This paper presents design concept as well as trial products to develop hybrid reinforcing polymer bars. The objective of this study is to develop a viable hybrid FRP bar for concrete structures, especially for marine and waterfront concrete structures. Three different types of hybrid FRP bar were considered in the development. Using E-glass fibers, unsaturated polyester resins, and conventional steel bar, hybrid GFRP bar samples of 9 mm and 13 mm in diameter were fabricated as the trial products. The results obtained in the pultrusion process of the trial products are discussed in this paper

In this paper, a finite element analysis to design hybrid reinforcing polymer bars was presented. Two different types of hybrid FRP bar were considered in finite element modeling. To offer the necessity and validity of finite element modeling for the hybrid reinforcing polymer bars, shape and material properties were assumed. Input conditions for analyzing the hybrid reinforcing polymer bars using FEM were verified. Using the results of the finite element analysis, the hybrid reinforcing polymer bars were optimally designed and the results are presented in this paper..

Adaptability of a smart top-story isolation system for reduction of seismic responses of tall buildings in regions of low-to-moderate seismicity has been investigated in this study. To this end, 20-story example building structure was selected and an MR damper and low damping elastomeric bearings were used to compose a smart base isolation system. Artificial earthquakes generated based on design spectrum of low-to-moderate seismicity regions are used for structural analyses.

In this papery, integrated optimization of structure-smart control device is conducted and possibility of reduction of structural resources of a tall building with additional smart damping device has been investigated. For this purpose, a 60-story diagrid building structure is used as an example structure and artificial wind loads are used for evaluation of wind-induced responses. Because dynamic responses and the amount of structural material and additional smart damping devices are required to be reduced, a multi-objective genetic algorithm is employed in this paper.

When the story lateral forces of multi-story frame were not distributed properly during a seismic design, sufficient seismic performances should not secured. Thus, studies on the distribution of story lateral forces that make the uniform distribution of story damage are positively necessary. In this study, a lot of dynamic analyses of multi-story frames were conducted using various seismic waves to find the optimum distributions of story damage and the distributions of story shear in that circumstance were calculated.

In this paper, the seismic response characteristics of the structures connected through the expansion joint and the possibility of collision and separation between those structures were examined through nonlinear time history analysis. Through this experiment, the usefulness of the interaction vibration control using a steel body and a damper as connection members was verified as the seismic response behavior of the structures was reduced and the collision and separation between those structures were prevented.

In case of spatial structures with different ground condition or time lag occurred by earthquake velocity, multiple support excitation may be subjected to supports of a keel arch structure. In this study, the response of the keel arch structure under multiple support excitation are analyzed by means of the pseudo excitation method. Pseudo excitation method shows that the structural response is divided into two parts, ground displacement and structural dynamic response due to ground motion excitation. It is known that the seismic responses of spatial structure under multiple support excitation are different from those of spatial structure under unique simple excitation.

In order to evaluate earthquake response of structures affected by shallow soft soil deposits, centrifuge tests were performed. The test specimen was composed of a single-degree-of-freedom structure model, a shallow foundation and sub-soil deposits in a centrifuge container. The structure response directly measured from the test showed that a large rocking rotation occurred due to the soil-foundation interaction. Thus, the acceleration of the structure was significantly smaller than the fixed base structure response.

This study presents the application of seismic performance evaluation methods specialized in dam and reservoir structures in Korea. Related criteria and evaluation methods are reviewed, and then, the indicators needed to perform the seismic performance evaluation and how to take advantage of these are suggested in this study.

This study investigated characteristics of buckling load and effective buckling length by member rigidity of dome-typed space frame which was sensitive to initial conditions. A critical point and a buckling load were computed by analyzing the eigenvalues and determinants of the tangential stiffness matrix. The hexagonal pyramid model and star dome were selected for the case study in order to examine the nodal buckling and member buckling in accordance with member rigidity.

To evaluate the deformation of space frame dome structure in Daegu Athletic Center, horizontal displacements of all 32 supports and vertical deflections at 8 points are predicted through the elastic analysis. The result of a comparison with the measurement data shows that the analysis well predicts the measured horizontal displacements and vertical deflections

The AEMM uses the ageing factor to consider the effects of the increase of the modulus of elasticity of concrete with time on the deformation and stress distribution of reinforced concrete members. Previous researches proposed appropriate values of the ageing factor when the applied load is constant or the deformation is concstant. In this paper, the validity of ageing factor for the building structures were studied by the comparison with the results of step-by step method

To evaluate underground behavior characteristic according to the ground water level variation, displacement and bending moment using FEM(Plaxis) were analyzed. When the ground water level difference is more than 10m, it were analyzed that effects on underground structures was great

After analyzing the engineering characteristics of backfill soil, we are trying to figure out whether or not satisfy the compaction criteria. For that purpose, Case of design and construction were investigated. I have also evaluted the effect of backfill materials engineering properties on structures according to degree of compaction.

In this study, based on the field and laboratory experiments results of underground box culverts, a residual service life was numerically estimated via the statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation.

In this study, the underground box culvert were selected in nine construction sites and the influencing factors of underground structures on concrete degradation were verified through the field and laboratory experiments.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate bond strength between sulfur polymer coating material and old concrete. Two kinds of spray casting methods are selected and compared to its bond strength by conducting bond test and measuring available casting time. As a result, the bond strength and available casting time is considerably depends on spray casting method.

In this study, KS F 2405 was used to investigated the compressive strength of property of high performance concrete (HPC) using the fly ash and silica fume. The experiments were carried out silica fume-binder ratio from 5% (SF5) and fly ash 25%+silica fume 5% (FA25SF5). The compressive strength of HPC determined on 7days and 28days.

This research was intended to confirm the reducing effects water leakage of the acicular thaumasite as admixture for mixing concrete structure, in case of the water leakage on underground structure

A study on the limit state design method for retaining wall structures are reviewed based on the National Retaining wall Design Standard. In this paper several retaining walls are calculated according to LRFD design criteria analysis using the program and the factor of safety for sliding and overturning. Comparing with their results, the Taylor's series simple reliability analysis was performed. In the futures more study should needed including reinforced retaining walls, earth anchor structures. Geotechnical data also are evaluated beforehand.