동적 지반-구조물해석과정에는 수많은 불확실성 요소가 내재되어 있다. 이러한 요소는 입력운동의 정의, 지반-구조물시스템의 모델작성, 해석기법 등에 포함된다. 이 논문은 점탄성 층상지반상의 원자로건물의 지진응답에 대한 매개변수해석을 수행한 결과를 제시한 것이다. 많은 매개변수 중에 입력운동의 정의위치, 구조물의 묻힘정도, 상부토층의 두께와 지반의 강성을 선택하여 지진응답에 미치는 영향을 중점적으로 이 연구에서 다루었다. 해석방법은 진동수에 무관한 지반임피던스를 사용하는 부분구조법인 시간영역에서의 모드중첩법이다. 지반-구조물시스템의 모드감쇠값은 각 모드에 대해 변형에너지에 대한 소멸에너지의 비를 구하여 결정되었다. 이 연구결과로부터 부분구조법에 의한 지반-구조물상호작용해석법의 실용적 이용에 참고할 수 있는 지진응답에 미치는 각 파라메터의 민감도가 제시되었다.

비압축성 물체률 위한 일반적인 유한요소 공식화는 혼히 사용되는 사각형요소에서조차 압력해의 진동화 (oscillations ) 또는 pressure ~es 현상융 나타낸다. 압력해의 안정화률 위한 규준은 소위 BabuSka-Brezzi 안정조건이며， 위의 요소들은 이 조건율 만족시키지 못한다. 본 연구에서는 선형변위해와 상수값의 압력해률 갖는 사각형요소 사용시 압력해률 안정화시키기 위해 요소의 변에서 발생하는 불연속압에 근거한 압력연속여 분치률 사용한다. 이 압력여분치률 비압축성 탄성론으로부터 유도되는 QIPO요소에 적용하며 매개변수의 변 화에 따른 수치혜의 안정화의 정도률 연구한다. 압력해는 압력 여분치 사용시 안정화될 수 있으며， 혜의 안정 화는매개변수에 민감성을나타내었다.

The saturation of wet storage facilities constructed and operated within nuclear power plant sites has magnified the significance of research concerning the dry storage of spent nuclear fuel. Not only do wet storage facilities incur higher operational and maintenance costs compared to dry storage facilities, but long-term storage of metal-clad fuel assemblies submerged in aqueous tanks is deemed unsuitable. Consequently, dry storage is anticipated to gain prominence in the future. Nevertheless, it is widely acknowledged that quantitatively assessing the residual water content remains elusive even when employing the apparatus and procedures utilized in the existing dry storage processes. The presence of residual water can only be inferred from damage or structural alterations to the spent nuclear fuel during its dry storage, making precise prediction of this element crucial, as it can be a significant contributor to potential deformations and deterioration. The aforementioned challenges compound the issue of retrievability, as substantial complexities emerge when attempting to retrieve spent nuclear fuel for permanent disposal in the future. Consequently, our research team has established a laboratory-scale vacuum drying facility to investigate the sensitivity of various parameters, including canister volume, pump capacity, water surface area, and water temperature, which can exert thermohydraulic influences on residual water content. Moreover, we have conducted dimensional analysis to quantify the thermohydraulic effects of these parameters and express them as dimensionless numbers. These analytical approaches will subsequently be integrated into predictive models for residual water content, which will be further developed and validated at pilot or full-scale levels. Furthermore, our research team is actively engaged in experimental investigations aimed at fine-tuning the duration of the pressure-holding phase while optimizing the evaporation process under conditions designed to avert the formation of ice caused by abrupt temperature fluctuations. Given that the canister is constructed from acrylic material, we are able to identify, from a phenomenological perspective, the specific juncture at which the boiling phenomenon becomes manifest during the vacuum drying process.

