• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 콘크리트의 균열조건에 따른 수분 흡수 현상을 해석적으로 분석하였다. 흡수 시간의 증가에 따라 콘크리트 표면을 통해 흡수되는 수분의 양을 실험적으로 분석한 기존 연구 결과들을 바탕으로 2차원 유한요소해석 모델을 개발하였다. 고려된 균열조건은 균열 폭(0.1 mm, 0.3 mm), 균열 깊이(0 ~ 250 mm), 균열 간격(0 ~ 200 mm)이며 총 30개 모델에 대한 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. 유한요소해석을 수행한 결과, 콘크리트 균열부의 수분 흡수량 증가에 중요한 영향을 미치는 조건은 균열 폭 및 균열 깊이의 변화로 확인되었다. 또한 비균열 조건의 콘크리트에 비해 균열부에서 추가로 흡수되는 물의 양을 정량적으로 분석하기 위하여, 균열부 수분 흡수계수(S_crack) 개념을 도입하고 이를 추정하기 위한 예측 식을 제안하였다. 균열 깊이에 대한 분석 결과, 콘크리트 균열 폭과 관계없이 균열 깊이 150 mm 이하에서는 균열로 인한 수분 흡수가 활발하게 발생할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 따라서 외부에 노출된 철근콘크리트 구조물은 제설제와 같은 수용액 등의 흡수로 인하여 철근 부식이 발생할 수 있음을 고려하면, 실제 시설물의 균열 조건을 파악하기 위해서는 시설물의 점검 및 진단 시에 기존 균열 폭에 대한 조사뿐만 아니라 균열 깊이에 대한 조사도 함께 수행되어야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제66권4호
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• pp.453-463
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• 2018

Three points bending flexural test was modelled numerically to study the crack propagation in the pre-cracked beams. The pre-existing double internal cracks inside the beam models were considered to investigate the crack propagation and coalescence paths within the modelled samples. Notch configuration effects on the failure stress were considered too. This numerical analysis shown that the propagation of wing cracks emanating from the tips of the pre-existing internal cracks caused the final breaking of beams specimens. It was also shown that when two notches were overlapped, they both mobilized in the failure process and the failure stress was decreased when the notches were located in centre line. However, the failure stress was increased by increasing the bridge area angle. Finally, it was shown that in all cases, there were good agreements between the discrete element method results and, the other numerical and experimental results. In this research, it is tried to improve the understanding of the crack propagation and crack coalescence phenomena in brittle materials which is of paramount importance in the stability analyses of rock and concrete structures, such as the underground openings, rock slopes and tunnel construction.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.541-552
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• 1997

In this paper the ultimate strength of the R/C cooling towers, which have initial imperfection and pre-cracked elements, is analyzed. The initial geometric imperfections arise from the unavoidable inaccuracies under the construction and the pre-cracks are assumed to be produced by the temperature stress gradients or cyclic loading under wind pressure and/or earthquake load. Both effects are strongly influenced on the strength of the R/C cooling tower shell structures. The reinforcing ratio is also the important factor to evaluate the ultimate strength of the R/C cooling tower shells. However we could not analyze these structures experimentally because of their large, analyses are the powerful schemes to evaluate the safety and reliability of these structures. The analyzed model is Port Gibson cooling tower shell. In the numerical analysis the geometric and material nonlinearities are taken into account.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.402-407
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• 1995

The effects of room temperature and strain aging treatment are discussed on the critical condition for the onset of growth of non-propagating cracks on 0.15% C low carbon steel, with special emphasis on the length of the critical non-propagating crack and on the crack opening displacement(COD) at the crack tip. It is found from the experimental analysis that room temperature and strain aging of a fatigue pre-cracked specimen introduced the closure of a crack tip of the pre-crack and the reduction of crack opening displacement at the wake of crack, together with an improvement in crack growth resistance of the microstructure. This may cause an increase in the endurance limit of the specimen, through the enhancement of effective stress for the onset of growth of the critical non-propagating crack.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2000년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.751-756
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• 2000

The structural behavior of reinforced concrete slabs strengthened by glass fiber reinforced plastic-panels experimentally investigated. The experimental variables are strengthening length, strengthening width, and pre-crack existence. The pre-cracked slabs are initially loaded to 70 percent of ultimate flexural capacity and subsequently repaired with GFRP-Panels bonded to the tension face of the slabs. Five one-way slabs were tested to failure. The main failure mode of strengthened slabs is separation failure by crack propagation from load point section to end of plate. The behavior of strengthened slabs is represented by a maximum load, load-deflection curves an load-strain curves.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.181-184
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• 2006

