• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.197-208
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• 2022

Micropiles consisting of steel bars and grouts are commonly used in underpinning methods to reinforce supports or to suppress the subsidence of existing structures. Recently, applications in the field of geotechnical engineering have expanded. Despite the increasing use of micropiles are used, the PHC or steel pile formula is still applied for the settlement amount of micropiles. Compared with field test results, the amount of micropile subsidence obtained from the existing method may result in a very large error in the displacement of the micropile. Therefore, it is difficult to utilize micropiles effectively. Hence, to solve this problem, this study evaluated the behaviors and support characteristics of micropiles through field compression and tensile tests, and proposed a method for predicting the amounts of their subsidence. To confirm the appropriateness of the proposed method, field test results and the results obtained using the proposed method were compared. It was found that the settlement amounts of the micropiles as predicted through the existing method were significantly overestimated (error ≈ 50-80%) relative to the field test results, whereas the settlement errors of the piles predicted through the proposed method decreased (error ≈6-32%). Thus, it is possible to reduce the previously overestimated amount of settlement, and the modified method of this study allows more efficient design than the conventional method.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2010년도 춘계 학술논문 발표대회 1부
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• pp.25-27
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• 2010

Helical steel piles are being widely used in foundation for the buildings in urban areas because of their high compressive and tensile capacities. Helical steel piles have many advantages; ease installation, a vibration-free and low level of noise process, and so on. However, the most researches are about the capacity of helical steel piles under uplift condition. Therefore, this paper focuses on the capacity under compressive loading according to the soil condition. The bearing capacity of helical steel piles varies with the diameter of the helix and shaft and the bearing area of helical steel piles is not always identical with the sum of helix and shaft area due to the difference of each bearing mechanism. Therefore, the experiment with the parameters of the ratio of helix and shaft diameter and soil condition will be carried out to survey the effective helix area under a given soil condition for the bearing capacity of helical steel piles.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.285-294
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• 2000

계류돌핀의 강관말뚝식 하부구조에 대한 실용적 설계최적화 과정을 제시하고, 수치 예를 통하여 유용성을 평가하였다. 유한차원 최적설계 문제의 정식화에서, 말뚝들을 몇 개의 그룹으로 구분하여 이들의 기하학적 위상과 단면의 치수를 설계변수로 활용하였다. 설계목적함수는 말뚝의 총 중량이며, 설계제약조건은 응력과 근입 깊이, 설계변수의 상한과 하한 등이다. 설계변수의 연계와 고정을 통해 몇 가지의 실용적 설계 대안을 검토하였다. 최적화 프로그램으로는, 순차2차계획법(SQP)을 사용하고 또 쉽게 얻을 수 있는 PLBA 및 IMSL 라이브러리의 DNCONF서브루틴을 이용하였다. 수치예제의 돌핀은 20개의 강관말뚝으로 하부구조를 형성하며, 이중 4개는 연직말뚝이고 16개는 경사말뚝이다. 다양한 대안 설계에서 성공적으로 최적해를 얻었으며, 실용적인 최적 설계과정 임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.569-579
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• 2013

A steel-type breakwater that uses a submerged dual horizontal porous plate was originally proposed by Kweon et al. (2005), and its hydrodynamic characteristics and design methodology were investigated in a series of subsequent researches. In particular, Kweon et al. (2011) proposed a method of estimating the vertical uplift force that acts on the horizontal plate, applicable to the design of the pile uplift drag force. However, the difference between the method proposed by Kweon et al. (2011), and the wave force measured at a different time without a phase difference, have not yet been clearly analyzed. In this study, such difference according to the method of estimating the wave force was analyzed, by measuring the wave pressure acting on a breakwater model. The hydraulic model test was conducted in a two-dimensional wave flume of 60.0 m length, 1.5 m height and 1.0 m width. The steepness range of the selected waves is 0.01~0.03, with regular and random signals. 20 pressure gauges were used for the measurement. The analysis results showed that the wave force estimate in the method of Kweon et al. (2011) was smaller than the wave force calculated from the maximum pressure at individual points, under a random wave action. Meanwhile, the method of Goda (1974) that was applied to the horizontal plate produced a smaller wave force, than the method of Kweon et al. (2011). The method of Kweon (2011) was already verified in the real sea test of Kweon et al. (2012), where the safety factor of the pile uplift force was found to be greater than 2.0. Based on these results, it was concluded that the method of estimating the wave force by Kweon et al. (2011) can be satisfactorily used for estimating the uplift force of a pile.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.293-306
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• 2023

