• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.279-293
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• 2021

Most of the existing seismic codes for RC buildings consider only a scenario earthquake for analysis, often characterized by the response spectrum at the specified location. However, any real earthquake event often involves occurrences of multiple earthquakes within a few hours or days, possessing similar or even higher energy than the first earthquake. This critically impairs the rehabilitation measures thereby resulting in the accumulation of structural damages for subsequent earthquakes after the first earthquake. Also, the existing seismic provisions account for the non-linear response of an RC building frame implicitly by specifying a constant response modification factor (R) in a linear elastic design. However, the 'R' specified does not address the changes in structural configurations of RC moment-resisting frames (RC MRFs) viz., building height, number of bays present, bay width, irregularities arising out of mass and stiffness changes, etc. resulting in changed dynamic characteristics of the structural system. Hence, there is an imperative need to assess the seismic performance under sequential earthquake ground motions, considering the adequacy of code-specified 'R' in the representation of dynamic characteristics of RC buildings. Therefore, the present research is focused on the evaluation of the non-linear response of medium-rise 3D RC MRFs with and without vertical irregularities under bi-directional sequential earthquake ground motions using non-linear dynamic analysis. It is evident from the results that collapse probability increases, and 'R' reduces significantly for various RC MRFs subjected to sequential earthquakes, pronouncing the vulnerability and inadequacy of estimation of design base shear by code-specified 'R' under sequential earthquakes.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2022

Based on the nonlinear static analysis and the approximate seismic evaluation method adopted in "Guidelines for seismic performance evaluation for existing buildings, two methods to calculate strength demand for retrofitting individual structural walls in unreinforced masonry buildings are proposed." The displacement coefficient method to determine displacement demand from nonlinear static analysis results is used for the inverse calculation of overall strength demand required to reduce the displacement demand to a target value meeting the performance objective of the unreinforced masonry building to retrofit. A preliminary seismic evaluation method to screen out vulnerable buildings, of which detailed evaluation is necessary, is utilized to calculate overall strength demand without structural analysis based on the difference between the seismic demand and capacity. A system modification factor is introduced to the preliminary seismic evaluation method to reduce the strength demand considering inelastic deformation. The overall strength demand is distributed to the structural walls to retrofit based on the wall stiffness, including the remaining walls or otherwise. Four detached residential houses are modeled and analyzed using the nonlinear static and preliminary evaluation procedures to examine the proposed method.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.319-330
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• 2022

Retrofit of soft-story buildings due to seismic loads using Gap-Inclined-Brace (GIB) system is considered a new retrofit technique that aims to maintain both strength and stiffness of structure. In addition, it provides more ductility and less P-delta effect, and subsequently better performance is observed. In this paper, the effect of the eccentricity between GIB and the retrofitted column due to installation on the efficiency of the retrofitting system is studied. In addition, a modification in the determination method of GIB properties is introduced to reduce the eccentricity effect. Also, the effect of GIB system on the seismic response of mid-rise buildings with different heights considering soft-story at various heights has been studied. A numerical model is developed to study the impact of such system on the response of retrofitted soft-story buildings under the action of seismic loads. To achieve that goal, this model is used to perform a numerical investigation, by considering five case study scenarios represent several locations of soft-story of two mid-rise reinforced concrete buildings. At first, Non-linear static pushover analysis was carried out to develop the capacity curves for case studies. Then, Non-linear time history analyses using ten earthquake records with five peak ground accelerations is performed for each case study scenario before and after retrofitting with GIB. The results show that large GIB eccentricity reduce the ultimate lateral resistance and deformation capacity of the retrofitting system. Moreover, the higher the retrofitted building, the more deformation capacity is observed but without significant increase in ultimate lateral resistance.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제88권1호
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• pp.67-81
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• 2023

The reinforced concrete (RC) structures might need strengthening or upgradation due to adverse environmental conditions, design defects, modification requirements, and to prolong the expected lifespan. The RC beams have been efficiently strengthened using the near surface mounted (NSM) approach over the externally bonded reinforcing (EBR) system. In this study, the performance of RC beam elements strengthened with NSM-steel rebars was investigated using an experimental program and nonlinear finite element modeling (FEM). Nine medium-sized, rectangular cross-section RC beams total in number made up for the experimental evaluation. The beams strengthened with varying percentages of NSM reinforcement, and the number of grooves was assessed in four-point bending experiments up to failure. Based on the experimental evaluation, the load-displacement response, crack features, and failure modes of the strengthened beams were recorded and considered. According to the experimental findings, NSM steel greatly improved the flexural strength (up to about 84%) and stiffness of RC beams. The flexural response of the tested beams was simulated using a 3D non-linear finite element (FE) model. The findings of the experiments and the numerical analysis showed good agreement. The effect of the NSM groove and reinforcement on the structural response was then assessed parametrically.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.455-462
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• 2013