In this investigation, fracture mechanism of the pre-cracked beams strengthened with FRP-Rod and GSP(Glass Fiber-Steel Plate) were experimentally studied by the repeating load test according to the three different loading speeds. In the experiments, it was identified that pre-crack in the damaged beams led the significant fracture type of the strengthened beams and loading speed did not influence the behaviors of the fractures. On the other hand, strengthened beams by GSP have more large increasing effects of the strength comparing to beams strengthened with FRP-Rod, but they have a brittle behaviors in fracture.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.7-13
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• 1993

AISI 4130 금속재를 사용한 균열 컴팩터 인장시편의 파괴거동이 음향방출(AE) 및 초음파 C-scan을 이용하여 조사되었다. 모든 시편들을 특정 수준의 하중까지 증가시키면서, 크랙 개구변위 (COD)와 더불어 여러가지의 음향방출 인자들을 얻었다. 크랙 선단의 크랙 개구변위와 손상(소성)역을 계산하기 위하여 탄소성 유한요소 해석이 수행되었다. 펄스-반사, 침수형으로한 초음파 C-scan은 손상역 크기와 상사시키기 위하여 행해졌다. 유한요소 해석 결과와 측정된 크랙개구변위는 만족할 정도로 일치하였다. 음향방출 결과에서, 시험시편들은 연성거동을 나타내었다. 총 사상수대 크랙 개구변위의 기울기는 크랙 개시점을 결정하는 데에 유용하였다. 예비 시험적인 C-scan 화상은 손상역의 초음파 진폭변화를 보여주었고, 손상역의 형상 및 크기가 유한요소 결과와 정성적으로 부합되었다. 손상역 크기에 관한 추가적인 연구가 요약되었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2012

Concrete sleepers are essential components of the conventional railway. As support elements, sleepers are always subjective to a variety of time-dependent loads attributable to the train operations, either wheel or rail abnormalities. It has been observed that the sleepers may deteriorate due to these loads, inducing the formation of hairline cracks. There are two areas along the sleepers that are more prone to crack: the central and the rail seat sections. Several non-destructive methods have been developed to identify failures in structures. Health monitoring techniques are based on vibration responses measurements, which help engineers to identify the vibration-based damage or remotely monitor the sleeper health. In the present paper, the dynamic effects of the cracks in the vibration signatures of the railway pre-stressed concrete sleepers are investigated. The experimental modal analysis has been used to evaluate the modal bending changes in the vibration characteristics of the sleepers, differentiating between the central and the rail seat locations of the cracks. Modal parameters changes of the 'healthy' and cracked sleepers have been highlighted in terms of natural frequencies and modal damping. The paper concludes with a discussion of the most suitable failure indicator and it defines the vibration signatures of intact, central cracked and rail seat cracked sleepers.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제68권4호
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• pp.497-505
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• 2018

Three points bending flexural test was modeled numerically to study the crack propagation in the pre-cracked beams. The pre-existing edge cracks in the beam models were considered to investigate the crack propagation and coalescence paths within the modeled samples. The effects of particle size on the single edge-notched round bar in bending test were considered too. The results show that Failure pattern is constant by increasing the ball diameter. Tensile cracks are dominant mode of failure. These crack initiates from notch tip, propagate parallel to loading axis and coalescence with upper model boundary. Number of cracks increase by decreasing the ball diameter. Also, tensile fracture toughness was decreased with increasing the particle size. In the present study, the influences of particles sizes on the cracks propagations and coalescences in the brittle materials such as rocks and concretes are numerically analyzed by using a three dimensional particle flow code (PFC3D). These analyses improve the understanding of the stability of rocks and concretes structures such as rock slopes, tunnel constructions and underground openings.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.277-286
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• 2004

Defective metallic components and structures are being repaired with bonded composite patches to improve overall mechanical and fatigue properties. In this study, fatigue crack growth tests were conducted on pre-cracked 7075/T6 Aluminum substrates with and without bonded Boron/epoxy patches. A considerable increase in the fatigue life and a decrease in the stress intensity factor (SIF) were observed as the number of patch plies increased. The experimental results demonstrate that the patch configurations and patch thickness can enhance fatigue life by order of magnitude. Quantitative comparisons between analytical and experimental data were made, and the analytical model based on a modified Rose's analytical solution appears to best estimate the fatigue life.