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Elastic Seismic Design of Steel Highrise Buildings in Regions of Moderate Seismicity (중진대 철골조 초고층 건물의 탄성내진설계)

  • Lee, Cheol Ho;Kim, Seon Woong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.553-562
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    • 2006
  • Lateral loading due to wind or earthquake is a major factor that affects the design of high-rise buildings. This paper highlights the problems associated with the seismic design of high-rise buildings in regions of strong wind and moderate seismicity. Seismic response analysis and performance evaluation were conducted for wind-designed concentrically braced steel high-rise buildings in order to check the feasibility of designing them per elastic seismic design criterion (or strength and stiffness solution) in such regions. Review of wind design and pushover analysis results indicated that wind-designed high-rise buildings possess significantly increased elastic seismic capacity due to the overstrength resulting from the wind serviceability criterion. The strength demand-to-capacity study showed that, due to the wind design overstrength, high-rise buildings with a slenderness ratio of larger than four or five can elastically withstand even the maximum considered earthquake (MCE) with the seismic performance level of immediate occupancy under the limited conditions of this study. A step-by-step seismic design procedure per the elastic criterion that is directly usable for practicing design engineers is also recommended.

Design Automation of Slab System by the Finite Element Method (유한요소법을 이용한 슬래브 시스템의 설계자동화)

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    • Computational Structural Engineering
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.79-89
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    • 1991
  • New design method of R/C slab system based on finite element method has been presented. The proposed method can substitute inaccurate existing method, which has limitation in its application, and provide accurate and efficient design results for any type of slab system. Isoparametric plate element used in the slab design has been efficiently formulated to save computational time. Reinforcement has been determined by strength design method and compared with code minimum values. Graphical output through comprehensive contour map for resulting moments and designed steel areas has considerably facilitated design process. Accurate shear results from isoparametric plate element enabled to check punching shear in a proper manner. In addition to strength design criteria, serviceability has also been checked by utilizing newly developed inelastic deflection multiplier method. An example for circular slab with opening showed that the proposed method could be applied to design of irregular slab without any difficulty.

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Comparison and Review of Fatigue Design Criteria by the Structural Analysis of Steel Truss Bridges (강재 트러스교의 해석에 의한 피로설계기준 비교 및 검토)

  • Kim, Sang-Seog;Jung, Hie-Young
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.241-249
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    • 2003
  • The service life of steel bridges can be assured only when their strength, serviceability and fatigue safety are fulfilled. However, at the present time, the continuous research for fatigue of steel bridges is desperately required since not much research work has been done so far. In this study, a guideline on the fatigue design is suggested for the practical purpose in order to establish the long-term safety of steel bridges against fatigue. The continuous steel truss bridge was analyzed for the cumulative reversals of the actual traffic, stress ranges and fatigue strength. From the results, the domestic fatigue design procedure was found to be fairly overestimated in comparison to the design code of other foreign countries. Therefore, it is necessary to review the current fatigue design specifications and have the new and rationalized design criteria in the future domestic fatigue design guidance.

Vibration analysis of prestressed concrete bridge subjected to moving vehicles

  • Huang, M.;Liu, J.K.;Law, S.S.;Lu, Z.R.
    • Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.273-289
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    • 2011
  • The vibration response of the bridges under the moving vehicular load is of importance for engineers to estimate the serviceability of existing bridges and to design new bridges. This paper deals with the three dimensional vibration analysis of prestressed concrete bridges under moving vehicles. The prestressed bridges are modeled by four-node isoparametric flat shell elements with the transverse shearing deformation taken into account. The usual five degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) per node of the element are appended with a drilling DOF to accommodate the transformation of the local stiffness and mass matrices to the global coordinates. The vehicle is modeled as a single or two-DOF system. A single-span prestressed Tee beam and two-span prestressed box-girder bridge are studied as the two numerical examples. The effects of prestress forces on the natural frequencies and dynamic responses of the bridges are investigated.

Computation of Inelastic Deflection of Slab by Elastic Finite Element Analysis (탄성 유한요소 해석에 의한 슬래브의 비탄성 처짐 산정)

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    • Computational Structural Engineering
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.83-89
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    • 1992
  • A practical method of estimating inelastic deflection of reinforced concrete slab under service load is presented. Based on the elastic results of linear finite element analysis and area of reinforcement, inelastic deflection multiplier(.betha.) is evaluated and desired deflection as a measure of serviceability of the designed slab is obtained. Example for the corner supported slab shows that the results from the proposed method agree well with those from the experiment/and nonlinear finite element analysis. Application of the method to the design of irregular slab is also considered.

