• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.437-450
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• 2022

When the vertical load-bearing members in high-rise structures fail locally, the beam-column joints play an important role in the redistribution of the internal forces. In this paper, a static laboratory test of three full-scale flush flange beam-reinforced connections with side and cover plates (CP-FBSP connection) with double half-span steel beams and single L-shaped columns composed of concrete-filled steel tubes (L-CFST columns) was conducted. The influence of the side plate width and cover plate thickness on the progressive collapse resistance of the substructure was thoroughly analyzed. The failure mode, vertical force-displacement curves, strain variation, reaction force of the pin support and development of internal force in the section with the assumed plastic hinge were discussed. Then, through the verified finite element model, the corresponding analyses of the thickness and length of the side plates, the connecting length between the steel beam flange and cover plate, and the vertical-force eccentricity were carried out. The results show that the failure of all the specimens occurred through the cracking of the beam flange or the cover plate, and the beam chord rotations measured by the test were all greater than 0.085 rad. Increasing the length, thickness and width of the side plates slightly reduced the progressive collapse resistance of the substructures. The vertical-force eccentricity along the beam length reduced the progressive collapse resistance of the substructure. An increase in the connecting length between the beam flange and cover plate can significantly improve the progressive collapse resistance of substructures.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.549-559
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• 2017

As few multi-tower single-box multi-cell cable-stayed bridges with corrugated steel webs have been built, analysis is mostly achieved by combining single-girder model, beam grillage model and solid model in support of the design. However, such analysis methods usually suffer from major limitations in terms of the engineering applications: single-girder model fails to account for spatial effect such as shear lag effect of the box girder and the relevant effective girder width and eccentric load coefficient; owing to the approximation in the principle equivalence, the plane grillage model cannot accurately capture shear stress distribution and local stress state in both top and bottom flange of composite box girder; and solid model is difficult to be practically combined with the overall calculation. The usual effective width method fails to provide a uniform and accurate "effective length" (and the codes fail to provide a unified design approach at those circumstance) considering different shear lag effects resulting from dead load, prestress and cable tension in the construction. Therefore, a novel spatial grid model has been developed to account for shear lag effect. The theoretical principle of the proposed spatial grid model has been elaborated along with the relevant illustrations of modeling parameters of composite box girder with corrugated steel webs. Then typical transverse and longitudinal shear lag coefficient distribution pattern at the side-span and mid-span key cross sections have been analyzed and summarized to provide reference for similar bridges. The effectiveness and accuracy of spatial grid analysis methods has been finally validated through a practical cable-stayed bridge.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.71-85
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• 2006

This paper presents the results of a series of tests carried out on cold-formed steel rectangular hollow and concrete infilled beam to column connections and frames. A stub column was chosen such that overall buckling does not influence the connection behaviour. The beam chosen was a short-span cantilever with a concentrated load applied at the free end. The beam was connected to the columns along the strong and weak axes of columns and these connections were tested to failure. Twelve experiments were conducted on cold-formed steel direct welded tubular beam to column connections and twelve experiments on connections with concrete infilled column subjected to monotonic loading. In all the experiments conducted, the stiffness of the connection, the ductility characteristics and the moment rotation behaviour were studied. The dominant mode of failure in hollow section connections was chord face yielding and not weld failure. Provision of concrete infill increases the stiffness and the ultimate moment carrying capacity substantially, irrespective of the axis of loading of the column. Weld failure and bearing failure due to transverse compression occurred in connections with concrete infilled columns. Six single-bay two storied frames both with and without concrete infill, and columns loaded along the major and minor axes were tested to failure. Concentrated load was applied at the midspan of first floor beam. The change in behaviour of the frame due to provision of infill in the column and in the entire frame was compared with hollow frames. Failure of the weld at the junction of the beam occurred for frames with infilled columns. Design expressions are suggested for the yielding of the column face in hollow sections and bearing failure in infilled columns which closely predicted the experimental failure loads.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.237-246
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• 2008

