• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.309-318
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• 2023

The appropriate maintenance of highway roads is critical for the safe operation of road networks and conserves maintenance costs. Multiple methods have been developed to investigate the surface of roads for various types of cracks and potholes, among other damage. Like road surface damage, the condition of expansion joints in concrete pavement is important to avoid unexpected hazardous situations. Thus, in this study, a new system is proposed for autonomous expansion joint monitoring using a vision-based system. The system consists of the following three key parts: (1) a camera-mounted vehicle, (2) indication marks on the expansion joints, and (3) a deep learning-based automatic evaluation algorithm. With paired marks indicating the expansion joints in a concrete pavement, they can be automatically detected. An inspection vehicle is equipped with an action camera that acquires images of the expansion joints in the road. You Only Look Once (YOLO) automatically detects the expansion joints with indication marks, which has a performance accuracy of 95%. The width of the detected expansion joint is calculated using an image processing algorithm. Based on the calculated width, the expansion joint is classified into the following two types: normal and dangerous. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed system is very efficient in terms of speed and accuracy.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.513-516
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• 2004

Consistency in design, manufacture, installation and performance test of expansion joints is insufficient for guarantee of reliability because they are imported from various foreign countries as America, Japan and Europe. In addition to that, the regulations or codes of expansion joint should be revised and established for levels of vibration and noise generated from riding vehicles especially. Regulation on the noise neighboring traffic roads is established by ministry of environment. Therefore, Field tests on the vibration and the noise at expansion Joints, especially rail-type and finger-type joints which are typical ones in bridge with short or middle span, are performed and performance of expansion joints are analyzed. And so, the results of the investigation will be utilized as basic data for the regulation on the vibration and the noise.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2015

PURPOSES: This paper describes the expansion caused by the alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR) in concrete pavement currently in service. It also discusses the effects of joints installed to release the stress induced by the AAR expansion. METHODS: The expansion effect on concrete pavement was verified by a visual inspection and long-term measurement of the joint width of a cut-section. The behaviors of 16 newly installed joints were monitored as part of the investigation and long-term monitoring was carried out for three years after cutting. RESULTS: The behavior of a bridge was affected when AAR occurred in the connected pavement. The newly installed joints shrank in the longitudinal direction of the bridge after cutting. The width of the joints decreased over the six months after cutting. A large portion of the joint width (8.5cm) was found to have closed nine months after cutting. It had ultimately shrunk by about 92 percent when the final measurement was taken. CONCLUSIONS : The expansion of the pavement due to AAR was quantitatively described by visual inspection and the long-term monitoring of the newly cut joints. However, the width of the new joints decreased over the six to nine months after cutting. Additional research should be conducted to determine a means of controlling the expansion due to AAR in the pavement.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.434-437
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• 2006

The expansion joints are installed for connecting the bridge segments. The ambient noise expansion joints are required in domestic market because of regulation on the noise neighboring traffic roads established by ministry of environment. Therefore, field tests for measuring environment noise depending on the types of the expansion joints are carried out in order to examine the effect of expansion joints into the environments. Related geometrical analysis has been performed.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권3A호
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• pp.357-366
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• 2008

본 연구는 교량 신축이음에 대해서 윤하중 재하실험을 통해 윤하중 재하 특성을 분석하고 이를 토대로 신축이음에서의 윤하중 재하기준을 마련하는 기초데이터를 확보하고자 실시하였다. 이를 위해 국내에서 많이 사용되고 있는 레일신축이음과 핑거신축이음에 대하여 시험체를 제작하고 실제 타이어 바퀴를 사용한 정적 윤하중 재하실험을 실시하였다. 윤하중에 접촉된 레일과 핑거에서 윤하중 분배율을 파악하였는데, 레일신축이음에서 중앙 레일이 지지하는 분담율은 윤하중 크기가 증가함에 따라 감소하는 것으로 나타났고 핑거신축이음에서는 접촉 면적 증가에 따라 거의 증가하지 않고 일정하게 됨을 알 수 있었다. 윤하중 재하 특성이 기존 설계기준과 많은 차이를 나타내고 있으므로 신축이음 설계를 위한 윤하중 접지압력 분포에 대한 합리적인 기준 마련이 필요하다고 판단되었다.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2010

