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Study for Structural Stabilities at High Temperatures of Beams Built with TMC Fire Resistant Steels (TMC 건축용 내화강재 적용 단순 보부재의 고온 거동에 관한 기초 연구)

  • Kwon, In-Kyu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2016.10a
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    • pp.60-61
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    • 2016
  • Performance has been developed in terms of structural strength. Especially, in a structural steels, it is regarded as a common design process that an yield stress of thicker plate than 40mm uses that of below 40mm in thickness. This can be done using TMCP(Thermo mechanical control process). In this study, the structural stabilities such as deflection, maximum load carrying capacity would be calculated in high temperatures.

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Experimental investigation on a freestanding bridge tower under wind and wave loads

  • Bai, Xiaodong;Guo, Anxin;Liu, Hao;Chen, Wenli;Liu, Gao;Liu, Tianchen;Chen, Shangyou;Li, Hui
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.57 no.5
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    • pp.951-968
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    • 2016
  • Long-span cross-strait bridges extending into deep-sea waters are exposed to complex marine environments. During the construction stage, the flexible freestanding bridge towers are more vulnerable to environmental loads imposed by wind and wave loads. This paper presents an experimental investigation on the dynamic responses of a 389-m-high freestanding bridge tower model in a test facility with a wind tunnel and a wave flume. An elastic bridge model with a geometric scale of 1:150 was designed based on Froude similarity and was tested under wind-only, wave-only and wind-wave combined conditions. The dynamic responses obtained from the tests indicate that large deformation under resonant sea states could be a structural challenge. The dominant role of the wind loads and the wave loads change according to the sea states. The joint wind and wave loads have complex effects on the dynamic responses of the structure, depending on the approaching direction angle and the fluid-induced vibration mechanisms of the waves and wind.

Development of the Drift Design Method of High-rise Buildings using Weight Control Factors (중량 조절계수를 이용한 고층 건물 변위설계법 개발)

  • Park, Hyo Seon;Seo, Ji Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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    • v.17 no.3 s.76
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    • pp.285-294
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    • 2005
  • Drift design is one of the core techniques in the structural design of high-rise buildings and resizing technique is regarded as a practical drift design method for high-rise buildings. In the resizing technique, the structural weight is re-distributed to minimize the target displacement without a change in structural weights. However, the structural weight determined from resizing algorithm is bound to the structural weight based on the preliminary design. Therefore, in this paper, a drift design method that can control the weight of the structure without causing drift control performance to deteriorate is proposed by incorporating the weight control factor in the formulation of resizing algorithm. The proposed drift design method is applied to the drift design of two frame-shear wall systems. The proposed drift design method, in this study, makes it possible to control both the drift and weight of a high-rise building.

Optimal Design of a Hybrid Structural Control System using a Self-Adaptive Harmony Search Algorithm (자가적응 화음탐색 알고리즘을 이용한 복합형 최적 구조제어 시스템 설계)

  • Park, Wonsuk
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.301-308
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    • 2018
  • This paper presents an optimal design method of a hybrid structural control system considering multi-hazard. Unlike a typical structural control system in which one system is designed for one specific type of hazard, a simultaneous optimal design method for both active and passive control systems is proposed for the mitigation of seismic and wind induced vibration responses of structures. As a numerical example, an optimal design problem is illustrated for a hybrid mass damper(HMD) and 30 viscous dampers which are installed on a 30 story building structure. In order to solve the optimization problem, a self-adaptive Harmony Search(HS) algorithm is adopted. Harmony Search algorithm is one of the meta-heuristic evolutionary methods for the global optimization, which mimics the human player's tuning process of musical instruments. A self-adaptive, dynamic parameter adjustment algorithm is also utilized for the purpose of broad search and fast convergence. The optimization results shows that the performance and effectiveness of the proposed system is superior with respect to a reference hybrid system in which the active and passive systems are independently optimized.