This paper described a method for analyzing the structural performance of a metal container used for disposing radioactive waste generated during the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant, and numerical analysis results of a method for reinforcing the container. The containers to be analyzed were those that can be used in near-surface and landfill disposal facilities scheduled to be operated at the Gyeongju radioactive waste disposal facility. Structural reinforcement of the container was performed by lattice reinforcement, column reinforcement, and bottom plate reinforcement. Accordingly, a total of 14 reinforcement cases were modeled. The external force causing damage to the container was set equivalent to the impact of a 9-m fall, accounting for the height of the vault at the near-surface disposal facility. The reinforcement methods with a high contribution to the structural performance of the container were concluded to be lattice and column reinforcements.

The “shadow zone” is defined as a region below a flow obstacle, such as a vault, in unsaturated soils. Due to the capillary discontinuity of the cavity, water saturation on the top and side of the cavity is higher than the ambient saturation. On the bottom of the cavity, however, there is a region where water saturation is lower than ambient saturation. Undoubtedly, a shadow zone may also exist below a LILW disposal vault built in subsurface soils above the water table before the vault is fully degraded. During the degradation, flow in the shadow zone is controlled by the rate of water infiltrating the degrading vault. In this study, as one of the efforts to be made for enhancing safety margin by a realistic safety assessment of the engineered vault type LILW disposal facility, the shadow zone effect is investigated by a numerical parametric study using AMBER code. The conceptual model and data were excerpted from IAEA, ISAM Vault Test Case for the liquid release design scenario. It is assumed that the nearfield barriers degrade with time. In order to compare a visible shadow zone effect, the vault degradation period is assumed to be both 500 and 1,000 years, and the shadow zone depth to be varied according to unsaturated zone lithology. It can be seen that with a shorter shadow zone (2.7 m), radionuclides arrive at the water table earlier than with a full shadow zone (55 m) due to increased advection rate in the unsaturated zone. This effect tends to be more visible in the case of a longer degradation period. For radionuclides with short residence time relative to their half-lives in the unsaturated zone, such as Tc-99 and I-129, the radionuclides are shown to come out because they will arrive sooner, thereby allowing less peak release rate, when the shadow zone effect is considered. Once the vault is completely degraded and the infiltration rate of water flowing through the vault is equal to the ambient rate, the shadow zone effect disappears. In this example calculations using IAEA ISAM Vault Test Case input parameters, it might not be shown a significant shadow zone effect. Nevertheless, when the extent of the shadow zone is determined through more sophisticated hydraulic studies in the unsaturated soils surrounding the vault, the shadow zone effect would be checked up on the realistic near-field radionuclide transport modeling in order to contribute to gaining safety margins for post-closure safety assessment of the Wolsong 2nd phase LILW disposal facility.

In order to construct and operate the dry storage systems, it is essential to confirm the safety of the systems through safety analysis. If the dry storage cask is damaged due to an accident, a large amount of radioactive material may be leaked to the outside and cause radiation exposure to surrounding workers and nearby public, so the effect thereof should be evaluated. Many input parameter are required in the confinement evaluation for accident condition, and in this study, the change in the confinement evaluation result according to the change of major input parameter is to be studied. In this study, we selected fractions of radioactive materials available for release from spent fuel, cooling time, and distance to exclusive area boundary as the major input parameter. In general, the release fraction suggested by NUREG-1536 has been used, but NUREG-2224 provides the fraction for high burn-up spent fuel in fire and impact accident conditions, unlike NUREG-1536 which provide a single value. In the case of the distance to exclusive area boundary, 100 to 800 m was considered, and in the case of the cooling time, 10 to 50 years was considered in this study. In order to compare the dose change by the parameter, we set up the hypothetical storage system. A storage cask of the system contain 21 PWR spent fuel assemblies with an initial enrichment of 4.5wt%, burnup of 45,000 MWD/MTU. During the accident condition, it is assumed that the cask is leaked at 1.0×10−7cm3·sec−1. Since the main dose criterion for accident conditions is 50 mSv of effective dose, effective doses are calculated in this study. In an accident condition, transuranic particulate contribute most of the doses, so the doses are determined according to the fraction for the particulate. Therefore, it was confirmed that the dose was almost the same as the fraction for the accident conditions in NUREG-1536 and the fraction for the impact accident conditions in NUREG-2224 is 3×10−5, but the dose was also 100 times higher as the fraction for the fire accident conditions in NUREG-2224 is 3×10−3. In the case of the cooling time, it was confirmed that the dose change according to the cooling time was not significant because the dose contribution of transuranic elements having very long half-life was very large. In the case of the distance, it was confirmed that the dose decreased exponentially as the atmospheric dispersion factor decreased exponentially with the distance.

