• 한국안전학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.36-43
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• 2023

In this study, a four-point bending test was conducted to assess and detect the damage to reinforced concrete structures using the acoustic emission (AE) technique. Based on the crack investigation results, flexural failure was classified into four stages and compared with the characteristic analysis results of AE parameters. The parametric characterization indicated that the activity of the primary AE signal was high in the early stage, and that of the second signal increased after the flexural cracks stabilized. Because the secondary AE signal included noise generated by friction, parameter-based analysis for damage assessment was performed using the primary signal; the secondary signal was used as complement. The activity analyses of the primary and secondary signals effectively classified crack propagation; however, determining the macrocracks and yielding of reinforcing bars had certain limitations. Nevertheless, applying the damage index with cumulative AE energy is a complementary technique for detecting and assessing structure damage that well detects the occurrence of macrocracks.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.275-283
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• 2018

Seismic strengthening is essential for existing bridge piers which are deficient to resist the earthquake. The concrete and CFRP jackets with a bottom-anchoring method are used to strengthen railway bridge piers with low reinforcement ratio. Quasi-static tests of scaled down model piers are performed to evaluate the seismic performance of the original and strengthened bridge pier. The fracture characteristics indicate that the vulnerable position of the railway bridge pier with low reinforcement ratio during earthquake is the pier-footing region and shows flexural failure mode. The force-displacement relationships show that the two strengthening techniques using CFRP and concrete jackets can both provide a significant improvement in load-carrying capacity for railway bridge piers with low reinforcement ratio. It is clear that the bottom-anchoring method by using planted steel bars can guarantee the CFRP and concrete jackets to work jointly with original concrete piers Furthermore, it can be found that the use of CFRP jacket offers advantages over concrete jacket in improving the energy dissipation capacity under lateral cyclic loading. Therefore, the seismic strengthening techniques by the use of CFRP and concrete jackets provide alternative choices for the large numbers of existing railway bridge piers with low reinforcement ratio in China.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표회 논문집(I)
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• pp.466-469
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• 2006

This paper presents the structural characteristics of slab-column connections by using nonlinear finite element analysis. FEA considering material non-linearity was performed to investigate average column strain, failure mode, principal stress distribution, and steel yielding conditions for various slab-column members. In addition, to investigate alternative methods for improving the strength of interior column-slab joints, some specimens were provided with different reinforcing types of high-strength concrete puddling, high-strength column longitudinal steels, dowel bars, and high-strength concrete core. To make certain of the reliability of the analytical program, analysis results for concrete material model developed and two specimens with and without puddling were compared with experimental results. It was found that providing the alternative reinforcing methods in the slab-column joint results in a significant improvement in performance. This includes an increase in the axial compressive strength, greater loading stiffness, and ductility.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.441-449
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• 2018

FE models for complex or large-scaled structures that need detailed modeling of structural components are usually constructed using commercial analysis softwares. Updating of such FE model by conventional sensitivity-based methods is difficult since repeated computation for perturbed parameters and manual calculations are needed to obtain sensitivity matrix in each iteration. In this study, an FE model updating procedure avoiding such difficulties by using response surface (RS) method and a Pareto-based multiobjective optimization (MOO) was formulated and applied to FE models constructed with a commercial analysis package. The test building is a low-rise reinforced concrete building that has been seismically retrofitted. Dynamic properties of the building were extracted from vibration tests performed before and after the seismic retrofits, respectively. The elastic modulus of concrete and masonry, and spring constants for the expansion joint were updated. Two RS functions representing the errors in the natural frequencies and mode shape, respectively, were obtained and used as the objective functions for MOO. Among the Pareto solutions, the best compromise solution was determined using the TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) procedure. A similar task was performed for retrofitted building by taking the updating parameters as the stiffness of modified or added members. Obtained parameters of the existing building were reasonably comparable with the current code provisions. However, the stiffness of added concrete shear walls and steel section jacketed members were considerably lower than expectation. Such low values are seemingly because the bond between new and existing concrete was not as good as the monolithically casted members, even though they were connected by the anchoring bars.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.111-126
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• 2021