Task Rescheduling Using a Coordinator in a Structural Decentralized Control of Supervisory Control Systems

  • Lee, Sang-Heon;Kim, Ill-Soo;Kai C. Wong
    • International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.22-31
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    • 2004
  • A problem of task rescheduling using a coordinator in a structural decentralized control of supervisory control theory is formulated. we consider that the overall system is divided into a number of local systems. Using an example of a chemical batch reaction process, it has shown that after local supervisors have been established for a given task, a coordinator can be used to solve some rescheduling problems among local plants for new or modified tasks. The coordination system models the interactions of local plants, and is consisting of only the shared events of local plants, so simpler to synthesize. A coordinator is designed based on the specifications given for the coordination system. Under the 'structural' conditions developed in this paper, the combined concurrent actions of the coordinator with the existing local supervisors will achieve the rescheduling requirements. Again since the conditions are structural (not specification-dependent), once the coordination architecture has been established, it can be used for a number of different tasks without further verifications.

Integration of health monitoring and vibration control for smart building structures with time-varying structural parameters and unknown excitations

  • Xu, Y.L.;Huang, Q.;Xia, Y.;Liu, H.J.
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.807-830
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    • 2015
  • When a building structure requires both health monitoring system and vibration control system, integrating the two systems together will be cost-effective and beneficial for creating a smart building structure with its own sensors (nervous system), processors (brain system), and actuators (muscular system). This paper presents a real-time integrated procedure to demonstrate how health monitoring and vibration control can be integrated in real time to accurately identify time-varying structural parameters and unknown excitations on one hand, and to optimally mitigate excessive vibration of the building structure on the other hand. The basic equations for the identification of time-varying structural parameters and unknown excitations of a semi-active damper-controlled building structure are first presented. The basic equations for semi-active vibration control of the building structure with time-varying structural parameters and unknown excitations are then put forward. The numerical algorithm is finally followed to show how the identification and the control can be performed simultaneously. The results from the numerical investigation of an example building demonstrate that the proposed method is feasible and accurate.

Analyzing the Indirect Effect of Food Involvement on Vegetable Consumption among Adults in Jeonnam Area (전남지역 성인들의 음식 몰입이 채소 소비에 미치는 간접효과의 분석)

  • Kang, Jong-Heon;Jeong, Hang-Jing
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.97-104
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to measuring the causal relationships among food involvement, health, mood, convenience, sensory appeal, weight control and vegetable consumption. A total of 290 questionnaires were completed. Structural equation model was used to measure the causal relationships among constructs. Results of the study demonstrated that the structural analysis result for the data also indicated excellent model fit. The effects of food involvement on health, mood, convenience, sensory appeal, weight control and vegetable consumption were statistically significant. As expected, health, mood, sensory appeal and eight control had significant effects on vegetable consumption. Moreover, health, mood, convenience, sensory appeal and weight control played mediating roles in the relationship between food involvement and vegetable consumption. In conclusion, based on structural analysis, a model was proposed of interrelations among food involvement, health, mood, convenience, sensory appeal, weight control and vegetable consumption. It should be noted that the original vegetable consumption model was modified and should, preferably, be alidated in future research. Other variables, such as attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavior control, may be incorporated to form vegetable consumption models that consist of new antecedent and consequence pairs.

A Study on Conceptual Structural Design of Wing for a Small Scale WIG Craft Using Carbon/Epoxy and Foam Sandwich Composite Structure

  • Kong, Chang-Duk;Park, Hyun-Bum;Kang, Kuk-Gin
    • Advanced Composite Materials
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.343-358
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    • 2008
  • This present study provides the structural design and analysis of main wing, horizontal tail and control surface of a small scale WIG (Wing-in-Ground Effect) craft which has been developed as a future high speed maritime transportation system of Korea. Weight saving as well as structural stability could be achieved by using the skin.spar.foam sandwich and carbon/epoxy composite material. Through sequential design modifications and numerical structural analysis using commercial FEM code PATRAN/NASTRAN, the final design structural features to meet the final design goal such as the system target weight, structural safety and stability were obtained. In addition, joint structures such as insert bolts for joining the wing with the fuselage and lugs for joining the control surface to the wing were designed by considering easy assembling as well as more than 20 years service life.