• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.273-286
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• 2023

Rebar is embedded in concrete to create reinforced concrete (RC). Rebar carries most of the tensile stress and gives compressively loaded concrete fracture resistance. However, embedded steel corrosion is a significant cause of concern for RC composite structures worldwide. It is one of the biggest threats to concrete structures' longevity. Due to environmental factors, concrete decays and reinforced concrete buildings fail. The type and surface arrangement of the rebar, the cement used in the mortar, the dosing frequency of the concrete, its penetrability, gaps and cracks, humidity, and, most importantly, pollutants and aggressive species all affect rebar corrosion. Either carbonation or chlorides typically cause steel corrosion in concrete. Carbonation occurs when carbon dioxide in the atmosphere combines with calcium within the concrete. This indicates that the pH of the medium is falling, and the steel rebar is corroding. When chlorides pass through concrete to steel, corrosion rates skyrocket. Consideration must be given to concrete moisture. Owing to its excellent resistance, dry concrete has a low steel corrosion rate, whereas extremely wet concrete has a low rate owing to delayed O₂ transfer to steel surfaces. This paper examines rebar corrosion causes and mechanisms and describes corrosion evaluation and mitigation methods.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.467-488
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• 2023

Seismic retrofit of an existing steel-reinforced concrete hospital building that features innovative use of a continuous energy-dissipative steel column (CEDC) system is presented in this paper. The special system has been adopted to provide an efficient solution taking into account the difficulties of applying traditional intervention techniques to minimize the impact on architectural functionality and avoid the loss of building function and evacuation during the retrofit implementation. The lateral stiffness and strength of the CEDC system were defined based on the geometric and mechanical properties of the steel strip dampers. The hysteretic behavior under cyclic loadings was defined using a simplified numerical model. Its effectiveness was validated by comparing the results of full-scale experimental data available from the literature. All the main design considerations of the retrofitting plan are described in detail. The effectiveness of the proposed retrofitting system was demonstrated by nonlinear time-history analyses under different sets of earthquake-strong ground motions. The analysis results show that the CEDC system is effective in controlling the deformation pattern and significantly reducing damage to the existing structure during major earthquakes.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.77-85
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• 2005

2001년 9월 11일 세계무역센터 붕괴 후. 그리고 지진발생시 빈번히 발생하는 건물의 화재피해 때문에 구조부재의 내화에 대한 사회적 관심이 증대되었다. 최근에는 전통적인 방법이 아니라 콘크리트의 내화성능과 철골의 구조적 특성을 복합한 내화성능이 향상된 합성구조에 대한 연구가 진행 중이다. 본 논문에서는 내화성능향상을 목적으로 개발된 부분적으로 철근콘크리트로 채워진 H형강-국부 콘크리트 합성 보의 상온에서의 휨 거동을 조사하기 위하여 몇 가지 합성상세를 갖는 실험체들의 휨실험을 실시하였다. 실험결과 $6\~8$의 변위 연성계수를 얻었다. 콘크리트와 철골의 일체화를 위한 합성상세간의 횡 거동 차이는 미미하였고, 극한 휨 강도에 가장 영향을 주는 것은 배근된 주철근 양임을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 중진 지역의 내진설계시 이 타입의 합성보를 사용하면 단일 H형강에 철근배근만 달리하여 상당부분의 층에서의 보의 춤을 동일하게 유지할 수 있다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.1141-1162
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• 2016

Concrete-filled double skin steel tube (CFDST) beam-columns are widely used in industrial plants, subways, high-rise buildings and arch bridges. The CFDST columns have the same advantages as traditional CFT members. Moreover, they have lighter weight, higher bending stiffness, better cyclic performance, and have higher fire resistance capacities than their CFT counterparts. The scope of this study is to develop finite element models that can predict accepted capacities of double skin concrete-filled tube columns under the combined effect of axial and bending actions. The analysis results were studied to determine the distribution of stresses among the different components and the effect of the concrete core on the outer and inner steel tube. The developed models are first verified against the available experimental data. Accordingly, an extensive parametric study was performed considering different key factors including load eccentricity, slenderness ratio, concrete compressive strength, and steel tube yield strength. The results of the performed parametric study are intended to supplement the experimental research and examine the accuracy of the available design formulas.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.1023-1044
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• 2015

Concrete-filled tubes (CFT), formed by an outer steel tube filled with plain or reinforced concrete inside, have been increasingly used these recent decades as columns or beam-columns, especially for tall buildings in seismic areas due to their excellent structural response. This improved behavior is derived from the effect of confinement provided by the tube, since the compressive strength of concrete increases when being subjected to hydrostatic pressure. In circular CFTs under compression, the whole tube is uniformly tensioned due to the radial expansion of concrete. Contrarily, in rectangular and square-shaped CFTs, the lateral flanges become subjected to in-plane bending derived from this volumetric expansion, and this fact implies a reduction of the confinement effect of the core. This study presents a numerical analysis of different configurations of CFT stub columns with inner stiffening plates, limited to the study of the influence of these plates on the compressive behavior without eccentricity. The final purpose is to evaluate the efficiency in terms of strength and ductility of introducing stiffeners into circular and square CFT sections under large deformation axial loading.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.369-381
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• 2020