Concrete cracking due to brittle tension strength significantly prevents fully utilization of the materials for "flexural-shear failure" type shear walls. Theoretical and experimental studies applying fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) have achieved fruitful results in improving the seismic performance of "flexural-shear failure" reinforced concrete shear walls. To come to an understanding of an optimal design strategy and find common performance prediction method for design methodology in terms to FRC shear walls, seismic performance on shear walls with PVA and steel FRC at edge columns and plastic region are compared in this study. The seismic behavior including damage mode, lateral bearing capacity, deformation capacity, and energy dissipation capacity are analyzed on different fiber reinforcing strategies. The experimental comparison realized that the lateral strength and deformation capacity are significantly improved for the shear walls with PVA and steel FRC in the plastic region and PVA FRC in the edge columns; PVA FRC improves both in tensile crack prevention and shear tolerance while steel FRC shows enhancement mainly in shear resistance. Moreover, the tensile strength of the FRC are suggested to be considered, and the steel bars in the tension edge reaches the ultimate strength for the confinement of the FRC in the yield and maximum lateral bearing capacity prediction comparing with the model specified in provisions.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.535-547
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• 2012

PSRC 기둥은 앵글을 콘크리트에 매입시킨 기둥으로, 단면의 외곽 코너에 배치되는 앵글이 기둥의 휨-압축에 저항하고, 횡철근은 기둥의 전단과 앵글-콘크리트 사이의 부착에 저항한다. 본 연구에서는 KBC 2009에 따라 PSRC 합성기둥의 휨, 전단, 부착 설계방법을 정립하고, 단순지지된 2/3 스케일의 PSRC 보와 SRC 보의 2점 가력 휨실험을 통하여 제안된 설계법을 검증하고 PSRC 합성기둥의 파괴특성을 분석하였다. 단면의 강재비와 횡철근 간격을 실험 변수로 고려하였다. 실험결과, KBC 2009으로 예측한 PSRC 합성기둥의 휨, 전단, 부착 강도는 실험결과와 잘 일치하였다. 고강도 앵글이 기둥 단면의 외곽에 배치되므로 PSRC 합성기둥은 동일한 강재비를 갖는 일반 SRC 합성기둥 단면에 비하여 매우 우수한 휨저항 성능을 나타냈다. 그러나 앵글과 콘크리트 사이의 부착강도가 충분히 학보되지 못한 경우 합성기둥 단면의 휨항복강도를 발휘하기 이전에 앵글의 부착파괴, 피복콘크리트 파괴, 횡철근의 파단 등이 발생하였다. 또한 앵글 용접성 및 인성이 부족할 경우 앵글-횡철근 용접부에서 앵글의 파단에 의해 실험체가 파괴되었다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2011

기존의 철근 콘크리트 구조물에서 나타나는, 극한 환경하에서의 철근의 부식 문제 때문에 GFRP 보강근으로 철근을 대체하고 있다. 최근 들어 GFRP를 보강근으로 사용한 보의 성능에 대한 해석적, 실험적 연구가 지속적으로 행해지고 있지만 아직 철근 콘크리트 보의 연구에 대한 수에 비하여 이에 대한 연구 결과는 매우 적어 신뢰성을 얻기 힘든 상황이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 겹침이음된 GFRP 보강근을 보에 적용하여 모멘트-처짐 관계에 대한 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 실험 변수는 GFRP의 보강비와 피복 두께에 대한 것으로 총 6개의 GFRP 보강 콘크리트 보의 실험체가 제작되었다. 모든 실험체는 4000mm의 스팬을 가지고 있으며 12.7mm의 지름을 가지는 GFRP 보강근을 사용하였다. 보강근이 겹침이음된 부분에 일정한 모멘트가 작용하게 하기 위해 2점 가력 방식을 사용하였다. 실험 결과 보강근비의 증가에 따라 극한 하중의 크기가 증가하였다. 파괴 모드는 보강근비에 따라 매우 민감하게 변화하였으며 피복 두께는 인장측의 콘크리트의 탈락에 의해 최대 강도와 처짐량을 결정하는 요인이 되는 것으로 나타났다.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.527-534
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• 2006

