This study experimentally and analytically examines the seismic vulnerability of steel rack storage frames subjected to Korea earthquakes (2016 Gyeongju earthquake and 2017 Pohang earthquake). To achieve this aim, this study selects a three-story, one-bay steel rack frame with a typical configuration of rack frame in Korea. Firstly, the local behavior for frame components is examined by performing monotonic and/or cyclic load tests and the global response and dynamic characteristics of the subject rack frame are investigated by conducting a shaking table test. The analytical model of the rack frame is then created based on the experimental results and is used to perform nonlinear time history analyses with recorded Korea earthquakes. The seismic demand of the rack frame is considerably affected by the spectral acceleration response, instead of peak ground accelerations (peak floor accelerations). Moreover, the collapse fragility curve of the rack frame is developed using incremental dynamic analyses for the Gyeongju and Pohang earthquakes. Fragility results indicate that the ground motion characteristics of these earthquakes do not significantly affect the frame vulnerability at the collapse state.

In this paper, an experimental study was carried out for vibration control of cable bridges with structurally flexible characteristics. For the experiment on vibration control, a model bridge was constructed by reducing the Seohae Grand Bridge and the shear type MR damper was designed using the wind load response measured at Seohae Grand Bridge. The shear type MR damper was installed in the vertical direction at the middle span of the model bridge, and dynamic modeling was performed using the power model. The tests of the vibration control were carried out by non-control, passive on/off control and Lyapunov control method on model bridge with scaled wind load response. The performance of the vibration control was evaluated by calculating absolute maximum displacement, RMS displacement, absolute maximum acceleration, RMS acceleration, and size of applied power using the response (displacement, acceleration, etc.) from the model bridge. As a result, the power model was effective in simulating the nonlinear behavior of the MR damper, and the Lyapunov control method using the MR damper was able to control the vibration of the structure and reduce the size of the power supply.

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.

본 연구에서는 온실 내부의 태양 잉여열과 외부의 공기열을 선택적으로 열원으로 이용함으로써 히트펌프의 성능을 향상시키고, 온실의 환기 지연을 통해 이산화탄소 시용비용을 절감할 수 있는 온실 공조시스템을 개발 하고자 하였다. 본 시스템의 축열 과정은 태양 잉여열을 이용하는 내부순환모드와 외기열을 이용하는 외부순환모드가 온실 내부온도에 따라 자동으로 절환되도록 구성하였으며, 히트펌프가동, 축열모드 절환, 난방 가동을 위한 6개의 온도값을 입력함으로써 축열과 난방이 자동으로 수행되도록 설계하였다. 단동온실을 대상으로 무환기 조건에서 기초시험을 수행한 결과, 태양 잉여열을 이용한 축열은 약 11시부터 시작되어 평균 3시간 30분 정도 유지되었으며, 주간의 온실 내부온도는 환기를 수행하지 않음에도 대부분 약 20~28oC 범위를 유지하였다. 주간 내부순환모드에서 시스템의 난방성능계수는 약 3.35로 야간 외부순환모드의 2.46 및 주간 외부순환모드의 2.67 에 비해 각각 36% 및 25% 향상됨을 확인하였다. 본 시스템의 개선사항으로 태양 잉여열의 효율적 이용을 위해 축열조 관리온도를 상승시킬 수 있는 고효율 히트펌프의 적용이 필요하며, 온실의 무환기 운용에 따른 과습환경의 조성을 방지하고 태양 잉여열 수준이 높은 시기에 온실의 온도상승을 방지하기 위해 강제환기를 운전모드에 추가할 필요가 있는 것으로 판단되었다.

본 논문에서는 사장교를 지탱하는 주요 부재인 케이블의 손상 위치를 빠르게 검출할 수 있는 손상평가 기술을 개발하고, 모형 교량 손상 실험을 통하여 개발한 기술의 손상평가 성능을 검증하고자 하였다. 손상평가 기술의 개발을 위하여 통계적 패턴 인식 기술인 마할라노비스 거리 이론을 활용하였으며, 복잡한 구조체의 손상위치 판별을 위하여 계측 위치별 획득 데이터의 변동성을 손상평가 기술에 반영하였다. 개발한 기술의 손상평가 성능을 확인하기 위하여 모형 사장교를 대상으로 손상 실험을 진행하였다. 그 결과, 개발한 손상평가 기술은 무손상 상태의 응답과 손상 상태의 응답을 활용하여 사장교 케이블 의 손상 위치를 검출할 수 있는 통계적 패턴을 제공하는 성능을 보이는 것을 확인하였다.

