• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.369-379
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• 2015

Friction in a post-tensioning system has a significant effect on the distribution of the prestressing force of tendons in prestressed concrete structures. However, attempts to derive friction coefficients using conventional electrical resistance strain gauges do not usually lead to reliable results, mainly due to the damage of sensors and lead wires during the insertion of strands into the sheath and during tensioning. In order to overcome these drawbacks of the existing measurement system, the Smart Strand was developed in this study to accurately measure the strain and prestressing force along the strand. In the Smart Strand, the core wire of a 7-wire strand is replaced with carbon fiber reinforced polymer in which the fiber Bragg grating sensors are embedded. As one of the applications of the Smart Strand, friction coefficients were evaluated using a full-scale test of a 20 m long beam. The test variables were the curvature, diameter, and filling ratio of the sheath. The analysis results showed the average wobble and curvature friction coefficients of 0.0038/m and 0.21/radian, respectively, which correspond to the middle of the range specified in ACI 318-08 in the U.S. and Structural Concrete Design Code in Korea. Also, the accuracy of the coefficients was improved by reducing the effective range specified in these codes by 27-34 %. This study shows the wide range of applicability of the developed Smart Strand system.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제18권4호통권70호
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• pp.335-345
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• 2005

이 논문에서는 프리스트레스트 콘크리트 구조로 건설된 원자로 격납건물의 극한내압평가를 위해 비선형 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. 특히, 상용프로그램 사용 시 콘크리트와 긴장재의 완전부착 가정으로 인해 고려할 수 없었던 콘크리트와 긴장재 사이의 슬립효과를 모사할 수 있는 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 부착된 긴장재의 경우 부착-슬립효과를 기초로 유도된 겉보기 항복응력으로 두 재료의 상호거동을 모사할 수 있고, 비부착된 긴장재의 경우 반복해석에 의해 긴장재 전체 길이방향으로의 슬립효과를 모사할 수 있다. 개발된 알고리즘을 이용하여 도출된 긴장재의 응력-변형률 관계를 이용하여 격납건물의 축소모델에 대한 비선형 해석을 수행하였고, 수행한 결과를 바탕으로 격납건물의 극한내압은 가압중수로형과 가압경수로형 모두 설계압력의 약 3배 이상 구조적 여유가 있음을 확인하였다.

• 전산구조공학
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.315-325
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 이산성 연속형 최적성규준방법을 이용하여 다지간 부분프리스트레스트 콘크리트보의 최적설계 알고리즘을 유도하였고, 최적설계프로그램을 개발하였다. 목적함수로서 건설 경비는 콘크리트 경비, 긴장재 경비, 철근 경비, 그리고 거푸집 경비를 포함하였으며 이를 최소화하였다. 설계제약조건으로는 시방서상의 최대처짐제약, 휨 및 전단강도제약, 연성제약 그리고 설계변수에 대한 상.하한계제약을 고려하였다. Kuhn-Tucker 필요조건을 이용하여 최적성규준을 설계변수의 항으로 명시적으로 유도하였으며, 이때 설계변수로는 보의 유효깊이, 긴장재의 편심거리 그리고 철근비를 취하였다. 긴장재의 형상은 포물선함수로 고려하였으며, 구조물 자중의 영향은 긴장력에 의한 이차효과와 마찬가지로 실제시스템의 평형방정식에서 고려하였다. 설계변수들의 개선을 위한 반복과정과 컴퓨터프로그램을 개발하였으며, 수치예를 들어 개발된 기법의 응용성 그리고 효율성을 보였다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.148-155
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• 2010

