Recently, high-rise residential buildings in Korea have adopted slender shear walls with irregular section shapes, such as T-shape, H-shape, and C-shape. In the seismic design of the slender shear walls, the transverse reinforcement for lateral confinement should be provided in the boundary elements to increase deformation capacity and subsequent ductility. However, in practice, the irregularity of the shear walls is not adequately considered, and the lateral confinement region is calculated for the rectangular wall segments. This study investigated the proper design method for lateral confinement regions using finite element analysis. The lateral confinement region was considered in analysis for two cases: 1) as a typical rectangular wall segment and 2) as an irregular wall. When the irregularity of the walls was considered, the compression zone depth was increased because the vertical reinforcement in the flange was addressed. The effect of lateral confinement design methods on the structural performance of the walls was directly compared under various design parameters, including the length of the flange, concrete compressive strength, vertical rebar layout, axial load ratio, and loading direction. According to the results of the parametric analysis, the peak strength and deformation capacity could be significantly increased when the lateral confinement region was calculated based on irregularly shaped walls, regardless of the design parameters. In addition, the effective compression zone was located within the lateral confinement region. Thus, it is recommended that the lateral confinement region of T-shaped walls is calculated by addressing the irregularity of the walls.

This study aims to propose a simplified equation for estimating the bond strength of corroded reinforcing bars. To this end, extensive parametric analyses were performed using the detailed analysis method presented in the authors’ previous study, where a wide range of critical variables were considered, such as compressive strength of concrete, net cover thickness, and reinforcing bar diameter. The sensitivity in bond strength of the corroded reinforcing bar according to each variable was evaluated. On this basis, a simplified formula for the bond strength of the corroded reinforcing bar was derived through regression analysis. The proposed equation was rigorously tested and verified using the bond test results of corroded reinforcing bars collected from the literature. The results confirmed that the proposed equation could estimate the bond strengths of specimens with better accuracy than the existing models, providing a reliable tool for engineers and researchers. In addition, the proposed equation was used to analyze the development length required for corroded tensile reinforcement to exert its yield strength, and it showed that the cover thickness of concrete must be at least four times the diameter of the reinforcing bar to achieve the yielding strength of reinforcing bar even at a corrosion degree of more than 5.0%.

In South Korea, over 400,000 Non-building Structures are inadequately managed and exposed to potential risks due to insufficient inspection systems, leading to an increase in accidents and significant losses of life and property. Therefore, it is crucial for users to conduct proactive self-inspections to identify and mitigate potential hazards. This study reclassified Non-building Structures into four main categories by analyzing their structural characteristics and associated risks through statistical analysis. Among these, retaining walls, which account for the largest proportion, were systematically analyzed to identify common damage patterns. Based on this analysis, self-inspection checklists were developed for both non-experts and experts. The proposed process involves an initial visual inspection using a simple non-expert checklist, followed by a more detailed expert-level inspection if any anomalies are detected. The reliability of this process was validated through approximately 120 validation processes.

Code-compliant seismic design should be essentially applied to realize the so-called emulative performance of precast concrete (PC) lateral force-resisting systems, and this study developed simple procedures to design precast industrial buildings with intermediate precast bearing wall systems considering both the effect of seismic and blast loads. Seismic design provisions specified in ACI 318 and ASCE 7 can be directly adopted, for which the so-called 1.5S y condition is addressed in PC wall-to-wall and wall-to-base connections. Various coupling options were considered and addressed in the seismic design of wall-to-wall connections for the longitudinal and transverse design directions to secure optimized performance and better economic feasibility. On the other hand, two possible methods were adopted in blast analysis: 1) Equivalent static analysis (ESA) based on the simplified graphic method and 2) Incremental dynamic time-history analysis (IDTHA). The ESA is physically austere to use in practice for a typical industrial PC-bearing wall system. Still, it showed an overestimating trend in terms of the lateral deformation. The coupling action between precast wall segments appears to be inevitably required due to substantially large blast loads compared to seismic loads with increasing blast risk levels. Even with the coupled-precast shear walls, the design outcome obtained from the ESA method might not be entirely satisfactory to the drift criteria presented by the ASCE Blast Design Manual. This drawback can be overcome by addressing the IDTHA method, where all the design criteria were fully satisfied with precast shear walls’ non-coupling and group-coupling strength, where each individual or grouped shear fence was designed to possess 1.5S y for the seismic design.

