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Evaluation of Structural Capacity of SC Walls in Nuclear Power Plant accounting for the Area Lost to Openings (개구 저감률에 의한 원전 SC벽체의 내력 평가)

  • Chung, Chul-Hun;Jung, Raeyoung;Moon, Il Hwan;Lee, Jungwhee
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.2181-2193
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    • 2013
  • The shear wall with openings built with reinforced concrete(RC) have been elaborately studied by many researchers, whereas the steel plate concrete(SC) wall structure has not been investigated as much. Recent SC wall structures developed in Korea have been partly applied to nuclear power plant structures, although its design specification or guideline for the SC wall structure with openings has not been completed yet. This study based on the account for the area lost to openings evaluates the effects of opening on the structural capacity of the SC structure within nuclear power plant. The results obtained from the study on the area lost to openings have been compared with experimental and numerical studies.

Problem Analysis of Sandwich Insulation Wall System (중단열 시스템의 문제점 분석)

  • Park, Jun-Ho;Yu, Jung-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2015.11a
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    • pp.166-167
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    • 2015
  • Because of energy crisis at all around the world, there is many method and system which for improving energy efficiency has appeared in construction industry. And then, 20% of entire building energy loss is emissed to exterior of buildings, that is important to building's entire energy efficiency. So, many research has been conducted for imporve exterior energy efficiency and generally it called insulation of wall. Method for wall insulation can be classified interior system and exterior system which defined installation place of insulation board whether interior or exterior of structural wall. However, interior system has thermal problem such as thermal-bridge which can be necessarily occur condensation. and exterior system has constructional problem such as difficult to construction because exterior and finish work so expensive construction cost than other insulation method. Thus, sandwich insulation wall system has been appeared for solving these problems. Sandwich insulation system must using wall connecting things because both side walls is divided by center insulation. At this, Through the heat at wall connecter, it can be occured thermal-bridge and broken insulation board when under construction will be bring negative effect by reducing wall thickness and insulation deficit. At this study, we were compared previous sandwich insulation system and analysis these system's problem for develop the improving constructability and performance of sandwich insulation system.

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Residual drift analyses of realistic self-centering concrete wall systems

  • Henry, Richard S.;Sritharan, Sri;Ingham, Jason M.
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.409-428
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    • 2016
  • To realise the full benefits of a self-centering seismic resilient system, the designer must ensure that the entire structure does indeed re-center following an earthquake. The idealised flag-shaped hysteresis response that is often used to define the cyclic behaviour of self-centering concrete systems seldom exists and the residual drift of a building subjected to an earthquake is dependent on the realistic cyclic hysteresis response as well as the dynamic loading history. Current methods that are used to ensure that re-centering is achieved during the design of self-centering concrete systems are presented, and a series of cyclic analyses are used to demonstrate the flaws in these current procedures, even when idealised hysteresis models were used. Furthermore, results are presented for 350 time-history analyses that were performed to investigate the expected residual drift of an example self-centering concrete wall system during an earthquake. Based upon the results of these time-history analyses it was concluded that due to dynamic shake-down the residual drifts at the conclusion of the ground motion were significantly less than the maximum possible residual drifts that were observed from the cyclic hysteresis response, and were below acceptable residual drift performance limits established for seismic resilient structures. To estimate the effect of the dynamic shakedown, a residual drift ratio was defined that can be implemented during the design process to ensure that residual drift performance targets are achieved for self-centering concrete wall systems.

Shape Optimization of Cooling Channel with V-shaped Ribs (V-형 리브가 부착된 냉각유로의 형상 최적설계)

  • Lee, Young-Mo;Kim, Kwang-Yong
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.10 no.2 s.41
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2007
  • A numerical procedure for optimizing the shape of three-dimensional channel with V-shaped ribs extruded on both walls has been carried out to enhance the turbulent heat transfer. The response surface based optimization is used as an optimization technique with Reynolds-averaged Wavier-stoked analysis. Shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model is used as a turbulence closure. Computational results for average heat transfer rate show good agreements with experimental data. The objective function is defined as a linear combination of heat transfer and friction loss-related terms with a weighting factor. Three dimensionless variables such as, rib pitch-to-rib height ratio, rib height-to-channel height ratio, and the attack angle of the rib are chosen as design variables. Nineteen training points obtained by D-optimal designs for three design variables construct a reliable response surface. In the sensitivity analysis, it is found that the objective function is most sensitive to the ratio of rib height-to-channel height ratio. And, optimal values of design variables have been obtained in a range of the weighting factor.

Numerical Investigation on Natural Circulation in a Simplified Passive Containment Cooling System (단순화된 피동 원자로건물 냉각계통 내 자연순환에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • Suh, Jungsoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.92-98
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    • 2018
  • The flow of cooling water in a passive containment cooling system (PCCS), used to remove heat released in design basis accidents from a concrete containment of light water nuclear power plant, was conducted in order to investigate the thermo-fluid equilibrium among many parallel tubes of PCCS. Numerical simulations of the subcooled boiling flow within a coolant loop of a PCCS, which will be installed in innovative pressurized-water reactor (PWR), were conducted using the commercially available computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS-CFX. Shear stress transport (SST) and the RPI model were used for turbulence closure and subcooled flow boiling, respectively. As the first step, the simplified geometry of PCCS with 36 tubes was modeled in order to reduce computational resource. Even and uneven thermal loading conditions were applied at the outer walls of parallel tubes for the simulation of the coolant flow in the PCCS at the initial phase of accident. It was observed that the natural circulation maintained in single-phase for all even and uneven thermal loading cases. For uneven thermal loading cases, coolant velocity in each tube were increased according to the applied heat flux. However, the flows were mixed well in the header and natural circulation of the whole cooling loop was not affected by uneven thermal loading significantly.

