• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.803-815
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• 1997

It is well understood that concentrated forces applied in the plane of a beam or panel (such as a wall or slab) lead to splitting forces developing within a disturbed region forming beyond the bearing zone. In a linearly elastic material the length of the disturbed region is approximately equal to the depth of the member. In concrete structures, however, the length of the disturbed region is a function of the orthotropic properties of the concrete-steel composite. In the detailing of steel reinforcement within the disturbed regions two limit states must be satisfied; strength and serviceability (in this case the serviceability requirement being acceptable crack widths). If the design requires large redistribution of stresses, the member may perform poorly at service and/or overload. In this paper the results of a plane stress finite element investigation of concentrated loads on reinforced concrete panels are presented. Two cases are examined (i) panels loaded concentrically, and (ii) panels loaded eccentrically. The numerical investigation suggests that the bursting force distribution is substantially different from that calculated using elastic design methods currently used in some codes of practice. The optimum solution for a uniformly reinforced bursting region was found to be with the reinforcement distributed from approximately 0.2 times the effective depth of the member ($0.2D_e$) to between $1.2D_e$ and $1.6D_e$. Strut and tie models based on the finite element analyses are proposed herein.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2005년도 봄학술 발표회 논문집(I)
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• pp.39-42
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• 2005

This test program is to investigate the benefits of using headed bars to replace conventional stirrups and using steel fibers to reinforce in the disturbed regions in the dapped ended beam, This distribution of reinforcement was selected for aspects associated with the portion of beam section in bridge structures. The beams containing T-headed bars have a superior performance such as improved ductility, larger energy adsorption and enhanced post-peak load carrying capability. The capacity of DEB with steel fibers also show increase of ductility, shear strength, and crack.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제77권2호
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• pp.273-291
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• 2021

The strut-and-tie method (STM) has been widely accepted and used as a rational approach for the design of disturbed regions ('D' regions) of reinforced concrete members such as in corbels and deep beams, where traditional flexure theory does not apply. This paper evaluates the applicability of the equilibrium based STM in strength predictions of deep beams (with rectangular and circular cross-section) and corbels using the available experiments in literature. STM is found to give fairly good results for corbel and deep beams. The failure modes of these deep members are also studied, and an optimum amount of distribution reinforcement is suggested to eliminate the premature diagonal splitting failure. A comparison with existing empirical and semi empirical methods also show that STM gives more reliable results. The nonlinear finite element analysis (NLFEA) of 50 deep beams and 20 corbels could capture the complete behaviour of deep members including crack pattern, failure load and failure load accurately.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2004

Benthic pollution assessment based on macrobenthic community structure with environmental variables was carried out at twelve stations during two periods on a presumed pollution gradient in Gamak Bay. Univariate and multivariate methods were applied to investigate structural changes in the benthic communities. A clear gradient of pollution effects on the macrobenthic community was observed from the interior to the exterior of the bay. The community on the northwestern basin was severely disturbed due to a low level of hydrodynamics and a large amount of pollutant input from nearby cities. Exterior regions on the southern basin appeared to have the best benthic environmental characteristics among all stations according to most methods of analysis. Central ridge regions and two stations around the islets in the mouth of the bay exhibited intermediate levels of perturbation when compared to the more disturbed interior and undisturbed exterior regions. Pollution effects on the communities were attenuated at the southern area of the central ridge during spring compared to those of summer, where aquacultural farming was densely distributed. The environmental variables primarily correlated to the macrobenthic community structure were total organic carbon (C), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), and tributyltins (TBTs), contents found on the surface sediment, as anthropogenic variables indicating organic materials.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2004년도 추계 학술발표회 제16권2호
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• pp.49-52
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• 2004

In this studies, Dapped End Beams(DEB) having disturbed regions were designed by using strut tie model, and the main purpose of this paper is that whether T-headed bars and Steel fibers will be present or not. The ability of DEB with T-headed bars have a superior performance rather than others, such as improved ductility, larger energy adsorption and enhanced post-peak load carrying capability. The capacity of DEB with steel fibers also show increase of ductility, shear strength, fatigue strength and crack. Each DEB with both headed bars and steel fibers, headed bars, and steel fibers as a substitute reinforced steel in the disturbed regions and a DEB with only stirrup and tie reinforced steel were comparable. In contrast, the headed bar stirrups, the tie headed bars and the reinforced steel fibers did not lose their anchorage and hence were able to develop strain hardening and also served to delay buckling of the flexural compression steel. Excellent load-deflection predictions were obtained by increasing the tension stiffening effect to account for high load effects.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.621-634
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• 2021

For the reliable strut-and-tie model (STM) design of disturbed regions of concrete members, structural designers must accurately determine the strength of concrete struts to check the strength conditions of a selected STM el and the anchorage of reinforcing bars in nodal zones. In this study, the author proposed a consistent numerical method for strut strength, applicable to all two-dimensional STMs. The proposed method includes the effects of a biaxial stress state associated with tensile strains in reinforcing bars crossing a strut, deviation angle between strut orientation and compressive principal stress flow, and degree of confinement provided by reinforcement. The author examined the method's validity through the STM prediction of the ultimate strengths of 517 reinforced concrete (RC) deep beams, 24 RC panels, and 258 RC corbels, all tested to failure.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.171-183
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• 1997