This study presents code-compliant seismic details by addressing dry mechanical splices for precast concrete (PC) beam-column connections in the ACI 318-19 code. To this end, critical observations of previous test results on precast beam-column connection specimens with the proposed seismic detail are briefly reported in this study, along with a typical reinforced concrete (RC) monolithic connection. On this basis, nonlinear dynamic models were developed to verify seismic responses of the PC emulative moment-resisting frame systems. As the current design code allows only the emulative design approach, this study aims at identifying the seismic performances of PC moment frame systems depending on their emulative levels, for which two extreme cases were intentionally chosen as the non-emulative (unbonded self-centering with marginal energy dissipation) and fully-emulative connection details. Their corresponding hysteresis models were set by using commercial finite element analysis software. According to the current seismic design provisions, a typical five-story building was designed as a target PC building. Subsequently, nonlinear dynamic time history analyses were performed with seven ground motions to investigate the impact of emulation level or hysteresis models (i.e., energy dissipation performance) on system responses between the emulative and non-emulative PC moment frames. The analytical results showed that both the base shear and story drift ratio were substantially reduced in the emulative system compared to that of the non-emulative one, and it indicates the importance of the code-compliant (i.e., emulative) connection details on the seismic performance of the precast building.

For fast-built and safe precast concrete (PC) construction, the dry mechanical splicing method is a critical technique that enables a self-sustaining system (SSS) during construction with no temporary support and minimizes onsite jobs. However, due to limited experimental evidence, traditional wet splicing methods are still dominantly adopted in the domestic precast industry. For PC beam-column connections, the current design code requires achieving emulative connection performances and corresponding structural integrity to be comparable with typical reinforced concrete (RC) systems with monolithic connections. To this end, this study conducted the standard material tests on mechanical splices to check their satisfactory performance as the Type 2 mechanical splice specified in the ACI 318 code. Two PC beam-column connection specimens with dry mechanical splices and an RC control specimen as the special moment frame were subsequently fabricated and tested under lateral reversed cyclic loadings. Test results showed that the seismic performances of all the PC specimens were fully comparable to the RC specimen in terms of strength, stiffness, energy dissipation, drift capacity, and failure mode, and their hysteresis responses showed a mitigated pinching effect compared to the control RC specimen. The seismic performances of the PC and RC specimens were evaluated quantitatively based on the ACI 374 report, and it appeared that all the test specimens fully satisfied the seismic performance criteria as a code-compliant special moment frame system.

This study presents a dry precast concrete (PC) beam-column connection, and its target seismic performance level is set to be emulative to the reinforced concrete (RC) intermediate moment resisting frame system specified in ACI 318 and ASCE 7. The key features include self-sustaining ability during construction with the dry mechanical splicing method, enabling emulative connection performances and better constructability. Test specimens with code-compliant seismic details were fabricated and tested under reversed cyclic loading, which included a PC beam-column connection specimen with dry connections and an RC control specimen. The test results showed that all the specimens failed in a similar failure mode due to plastic deformations in beam members, while the hysteretic response curve of the PC specimen showed comparable and emulative performances compared to the RC specimen. Seismic performance evaluation was quantitatively addressed, and on this basis, it confirmed that the presented system can fully satisfy all the required performance for the intermediate RC moment resisting frame.

