This study presents a sustainable design method to optimize the embodied energy and CO2 emission complying with the design code for reinforced concrete column. The sustainable design method effectively achieves the minimization of the environmental load and energy consumption whereas the conventional design method has been mostly focused on the cost saving. Failure of reinforced concrete column exhibits compressive or tensile failure mode against an external force such as flexure and compression; thus, optimization analyses are conducted for both failure modes. For the given sections and reinforcement ratios, the optimized sections are determined by optimizing cost, embodied energy, and CO2 emission and various aspects of the sections are thoroughly investigated. The optimization analysis results show that 25% embodied energy and 55% CO2 emission can be approximately reduced by 10% increase in cost. In particular, the embodied energy and CO2 emission were more effectively reduced in the tensile failure mode rather than in the compressive failure mode. Consequently, it was proved that the sustainable design method effectively implements the concept of sustainable development in the design of reinforced concrete structure by optimizing embodied energy consumption and CO2 emission.

본 연구에서는 지진하중을 받는 철근콘크리트(Reinforced Concrete : RC) 교각의 효율적인 최적설계 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 RC 교각 최적설계 알고리즘은 효율적인 강도재해석 기법을 기초로 하고 있다. 또한 RC 교각의 특성을 고려하여 제약조건 소거기법과 같은 근사화 기법을 도입 하였다. 기존의 최적설계 방법 비교를 통해 제안한 RC 교각의 최적설계 방법의 효율성과 신뢰성을 비교하였다. 그리고 시방서의 내진 규정에 따른 수치예제를 통하여 제안한 강도재해석기법에 의한 새로운 알고리즘이 기존의 최적설계 방법에 비해 효율성과 신뢰도가 우수하다는 것을 입증하였다.

Recently, fiber-reinforced concrete has been commonly applied to floor slabs. Therefore, this study introduces a program that can determine an optimum content of fibers incorporated in concrete accounting for the flexural and punching shear capacities, as well as serviceability conditions in the design of fiber-reinforced concrete floor slabs.