In the case where a MR-damper is employed for vibration control, it is important to decide on how much control capacity should be assigned to it against structural capacities (strength and load, etc). This paper aims to present a MR-damper's control capacity suitable for the capacities of the structure which needs to be controlled. First, a two span bridge was built equipped with a MR-damper, which constitutes a two-span MR-damper control system. Then, inflicting an earthquake load on the system, a basic experiment was performed for vibration control, and a simulation was also carried out reflecting specific control conditions such as MR-damper and rubber bearing. The comparison of the results against each other proved their validity. Then, in order to calculate an optimal control capacity of the MR-damper, structural capacity was divided into eleven cases in total and simulated. For each case, an additional load of 30 KN was inflicted everytime, thereby increasingly strengthening structural capacity. As a result of the study, it was found that the control capacity of MR-damper of 30 KN was safely secured only with lumped mass of more than 150 KN(case 6). Therefore, it is concluded the MR-damper showed the best performance of control when it exerted its capacity at around 20% of structural capacity.

기존 건축물의 구조 안전성평가와 보수 보강 시에는 해당 건축물의 상태를 정확히 알기 위해 현장 또는 실험실에서의 실험을 수행하는 경우가 많고 최초설계 단계와 다르게 시공된 건축물의 실제 상태 등을 구조해석 모델에 반영하게 된다. 이 경우, 각종 실험값을 전통적인 통계학적 방법은 구조기술자가 지닌 경험과 지식은 구조모델링 및 해석에서 아무런 가치를 더할 수가 없다. 본 논문은 현장 및 실험실에서 얻은 단순한 실험값을 구조기술자의 축적된 경험과 지식을 변수로 활용하여 보다 유효하게 구조해석 모델에 필요한 데이터로 개선하는 방법으로서 통계학적인 베이스 경신법을 이용한 안전성평가 방법에 대해 살펴보았다. 구조기술자의 적절한 판단이 변수로서 포함되면 적은 개수의 샘플 수로도 비교적 정확한 값의 최종 예측값을 산정할 수 있어 전통적인 통계학적 접근에 비해 보다 실제값에 근접한 예측값을 구할 수 있는 것을 확인하였다.

Displacement response of structure is valuable information for monitoring an structure integrity. However, measuring the displacement response is difficult than other structure responses, such as acceleration, strain, and angle. So, previous researches have focused on displacement estimation technique using measured acceleration. The displacement estimation methods also have weakness that filtering noise of measured data is so complicate. The estimated displacement might be diverged because of the measuring noise. Because of these reasons, this study focused on rotation angle. This study developed a algorithm for estimating displacement and structure deformed shape using rotation angle.

This study describes the seismic performance evaluation of bridge structures located in Daegu. Structure design criteria focuses on the collapse or brittle fracture of the bridges when the earthquake situation is given. Thus, this study describes the seismic safety evaluation based on the design of a spectrum of ASCE-7 KBC2009 of the United States, South Korea architectural structure was based on using 3D linear elastic finite element model using the ABAQUS platform bridges. If the target structure was found to be vulnerable to tensile stress than compressive stress appeared to be a case of displacement Z-axis displacement is dominant.

In order to improve seismic safety of nuclear power plant (NPP) structures in high seismicity area, seismic isolation system can be adapted. In this study, friction pendulum system (FPS) is used as the seismic isolation system. According to Coulomb‘s friction theory, friction coefficient is constant regardless of bearing pressure and sliding velocity. However, friction coefficient under actual situation can be changed according to bearing pressure, sliding velocity and temperature. Seismic responses of friction pendulum system with constant friction and various velocity-dependent friction are compared. The velocity-dependent friction coefficients of FPS are varied between lowand fast-velocity friction coefficients according to sliding velocity. From the results of seismic analysis of FPS with various cases of friction coefficient, it can be observed that the yield force of FPS becomes larger as the fast-velocity friction coefficient becomes larger. Also, the displacement response of FPS becomes smaller as the fast-velocity coefficient becomes larger.