The volume expansion of corroded steel reinforcement produces tensile stress on the surrounding concrete, which causes splitting cracking of concrete cover, and deteriorates the service ability and durability of reinforced concrete(RC) members. In addition, since the steel corrosion induces bond strength degradation between steel bar and concrete, the structural performance of RC members can be deteriorated significantly. In this study, the theoretical study was performed to probe the mechanism of the bond strength reduction due to steel corrosion. The bond strength between corroded steel bar and concrete was calculated by mathematically formulating the expansion pressure of corroded steel reinforcement. The proposed model was verified by comparing with the existing test results, and it showed that the proposed model estimate the bond strength reduction of corroded RC elements very closely.

When the prestress is introduced to a typical steel beam with wide flanges, the introduction efficiency of prestress is significantly low due to its large axial stiffness. In this study, the steel beam with discontinuous webs is developed to improve the efficiency of prestress introduced into top and bottom flanges by utilizing the accordion effect. The experiment and FE analysis are performed to verify the introduction efficiency of the prestress on the steel beam with discontinuous webs.

The remaining service life (RSL) of the concrete structures built in the past has become a social issue with the concerns of the sustainable construction. In the previous studies, some simple methods for estimation of the RSL of the concrete structures were proposed. However, most of the existing studies on the RSL evaluation method have focussed on the investigation of the single deteriorating factor. In this study, the combination effect of various factors related with durability performances of the concrete structure, such as concrete carbonation and chloride penetration were considered by utilizing the fuzzy and reliability theory.

In this study, the screw-ribbed reinforcement and grout-type mechanical coupler device were developed to improve the poor constructability and seismic performances of the reinforced concrete columns with splice connections in longitudinal bars reported in existing literatures. The screw-ribbed reinforcements connected by grouted-couplers can maximize the confinement between the sleeve and concrete, and also minimize the inevitable gaps between reinforcements in coupler device. To verify the seismic performances of reinforced concrete columns with proposed mechanical connections, four reinforced concrete columns designed as the intermediate moment resisting frame specified in current code of practice were fabricated and tested, and test results showed that the reinforced concrete column with grouted-sleeve splices can provide the same or more enhanced seismic performances compared to that without splice.

Experimental studies on prestressed steel-concrete composite beams with various types of innovative webs have been conducted to improve prestress efficiency and composite action. These researches observed that the efficiency of prestress introduced into the flanges of composite beams with corrugated webs or discontinuous webs significantly increased due to accordion effect. In this study, nonlinear finite element analysis has been performed to evaluate the local behavior of specimens that are very difficult or sometimes impossible to observe. A suitable modeling method for PS composite beam has been developed, which can consider the loading stages along construction sequences and the interface interaction between different materials such as concrete and steel. The analysis results have been compared to test results for verification.

Existing approaches on flexural analysis of unbonded post-tensioned concrete beams are very difficult to be applied to estimation of service load behavior up to failure. In this study, theorectical flexural behavior model for post-tensioned members with unbonded tendons was, therefore, proposed based on the basic concept of idealization of curvature distribution within maximum moment region in a simple manner, which was previously developed by authors. The proposed model can predict the service load behavior as well as ultimate strength, and it is confirmed that this concept can be extended to estimate the flexural behavior of continuous unbonded post-tensioned members.

In this study, the unique material characteristics of steel fiber-reinforced concrete were introduced to extend the application of the compression field models to evaluations of shear capacity and behavior of steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) members. To achieve this purpose, nonlinear finite element program is developed using secant stiffness-based formulations, and the proposed numerical model was verified using basic experimental results of SFRC shear panels.

