investigated by varying its value from $1.65{\times}10^4$ to $25{\times}10^4$. The aerodynamic response showed very high sensitivity to the considered shaping parameters and exhibited high aerodynamic performance for a particular combination of shaping parameters.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.655-670
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• 2004

This paper aims to evaluate the effect of typhoons on fatigue damage accumulation in steel decks of long-span suspension bridges. The strain-time histories at critical locations of deck sections of long-span bridges during different typhoons passing the bridge area are investigated by using on-line strain data acquired from the structural health monitoring system installed on the bridge. The fatigue damage models based on Miner's Law and Continuum Damage Mechanics (CDM) are applied to calculate the increment of fatigue damage due to the action of a typhoon. Accumulated fatigue damage during the typhoon is also calculated and compared between Miner's Law and the CDM method. It is found that for the Tsing Ma Bridge case, the stress spectrum generated by a typhoon is significantly different than that generated by normal traffic and its histogram shapes can be described approximately as a Rayleigh distribution. The influence of typhoon loading on accumulative fatigue damage is more significant than that due to normal traffic loading. The increment of fatigue damage generated by hourly stress spectrum for the maximum typhoon loading may be much greater than those for normal traffic loading. It is, therefore, concluded that it is necessary to evaluate typhoon induced fatigue damage for the purpose of accurately evaluating accumulative fatigue damage for long-span bridges located within typhoon prone regions.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.35-48
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• 2001

The objective of this study is to investigate the stability behavior of steel cable-stayed bridges by comparing the buckling loads obtained by means of finite element methods with eigen-solver. In recent days, cable-stayed bridges dramatically attract engineers' attention due to their structural characteristics and aesthetics. They require a number of design parameters and present a high degree of static indetermination, especially for long span bridges. Cable-stayed bridges exhibit several nonlinear behaviors concurrently under normal design loads due to the individual nonlinearity of substructures such as the pylons, stay cables, and bridge deck, and their interactions. The geometric nonlinearities arise mainly from large displacements of cables. Strong axial and lateral forces acting on the bridge deck and pylons cause structural nonlinear behaviors. The interaction is among the substructures. In this paper, a typical three-span steel cable-stayed bridge with a variety of design parameters has been investigated. The numerical results indicate that the design parameters such as the ratio of $L_1/L$ and $I_p/I_b$ are important for the structural behavior, where $L_1$ is the main span length, L is the total span length of the bridge, $I_p$ is the moment of inertia of the pylon, and $I_b$ is the moment of inertia of the bridge deck. When the ratio $I_p/I_b$ increases, the critical load decreases due to the lack of interaction among substructures. Cable arrangements and the height of pylon are another important factors for this type of bridge in buckling analysis. According to numerical results, the bridges supported by a pylon with harp-type cable arrangement have higher critical loads than the bridges supported by a pylon with fan-type cable arrangement. On contrary, the shape of the pylon does not significantly affect the critical load of this type of bridge. All numerical results have been non-dimensionalized and presented in both tabular and graphical forms.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.657-665
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• 2011

프리캐스트 콘크리트 페널의 일종인 LB-DECK은 콘크리트 교량 바닥판의 시공시 LB-DECK 위에 현장타설되는 콘크리트와 합성 거동하는 영구 콘크리트 거푸집이다. 현행 LB-DECK은 두께가 60 mm인 콘크리트 슬래브와 슬래브 내부에 높이 125 mm인 lattice-girder들의 일부가 매립되어 있는 구조이다. 이러한 LB-DECK은 시공하중에 의해 종방향 균열이 발생하지 않도록 거더 간격이 충분히 작은 교량 바닥판 시공시 주로 적용되고 있다. 이 논문에서는 최근 강박스 교량과 같이 교량 바닥판의 지간장이 긴 교량에 LB-DECK를 적용할 경우 콘크리트 하부에 발생될 수 있는 종방향 균열을 최소화시키기 위하여, LB-DECK의 균열강도를 평가하기 위한 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. LB-DECK 콘크리트 슬래브의 두께, lattice-girder의 높이, 그리고 top-bar의 지름을 변수로 하는 8종류 24개의 비합성 보부재와 4가지 종류의 합성 보부재 4개를 제작한 후 정적하중 재하실험을 수행하였다. 실험체에 대한 정적하중 재하 실험을 통해 각 실험체의 균열하중과 극한하중을 평가하였으며, 또한 최종 파괴시까지 중앙부 처짐, top-bar의 변형률, 콘크리트 슬래브의 균열 진전 양상 그리고 최종 파괴 형태를 살펴보았다. 각 실험체로부터 얻은 균열하중의 크기는 탄성해석을 통해 얻은 해석치와 비교하였다. 또한 콘크리트 건조수축이 균열강도에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위하여 AEMM 방법을 이용한 장기 거동 해석을 수행하였다. 실험 결과를 토대로, 지간장이 긴 교량 바닥판에 LB-DECK 적용시, 균열 발생을 예방할 수 있도록 LB-DECK 콘크리트 슬래브의 균열강도와 설계상세를 검토하였다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.293-308
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• 2021