본 연구는 가상 질량 동조기(VMT)를 이용하여 구조물의 응답으로부터 구조물의 감쇠비를 구하는 기법을 다룬다. 백색잡음 뿐만아니라, 특정 진동수 가진, 충격하중 가진 등 다양한 하중종류 및 특성에 의하여 발생한 구조물의 계측응답에 대하여 VMT를 적 용하였을 때 구조물의 감쇠비를 추정하는 기법에 대해서 다루고, VMT의 동적특성이 구조물 감쇠비 추정에 미치는 영향을 수치적으로 분석하였다. 수치해석결과에 의하면, VMT에 의하여 구조물 감쇠비 추정이 충분한 신뢰성을 가지고 예측되는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다. 충격하중을 받는 응답을 이용하는 경우 VMT에 의하여 가장 안정적으로 구조물 감쇠비 추정이 가능한 것을 알 수 있었으며, 백색잡음, 협소대역 하중에 대해서도 VMT의 지정 감쇠비를 너무 작게 산정하지 않으면 감쇠비 추정이 가능한 것으로 나타났다. 정현파의 경우에는 가진 진동수의 VMT 비율을 이용하여 감쇠비 추정이 가능한데 고유진동수와 인접할수록 정밀도가 높아지는 것을 알 수 있었다.

This study analyzes gestation stall structures with high strength concrete. The ANSYS program described in this paper is effective not only because it shows good accuracy but also it shows the goodness of parameter studies by using APDL(ANSYS Parametric Design Language). We have performed the various parameter studies by thickness change. The results is presented by using contours and tables. The analysis results showed that it was effective to increase the height thickness(tz) rather than longitudinal thickness(tx).

It has been many efforts for reinforcement of existing structure since the number of earthquake has been increased world widely. Especially the occurrence of earthquake surrounding area of Korean peninsular is dramatically increased. Since the buildings in Korea have not been designed to carry the lateral and shear force caused by earthquake, the building will experience massive damages even under moderate earthquake. For this reason, the viscoelastic damper is proposed in this paper to enhance the earthquake resistance of a steel frame buildings. The viscoelastic dampers have been able to increase the overall damping of the structure significantly, hence improving the overall performance of dynamically sensitive structures. In this paper, Viscoelastic dampers designed are consists of FRP panel and viscoelastic material. In this paper, evaluate the performance of the viscoelastic damper through the experiment.

In this study, an acceleration sensor that has optical fibers to measure the inclination and acceleration of a structure through contradictory changes in two-component FBG sensors was examined. The proposed method was to ensure precise measurement through the unification of the deformation rate sensor and the angular displacement sensor. A high sensitivity three-axis accelerometer was designed and prepared using this method. To verify the accuracy of the accelerometer, the change in wavelength according to temperature and tension was tested. Then, the change in wavelength of the prepared accelerometer according to the sensor angle, and that of the sensor according to the change in ambient temperature were measured. According to the test results on the FBG-based vibration sensor that was developed using a high-speed vibrator, the range in measurement was 0.7 g or more, wavelength sensitivity, 2150 pm/g or more, and the change in wavelength change, 9.5 pm/℃.

A novel vibration control method for vibration reduction of a spacial structure subjected to earthquake excitation was proposed in this study. Generally, spatial structures have various vibration modes involving high-order modes and their natural frequencies are closely spaced. Therefore, in order to control these modes, a spatially distributed MTMDs (Multiple TMDs) method is proposed previously. MR (Magnetorheological) damper were used to enhance the control performance of the MTMDs. Accordingly, MSTMDs (Multiple Smart TMDs) were proposed in this study. An arch structure was used as an example structure because it has primary characteristics of spatial structures and it is a comparatively simple structure. MSTMDs were applied to the example arch structure and the seismic control performance were evaluated based on the numerical simulation. Fuzzy logic control algorithm (FLC) was used to generate command voltages sent for MSTMSs and the FLC was optimized by genetic algorithm. Based on the analytical results, it has been shown that the MSTMDs effectively decreased the dynamic responses of the arch structure subjected to earthquake loads.