본 연구는 지하주차장 건물의 바닥구조를 구성하기 위한 방안으로서 프리스트레스를 도입한 일방향 장선구조인 MRS공법을 제안하고, MRS공법의 연속단 접합부에 대한 구조실험을 수행함으로써 휨거동 특성과 접합상세의 적정성을 평가하였다. 연속단 접합부는 4개의 실험체를 제작하였으며, 연속단 접합부에 부모멘트가 작용하도록 실험을 수행하였다. 실물크기로 제작한 MRS 연속단 접합부는 접합부의 구조상세와 상관없이 충분한 휨강성의 발현과 함께 연성적인 휨파괴 거동을 보여주었다. 특히 지붕층에 위치한 MRS 연속단 접합부는 큰 값의 부모멘트를 저항하기 위한 인장철근의 양을 최대철근비 이하로 설계할 수 있으며, 최종파괴 모드는 휨에 의해 지배되는 거동특성을 보여주었다. 따라서 제안된 MRS공법은 우수한 지압성능과 연속단 구축이 용이한 접합부 상세를 갖는 것으로 평가되었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제74권3호
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• pp.395-406
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• 2020

Many prefabricated concrete frame joints have been proposed, and most of them showed good seismic performance. However, there are still some limitations in the proposed fabricated joints. For example, for prefabricated prestressed concrete joints, prefabricated beams and prefabricated columns are assembled as a whole by the pre-stressed steel bar and steel strand in the beams, which brings some troubles to the construction, and the reinforcement in the core area of the joints is complex, and the mechanical mechanism is not clear. Based on the current research results, a new type of fabricated joint of prestressed concrete beams and confined concrete columns is proposed. To study the seismic performance of the joint, the quasi-static test is carried out. The test results show that the nodes exhibit good ductility and energy dissipation. According to the experimental fitting method and the "fixed point pointing" law, the resilience model of this kind of nodes is established, and compared with the experimental results, the two agree well, which can provides a certain reference for elasto-plastic seismic response analysis of this type of structure. Besides, based on the analysis of the factors affecting the shear capacity of the node core area, the formula of shear capacity of the core area of the node is proposed, and the theoretical values of the formula are consistent with the experimental value.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.579-593
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• 2010

Low-power radio frequency (RF) chip transceiver technology and the associated structural health monitoring platforms have matured recently to enable high-rate, lossless transmission of measurement data across large-scale sensor networks. The intrinsic value of these advanced capabilities is the allowance for high-quality, rapid operational modal analysis of in-service structures using distributed accelerometers to experimentally characterize the dynamic response. From the analysis afforded through these dynamic data sets, structural identification techniques can then be utilized to develop a well calibrated finite element (FE) model of the structure for baseline development, extended analytical structural evaluation, and load response assessment. This paper presents a case study in which operational modal analysis is performed on a three-span prestressed reinforced concrete bridge using a wireless sensor network. The low-power wireless platform deployed supported a high-rate, lossless transmission protocol enabling real-time remote acquisition of the vibration response as recorded by twenty-nine accelerometers at a 256 Sps sampling rate. Several instrumentation layouts were utilized to assess the global multi-span response using a stationary sensor array as well as the spatially refined response of a single span using roving sensors and reference-based techniques. Subsequent structural identification using FE modeling and iterative updating through comparison with the experimental analysis is then documented to demonstrate the inherent value in dynamic response measurement across structural systems using high-rate wireless sensor networks.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.463-488
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• 2018

