Structural insulated panels, structurally performed panels consisting of a plastic insulation bonded between two structural panel facings, are one of emerging products with a viewpoint of its energy and construction efficiencies. Of the SIPs, Cyclic test was conducted by two kinds of specimens: single panel and double panels. Cyclic test results, which were equivalent to static test results, showed that maximum load was 45.42kN, allowable shear load was 6.3kN/m. Furthermore the accumulated energy dissipation capability for double panels was as 2.3 times as that for single panel. From performance of structural tests, the allowable shear load for panels was suggested to be at least 6.1kN/m.

The purpose of this study is focused on evaluating the flexural behavior of concrete beam, which are arranged by mechanically spliced reinforcing bar. To compare the existent lapping method with newly registered splicing method, four cases of concrete beam are tested to be failed flexurally by monotonic loading. Based on test results, ductility of specimen mechanically all spliced by parallel threaded coupler is approximately 4 times greater than those of other specimens.

Optimization was performed on the static dynamic behavior of a simply supported laminated composite plate. Thickness optimization was performed with respect to Gr/E laminated composites with simultaneous mechanical load, thermal load and hygro-load. Displacement, fundamental frequency and composite damping were imposed as constraints for optimization. The results of the optimization were much better than those of the conventional methods.

In this study, tensile stresses of partially delaminated CFRP sheets were analytically evaluated. The analytical model is a 15-m long concrete beam with a rectangular cross-section of 2×3 m and uses 480 2D-plate elements and 5760 3D-solid elements for mesh construction. The elastic modulus of concrete and CFRP sheet used in the analysis are 27,536 MPa and 200,000 MPa, respectively, and the compressive strength of concrete and tensile strength of CFRP sheet are 30.0 MPa and 4,000 MPa, respectively. In order to evaluate the change of the tensile stress due to the delamination of the CFRP sheet, the whole attached model and the partially delaminated model according to the position of delamination were considered. As a result of the finite element analysis, the tensile stress of the entire attached CFRP sheet showed a constant tensile stress on the whole cross section, and the tensile stress of the partially delaminated CFRP sheet showed the maximum tensile stress on the position of delamination. Based on the results of this study, future research will be carried out to optimize the layout and shape of CFRP sheets embedded with optical fiber sensors.

The purpose of this study is to develop a carbon fiber sheet with embedded fiber optic sensor for maintenance and performance improvement of aged concrete bridges. The carbon fiber sheet bonded method has many advantages in terms of member repair and reinforcement, but it is disadvantageous in that it is necessary to directly identify the separate point generated during the bonded of the carbon fiber sheets by an artificial method. In this study, we examined the method of confirming the separate point of the carbon fiber sheets by examining the strain of the fiber optic sensor embedded in the carbon fiber sheets. The strain rate measured by the fiber optic sensor was replaced by the strain of the carbon fiber sheets derived from the FEM analysis.

This study performs material nonlinear analysis of connection parts at noise barriers, which have a light weight. Subsequent numerical simulation results for three types of models (standard, double, and standard models strengthen by ribs) present that the applied connections for target noise barriers constructed show suitable structural performance. In this paper, the existing finite element elastic stress analysis using the ABAQUS program is further extended to study the plastic stress distribution of the noise barriers. The numerical results for various parameters are verified by comparing different steel types with stresses occurred in the noise barrier from the numerical simulation.

In this study, finite element (FE) analysis was performed to evaluate the seismic performance of the water treatment plant, which is a major state of the art water treatment plant, to predict tensile cracks and compressive failure. The FE model simulation for two facilities of the water purification plant was made considering the initial conditions, boundary conditions and water effect. For the nonlinear dynamic analysis, seismic analysis was performed using ground acceleration. Tensile cracks and compressive failure are analyzed and the effects on the structures are analyzed. As a result of the analysis, tensile cracks can be predicted to occur in the main structure.

This study investigates a new type of recentering damper system combining a shape memory alloy bar with initial tension force is proposed to improve the recentering of frictional damper dissipating energy. The recentering damper is a damper device with improved energy dissipation capability as well as a reduction in maintenance and reinforcement cost, and can be said to be a low-cost, high-efficiency damper device conforming to domestic reality. For the implementation of the theoretical mechanism for the recentering damper device, various parameters were selected and the theoretical and detailed design were carried out. In order to verify the design validity of the recentering damper, a high dimensional finite element analysis model was fabricated and analyzed using cyclic load. As a result of comparing and analyzing the behavior response of the recentering damper, it proved its superiority in terms of energy dissipation ability and stability. Based on these results, we propose an optimized system design method of recentering damper.

The curved beam has a complicated behavior compared to a straight beam due to torsional and warping. Therefor, in this study, eigenvalue analysis was performed for curved beam with different shape(I-shape, T-shape, box-shape) corresponding to the same value of the moment of inertia. As a result the curved beam with box-shape section had a larger natural frequency value than the other curved beam. Also, the dynamic analysis results showed that the largest result was obtained at 826.18MPa in the T-shape curved beam when the gyeongju earthquake was applied.

Recently, the incidence and magnitude of earthquakes have been continuously increasing. NFPA 13 requires that hydroponics fire extinguishing system pipelines apply seismic isolation. Stainless steel joints have been newly developed to replace these seismic isolation joints. Therefore, in this study, a nonlinear finite element model of a pipeline with Stainless Power Joint was developed based on experimental data, and finite element analysis was performed by applying hydrostatic pressure and cyclic loading.

The TRM method applied in this study is a method aiming at long span and low girder hight of the temporary bridge. When the preload is introduced to the girder member and the preload is removed after by welding the stiffener, a prestress is introduced through the stiffener to increase the load capacity of the member. Therefore, in this study, the structural performance improvement through the application of the TRM method was verified experimentally by the bending tests of the specimens with and without the TRM method.