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Production and Quality Control of Long Distance Delivered High Strength Concrete (장거리 운반 고강도 콘크리트 제조 및 품질관리)

  • 박연동;정재동;박기청;노재호;조일호;방희상;국중욱
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 1995.04a
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 1995
  • High strength ready-miced concrete with delivering time of about 90 minutes is successfully produced at ready-mixed concrete plant and placed columns and retaining walls of a tall building without any problems. The design strength of the concrete is 450 kgf/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and the required average compressive strength is 540 kgf/$\textrm{cm}^2$ according to ACI 363R-84 report with assumed coefficient of variation of 12% For the producing of good quality concrete, many laboratary and field tests are carried out. As the results of this study, the slump loss of high strength concrete is largely influenced by kinds of superplasticizer. The measured pump pressure of high strength concrete with slump of 22cm is higher than that of normal strength concrete with slump of 18cm by about 20~30% The measured average 28-day compressive strength of the concrete is 551 kgf/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and the coefficient of variation is 2.3%

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The Structural Design of "China Zun" Tower, Beijing

  • Liu, Peng;Cheng, Yu;Zhu, Yan-Song
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.213-220
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    • 2016
  • The "China Zun" tower in Beijing will rise to 528 meters in height and will be the tallest building in Beijing once built. Inspired by an ancient Chinese vessel, the "Zun", the plan dimensions reduce gradually from the bottom of the tower to the waist and then expand again as it rises to form an aesthetically beautiful and unique geometry. To satisfy the structural requirement for seismic and wind resistance, the structure is a dual system composed of a perimeter mega structure made of composite mega columns, mega braces, and belt trusses, and a reinforced-concrete core with steel plate-embedded walls. Advanced parametric design technology is applied to find the most efficient outer-perimeter structure system. The seismic design basically follows a mixed empirical and performance-based methodology that was verified by a shaking table test and other specimen lab tests. The tower is now half-way through its construction.

State-of-the-art of advanced inelastic analysis of steel and composite structures

  • Liew, J.Y. Richard
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.341-354
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    • 2001
  • This paper provides a state-of-the-art review on advanced analysis models for investigating the load-displacement and ultimate load behaviour of steel and composite frames subjected to static gravity and lateral loads. Various inelastic analysis models for steel and composite members are reviewed. Composite beams under positive and negative moments are analysed using a moment-curvature relationship which captures the effects of concrete cracking and steel yielding along the members length. Beam-to-column connections are modeled using rotational spring. Building core walls are modeled using thin-walled element. Finally, the nonlinear behaviour of a complete multi-storey building frame consisting of a centre core-wall and the perimeter frames for lateral-load resistance is investigated. The performance of the total building system is evaluated in term of its serviceability and ultimate limit states.

An Experimental Study on Fire Performance of Curtain Walls in Super Tall Building (초고층용 커튼월 내화성능 평가를 위한 실험적 연구)

  • Jang, Seung-Bae;Kim, Heoung-Youl;Kim, Hyung-Jun;Lee, Jae-Sung;Cho, Bong-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.345-350
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    • 2011
  • 본 연구에서는 건축물의 초고층화와 대형화로 접목된 커튼월을 모델로 선정하여 알루미늄과 스틸 커튼월의 성능 비교를 위한 화재실험을 실시하였다. 화재실험은 $3m{\times}3m$ 규모의 알루미늄과 스틸 재질로 제작하여, 차염성, 차열성, 방열성, 변위, 커튼월 파괴를 측정하였다. 실험결과 알루미늄커튼월의 차염성은 12분, 차열성은 6분, 방열성은 26분을 기록하였고 스틸커튼월의 차염성은 10분, 차열성은 6분, 방열성은 14분을 기록하였다.

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A Study on the Operational Status of the Chamber for Testing the Thermal Performance of Curtain Walls

  • No, Sang Tae
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.147-154
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    • 2014
  • The purposes of this study were to analyze criteria for measurement chamber design dedicated curtain wall, and how to measure of performance configuration and status of the chamber that is currently being used. Main dealing criteria is AAMA 1503-09. Measurement of data is made in curtain wall Mock-up experiment station with thermal imaging camera. Measurement data using thermal imaging cameras at Mock-up curtain was made at the test site. The results of this study were as follows; There is no U-value test method for actual size of curtain wall. The thermal test outdoor chamber showed heat loss in the connection part of indoor and outdoor chamber. And the indoor chamber showed unstable temperature distribution by height.

