• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.715-728
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• 2022

Recently, numbers of long span pedestrian suspension bridges have been constructed worldwide. While recent tragedies regarding pedestrian suspension bridges have shown how these bridges can wreak havoc on the society, there are no specific guidelines for construction standards nor safety inspections yet. Therefore, a structural health monitoring system that could help ensure the safety of pedestrian suspension bridges are needed. System identification is one of the popular applications for structural health monitoring method, which estimates the dynamic system. Most of the system identification methods for bridges are currently adapting output-only system identification method, which assumes the dynamic load to be a white noise due to the difficulty of measuring the dynamic load. In the case of pedestrian suspension bridges, the pedestrian load is within specific frequency range, resulting in large errors when using the output-only system identification method. Therefore, this study aims to develop a system identification method for pedestrian suspension bridges considering both input and output of the dynamic system. This study estimates the location and the magnitude of the pedestrian load, as well as the dynamic response of the pedestrian bridges by utilizing artificial intelligence and computer vision techniques. A simulation-based validation test was conducted to verify the performance of the proposed system. The proposed method is expected to improve the accuracy and the efficiency of the current inspection and monitoring systems for pedestrian suspension bridges.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.699-709
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• 2018

With increasing traffic volumes and rising vehicle traffic, especially in cities, the number of pedestrian bridges has also increased significantly. Like all other structures, pedestrian bridges also suffer damage. In order to increase the safety of pedestrians, it is necessary to identify existing damage and to repair them to ensure the safety of the bridge structures. Owing to the shortcomings of local methods in identifying damage and in order to enhance the reliability of detection and identification of structural faults, signal methods have seen significant development in recent years. In this research, a new methodology, based on cone-shaped kernel distribution with a new damage index, has been used for damage detection in pedestrian truss bridges. To evaluate the proposed method, the numerical models of the Warren Type steel truss and the Arregar steel footbridge were used. Based on the results, the proposed method and damage index identified the damage and determined its location with a high degree of precision. Given the ease of use, the proposed method can be used to identify faults in pedestrian bridges.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제62권1호
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• pp.55-64
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• 2017

An effective design approach for Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers (MTMDs) in pedestrian bridges was proposed by utilizing the transfer function to obtain each TMD's optimum stiffness and damping. A systematic simulation of pedestrian excitations was described. The motion equation of a typical MTMD system attached to a Multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) system was presented, and the transfer function from the input pedestrian excitations to the output acceleration responses was defined. By solving the minimum norm of the transfer function, the parameters of the MTMD which resulted in the minimum overall responses can be obtained. Two applications of lightly damped pedestrian bridges attached with MTMD showed that MTMDs designed through this method can significantly reduce the structural responses when subjected to pedestrian excitations, and the vibration control effects were better than the MTMD when it was considered as being composed of equal number and mass ratios of TMDs designed by classical Den Hartog method.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제83권6호
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• pp.729-744
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• 2022

In this paper, an analytical formulation is proposed to predict the vertical vibration response due to the pedestrian walking on a footbridge considering the human-structure interaction, where the footbridge and pedestrian are represented by the Euler beam and linear oscillator model, respectively. The derived coupled equation of motion is a nonlinear fourth-order partial differential equation. An uncoupled solution strategy based on the combined weighted residual and perturbation method) is proposed to reduce the tedious computation, which allows the separate integration between the bridge and pedestrian subsystems. The theoretical study demonstrates that the pedestrian subsystem can be treated as a structural system with added mass, damping, and stiffness. The analysis procedure is then applied to a case study under the conditions of single pedestrian and multi pedestrians, and the results are validated and compared numerically. For convenient vibration design of a footbridge, the simplified peak acceleration formula and the idea of decoupling problem are thus proposed.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.7-15
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• 2003

Contemporary hospital has more and more extension because the growth and change of hospital has to respond the various needs. For expanding, the sky bridge(sky walk) becomes one of the method to interconnect two or more buildings on the air. Sometimes the designers don't know exactly how the sky bridge works after construction. Beyond the role of interconnecting two buildings, the role of sky bridge is transformed the main axis of pedestrian in the whole hospital organization. This scope of analysis is about the sky bridge of Hanyang University hospital. The first method is the investigation of the utilization in this time. The second is the analysis of design drawings got form the designing of the past(1994-1998). From this analysis, the conclusions are followings.；The designer who wants to apply the sky bridge should more consider about, 1) how the sky bridge impacts the whole spatial system such as the pedestrian, patients, physicians, service's facilities etc. 2) what the inside of sky bridge has something such as natural light, ventilation, and the height, depth, width of aisle, the sign for seeking orientation. etc. In future the research relating sky bridge should be studied some hospital as well as one hospital for comparing the characteristics of the concepts and organizations

