This paper evaluates the seismic performance of reinforced concrete(RC) frame strengthed with expansive mortar and steel frame. For this purpose, cyclic loading test was conducted, load-displacement relationship and energy dissipation capacity were evaluated. As a results, RC frame retrofitted with steel frame was increased maximum strength and energy dissipation capacity than conventional RC frame.

The paper presents the damage estimation of bridge structures in Daegu city based on the scenario-based earthquakes. Since the fragility curves for domestic bridge strucures are limited, the Hazus methodology is employed to derive the fragility curves and estimate the damage. A total of four earthuquake scenarios near Daegu city are assumed and structure damage is investigated for 81 bridge structures. The seismic fragility function and damage level of each bridge had adopted from the analytical method in HAZUS and then, the damage probability using seismic fragility function for each bridge was evaluated.

This study suggested the estimation method of the ground response spectra at a structure location using earthquake acceleration data from seismological observatories. To suggest estimation method based on measured earthquake acceleration data, a algorithm for determining the observations near the structure site was suggested and a module for calculating a ground response spectrum was developed associated with a listed station determining algorithm.

This study is an attempt to develop modular house structural systems with safety seismic performances under maximum seismic load of 0.3G. The modular house system was designed with joints (plan) using four-clip simple fastening type, and was also adopted a type of double inter-metallic assembly modular systems using a light metal. The seismic performance was evaluated.

Recently earthquakes are happen frequently and domestic road facilities are in the age of aging. These factors are the cause of increasing the damage of road facilities. The owner has to suggest a reasonable seismic retrofit on a limited budget. Advanced countries for seismic and soc-facilities have been developed a software to support risk-mitigation decision by estimating losses from earthquake; such as HAZUS in USA and RETIS-RISK in Greek. In Korea, decision support softwares have been studied to effectively manage seismic performance of road network through soc-economic restoration and seismic performance evaluation. From this research, the system for the management of seismic performance of aged road facilities will be developed

In this study, as a part of the BCP (Business Continuous Plan), the performance tests of the rocking wall and the steel damper were carried out. The rocking wall was made of concrete block. The concrete block was connected to the floor by two hinges. However, in the performance test, the hinge part was destroyed and the experiment was finished. This will be due to the fact that the hinge has not rotated, and will be retested after reinforcement of the concrete block.

Piloti structure is a building designed to open the ground floor as a basic principle of modern architecture. However, it is considered urgent to prepare seismic retrofit plans for the irregular torsion problem of the Piloti building through the recent Pohang earthquake. Therefore, this study aims to provide the basic data for the selection of the Piloti building seismic retrofitting method by comparing the dynamic characteristics of each method through the small shaking table experiment using the seismic retrofitting method of the pilotty building.

There are several techniques to build the lumped-mass stick model, which are tributary-area based conventional model, frequency adaptive model, and advanced model combining the conventional and frequency adaptive models. The present study is to compare the seismic response accuracy of the models including FE model. The target structure is a nuclear containment structure and 45 earthquake ground motions are considered for the seismic analysis. The results show that the advanced lumped-mass model provides similar and more consistent responses to the FE model, compared to other models.

The inelastic response characteristics of the low-rise RC buildings depending on hysteresis models are reviewed. Three artificial earthquake records in accordance with KBC(Korea Building Code) are used and the inelastic response characteristics such as story shear force, story drift ratio, story displacement, hinge distribution state are reviewed with four hysteresis models.

The seismic performance evaluation for the electrical cabinets is conducted by the shaking table test or numerical analysis. When performing the seismic evaluation by the numerical analysis, it usually assumes that the electrical cabinets are rigidly anchored to the floor. This assumption may not be valid depending on how the cabinets are anchored. In particular, if a cabinet is anchored with bolts, a local plastic deformation of the base plate of the cabinet may cause rocking. Therefore, in this study, the shaking table test was performed to analyze the rocking effect of the electrical cabinet in an experimental method.