Until recently, almost all ETFE film structures that have been erected is the cushion type because there are problems at lower allowable strength under elastic range and viscosity behaviour such as creep and relaxation of ETFE films under long-term stresses. But the number of tension type structures is currently increasing. This paper proposes the stretch fabrication of ETFE film to verify the applicability of ETFE films to tensile membrane structures. First of all, to investigate the possibility of application on tensile membrane structures, the stretch fabrication test is carried out, and it is verified that it is possible to increase the yield strength of the film membrane structures. After simulating the experiment also carries out an analytical investigation, and the effectiveness of the elasto-plastic analysis considering the viscous behavior of the film is investigated. Finally, post-aging tension measurement is conducted at the experimental facilities, and the viscosity behavior resulting from relaxation is investigated with respect to tensile membrane structures.

일반적으로 건축물의 구조해석과 설계에 있어 작업효율을 확보하기 위하여 상부구조물과 하부구조물을 별도로 모델링하여 해석 및 설계를 진행하는 분리해석 방법을 사용한다. 하지만, 상기 분리해석을 사용할 경우, 상부구조물의 고정지점과 변형된 기초구조물과는 실제 연결된 지점에서 변위차가 발생하여 구조해석의 기본요건인 변형적합성 조건을 만족하지 못하게 되고 상부구조-하부구조의 상호작용을 고려하지 못하기 때문에 실제와는 다른 구조해석 및 설계결과를 초래할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 초고층 철골구조물을 대상으로 구조물의 부등침하 등에 큰 영향을 미치는 상재(常載)하중에 대한 분리해석과 일체해석의 해석결과 차이를 비교 분석하였다. 분석결과에 따르면 분리해석방법을 사용할 경우, 상부구조물의 구조해석에 있어 기초의 변형을 고려하지 못하기 때문에 부재력을 과소평가할 수 있고 이로인해 비안전측 설계결과를 가지고 올 수 있다. 하부 기초구조물을 분리해석으로 해석하였을 경우, 상부구조물의 강성을 고려하지 못하기 때문에 기초의 부등침하 과대평가, 부재력의 과대/과소 평가를 초래할 수 있어 비경제적이고 불안전한 설계결과를 가져올 수 있다. 특히, 기초의 변형이 상부구조물에 큰 영향을 미칠 수 있는 건축구조물, 지반의 강성이 작아서 기초에 큰 변형이 예상되는 건축물, 지반조건이 불균질하여 부등침하가 예상되는 건축구조물 등에는 분리해석을 지양해야 할 것이다.

해양암반이나 구조물 해체를 위한 전통적인 방법은 다이나마이트를 이용한 발파공법, 잭해머(Jackhammer)를 이용한 공법이다. 이러한 방법은 소음이나 폭발의 위험등으로 인해 사용에 많은 제약이 따른다. 이런 제한된 상황에서 사용할 수 있는 무소음화학팽창제(SCDA)의 사용이 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 그러나 무소음화학팽창제의 사용에 관한 규격이나 설계 및 시공에 대한 제안서는 현재 전무한 상황이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 다양한 조건(구조물의 구속, 천공홀의 크기, 천공홀의 수 등)에서 콘크리트 구조물에 균열이 생성, 진전될 수 있는 최소요구팽창압을 예측하였다.

Large spatial structures can not easily predict the dynamic behavior due to the lack of construction and design practices. The spatial structures are generally analyzed through the numerical simulation and experimental test in order to investigate the seismic response of large spatial structures. In the case of analysis for seismic response of large spatial structure, the many studies by the numerical analysis was carried out, researches by the shaking table test are very rare. In this study, a shaking table test of a small-scale arch structure was conducted and the dynamic characteristics of arch structure are analyzed. And the dynamic characteristics of arch structures are investigated according to the various column cross-section and length. It is found that the natural vibration periods of the small-scaled arch structure that have large column stiffness are very similar to the natural vibration period of the non-column arch structure. And in case of arch structure with large column stiffness, primary natural frequency period by numerical analysis is very similar to the primary natural frequency period of by shaking table test. These are because the dynamic characteristics of the roof structure are affected by the column stiffness of the spatial structure.