최근에 지어진 건축물의 경우 지진에 대한 안전성을 확보하고 있지만, 내진설계 도입 이전의 건축물은 지진에 대해 매우 취약하다. 본 연구에서는 내진성능이 부족한 기존 저층 RC구조물의 지진 발생 시 안전성 확보를 위한 내진보강 방안으로 격자강판 전단벽을 제안하고 내진성능평가를 수행하였다. 횡력저항요소로 사용된 격자강판 전단벽의 탄소성 이력특성값은 실험결과를 토대로 횡력저항 기여도등을 평가하여 작성된 이선형곡선을 적용하였다. 비탄성 정적해석을 통해 대상구조물의 성능점을 찾아내어 적용 지진하중에 대한 응답과 성능수준을 평가하였다. 격자강판 전단벽을 적용한 경우, 보강 전에 비하여 응답변위가 약 42% 저감되는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, 성능점에서 거의 탄성거동을 보여주고 있어 목표성능인 인명안전수준을 만족시켰다. 또한 반응수정계수를 산정하여 내진보강 효과를 검증하였으며, 보강 전과 후에 각각 2.17에서 3.25로 증가하여 설계기준을 초과하였다. 따라서 격자강판 전단벽에 의해 대상 구조물의 강도 및 강성보강이 적절히 수행된 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.221-221
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• 2014

The present work proposes an improved numerical simulator for design and modification of large area capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) processing chamber. CCP, as notoriously well-known, demands the tremendously huge computational cost for carrying out transient analyses in realistic multi-dimensional models, because electron dissociations take place in a much smaller time scale (${\Delta}t{\approx}10-8{\sim}10-10$) than time scale of those happened between neutrals (${\Delta}t{\approx}10-1{\sim}10-3$), due to the rf drive frequencies of external electric field. And also, for spatial discretization of electron flux (Je), exponential scheme such as Scharfetter-Gummel method needs to be used in order to alleviate the numerical stiffness and resolve exponential change of spatial distribution of electron temperature (Te) and electron number density (Ne) in the vicinity of electrodes. Due to such computational intractability, it is prohibited to simulate CCP deposition in a three-dimension within acceptable calculation runtimes (<24 h). Under the situation where process conditions require thickness non-uniformity below 5%, however, detailed flow features of reactive gases induced from three-dimensional geometric effects such as gas distribution through the perforated plates (showerhead) should be considered. Without considering plasma chemistry, we therefore simulated flow, temperature and species fields in three-dimensional geometry first, and then, based on that data, boundary conditions of two-dimensional plasma discharge model are set. In the particular case of SiH4-NH3-N2-He CCP discharge to produce deposition of SiNxHy thin film, a cylindrical showerhead electrode reactor was studied by numerical modeling of mass, momentum and energy transports for charged particles in an axi-symmetric geometry. By solving transport equations of electron and radicals simultaneously, we observed that the way how source gases are consumed in the non-isothermal flow field and such consequences on active species production were outlined as playing the leading parts in the processes. As an example of application of the model for the prediction of the deposited thickness uniformity in a 300 mm wafer plasma processing chamber, the results were compared with the experimentally measured deposition profiles along the radius of the wafer varying inter-electrode gap. The simulation results were in good agreement with experimental data.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.149-159
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 아스팔트 바인더의 절대점도, 동점도, 침입도, 연화점, PG 고온등급을 이용하여 샌드아스팔트 흔합물의 고속 직접인장강도(DTS1), 저속 직접인장강도(DTS2), 간접인장강도(ITS), 회복탄성계수(MR), 강성지수(SI)를 추정하기 위한 연구를 수행하였다. 여러 가지 혼합물의 특성 중 DTS2가 가장 상관성이 높게 나타났으며 그 다음이 DTS1, ITS, SI, MR 순인 것으로 나타났다. 바인더 성질 중에는 PG 등급이 DTS2와 가장 높은 상관 관계를 보여 PG 고온등급이 높은 바인더를 사용하면 직접인장강도가 어느 정도 우수한 혼합물을 얻을 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. 하지만 각각의 물리적 성질만으로는 신뢰도가 낮아 종합적으로 여러 물성을 이용하여 상관성을 분석하였다. 그 결과 직접 및 간접인장강도는 결정계수가 0.99 이상인 모델을 얻을 수 있었다. 그리고 MR, SI 값의 추정치 모델도 R2이 0.91 및 0.93 이상이어서 상당한 신뢰성을 가지고 물성으로부터 역학적 특성을 추정할 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제30권6A호
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• pp.535-542
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• 2010

