• International Journal of Railway
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2010

The steel plate-girder bridges with concrete gravity piers have possibilities of overturning by lateral inertial force which can be reproduced by sudden earthquake attack. This paper explores an overturning mechanism of existing concrete gravity pier onto the sandy soil in the event of lateral push-over load by in-situ experimental observation. The in-situ push-over experiment for pier with earth anchors between spread footing and rock beds exhibits a reasonable enhancement of ductility against overturning. In unanchored system, a flexural crack at cold joint of concrete pier is not developed because of the over-turning of the pier. This leads a global instability (rotation) of pier-footing system with relatively low stresses in pier itself. While a lateral load is persistently increased in anchored system, the successive flexural cracking failure at cold joint is observed even after the local shear failure of soil due to redistribution of stress equilibrium between soil and pier structure as long as a tensile action of anchor cable is active.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.457-469
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• 2016

Steep rock slope with water-filled tension crack will happen to overturn around the toe of the slope under seismic loading. This failure type is completely different from the common toppling failure occurring in anti-dipping layered rock mass slopes with steeply dipping discontinuities. This paper presents an analytical approach to determine the seismic factor of safety against overturning for an intact rock mass slope with water-filled tension crack considering horizontal and vertical seismic coefficients. This solution is a generalized explicit expression and is derived using the moment equilibrium approach. A numerical program based on discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) is adopted to validate the analytical results. The parametric study is carried out to adequately investigate the effect of horizontal and vertical seismic coefficients on the overall stability against overturning for a saturated rock slope under two water pressure modes. The analytical results show that vertically upward seismic inertia force or/and second water pressure distribution mode will remarkably decrease the slope stability against overturning. Finally, several representative design charts of slopes also are presented for the practical application.

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.60-68
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• 2023

연구목적: 본 연구에서는 석축단면의 설계를 지배하는 안정성 검토조건과 그에 따라 계산되는 블록 설치 폭의 변화양상을 살펴보고자 하였다. 연구방법: 이를 위해 높이 10m 인 석축을 가정하고 석축을 구성하는 블록 및 지반조건 등에 관해서는 일반적인 설계 값을 적용하여 활동 및 전도를 고려한 석축단면을 결정해보고 그 결과를 비교해 보았다. 연구결과: 설계결과에 따르면 활동에 대한 안정을 고려하여 결정된 블록의 설치 폭이 전도를 고려하여 결정된 블록의 설치 폭 보다 현저하게 작음을 알 수 있었는데 이러한 차이는 활동에 대한 안전율을 전도에 대한 안전율과 같게 적용하더라도 크게 개선되지는 않았다. 전도를 고려하여 블록 설치 폭을 결정하는 방법에는 전도되는 부분의 바닥을 수평으로 보는 방법과 하부의 파괴쐐기를 고려하는 방법이 있는데 석축의 설계를 지배하는 방법은 하부의 파괴쐐기를 고려하는 방법임을 알 수 있었다. 결론: 전도되는 부분의 하부 파괴쐐기를 고려하는 경우 가정한 파괴쐐기의 경사각이 클수록 블록 설치 폭 또한 커짐을 알 수 있었다. 특정한 경사각을 갖는 파괴쐐기를 가정한 벽체에 대하여 벽체 하부에서의 전도를 고려하는 경우 석축의 기하학적 제약조건에 의해 파괴쐐기의 경사각이 감소하게 되어 블록 설치 폭 또한 감소함을 알 수 있었다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2015

A simple method of assessing the risk of overturning of precast reinforced concrete columns is presented in this paper. The displacement-based methodology introduced herein is distinguished from conventional force-based codified methods of aseismic design of structures. As evidenced by results from field tests precast reinforced concrete columns can be displaced to a generous limit without sustaining damage and then fully recover from most of the displacement afterwards. Realistic predictions of the displacement demand of such (rocking) system in conjunction with the displacement capacity estimates enable fragility curves for overturning to be constructed. The interesting observation from the developed fragility curves is that the probability of failure of the precast soft-storey column decreases with increasing size of the column importantly illustrating the "size effect" phenomenon.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.58-66
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• 2016

This study aims to estimate the failure probability of concrete gravity dams for their risk analysis under flood situation. To the end, failure modes of concrete gravity dams and their limit state functions are proposed based on numerous review of domestic and international literatures on the dam failure cases and design standards. Three failure modes are proposed: overturning, sliding, and overstress. Based on the failure modes the limit state functions, the failure probability is assessed for a weir section and a non-weir section of a dam in Korea. As water level is rising from operational condition to extreme flood condition, the failure probability is found to be raised up to the warning condition, especially for overturning mode at the non-weir section. The result can be used to reduce the risk of the dam by random environmental variables under possible flood situation.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.1055-1071
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• 2016

