• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제82권4호
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• pp.417-434
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• 2022

In this work, a review of mechanical metamaterials and seismic protection systems that use them is carried out, focusing on passive protection systems. During the last years, a wide variety of classical systems of seismic protection have demonstrated to be an effective and practical way of reducing the seismic vulnerability of buildings, maintaining their health and structural integrity. However, with the emergence of metamaterials, which allow obtaining uncommon mechanical properties, new procedures and devices with high performance have been developed, reducing the seismic risk through novel approaches such as: seismic shields and the redirection of seismic waves; the use of stop band gaps and the construction of buried mass resonators; the design of pentamodal base isolators. These ideas are impacting traditional areas of structural engineering such as the design and building of highly efficient base isolation systems. In this work, recent advances in new seismic protection technologies and researches that integrate mechanical metamaterials are presented. A complete bibliometric analysis was carried out to identify and classify relevant authors and works related with passive seismic protection system based on mechanical metamaterial (pSPSmMMs). Finally, possible future scenarios for study and development of seismic isolators based on mechanical metamaterials are shown, identifying the relevant topics that have not yet been explored, as well as those with the greatest potential for future application.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2001년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.883-888
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• 2001

In Korea, countermeasures against earthquake disasters such as the seismic performance evaluation and/or retrofit scheme of buildings have not been fully performed since Korea had not been experienced many destructive earthquakes in the past. The main objective of this paper is to propose the basic seismic protection index (Es) suitable to Korean buildings based on the seismic evaluation of existing reinforced concrete buildings using modified strength index. This paper will focus on 1) the selection of weak and moderate earthquake waves representing Korean seismic zone, 2) the creation of the required strength ratio spectra by seismic response analysis, and 3) the proposition of the basic seismic protection index (Es) suitable to Korean seismic activity based on required strength ratio spectra

• 한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국화재소방학회 2008년도 춘계학술논문발표회 논문집
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• pp.238-241
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• 2008

In this paper, provisions related with the seismic design and equipments of fire protection system are being considered. The provisions from various international codes on seismic design fire protection system were reviewed. The codes, reviewed are, Japanese code, NFPA guideline and Korean code. It is noted that all the codes excepted to korean code consider earthquake effect to evaluate seismic forces and behaviors. But, korean provision are not covered in seismic response in all. A brief description on limitations in korean code is also presented.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.140-148
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• 2019

'소방시설 내진설계 의무화'에 발맞추어 내진설계의 신뢰성과 효율성 향상을 위해서는 설계 자동화 소프트웨어 개발이 필수불가결하다. 본 연구에서 개발한 내진 설계 자동화 S/W는 소방청의 「소방시설의 내진설계 기준(이하 "국내 기준")」에 따른 흔들림 방지 버팀대(이하 "버팀대")의 자동 배치, 계산서 출력 및 그리고 물량 자동 산출 등의 기능을 제공한다. 또한, 자동화 S/W는 설계자의 수동설계와 비교하였을 때 약 3배 정도의 업무 속도를 단축시켜줄 뿐만 아니라 버팀대 등의 설계물량과 관련한 휴먼에러를 줄임으로써 설계안의 신뢰성을 높여준다. 뿐만 아니라 그동안 보수적으로 접근했던 소방시설의 내진설계방식에 있어 적어도 버팀대 사용에 대해서 컴퓨터 알고리즘을 이용한 최적의 내진설계를 수행할 수 있었다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2004년도 추계 학술발표회 제16권2호
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• pp.591-594
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• 2004

Recently, a tendency for development of seismic approach of foreign countries is capacity design development. Capacity design is rational seismic design concept of capacity protection considering not only earthquake magnitude, but also behavior of structure. For that reason, the most bridge seismic design specifications contain capacity protection provisions explicitly or implicitly. The capacity protection is normally related with slenderness effect of the columns, force transfer in connections between columns and adjacent elements, and shear design of columns. It intends to prevent brittle failure of the structural components of bridges, so that the whole bridge system may show ductile behavior and failure during earthquake events. The objectives of this paper are to deduce needed provisions for the moderate seismicity regions such as Korea after studying current seismic design codes and to establish rational criteria provisions of seismic design for future revision of seismic design specifications.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.21-37
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• 2007