RC-SC 이종부재 접합부는 SC구조의 적용구간에 따라 RC-SC벽체 수평면 접합과 RC-SC벽체 연직면 접합 등 다양한 접합부 형태가 발생한다. 그러나 이종부재 접합부의 다양한 형태를 실증실험으로 모두 검증하기에는 비용과 시간 등 많은 제약사항이 존재한다. 선행연구에서 유한요소해석을 통해 다양한 이종부재 접합부 형태의 구조 건전성을 확인하고자 접합부 해석방법론을 개발 및 검증한바 있다. 본 연구에서는 RC-SC이종부재 접합부 해석 방법론을 개발하는 과정에서 선 수행한 요소별 해석결과, 제한조건 및 마찰계수별 해석결과 등 해석 시 요구되는 단계별 변수 해석결과를 분석/결정하여 RC-SC 이종부재 접합부 해석방법에 활용할 최적화된 변수를 선정하였다.

Structural behavior of blast-resistant door composed with steel plate and inner con’c core was analyzed according to composite and non-composite condition. The results showed that maximum and permanent deflection decrease in the case of composite condition. And as the impact on blast-resistant door increases and radical deformation occurs, there is not much difference in the deflection of the door.

A minimum reinforcement ratio is an important factor to prevent a brittle failure for RC flexural members. In this paper, a parametric study of minimum reinforcement ratio is performed according to concrete strength, steel yield strength and cover depth ratio for each design provisions. A minimum reinforcement ratio using a stress-strain model is suggested. And results show that this mode is able to reflect material strength and cross-section properties properly.

FRP에 대한 많은 연구가 진행상에 있으나 대부분 전단강화 효과에 중점을 두고 있다. 본 연구는 FRP RC 요소에 외부적으로 FRP Uwrap의 고정 효과에 중점을 두고 Uwrap의 거동에 영향을 주는 변수를 체계적으로 평가하였다.

In this paper, to overcome disadvantages of existing lining boards, the parametric studies to evaluate safety and verify performance of newly suggested lining boards was performed. Since the calculated stresses of steel plates are lower than the allowable stress for considered all analytical variables, end reinforcement locations, and crane rail loads, it can be concluded that the suggested lining board is structurally safe. Where, “3,000×2,000×6t” was select to be optimized cross-section and the reinforcement from the end to 200mm to the internal direction looks like the best case. In addition, the suggested lining board is economical since the steel amount per unit area compared to existing lining board is reduced by 36% and it can apply to the lining structural system of subway and underpass since construction speed is past due to the less installation number of lining boards.

For the safe design of steel-concrete composite structure, usable yield strength of steels are limited in most of design standard. However, this limitation sometimes cause the uneconomical design for some kind of members such as slender columns which was affected by elastic buckling load. For the economical design for slender columns, parametric study of RCFT (Rectangular CFT) with high-strength steel is conducted, especially investigating the limitation of yield strength of high-strength steels. Using ABAQUS, finite element analysis program, the finite element model was constructed and calibrated with experimental study for RCFT with high strength steel which have yield strength up to 680MPa. Investigated design parameters are yield strength of steel, compressive strength of concrete, steel thickness and slenderness ratio. The effect of desgn parameters were compared with design standard, KBC-09. From the parametric study with 54 models and previous test specimens, RCFT can be safely design with higher yield strength of steels than currently limited by KBC for large range of slenderness ratio.

This parametric study investigates the effect of significant parameters on the elastic global lateral torsional buckling capacity of horizontally curved twin I-girder systems. Included are the effect of curvature and the effect of girder spacing. Twin I-girder systems analyzed in this study are those which are interconnected by intermediate cross frames and are subjected to uniform moment. The finite element analysis software, ABAQUS, is used to model the horizontally curved twin I-girder system and conduct the buckling analysis. To see the significant effect of curvature and girder spacing, the results from the finite element analysis of horizontally curved twin I-girder systems are compared to the results of a closed form solution for straight twin I-girder systems. The findings of this parametric study will be shown using illustrative figures and tabulated data and conclusions are made.

