• Title/Summary/Keyword: Load Interaction Effect

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Improvement to Crack Retardation Models Using ″Interactive Zone Concept″

  • Lee, Ouk-Sub;Chen, Zhi-Wei
    • International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.72-77
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    • 2002
  • The load interaction effect can be best illustrated by the phenomenon of overload retardation. Some prediction methods for retardation are reviewed and the problems discussed in the present paper. The so-called under-load effect much of the retardation disappears if a very low level minimum stress follows the overload, is also of importance for a prediction model to work properly under random load spectrum. The concept of Interactive Zone (IZ) fully considering reversed plasticity during unloading was discussed. This IZ concept can be combined with existing models to derive some improved models that can naturally take account of the under-load effect. Some simulations by IZ improved models for test under complex load sequences including multiple overloads and both over/under loads are compared with test results. It is seen that the improvement by IZ concept greatly enhanced the ability of existing models to accommodate complex load interaction effects.

TMD effectiveness for steel high-rise building subjected to wind or earthquake including soil-structure interaction

  • Kontoni, Denise-Penelope N.;Farghaly, Ahmed Abdelraheem
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.423-432
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    • 2020
  • A steel high-rise building (HRB) with 15 stories was analyzed under the dynamic load of wind or four different earthquakes taking into consideration the effect of soil-structure interaction (SSI) and using tuned mass damper (TMD) devices to resist these types of dynamic loads. The behavior of the steel HRB as a lightweight structure subjected to dynamic loads is critical especially for wind load with effect maximum at the top of the building and reduced until the base of the building, while on the contrary for seismic load with effect maximum at the base and reduced until the top of the building. The TMDs as a successful passive resistance method against the effect of wind or earthquakes is used to mitigate their effects on the steel high-rise building. Lateral displacements, top accelerations and straining actions were computed to judge the effectiveness of the TMDs on the response of the steel HRB subjected to wind or earthquakes.

An Analytical and Experimental Wheel Tracking Study on Dynamic Interaction of Vehicle (차량의 동적 상호작용에 관한 이론연구 및 윤하중 실험)

  • Kim, Nak-Suk;Pak, Suk-Soon
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.39-52
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, an analytical and experimental study was performed in order to determine the effects of interaction between vehicle and structure. Results presented in the paper show that analytical method including moving load effect can investigate the trend of structural response due to dynamic interaction between vehicle and structure. The wheel tracking machine fitted with 2-axle test vehicle can demonstrate more accurate dynamic interaction between vehicle and structure than the wheel tracking machine fitted without 2-axle test vehicle.

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An Experimental Study of the Effect of Pile Cap on Behaviors of Group Piles (모형실험을 통한 사질토 지반에서의 무리말뚝 거동에 대한 상부기초 접촉 효과 연구)

  • 이수형;진봉근;정충기
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 1999.03a
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    • pp.259-266
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    • 1999
  • In case that pile cap is in direct contact with underlying soil, the bearing mechanism for pile groups, including direct bearing effect of cap and its induced influence on pile-soil-cap interaction, should be properly considered. In this paper, the effects of pile caps on behaviors of pile groups in sandy soils were investigated by model tests, which consist of tests on 3 by 3 pile groups with/without contact on subsoil, single pile with/without contact and cap as a shallow foundation. Also, the influences of pile spacing in group piles on contact effects were investigated. The test results showed that the load carrying capacity of pile cap was large enough not to be ignored. However, the interaction effects due to contact between cap and subsoils were not revealed obviously in working load range. And in the design of pile groups, the bearing effect of pile cap when contacted with subsoils, can be reflected by simply summing up load settlement behaviors of each cap and group piles without contact.

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Effect of soil-structure interaction on the reliability of hyperbolic cooling towers

  • Liao, Wen;Lu, Wenda;Liu, Renhuai
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.217-224
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    • 1999
  • A semi-stochastic process model of reliability was established for hyperbolic cooling towers subjected to combined loadings of wind force, self-weight, temperature loading. Effect of the soil-structure interaction on reliability was evaluated. By involving the gust factor, an equivalent static scheme was employed to convert the dynamic model to static model. The TR combination rule was used to consider relations between load responses. An analysis example was made on the 90M cooling tower of Maoming, Guangdong of China. Numerical results show that the design not including interaction turns to be conservative.

