• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.55-72
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• 2012

Precast-cast insitu concrete bridge construction is widely practiced for small to medium span structures. These bridges consist of precast pre-stressed concrete beams of various cross-sections with a cast in-situ reinforced concrete slab. The connection between the beams and the slab is via shear links often included during the manufacturing process of the beams. This form of construction is attractive as it provides for standardisation, reduced formwork and construction time. The assessment of the integrity of shear connectors in existing bridges is a major challenge. A procedure for assessment of shear connectors based on vibration testing and finite element model updating is proposed. The technique is applied successfully to a scaled model bridge model and an existing bridge structure.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.329-334
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• 2019

Traffic flow capacity of some old road bridges is insufficient due to limited deck width. In such cases bridge deck widening is a common solution. For multi-girder reinforced concrete (RC) bridges it is possible to add steel-concrete composite girders as the new outermost girders. The deck widening may be combined with bridge strengthening thanks to thickening of the existing deck slab. Joint action of the existing and the added parts of such bridge span must be ensured. It refers especially to the horizontal plane at the interface of the existing slab and the added concrete layer as well as to the vertical planes at the external surfaces of the initially outermost girders where the added girders are connected to the existing bridge span. Since the distribution of the added concrete is non-uniform in the span cross-section the structure is particularly sensitive to the added concrete shrinkage. The shrinkage induces shear forces in the aforementioned planes. Widening of a 12 m long RC multi-girder bridge span is numerically analysed to assess the influence of the added concrete shrinkage. The analysis results show that: a) in the vertical plane of the connection of the added and the existing deck slab the longitudinal shear due to the shrinkage of the added concrete is comparable with the effect of live load, b) it is necessary to provide appropriate longitudinal reinforcement in the deck slab over the added girders due to tension induced by the shrinkage of the added concrete.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.709-717
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• 2004

The existing AASHTO Standard Specification have some inadequacies in expressing wheel load distribution of bridge which has specific shape of curved bridge instead of straight bridge. Thus, this research presented the finite element analysis and modelling technique of prestressed concrete girder bridge having curved slab and the expression of wheel load distribution was suggested as the ratio of bending moment utilizing the result of finite element analysis of prestressed concrete girder bridge having cowed slab. The considered parameter of girder distribution expression is the curvature of slab, span length, girder space, cross beam space and number of lanes. Though the suggested girder distribution expression is generally underestimated below AASHTO Standard Specification, once the curvature of slab increases, the suggested expression gets larger than AASHTO LRFD Standard Specification.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.173-184
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• 2005

For reducing construction cost, two-plate-girder bridges are getting popular in Japan. This type of bridge employs a PC slab, which is often cast-in-place. In such a case, concrete is not usually cast over the whole slab at one time: some portions are constructed earlier than the rest. Therefore, a construction joint is inevitably created. Due to the drying shrinkage of concrete, tension stress may occur in concrete slab. High tensile stress can be expected near the construction joint where concretes with different ages meet. Moreover, prestressing is not applied over the whole length of slab at one time. This may also serve as a source of tensile stress in the slab. Thus there is a chance that cast-in-place PC slab, especially near the construction joint, may be subjected to tensile cracking. In the present study, stress states near the construction joint in the cast-in-place PC slab of a two-plate-girder bridge are investigated numerically. The finite element method is employed and the three-dimensional analysis is conducted to see the influence of dry shrinkage and prestressing. The stress states in the PC slab thus obtained are discussed. The simplified model of a plate girder for this class of analysis is also proposed.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.233-245
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• 2007

