• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.39-52
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• 2003

A computer program has been developed for the optimum design of prestressed concrete beams under flexure. Optimum values of prestressing force, tendon configuration, and cross-sectional dimensions are determined subject to constraints on the design variables and stresses. 28 constraints have been used including flexural stresses, cover requirement, the aspect ratios for top and bottom flanges and web part of a beam and ultimate moment. The objective function contains cost of concrete, prestressing force and formwork. Using this function, it is possible to obtain minimum cost design, minimum weight or cross-sectional area of concrete design and minimum prestressing force design. Besides the idealized I-shaped cross-section, which is widely used in literature, a general I-shaped cross-section with eight geometrical design variables are used here. Four examples, one of which is available in the literature and the others are modified form of it, have been solved for minimum cost and minimum cross-sectional area designs and the results are compared. The computer program, which employs modified grid search optimization method, can assist a designer in producing efficient designs rapidly and easily. Considerable savings in computational work are thus made possible.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제17권5호통권78호
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• pp.637-648
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• 2005

선행하중을 도입한 H형강의 상하부에 고강도 강판을 부착시키고 하중을 제거함으로써 프리스트레스의 도입효과를 극대화 시킨 플레이트거더(High Prestressed Plate Girder, 이하 HiPP 거더)를 개발하고자 한다. 먼저 복합거더(hybrid girder)의 일종인 HiPP 거더의 역학적 원리를 간략히 설명하고, 실험을 통하여 플레이트거더에 의도한 프리스트레스를 도입하기 위한 제작공정을 개발한다. 또한 실험체의 변형률 계측결과와 이론해석 결과를 비교하여 HiPP 거더의 프리스트레스 도입 메카니즘을 확인하며, 단계별 거더에 발생하는 응력을 파악한다. 가교에 적용하기 위하여 HiPP 거더의 설계를 위한 허용휨응력(안)과 용접부의 응력검토 결과를 제시한다. 결론적으로 단순 합성거더와 비교하여 HiPP 거더는 프리스트레스의 도입효과 때문에 장지간화된 가교의 설계/시공을 가능케 하는 구조적 거동 특성을 보인다.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.17-37
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• 2016

This paper compares the arc-length and explicit dynamic solution methods for nonlinear finite element analysis of prestressed concrete members subjected to monotonically increasing loads. The investigations have been conducted using an L-shaped, prestressed concrete spandrel beam, selected as a highly nonlinear problem from the literature to give insight into the advantages and disadvantages of these two solution methods. Convergence problems, computational effort, and quality of the results were investigated using the commercial finite element package ABAQUS. The work in this paper demonstrates that a static analysis procedure, based on the arc-length method, provides more accurate results if it is able to converge on the solution. However, it experiences convergence problems depending upon the choice of mesh configuration and the selection of concrete post-cracking response parameters. The explicit dynamic solution procedure appears to be more robust than the arc-length method in the sense that it provides acceptable solutions in cases when the arc-length approach fails, however solution accuracy may be slightly lower and computational effort may be significantly larger. Furthermore, prestressing forces must be introduced into the finite element model in different ways for the explicit dynamic and arc-length solution procedures.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.917-933
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• 2016

In a prestressed concrete bridge, the magnitude of the prestress force (PF) decreases with time. This unexpected loss can cause failure of a bridge which makes prestress force identification (PFI) critical to evaluate bridge safety. However, it has been difficult to identify the PF non-destructively. Although some research has shown the feasibility of vibration based methods in PFI, the requirement of having a determinate exciting force in these methods hinders applications onto in-service bridges. Ideally, it will be efficient if the normal traffic could be treated as an excitation, but the load caused by vehicles is difficult to measure. Hence it prompts the need to investigate whether PF and moving load could be identified together. This paper presents a synergic identification method to determine PF and moving load applied on a simply supported prestressed concrete beam via the dynamic responses caused by this unknown moving load. This method consists of three parts: (i) the PF is transformed into an external pseudo-load localized in each beam element via virtual distortion method (VDM); (ii) then these pseudo-loads are identified simultaneously with the moving load via Duhamel Integral; (iii) the time consuming problem during the inversion of Duhamel Integral is overcome by the load-shape function (LSF). The method is examined against different cases of PFs, vehicle speeds and noise levels by means of simulations. Results show that this method attains a good degree of accuracy and efficiency, as well as robustness to noise.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2005년도 추계 학술발표회 제17권2호
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• pp.311-314
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• 2005

