Recently, in newly constructed apartment buildings, the exterior wall structures have been characterized by thinness, having various openings, and a significantly low reinforcement ratio. In this study, a nonlinear finite element analysis was performed to investigate the crack damage characteristics of the exterior wall structure. The limited analysis models for a 10-story exterior wall were constructed based on the prototype apartment building, and nonlinear static analysis (push-over analysis) was performed. Based on the finite element (FE) analysis model, the parametric study was conducted to investigate the effects of various design parameters on the strength and crack width of the exterior walls. As the parameters, the vertical reinforcement ratio and horizontal reinforcement ratio of the wall, as well as the uniformly distributed longitudinal reinforcement ratio and shear reinforcement ratio of the connection beam, were addressed. The analysis results showed that the strength and deformation capacity of the prototype exterior walls were limited by the failure of the connection beam prior to the flexural yielding of the walls. Thus, the increase of wall reinforcement limitedly affected the failure modes, peak strengths, and crack damages. On the other hand, when the reinforcement ratio of the connection beams was increased, the peak strength was increased due to the increase in the load-carrying capacity of the connection beams. Further, the crack damage index decreased as the reinforcement ratio of the connection beam increased. In particular, it was more effective to increase the uniformly distributed longitudinal reinforcement ratio in the connection beams to decrease the crack damage of the coupling beams, regardless of the type of the prototype exterior walls.

As the Inter-floor Thermal Insulation Regulation of apartment house applies, in this study, indoor thermal performance and downward heat loss between the cases when insulation exists and doesn t exist change in the thickness of the structure slab under the inter-floor noise isolation standard, and thermal characteristic of typical floor structure will be compared and analyzed through simulation. And the resultant information will be provided as the basic data for designing Ondol heating design suitable for the property of apartment houses in Korea. As the Inter-floor Thermal Insulation Regulation applies since 2001, upward thermal performance was found to increase by 2~3% but downward heat loss decrease by approx. 30% or more representing that remarkable portion of downward heat loss is reduced. As result of comparing five prototype floor structures, upward thermal performance of the standard floor structure was found to be 70~71 W/㎡ while downward heat loss was, in the case of prototype floor structure, 10~11 W/㎡. As result of simulating the change in thermal performance as per the height of hot water supply pipes, it was found that upward thermal performance increases as the height of pipe gets higher. On the other hand, the difference of temperature between the place right above the pipe and the in-between place gets larger, which implies that thermal performance and difference of hot water temperature should be taken into account in the design of Ondol structure. The difference of upward thermal performances according to the height of pipe and downward heat losses were found to be approx. 10.8% and 5.81% respectively. The thermal performance information in prototype floor structure suggested in this study will be used for the basic data for the design of Ondol heating design.

Earthquake is one of the hazard so hard to provide because it is difficult predicted occurred time, scale and characters. Neighbors which have damaged by earthquake look out for statement of damage, It is bigger than nation which has not prepared seismic code at ordinary time seismic damage which belong to loss of life. The earthquake in Kobe, Japan showed that the damages were concentrated on the buildings which were not considered to be protected from the earthquakes. Seismic code applied structures was small damaged but non applied structures was much damaged such as collapse and loss of life. In this study, apartment structures in Korea analyze about earthquake hazard and evaluate seismic performance. Through the this study we have notice of earthquake hazard for apartment structures which live a lot of population of Korea and suppose necessary for seismic retrofit.

A standard RC apartment structure was analysed using commercial structural analysis program MIDAS. The effects of TLD were considered by equivalent tuned mass damper model and harmonic load of wmch frequency was identical to that of the RC structure and artificial earthquake loads generated accroding to the design spectrum in KBC2005 were used as excitation loads. TLD showed maximally 70% reduction of peak/RMS relative displacement, interstory drift, acceleration, and story shear induced by harmonic load while it reduced about 20~28% of those structural responses excluding absolute acceleration induced by artificial earthquake loads.

Before incorporating the earthquake-resistance design in design code(1988), most of existing residential buildings were built without having lateral resistance capacity in addition to their structural peculiarity such as exterior stair ways, exterior elevator room. For these reasons, the retrofitting research demands for existing buildings arise recently and many retrofitting methods are proposed. These tasks are irnportant to reduce the enormous economic loss and environmental issues. The objective of this study is to predict the perforrnance increase due to various strengthen schemes and suggest adequate strengthen methods for wall type apartment buildings not designed to resist earthquake.

구조물의 지진해석시 구조물-지반 상호작용의 영향을 무시할 수 없으며, 기초지반강성에 따른 구조물의 지진응답에 커다란 차이가 있다는 것은 이미 잘 알려져 있다. 이러한 인식에도 불구하고, 현재 벽식구조 아파트의 지진해석시 기조지반의 특성을 무시하고 기초가 매우 단단한 것으로 가정하여 지진해석을 수행하고 있다 본 연구에서는 구조형식이 독특한 의식구조 아파트 지진해석을 연약지반을 고려하여 수행하고, 지진응답을 암반과 UBC-97 지반조건의 연약지반을 고려한 지진응답과 비교분석하였다. 깊은 연약지반 위에 세워진 중, 저층 벽식구조 아파트의 내진거동은 기조의 절연효과로 지진응답이 크게 감소된 강체거동을 보여 UBC-97 설계응답스펙 트럼으로 내진설계를 하는 것은 보수적인 설계로 안전은 하지만 상당히 비경제적인 것으로 판단되었다.

최근 들어 건물의 내진 및 내풍 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 감쇠구조에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 감쇠장치 중 저렴한 비용과 높은 에너지소산능력을 발휘하며, 설치와 유지관리가 용이하다는 장점이 있어 강재이력형 감쇠장치를 이용한 수동형 감쇠구조시스템이 널리 사용 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 라멘구조 또는 무량판 구조에 적합한 계단 설치형 카고메 감쇠시스템(SKDS)을 제안하고자 하며, 제안된 감쇠시스템의 지진응답 개선효과에 대하여 해석적으로 검토하고자 한다. 비선형 동적해석결과 최대응답변위, 최대응답가속도 및 밑면전단력 감소로 살펴볼 때 내진구조와 비교하여 더 향상된 거동이 기대된다는 점에서 SKDS의 효과를 확인할 수 있었다.

이 논문은 지진응답을 감소시키기 위해 외부설치형 카고메 감쇠시스템의 유효성을 비선형 동적 해석 결과를 통해 나타내었다. 이 전의 연구에 의해 제안된 카고메 감쇠시스템을 활용하여 본 연구에서는 등방성, 이선형 이력특성 및 설치구성이 새롭게 제안하였다. 또한, 외부접합형 카고메 감쇠시스템의 여러 가지 효과를 15층 및 20층 철근콘크리트 라멘조 아파트를 대상으로 검증하였다. 원구조물에 대한 감쇠장 치 지지구조물의 강성비, 감쇠장치의 수량 및 설치 층수는 설계변수로 고려하였다. 수치해석결과, EKDS는 기존의 한 방향 층간에 설치되는 감 쇠시스템과 비교할 때 더 작은 수를 적용하여도 두 방향의 지진하중을 감소시키는데 매우 효과적임을 입증되었다.

This study is based on a survey conducted to understand the current problems of water leakages in underground structures. According to the overall results, 55.7% of the respondents replied that water leakage problems is serious and all replied that a preventative measure is absolutely necessary.