Papers by Author: Moon Kyum Kim

Abstract: Owing to strong nonlinearity of shotcrete and difficulty of determining the equivalent material properties of steel-shotcrete composites for numerical analysis, methods are required to estimate nonlinear behavior of steel-shotcrete composite in the computational aspect efficiently. In this study, the behavior of steel-shotcrete composites, main primary supports in the NATM tunnel, are estimated by finite element method using the fiber beam-column element. The numerical results are compared with results of uniaxial and flexural test. Results of comparison show that finite element analysis of using fiber beam-column element can be an efficient tool of estimating the steel-shotcrete composite as the primary support in the NATM tunnel.

Abstract: An efficient and accurate numerical program with enhanced point collocation meshfree method is developed to simulate crack propagation under dynamic loading conditions. The enhanced meshfree method with point collocation formulation and derivative approximation in solids is presented. This study also presents the crack propagation criterion and computation of propagating direction, and the total structure of the numerical program named PCMDYC(Point Collocation Meshfree method for DYnamic Crack propagation). Several examples of crack propagation under dynamic loads are analyzed to simulate the arbitrary crack propagation under dynamic loads. The results show that PCMDYC predicts the propagating path of crack under dynamic loading conditions accurately and robustly.

Abstract: This study performs dynamic analysis of underground structures on multi-layered half planes in frequency domain by using the coupled finite and boundary element method. The near field including underground structures is modeled with onventional finite elements, while the far field is modeled with boundary elements which satisfies radiation conditions. In evaluating the dynamic fundamental solutions, semi-analytical solutions due to line loads are employed. Therefore, the range of wavenumber integration can be reduced significantly. These solutions satisfy the reflection and transmission conditions of waves at each layer interface, so that the multi-region problem can be analyzed. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method.