This research aims to analyze of prestressed composite hollow-core slab and box type steel beam. The smeared crack model used in abaqus for the modeling of hollow core reinforced concrete, including cracking of the concrete, rebar and concrete interaction using the tension stiffening concept, and rebar yield. The structure modeled is a simply supported hollow core spancrete slab subjected spa-h beams and prestressed in one direction. The hollow core spancrete slab is subjected to four-point bending. The concrete-rebar interaction that occur as the concrete begins to crack are of major importance in determining the spancrete slab's response between its initial, deformation and its collapse. This smeared crack model used in analysis involved non-liner concrete analysis concept.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.625-642
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• 2015

Prestressed concrete bridges with corrugated steel webs have emerged as one of the promising bridge forms. This structural form provides excellent structural efficiency with the concrete flanges primarily taking bending and the corrugated steel webs primarily taking shear. In the design of this type of bridges, the flexural ductility and deformability as well as strength need to be carefully examined. Evaluation of these safety-related attributes requires the estimation of full-range behaviour. In this study, the full-range behaviour of beam sections with corrugated steel webs is evaluated by means of a nonlinear analytical method which uses the actual stress-strain curves of the materials and considers the path-dependence of materials. In view of the different behaviour of components and the large shear deformation of corrugated steel webs with negligible longitudinal stiffness, the assumption that plane sections remain plane may no longer be valid. The interaction between shear deformation and local bending of flanges may cause additional stress in flanges, which is considered in this study. The numerical results obtained are compared with experimental results for verification. A parametric study is undertaken to clarify the effects of various parameters on ductility, deformability and strength.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.53-70
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• 2003

Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong is the longest suspension bridge in the world carrying both highway and railway. It has two H-shape concrete towers, each of which is composed of two reinforced concrete legs and four deep transverse prestressed concrete beams. A series of wind tunnel tests have been performed to measure the aerodynamic coefficients of the tower legs and transverse beams in various arrangements. A 1:100 scaled 3D rigid model of the full bridge tower assembled from various tower components has been constructed for different test cases. The aerodynamic coefficients of the lower and upper segments of the windward and leeward tower legs and those of the transverse beams at different levels, with and without the dummy bridge deck model, were measured as a function of yaw wind angle. The effects of wind interference among the tower components and the influence of the bridge deck on the tower aerodynamic coefficients were also investigated. The results achieved can be used as the pertinent data for the comparison of the computed and field-measured fully coupled buffeting responses of the entire bridge under yaw winds.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.717-726
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 기존의 전단실험결과를 모아 구축한 방대한 데이터베이스를 이용하여 철근콘크리트 보와 프리스트레스트 콘크리트 보에 대한 ACI와 국내의 전단설계기준을 평가 분석하였다. 또한 두 전단설계기준에 대한 평가결과를 바탕으로 기준의 안전율과 강도감소계수에 대하여도 고찰하였다. 전단설계기준은 철근콘크리트 부재의 전단강도에 대해서 매우 낮은 정확도를 보였으며, 특히 전단철근이 없는 철근콘크리트 보의 전단강도에 대하여 가장 낮은 정확도를 제공하였다. 또한 기준에서 전단강도에 대한 전단철근의 기여도의 제한은 다소 낮은 것으로 분석되었으며, 특히 전단철근이 없고 휨인장철근비가 낮으며$(\rho_w<1.0\%)$ 춤이 높은 (h>700mm) 보에 대하여 매우 위험한 전단강도를 제공하였다. 프리스트레스트 콘크리트 부재에 대해서는 철근콘크리트 부재에 비하여 매우 정확한 전단강도를 제공하였다. 그러나, ACI와 국내의 전단설계기준은 전단강도의 예측정확도가 매우 다른 철근콘크리트 부재와 프리스트레스트 콘크리트 부재에 대해 동일한 강도감소계수를 사용함으로써 이들 부재에 대해 동일한 수준의 설계안 전율을 제공하지 못하였다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.969-977
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• 2016

강합성 소수 거더교에 적용되는 장지간 프리스트레스트 콘크리트(PSC) 바닥판에 대해 정적재하실험을 수행하였다. 장지간 바닥판의 구조거동의 평가를 위해서는 바닥판 지간(교축직각방향 길이)이 긴 만큼 충분한 교축방향의 길이를 갖는 실험체 모델을 대상으로 해야 하는데, 이러한 실험체 크기는 운반, 실험공간 등의 제약으로 인해 실제 장지간 바닥판의 크기로 구조거동을 평가하는데 어려움이 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 바닥판 실험체의 교축방향 길이를 감소시키고, 실제 장지간 바닥판 크기에 대한 교축방향의 바닥판 강성을 실험체 모델에 모사하기 위해 보강재(H-beam)를 적용하는 방법을 제안하였으며, 이를 통해 장지간 바닥판의 파괴거동과 구조성능을 평가하였다.