설악산 매표소에서 양폭산장에 이르는 천불동계곡지역의 나비군집의 특성을 구명하기 위하여, 1996년 6월부터 10월까지 월별로 나비의 종구성, 다양도와 풍부도 및 생존전략별 분포특성 등을 선조사법으로 조사하였다. 다양도와 풍부도의 평가를 위해 강원도와 경기도 및 부산 등지의 8개 지역에서 동일한 방법으로 조사한 결과를 비교하였다. 조사결과 7과 18종이 발견되었다. 과거기록을 포함하여 천불동계곡지역에서 서식이 확인된 나비류는 7과 48종이었다. 기분포종 44종 중 30종은 미발견되었고, 미발견종 중 청띠신서난비는 밀도감소 가능성이 있는 것으로 추정되었다. 출현종 중 큰줄흰나비, 애기세줄나비 및 뿔나비는 천불동계곡지역의 보통종이었고, 우리나라의 대표적인 보통종들인 배추흰나비, 노랑나비, 호랑나비는 희귀하였다. PGA(Principal Component Analysis)좌표분석 결과 나비군집의 종구성과 종별분포를 결정하는 주요인은 인간간섭으로 추정되었다. 다양도는 간섭지역과 비간섭지역에서 차이가 없었고 풍부도는 간섭지역이 더 높게 나타났다. 비교지역들에 비해서는 천불동계곡지역의 나비군집은 풍부도는 현저시 낮게, 다양도는 약간 낮게 나타났다. 생존 전략별로 다소 다른 분포특성이 나타났는데, 비전문가(generalist)는 전문가(specialist)에 비해 간섭지역에 출현하는 종이 많았고, 간섭지역과 비간섭지역에 널리 분포하는 종이 많았다.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.105-112
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• 1998

Characteristics of species distribution in the Baekdoo Great Mountain Chain of Kangwon Province were discussed. Resulting from Detrending Correspondence Analysis based on the floristic composition of 48 mountains, the mountains of the Baekdoo chain tended to aggregate on DCA axis. it represented that there was the peculiar floristic composition of the Baekdoo chain separated from the other mountains. High altitude, longitude near the East Sea and large number of vascular species were main factors for the distribution pattern. And exponential relationships between endemic rare species and number of species were clarified. Even though the regions of the Baekdoo Great Mountain Chain had been conserved relatively well, many regions have been faced to be disturbed for tourism, agriculture, forestry, livestock industry and mining since the local autonomy. Thusm, the necessity for the establishment of large area network through the connection of scattered protected areas in the Baekdoo Great Mountain Chain was suggested. it would play a role as a core of nature conservation to sustain species diversity in Korea.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2003년도 한국우주과학회보 제12권2호
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• pp.40-40
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• 2003

When the magnetotail is disturbed by an impulsive input such as the substorm onset, compressional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves play an important role in delivering perturbed energy and exciting various wave modes and currents. The plasmasheet, in which relatively hot plasmas exist, is surrounded by relatively cold plasmas at the plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL) and the equatorial plasmasphere. Since the Alfven speed significantly varies near these regions, the compressional waves are expected to undergo mode conversion by inhomogeneity at the boundary between cold and hot plasma regions. We investigate how the initial compressional MHD wave energy is reflected, transmitted, and absorbed across that boundary by adopting the invariant imbedding method (IIM) which gives the exact reflection, transmission, and absorption coefficients without any theoretical approximations for given frequencies and wave numbers. The IIM method is very useful in quantifying the reflection and transmission of compressional waves in the sense that we can calculate how much fast mode wave energy is delievered into shear Alfven waves or field-aligned currents. Our results show that strongly localized absorption occurs at the boundary region. This feature suggests that localized field-aligned currents can be impulsively excited at such boundary regions by any compressional disturbances, which is highly associated with impulsive auroral brightening at the substorm onset. We compare our results with previous studies in cold inhomogeneous plasmas.

• 환경생물
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2013

본 연구는 해양환경이 크게 교란을 받고 있는 4개 저서환경을 선택하여 연체동물 중 어떠한 종이 기회종의 특성을 보이는지를 조사하였다. 기회종의 특성을 보인 5종의 이매패류에 대한 분포특성을 파악하고자 하였다. 이매패류인 애기반투명조개 (Theora fragilis), 대양조개(Macoma incongrua), 종밋(Musculista senhousia) 등이 빈 산소 현상을 보이는 반폐쇄성 연안역이나 유기물 축적이 많은 퇴적물을 가진 항만해역에서 우점하여 서식하고 있었으며, 소형 개체인 말발굽조개 (Thyasira tokunagai)와 쇄개량조개 (Raetellops pulchella)는 외해역의 폐기물 해양투기장에서 우점하는 종으로 나타났다.