In order to analyze the dynamic characteristics and seismic performance of electrical cabinet affected the earthquake, a preliminary study should be carry on to find the natural frequency of that, and it can be known that through shaking table test and finite element analysis. The purpose of this study is to developing regarding the numerical model by using finite element method for the natural frequency of electrical cabinet be influenced by earthquake and to verify its reliability in comparison with experimental data through shaking table test in the future.

When conducting the seismic response analysis on a long elevated structure, if the transmitting boundary is set at both ends of the analysis region, there is a condition that the response becomes larger than in the case of the free boundary. In this research, we studied the influence of the effective duration time of earthquake motion on the maximum displacement amplitude of earthquake response and the response energy of earthquake when carrying out similar analysis using viscous boundary. As a result, it was confirmed that the correlation between the effective duration and the relationship between the viscous boundary and the maximum displacement amplitude ratio of the free boundary is low. On the other hand, for the relationship between the effective duration time and the response energy ratio between the viscous boundary and the free boundary, the variance was small and a certain correlation was confirmed.

In this paper, a tuned mass damper is applied to improve the seismic performance of the lighting tower. The light tower has a high slenderness ratio, low lateral stiffness and top mass is large structure so this has weak for vibration characteristics. The optimized damping coefficient and stiffness were applied to the four lighting tower models analyzed. As a result, the light tower with TMD showed a tendency to reduce the displacement response significantly against the earthquake.

An advanced lumped-mass stick (LMS) model is developed to improve the dynamic response accuracy of the conventional LMS model. In order to display the performance of the advanced LMS model, a four-story frame structure is prepared and performed a shaking table test using several earthquake ground motions. The frame structure consists of stainless steel and mass plates. The horizontal natural frequencies of first to fourth mode are 1.86Hz to 48.83Hz. In this paper, the seismic responses resulted from the advanced LMS model of the structure are compared with the results of the shaking table test.

Recently, the demand for seismic retrofitting has risen rapidly due to the increasing risk of collapse of existing reinforced concrete columns due to the subsequent occurrence of the Gyeon-gju earthquake and the Po-hang earthquake in Korea. In the existing seismic retrofitting method, there are many seismic retrofitting methods such as steel plate reinforcement, fiber reinforcement, and cross-sectional enlargement, but there is a need for an improved method in terms of workability, economic feasibility, durability and maintenance. Therefore, seismic strengthening method of rectangular shaped RC column using rapid fastening of steel bars on the outside of the column is proposed, and the seismic evaluation of the proposed method is investigated through experiments.

This paper examined the axial behavior of full-scale section enlargement strengthening columns with different supplementary ties in the jacket section. The supplementary V-ties were effective in enhancing the confinement of core concrete and preventing the premature buckling of longitudinal reinforcement.

In this study, tensile properties of carbon fiber reinforced polymers(CFRP) with and without epoxy resin were compared by direct tension test. Although the strength contribution of resin is generally neglected because it is relatively infinitesimal and hard to be evaluated on-site application, resin enables CFRP itself to have higher strength and stiffness by arranging the layout of carbon fiber bundle, by decreasing the stressed effective length and by stress redistribution between fibers.

This paper presents the experimental results of flexural behavior of steel beam strengthened with Aramid fiber reinforced polymer plastic (FRP) strips subjected to static bending loading. Two H-beams were fabricated strengthened with aramid strips and one control specimen were also fabricated. Among of strengthened specimens, one specimen was strengthened with partial length of AFRP. From the test, it was observed that maximum increase of 16% was also achieved in bending-load capacity.

This study was evaluated the penetration performance according to SPM type. The types of SPM are liquid and cream type. And the amounts of SPM were applied 0.13, 0.25, 0.36, and 0.51 kg/㎡. The specimen size was 100×30mm as KS F 4930. Test results indicated that the penetration depth of SPM were improved with increasing the amounts of application of liquid and cream SPM. In the case of applied cream SPM of 0.13, 0.25 and 0.36 kg/㎡ the standard deviation of penetration depth was less the liquid type SPM was applied.