Based on the study of chloride migration coefficient and hydration heat evolution, it was found that the use of ternary blended cement was effective to achieve desired service life and minimum crack index. On the other hand, a high level of compressive strength is required for marine concrete mix design.
Recently, the rotational solar tracker system is presented for the high electric efficiency. The horizontal rotation tracker is the structure for rotationg horizontally the most important part. However, it is difficult to secure the safety and maintenance in solar tracker systems. Therefore, this study suggests the reasonable structure type for horizontal rotational solar tracker through the strength reinforcement of the structure to ensure stability.
The floating PV generation system is consisted of unit structures linked by the hinge type connection because the effect of bending moment in the structural system loaded due to the unstable movement of water surface can be minimized. In this paper, the investigation and development process of floating PV generation unit structure is presented.
In this paper, the structural characteristics of the tracking-type floating PV generation system are presented. Moreover, the structural safety of each tracking-type floating PV generation system is estimated from the analytical results obtained by the finite element analyses.
In this paper a computationally efficient methodology to establish the seismic fragility curve for underground tunnel structures is developed by integrating the response acceleration method and the maximum likelihood approach with a large set of artificial ground motion time-histories. It is elaborated with an illustrative numerical example.
In this study, sensitivity analysis to investigate the effect on analytical results of the aircraft impact analysis parameter for the nuclear power plant was carried out. Verification of the analytical model and method using the test results was performed. The eroding parameter of the Winfrith concrete material model in LS-Dyna and modelling method of the SC wall structure were studied. Finally, these results are to be used for the development of the structural safety evaluation procedure for the aircraft impact on the nuclear power plant.
In this study, the experiments were carried out in order that flexural behavior evaluated High-strength Concrete Beams reinfrced with FRP plates according ro replacement ration of recycled aggregate. As a result, maximum load was higher than existiong of unreinforced when the reinforced with FRP plates and no decrease in load about increased fo replacement ration of recycled aggregate. Some specimens was greater than ACI 440-2R referemce value.
The goal of the study is to investigate vibration reduction effects in the ground due to the train-induced vibration using wave barriers. Rubber-based material has been selected for wave barriers and various barrier depths have been considered during numerical analysis. Result shows that the reduction effects are increased with proportional to the barrier depth, as one expected. Finally, results can be applied to design wave barriers for reducing transferred train-induced vibration to near structures.
Recently, The aims to rapid construction and easy maintenance of the road system. As a part of the precast road construction system, this study investigated the deformations and stresses at the end of the precast slab and checked horizontal filler and vertical anchor bolt. Analysis cases selected by each boundary condition and choose proper boundary condition. as choose analytical model result, developed precise analytical models and checked performance of end tip connection.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the flexural strength of the concrete-infilled composite PHC (hereinafter ICP) pile which is the PHC pile reinforced with infilled concrete, transverse and longitudinal reinforcement for the improvement of flexural strength. In addition, an analytical study, which evaluated the flexural strength of the ICP piles depending on the reinforcement using the fiber section analysis was performed.
A composite precast slab will be an economical alternative in case of constructing on a extremely cold region like antarctic. Side ratio optimization of the slab should be performed to solve the difficulties of using construction equipments and moving materials. Optimized side ratios by FEM and orthotropic plate theory are calculated and the results can be used to design the composite precast slabs.
In this Study, Manufacturing 9 Specimens objects for the experiment, the attaching strength between concrete and each reinforcing rod has been reviewed with variables like the different binding effect depending on the number of primary root, concrete-installing direction, location of primary root, and binding power loaded to steel band. The last destructed phase of experimented objectives and their attaching strengths between concrete and reinforcing rod have been evaluated.
In this Study, the dynamic movement of concrete bounded by steel-band on reinforced-concrete column the external sides of which were reinforced by steel band has been evaluated as a case of post-tension engineering. Total five different experimental objectives were made and the rate of deformation of each binding concrete depending on different binding power forced to steel-band and locations of primary roots and different interval distances between reinforcing materials been checked.
Recently, modular technologies have been developed in nuclear power plant structures and bridge structures. In addition, they can be utilized in the underground structure of near surface transit system. In this study, the research and development plan of the modular slab structure and construction technology for near surface transit system described.
In the research, there were seismically strengthened reinforced concrete composite columns by applying Strain Hardening Cementitious Composites(SHCC). The seismic performance of SHCC-RC composite columns were studied by the concepts of seismic performance-based design approaches as well as with experiments.
Shin Geo-Je Bridge needs new inspection holes to improve the accessibility for various maintenances. This study evaluated the maximum effective stresses of the bottom flange when the inspection holes is made with an ellipse shape. The FEM analysis results show that the inspection installation is possible to the inflection point of the girder.
The purpose of this study was to analyze flexural behavior of concrete beams with steel bar and FRP reinforcement. An investigation was performed on the influence of the flexural stiffness, cracking, deflection behavior. Specimen with FRP reinforcement showed a higher strength than specimen with only steel bar. Concrete strength had an effect on improvement in flexural strength and ductile deformation.
To complement the general concrete, DFRCC(Ductile Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites) has recently received attention. An experimental study for bond slip behavior of cast-in-place DFRCC and a pultruded FRP(Fiber Reinforced Polymer) plank was used as the both permanent formwork and the tensile reinforcement for a concrete structural member is described in this paper. This study focuses on investigation of the bond capacity of sand coated interface between FRP and cast-in-place DFRCC experimentally.
The domestic research of the steel plate concrete structures have been focused on the nuclear structures that usually reqire large strength. This research tried to establish some basic design information of SC structures using non-cement concrete. This paper studied on the compressive characteristics, effective length factors subjected to the concentrated compression loadings. The effective length factors were calculated by Euler Column Theory rather than using Plate Buckling Theory. The strains which are requird in calculating the effective length factor were measured to caculate the effective length factor at the yield of surface steel plate, the buckling of surface steel plate and the failure of concrete.
In this Study, lateral load resistance system is proposed to apply 12 story modular buildings to which X and inverted-V bracing is applied. The purposed system is analytically evaluated to determine the feasibility. As results, the inverted-V bracing is best suited for core system of 12 story modular building.