This study proposes and demonstrates a smart monitoring system that uses transmission lines embedded in a reinforced concrete structure to detect the presence of defects through changes in the electromagnetic waves generated and measured by a time-domain reflectometer. Laboratory experiments were first conducted to identify the presence of voids in steel-concrete composite columns. The results indicated that voids in the concrete caused a positive signal reflection, and the amplitude of this signal decreased as the water content of the soil in the void increased. Multiple voids resulted in a decrease in the amplitude of the signal reflected at each void, effectively identifying their presence despite amplitude reduction. Furthermore, the electromagnetic wave velocity increased when voids were present, decreased as the water content of the soil in the voids increased, and increased with the water-cement ratio and curing time. Field experiments were then conducted using bored piles with on-center (sound) and off-center (defective) steel-reinforcement cage alignments. The results indicated that the signal amplitude in the defective pile section, where the off-center cage was poorly covered with concrete, was greater than that in the pile sections where the cage was completely covered with concrete. The crosshole sonic logging results for the same defective bored pile failed to identify an off-center cage alignment defect. Therefore, this study demonstrates that electromagnetic waves can be a useful tool for monitoring the health and integrity of reinforced concrete structures.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.13-23
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 연약지반의 지반개량과 오염물질정화를 동시에 수행 가능한 반응성 배수파일의 적용에 대한 지반공학적 특성을 평가하였다. 반응성 배수파일의 내부 반응물질로 사용되는 제강슬래그의 적용성을 확인하였으며, 내부 반응물질을 둘러싸고 있는 원통형 차단막 길이와 차단막 외부의 외부 배수층 설치에 따른 압밀거동을 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 반응성 배수파일이 타설된 지반을 모사할 수 있는 실험장비를 개발하였으며, 외부 배수층 유 무 및 차단막 길이를 변화시켜가며, 실내모형실험을 수행하였다. 실험결과, 차단막의 길이가 짧아질수록 압밀소요시간은 감소하는 것으로 나타났지만, 차단막 길이변화에 따른 압밀소요시간차이에 비해 외부 배수층 유 무에 따른 압밀소요시간의 차이가 더 큰 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.427-436
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• 2009

해양에서는 횡방향 하중에 의해 구조물 기초의 설계가 좌우되기 때문에 이 연구에서는 기존의 말뚝 기초 공법보다 횡방향 지지력이 크고 시공성능이 우수한 새로운 형식의 말뚝 기초 공법을 제안하였다. 제안한 기초에 대한 성능을 평가하기 위하여 수치해석을 수행하였으며, 기존 항만 현장 조건에 대입하여 설계를 수행하여 시공 특성과 재료비 감소 효과를 통한 경제성 평가를 수행하였다. 연구에서 강관말뚝에 비해 횡방향 지지력의 증가를 확인하였으며, 기존 공법과 비교하여 공사비용은 62~80%정도로 평가되었다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권3A호
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• pp.323-330
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• 2008

선박과 방호구조물 충돌시 구조물의 동적 특성들을 분석하기 위하여 항로상에 위치한 교량의 방호구조물인 강관파일그룹에 대한 선박충돌해석을 수행하였다. 해석은 선박과 파일의 유한요소 모델링, 비선형성 재료의 모델링, 강성충돌해석, 변위기반해석 그리고 충돌시나리오에 대한 연성충돌해석 등을 포함하고 있다. 강체벽에 대한 강성충돌해석을 통하여, 선수부의 충돌유형에 따른 충돌하중을 산정하였다. 변위기반 해석에서 방호시스템이 최대 수평 이격거리 내에서 흡수할 수 있는 대략적인 에너지의 범위를 산정할 수 있었다. 충돌시나리오별 연성충돌해석에서는 충돌시 거동을 방호시스템 설계를 고려하면서 검토하였다. 파일지지구조물의 에너지소산 메카니즘 분석을 통해 방호구조물의 최적 설계를 도출할 수 있다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.25-41
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• 2024

The measurement of pile bearing capacity is crucial for the design of pile foundations, where in-situ tests could be costly and time needed. The primary objective of this research was to investigate the potential use of fuzzy-based techniques to anticipate the maximum weight that concrete driven piles might bear. Despite the existence of several suggested designs, there is a scarcity of specialized studies on the exploration of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS) for the estimation of pile bearing capacity. This paper presents the introduction and validation of a novel technique that integrates the fire hawk optimizer (FHO) and equilibrium optimizer (EO) with the ANFIS, referred to as ANFIS_FHO and ANFIS_EO, respectively. A comprehensive compilation of 472 static load test results for driven piles was located within the database. The recommended framework was built, validated, and tested using the training set (70%), validation set (15%), and testing set (15%) of the dataset, accordingly. Moreover, the sensitivity analysis is performed in order to determine the impact of each input on the output. The results show that ANFIS_FHO and ANFIS_EO both have amazing potential for precisely calculating pile bearing capacity. The R² values obtained for ANFIS_FHO were 0.9817, 0.9753, and 0.9823 for the training, validating, and testing phases. The findings of the examination of uncertainty showed that the ANFIS_FHO system had less uncertainty than the ANFIS_EO model. The research found that the ANFIS_FHO model provides a more satisfactory estimation of the bearing capacity of concrete driven piles when considering various performance evaluations and comparing it with existing literature.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.3548-3556
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• 2015

해상풍력기초를 설계함에 있어 사용하중에 대해 극한적인 조건뿐만 아니라 지속적인 동적하중에 대해 기초의 거동을 정확하게 파악하여 안정적이고 경제적인 기초를 개발할 필요성이 있다. 이를 위하여 강관말뚝을 일정비율로 축소시켜 모형말뚝을 제작하고, 모형토조에 모래층을 500mm의 높이로 포설한 후 모형말뚝을 모델링하여 정적 및 반복 수평재하실험을 실시하였다. 그 결과, 정적수평재하시 모형말뚝의 길이/직경(L/D)이 클수록 하중에 따른 변위는 증가하는 반면, 반복수평재하시 하중재하 횟수가 증가할수록 반복수평하중 1회당 발생하는 말뚝의 수평변위는 감소하였고 지반이 조밀할수록 반복수평하중에 의한 말뚝의 극한수평지지력의 증가율이 작아지는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 휨모멘트의 분포형상은 지반의 상대밀도에 상관없이 유사한 형태를 보였으며, 최대휨모멘트는 지표면으로부터 170mm지점에서 발생하는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 지반의 상대밀도가 증가할수록 정적수평재하와 반복수평재하 조건에서 발생하는 최대휨모멘트는 증가했다.