연결보를 가진 전단벽 시스템은 벽체의 개별 강성을 합산한 것보다 훨씬 큰 강성을 확보할 수 있기 때문에 효율적인 횡력저항시스템으로서 40층 이하의 중 고층 건물에 널리 적용되고 있다. 일반적으로 사용되는 철근콘크리트 연결보는 철근배근이 복잡해 시공성이 저하되고, 철골연결보의 경우에는 과도한 스티프너의 사용으로 인해 경제성이 저하된다는 단점을 가지고 있다. 따라서, 이 연구에서는 철근콘크리트와 철골부재를 합성하여 시공성 및 경제성을 개선하고 단면크기를 줄일 수 있는 불연속웨브가 적용된 프리스트레스트 합성연결보를 개발하였다. 개발한 프리스트레스트 합성 연결보의 구조적인 성능을 검증하기 위해서 전단철근비를 주요 변수로 두 개의 실험체를 제작하여 반복하중실험을 수행하였으며, 실험결과는 제안된 연결보의 내진성능을 검증하였다.

선행연구에서는 강도이론을 바탕으로 영향인자들을 반영한 해석단면에 대해 허용압축응력(Kfci)을 해석하였고, 해석결과를 바탕으로 허용압축응력산정식을 제안하였다. 이전 연구에 대한 일련의 연구로서, 본 연구에서는 서로 다른 편심비(e/h)를 갖는 프리텐션 보 부재에 대한 프리스트레스 도입 실험을 수행하였다. 실험결과를 토대로 제안식을 검증한 결과 낮은 e/h를 갖는 프리텐션 부재의 경우, ACI318-08 및 EC2-02의 설계기준이 Kfci를 비안전측으로 결정하고 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 높은 e/h를 갖는 프리텐션 부재의 경우 현행의 설계기준은 Kfci를 과도하게 안전측으로 제안하고 있다. 이에 비해 제안식은 e/h에 따른 Kfci를 합리적으로 평가하는 것으로 나타났다.

The Non-Shrinkage Epoxy using Silanol(Si-OH) was developed for repairing and strengthening, and it has excellent material properties that overcomes many limits of other existing epoxy products. In this study, direct shear strength tests were conducted to investigate the superior bond and shear capacity of the Non-Shrinkage Epoxy. The test results showed that the specimens with Non-Shrinkage Epoxy applied to their shear plane had higher shear strength than those with other existing epoxy.

Various type of composite beams have been developed to utilize advantages of reinforced concrete and steel structural system with making up for their weaknesses. In this study, prestressed composite beams with discontinuous corrugated webs are presented, in which discontinuous web plates improve the introduction efficiency of prestress by accordion effect and enhance composite action between steel beam and concrete compared to typical plane webs. Two prestressed composite beam with discontinuous corrugated webs, four prestressed composite beam with trapezoidal corrugated webs, and one corrugated webbed composite beam without prestress were fabricated and tested to evaluate their serviceability, ductility and flexural strength.

일반적으로 콘크리트는 경제성이 뛰어나지만 낮은 인장강도로 인하여 구조성능상의 한계를 가지고 있기 때문에 콘크리트와 결합된 다양한 합성재료의 특성을 활용한 구조부재의 개발이 진행되고 있다. 강섬유 보강 콘크리트(SFRC)는 높은 인장강도로 인하여 콘크리트의 재료적 단점을 보완할 수 있는 우수한 합성재료로서 알려져 있고, 특히 고강도 콘크리트의 화재시 폭렬현상에 대한 대안으로 여겨지고 있다. 또한, 프리스트레스트콘크리트(PSC) 부재는 장경간 구조에 매우 유리하며 일반철근콘크리트(RC) 부재에 비해 높은 전단강도를 가진다. 따라서, 이 연구에서는 SFRC에 프리스트레스를 적용한 강섬유 보강 프리스트레스트 콘크리트(SFR-PSC)부재의 전단거동을 이해하기 위하여 총 22개의 직접전단실험체를 제작하여 실험을 수행하였다. 또한, 실험결과를 바탕으로 SFR-PSC부재의 균열면에서의 균열전달 구성방정식을 제안하였다. SFR-PSC의 거동특성을 반영하여 제안된 재료관계식은 실험결과와 잘 일치하는 것으로 나타났다.