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A simplified method for determining the acceleration amplitudes of long-span floor system under walking/running loads

  • Cao, Liang;Chen, Y. Frank
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.75 no.3
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    • pp.377-387
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    • 2020
  • Modern long-span floor system typically possesses low damping and low natural frequency, presenting a potential vibration sensitivity problem induced by human activities. Field test and numerical analysis methods are available to study this kind of problems, but would be inconvenient for design engineers. This paper proposes a simplified method to determine the acceleration amplitudes of long-span floor system subjected to walking or running load, which can be carried out manually. To theoretically analyze the acceleration response, the floor system is simplified as an anisotropic rectangular plate and the mode decomposition method is used. To facilitate the calculation of acceleration amplitude aP, a coefficient αwmn or αRmn is introduced, with the former depending on the geometry and support condition of floor system and the latter on the contact duration tR and natural frequency. The proposed simplified method is easy for practical use and gives safe structural designs.

A Study on the Failure Behavior and the Application of Yield-Line Theory on the Bridge Decks Strengthened by Directional Fiber Plastic (일방향 섬유로 성능향상된 교량 상판의 파괴거동 및 항복선 이론을 적용한 해석적 연구)

  • 심종성;오홍섭;류승무
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.81-86
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    • 2001
  • The concrete bridge decks are in need of replacement and rehabilitation due to decreasing load carrying capacity. In this study, to propose a strengthening technique that improves usability and structural performance of the bridge deck and to propose an efficient strengthening design technique which satisfies both the strength End serviceability of the bridge deck, this paper shows the failure characteristics of the strengthened bridge decks and proposes an empirical yield criterion. Therefore, strengthening efficiency was proposed based on the experiment and yield line analysis result. The yield line theory which adopts the modified criteria of Johansen is considered to predict the ultimate strength about all strengthening material(Carbon Fiber Sheet, Carbon Fiber Rod, Grid Type Carbon Fiber).

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Interface friction in the service load assessment of slab-on-girder bridge beams

  • Seracino, R.;Kerby-Eaton, S.E.;Oehlers, D.J.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.259-269
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    • 2005
  • Many slab-on-girder bridges around the world are being assessed because they are approaching the end of their anticipated design lives or codes are permitting higher allowable loads. Current analytical techniques assume that the concrete and steel components act independently, typically requiring full-scale load testing to more accurately predict the remaining strength or endurance of the structure. However, many of the load tests carried out on these types of bridges would be unnecessary if the degree of interaction resulting from friction at the steel-concrete interface could be adequately modeled. Experimental testing confirmed that interface friction has a negligible effect on the flexural capacity of a slab-on-girder beam however, it also showed that interface friction is significant under serviceability loading. This has led to the development of an improved analytical technique which is presented in this paper and referred to as the slab-on-girder mixed analysis service load assessment approach.

The Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Pipe House by 2 and 3-Dimensional Modeling (농업용 파이프 하우스의 2차원 및 3차원 구조해석 비교분석)

  • Choi, Won;Yoon, Seong-Soo;Lee, Jeong-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.207-211
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    • 2001
  • The scope has been small and the specification has been not suggested yet when the pipe house was planed by farmer in Korea. The construction has been made by the suitable agreement of builder and farmer. Also, life cycle time of the pipe house material under serviceability load is not suggested yet. This study is to consider problems of past 2-dimension modeling, to introduce new 3-dimension modeling about pipe house analysis and to know that how the structure under various loads conditions behaves. Therefore, the object is to discuss the current design and to suggest new analysis modeling of the pipe house.

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Development of a Mobile Signage Application using Bluetooth (블루투스를 이용한 모바일 전광판 어플리케이션 개발)

  • Lee, Min-Young;Do, Sang-Mi;Park, A Ran;Woo, Sung-Ho;Lim, Soon-Bum
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.96-103
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    • 2016
  • Mobile electronic display applications represent a simple motion and express personal motions recently. In this context, we propose the Mobile Signage Application as against these existing applications. It provides the quality motions by multiplex editing and thus should share a kinetic typography with other people using Bluetooth. The Mobile Signage Application includes kinetic motions that are developed by HTML5 and JavaScript to attain variety effects. Furthermore, usability evaluation shows its sufficient availability and serviceability.