연속경간을 가지는 I형강 교량은 내부 지점근처에서 상대적으로 큰 부모멘트가 발생하게 되는데, 이에 경제적인 단면 활용을 위하여 내부 지점부위의 상부 및 하부플랜지에 플레이트를 보강한 변단면을 사용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존 탄성 횡-비틀림 좌굴식에 관한 연구를 토대로 하여 비탄성 구간에 있는 계단식 I형보의 횡-비틀림 좌굴강도를 범용구조해석프로그램 ABAQUS(2006)를 이용하여 산정하고, 간편한 설계식을 제안하고 있다. 유한요소해석에는 4절점 쉘요소인 S4R이 사용되었고, 국내외에서 많이 사용되는 I형강 단면(${W36{\times}160}$)을 대상으로 하였다. 양단 및 한쪽 끝단에 계단식 단면을 가지는 보에 대해서 고려하였으며, 플랜지 길이방향 비, 너비방향 비, 두께의 비로 계단식 I형보를 나타내었다. 해석에 사용된 매개변수는 각각 27가지 및 36가지 조합이고, 하중조건으로 보의 순수굽힘이 발생하는 균일모멘트를 적용시켰으며, 비탄성 구간범위 내에 있는 비지지 길이에 대하여 구조해석을 수행하였다. 비탄성 횡-비틀림 거동을 보기 위하여 잔류응력 및 초기결함을 고려한 비선형해석을 실시하였는데, Pi(1995)등이 고려한 잔류응력의 형상과 국내 I형강 표준 치수 허용치에 근거하여 부재 길이의 0.1%를 초기제작오차로 고려하였다. 본 연구 결과는 다양한 형식의 I형보가 사용되는 빌딩 및 교량의 경제적이고 합리적인 설계의 근간을 제공해 줄 것이며, 향후 다양한 하중 조건을 가지는 양단 또는 일단 계단식 단면 변화보의 비탄성 횡-비틀림 좌굴강도를 계산할 수 있는 설계식 개발에 적극 활용 될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.189-195
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• 2002

I-단면 곡선보 (curved beam)의 모멘트 하중 하에서 비틀림(warping)을 포함한 평면외 (out-of-plane)의 좌굴을 미분구적법 (DQM)을 이용하여 해석하였다. 다양한 경계조건(boundary conditions) 및 굽힘각(opening angles)에 따른 임계모멘트 (critical moments)를 계산하고, DQM의 해석결과는 해석적 해답 (exact solution) 과 비교 분석하였다. DQM은 적은 요소(grid points)를 사용하여 정확한 해석결과를 보여주었고, 두 경계조건 (고정-고정, 고정-단순지지)하에서 새로운 결과 또한 제시하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-21
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• 2014

Knee Braced Frame (KBF) is a special form of ductile eccentrically braced frame having a diagonal brace connected to a knee element, as a hysteretic damper, instead of beam-column joint. This paper first presents an experimental investigation on cyclic performance of two knee braced single span one-story frame specimens. The general test arrangement, specimen details, and most relevant results (failure modes and hysteretic curves) are explained. Some indexes to assess the seismic performance of KBFs, including ductility; response reduction factor and energy dissipation capabilities are also subsequently discussed. Experimental results indicate that the maximum equivalent damping ratios achieved by test frames are 21.8 and 23% for the specimens, prior to failure. Finally, a simplified analytical model is derived to predict the bilinear behavior of the KBFs. Acceptable conformity between analytical and experimental results proves the accuracy of the proposed model.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 1997년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.89-96
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• 1997

Most civil engineering structures, such as highway bridges, towers, power plants and offshore structures suffer structural damages over their service lives caused by adverse loading such as heavy transportation loads, machine vibrations, earthquakes, wind and wave forces. Especially, if excessive load would be acted on the structure, general or partial stiffness should be degraded suddenly and service lives should be shortened eventually For realistic damage assessment of these civil structures, System Identification method using only structure dynamic response data with unknown input excitation is required and thus becoming more challenging problem. In this paper, an improved Iterative Least Squares method is proposed, which seems to be very efficient and robust method, because only the dynamic response data such as acceleration, velocity and displacement is used without input data, and no information on the modal properties is required. The efficiency and robustness of the proposed method is proved by numerical problems and real single span beam model test.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제68권1호
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• pp.67-80
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• 2018