In the last decades, research efforts have been spent to investigate the effect of prestressing on the dynamic behaviour of prestressed concrete (PSC) beams. Whereas no agreement has been reached among the achievements obtained by different Researchers and among the theoretical and the experimental results for simply supported beams, very few researches have addressed this problem in continuous PSC beams. This topic is, indeed, worthy of consideration bearing in mind that many relevant bridges and viaducts in the road and railway networks have been designed and constructed with this structural scheme. In this paper the attention is, thus, focused on the dynamic features of continuous PSC bridges taking into account the effect of prestressing. This latter, in fact, contributes to the modification of the distribution of the bending stress along the beam, also by means of the secondary moments, and influences the flexural stiffness of the beam itself. The dynamic properties of a continuous, two spans bridge connected by a nonlinear spring have been extracted by solving an eigenvalue problem in different linearized configurations corresponding to different values of the prestress force. The stiffness of the nonlinear spring has been calculated considering the mechanical behaviour of the PSC beam in the uncracked and in the cracked stage. The application of the proposed methodology to several case studies indicates that the shift from the uncracked to the cracked stage due to an excessive prestress loss is clearly detectable looking at the variation of the dynamic properties of the beam. In service conditions, this shift happens for low values of the prestress losses (up to 20%) for structure with a high value of the ratio between the permanent load and the total load, as happens for instance in long span, continuous box bridges. In such conditions, the detection of the dynamic properties can provide meaningful information regarding the structural state of the PSC beam.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.267-278
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• 2022

Pre-stressed concrete circular spun piles are widely used in various infrastructure projects around the world and offer an economical deep foundation system with consistent and superior quality compared to cast in-situ and other concrete piles. Conventional methods for measuring the lateral response of piles have been limited to conventional instrumentation, such as electrical based gauges and pressure transducers. The problem with existing technology is that the sensors are not able to assist in recording the lateral stiffness changes of the pile which varies along the length depending on the distribution of the flexural moments and appearance of tensile cracks. This paper describes a full-scale bending test of a 1-m diameter spun pile of 30 m long and instrumented using advanced fibre optic distributed sensor, known as Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis (BOTDA). Optical fibre sensors were embedded inside the concrete during the manufacturing stage and attached on the concrete surface in order to measure the pile's full-length flexural behaviour under the prescribed serviceability and ultimate limit state. The relationship between moments-deflections and bending moments-curvatures are examined with respect to the lateral forces. Tensile cracks were measured and compared with the peak strains observed from BOTDA data which corroborated very well. By analysing the moment-curvature response of the pile, the structure can be represented by two bending stiffness parameters, namely the pre-yield (EI) and post-yield (EI_cr), where the cracks reduce the stiffness property by 89%. The pile deflection profile can be attained from optical fibre data through closed-form solutions, which generally matched with the displacements recorded by Linear Voltage Displacement Transducers (LVDTs).

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권1A호
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• pp.147-154
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• 2008

이 연구의 목적은 프리캐스트 부재의 새롭게 고안한 전단저항 연결체의 구조성능을 평가하는데 있다. 프리캐스트 세그먼트 구조물의 설계와 시공시에 전단저항 연결체와 같은 접합부는 특별한 주의가 요구된다. 개발한 전단저항 연결체의 상세와 성능을 평가하기 위하여 실험 및 해석적 연구를 수행하였다. 사용된 프로그램은 철근콘크리트 구조물의 해석을 위한 RCAHEST이다. 이 연구에서 사용된 접합요소는 세그먼트 접합부의 비탄성거동을 정확하게 예측할 수 있다. 추후 전단저항 연결체를 갖는 프리캐스트 세그먼트 PSC 교각의 실험을 수행하여 구조거동과 내진성능을 파악할 것이다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.387-400
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• 1999

Damage detection in civil engineering structures using the change in dynamic system parameters has gained a lot of scientific interest during the last decade. By repeating a dynamic test on a structure after a certain time of use, the change in modal parameters can be used to quantify and qualify damages. To be able to use the modal parameters confidentially for damage evaluation, the effect of other parameters such as excitation type, ambient conditions,... should be considered. In this paper, the influence of excitation type on the dynamic system parameters of a highway prestressed concrete bridge is investigated. The bridge, B13, lies between the villages Vilvoorde and Melsbroek and crosses the highway E19 between Brussels and Antwerpen in Belgium. A drop weight and ambient vibration are used to excite the bridge and the response at selected points is recorded. A finite element model is constructed to support and verify the dynamic measurements. It is found that the difference between the natural frequencies measured using impact weight and ambient vibration is in general less than 1%.