AASHTO Standard의 하중분배계수식은 지간과 주형간격이 클수록 안전측으로 나타나지만, 지간과 주형간격이 작으면 비안전측임을 기존의 유한요소 연구에서 밝혀졌다. AASHTO LRFD는 주형간격, 지간, 바닥판 두께, 그리고 종방향 강성에 따른 분배계수식을 규정하고는 있으나, 이 식은 초기에 알려지지 않은 종방향 강성 때문에 정확한 하중분배계수 값을 결정하기 위해서는 반복절차가 요구되어진다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 2경간 연속 I-형교의 내측 및 외측주형에 대하여 반복설계 과정을 필요로 하지 않는 하중분배계수 간략식을 제안한다. 주형간격, 주형길이, 바닥판 두께, 바닥판 폭, 그리고 브레이싱의 간격 및 크기의 영향을 조사하기 위하여 유한요소법을 사용하였다. GTSTRUDL을 사용하여 교량 상부구조를 편심 보모델로 이상화 하였으며, 바닥판은 쉘요소, 거더는 보요소, 그리고 이 요소들의 합성거동을 위하여 강절링크로 연결하였다. 이 해석으로부터 얻은 분배계수를 AASHTO Standard와 LRFD 방법과 비교하였으며, 다른 매개변수들에 비해 거더간격, 지간, 그리고 바닥판 두께는 분배계수에 미치는 영향이 크게 나타났다. 내측주형에서 LRFD의 분배계수는 대부분의 경우에 안전측으로 나타났지만, 외측주형에서는 지간이 길 경우 비안전측으로 나타났다. 또한, 회귀분석을 수행하여 하중분배계수 간략식을 개발하였으며, 이 식에 의한 하중분배계수는 유한요소결과 보다는 항상 안전측이면서, AASHTO LRFD 보다는 일반적으로 작게 나타났다. 제안된 간략식은 2경간 연속 I-형교에 대한 실제 하중분배계수 산정에서 교량설계자들에게 도움을 줄 것이다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표회 논문집(I)
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• pp.538-541
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• 2006

PSC(Prestressed Concrete) box girder bridges have been widely applied in Korea. A number of these bridges have been built by the segmental construction method in the longitudinal direction and(or) vertically along the cross-sectional depth with MSS(Moving Scaffolding System). An actual 2-span continuous PSC box girder bridge of Kyeongbu high speed railway was selected and instrumented with 96 vibrating wire embedded type strain gauges and 2 thermocouples. The long-term behavior of the bridge was monitored through two major points located at mid-span of the first span and at the internal support. Data collection started just after the casting of the first segment (U section). Concrete strain and temperature data were gathered regularly by a data logger (CR10) during 600 days under and after construction. According to this measurement, the parabolic longitudinal strain distribution in the top slab at mid-span is shown. And also, the same distribution at the interior support is shown. The compressive strains at the cantilever region are larger than at the web position and the internal part in the top slab. Strain difference largely happened during the early construction period.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2001년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.107-112
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• 2001

The IPC(Incremental Prestressed Concrete) which is gradually introducing the tensile force by tendons has been recently developed for reducing the effective depth of PSC bridges. As well known, concrete experiences long-term deformation such as creep and drying shrinkage, and the prediction of the long-term behavior of concrete bridges is essential for both safety and serviceability aspects. This paper was analysed the long-term behavior of a continuous 2-span IPC girder bridge taking into consideration of creep, drying shrinkage and the time of tensile force introduction. As results, the shrinkage of slab concrete increases the negative moment at interior support, and the The difference of concrete ages between slab and girder increases the camber. The effect of initial tensile force is larger than the effect of secondary tensile force in the tendons.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.355-369
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• 2004

This paper presents a study of four finite element techniques that can be used to model slabon-beam highway bridges. The feasibility and correctness of each modeling technique are examined by applying them to a prestressed concrete I-beam bridge and a prestressed concrete box-beam bridge. Other issues related to bridge modeling such as torsional constant, support conditions, and quality control check are studied in detail and discussed in the paper. It is found that, under truck loading, the bending stress distribution in a beam section depends on the modeling technique being utilized. It is observed that the behavior of the bridge superstructure can be better represented when accounting for composite behavior between the supporting beams and slab.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제2권6호
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• pp.429-440
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• 2002

A finite strip method is developed for fatigue reliability analysis of steel highway bridges. Flat shell strips are employed to model concrete slab and steel girders, while a connection strip is formed using penalty function method to take into account eccentricity of girder top flange. At each sampling point with given slab thickness and modulus ratio, a finite strip analysis of the bridge under fatigue truck is performed to calculate stress ranges at fatigue-prone detail, and fatigue failure probability is evaluated following the AASHTO approach or the LEFM approach. After the failure probability is integrated over all sampling points, fatigue reliability of the bridge is determined.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 1998년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.101-108
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• 1998

This monograph is based on the purpose of exploiting the program, which let designers to easily compile the input data of a widely used FEM analysis program, SAP90 - one of structural analysis programs, and making it easy to design slab bridges by studying more efficient analysis method with optimization method. The knowledge of position at which a maximum moment occurs is helpful to do a practical design. Seeing that more time and capital should be invested when engineers depend on manual work in the process of making input data repeatedly, the automatic process would increase the degree of reliability and productivity.