• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.1045-1075
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• 2016

Shallow footings are one of the most common types of foundations used to support mid-rise buildings in high risk seismic zones. Recent findings have revealed that the dynamic interaction between the soil, foundation, and the superstructure can influence the seismic response of the building during earthquakes. Accordingly, the properties of a foundation can alter the dynamic characteristics (natural frequency and damping) of the soil-foundation-structure system. In this paper the influence that shallow foundations have on the seismic response of a mid-rise moment resisting building is investigated. For this purpose, a fifteen storey moment resisting frame sitting on shallow footings with different sizes was simulated numerically using ABAQUS software. By adopting a direct calculation method, the numerical model can perform a fully nonlinear time history dynamic analysis to realistically simulate the dynamic behaviour of soil, foundation, and structure under seismic excitations. This three-dimensional numerical model accounts for the nonlinear behaviour of the soil medium and structural elements. Infinite boundary conditions were assigned to the numerical model to simulate free field boundaries, and appropriate contact elements capable of modelling sliding and separation between the foundation and soil elements are also considered. The influence of foundation size on the natural frequency of the system and structural response spectrum was also studied. The numerical results for cases of soil-foundation-structure systems with different sized foundations and fixed base conditions (excluding soil-foundation-structure interaction) in terms of lateral deformations, inter-storey drifts, rocking, and shear force distribution of the structure were then compared. Due to natural period lengthening, there was a significant reduction in the base shears when the size of the foundation was reduced. It was concluded that the size of a shallow foundation influences the dynamic characteristics and the seismic response of the building due to interaction between the soil, foundation, and structure, and therefore design engineer should carefully consider these parameters in order to ensure a safe and cost effective seismic design.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.173-190
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• 2012

With recent growing interests in the Performance-Based Seismic Design and Assessment Methodology, more realistic modeling of a structural system is deemed essential in analyzing, designing, and evaluating both newly constructed and existing buildings under seismic events. Consequently, a shallow foundation element becomes an essential constituent in the implementation of this seismic design and assessment methodology. In this paper, a contact interface fiber section element is presented for use in modeling soil-shallow foundation systems. The assumption of a rigid footing on a Winkler-based soil rests simply on the Euler-Bernoulli's hypothesis on sectional kinematics. Fiber section discretization is employed to represent the contact interface sectional response. The hyperbolic function provides an adequate means of representing the stress-deformation behavior of each soil fiber. The element is simple but efficient in representing salient features of the soil-shallow foundation system (sliding, settling, and rocking). Two experimental results from centrifuge-scale and full-scale cyclic loading tests on shallow foundations are used to illustrate the model characteristics and verify the accuracy of the model. Based on this comprehensive model validation, it is observed that the model performs quite satisfactorily. It resembles reasonably well the experimental results in terms of moment, shear, settlement, and rotation demands. The hysteretic behavior of moment-rotation responses and the rotation-settlement feature are also captured well by the model.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.513-522
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• 2022

Due to the importance of accurate analysis of bearing capacity in civil engineering projects, this paper studies the efficiency of two novel metaheuristic-based models for this objective. To this end, black hole algorithm (BHA) and multi-verse optimizer (MVO) are synthesized with an artificial neural network (ANN) to build the proposed hybrid models. Based on the settlement of a two-layered soil (and a shallow footing) system, the stability values (SV) of 0 and 1 (indicating the stability and failure, respectively) are set as the targets. Each model predicted the SV for 901 stages. The results indicated that the BHA and MVO can increase the accuracy (i.e., the area under the receiving operating characteristic curve) of the ANN from 94.0% to 96.3 and 97.2% in analyzing the SV pattern. Moreover, the prediction accuracy rose from 93.1% to 94.4 and 95.0%. Also, a comparison between the ANN's error decreased by the BHA and MVO (7.92% vs. 18.08% in the training phase and 6.28% vs. 13.62% in the testing phase) showed that the MVO is a more efficient optimizer. Hence, the suggested MVO-ANN can be used as a reliable approach for the practical estimation of bearing capacity.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.17-28
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• 2022