본 논문은 적재설비의 바닥 구속조건에 따른 안전성을 평가하고자 한다. 평가를 위해서 국내에서 일반적으로 사용하고 있는 파렛트랙을 대상구조물로 선정하여 진동대 실험을 진행하였다. 진동대 실험을 위한 적재설비의 바닥 구속조건을 총 4가 지(1 bolt, 2 bolts, 4 bolts, Fixed)로 구분하여 진행하였다. 실험은 인공지진파를 증가시켜가며 진행하였고, 각 층별에서의 변위응답과 영구변형을 비교하였다. 이에 따른 실험 결과, 지진 강도에 따라 기둥 바닥의 구속조건을 달리 적용하는 것이 필요하다.

In this paper, damage assessment technology based on statistical pattern recognition technology was developed for maintenance of structure and the performance of the developed technology was verified by vibration test. The damage assessment technique uses the improved Mahalanobis distance theory, which is a statistical pattern recognition technique, and developed to take account of the variability between the measured data. In order to verify the damage evaluation performance of the developed technology, a cable damage test was conducted for a cable-stayed bridge. Experimental results show that the developed damage assessment technology has the capability of extracting information that can determine the location of damage due to cable damage.

This paper intends to analyze the behavior characteristics of steel storage racks according to the constraints conditions by external loads such as seismic loads. In order to achieve these goals, the steel storage racks generally used in Korea were selected as target structures and shaking table tests were conducted. In order to confirm the behavior according to the constraints conditions, the foundation of the steel storage racks was constructed with three conditions (1 bolt, 4 bolts, fixed) and the experiment was carried out. As a result of the analysis of the data obtained through the experiment, it was confirmed that additional damper installation is needed rather than changing the condition of the bottom plate in order to secure the safety of the steel storage racks.

본 연구는 PVA(polyvinyl alcohol) 섬유와 VAE(vinyl acetate ethylene) 분말 폴리머를 사용한 시멘트복합체의 압축·휨강도 와 온도변화에 따른 충격파괴거동을 연구하였다. 충격시험은 -35℃, 0℃ 및 35℃의 선정된 온도조건에서 실시하였다. 본 실험에서는 시멘트 복합체와 일반 모르타르에 대한 충격파괴 에너지와 변위, 시간을 얻기 위해 낙하 충격시험기(Ceast 9350)를 사용하여 충격시험을 수행하였다. 강도 시험결과, PVA 섬유와 VAE 분말 폴리머의 휨강도는 모두 증가하였다. PVA 섬유보강 시멘트복합체의 경우 재령 28일에서의 압축강도는 약간 감소하였으나, 휨강도는 일반 모르타르 강도보다 24.4% 증가하였다. 낙하 충격시험 결과, PVA 섬유보강 시멘트복합체 시편은 섬유의 가교역할로 인한 균열발생의 억제와 에너지 분산에 의한 미세균열이 발생하였으며, 충격에 의한 배면파괴와 관통에 대하여 억제되었다. 반면 VAE 분말 폴리머 시멘트복합체와 일반 모르타르의 시편은 대부분 큰 균열이나 관통파괴 되었다. 충격하중을 받는 시멘트복합체와 일반 모르타르의 시편은 대부분 국부적인 취성파괴거동을 보이며, PVA 섬유보강에 의한 휨성능 증진으로 인해 충격에 대한 저항성능이 크게 향상되었다.

This study is aimed at developing a wireless unified-maintenance system (WUMS) that would satisfy all the requirements for a disaster preventive SHM system of civil structures. The WUMS is designed to measure diverse types of structural responses in realtime based on wireless communication, allowing users to selectively use WiFi RF band and finally working in standalone mode by means of the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. To verify its performance, the following tests were performed: (i) A test to see how far communication is possible in open field, (ii) a modal test on a bridge to see how exactly characteristic real-time dynamic responses are of structures. Finally, the WUMS is proved valid as a SHM, and its outstanding performance is also proven.

In this paper, a hydraulic damper was developed to protect the storage racks from earthquakes and the seismic performance of the storage racks was improved by applying the developed damper. In order to achieve these goals, the control capacity for the safety of the storage racks was determined, and a hydraulic damper satisfying the control capacity was designed and manufactured. In addition, the location of the hydraulic damper was determined through simulation. Finally, the shaking table test was carried out. As a result, the seismic performance improvement of the storage racks using the hydraulic damper was confirmed.