Analysis of Compression Characteristics of the Steel Plate-Concrete Wall Structures with Openings (개구부가 있는 강판콘크리트 벽체의 압축특성 분석)

  • Choi, Byong-Jeong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.245-256
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    • 2012
  • The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of the openings on the structural behavior of SC walls. The test parameters were with or without the reinforcing of openings and sleeve thickness. The common failure showed that the crack in the concrete progressed with the plate's local buckling between the shear connectors. The failure of the openings showed that the vertical wall of the sleeve buckled toward the opening inside. The plate buckling load showed a similar value with or without the sleeve of the opening, respectively. However, the maximum compressive strength of the specimen without the opening was higher than that of specimen with the opening.

Structural Behaviour of the Wing Wall with Columns (날개벽이 있는 기둥의 구조적 거동 특성)

  • Kang, Young-Woong;Yang, Won-Jik;Kang, Dae-Eon;Yi, Waon-Ho;Song, Dong-Yup
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.73-74
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    • 2009
  • Current buildings have complex shaped walls where the wing wall system is a popular option. When the wing wall is attached to a column, or a short span is produced due to the wing wall system, the system affects the behaviour of the column such as by increasing the strength and decreasing the ductility of the members. Calculations for internal shear force and internal bending moment of the vertical members are considered an important matter in design, but currently Korea does not have studies on the effects of the wing wall on the columns.

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A Study on Design Methods and the Composition Elements in Flexure Structure Systems (휨 구조시스템의 구조디자인적 구성요소와 디자인 조합 수법 분석)

  • Lee, Juna
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.73-84
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    • 2016
  • This study analyzes the four composition elements : profile, anchorage and connection, material and member rigidity, stability, as the main composition design elements of flexure structure systems, in order to explore possibilities for more various structure designs in architectures with flexure structure system. It also examines typical design methods that use the mentioned four composition elements. At the results, this research presents an understanding of the differences between funicular shape and non-funicular shape and mechanical features of the shapes in the profile element, regarding to the ratio of rise height to span length(f/l). Also, the typical design methods are presented for the designable usages of the hinge joints and the fix joints, and for the applications of member rigidity expressed by the index of the ratio of member depth to span length(d/l). And it was presented that connection styles, addition of brace members, placement of shear walls are the main design methods in the stability element. This data would be useful to architectural designs concerning integrated design with structures.

Shear strength characteristics of reinforced decomposed granite soil by uncomsolidated-undrained triaxial compression test (비압밀비배수 삼축압축시험에 의한 보강화강풍화토의 전단강도 특성)

  • Cho, Yong-Seong;Goo, Ho-Bon;Park, Inn-Joon;Kim, You-Seong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2006.03a
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2006
  • When enforced earth is used for the retain wall and four walls, the most important thing would be how to maximize the land utilization. Accordingly, in case of enforced earth, we pile up the minimal height of earth$(20\sim30cm)$ and harden the earth using a static dynamic hardening machine. In this paper, we tried to analyze and. compare the stress transformation characteristics of reinforced weathered granite soil. with geosynthetics when repetitive load is added to the enforced earth structure and when static load is added. The purposes of the study are as follows; 1) To compare and analyze non reinforced weathered granite soil and reinforced weathered granite. soil by executing a unconsolidated-undrained triaxial compression tests. 2) To identify the strength characteristics of weathered granite soil reinforced with geotextile due to the repetitive dynamic loads through comparison of the stress due to the static load and the repetitive dynamic loads.

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Behavioral Characteristics of Prestressed Earth Method Reinforced with Earth Bolt (Earth Bolt로 보강된 압축토(PEM) 옹벽의 거동 특성)

  • Kim, Hong-Tak;Lee, Hyuk-Jin;Kim, Jong-Min;Ryu, June-Won;Sung, Nak-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2006.03a
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    • pp.662-669
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    • 2006
  • PEM(Prestressed Earth Method) is a method to minimize lateral movements of the ground generated by progressive excavation and increases shear strength by applying prestresses to the end of earth bolt equipped with a P.C. panel after earth bolt is set up under the in-situ ground. In case of PEM, there are noticeable advantages. First of all, PEM maximizes the utility of the ground because PEM needs less volume of backfill and cutting than other general walls. Second, it's an environmental method possible to garden on the banquette. In this study, the behavioral characteristics of PEM are analyzed and compared with soil nailing system through the measured data of PEM and numerical method using SMAP-2D program and also an increased stability of PEM is evaluated by increasing prestress of earth bolts through the numerical analysis using Slide (ver. 4.0) program.

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