Nowadays, in prefabricated composite construction, composite action between steel beam and concrete slab is often achieved with positioning of shear connectors in envisaged openings of concrete slabs. Prefabricated concrete slabs are used for composite steel-concrete buildings and bridges, both for the construction of new structures and for renovation of existing ones, significantly reducing construction time. Development of different types of shear connectors represent alternative solution to the traditionally used headed studs, considering their shear resistance, stiffness and ductility. New types of shear connectors tend to reduce the construction time and overall construction cost. Mechanically fastened shear connectors represent a viable alternative to headed studs, considering their fast installation process and shear resistance. X-HVB shear connectors are attached to the steel beam with two cartridge fired pins. The first step towards extensive implementation of X-HVB shear connectors in composite construction is to understand their behaviour through experimental investigation. Results of the push-out tests, in accordance to Eurocode 4, with X-HVB 110 shear connectors positioned in envisaged openings of prefabricated concrete slabs are presented in this paper. The experimental investigation comprised three different specimen's layout. Group arrangement of X-HVB shear connectors in envisaged openings included specimens with minimal recommended distances and specimens with reduced distances between connectors in both directions. Influence of different installation procedures on overall behaviour of the connection is presented, as well as the orientation of shear connectors relative to the shear force direction. Influence of variations is characterized in terms of failure mechanisms, shear resistance and ductility.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.141-159
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• 2016

Commonly in steel frames, steel beam and concrete slab are connected together by shear keys to work as a unit member which is called composite beam. When a composite beam is subjected to positive bending, flexural strength and stiffness of the beam can be increased due to "composite action". At the same time despite these advantages, composite action increases the strain at the beam bottom flange and it might affect beam plastic rotation capacity. This paper presents results of study on the rotation capacity of composite beam connected to Rectangular Hollow Section (RHS) column in the steel moment resisting frame buildings. Due to out-of-plane deformation of column flange, moment transfer efficiency of web connection is reduced and this results in reduction of beam plastic rotation capacity. In order to investigate the effects of width-to-thickness ratio (B/t) of RHS column on the rotation capacity of composite beam, cyclic loading tests were conducted on three full scale beam-to-column subassemblies. Detailed study on the different steel beam damages and concrete slab damages are presented. Experimental data showed the importance of this parameter of RHS column on the seismic behavior of composite beams. It is found that occurrence of severe concrete bearing crush at the face of RHS column of specimen with smaller width-to-thickness ratio resulted in considerable reduction on the rate of strain increase in the bottom flange. This behavior resulted in considerable improvement of rotation capacity of this specimen compared with composite and even bare steel beam connected to the RHS column with larger width-to-thickness ratio.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.29-40
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• 2001

상업건축물에서 사용이 증가하고 있는 철골조 건물은 일반적으로 콘크리트 바닥 슬래브와 함께 합성거동하도록 설계된다. 현제 "합성 구조"가 사용성 측면에서 경제적이고 작업성이 좋으며, 시공상의 편의성 등의 장점이 있다는 것은 일반화된 사실이지만, 자체의 춤이 깊기 때문에 철골조 아파트에 적용되기에는 어려움이 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 이러한 합성의 전체 춤을 절감할 수 있는 반슬림플로어 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 시스템은 철골보 춤내에 콘크리트 슬래브를 삽입하여 일체화함으로써 철골조 고층건물에서 층고를 최소화 할 수 있는 공법이다. 실험은 12개의 합성슬래브 실험체를 데크현상, 슬래브폭, 스터드볼트의 유무와 콘크리트 토핑두께를 변수로하여 휨성능을 평가하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.217-232
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• 2019

Modular steel buildings consist of prefabricated room-sized structural units that are manufactured offsite and installed onsite. The inter-module connections must fulfill the assembly construction requirements and soundly transfer the external loads. This work proposes an innovative assembled connection suitable for modular buildings with concrete-filled steel tube columns. The connection uses pretensioned strands and plugin bars to vertically connect the adjacent modular columns. The moment-transferring performance of this inter-module connection was studied through monotonic and cyclic loading tests. The results showed that because of the assembly construction, the connected sections were separated under lateral bending, and the prestressed inter-module connection performed as a weak semirigid connection. The moment strength at the early loading stage originated primarily from the contact bonding mechanism with the infilled concrete, and the postyield strength depended mainly on the tensioned strands. The connection displayed a self-centering-like behavior that the induced deformation was reversed during unloading. The energy dissipation originated primarily from frictional slipping of the plugin bars and steel strands. The moment transferring ability was closely related to the section dimension and the arrangements of the plugin bars and steel strands. A simplified strength calculation and evaluation method was also proposed, and the effectiveness was validated with the test data.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.247-258
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• 2007

본 논문은 철골보의 하부 플랜지의 높이 조절이 가능하여 합성바닥판의 춤이 자유로운 신형상의 매입형 합성보에 관한 실험적 연구이다. 이를 위하여 강판성형 철골보 단면을 개발하였고 바닥 슬래브용으로 250mm의 춤을 가진 춤이 깊은 데크 플레이트(이하 Deep Deck)를 사용하여 장스팬에 유리하도록 계획하였다. 실험은 전단스터드 및 인장보강근의 사용유무, 사용강판의 두께, 웨브 개구부의 유무를 주요 변수로 하여 총 7개의 매입형 합성보에 대한 단순지지 휨실험 수행하였다. 실험결과, 강판성형 매립형 합성보는 전단연결재의 설치 없이 철골보와 콘크리트의 부착력에 의해 수평전단력이 전달되는 방식임에도 불구하고 대단히 우수한 합성거동을 나타냄을 확인하였다.