• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제69권6호
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• pp.651-665
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• 2019

Past earthquakes have shown that appropriately designed and detailed buildings with shear walls have great performance such a way that a considerable portion of inelastic energy dissipation occurs in these structural elements. A plastic hinge is fundamentally an energy diminishing means which decrease seismic input energy through the inelastic deformation. Plastic hinge development in a RC shear wall in the areas which have plastic behavior depends on the ground motions characteristics as well as shear wall details. One of the most generally used forms of structural walls is flanged RC wall. Because of the flanges, these types of shear walls have large in-plane and out-of-plane stiffness and develop high shear stresses. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate the main characteristics of these structural components and provide a more comprehensive expression of plastic hinge length in the application of performance-based seismic design method and promote the development of seismic design codes for shear walls. In this regard, the effects of axial load level, wall height, wall web and flange length, as well as various features of earthquakes, are examined numerically by finite element methods and the outcomes are compared with consistent experimental data. Based on the results, a new expression is developed which can be utilized to determine the length of plastic hinge area in the flanged RC shear walls.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.525-540
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• 2023

2023년에 터널내진설계기준이 개정됨에 따라 운영 중인 터널의 성능의 요구 수준 만족 여부가 필요하게 되었다. 본 연구에서는 지진에 대한 안전성이 취약하다고 판단되는 4개의 터널에 대한 시간이력해석을 수행하여 이들의 내진성능을 평가하였다. 나아가 2007년 기준과 2023년 기준에 부합하는 지진파 적용 시 응답의 차이를 규명하였다. 평가 결과, 2023년 기준을 적용하는 경우 터널의 응답이 모두 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 개정된 기준 적용 시에도 모든 터널은 소요 내진성능을 확보한 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 개정된 기준을 적용 시에도 보수 또는 보강은 불필요할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.35-47
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• 2003

다수의 지점 위에 놓인 교량의 경우, 지진으로 인한 지반운동은 교량길이에 따른 거리에 걸쳐 지점마다 현저하게 다를 수 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 공간적 특성을 고려하기 위하여 지점마다 다른 진폭과 위상 그리고 주파수 성분을 갖도록 지반운동 시간이력곡선을 생성하였고, Monte Carlo 해석기법을 사용하여 생성된 지반운동 하에서 교량의 비선형 동적거동을 고찰하였으며 두개의 실제 교량에 대한 취약도 해석을 수행하였다. 공간적 특성이 지진반응에 미치는 영향을 고려하여 교량교각의 연성도에 대한 취약도 곡선을 개발하였고, 동일지진 하에서의 취약도 곡선과 비교 검토하였다. 본 연구는 동일 지반운동을 사용하여 교량해석을 수행하는 경우 교각의 요구 연성계수가 상이 지반운동을 사용하는 경우보다 저평가 될 수 있다는 것을 입증하였다. 지진취약도 곡선은 지반운동의 강도를 표시하는 PGA, PGV, SA, SV와 SI의 함수로 나타내어졌다. 본 연구는 최초로 공간적 특성을 반영한 지반운동 하에서의 지진취약도 곡선을 개발하였으며, 다경간 교량의 내진설계시 시방서에 그 영향을 고려하기 위한 설계지침의 근거를 제공할 것이다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2006

건축구조물의 비선형 지진응답해석에서 입력지진동은 구조물의 탄소성 지진응답을 좌우하는 중요한 요소이다. 지진동파형은 지진발생과 전파경로에 따른 여러 가지 인자에 의해 그 특성이 결정되기 때문에 구조물의 지진응답해석에서 일반성을 갖는 입력지진동을 선정하는 것은 매우 어려운 문제이다. 본 논문은 내진설계용 스펙트럼에 대응하는 인공지진동파형을 작성한 후, 작성된 인공지진동에 대한 탄소성 응답스펙트럼 특성을 분석한 것이다. 여기서 작성된 인공지진동파형은 과거의 지진에서 얻어진 기록지진동파형을 이용하여 기록지진동과 동일한 위상각을 가지며, 감쇠정수 h=5%일 때의 내진설계용 스펙트럼과 거의 일치하도록 작성되었다. 작성된 인공지진동은 원 기록지진동과 동일한 위상각을 가지며, 주기 $T=0.02{\sim}10.0sec$ 범위에서 설계용 스펙트럼과 매우 근접하게 작성되었다. 인공지진동을 입력한 1자유도계의 탄성 및 탄소성 지진응답해석을 수행하여 탄소성 응답스펙트럼 및 탄소성 응답특성을 분석하였다. 본 논문에서 작성된 인공지진동은 건축구조물의 탄소성 지진응답해석용 입력지진동으로 충분히 타당성이 있다고 사료된다.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2000년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집 Proceedings of EESK Conference-Spring
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• pp.357-366
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• 2000