In this paper, real-time damage assessment technology was developed for detection the damage of bridges in real time and the performance of the developed technology was verified by vibration test. Real-time damage assessment technology was developed by combining statistical pattern recognition technology and simulation technology. In order to verify the developed technology, the earthquake response acquisition experiment was conducted according to the cable damage of the model cable-stayed bridge. As a result, it was confirmed that the developed real-time damage assessment technology can provide information on the location of damaged cable.

This paper aims to developed SMC-Fractional algorithm, that is, enhances the performance of Sliding Mode Control(SMC) algorithm for pounding control of Multi-span bridges using MR-damper. The pounding control performance of SMC-Fractional algorithm has been evaluated in shaking table test on multi-span bridge. As a result of the experiment, the SMC-Fractional algorithm showed the performance od reducing the relative displacement of adjacent spans over other algorithms.

This paper aims to developed SMC-Fractional algorithm, that is, enhances the performance of Sliding Mode Control(SMC) algorithm for pounding control of Multi-span bridges using MR-damper. The pounding control performance of SMC-Fractional algorithm has been evaluated in shaking table test on multi-span bridge. As a result of the experiment, the SMC-Fractional algorithm showed the performance od reducing the relative displacement of adjacent spans over other algorithms.

This research is an experimental study attempting to use MR-dampers to control the complex behavior of multi-span bridge structures due to external loads such as seismic loads. For the purposes of this study, the model of components in each structure is identified, and then based on the results, a simplified system of the structure is derived. The performance of MR-dampers for complex behavior control is evaluated separately, according to the self-performance of MR-dampers and according to the performance based on applications of control algorithms. Based on the simplified system, Lyapunov control algorithm and Clipped-optimal control algorithm are applied. As a result, MR-damper is proven to be effective in the complex behavior control of multi-span bridge structures.

This study aimed to simulate the complex behavior of structures and predict test results. For this, the leading nonlinear model ‘Bouc-wen model’ was used, and rubber bearing and MR-damper were investigated. While seismic load was being applied, complex behavior of continuous structures was simulated. To test simulation performances, in addition, a seismic response test of the model structure was conducted using shaking table. Then, each structure’s displacement data were compared to simulation results. This study found that nonlinear model-based simulation results were mostly matched with test results, and they are applicable to the prediction of test results.

This study attempted to assess performances of adopted MR-damper to control the complex behavior caused by the interaction of independent continuous structures. For this, MR-damper (30kN) was designed and fabricated, and the MR-damper model was investigated using the Nonlinear Bingham Plastic Damper (NBPD). To assess experimental performances, a control test on the model structure was performed while El-centro 150% of seismic load was being applied. Then, MR-damper was placed between two independent structures to have it control independent displacement and complex behavior between the two structures. This study found that MR-damper is effective in controlling complex behavior of structures.

In this dissertation, experimental study about the real-time vibration control of the bridge structure was conducted by using the semi-active vibration control method that has been in the spotlight recently. Based on the laboratory-scale bridge model in the form of the cable-stayed bridge, the shear type MR damper and the semi-active vibration control algorithm (Lyapunov and Clipped-optimal) were applied in order to the control the harmful vibration in real time. From the investigation of the test results, the performance of each semi-active control algorithm was evaluated quantitatively.

This paper aims to assess the structural damage caused by fatigue and random impact load using a statistical pattern recognition technology. For experimental studies, a model of cable-stayed bridge was built, and a shaker was to inflict load on the model. Data for damage detection were obtained from the signals of the model on which repetitive load and earthquake load were imposed. Applying the statistical pattern recognition technology which constitutes a control chart by using Mahalanobis distance, a commonly used method for the measurement of statistical distance, we preliminarily assessed structural damage. On the basis of the damage assessment, we developed a Improved Mahalanobis Distance(IMD) to be applicable to a cable-stayed bridge which was damaged by random impact load. Then, we evaluated its performance for the assessment of structural condition. The evaluation showed that the control chart.

In this research, our team developed a semi-active MR damper by designing and producing it, and also evaluated its performance for the control of large structure. It is specially designed to have a flexible capacity to control a range of 10KN-30KN with an input current of 0 - 3A. The evaluation of its performance was carried out; first, to input a 0 - 3A electric current at various frequence range between 0.15Hz and 2Hz, then to measure a consequent power and displacement. By finding that the MR damper secures a control capacity of 10KN-30KN, it was proved that the MR damper is capable to control any large structure.