• 한국건설순환자원학회논문집
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.120-127
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• 2013

밤콩 사장교는 메콩강 삼각주 지역 연결 사업의 일환으로 메콩강 하류의 꾸롱 삼각주에 위치하고 있으며, 중앙경간 450m의 사장교로 설계되었다. 왕복 4차선으로 구성된 강합성 보강형과 멀티 스트랜드 방식의 케이블을 적용하였으며, 개선된 H형 주탑과 현장타설 콘크리트 말뚝 기초로 구성되어 있다. 주탑, 프리캐스트 콘크리트 바닥판 그리고 현장타설 콘크리트 말뚝에는 고강도 콘크리트를 적용하여 구조적 안정성을 확보하였다. 본 고에서는 밤콩 사장교의 설계에 적용된 설계기준 및 주요 설계 특징을 설명하고자 한다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.399-414
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• 1997

This paper presents an investigation into the seismic response characteristics of a proposed ligh-weight pedestrian cable-stayed bridge made entirely from Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastics(GFRP). The study employs three dimensional finite element models to study and compare the dynamic characteristics and the seismic response of the GFRP bridge to a conventional Steel-Concrete (SC) cable-stayed bridge alternative. The two bridges were subjected to three synthetic earthquakes that differ in the frequency content characteristics. The performance of the GFRP bridge was compared to that of the SC bridge by normalizing the live load and the seismic internal forces with respect to the dead load internal forces. The normalized seismically induced internal forces were compared to the normalized live load internal forces for each design alternative. The study shows that the design alternatives have different dynamic characteristics. The light GFRP alternative has more flexible deck motion in the lateral direction than the heavier SC alternative. While the SC alternative has more vertical deck modes than the GFRP alternative, it has less lateral deck modes than the GFRP alternative in the studied frequency range. The GFRP towers are more flexible in the lateral direction than the SC towers. The GFRP bridge tower attracted less normalized base shear force than the SC bridge towers. However, earthquakes, with peak acceleration of only 0.1 g, and with a variety of frequency content could induce high enough seismic internal forces at the tower bases of the GFRP cable-stayed bridge to govern the structural design of such bridge. Careful seismic analysis, design, and detailing of the tower connections are required to achieve satisfactory seismic performance of GFRP long span bridges.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.241-254
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• 2022

The cables in a cable-stayed bridge are critical load-carrying parts. The potential damage to cables should be identified early to prevent disasters. In this study, an efficient deep learning model is proposed for the damage identification of cables using both a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and a graph neural network (GNN). Datasets are first generated using the practical advanced analysis program (PAAP), which is a robust program for modeling and analyzing bridge structures with low computational costs. The model based on the MLP and GNN can capture complex nonlinear correlations between the vibration characteristics in the input data and the cable system damage in the output data. Multiple hidden layers with an activation function are used in the MLP to expand the original input vector of the limited measurement data to obtain a complete output data vector that preserves sufficient information for constructing the graph in the GNN. Using the gated recurrent unit and set2set model, the GNN maps the formed graph feature to the output cable damage through several updating times and provides the damage results to both the classification and regression outputs. The model is fine-tuned with the original input data using Adam optimization for the final objective function. A case study of an actual cable-stayed bridge was considered to evaluate the model performance. The results demonstrate that the proposed model provides high accuracy (over 90%) in classification and satisfactory correlation coefficients (over 0.98) in regression and is a robust approach to obtain effective identification results with a limited quantity of input data.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.637-655
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• 2012

