This study reviews the status and validity of seismic design criteria (SDC) for major facilities in Korea, which are composed of performance criteria and technical standard. Various facilities with different seismic design response spectra are analyzed to identify their seismic performance and necessity of eventual retrofit. The results are used to derive improvement directions of SDC. It is also concluded that the technical standard should be improved after the revision of the performance criteria.

The plastic hinge region of RC pier ensures its nonlinear behavior during strong earthquake events. It is assumed that the piers secure sufficient strength and ductility in order to prevent the collapse of the bridge during strong earthquake. However, the presence of a lap-splice of longitudinal bars in the plastic hinge region may lead to the occurrence of early bond failure in the lap-splice zone and result in significant loss of the seismic performance. The current regulations for seismic performance evaluation limit the ultimate strain and displacement ductility considering the eventual presence of lap-splice, but do not consider the lap-splice length. In this study, seismic performance test and analysis are performed according to the cross-sectional size and the lap-splice length in the case of longitudinal bars with lap-splice located in the plastic hinge region of existing RC bridge columns with circular cross-section. The seismic behavioral characteristics of the piers are also analyzed. Based upon the results, this paper presents a more reasonable seismic performance evaluation method considering the lap-splice length and the cross-sectional size of the column.

It is known that seismic performance of existing bridges having insufficient lateral confinements and lap-splices of longitudinal reinforcements at the base of column decreases dramatically. In this study, small-scaled model tests have been performed to confirm the seismic behaviors of RC bridge piers with various lap-splice lengths. The 8 test models have circular section with diameters of 0.65 m, 0.8 m, 1.0 m, and lap-splice lengths of B-class or C-class. The test results show that the failure modes of models are not depending on the lap-splice length itself but depend on the ratio of lap-splice length to diameter, and that the displacement ductility is also affected by this ratio.

According to the available date sources, 1,814 bridges failures occurred over the past 210 years in the United States. The most frequent cause of bridges failures were attributed to external events such as: floods, collisions, scour, overloading and deterioration. Among these external events, Hydraulic factor caused the maximum number of bridges failures with 54% of the total failures. 20% of hydraulic factor was failed by scour. Thus, base on the result of reviewing design basis and safety assessment practices, criteria for determining safety assessment of bridge foundation scour is proposed. 25 bridges were reviewed for applicability to scour safety assessment of passing bridges in river channels.

In this study, discover vulnerable elements of highway bridge by database and analyzing inspection reports. And provide the data so that can explore ways to improve and feedback.

According to the available date sources, 1,814 bridges failures occurred over the past 210 years in the United States. The most frequent cause of bridges failures were attributed to external events such as: floods, collisions, scour, overloading and deterioration. Among these external events, Hydraulic factor caused the maximum number of bridges failures with 54% of the total failures. 20% of hydraulic factor was failed by scour. Thus, base on the result of reviewing design basis and safety assessment practices, criteria for determining safety assessment of bridge foundation scour is proposed.

교량구조물의 지진재해평가기술을 개발하기 위해서는 전체 교량에 대한 분류체계별 표준교량을 선정한 후, 간편한 정식화 방법을 통해 지진취약도를 분석하고, 이로부터 교량의 근사적인 지진위험도를 평가하는 것이 현실적이라 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 HAZUS에서 사용 중인 간편하면서도 실용적인 방법을 미국과 국내의 내진설계수준 등을 고려하여 국내 PSC-I 거더교에 적용 가능하도록 ‘수정된 HAZUS 방법에 의한 한국형 지진취약도함수’를 개발하였다. 이를 위해 국내 표준교량 형식 중 하나인 PSC-I 거더교에 대해 수치해석적 방법을 적용하여 해석적 지진취약도함수를 구하고, 수정된 HAZUS 방법을 적용하여 지진취약도함수를 구한 후 그 결과를 비교‧분석하였다. 수정된 HAZUS 방법에서의 주요 계수는 수치해석적 방법에 의한 지진취약도함수와 가장 유사한 경향을 보이도록 하는 계수를 선택하는 방법으로 결정하였으며, 강도감소계수의 경우 HAZUS에서 제시한 값의 70% 수준을 사용할 때 해석적 결과와 유사한 지진취약도 함수를 구할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

연구에서는 정적 풍하중에 대한 교량의 취약도 평가 방법을 제시하였으며, 이를 이용하여 대상 교량인 6경간 엑스트라도즈드교에 대하여 정적 풍하중 취약도 분석을 수행하였다. 정적 풍하중산정과 하중조합은 국내 설계기준을 사용하여 산정하였으며, 이때 정적 풍하중에 대한 불확실성과 확률분포 특성은 난수를 사용하여 고려하였다. 취약도 곡선은 대수 정규분포함수의 형태로 나타내었으며, 이때 변수인 중간값과 대수표준편차는 최우도추정법(maximum likelihood method)에 의하여 구하였다. 취약도 분석을 수행한 결과 대상교량은 정적 풍하중에 대하여 안전한 것으로 평가되었다.