• 한국복합재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국복합재료학회 2005년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.280-284
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• 2005

Existing construction materials such as concrete and steel have chronic problems; deterioration and corrosion. Owing to its special features of light weight ‘ high durability, anti-corrosion, composite material used in civil infrastructure can not only solve fundamental problems of deterioration and corrosion, but also reduce both construction and maintenance cost significantly. After the fabrication of deck panel with snap-fit connection by pultrusion through composite design according to stacking sequence of composite laminates and structural analysis, performance of decks will be verified and evaluated by structural tests.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.71-77
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• 2017

In this study, the boundary non-linear analysis of the sky bridge subjected to walking load and running load is performed. The sky bridge is installed in the mid-story between two buildings and the walking load and running load induced by pedestrians are measured by load cell. LRB is modeled as a non-linear hysteresis model to accurately represent the behavior of LRB. For the serviceability evaluation of sky bridge, the acceleration responses of sky bridge are analyzed based on ISO 2631-2 and the velocity response are analyzed based on standards Bachmann &Amann. In serviceability evaluation of this sky bridge, the pedestrian can not perceive the vibration except for resonance running loads consequently. Therefore, it is concluded that this sky bridge haven't problem in the serviceability.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.2474-2480
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• 2013

스트레스 리본 보도교는 특정한 새그을 갖는 지지 케이블에 교량 길이에 비하여 단면 두께가 아주 작은 Deck을 설치하고 프리스트레스를 도입함으로써 발생되는 긴장된 바닥판의 축력으로 외력의 대부분을 저항하는 구조물이다. 일반 구조물 설계와 달리 스트레스 리본 보도교의 설계는 Deck 단면의 가정 이외에도 지지 및 긴장 케이블량과 긴장 케이블 긴장력을 가정하여야 하기 때문에 보다 많은 반복과정이 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 반복과정을 최소한으로 줄이고자 지지 및 긴장 케이블량과 긴장력을 합리적으로 가정할 수 있는 회귀분석식이 새그비 1/30, 1/40, 그리고 1/50를 갖는 교량길이 80m에 대하여 제안되었다.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2007년도 정기 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.539-544
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• 2007

Glass fiber reinforced composite decks have high-strength, light-weight and high durability. The composite decks having vertical snap-fit connections are designed for pedestrian bridges and their structural behaviour are studied. The existing connection method of the composite decks in horizontal direction is replaced by the developed snap-fit connection method in vertical direction. The section shape of the composite decks having the vertical snap-fit connection is designed. The safety of the vertical snap-fit connection is verified by finite element analysis.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.59-66
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 콘크리트 사장교를 대상으로 차량주행속도와 교면아스팔트의 포장 상태, 차량중량 등을 실험변수로 하여 차량이 교량을 주행할 때 교면(보도)진동이 보행자에게 미치는 진동사용성 평가 방법에 대해 연구하고 그 결과로부터 진동사용성 여부를 평가하였다. 특히, 실험변수 가운데 교면포장 상태를 BMS기준에 의해 A와 C등급으로 구분하였다. 여기에는 진동을 발생시키는 에너지원을 "환산중량"으로 정의하고 차량주행 속도와 차량중량의 자승근을 곱한 형태로 사용하였다. 환산중량 228.0~1161.9 km/h kN 범위 내의 동일한 실험 조건에서 얻어진 교면포장 상태 A등급의 경우에 대한 C등급 경우의 진동가속도 응답 비율은 1.23~1.43으로 분석되어 교면포장 상태가 진동가속도 응답을 결정짓는데 큰 영향을 미치고 있음을 확인 할 수 있었다. 연구대상 교량의 교면 진동가속도 응답을 추정할 수 있는 진동추정식을 신뢰도 50%, 90%, 95%로 구분하여 제시하였으며, 실험 교량에서 교면 포장 A등급과 C등급의 경우 각각 전체응답의 30%, 40%가 레벨 C(강하게 감지)범위, 70%, 60%가 레벨 D(명확하게 감지) 범위에 있는 것으로 나타났다.