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Structural Safety Changes and Reinforcement Effect of Raising the Height of Korean Plastic Greenhouses
Jeongbae Jeon1
,
Solhee Kim2
,
Taegon Kim2*
1Spatial Information Research Institute, Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation, Jeonju 54870, Korea
2Department of Smart Farm, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea
*Corresponding Author
30 April 2025. pp. 198-211
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Abstract

This study evaluates the reliability-based structural safety of a plastic greenhouse design and analyzes how the level of safety changes when the height of a plastic greenhouse is elevated. We also examine the effects of reinforcement on safety using three different reinforcement methods to address the structural instability caused by increasing the height of plastic greenhouses. When the height of a 1–2W type plastic greenhouse was raised from 2.8 m to 4.5 m, the maximum bending stress in the windbreak wall member doubled, which in turn doubled the safety risk. Theoretically, the maximum height without structural reinforcement is 3.6m, and reinforcement is necessary when the height reaches 4.5 m. After conducting a structural reliability analysis using the average and standard deviation of the wind load, the existing 2.8 m height had a failure probability of 10%, and when raised to 4.5 m, the probability of failure (PF) increased by approximately 79%. The analysis results showed that safety increased by 2.0 to 2.5 times with reinforcement according to the three reinforcement methods tested here, reducing the probability of failure to 10%. Additionally, the stress in the windbreak wall member under the highest level of stress decreased rapidly by 16% to 26%, significantly contributing to the safety of the windbreak wall.

Keywords
elevated height
probability of failure
reliability
structural analysis
windbreak wall
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  • Publisher :KOREAN SOCIETY FOR HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국원예학회
  • Journal Title :Horticultural Science and Technology
  • Journal Title(Ko) :원예과학기술지
  • Volume : 43
  • No :2
  • Pages :198-211
  • Received Date : 2024-07-18
  • Revised Date : 2024-09-27
  • Accepted Date : 2024-09-30
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.7235/HORT.20250019
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