본 논문은 외부 비부착 고장력 인장봉을 사용한 새로운 방식의 RC보의 휨보강공법에 관한 논문이다. 제안된 공법의 장점은 기존의 보강방식과 비교하여 빠르고 간단하게 시공할 수 있다는 점이다. 제안된 공법은 기존의 외부 비부착 프리스트레스 텐던공법의 많은 장점을 보유함과 동시에 프리스트레싱 작업시간을 단축시킨 공법이다. 탄소섬유쉬트, 강판 및 고장력 인장봉과 같은 서로 다른 보강재를 사용하여 보강한 철근콘크리트보 실험체를 총 9개 제작하여 실험하였다. 실험 결과, 탄소섬유쉬트로 보강된 RC보는 쉬트의 박리로 인한 취성파괴모드를 나타내었다. 강판보강 시험체의 경우도 기존의 일반적인 앵커와 에폭시로 접합을 할 경우에 강판보강의 효과가 떨어지고 앵커설계를 특별히 하고 시공에 유의하여야 함을 보여주고 있다. 반면에 고장력 인장봉을 사용한 RC보의 경우에는 무보강 RC보와 비교하여 최대내력이 212% 증가하였고, 중앙부 처짐은 65% 감소되었다. 실험 결과는 고장력 인장봉으로 보강된 RC보는 특히 강도와 변형능력에서 기존의 보강방법을 사용한 실험체보다 우수성을 보여주었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제74권5호
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• pp.657-670
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• 2020

Due to the high compressive and tensile strength of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC), UHPC used in steel concrete composite structures provided thinner concrete layer compared to ordinary concrete. This leaded to the headed stud shear connectors embedded in UHPC had a low aspect ratio. In order to systematic investigate the effect of headed stud with low aspect ratio on the structural behaviors of steel UHPC composite structure s this paper firstly carried out a test program consisted of twelve push out specimens. The effects of stud height, aspect ratio and reinforcement bars in UHPC on the structural behaviors of headed studs were investigated. The push out test results shows that the increasing of stud height did not obviously influence the structural behaviors of headed studs and the aspect ratio of 2.16 was proved enough to take full advantage of the headed stud strength. Based on the test results, the equation considering the contribution of weld collar was modified to predict the shear strength of headed stud embedded in UHPC. The modified equation could accurately predict the shear strength of headed stud by comparing with the experimental results. On the basis of push out test results, bending tests consisted of three steel UHPC composite slabs were conducted to investigate the effect of shear connection degree on the structural behaviors of composite slabs. The bending test results revealed that the shear connection degree had a significantly influence on the failure modes and ultimate resistance of composite slabs and composite slab with connection degree of 96% in s hear span exhibited a ductile failure accompanied by the tensile yield of steel plate and crushing of UHPC. Finally, analytical model based on the failure mode of composite slabs was proposed to predict the ultimate resistance of steel UHPC composite slabs with different shear connection degrees at the interface.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.117-143
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• 2017

The attack of environmental aggressive agents progressively reduces the structural reliability of buildings and infrastructures and, in the worst exposition conditions, may even lead to their collapse in the long period. A change in the material and sectional characteristics of a structural element, due to the environmental damaging effects, changes its mechanical behaviour and varies both the internal stress redistribution and the kinematics through which it reaches its ultimate state. To identify such a behaviour, the evolution of both the damaging process and its mechanical consequences have to be taken into account. This paper presents a computational approach for the analysis of reinforced and prestressed concrete elements under sustained loading conditions and subjected to given damaging scenarios. The effects of the diffusion of aggressive agents, of the onset and development of the corrosion state in the reinforcement and the corresponding mechanical response are studied. As known, the corrosion on the reinforcing bars influences the damaging rate in the cracking pattern evolution; hence, the damage development and the mechanical behaviours are considered as coupled phenomena. The reliability of such an approach is validated in modelling the diffusion of the aggressive agents and the changes in the mechanical response of simple structural elements whose experimental behaviour is reported in Literature. A second set of analyses studies the effects of the corrosion of the tendons of a P.C. beam and explores potentially unexpected structural responses caused by corrosion under different aggressive exposition. The role of the different types and of the different positions of the damaging agents is discussed. In particular, it is shown how the collapse mode of the beam may switch from flexural to shear type, in case corrosion is caused by a localized chloride attack in the shear span.