단기 동 하중(특히 지진하중)을 받는 비선형 강 프레임 구조물의 안전성을 평가하기 위하여 추계론적 유한요소 개념에 근거한 비선형 시간영역 신뢰성 해석 기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 유한요소 공식화가 응답 표면법, 1차 신뢰성 방법, 그리고 반복 선형보간 기법의 개념들과 결합되어 지는데, 이것이 추계론적 유한요소 개념으로 귀결된다. 실제 지진하중의 시간이력이 구조물의 진동을 위해 사용되므로 사실적인 하중조건의 재현이 가능하다. 가상 응력에 기초한 유한요소 기법이 본 알고리즘의 효율성을 증대하기 위해 사용된다. 본 알고리즘은 지진하중 또는 임의의 단기 동적하중을 받는 유한요소 기법으로 표현되는 어떠한 선형 및 비선형 구조물과 관련된 위험도를 평가할 수 있는 잠재성을 가지고 있다. 수치예제를 통하여 알고리즘을 설명하였으며, 몬테카를로 시뮬레이션 기법을 사용하여 본 알고리즘을 검증하였다.

The dynamic behaviour of container crane under seismic loading is a complex issue, especially for assessing uplift. The pin support is commonly used to model the contact between crane’s legs and the ground/rails in low seismicity area. However, the behaviour of the structure is quite different under high seismic intensity because the crane’s wheels are not fixed to the rails in operation. In this study, therefore, a 3-D finite element (FE) model was simulated with gap elements to consider the uplift behavior. In addition, the vertical reaction of the crane’s legs were investigated as well.

In this study, an experimental study of Impulse Thermography was carried out on a concrete specimen with in-placed artificial defects at different depths and dimensions. Then, all the data were processed by Pulse Phase Thermography technique by performing Fast Fourier Transformation. The results were compared with the absolute contrast method.

The purpose of this research is to consider the qualitative and quantitative performance of reinforced concrete deteriorations using active infrared thermography (IRT) technique. An experiment of five different cases of environmental conditions was conducted on a concrete slab in laboratory. A comparison of the IRT results between normal and reinforced concrete is also discussed. The results showed that the absolute contrast between defective area and non-defective area increases with the increment of ambient temperature. Besides, the values of absolute contrast above delamination obtained from normal concrete showed high than those under effect of reinforcing steel bar.

In reality, the mono-pile foundation system of OWT (Offshore Wind Turbine) can be damaged due to uncertainties and variations in both ocean environmental loadings and/or soil resistance around the foundation. In other words, the uncertainty parameters directly influence the safety, the performance and the structural behavior of a structure. In this study, a laterally loaded mono-pile foundation for OWT structure is considered to examine the degree of influence of uncertainties in the pile-soil system of the structure by an accurate and practical reliability assessment approach.

This research aim to investigate the qualitative and quantitative performance of concrete deteriorations using Pulse Square Thermography (PST) technique. An experimental test of ten cases was conducted on a concrete slab specimen under different meteorological conditions. The results showed that the absolute contrast between defective area and sound area decreases with the falling of ambient temperature. Besides, the delamination with identical size but placed at a deeper position indicates lower absolute contrast than the shallow delamination.

Damage states of an underground tunnel structure need to be defined in the estimation of its seismic fragility. They are identified in this paper by applying pushover analyses of an typical tunnel structure. Latin Hypercube sampling (LHS) technique is used to explicitly consider uncertainties in the associated design variables.

Probabilistic risk of an offshore wind turbine tower-monopile foundation structure is investigated using in this paper. It can consider both soil-structure-fluid coupled effect in the system and a large amount of variability in both ocean environmental load and soil resistance.

This study evaluated the lateral thermal deformation induced by environmental factors for a precast I-girder. Lateral temperature gradients across the cross-section of the girder were calculated using analytical equations based on daily solar radiation, temperature variation, and wind speed. Then the lateral thermal deformation showed an average of approximately 40% to 71% of the tolerance for the initial lateral deformation of the girder, defined in the PCI bridge design standard.

A RSM-based reliability analysis approach is applied to evaluate the safety of floating structures considering uncertainties associated with various design variables. Uncertainties in both load and resistance related variables are explicitly considered in the analysis. It is expected to be practically applied in the reliability-based design of real structures including floating structures.

This paper deals with the response analysis of a floating building structure subject to both wind and wave loads. The hydrodynamic analysis is performed with sets of wind and wave loads selected from the 100-year return period concept to assess the effect of extreme ocean environmental loads on a floating building. From hydrodynamic analysis in time-domain analysis, it is shown that the responses obtained from the analysis in consideration of both wind and wave loads are far greater than those of wave load only.

In this paper a computationally efficient methodology to establish the seismic fragility curve for underground tunnel structures is developed by integrating the response acceleration method and the maximum likelihood approach with a large set of artificial ground motion time-histories. It is elaborated with an illustrative numerical example.

An efficient and practical reliability analysis method is required for the development of reliability-based design (RBD) guidelines of coastal structures. Such a novel method is presented in this paper. It is capable of evaluating reliability of real complicated coastal structures considering uncertainties in various sources of design parameters. It is developed by intelligently integrating the Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) method and the finite element method (FEM). The applicability and efficiency of the proposed method are verified using a caisson-type quay wall. in the numerical example.