The paper presents an innovative steel moment frame with the replaceable reinforced concrete wall panel (SRW) structural system, in which the replaceable concrete wall can play a role to increase the overall lateral stiffness of the frame system. Two full scale specimens composed of the steel frames and the replaceable reinforced concrete wall panels were tested under the cyclic horizontal load. The failure mode, load-displacement response, deformability, and the energy dissipation capacity of SRW specimens were investigated. Test results show that the two-stage failure mode is characterized by the sequential failure process of the replaceable RC wall panel and the steel moment frame. It can be found that the replaceable RC wall panels damage at the lateral drift ratio greater than 0.5%. After the replacement of a new RC wall panel, the new specimen maintained the similar capacity of resisting lateral load as the previous one. The decrease of the bearing capacity was presented between the two stages because of the connection failure on the top of the replaceable RC wall panel. With the increase of the lateral drift, the percentage of the lateral force and the overturning moment resisted by the wall panel decreased for the reason of the reduction of its lateral stiffness. After the failure of the wall panel, the steel moment frame shared almost all the lateral force and the overturning moment.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.30-38
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• 2020

In order to construct a dam, the diversion facility such as cofferdam and a diversion tunnel should be installed in advance. And size of a cofferdam depends on type of a main dam. According to the Korea Dam Design Standard, if the main dam is a concrete dam, design flood of the cofferdam is 1~2 years flood frequency. This means that overflow of the cofferdam occurs one time for 1 or 2 years, therefore, stability of the cofferdam should be secured against any overflow problem. In this study, failure probability analysis for the concrete cofferdam is performed considering the overflow. First of all, limit state function of the concrete cofferdam is defined for overturning, sliding and base pressure, and upstream water levels are set as El. 501 m, El. 503 m, El. 505 m, El. 507 m. Also, after literature investigation research, probabilistic characteristics of various random variables are determined, the failure probability of the concrete cofferdam is calculated using the Monte Carlo Simulation. As a result of the analysis, when the upstream water level rises, it means overflow, the failure probability increases rapidly. In particular, the failure probability is largest in case of flood loading condition. It is considered that the high upstream water level causes increase of the upstream water pressure and the uplift pressure on the foundation. In addition, among the overturning, the sliding and the base pressure, the overturing is the major cause for the cofferdam failure considering the overflow.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제3권3_4호
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• pp.457-471
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• 2012

Current code procedures for stress and stability analysis of new and existing concrete-gravity dams are primarily based on conventional methods of analysis. Such methods can be applied in a straightforward manner but there has been evidence that they may be inaccurate or, possibly, not conservative. This paper presents finite element modeling and analysis procedures and makes recommendations for local failure criteria at the dam-rock interface aimed at predicting more accurately the behavior of dams under hydraulic and anchoring loads.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.498-509
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 안벽구조물에 대한 지지력, 전도 및 활동에 대한 파괴모드별 수준 I, II & III의 신뢰성 해석을 수행하였다. 파괴모드에 따른 적절한 설계기법을 적용하여 민감도 분석을 실시하고 케이슨식 안벽 설계시 확률변수가 신뢰지수에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 신뢰지수 산정결과, 최대위험시의 사례연구 I의 경우, Level II와 III 방법 모두 1.416, 사례 II의 경우, 각각 2.201과 1.880로써 Level II (FORM) 및 Level III의 시뮬레이션 방법이 잘 일치함을 확인할 수 있었다. 대체로 케이슨식 안벽은 주요 파괴모드중 지지력과 활동에 대한 파괴확률이 비교적 크고 전도에 대한 파괴확률이 가장 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 민감도 분석 결과, 신뢰지수에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 확률변수는 활동, 전도 및 지지력 파괴모드에서 각각 마찰계수, 잔류수압 및 저항모멘트로 나타났다. 특히, 지진시 변동계수가 큰 관성력 및 동수압은 민감도 변화가 크지 않아 변동계수와 민감도에 관련된 기존의 연구와 유사한 결과를 얻었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.544-552
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• 2002

Recommended seismic design guide for the flat bottom vortical-cylindrical oil storage tanks in KS B 6225 is presented. Under earthquake excitations, the hydrodynamic pressure exerted on the tank walls produces overturning moment which may cause either a failure of the anchors or a buckling of the tank shell near its base. The basis for establishing design loads due to hydrodynamic pressure is described including seismic zone risk map in Korea, zone coefficients and the essential facilities factor. This procedure for calculating applied compressive stress on the shell base subjecting to seismic load and for estimating the allowable buckling stress is described.