철도교량과 같이 주기적 가진에 의해 공진발생의 가능성이 높은 구조물에 있어서, 정확한 구조물의 동적특성치 파악은 설계단계 및 공용중 안정적인 응답을 확보하기 위해 필수적이다. 이 논문에서는 실축척 구조물을 대상으로 하는 강제 진동실험에서 일반적으로 사용할 수 있는 가진방법인 가진기 및 충격해머를 사용한 가진실험의 결과를 상호 비교하여 가진방법에 따른 고유진동수 추출결과의 차이 및 차이의 발생원인을 분석하고, 보다 정확한 구조물의 고유진동수를 산출하기 위한 보정방법을 제안하였다. 또한, 철도교량의 시공단계에 따라 궤도부설 전, 후에 진동실험을 수행하였으며, 궤도부설에 의한 고유진동수 변화를 관찰하였다. 가진방법에 따른 측정 고유진동수의 차이는 가진기의 경우 부가질량의 효과, 충격해머의 경우 동적응답 레벨에 따라 변화하는 지점강성효과에 기인하는 것으로 파악되었으며, 이에 대한 보정을 통해 보다 신뢰성 높은 고유진동수로 환산하는 것이 가능하였다. 궤도부설의 효과는 일반적으로 부가질량으로만 고려하여 궤도부설 전에 비해 고유진동수가 감소하는 것으로 예상되어 왔지만, 이 연구에서 수행한 실험의 결과로 질량추가의 효과에 상당하는 강성기여 효과도 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 강성증가율은 발생변위의 수준에 비례하여 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서, 설계단계에서 완성계의 고유진동수 예측시 궤도의 발생변위수준을 고려하여 적절히 강성기여 효과를 고려하는 것이 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.185-197
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• 2001

본 연구는 온도에 따라 특성이 변하는 아스팔트 콘크리트의 파괴인성을 규명하기 위하여 기존의 유효균열 모델을 수정하는 연구를 다루고 있다. 본래의 ECM모델은 콘크리트와 같은 고체에 적용되도록 개발되어 재료의 포아슨 비를 고려하지 않는다. 하지만 아스팔트 콘크리트는 온도변화에 민감하여 온도에 따라 포아슨 비가 변화하므로 다양한 온도하에서 정확한 파괴 특성을 알기 위해서는 포아슨 비가 고려되어져야 한다. 3개의 개질아스팔트 결합재를 포함한 4가지 결합재를 사용하여 밀입도 아스팔트 혼합물을 제조하여 초기균열 보에 대한 3점 휨 시험을 $-5^{\circ}C$부터 $-35^{\circ}C$까지에서 수행하였다. 탄성계수, 휨강도 및 파괴인성을 시험을 통하여 구하였다. 시험결과 포아슨비가 고려되는 수정 ECM 공식을 사용하므로서 보다 정확한 값들을 얻을 수 있었다. 폴리머 개질 아스팔트 혼합물이 일반아스팔트 혼합물에 비하여 더 낮은 저온하에서 더 높은 강성과 파괴인성을 유지함을 알 수 있었다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.713-723
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• 2017

Steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) are effective lateral systems which have high initial stiffness, appropriate ductility and energy dissipation capability. Recently, steel plate shear walls with low yield point strength (LYP), were introduced and they attracted the attention of designers. Structures with this new system, besides using less steel, are more stable. In the present study, the effects of plates with low yield strength on the seismic design parameters of steel frames with steel plate shear walls are investigated. For this purpose, a variety of this kind of structures with different heights including the 2, 5, 10, 14 and 18-story buildings are designed based on the AISC seismic provisions. The structures are modeled using ANSYS finite element software and subjected to monotonic lateral loading. Parameters such as ductility (${\mu}$), ductility reduction ($R_{\mu}$), over-strength (${\Omega}_0$), displacement amplification ($C_d$) and behavior factor (R) of these structures are evaluated by carrying out the pushover analysis. Analysis results indicate that the ductility, over-strength and behavior factors decrease by increasing the number of stories. Also, the displacement amplification factor decreases by increasing the number of stories. Finally, the results were compared with the suggestions provided in the AISC code for steel plate shear walls. The results indicate that the values for over-strength, behavior and displacement amplification factors of LYP steel plate shear wall systems, are larger than those proposed by the AISC code for typical steel plate shear wall systems.