For fast-built and safe precast concrete (PC) construction, the dry mechanical splicing method is a critical technique that enables a self-sustaining system (SSS) during construction with no temporary support and minimizes onsite jobs. However, due to limited experimental evidence, traditional wet splicing methods are still dominantly adopted in the domestic precast industry. For PC beam-column connections, the current design code requires achieving emulative connection performances and corresponding structural integrity to be comparable with typical reinforced concrete (RC) systems with monolithic connections. To this end, this study conducted the standard material tests on mechanical splices to check their satisfactory performance as the Type 2 mechanical splice specified in the ACI 318 code. Two PC beam-column connection specimens with dry mechanical splices and an RC control specimen as the special moment frame were subsequently fabricated and tested under lateral reversed cyclic loadings. Test results showed that the seismic performances of all the PC specimens were fully comparable to the RC specimen in terms of strength, stiffness, energy dissipation, drift capacity, and failure mode, and their hysteresis responses showed a mitigated pinching effect compared to the control RC specimen. The seismic performances of the PC and RC specimens were evaluated quantitatively based on the ACI 374 report, and it appeared that all the test specimens fully satisfied the seismic performance criteria as a code-compliant special moment frame system.

This study presents a dry precast concrete (PC) beam-column connection, and its target seismic performance level is set to be emulative to the reinforced concrete (RC) intermediate moment resisting frame system specified in ACI 318 and ASCE 7. The key features include self-sustaining ability during construction with the dry mechanical splicing method, enabling emulative connection performances and better constructability. Test specimens with code-compliant seismic details were fabricated and tested under reversed cyclic loading, which included a PC beam-column connection specimen with dry connections and an RC control specimen. The test results showed that all the specimens failed in a similar failure mode due to plastic deformations in beam members, while the hysteretic response curve of the PC specimen showed comparable and emulative performances compared to the RC specimen. Seismic performance evaluation was quantitatively addressed, and on this basis, it confirmed that the presented system can fully satisfy all the required performance for the intermediate RC moment resisting frame.

최근, 모듈러 구조 시스템은 공기를 단축시킬 수 있는 장점으로 인해 건설 현장에 적용되고 있다. 모듈러 구조시스템은 단위 모듈로 구성되며, 모듈과 모듈의 볼트접합을 위해 보-기둥 접합부에 개구부를 가공하게 된다. 일반적으로 모듈러 구조시스템은 기존 철골모멘트골조와 유사한 하중전달체계를 가지는 것으로 가정하여 설계된다. 이와 같은 설계 가정의 타당성을 확보하기 위해, 단위 모듈의 보-기둥 접합부에 대한 회전 성능이 파악되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 개구부의 구조적 영향이 고려된 접합부의 회전성능을 파악하기 위해 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. 해석결과 단위모듈은 충분한 변형능력을 가지고 안정적인 이력거동을 하는 것으로 나타났으며, 단위모듈의 접합부는 부분강접 접합부로 분류되었다. 또한 본 연구에서는 단위모듈의 비선형 골조 해석을 위한 간단한 스프링 모델을 개발하였으며, 단위 모듈의 비선형 이력 거동을 구현하기 위해 Ramberg-Osgood 이력 모델을 제시하였다.

본 논문은 유닛 모듈러를 구성하는 주구조체인 각형강관 기둥과 냉간성형 LEB C-형강 보로 볼트 접합된 접합부의 거동을 실험적으로 평가하는 것이 연구의 목적이다. 접합부에서 기둥과 LEB C-형강 보를 접합하기 위한 브라켓의 두께변화, LEB C-형강 보와 브라켓 접합부 볼트 개수 등의 주요변수에 대한 실험을 통하여 기둥-보 접합부의 내력증대와 변형성상 및 파괴모드 변화 등을 고찰하였다. 실험결과, 접합부의 보강형상과 관계없이 또한 접합부의 파괴 없이 LEB C-형강 보의 국부좌굴강도가 지배하는 것으로 파악되었으며, 브라켓 두께 크기에 따라 내력과 강성이 조금 높게 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 또한 접합부에 사용된 볼트 수량에 관계없이 강성면에서 큰 차이를 나타내지 않았으며 LEB C-형강과 브라켓을 볼트접합으로 반강접합의 역학적 거동 가능성을 확인하였다.

Frame is one of the most commonly used structural systems for the resistance of applied loads. Many researchers have recently conducted their studies to investigate the effect of several parameters such as the connection flexibility, boundary condition of each support, beam-to-column stiffness ratio. These parameters play important roles on the characteristic behavior of frames. A simplified spring model is proposed to obtain the story drifts of frames with various beam-to-column connection stiffnesses in this research. A point bracing system with adequate spring stiffness is also suggested to establish the relationship between the applied load and the resisting translational spring stiffness within the limit state of story drift.

In this research, a total of seven specimens were tested under reversed cyclic loading, controlled by displacement and three times of reversed loads were given at each displacement. The goal of experiments is to identify the seismic and structural performance of pure dry precast concrete beam-column joints using bolt type connection and/or prestressing methods. Two representative results are examined and compared in this paper.

In this study, the seismic performance of weak-axis column-tree moment resisting frame was experimentally investigated using RBS conception. As a result, two specimens were showed that enough energy dissipation and plastic rotation capacity. But bolt-slip didn’t happen anymore after story drift ratio of 3%.