For the past three decades a significant amount of research has been conducted on bridge flutter. Wind tunnel tests for a 2000 m class twin-box suspension bridge have revealed that a twin-box deck carrying 4 m tall 50% open area ratio wind screens at the deck edges achieved higher critical wind speeds for onset of flutter than a similar deck without wind screens. A result at odds with the well-known behavior for the mono-box deck. The wind tunnel tests also revealed that the critical flutter wind speed increased if the bridge deck assumed a nose-up twist relative to horizontal when exposed to high wind speeds - a phenomenon termed the "nose-up" effect. Static wind tunnel tests of this twin-box cross section revealed a positive moment coefficient at 0° angle of attack as well as a positive moment slope, ensuring that the elastically supported deck would always meet the mean wind flow at ever increasing mean angles of attack for increasing wind speeds. The aerodynamic action of the wind screens on the twin-box bridge girder is believed to create the observed nose-up aerodynamic moment at 0° angle of attack. The present paper reviews the findings of the wind tunnel tests with a view to gain physical insight into the "nose-up" effect and to establish a theoretical model based on numerical simulations allowing flutter predictions for the twin-box bridge girder.

• 한국건설관리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건설관리학회 2001년도 학술대회지
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• pp.232-239
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• 2001

동북아 지역의 중추 공항 기능을 담당할 인천국제공항의 접근 교통 수단인 영종대교는 총 연장 $4,420{\cal}m$의 연육교로서 주경간부는 10,000ton급 이상의 선박운항이 가능한 세계 최초의 도로 및 철도 병용 복층 자정식 현수교와 접속 구간은 주경간부와의 연속성을 고려하여 복층 Truss교와 강상형교로 구성되어 있다. (주)한진중공업에서는 $2,250{\cal}m$의 복층 Truss 형식 중 해상구간 $1,375{\cal}m$(60,000tons)를 가설하였으며, 본 교량은 상로 6차선 도로, 하로 4차선 도로 및 철도복선으로 구성된 대규모 강교이다. 당초 가설공법은 교각사이에 Temporary Bent를 시공하여 교량을 $75{\cal}m$ 단위의 중블럭으로 제작하여 Floating Crane을 이용하여 가설하는 공법으로 계획되었다. 그러나 본 공법은 10개소 이상의 해상 가벤트를 설치하여 공사를 수행해야 하므로 공사기간이 길어지고 과다한 공사비 소요가 예상되며 해상공사 특성상 고품질 확보가 불확실하였다. 그러므로 당사에서는 $120{\cal}m$ 대블럭 Truss 교량을 일괄 육상/해상운송 및 육상과 동일한 조건에서 설치할 수 있는 공법을 개발함으로써 공사기간을 단축하고 현장 이음개소를 줄여 고품질을 확보함과 아울러 경제적인 공사수행이 가능했다. 본고에서는 영종대교 가설공사 수행을 위해 개발 적용한 운송 및 설치공법에 관한 기술자료를 소개함으로서 국내 교량가설 기술발전에 일조 하고자 한다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.399-414
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• 1997

This paper presents an investigation into the seismic response characteristics of a proposed ligh-weight pedestrian cable-stayed bridge made entirely from Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastics(GFRP). The study employs three dimensional finite element models to study and compare the dynamic characteristics and the seismic response of the GFRP bridge to a conventional Steel-Concrete (SC) cable-stayed bridge alternative. The two bridges were subjected to three synthetic earthquakes that differ in the frequency content characteristics. The performance of the GFRP bridge was compared to that of the SC bridge by normalizing the live load and the seismic internal forces with respect to the dead load internal forces. The normalized seismically induced internal forces were compared to the normalized live load internal forces for each design alternative. The study shows that the design alternatives have different dynamic characteristics. The light GFRP alternative has more flexible deck motion in the lateral direction than the heavier SC alternative. While the SC alternative has more vertical deck modes than the GFRP alternative, it has less lateral deck modes than the GFRP alternative in the studied frequency range. The GFRP towers are more flexible in the lateral direction than the SC towers. The GFRP bridge tower attracted less normalized base shear force than the SC bridge towers. However, earthquakes, with peak acceleration of only 0.1 g, and with a variety of frequency content could induce high enough seismic internal forces at the tower bases of the GFRP cable-stayed bridge to govern the structural design of such bridge. Careful seismic analysis, design, and detailing of the tower connections are required to achieve satisfactory seismic performance of GFRP long span bridges.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제71권4호
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• pp.433-444
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• 2019