In this study a stochastic approach for linear viscous dampers design adopted for seismic protection of buildings is developed. Devices optimal placement into the main structure and their mechanical parameters are attained by means of a reliability-based optimum design criterion, in which an objective function (O.F.) is minimized, subject to a stochastic constraint. The seismic input is modelled by a non stationary modulated Kanai Tajimi filtered stochastic process. Building is represented by means of a plane shear type frame model. The selected criterion for the optimization searches the minimum of the O.F., here assumed to be the cost of the seismic protection, i.e., assumed proportional to the sum of added dampings of each device. The stochastic constraint limits a suitable approximated measure of the structure failure probability, here associated to the maximum interstorey drift crossing over a given threshold limit, related, according with modern Technical Codes, to the required damage control.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1187-1221
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• 2014

The uplifting and rocking of slender, free-standing structures when subjected to ground shaking may limit appreciably the seismic moments and shears that develop at their base. This high-performance seismic behavior is inherent in the design of ancient temples with emblematic peristyles that consist of slender, free-standing columns which support freely heavy epistyles together with the even heavier frieze atop. While the ample seismic performance of rocking isolation has been documented with the through-the-centuries survival of several free-standing ancient temples; and careful post-earthquake observations in Japan during the 1940's suggested that the increasing size of slender free-standing tombstones enhances their seismic stability; it was George Housner who 50 years ago elucidated a size-frequency scale effect that explained the "counter intuitive" seismic stability of tall, slender rocking structures. Housner's 1963 seminal paper marks the beginning of a series of systematic studies on the dynamic response and stability of rocking structures which gradually led to the development of rocking isolation-an attractive practical alternative for the seismic protection of tall, slender structures. This paper builds upon selected contributions published during this last half-century in an effort to bring forward the major advances together with the unique advantages of rocking isolation. The paper concludes that the concept of rocking isolation by intentionally designing a hinging mechanism that its seismic resistance originates primarily from the mobilization of the rotational inertia of its members is a unique seismic protection strategy for large, slender structures not just at the limit-state but also at the operational state.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.6-12
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• 2009

최근 세계적으로 대규모 지진들이 발생하고 있다. 이러한 지진의 피해는 진동에 의한 피해보다 지진으로 소방시설이 기능을 상실하여 전기 및 가스설비의 파손으로 발생하는 화재를 진압하지 못한 2차적 피해가 더 크다. 따라서 현재 우리나라의 지진 발생 추이를 확인할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 미국과 일본의 소방시설의 지진피해 사례 및 내진설계기준을 분석 하였으며, 우리나라와 유사한 미국의 기준과 비교한 결과 소방시설 내진설계기준의 적용범위가 우리나라의 건축 구조물의 특성에 매우 비효율적인 것으로 나타났다. 이에 따라 국내 현실을 감안하여 적용범위를 설정하도록 제안하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.385-403
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• 2007

The effectiveness of the newly developed smart passive control system employing a magnetorheological (MR) damper and an electromagnetic induction (EMI) part for seismic protection of base isolated structures is numerically investigated. An EMI part in the system consists of a permanent magnet and a coil, which changes the kinetic energy of the deformation of an MR damper into the electric energy (i.e. the induced current) according to the Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction. In the smart passive control system, the damping characteristics of an MR damper are varied with the current input generated from an EMI part. Hence, it does not need any control system consisting of sensors, a controller and an external power source. This makes the system much simpler as well as more economic. To verify the efficacy of the smart passive control system, a series of numerical simulations are carried out by considering the benchmark base isolated structure control problems. The numerical simulation results show that the smart passive control system has the comparable control performance to the conventional MR damper-based semiactive control system. Therefore, the smart passive control system could be considered as one of the promising control devices for seismic protection of seismically excited base isolated structures.

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.458-464
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• 2014

화재방호계통 스프링클러 시스템의 경우 지진 발생 시 그리고 지진 발생 후에 유도되는 화재로부터 건물과 인명을 보호하고 에너지를 공급을 위한 필수 요소라 할 수 있다. 본연구의 주목적은 양방향 (x, y) 그리고 3축(x, y, z)방향의 지진의 영향을 받는 저층 건물에 설치된 복층구조 스프링클러 파이프라인의 거동과 내진성능을 평가 하고자 함이다. 결과적으로 건물의 비구조 요소인 스프링클러 파이프라인의 경우 각 층별로 다른 거동을 보이고 있으며, 또한 수직 방향의 지진의 경우 수평방향의 지진보다 파이프라인에 미치는 영향은 미미하다고 볼 수 있다.