Young Jong Kang

In recent years, after Yoo queried the validity of Vlasov's equations regarding the lateral buckling of a circular arch, there has been a number of papers published with a certain degree of disagreement among various researchers. Based on a comprehensive and consistent formulation of curved beam theory presented in the previous paper, closed‐form solutions thus obtained are used for comparison of the present theoretical study to others. In the present paper, major potential sources of discrepanc

An extensive investigation on the buckling and large displacement behavior of thin‐walled circular beams has been conducted theoretically. Equilibrium equations governing the linear, the bifurcation buckling, and the large displacement behavior have been derived using the principle of minimum total potential energy. An explicit and clear approximation of the curvature effect is made in the derivation process. The paper concludes with a series of fundamental nonlinear equations that describe the

Due to the significant increase in the age of infrastructure globally, maintenance of existing structures has been prioritized over the construction of new structures, which are very costly. However, many infrastructure facilities have not been managed efficiently due to a lack of well-trained staff and budget limitations. Bridge management systems (BMSs) have been constructed and operated globally to maintain the originally designed structural performance and to overcome the inefficiency of mai

A cable-stayed bridge is widely adopted to construct long-span bridges. The deformation of cable-stayed bridges is relatively larger than that of conventional bridges, such as beam and truss types. Therefore, studies regarding the monitoring systems for cable-stayed bridges have been conducted to evaluate the performance of bridges based on measurement data. However, most studies required sufficient measurement data for evaluation and just focused on the local response estimation. To overcome th