This paper presents a parametric study of the effect of vertical ground motion on a simple RC frame with different geometric configurations including span length, span ratio and story height. The effects of a suite of earthquake ground motion records on RC frames are presented and the results are compared with the case of horizontal-only excitation. The structural response was investigated at both the global and the local levels. Interstory drift was considered as a global failure criterion, while the curvature ductility and shear capacity of structural members were monitored to assess failure on a local level. The effect of vertical ground motion on axial force and shear capacity is also investigated.

일반적으로 사용되는 철근콘크리트 교량의 바닥판에는 겨울철 과다한 염화칼슘의 사용과 그로인해 유발되는 성능저하로 인해 균열이 발생하고 수분이 침투하여 바닥판 내부의 철근이 부식됨으로써 균열이 생성 및 진전된다. 이러한 철근콘크리트 바닥판의 단점을 원천적으로 차단하기 위하여 바닥판 내부의 철근을 제거한 후 바닥판 외부에서 Steel strap을 이용하여 거더의 횡방향 거동을 구속시킴으로써 아칭효과를 극대화하고 내하력을 향상시킨 무철근 교량 바닥판이 최근에 개발 및 실용화되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 횡구속된 무철근 바닥판의 영향인자를 파악하기 위하여 콘크리트의 비선형성을 고려하였고 바닥판의 두께, 지간장 및 횡방향 구속강성도 등에 대하여 유한요소법을 이용한 매개변수해석을 수행했다. 또한, 이러한 해석결과를 활용하여 우리나라의 실정에 적합한 설계식을 제안하였다.

Integral abutment bridges (IABs) have been used only as short to medium long bridges because thermal displacements of IABs limit the bridge length. One of recent studies regarding IABs showed the use of a spiral rebar can effectively control the crack propagations of the pilecap (Frosch, 2009). Accordingly, in this study, parametric study of spiral rebar on pile-to-pilecap connection were performed.

Corrugated plate is made that the local buckling, global buckling and interactive buckling occurs because of the geometric properties such as the accordion effect.Corrugated steel having such characteristics is shows a buckling characteristic different from the plate. However, It was a design by the basis of the shear buckling equation of plate. Therefore, this study was investigate the characteristics of the shear buckling mode and shear buckling stress of sinusoidal corrugated plate through a parametric study using the finite element method.

A deterioration of typical reinforced concrete bridge deck is due to the use of calcium chloride, cracks and water penetration inside of the deck slab with steel reinforcement. Therefore, in order to eliminate the defects of reinforced-concrete decks in terms of material, the steel-straped deck system is studied and developed by maximizing the arching effect while the girders are restrained using straps in lateral direction to the bridge. This parametric study was performed to analyze the structural characteristics of steel-straped deck, and to identify the factors of the thickness, span length and lateral restraint stiffness of deck slab considering the concrete nonlinearity.

보에 의해 지지되지 않는 RC 플랫 플레이트는 강도 조건이 아닌 사용성의 지배를 받을 수 있다. 특히, 양생 초기의 슬래브에 발생하는 과하중과 인장 균열은 시공 중 플랫 플레이트에 심각한 처짐을 발생시키며, 시공 순서와 슬래브 처짐의 영향은 플랫 플레이트에서 중요한 요소이다. 이 연구에서는 시공단계, 콘크리트의 균열 및 장기처짐 효과를 고려하여 슬래브의 처짐을 산정한다. 제안된 방법을 사용하여 플랫 플레이트의 처짐에 대한 변수연구가 실시되었다. 슬래브의 시공주기, 동바리 지지층수, 인장 및 압축철근, 콘크리트 강도, 시공 활하중, 슬래브 두께를 변수로 하여, 시공 중 즉시처짐과 시공 완료 후 장기처짐에 대하여 조사하였다. 산정 결과는 건축구조설계기준에서 제시된 사용성 제한값과 비교하였다.