Longitudinal dynamic behaviors of a bridge system under seismic excitations are examined with various magnitudes of peak ground accelerations. The stiffness degradation due to abutment-soil interaction is considered in the bridge model which may play the major role upon the global dynamic characteristics. The idealized mechanical model for the whole ridge system is proposed by adopting the multiple-degree-of-freedom system which can consider components such as pounding phenomena friction at the movable supports rotational and translational motions of foundations and the nonlinear pier motions. The abutment-soil interaction is simulated by utilizing the one degree-of-freedom system with nonlinear spring. The stiffness degradation of the abutment-soil system is found to increase the relative displacement under moderate seismic excitations.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2002년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.187-194
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• 2002

Bridge dynamic behaviors and the failure of the foundation are examined in this study under seismic excitations including the local scour effect. The simplified mechanical model, which can consider the effect of various influence elements, is proposed to simulate the bridge motions. The scour depths around the foundations are estimated by the CSU equation recommended by the HEC-18 and the local scour effect upon global bridge motions is then considered by applying various foundation stiffness based upon the reduced embedded depths. From the simulation results, it is found that seismic responses of a bridge with the same scour depth for both foundations increase due to the local scour effect. The bridge scour is found to be significant under weak and moderate seismic intensity. The recovery durations of the foundation stiffness after local scour are found to be critical in the estimation of the probability of foundation failure under earthquakes. Therefore, the safety of the whole bridge system should be conducted with the consideration of the scour effect upon the foundations and the recovery duration of stiffness should be determined rationally.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.417-431
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• 1997

To resolve a general argument about OBE elimination for the future nuclear power plant design, seismic responses of reactor vessel internals and fuel assembly for Ulchin nuclear power plant units 3 and 4 in Korea are investigated as an example. Dynamic analyses of the coupled internals and core are performed for the seismic excitations using the reactor vessel motions. By investigating the response relations between OBE and SSE and their response characteristics, the critical components for OBE loading are addressed. Also the fuel assembly responses are calculated using the core plate motions and their behavior is found to be insignificant for OBE elimination.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.577-590
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• 2019

The seismic response of structures to strong ground motions is a complex problem that has been studied for decades. However, most of current seismic regulations do not assess the potential level of damage that a structure may undergo during a strong earthquake. This will happen in spite that the design objectives for any structural system are formulated in terms of acceptable levels of damage. In this article, we analyze the expected damage in single-degree-of-freedom systems subjected to long-duration ground motions generated in soft soil sites, such as those located in the lakebed of Mexico City. An energy-based methodology is formulated, under the consideration of input energy as the basis for the evaluation process, to estimate expected damage. The results of the proposed methodology are validated with damage curves established directly with nonlinear dynamic analyses.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.194-199
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• 2013

Using moving support finite elements, seismic analysis of statically-determinate beams subjected to support motions is performed to show its accuracy and its ease of use. Examples of cantilever and simply-supported beam subjected to support motions are illustrated and the numerical results are compared with the analytical solutions. The examples show the elements facilitate modeling beams with the conventional 2-noded, Hermitian, Euler-Bernoulli beam element. The comparisons of the results with analytical solutions show good agreements with high accuracy.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2001년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.537-544
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• 2001

Bridge dynamic behaviors are examined under seismic excitations including the local scour effect. The corresponding simplified mechanical model, which can also consider the effect of other influence elements, is proposed to simulate the bridge motions. The scour depth around the pier is estimated by the CSU equation recommended by the HEC-18, and the local scour effect upon global bridge motions is then investigated by applying various foundation stiffness based upon the reduced embedded depths. From the results, it is found that seismic responses of a bridge with the same scour depth level for both piers increase as the scour depth increase due to the local scour effect. The scour effect is found to be significant under weak excitations and still to be quite notable even for moderate excitations.