In this study, stochastic responses of a cable-stayed bridge subjected to the spatially varying earthquake ground motion are investigated by the finite element method taking into account soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects. The considered bridge in the analysis is Quincy Bay-view Bridge built on the Mississippi River in between 1983-1987 in Illinois, USA. The bridge is composed of two H-shaped concrete towers, double plane fan type cables and a composite concrete-steel girder deck. In order to determine the stochastic response of the bridge, a two-dimensional lumped masses model is considered. Incoherence, wave-passage and site response effects are taken into account for the spatially varying earthquake ground motion. Depending on variation in the earthquake motion, the response values of the cable-stayed bridge supported on firm, medium and soft foundation soil are obtained, separately. The effects of SSI on the stochastic response of the cable-stayed bridge are also investigated including foundation as a rigidly capped vertical pile groups. In this approach, piles closely grouped together beneath the towers are viewed as a single equivalent upright beam. The soil-pile interaction is linearly idealized as an upright beam on Winkler foundation model which is commonly used to study the response of single piles. A sufficient number of springs on the beam should be used along the length of the piles. The springs near the surface are usually the most important to characterize the response of the piles surrounded by the soil; thus a closer spacing may be used in that region. However, in generally springs are evenly spaced at about half the diameter of the pile. The results of the stochastic analysis with and without the SSI are compared each other while the bridge is under the sway of the spatially varying earthquake ground motion. Specifically, in case of rigid towers and soft soil condition, it is pointed out that the SSI should be significantly taken into account for the design of such bridges.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제70권2호
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• pp.143-152
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• 2019

In this study, stochastic responses of a cable-stayed bridge subjected to the spatially varying earthquake ground motion are investigated for variable local soil cases and wave velocities. Quincy Bay-view cable-stayed bridge built on the Mississippi River in Illinois, USA selected as a numerical example. The bridge is composed of two H-shaped concrete towers, double plane fan type cables and a composite concrete-steel girder deck. The spatial variability of the ground motion is considered with the coherency function, which is represented by the components of incoherence, wave-passage and site-response effects. The incoherence effect is investigated by considering Harichandran and Vanmarcke model, the site-response effect is outlined by using hard, medium and soft soil types, and the wave-passage effect is taken into account by using 1000, 600 and 200 m/s wave velocities for the hard, medium and soft soils, respectively. Mean of maximum response values obtained from the analyses are compared with those of the specific cases of the ground motion model. It is concluded that the obtained results from the bridge model increase as the differences between local soil conditions cases of the bridge supports change from firm to soft. Moreover, the variation of the wave velocity has important effects on the responses of the deck and towers as compared with those of the travelling constant wave velocity case. In addition, the variability of the ground motions should be considered in the analysis of long span cable-stayed bridges to obtain more accurate results in calculating the bridge responses.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.335-346
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• 2013

AASHTO LRFD 및 도로교한계상태설계기준에서는 신뢰도 기반 활하중 모델로부터 결정된 트럭하중과 차로하중을 동시에 재하하도록 하고 있으며, 트럭하중은 충격계수를 고려하되 차로하중은 충격계수를 적용하지 않도록 규정하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 중앙경간 230m, 400m 및 540m의 멀티케이블 강합성 사장교를 대상으로 트럭하중과 차로하중이 동시에 주행하는 경우에 대해 차량-교량 상호작용 해석을 수행하고 케이블과 보강거더의 충격계수를 평가하였다. 트럭하중은 6-자유도의 차량 모델을 사용하였으며, 차로하중은 일련의 1축 차량이 연행해서 주행하는 것으로 모사하였다. 교량의 감쇠비가 충격계수에 미치는 영향을 평가하였으며, 충격에 영향을 미치는 주요 인자인 노면조도와 주행속도를 해석변수로 고려하였다. 노면조도는 ISO 8608 규정에 근거하여 랜덤 생성하였으며, 차량-교량 상호작용해석 시 노면조도는 트럭하중에만 적용하였다. 한편, 사장교의 충격계수 평가를 위해 실무에서 사용되고 있는 영향선 기법에 의한 충격계수를 동적 상호작용 해석에 의한 결과와 비교하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.803-824
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• 2014