Shear studs are often used to connect steel girders and concrete deck to form a composite bridge system. The application of precast concrete deck to steel-concrete composite bridges can improve the strength of decks and reduce the shrinkage and creep effect on the long-term behavior of structures. How to ensure the connection between steel girders and concrete deck directly influences the composite behavior between steel girder and precast concrete deck as well as the behavior of the structure system. Compared with traditional multi-I girder systems, a twin-I girder composite bridge system is more simplified but may lead to additional requirements on the shear studs connecting steel girders and decks due to the larger girder spacing. Up to date, only very limited quantity of researches has been conducted regarding the behavior of shear studs on twin-I girder bridge systems. One convenient way for steel composite bridge system is to cast concrete deck in place with shear studs uniformly-distributed along the span direction. For steel composite bridge system using precast concrete deck, voids are included in the precast concrete deck segments, and they are casted with cast-in-place concrete after the concrete segments are erected. In this paper, several sets of push-out tests are conducted, which are used to investigate the heavier of shear studs within the voids in the precast concrete deck. The test data are analyzed and compared with those from finite element models. A simplified shear stud model is proposed using a beam element instead of solid elements. It is used in the finite element model analyses of the twin-I girder composite bridge system to relieve the computational efforts of the shear studs. Additionally, a parametric study is developed to find the effects of void size, void spacing, and shear stud diameter and spacing. Finally, the recommendations are given for the design of precast deck using void for twin I-girder bridge systems.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제32권6D호
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• pp.579-586
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• 2012

본 연구의 목적은 장경간 강바닥판 교량의 교면포장 재료로서 에폭시 아스팔트 혼합물을 평가하고, 현장에 적용하는 것에 있다. 에폭시 아스팔트 혼합물의 국내 적용을 위한 골재입도를 제시하였고, 실내 공용성 실험을 수행한 결과 내구성능 면에서 매우 우수함을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 온도에 따른 회복탄성계수와 전단부착강도 시험결과를 활용하여 구조해석을 실시 후 전단응력 검토결과 전단부착강도의 9%로도 충분한 접착 성능을 확보할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 에폭시 아스팔트 교면 포장에 발생하는 인장응력의 경우 중국에 시공되어 검증된 난징대교 실내시험결과와 비교 시 유사하거나 작은 값을 나타내어 충분한 공용 성능을 확보할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 결과적으로 에폭시 아스팔트 혼합물은 일반 아스팔트에 비해 매우 우수한 내구성능을 확보할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 현장에서 장경간 강바닥판 교량의 교면포장 재료로서 에폭시 아스팔트 혼합물을 적용할 경우 온도와 양생기간에 따른 강도발현에 차이가 있을 수 있으므로 현장 적용 시, 생산 시료로 제작한 혼합물에 대한 평가가 이루어져야 한다.

• 한국건설관리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건설관리학회 2000년도 학술대회지
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• pp.255-266
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• 2000

Since 1993, Seohae grand bridge has been continued construction for 7 years and will be completed late this year. The bridge is a part of west sea castal highway and consists of 3 types of bridge including precast segmental method, free cantilever method and cable stayed bridge. A cable stayed bridge is the core of this bridge and it consists of 5 span, symetrical cable-stayed bridge with a total length of 990 m. The main span between two H-shaped pylons extending approximately 180 M above massive foundation of a cable stayed bridge is 470 m long and an approach span of that is 260 m long respectively. The circular cofferdam with 16 ea of 25 m diameter flat type sheet pile had been applied to construct foundation. The slipform method had been applied for forming of con'c of two H-shaped pylons with 3 cross beams respectively which is varied horizontally and vertically. The deck has been erected with balanced cantilever method using movable derrick crane. The stay cables is a bundle of parallel individually protected, 7 wire high tensile strands. The strands is hot deep galvanized and sheathed with a tight high density polyethylene coating. A petroleum wax fills all the inter-wire voids. The bundle of strands to prevent from deterioration due to the ambient problem covered with high density polyethylene pipe. The Isotension method has been applied for the stressing of cable strands to ensure uniformity of force in all the strands of a syay and such works has been performed on the stay specially provided in the pylon.