The ductility of the system based on the capacity of each structural member constituting the seismic force-resisting system is a significant factor determining the structure’s seismic performance. This study aims to provide a procedure to supplement the current seismic design criteria to secure the system’s ductility and improve the seismic performance of the steel ordinary moment frames. For the study, a nonlinear analysis was performed on the 9- and 15-story model buildings, and the formation of collapse mechanisms and damage distribution for dynamic loads were analyzed. As a result of analyzing the nonlinear response and damage distribution of the steel ordinary moment frame, local collapse due to the concentration of structural damage was observed in the case where the influence of the higher mode was dominant. In this study, a procedure to improve the seismic performance and avoid inferior dynamic response was proposed by limiting the strength ratio of the column. The proposed procedure effectively improved the seismic performance of steel ordinary moment frames by reducing the probability of local collapse.

The use of dampers is being considered a means to improve the seismic performance of buildings. It may take considerable time and effort to find an optimal design solution since repeated three-dimensional nonlinear time history analyses are required. Therefore, a preliminary design procedure for seismic retrofit using hysteretic dampers was proposed in this study. In the proposed procedure, the amount of retrofit (required number of dampers) is estimated from the capacity curve of the building before retrofit and allowable story drift of the building. In combining the capacity curves of the building and the dampers, the deformation demand for the dampers can be easily checked against their deformation capacity. The equations to transform the device displacement to roof displacement for the combination of capacity curves are developed. The proposed procedure was applied to the seismic retrofit design of sample buildings. The study found that the estimated capacity curve was very close to the actual capacity curve obtained from the pushover analysis, which can determine an appropriate configuration to meet the required seismic performance.

In a previous paper, ambient vibration tests were conducted on a cable stayed bridge with resilient-friction base isolation systems (R-FBI) to extract the dynamic characteristics of the bridge and compare the results with a seismic analysis model. In this paper, a nonlinear seismic analysis model was established for analysis of the bridge to compare the difference in seismic responses between nonlinear time history analysis and multi-mode spectral analysis methods in the seismic design phase of cable supported bridges. Through these studies, it was confirmed that the seismic design procedures of the “Korean Highway Bridge Design Code (Limit State Design) for Cable Supported Bridges” is not suitable for cable supported bridges installed with R-FBI. Therefore, to reflect the actual dynamic characteristics of the R-FBI installed on cable-supported bridges, an improved seismic design procedure is proposed that applies the seismic analysis method differently depending on the seismic isolation effect of the R-FBI for each seismic performance level.

In this study, a design procedure for the practical application of the dampers to building structures under earthquake loads was presented by using earthquake response spectrum. Nonlinear time history results using a 10 story building structure installed with damper verified the effectiveness of the proposed procedure by showing that the structural response could be reduced to the target performance level for seismic loads. Since the proposed design procedures are based on response spectrum seismic analysis result of the original structure, the capacity, location and the number of damper and the consequent response reduction effects can be preliminarily determined without performing the nonlinear time history analysis.

Since 2003, policies and practices related to the reduction of CO2 gas emission from ships has been discussing by the International Maritime Organization. The representative emission index and indicator are the EEDI (Energy Efficiency Design Index) for the new ships and EEOI (Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator) during the voyage. In this paper a water tank test and procedure development are introduced for the purpose of improving EEDI. The results showed good agreement explaining the characteristics properly.

The Main Control Room(MCR) of Korean Next Generation Reactor(KNGR) has faced entirely new operation environment. The Computerized Procedure System(CPS) is completely different from existed Paper-based Procedure(PBP). The CPS which is improved by evaluation in this study is ready to be applied to the ergonomic foundations. In this study, we redesigned displays of the CPS as a Man-Machine Interface System(MMIS) to maximize human performance and to minimize human error and proposed an alternative display designs of the CPS applying principles related with MMIS.

본 논문의 목적은 탄성과 비탄성 구조물의 지진응답제어를 위한 마찰감쇠기의 설계절차를 제시하는 것이다. ATC-40과 ATC-55를 이용하여 비탄성 구조물의 등가선형감쇠비와 등가선형주기를 구하였고, 이에 기초하여 목표 성능을 만족하기 위한 마찰감쇠기의 최대마찰력을 결정하는 식을 제시하였다. 이 식은 항복 전후 강성비와 요구되는 탄성강도에 대한 항복강도비, 그리고 구조물의 주기에 따라 비선형 수치해석과 오차가 발생한다. 수식에 의해 산출한 최대마찰력과 비선형 수치 해석에 의해 산출된 값과의 오차를 줄이기 위하여, 최소 제곱법을 사용하여 오차 보정식을 제시하였다. 수치해석결과는 제안된 보정식을 사용하면 탄성 및 비탄성 지진응답제어를 위한 마찰감쇠기의 설계를 합리적으로 수행할 수 있음을 보여준다

본 연구의 목적은 건축구조물의 지진응답제어를 위한 MR 감쇠기의 크기, 개수 및 최적위치를 결정하는 설계절차를 제안하는 것이다. 기존의 연구에서 제안된 MR 감쇠기의 모델링 방법들의 특성과 차이점을 진동제어효과의 관점에서 분석하였으며, 이 모델 중 해석이 간단하고 이력특성을 모사할 수 있는 이력 이점성 모델을 사용하여 MR 감쇠기의 변수연구를 수행하였다. 건축구조물의 층간에 설치되는MR 감쇠장치의 용량은 지진응답의 경우 구조물의 주기와 감쇠비에 따라 층전단력이 다르게 됨을 고려하여, 20개의 지진하중에 대한 해석으로부터 구한 응답스펙트럼을 이용하여 결정하였으며, 설치 갯수에 따른 제어경향을 분석하였다. MR 감쇠기의 크기, 개수, 그리고 최적위치를 결정하기 위한 방법이 제안되었으며, 기존의 점성감쇠기 설계시 이용되는 층간변위 혹은 층간속도가 가장 큰 층에 순차적으로 설치하는 방법과의 비교를 통해 유효성을 검증하였다. 수치해석결과는 제안된 방법을 사용하여 MR 감쇠기의 크기, 개수, 그리고 위치를 합리적으로 결정할 수 있음을 보여준다

In this paper, the preliminary design procedure of magnetorheological (MR) dampers is developed for controlling the building response induced by seismic excitation. The dynamic characteristics and control effects of the modeling methods of MR dampers such as Bingham, biviscous, hysteretic biviscous, simple Bouc-Wen, Bouc-Wen with mass element, and phenomenological models are investigated. Of these models, hysteretic biviscous model which is simple and describes the hysteretic characteristics, is used for numerical studies. The capacity of MR damper is determined as a portion of not the building weight but the lateral restoring force. A method is proposed for optimal placement and number of MR dampers, and its effectiveness is verified by comparing it with the simplified sequential search algorithm. Numerical results indicate that the capacity, number and the placement can be reasonably determined using the proposed design procedure

This study establishes the procedure of design for unit of buckling resistance steel damper including of the geometric size for sim plate.

This study establishes the procedure of design for unit of buckling resistance steel damper including of the geometric size for sim plate.

Recently, it is established to Limit State Design(LSD) method such as Eurocode, AASHTO LRFD, KBDC(LSD)2012 which is a design criteria of reliability-based according to the international standards. But it requires sufficient reviews of the bridge assessment method applied to this LSD method because current assessment methods are ASD and USD. In this study, in order to be compared with a previous diagnosis data and utilize to assessment methods studies based on the LSD, we have proposed the introduction of the way to improve the existing evaluation procedures.