• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제83권3호
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• pp.387-400
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• 2022

The practice of using encased steel-concrete columns in medium to high-rise structures has expanded dramatically in recent years. The study evaluates existing methodologies and codal guidelines for estimating the ultimate load-carrying characteristics of concrete-encased short columns experimentally. The present condition of composite column design methods was analyzed using the Egyptian code ECP203-2007, the American Institute of Steel Construction's AISC-LRFD-2010, Eurocode EC-4, the American Concrete Institute's ACI-318-2014, and the British Standard BS-5400-5. According to the codes, the axial load carrying characteristics of both the encased steel and concrete sections was examined. The effect of load-carrying capacities in different forms of encased steel sections on encased steel-concrete columns was studied experimentally. The axial load carrying capacity of twelve concrete-encased columns and four conventional reinforced columns were examined. The conclusion is that the confinement was not taken into account when forecasting the strength and ductility of the encased concrete, resulting in considerable disparities between codal provisions and experimental results. The configuration of the steel section influenced the confining effect. Better confinement is achieved with the laced and battened section than with the infilled steel tube reinforced and conventionally reinforced section. The ECP203-2007 code reported the most conservative results of all the codes used.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.327-342
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• 2020

The objective of this study is to manufacture environmentally-friendly synthetic lightweight aggregates that may be used in the structural lightweight concrete production. The cold-bonding pelletization process has been used in the agglomeration of the pozzolanic materials to achieve these synthetic lightweight aggregates. In this context, it was aimed to recycle the waste fly ash by employing it in the manufacturing process as the major cementitious component. According to the well-known facts reported in the literature, it is stated that the main disadvantage of the synthetic lightweight aggregate produced by applying the cold-bonding pelletization technique to the pozzolanic materials is that it has a lower strength in comparison with the natural aggregate. Therefore, in this study, the metakaolin made of high purity kaolin and calcined kaolin obtained from impure kaolin have been employed at particular contents in the synthetic lightweight aggregate manufacturing as a cementitious material to enhance the particle crushing strength. Additionally, to propose a curing condition for practical attempts, different curing conditions were designated and their influences on the characteristics of the synthetic lightweight aggregates were investigated. Three substantial features of the aggregates, specific gravity, water absorption capacity, and particle crushing strength, were measured at the end of 28-day adopted curing conditions. Observed that the incorporation of thermally treated kaolin significantly influenced the crushing strength and water absorption of the aggregates. The statistical evaluation indicated that the investigated properties of the synthetic lightweight aggregate were affected by the thermally treated kaolin content more than the kaoline type and curing regime. Utilizing the thermally treated kaolin in the synthetic aggregate manufacturing lead to a more than 40% increase in the crushing strength of the pellets in all curing regimes. Moreover, two numerical formulations having high estimation capacity have been developed to predict the crushing strength of such types of aggregates by using soft-computing techniques: gene expression programming and artificial neural networks. The R-squared values, indicating the estimation performance of the models, of approximately 0.97 and 0.98 were achieved for the numerical formulations generated by using gene expression programming and artificial neural networks techniques, respectively.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2012

폭렬은 철근노출과 함께 구조부재의 단면을 감소시키며, 이로 인하여 구조적 거동에 심각한 문제를 발생시킨다. 고강도 콘크리트에 내화 모르터를 피복함으로서 화재시 폭렬을 방지할 수 있으며, 콘크리트 내의 철근의 온도상승을 지연시킬 수 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 이러한 고강도 콘크리트의 내화피복재로 활용하기 위한 것으로 퍼라이트와 폴리프로필렌 섬유로 경량 모르터를 제조하여 온도이력 성상을 파악하는데 있다. 이에 따른 실험인자로는 폴리프로필렌 섬유의 첨가량과 길이이다. 연구결과 폴리프로필렌 섬유를 첨가함으로서 모르터의 공극구조를 변화시킬 수 있었으며, 이는 내부 온도상승을 지연시킨다. 또한 고강도 콘크리트의 내화피복재로서 경량 모르터를 사용할 수 있는 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.315-325
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 콘크리트 부유체 건설에 사용하기 위한 구조용 경량 콘크리트의 최적 배합비를 도출하기 위해 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 경량콘크리트에 요구되는 설계압축강도 및 단위중량은 동적안정성 해석 및 기존에 건설된 부유식 구조물의 조사결과를 바탕으로 60 MPa, $1,800kg/m^3$로 각각 설정하였으며 슬럼프를 측정하여 워커빌리티를 조사하였다. 실험을 위해 대표적 인공경량골재인 expanded slate, expanded clay, expanded shale을 사용하여 설계조건을 만족할 때까지 콘크리트를 반복 타설하여 최적 배합비를 도출하였다. 콘크리트의 배합에 대하여 NT Build 492, ASTM C 1202와 같은 염소이온 침투 저항성 실험을 실시하였으며 결과분석을 통해 경량콘크리트의 내구성에 미치는 실리카흄과 고로 슬래그 미분말의 영향을 조사하였다. 실험결과, 실리카흄을 시멘트대비 10%로 치환하고 expanded slate 또는 expanded clay를 사용하여 제작한 경량콘크리트가 모든 조건을 만족하였다. 마지막으로 구조용 경량골재의 선정, 경량콘크리트의 제작 및 시공시에 유의할 점에 대하여 설명하였다.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2004년도 추계 학술발표회 제16권2호
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• pp.201-204
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is recycling of sewage sludge and fly-ash. In this experiment, green aggregates, which is a mixture of sewage sludge and clay and fly-ash, with different content of sewage sludge (up to $80wt\%$). Then they were burned in different soak temperatures from $1190^{\circ}C\;to\;1290^{\circ}C$ with changed soak time and heating rate at 5, 7, 10 minutes and $20^{\circ}C/min$, $30^{\circ}C/min$ respectively in order to produce lightweight aggregate (LWA). Data of both experiment series were generated to evaluate the quality of LWA as well as the relationship between burning condition and product's quality.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2014년도 춘계 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.280-281
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• 2014