교량 신축이음장치의 파손 유형은 주로 후타재(무수축 모르타르)와 관련된 부분에서 많이 발생된다. 또 다른 문제는 중차량 통과에 따른 충격과 진동하중으로 인해서 신축이음장치를 후타재에 고정하기 위해서 사용하는 앵커 풀림 현상이다. 본 연구에서는 무수축 모르타르의 파괴에 따른 신축이음장치의 파손을 방지하기 위해 탄성콘크리트를 개발하였다. 개발된 탄성콘크리트와 현재 주로 사용하고 있는 무수축 모르타르의 인발성능을 비교하였다. 또한, 후타재와 신축이음장치를 일체화하여 후타재의 파손을 방지하고 신축이음장치를 쉽게 교체할 수 있는 앵커 시스템을 개발하였다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.827-833
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• 2022

In this study, the prediction of the bending angle for the 350 A bellows-type expansion joints and the structural stability according to the load were determined. The stability of the 2km piping system was predicted by applying the allowable bending angle of the expansion pipe joint obtained from the analysis. The maximum bending angle was calculated through bending analysis of the bellows-type expansion joints, and the maximum bending angle by numerical calculation was about 1.8°, and the maximum bending angle of the bellows obtained by comparing the allowable strength of the material was about 0. 22°. This angle was very stable compared to the allowable bending angle (3°) of the expansion pipe joint regulation. By applying the maximum bending angle, the allowable maximum deflection of the 2 km pipe was about 3.8 m. When the seismic load was considered using regression analysis, the maximum deflection of the 2km pipe was about 142.3mm, and it was confirmed that the bellows-type expansion joints and the deflection were stable compared to the allowable maximum deflection of the pipe system. These research results are expected to present design and analysis guidelines for the construction of piping and the development of bellows systems, and to be used as basic data for systematic research.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.359-371
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• 2022

Bridges are critical to the civil engineering infrastructure network as they facilitate movement of people, the transportation of goods and services. Given the aging of bridge infrastructure, federal officials mandate visual inspections biennially to identify necessary repair actions which are time, cost, and labor-intensive. Additionally, the expansion joints of bridges are rarely monitored due to cost. However, expansion joints are critical as they absorb movement from thermal effects, loadings strains, impact, abutment settlement, and vehicle motion movement. Thus, the need to monitor bridge expansion joints efficiently, at a low cost, and wirelessly is desired. This paper addresses bridge joint monitoring needs to develop a cost-effective, real-time wireless system that can be validated in a full-scale bridge structure. To this end, a wireless expansion joint monitoring was developed using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) sensors. An in-service bridge was selected as a testbed to validate the performance of the developed system compared with traditional displacement sensor, LVDT, temperature and humidity sensors. The short-term monitoring campaign with the wireless sensor system with the internet protocol version 6 over the time slotted channel hopping mode of IEEE 802.15.4e (6TiSCH) network showed reliable results, providing high potential of the developed system for effective joint monitoring at a low cost.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.348-353
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 중공형 섬유보강폴리머(Fiber Reinforced Polymer : FRP) 바닥판이 적용된 교량에 적합한 신축이음장치를 개발하고자 신축이음장치의 설계기준 및 특성을 분석하였다. 또한, 신축이음장치를 선정하는 기준이 되는 설계 신축량 산정법과 FRP바닥판 상세를 검토하여, 강콘크리트 거더 교량에 적용 가능한 FRP바닥판용 신축이음장치를 개발 제안하였다.

• KCI Concrete Journal
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2001

This paper presents the results of a study on the effects of pounding at expansion joints of concrete bridges under earthquake ground motions. An engineering approach, rather than continuum mechanics, is emphasized. First, the sensitivity analysis of the gap element stiffness is performed. Second, usefulness of the analysis method for simulation of pounding phenomena is demonstrated. Third, the effects of pounding on the ductility demands measured in terms of the rotation of column ends are investigated. Two-dimensional FE analysis using a bilinear hysterestic model for bridge substructure joints and a nonlinear gap element for the expansion joint is performed on a realistic bridge with an expansion joint. Effects of the primary factors on the ductility demand such as gap sizes and characteristics of earthquake ground motion are investigated through a parametric study. The major conclusions are that pounding effect is generally negligible on the ductility demand for wide practical ranges of gap size and peak ground acceleration, but is potentially significant at the locations of impact.