Load Carrying Effect on the Biomechanical Parameters of Slips and Falls (미끄러져 넘어짐의 생체학적 연구에 있어서 부하이동이 끼치는 영향)

  • Myung, Ro-Hae
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.197-202
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    • 2001
  • The biomechanical analysis of the load carrying effect on different floor surfaces has been conducted. Four different floor surfaces were prepared for ten subjects with each walking at a fixed velocity(1.33 m/sec) while carrying five different loads. The results showed that because of the significant interaction effect between floor slipperiness and the load carrying task, the load carrying effect should be analyzed according to different levels of the floor slipperiness, especially contaminant floors. On oily surfaces, slip distance(SD) and heel velocity (HV) increased whereas stride length(SL) decreased as load increased. In other words, significantly longer SD, faster HV, and no normal gait were found as load increased. As a result, a different protocol should be applied to measure floor slipperiness on oily floors as compared to dry surfaces for tribological approach.

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The Effect of Initial Combined Load on the Lateral Free Vibration on the Aarch and P-M Interaction Curve (아치의 곡률면외 자유진동 해석과 P-M상관도)

  • Jeun Kyo Young;Kim Sung Nam;Kim Jong Hun;Kang Young Jong
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2003.10b
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    • pp.495-500
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    • 2003
  • The effect of initial combined load on the lateral free vibration of arches is investigated. For the analysis, P-M interaction curves for the arches are obtained. The arches are circular arches which have constant cross-section and simply supported. Also, the arches are subjected both radial uniform distributed load which results in an axial compression on the cross-section and end moments that cause uniform bending action at the same time. All analysis are performed by finite element method based on Kang and Yoo's curved beam theory.

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Interaction of Flexure-Torsional by eccentric load in horizontal curved 'I' shape girder (편심하중이 작용하는 수평 곡선 I 형 거더의 휨·비틀림 상호작용)

  • Lim, Jeong-Hyeon;Lee, Kee-Sei;Kim, Hee-Soo;Choi, Jun-Ho;Kang, Young-Joung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.9
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    • pp.6385-6390
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    • 2015
  • With bending moment, torsional moment due to geometric properties as "Initial curvature" acts in horizontally curved I-girder. These behavior causes the secondary effect of bending in minor-axis because of interaction between bending and torsion. The bending and torsion interaction cause a loss of load bearing capacity by induced the early inelastic or plasticity condition in curved girder. Also eccentric load by movements of traffic can increase torsion. However, Equation of interaction between bending and torsion for straight girder, not deal with characteristics of curved girder behavior in previous studies, can be overestimated for ultimate strength in horizontally curved I-girder acting vertical force. Therefore, using more rational, obvious suggestion is required when design curved girder. In this study, we identified the bending-torsional moment interaction for the horizontally curved I-girder of the eccentric load acting by FEM analysis.

Interface friction in the service load assessment of slab-on-girder bridge beams

  • Seracino, R.;Kerby-Eaton, S.E.;Oehlers, D.J.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.259-269
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    • 2005
  • Many slab-on-girder bridges around the world are being assessed because they are approaching the end of their anticipated design lives or codes are permitting higher allowable loads. Current analytical techniques assume that the concrete and steel components act independently, typically requiring full-scale load testing to more accurately predict the remaining strength or endurance of the structure. However, many of the load tests carried out on these types of bridges would be unnecessary if the degree of interaction resulting from friction at the steel-concrete interface could be adequately modeled. Experimental testing confirmed that interface friction has a negligible effect on the flexural capacity of a slab-on-girder beam however, it also showed that interface friction is significant under serviceability loading. This has led to the development of an improved analytical technique which is presented in this paper and referred to as the slab-on-girder mixed analysis service load assessment approach.

Comparison of finite element analysis with wind tunnel test on stability of a container crane (컨테이너 크레인의 안정성에 대한 풍동실험과 유한요소해석의 비교)

  • Han, D.S.;Lee, S.W.;Han, G.J.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2008
  • This study is conducted to provide the proper analysis method to evaluate the stability of a container crane under wind load. Two analysis method, namely structure analysis and fluid-structure interaction, are adopted to evaluate the stability of a container crane in this investigation. To evaluate the effect of wind load on the stability of the crane, 50-ton class container crane widely used in container terminals is adopted for analysis model and 19-values are considered for wind direction as design parameter. We conduct structure analysis and fluid-structure interaction for a container crane with respect to the wind direction using ANSYS and CFX. Then we compare the uplift forces yielded from two analysis with it yielded from wind tunnel test. The results are as follows: 1) A correlation coefficient between structure analysis and wind tunnel test is lower than 0.65(as $0.29{\sim}0.57$), but between fluid-structure interaction and wind tunnel test is higher than 0.65(as $0.78{\sim}0.86$). 2) There is low correlation between structure analysis and wind tunnel test but very high correlation between fluid-structure interaction and wind tunnel test.

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