Development of a simplified equivalent braced frame model for steel plate shear wall systems

  • Chatterjee, Arghya Kamal;Bhowmick, Anjan;Bagchi, Ashutosh
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.711-737
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    • 2015
  • Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSWs) have been accepted widely as an effective lateral load resisting system. For seismic performance evaluation of a multi-story building with SPSWs, detailed finite element models or a strip model can be used to represent the SPSW components. However, such models often require significant effort for tall or medium height buildings. In order to simplify the analysis process, discrete elements for the framing members can be used. This paper presents development of a simplified equivalent braced model to study the behavior of the SPSWs. The proposed model is expected to facilitate a simplification to the structural modeling of large buildings with SPSWs in order to evaluate the seismic performance using regular structural analysis tools. It is observed that the proposed model can capture the global behavior of the structures quite accurately and potentially aid in the performance-based seismic design of SPSW buildings.

Simplified finite element modelling of non uniform tall building structures comprising wall and frame assemblies including P-Δ effects

  • Belhadj, Abdesselem Hichem;Meftah, Sid Ahmed
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.253-273
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    • 2015
  • The current investigation has been conducted to examine the effect of gravity loads on the seismic responses of the doubly asymmetric, three-dimensional structures comprising walls and frames. The proposed model includes the P-${\Delta}$ effects induced by the building weight. Based on the variational approach, a 3D finite element with two nodes and six DOF per node including P-${\Delta}$ effects is formulated. Dynamic and static governing equations are derived for dynamic and buckling analyzes of buildings braced by wall-frame systems. The influences of P-${\Delta}$ effects and height of the building on tip displacements under Hachinohe earthquake record are investigated through many structural examples.

Application Examples of CFD at the Planning Stage of High-Rise Buildings

  • Hiroto, Kataoka;Yoshiyuki, Ono;Kota, Enoki;Yuichi, Tabata;Satoko, Kinashi
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.145-156
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    • 2022
  • Application examples of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in the planning stage of high-rise buildings are introduced. First, we introduce examples of applications in the environmental field. The pedestrian wind environment was one of the earliest practical examples of CFD. CFD was also employed to validate the heat island mitigation measures proposed as part of the new construction plan. Second, application examples of wind-force evaluations are introduced. Prediction examples are presented for the peak wind pressure around a complex-shaped building and the wind force evaluation for a base-isolated building. The results prove that the results of the proper execution of CFD are equivalent to those of the wind tunnel experiment. As examples of CFD applications of other issues related to high-rise building planning, we introduce snow accretion on outer walls and high-temperature exhaust from emergency generators. Finally, the future prospects for the use of CFD are discussed.

Output-Only System Identification and Model Updating for Performance Evaluation of Tall Buildings (초고층건물의 성능평가를 위한 응답의존 시스템판별 및 모델향상)

  • Cho, Soon-Ho
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.19-33
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    • 2008
  • Dynamic response measurements from natural excitation were carried out for 25- and 42-story buildings to evaluate their inherent properties, such as natural frequencies, mode shapes and damping ratios. Both are reinforced concrete buildings adopting a core wall, or with shear walls as the major lateral force resisting system, but frames are added in the plan or elevation. In particular, shear walls in a 25-story building are converted to frames from the 4th floor level downwards while maintaining a core wall throughout, resulting in a fairly complex structure. Due to this, along with similar stiffness characteristics in the principal directions, significantly coupled and closely spaced modes of motion are expected in this building, making identification rather difficult. By using various state-of-the-art system identification methods, the modal parameters are extracted, and the results are then compared. Three frequency-domain and four time-domain based operational modal identification methods are considered. Overall, all natural frequencies and damping ratios estimated from the different identification methods showed a greater consistency for both buildings, while mode shapes exhibited some degree of discrepancy, varying from method to method. On the other hand, in comparison with analysis results obtained using the initial finite element(FE) models, test results exhibited a significant difference of about doubled frequencies, at least for the three lower modes in both buildings. To improve the correlation between test and analysis, a few manual schemes of FE model updating based on plausible reasons have been applied, and acceptable results are obtained. The advantages and disadvantages of each identification method used are addressed, and some difficulties that might arise from the updating of FE models, including automatic procedures, for such large structures are carefully discussed.

A Study on the Condensation Performance of The Curtain-walls (커튼월 결로 성능평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Jin;Ock, Jong-Ho;Kim, Sung-Keun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.808-812
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    • 2008
  • Recently, the buildings have been likely to shape Super Tall trend. Therefore, the exterior parts of the buildings come to be changed. Instead of early heavy wall structure, it is changed to light wall concept of curtain wall system. However, the curtain wall system causes lots of loads due to the external surrounding factors of building. In particular, due to the densely built-up condition in Korea, the generation of dew condensation is getting severer Since there has been no standardized process that reviews this generation of dew condensation, it is very urgent for us to prepare the reviewing process for the dew condensation for construction business managers. The purpose of this study is to assess dew condensation function of the curtain wall and provide the basic data for the provision of the future dew condensation review process by comparing and analyzing the range of generation of dew condensation as well as temperature distribution according to the change of relative humidity at the identical temperature by selecting the Unitized system and Stick system which are the representative types of curtain wall system.

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