Recently, U-section decks have been more and more used in metro and light rail bridges as an innovative concept in bridge deck design and a successful alternative to conventional box girders because of their potential advantages. U-section may be viewed as a single vent box girder eliminating the top slab connecting the webs, with the moving vehicles travelling on the lower deck. U-section bridges thus solve many problems like limited vertical clearance underneath the bridge lowest point, besides providing built-in noise barriers. Beam theory in mechanics assumes that plane section remains plane after bending, but it was found that shearing forces produce shear deformations and the plane section does not remain plane. This phenomenon leads to distortion of the cross section. For a box or a U section, this distortion makes the central part of the slab lagging behind those parts closer to the webs and this is known as shear lag effect. A sample real-world double-track U-section metro bridge is modelled in this paper using a commercial finite element analysis program and is analysed under various loading conditions and for different geometric variations. The three-dimensional finite element analysis is used to demonstrate variations in the transverse bending moments in the deck as well as variations in the longitudinal normal stresses induced in the cross section along the U-girder's span thus capturing warping and shear lag effects which are then compared to the stresses calculated using conventional beam theory. This comparison is performed not only to locate the distortion, warping and shear lag effects typically induced in U-section bridges but also to assess the main parameters influencing them the most.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.123-139
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• 2020

The tube outward local buckling of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube (CFST) beam under high compression stress is still considered a critical problem, especially for steel tubes with a slender section compared to semi-compact and compact sections. In this study, the flexural performance of stiffened slender cold-formed square tube beams filled with normal concrete was investigated. Fourteen (14) simply supported CFST specimens were tested under static bending loads, stiffened with different shapes and numbers of steel stiffeners that were provided at the inner sides of the tubes. Additional finite element (FE) CFST models were developed to further investigate the influence of using internal stiffeners with varied thickness. The results of tests and FE analyses indicated that the onset of local buckling, that occurs at the top half of the stiffened CFST beam's cross-section at mid-span was substantially restricted to a smaller region. Generally, it was also observed that, due to increased steel area provided by the stiffeners, the bending capacity, flexural stiffness and energy absorption index of the stiffened beams were significantly improved. The average bending capacity and the initial flexural stiffness of the stiffened specimens for the various shapes, single stiffener situations have increased of about 25% and 39%, respectively. These improvements went up to 45% and 60%, for the double stiffeners situations. Moreover, the bending capacity and the flexural stiffness values obtained from the experimental tests and FE analyses validated well with the values computed from equations of the existing standards.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.614-621
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• 2019

이축 및 일축대칭 단면의 적층복합 보의 휨 해석과 좌굴해석을 위해 일반화된 보 요소를 제안하였다. 전단변형보 이론을 사용하여 유도된 보 요소는 휨 전단변형 및 휨 비틀림과 재료 비등방성 성질에 따른 연계성을 고려하였다. 서로 다른 단면에 대해 해석적 기법으로 구한 단면 강성계수와 함께 평면응력과 평면변형률 가정을 사용하였다. 대칭 및 역대칭 적층복합 보의 휨 거동을 조사하기 위해 뒴 변형을 포함하여 절점 당 7개의 자유도를 가진 두 가지 유형의 3절점, 4절점 보 요소를 제안하였다. 전단잠금 현상을 완화하기 위해 본 연구에서는 감차적분 기법을 사용하였다. 또한, 유도된 기하학적 블록강성을 사용하여 축방향 압축력을 받는 적층복합 보의 좌굴하중을 산정하였다. 제시한 보 요소의 정확성과 효율성을 검증하기 위해 3절점 보 요소에 근거한 결과를 다른 연구자와 ABAQUS 유한요소 해석결과와 비교하였다. 적층복합 보의 휨 거동과 좌굴하중에 대한 연계강성과 전단변형, 경계조건, 하중형태, 길이-높이 비, 적층형태의 영향을 조사하였다. 두 개의 다른 보 요소의 수렴성도 제시하였다.