본 연구에서는 콘크리트 구조물의 내구성 고도화를 위하여 고속도로용 교각 기둥부에 대하여 내부 식성이 우수한 GFRP 보강근 적용하였으며, 설계적 분석, 축소모형 시험체 제작 및 성능 시험을 통하 여 실용화의 타당성를 검증하였다. 설계적으로 교각의 기둥부는 축방향 주철근을 GFRP 보강근으로 대체하였다. 일반적으로 GFRP는 압축부에 취약한 것으로 알려져 있으며, 국외 기준의 경우는 압축부 에 대하여 GFRP 보강근은 저항력이 없는 것으로 가정하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 탄성 교각에 대하여 기존 철근을 대체할 수 있는 GFRP 보강근의 설계적 방안 제시 및 실물 시험을 통한 성능 검증을 수 행하여 결과를 제시하였다. 본 연구 결과는 고속도로용 탄성 교각 기둥의 내구성 증진을 위한 설계 및 실용화에 있어 가능한 가이드라인을 제시할 것으로 기대된다. 다만, 본 연구에서 다룬 기둥부는 주철 근만을 GFRP 보강근으로 대체한 것으로, 향후 GFRP 나선형 보강근 등의 적용, GFRP의 축하중 분담 률 및 건조수축 크리프 특성, 기둥부의 최소 보강근비 산정 그리고 GFRP 보강근의 압축강도 측정법 등 상세 사항에 대한 추가적인 연구가 필요할 것이다.

In seismic design, hollow section concrete columns offer advantages by reducing the weight and seismic mass compared to concrete section RC bridge columns. However, the flexure-shear behavior and spirals strain of hollow section concrete columns are not well-understood. Octagonal RC bridge columns of a small-scale model were tested under cyclic lateral load with constant axial load. The volumetric ratio of the transverse spiral hoop of all specimens is 0.00206. The test results showed that the structural performance of the hollow specimen, such as the initial crack pattern, initial stiffness, and diagonal crack pattern, was comparable to that of the solid specimen. However, the lateral strength and ultimate displacement of the hollow specimen noticeably decreased after the drift ratio of 3%. The columns showed flexure-shear failure at the final stage. Analytical and experimental investigations are presented in this study to understand a correlation confinement steel ratio with neutral axis and a correlation between the strain of spirals and the shear resistance capacity of steel in hollow and solid section concrete columns. Furthermore, shear strength components (Vc, Vs., Vp) and concrete stress were investigated.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the seismic behavior of hollow reinforced concrete bridge column systems with reinforcement details for material quantity reduction and to provide the details and reference data. Five hollow reinforced concrete bridge columns were tested under a constant axial load and a cyclically reversed horizontal load. The accuracy and objectivity of the assessment process can be enhanced by using a sophisticated nonlinear finite element analysis program. The adopted numerical method gives a realistic prediction of seismic performance throughout the loading cycles for several the investigated test specimens. This study documents the testing of hollow reinforced concrete bridge column systems with reinforcement details for material quantity reduction and presents conclusions based on the experimental and analytical findings.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of hollow reinforced concrete bridge column systems with reinforcement details for material quantity reduction. The proposed reinforcement details have economic feasibility and rationality and make construction periods shorter. A model of hollow reinforced concrete bridge columns was tested under a constant axial load and a quasi-static cyclically reversed horizontal load. As a result, proposed reinforcement details for material quantity reduction were equal to existing reinforcement details in terms of required performance. The companion paper presents the experimental and analytical study for the performance assessment of hollow reinforced concrete bridge column systems with reinforcement details for material quantity reduction.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the inelastic behavior of hollow reinforced concrete bridge column sections with reinforcement details for material quantity reduction and to provide the details and reference data. Among the numerous parameters, this study concentrates on the shape of the section, the reinforcement details, the diameter of the transverse reinforcement and loading types. Eighteen column section specimens were tested under quasi-static monotonic loading. In this study, the computer program RCAHEST (Reinforced Concrete Analysis in Higher Evaluation System Technology) was used. A modified lateral confining effect model was adopted for the hollow bridge column sections. This study documents the testing of hollow reinforced concrete bridge column sections with reinforcement details for material quantity reduction and presents conclusions based on the experimental and analytical findings.:

The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of hollow reinforced concrete bridge column sections with reinforcement details for material quantity reduction. The proposed reinforcement details has have economic feasibility and rationality and makes construction periods shorter. A model of column sections with reinforcement details for material quantity reduction was tested under quasistatic monotonic loading. As a result, the proposed reinforcement details for material quantity reduction was were equal to existing reinforcement details in terms of the required performance. In the a subsequent paper, the an experimental and analytical study will be performed for the performance assessment of hollow reinforced concrete bridge column sections with reinforcement details for material quantity reduction will be performed.

The bridges with damage can be a huge threat to human society. However, AASHTO (2012) and Korean Highway Bridge Design Code (2012) do not account for dynamic impacts for bridge column design under the impact loading. It recommends static force for bridge column design due to high computational cost and analysis time. In this study, in order to reduce the computational cost and time for the dynamic analysis, low dimensional model for the dynamic analysis was developed and residual displacements were compared with direct impact analysis.

Current design codes (AASHTO, Korean Highway Bridge Design Code) do not account for dynamic effects. Since, the dynamic impact analysis is complicate to recommend and analysis. In this study, concrete bridge column were developed with two boundary conditions in order to take account dynamic behavior of the column and in-direct impact analysis was conducted. Furthermore, a comparison study of in-direct impact analysis with direct impact analysis was conducted.

Current design standards (Korea Highway Bridge Design, AASHTO), the dynamic behavior under the impact loading has not been considered, only considered static force for designing bridge column against vehicle collisions. In this study, vehicle collisions to concrete bridge column were developed with various boundary conditions, and a comparison study of direct impact analysis of vehicle to bridge-column with in-direct impact analysis was performed.

The bridge is one of the important infrastructures. If vehicle collision is occurred in bridge column, It can caused for bridge collapse. Bridge columns are vulnerable to impact loadings of Vehicles. In this study, Non-linear dynamic analysis of reinforced concrete bridge column in impact loading were performed using LS-Dyna.