The dynamic characterization is important in making accurate predictions of the seismic response of the hybrid structures dominated by different damping mechanisms. Different damping characteristics arise from the construction of the tower with different materials: steel for the upper part; reinforced concrete for the lower main part and interaction with supporting soil. The process of modeling damping matrices and experimental verification is challenging because damping cannot be determined via static tests as can mass and stiffness. The assumption of classical damping is not appropriate if the system to be analyzed consists of two or more parts with significantly different levels of damping, such as steel/concrete mixed structure - supporting soil coupled system. The dynamic response of structures is critically determined by the damping mechanisms, and its value is very important for the design and analysis of vibrating structures. An analytical approach capable of evaluating the equivalent modal damping ratio from structural components is desirable for improving seismic design. Two approaches are considered to define and investigate dynamic characteristics of hybrid tower of cable-stayed bridges: The first approach makes use of a simplified approximation of two lumped masses to investigate the structure irregularity effects including damping of different material, mass ratio, frequency ratio on dynamic characteristics and modal damping; the second approach employs a detailed numerical step-by step integration procedure in which the damping matrices of the upper and the lower substructures are modeled with the Rayleigh damping formulation.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권6A호
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• pp.799-808
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• 2008

국내 교통 현실을 반영한 중(重)차량에 대한 하중 분석은 케이블 교량의 유지관리시 잔존수명 예측을 위한 피로하중모델 개발이나 교량의 설계시 해석에 필요한 활하중 모델 개발시 반드시 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 강합성 사장교 상부구조 하면에 설치된 변형률 센서에서 측정한 신호를 이용하여 교량을 주행하고 있는 중차량의 하중정보를 얻기 위하여, 인공신경망 및 영향선을 이용한 차량하중분석시스템을 개발하였다. 인공신경망의 학습과 테스트를 위한 데이터 확보에 있어서 이론적인 수치 시뮬레이션을 통하지 않고, 실제 교량을 주행하는 임의 차량에 대해 직접 측정한 데이터를 이용하였다. 또한, 학습된 신경망의정확도를 검증하기 위하여 3종류의 시험재하차량을 반복 주행시켜 구한 값과 계량소에서 측정한 정적 값을 비교하였다. 교량의국부거동을 고려하기 위하여 가로보를 이용하였고, 인공신경망을 이용한 방법과 영향선을 이용한 방법의 분석결과를 비교한 결과, 인공신경망이론을 적용한 분석방법이 하중 판별의 정확도에 있어서는 영향선 분석방법보다 높은 정확도를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.615-633
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• 2015

Composite steel-concrete beams are used frequently in situations where axial forces are introduced. Some examples include the use in cable-stayed bridges or inclined members in stadia and bridge approach spans. In these situations, the beam may be subjected to any combination of flexure and axial load. However, modern steel and composite construction codes currently do not address the effects of these combined actions. This study presents an analysis of composite beams subjected to combined loadings. An analytical model is developed based on a cross-sectional analysis method using a strategy of successive iterations. Results derived from the model show an excellent agreement with existing experimental results. A parametric study is conducted to investigate the effect of axial load on the flexural strength of composite beams. The parametric study is then extended to a number of section sizes and employs various degrees of shear connection. Design models are proposed for estimating the flexural strength of an axially loaded member with full and partial shear connection.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.619-632
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• 2022

There are numerous structural details (Longitudinal beam, web plate, U-ribs and I-ribs) in the top and bottom plates of steel box girders, which have significant influences on the longitudinal stress (normal stress) distribution. Clarifying the influence of these structural details on the normal stress distribution is important. In this paper, the ultra-wide steel box girder with large cantilevers of the Jinhai Bridge in China, which is the widest cable-stayed bridge in the world, has been analyzed. A 1:4.5 scale laboratory model of the steel box girder has been manufactured, and the influence of structural details on the normal stress distribution in the top and bottom plates for four different load cases has been analyzed in detail. Furthermore, a three-dimensional finite element model has been established to further investigate the influence regularity of structural details on the normal stress. The experimental and finite element analysis (FEA) results have shown that different structural details of the top and bottom plates have varying effects on the normal stress distribution. Notably, the U-ribs and I-ribs of the top and bottom plates introduce periodicity to the normal stress distribution. The period of the influence of U-ribs on the normal stress distribution is the sum of the single U-rib width and the U-rib spacing, and that of the influence of I-ribs on the normal stress distribution is equal to the spacing of the I-ribs. Furthermore, the same structural details but located at different positions, will have a different effect on the normal stress distribution.