• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• v.13 no.3_4
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• pp.95-104
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• 1998

INTRODUCTION : Arsenic is a ubiquitous element present in various compounds throughout the earth's crust. The use of arsenic compounds increased greatly during the 18th and 19th centuries, including its use in pigments and dyes, as a preservative of animal hides, in glass manufacture, agricultural pesticides, and various pharmaceutical substances. The causal association between human arsenic exposure, usually in the form of inorganic compounds containing trivalent arsenite (As$^{III}$) or pentavalent arsenate (As$^V$), and various forms of human cancer has been known for many years.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.193-204
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• 2019

Reliability analyses of sixteen domestic design cases of open cell caisson breakwaters against circular sliding failure were conducted in this study. For the reliability analyses, uncertainties of parameters of soils, mound, and concrete cap were assessed. Bishop simplified method was used to obtain load and resistance of open cell caisson breakwater for randomly generated open cell caisson breakwater. Sufficient number of Monte Carlo simulations were conducted for randomly generated open cell caisson breakwaters, and statistical analysis was conducted on loads and resistances collected from the large number of Monte Carlo simulations. Probability of failure produced from Monte Carlo simulation has a nonconvergence issue for very low probability of failure; therefore, First-Order Reliability Method (FORM) was conducted using the statistical characteristics of loads and resistances of open cell caisson breakwaters. In addition, effects of safety factor, uncertainties of load and resistance, and correlation between load and resistance on reliability of open cell caisson breakwaters against circular sliding failure were examined.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.22-25
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• 2016

• Proceedings of the KSEEG Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.239-242
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.346-346
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• 2017

기후변화에 따른 기상이변의 동시다발적인 발현은 농촌 지역의 홍수 발생 빈도를 증가시키고 있다. 현재의 기후시스템은 과거의 강우빈도를 기준으로 산정한 설계기준을 벗어나는 강우 사상을 빈번하게 발생시키므로 설계변수의 불확실성을 보다 합리적인 방법으로 정량화할 필요가 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 기후변화에 대응하여 확률론을 이용한 농업용 저수지의 홍수 취약성을 산정하는 데 있다. 먼저 홍수 취약성 해석에 필요한 과거와 미래 수문 자료를 수집하고 전처리 과정을 통해 해석에 적합한 자료로 구축하였다. 설계변수의 불확실성을 분석하기 위해 지속시간별 최대강우량, 유입 설계홍수량에 대해 부트스트랩 (bootstrap) 기법을 적용하여 자료를 재추출하였다. 부트스트 랩은 표본집단의 확률분포에 대해 가정을 하지 않고 표본집단의 통계적 특성을 이용하여 모집단의 통계적 추론을 할 수 있는 비모수적인 리샘플링 기법이다. 부트스트랩 추론은 표본집단의 추정치, 편의, 표준오차를 산정하고 신뢰구간을 추정한다. 부트스트랩 추론을 통해 산정하는 신뢰수준을 이용하여 농업용 저수지의 홍수 취약성을 산정하였다. 본 연구는 설계변수에 내재하는 불확실성을 부트스트랩 기법을 이용하여 정량화하고 확률적인 값을 가지는 홍수 취약성으로 산정하여 제시할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.71-83
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• 1994

Recently, an interest in the uncertainty analysis on measurement and prediction has been growing. An uncertainty analysis method is applied to the P.O.W test where error sources, estimated errors, their propagation route and their sensitivities to the uncertainty items are clearly illustrated. The uncertainty range for the results obtained from the HMRI Propeller Open Water test is within ${\pm}1%$ which is assumed to be lower than an usual measurement error range of ${\pm}1%$. It has been noticed that the uncertainty analysis can be used quite usefully for detecting dominant error-sources and hence improving the experimental measurement accuracy.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.425-437
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• 2013

