Methods for predicting the ultimate/buckling strength of ship structures have been extensively improved in terms of design formulas and analytical solutions. In recent years, the design strategy of ships and offshore structures has tended to emphasize lighter builds and improve operational safety. Therefore, the corresponding geometrical changes in design necessitate the use of high-tensile steel and thin plates. However, the existing design formulas were mainly developed for thick plates and mild steels. Therefore, the calculation methods require appropriate modification for new designs beased on high-tensile steel and thin plates. In this study, a modified formula was developed to predict the ultimate strength of thin steel plates subjected to compressive and shear loads. Based on the numerical results, the effects of the yield stress, slenderness ratio, and loading condition on the buckling/ultimate strength of steel plates were examined, and a newly modified double-beta parameter formula was developed. The results were used to derive and modify existing closed-form expressions and empirical formulas to predict the ultimate strength of thin-walled steel structures.

This study deals with the microstructure and tensile properties of 700 MPa-grade high-strength and seismic reinforced steel bars. The high-strength reinforced steel bars (600 D13, 600 D16 and 700 D13 specimens) are fabricated by a TempCore process, while the seismic reinforced steel bar (600S D16 specimen) is fabricated by air cooling after hot rolling. For specimens fabricated by the TempCore process, the 600 D13 and 600 D16 specimens have a microstructure of tempered martensite in the surface region and ferrite-pearlite in the center region, while the 700 D13 specimen has a microstructure of tempered martensite in the surface region and bainite in the center region. Therefore, their hardness is the highest in the surface region and shows a tendency to decrease from the surface region to the center region because tempered martensite has a higher hardness than ferrite-pearlite or bainite. However, the hardness of the 600S D16 specimen, which is composed of fully ferritepearlite, increases from the surface region to the center region because the pearlite volume fraction increases from the surface region to the center region. On the other hand, the tensile test results indicate that only the 700 D13 specimen with a higher carbon content exhibits continuous yielding behavior due to the formation of bainite in the center region. The 600S D16 specimen has the highest tensile-to-yield ratio because the presence of ferrite-pearlite and precipitates caused by vanadium addition largely enhances work hardening.

This paper presents a study of the tensile properties of austenitic high-manganese steel specimens with different grain sizes. Although the stacking fault energy, calculated using a modified thermodynamic model, slightly decreased with increasing grain size, it was found to vary in a range of 23.4 mJ/m2 to 27.1 mJ/m2. Room-temperature tensile test results indicated that the yield and tensile strengths increased; the ductility also improved as the grain size decreased. The increase in the yield and tensile strengths was primarily attributed to the occurrence of mechanical twinning, as well as to the grain refinement effect. On the other hand, the improvement of the ductility is because the formation of deformation-induced martensite is suppressed in the high-manganese steel specimen with small grain size during tensile testing. The deformationinduced martensite transformation resulting from the increased grain size can be explained by the decrease in stacking fault energy or in shear stress required to generate deformation-induced martensite transformation.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the mechanical behaviors and structural integrity of the weldment of high strength steel by using an acoustic emission (AE) techniques. Monotonic simple tension and AE tests were conducted against the 3 kinds of welded specimen. In order to analysis the effectiveness of weldability, joinability and structural integrity, we used K-means clustering method as a unsupervised learning pattern recognition algorithm for obtained multi-variate AE main data sets, such as AE counts, energy, amplitude, hits, risetime, duration, counts to peak and rms signals. Through the experimental results, the effectiveness of the proposed method is discussed.

본 연구에서는 강섬유로 보강한 고강도 콘크리트의 인장 특성에 관한 실험 연구를 수행하였다. 부피비 1%의 강섬유를 혼입하여 직접인장강도 시편과 3점 하중재하 휨 실험을 위한 프리즘 시편을 제작하였다. 제작된 시편은 균열 유도를 위하여 시편 중앙에 노치를 설정하였으며, 각 평가방법에 따라 실험을 수행하였다. 우선, 콘크리트의 균열 후 거동 특성을 파악하기 위하여 직접인장강도 실험을 수행하여 응력-변형률 곡선을 분석하였으며, 3점 하중재하 휨 실험을 통하여 하중-CMOD 곡선을 얻고, 역해석을 수행하여 응력-변형률 곡선을 분석하였다.

In this paper, fracture behavior of high-strength SFRC with high tensile strength steel fiber was investigated. Two different steel fibers with tensile strength of 1,200 and 1,600 MPa was used in SFRC specimens. Tst results showed that fracture behavior was more ductile with increasing the steel fiber tensile strength.

This paper describes the mechanical properties of high strength concrete with 1,600 MPa strength steel fiber. The fiber aspect ratio and fiber volume fraction used in this study is 80 and 0.75%. The Cylindrical specimens with ∅150×300 mm and the prisms with 150×150×550 mm were mad and tested in accordance with KS F2403 and ASTM C1609. As the result, specimens with high strength fiber has superior performance then that with normal strength fiber.

In this paper, finite element analysis of high-strength SFRC with high tensile strength steel fiber was investigated. Compressive and flexural behavior was ductile when using steel fiber tensile strength 1,600 MPa. Thorenfeldt and Trilinear models were used to describe the compressive and tensile behavior. Inverse analysis was performed to construct tensile model by evaluating flexural behavior. The flexural behavior of test results were similar to analysis results.

This study investigates the effects of compressive strengths on mechanical properties of concrete with compressive strengths of 40 and 80 MPa. In this study, The steel fiber an aspect ratio of 64 and a tensile strength of 1,600 MPa used. As the result, There are no significant effect of fiber tensile strength on mechanical properties of normal strength SFRC. For high strength SFRC, Specimen with high strength fiber have superior performance then that with normal strength fiber.

This paper describes the effects of tensile strength and aspect ratio of steel fiber on flexural behavior of high-strength SFRC notched beam. Test results indicated that flexural properties of SFRC improved with increasing in aspect ratio and tensile strength of steel fiber.

In this study, We evaluated the applicability of high performance fiber reinforced cementitious composite (HPFRCC) with compressive strength of 180, 140 and 100 MPa and identical contents in steel fiber. The analysis of the flexure tensile behavior showed that HPRFCC presents deflection hardening after the initiation of cracks and exhibits higher energy absorbing capacity with high compressive strength.