동적 하중 재하시 지반-구조물 상호작용 확인을 위해 진동대 실험이 많이 시행됐으나, 대부분 단자유도 상부 구조물과 단말뚝을 적용한 진동대 실험이 주를 이루고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 다자유도 구조물과 군말뚝을 적용한 대형진동대 실험을 통해, 상부 구조물의 관성 상호작용 영향을 분석하였다. 실험 결과, 단일 진동수에서의 증폭 경향을 나타내는 단자유도 구조물과는 다르게 다자유도 구조물에서는 다수의 진동수 구간에서 시간-가속도 발생 경향 및 응답 주파수의 유사성과 증폭 경향이 나타났다. 또한, 벽체 구조물에 비하여 기둥 구조물에서의 기초판과 상부 구조물과의 증폭현상이 더 크게 발생하여 기둥 구조물에 의한 관성 상호작용 효과가 더 큰 것으로 판단된다. 그리고 기초판에서의 전단력 및 관성력 관계, 상대 수직 변위 및 상대 수평 변위 관계와 심도별 동적 p-y 곡선에 대한 분석을 수행하였다. 분석 결과, 다자유도 구조물에서는 단자유도 구조물과는 상이한 거동을 나타내고 있으며, 벽체보다 기둥 구조물의 관성 상호작용의 효과가 더 큰 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2004

극성저항 계측법과 전기화학 임피던스 분광학을 이용하여 영구적 지반 앵커의 부식율을 계측하는 절차를 제시하였다. 극성저항 계측법을 이용하여 대표지반의 종류와 철의 부식률에 관한 특성관계를 도출하였고, 전기화학 임피던스 분광학을 이용하여 시간의존 부식 반응과 다양한 종류의 코우팅 시스템의 평가, 그리고 시멘트 그라우팅이 부식에 미치는 영향에 대하여 각각 평가하였다. 실험 결과 점성토와 사질토의 pH 지수가 5이하인 경우 부식발생이 용이한 지반으로서 영구적 지반 앵커의 부식반응에 심각한 영향을 미치리라 판단된다. 또한 중성 또는 알카리성의 지반은 부식진행이 관찰되지 않았으며 부식률은 pH지수에 관계없이 일정한 결과를 보였다. 포설린 점성토의 경우 pH지수의 변화가 철의 부식에 매우 낮은 영향을 미쳤다. 한편 시멘트 그라우팅의 사용은 철의 부식율을 약 0.003-0.0lmm/y 정도로 낮출 수 있었으며 에폭시 혼합 코우팅의 경우도 부식의 영향을 받지않고 원 상태를 유지할 수 있어 매우 효과적으로 부식효과를 감소시킬 수 있었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.545-561
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• 2024

Piled raft foundation has become widely used in the recent years because it can increase bearing capacity of foundation with control settlement. The design for a piled raft in terms vertical load and lateral load need to understands contribution load behavior to raft and pile in piled raft foundation system. The load-bearing behavior of the piled raft, especially concerning lateral loads, is highly complex and challenge to analyze. The complex mechanism of piled rafts can be clarified by using three dimensional (3-D) Finite Element Method (FEM). Therefore, this paper focuses on free-standing head pile group, on-ground piled raft, and embedded raft for the piled raft foundation systems. The lateral resistant of piled raft foundation was investigated in terms of relationship between vertical load, lateral load and displacement, as well as the lateral load sharing of the raft. The results show that both vertical load and raft position significantly impact the lateral load capacity of the piled raft, especially when the vertical load increases and the raft embeds into the soil. On the same condition of vertical settlement and lateral displacement, piled raft experiences a substantial demonstrates a higher capacity for lateral load sharing compared to the on-ground raft. Ultimately, regarding design considerations, the piled raft can reliably support lateral loads while exhibiting behavior within the elastic range, in which it is safe to use.