• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.1045-1067
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• 2016

Concrete bridges with corrugated steel webs and prestressed by both internal and external tendons have emerged as one of the promising bridge forms. In view of the different behaviour of components and the large shear deformation of webs with negligible flexural stiffness, the assumption that plane sections remain plane may no longer be valid, and therefore the classical Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko beam models may not be applicable. In the design of this type of bridges, both the ultimate load and ductility should be examined, which requires the estimation of full-range behaviour. An analytical sandwich beam model and its corresponding beam finite element model for geometric and material nonlinear analysis are developed for this type of bridges considering the diaphragm effects. Different rotations are assigned to the flanges and corrugated steel webs to describe the displacements. The model accounts for the interaction between the axial and flexural deformations of the beam, and uses the actual stress-strain curves of materials considering their stress path-dependence. With a nonlinear kinematical theory, complete description of the nonlinear interaction between the external tendons and the beam is obtained. The numerical model proposed is verified by experiments.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.625-642
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• 2015

Prestressed concrete bridges with corrugated steel webs have emerged as one of the promising bridge forms. This structural form provides excellent structural efficiency with the concrete flanges primarily taking bending and the corrugated steel webs primarily taking shear. In the design of this type of bridges, the flexural ductility and deformability as well as strength need to be carefully examined. Evaluation of these safety-related attributes requires the estimation of full-range behaviour. In this study, the full-range behaviour of beam sections with corrugated steel webs is evaluated by means of a nonlinear analytical method which uses the actual stress-strain curves of the materials and considers the path-dependence of materials. In view of the different behaviour of components and the large shear deformation of corrugated steel webs with negligible longitudinal stiffness, the assumption that plane sections remain plane may no longer be valid. The interaction between shear deformation and local bending of flanges may cause additional stress in flanges, which is considered in this study. The numerical results obtained are compared with experimental results for verification. A parametric study is undertaken to clarify the effects of various parameters on ductility, deformability and strength.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.459-474
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• 2001

The complete moment-curvature curves of doubly reinforced concrete beams made of normal- or high-strength concrete have been evaluated using a newly developed analytical method that takes into account the stress-path dependence of the constitutive properties of the materials. From the moment-curvature curves and the strain distribution results obtained, the post-peak behavior and flexural ductility of doubly reinforced normal- and high-strength concrete beam sections are studied. It is found that the major factors affecting the flexural ductility of reinforced concrete beam sections are the tension steel ratio, compression steel ratio and concrete grade. Generally, the flexural ductility decreases as the amount of tension reinforcement increases, but increases as the amount of compression reinforcement increases. However, the effect of the concrete grade on flexural ductility is fairly complicated, as will be explained in the paper. Quantitative analysis of such effects has been carried out and a formula for direct evaluation of the flexural ductility of doubly reinforced concrete sections developed. The formula should be useful for the ductility design of doubly reinforced normal- and high-strength concrete beams.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.368-374
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• 2019

The past recent years have seen an increasing use of high-strength steel sheets in the automotive industry. However, the formability and damage prediction of these materials requires accurate acquisition of necking and fracture strains. Digital image correlation (DIC) is used to accurately capture the necking and fracture strains during testing. The fact that single time points of capturing vary with frame rate makes the need for an investigation necessary. For the high-strength steel DP980, the frame-rate dependences of the final necking and fracture strains values are analyzed here. To eliminate the influence of gauge length, the strains were measured locally by DIC. Results for three specimen shapes obtained with frame rates of 1 and 900 fps (frames per second) were considered and based on them, triaxiality failure diagrams (TFD) are established. It was observed that after diffuse necking, the deformation path departed from the initially linear one, and the stress triaxiality grew with ongoing deformation. It was further revealed that the frame rate-dependence of the necking strain was rather low (< 2%), whereas the fracture strain could be underestimated by up to 8% when the lower frame rate of 1 fps was used (compared with 900 fps). In this study, this issue is investigated while taking into consideration the three different triaxialities. These results demonstrate the importance of choosing an appropriate frame rate for the determination of necking and fracture strains in particular.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.55-64
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• 1984

본(本) 논문(論文)에서는 콘크리트의 점진적(漸進的) 인장파괴현상(引張破壞現象)을 해석(解析)할 수 있는 증분형(增分形)이며, 진로종속적(進路從屬的)이고, 텐서적으로 불변성(不變性)인 비선형구성(非線型構成)모델이 제안(提案)되었다. 전(全) 변형도(變形度)는 탄성성분(彈性成分)과 비탄성성분(非彈性成分)의 합(合)으로 표시(表示)된다. 콘크리트내부(內部)에는 미세균열(微細龜裂)의 근원(根源)이 되는 약(弱)한 면(面)들이 모든 방향(方向)으로 좌우(左右)하며, 이 약(弱)한 면(面)에서의 법선응력(法線應力)은 법선변형도(法線變形度)의 함수라고 가정된다. 이와 같은 근본개념(根本槪念)아래 가상(假想)일의 원리(原理)로부터 콘크리트의 접선강도(接線剛度)가 유도된다. 본(本) 이론(理論)은 비비례하중(非比例荷重)이나 주응력(主應力)의 방향(方向)이 변(變)하는 경우 등의 일반적(一般的)인 하중상태(荷重狀態)에 적용할 수 있으며, 이것이 본(本) 모델의 주요(主要)한 목적이 될 수 있다. 본(本) 이론(理論)을 변형연화현상(變形軟化現象)을 보이는 직접인장실험자료(直接引張實驗資料)와 비교한 결과 좋은 일치를 얻었다.