This study performed the bivariate drought frequency analysis for duration and severity of drought, using copula functions which allow considering the correlation structure of joint features of drought. We suggested the confidence intervals of duration-severity-frequency (DSF) curves for the given drought duration using stochastic scheme of monthly rainfall generation for 57 sites in Korea. This study also investigated drought risk via illustrating the largest drought events on record over 50 and 100 consecutive years. It appears that drought risks are much higher in some parts of the Nakdong River basin, southern and east coastal areas. However, such analyses are not always reliable, especially when the frequency analysis is performed based on the data observed over relatively short period of time. To quantify the uncertainty of drought frequency curves, the droughts were filtered by different durations. The 5%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 95% confidence intervals of the drought severity for a given duration were estimated based on the simulated rainfall time series. Finally, it is shown that the growing uncertainties is revealed in the estimation of the joint probability using the two marginal distributions since the correlation coefficient of two variables is relatively low.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.241-250
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• 1991

The reliability analysis for web frame of tanker is carried out by the probabilistic finite element method combined with the classical reliability method such as MVFOSM and AFOSM which can be used for calculating the probability of failure for the complicated structures in which the limit state equation is implicitly expressed. As random variables external load, elastic modulus, sectional moment of inertia and field stress are chosen and Parkinson's iteration algorithm in AFOSM is used for reliability analysis. By adding only the covariance data of the random variables to the input data set required for conventional finite element method, the present method can easily calculate the probability of failure at every element end as well as the covariances of structural reponses such as displacements at every element end and member forces at every element, even for the complicated ship structure.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.48 no.10
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• pp.817-830
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• 2015

This study performed prediction of extreme rainfall uncertainty and its frequency analysis based on climate change scenarios by Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) for the selected nine-General Circulation Models (GCMs) in the near future (2011-2040) over the Korean Peninsula (KP). We analysed uncertainty of scenarios by multiple model ensemble (MME) technique using non-parametric quantile mapping method and bias correction method in the basin scale of the KP. During the near future, the extreme rainfall shows a significant gradually increasing tendency with the annual variability and uncertainty of extreme ainfall in the RCP4.5, and RCP8.5 scenarios. In addition to the probability rainfall frequency (such as 50 and 100-year return periods) has increased by 4.2% to 10.9% during the near future in 2040. Therefore, in the longer-term water resources master plan, based on the various climate change scenarios (such as CMIP5 GCMs) and its uncertainty can be considered for utilizing of the support tool for decision-makers in water-related disasters management.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1658-1662
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• 2009

최근 들어 기후 변화로 인한 이상 강우 현상과 기록적인 집중 강우로 탁수 발생의 빈도와 강도가 증가하고, 탁수의 장기간 하류 방류로 인해 경제적인 피해가 발생할 뿐만 아니라 환경적으로도 중요한 문제로 대두되고 있다. 저수지로 유입된 탁수의 시공간적 분포 예측 결과의 신뢰도는 탁수 밀도류 해석의 정확도에 가장 큰 영향을 받으므로 유입 하천수의 밀도 거동에 대한 정확한 해석이 필요하다. 따라서 탁수의 거동해석은 수리 및 수질의 연동 모의(Coupled modeling)가 필수적이다. 본 연구의 목적은 수리 및 수질의 연동 해석이 가능한 2차원 횡 방향 평균 모형(CE-QUAL-W2)을 소양호에 구축하고, 기록적인 강우 사상을 보인 2006년 수문조건에서의 모형의 적용성과 한계점을 평가하는데 있다. 구축한 소양호 탁수 예측 모델을 2006년 탁수사상에 적용한 결과, 홍수 사상으로 이중 첨두 유량이 발생한 후 저수지 내에서 중층 밀도류와 바닥밀도류의 두 가지 밀도류 형태가 혼재하여 진행되는 현상이 적절히 모의되었다. 하지만, 저수지내에서 측정한 탁수 수괴(plume)의 시공간적 수직분포(profiles)는 모의결과와 다소 편차를 보였으며, 특히 저수지 바닥 인근에서 모델은 실측값을 과대평가 하였다. 오차의 원인은 모델 입력 자료의 불확실성과 수치모델의 불확실성으로 판단된다. 따라서 향후 탁수 거동 모델링과정의 불확실성을 최소화하고 모의결과의 신뢰도를 개선하기 위해서 극한탁수 사상에서 발생하는 수리학적 현상과 SS 입자 동력학에 대한 이론적 연구와 입력 자료의 정확한 산정을 위한 현장 실험이 필요하다.