The serviceability design of the high-rise building is affected by the wind response vibration such as the acceleration, at this time it is important to calculate the natural frequency correctly. Since the suggestion equation of the natural frequency being used in the design phase is not the regression equation obtained from the vibration measurement of the high-rise building, the verification to use for the serviceability design of the high-rise building is necessary. This thesis conducted an ambient vibration measuring on the high-rise building through the mobile-phone application to calculate the natural frequency and suggested a natural frequency approximate expression following the building's height, and compared with the domestic/foreign standard and the result of the eigen-value analysis.

The roof grid of single-layer space frame structure, for Energy Core of Incheon Airport Second Terminal, is very simple and aesthetic, but it is apt to buckle under external force because of mild curvature and complex shape. The object of this study is to estimate the stability of single-layer space frame structures for Energy Core of Incheon Airport Second Terminal with the analytical conditions of structural design. The results show that the buckling load of model(pin-pin, uniform load, rigid joint), that is, the most similar model to the analytical conditions of structural design. was 10.7kN/㎡.

ASCE 4 requires that a hard stop be built around the seismic isolation system in nuclear power plants. In order to maintain the function of the isolation system, this hard stop is required to have clearance-to-stop, which should be no less than the 90th-percentile displacements for 150% Design Basis Earthquake (DBE) shaking. Huang et al. calculated clearance-to-stop by using a Latin Hypercube Sampling technique, without considering the rocking behavior of the isolated structure. This paper investigates the effects on estimation of clearance-to-stop due to 1) rocking behavior of the isolated structure and 2) sampling technique for considering the uncertainties of isolation system. This paper explains the simplified analysis model to consider the rocking behavior of the isolated structure, and the input earthquakes recorded at Diablo Canyon in the western United States. In order to more accurately approximate the distribution tail of the horizontal displacement in the isolated structure, a modified Latin Hypercube Sampling technique is proposed, and then this technique was applied to consider the uncertainty of the isolation system. Through the use of this technique, it was found that rocking behavior has no significant effect on horizontal displacement (and thus clearance-to-stop) of the isolated structure, and the modified Latin Hypercube Sampling technique more accurately approximates the distribution tail of the horizontal displacement than the existing Latin Hypercube Sampling technique.

Aging aircraft structures are inevitably exposed to environment for a long time facing many potential problems, including corrosion and wide spread fatigue damage, which in turn cause the degradation of flight safety. In this study, the environmental surface damages on aging aircraft structures induced during service were quantitatively analyzed. Additionally, S-N fatigue tests were performed with center hole specimens extracted from aging aircraft structures. From the results of quantitative analyses of the surface damages and fatigue tests, it is concluded that corrosion pits initiated during service reduce the fatigue life significantly. Finally, using the fracture mechanics and the EIFS (equivalent initial flaw size) concepts, the remaining fatigue life was predicted based on actual fatigue test results.

PURPOSES : The purpose of this paper is to investigate the application of thermoelectric technology to concrete structures for harvesting solar energy that would otherwise be wasted. In various fields of research, thermoelectric technology using a thermoelectric module is being investigated for utilizing solar energy. METHODS: In our experiment, a halogen lamp was used to produce heat energy instead of the solar heat. A data logger was used to record the generated voltage over time from the thermoelectric module mounted on a concrete specimen. In order to increase the efficiency of energy harvesting, various factors such as color, architecture, and the ability to prevent heat absorption by the concrete surface were investigated for the placement of the thermoelectric module. RESULTS : The thermoelectric module produced a voltage using the temperature difference between the lower and upper sides of the module. When the concrete specimen was coated with an aluminum foil, a high electric power was measured. In addition, for the power generated at low temperatures, it was confirmed that the voltage was generated steadily. CONCLUSIONS: Thermoelectric technology for energy harvesting can be applied to concrete structures for generating electric power. The generated electricity can be used to power sensors used in structure monitoring in the future.