Recently, it is certain that the increase of heating and cooling energy consumption by radical change in climate condition has caused serious problems related to environmental and energy concerns associated with increase of fossil fuel usage and carbon dioxide production as well as global warming. Therefore, various actions to reduce greenhouse gas and energy consumption have been prepared by world developed countries. The energy consumption by buildings approximately reaches 25% of total korea energy consumption. The greatest part in the buildings of the energy consumption is building facade. But a few research projects on concrete comprising more than 70% of outsider of buildings has been tried. This research is structural insulation concrete what improved insulation performance using micro form admixture and calcined diatomite powder and lightweight aggregate.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2013년도 추계 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.40-41
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• 2013

The energy consumption by buildings approximately reaches 25% of total korea energy consumption. The greatest part in the buildings of the energy consumption is building facade. but a few research projects on concrete compising more than 70% of outsider of buildings has been tried. This research is structural insulation concrete what improved insulation performance using micro form admixture and calcined diatomite powedr and lightweight aggregate.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.499-512
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• 2022

This study investigates the efficiency of ensemble machine learning for predicting the lightweight-aggregate concrete (LWC) characteristics. A stacking ensemble (STEN) approach was proposed to estimate the dry density (DD) and 28 days compressive strength (Fc-28) of LWC using two meta-models called random forest regressor (RFR) and extra tree regressor (ETR), and two novel ensemble models called STEN-RFR and STEN-ETR, were constructed. Four standalone machine learning models including artificial neural network, gradient boosting regression, K neighbor regression, and support vector regression were used to compare the performance of the proposed models. For this purpose, a sum of 140 LWC mixtures with 21 influencing parameters for producing LWC with a density less than 1000 kg/m³, were used. Based on the experimental results with multiple performance criteria, it can be concluded that the proposed STEN-ETR model can be used to estimate the DD and Fc-28 of LWC. Moreover, the STEN-ETR approach was found to be a significant technique in prediction DD and Fc-28 of LWC with minimal prediction error. In the validation phase, the accuracy of the proposed STEN-ETR model in predicting DD and Fc-28 was found to be 96.79% and 81.50%, respectively. In addition, the significance of cement, water-cement ratio, silica fume, and aggregate with expanded glass variables is efficient in modeling DD and Fc-28 of LWC.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.8-13
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• 2011

고강도 콘크리트는 화재 시 고온에 노출되어 폭렬현상이 발생된다. 폭렬은 철근노출과 함께 구조부재의 단면을 감소시키며, 이로 인하여 구조적 거동에 심각한 문제를 발생시킨다. 본 연구의 목적은 이러한 고강도 콘크리트의 내화피복재로 활용하기 것으로 퍼라이트와 폴리프로필렌 섬유로 경량모르타르를 제조하여 그 역학적 성상을 파악하는데 있다. 이에 따른 실험인자로는 물시멘트비, 골재시멘트비, 폴리프로필렌 섬유 첨가량이다. 연구결과 퍼라이트와 폴리프로필렌 섬유를 첨가함으로서 모르타르의 공극구조를 변화시킬 수 있었으며, 단위중량을 감소시킬 수 있었다. 또한, 고강도 콘크리트의 내화피복재로서 경량모르타르를 사용할 수 있는 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.491-497
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• 2013

본 연구의 목적은 구조용 경량골재 콘크리트의 배합설계 절차를 확립하고, 설계강도로부터 콘크리트 목표 기건밀도의 범위를 평가하는 것이다. 본 절차를 확립하기 위해, 기존 347 실험데이터의 비선형 회귀분석 및 두 경계조건 (절대용적 및 콘크리트 기건밀도)에 기반한 수학적 모델을 구성하였다. 배합설계 모델제시 결과, 설계강도에 대한 물-시멘트비와 콘크리트 기건밀도는 굵은골재 체적비의 증가와 함께 감소하는데, 이 경향은 모래 경량보다는 전 경량골재 콘크리트에서 현저하였다. 경량골재 콘크리트의 기건단위는 설계강도에 따라 임의의 범위에서 설정되어야 하는데, 이는 제시된 모델에 의해 평가될 수 있다.