• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.343-350
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• 2017

Amid increasingly saturated ground space, development of underground space has been booming throughout the world and excavation has been underway near the structure above or under the ground level. But the ground subsidence caused by improper or poor construction technologies, underground water leakage, sudden changes of stratum and the problem with earth retaining system component has been emerged as hot social issue. To deal with such problems nationwide, establishment of preventive and proactive disaster management and rapid restoration system has been pushed now. In this study, collection of the data on technology development trend to secure the underground safety was made, taking into account of internal change elements (changing groundwater level, damage to underground utilities, etc) and external change elements (vehicle load, earthquake and ground excavation, etc) during excavation. Amid the growing need of ground behavior analysis, ground subsidence evaluation technology, safe excavation to prevent ground subsidence and reinforcement technology, improvement of rapid restoration technology in preparation for ground subsidence and development of independent capability, this study is intended to introduce the technology development in a bid to prevent the ground subsidence during excavation. It's categorized into prediction/evaluation technology, complex detect technology, waterproof reinforcement technology, rapid restoration technology and excavation technology which, in part, has been in process now.

• Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.9-15
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• 2021

The frequency of flash floods in mountainous areas is increasing due to the abnormal weather that occurs increasingly in the recent, and it causes human and material damages is increasing. Various plans for disaster mitigation have been established, but artificial plans such as raising embankment and dredging operation are inappropriate for valleys and rivers in national parks that prioritize nature protection. In this study, flood risk assessment was conducted for Gyeryongsan National Park in Korea using the WMS (Watershed Modeling System)which is rainfall runoff model for valleys and rivers in the catchment. As the result, it was simulated that it is flooding in three sub-catchments (Jusukgol, Sutonggol, Dinghaksa) of a total in Gyeryongsan National Park when rainfall over the 50 years return period occurs, and it was confirmed that the risk of trails and facilities what visitors are using was high. The risk of trails in national parks was quantitatively presented through the results of this study, and we intend to present the safe management guidelines of national parks in the future.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.147-153
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• 2018

Cracking in concrete structure must be examined according to appropriate methods, to ensure structural serviceability and to prevent structural deterioration, since cracks opened wide for a long time expedite corrosion of rebar. A site investigation is conducted in a regular basis to monitor structural deterioration by tracking growing cracks. However, the visual inspection are labor intensive. and judgment are subject. To overcome the limit of the on-site visual investigation image processing for identifying the cracks of concrete structures by analyzing 2D images has been developed. This study develops a unique 3D technique utilizing a line laser and its projection image onto concrete surfaces. Automated process of crack detection is developed by the algorithms of automatizing crack map generation and image data acquisition. Performance of the developed method is experimentally evaluated.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.45-50
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• 2011

Building construction projects have various risk factors, so accidents is easily occurred in construction field. Therefore, many studies have been carried out to find methods for reducing such accidents. However, most of these studies have been focused to engineering factors, such as working methods and safety guards and equipments. The purpose of this study is to select the key accident risk factors in building construction projects. For this study, we identified the accident risk factors, which include engineering, education, and enforcement factors, and quantitatively evaluated these factors using an analytic hierarchical process. Identifying the key accident risk factors will help to reduce accidents in building construction projects.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.485-490
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• 2009

강원도의 약 89%가 산지로 되어 있기 때문에 강원지역 주민의 거주지는 대부분 홍수 피해를 강하게 받는 계곡이나 하천변에 잡고 있으며 매년 반복되는 홍수의 피해 위험이 높다. 따라서 홍수 시 생활공간을 보호하기 위한 제방의 안전성을 확보하는 것은 강원도의 하천관리에서 가장 중요한 점이다. 호안공법은 일반적으로 하천의 생태계나 경관적인 측면에서 부정적인 경우가 많은 인공시설물이기 때문에 최근에는 자연과 어울리는 친자연형 호안공법을 추구한다. 본 연구는 강원도 내 1개 국가하천 6개 지점, 214개 지방하천 2,760개 지점에 대한 하천 호안공법의 종류, 식생상태, 하천특성, 호안파괴 특성 등을 조사하고 하천호안공법 적용 하천특성과 호안공법, 식생 등의 관계를 분석하여 강원도형 호안공법 개발의 기초자료를 제공하는 데 목적이 있다. 강원도에 설치된 호안공법은 망태형, 붙임형, 블록형, 쌓기형, 옹벽형으로 구분할 수 있으며, 영동지역은 망태형 25%, 옹벽형 20.1.%, 블록형 18.3%를 차지하고 있으나 영서지역 하천은 쌓기형 32.9%, 망태형 19.2%, 옹벽형 16.6%를 나타내고 있다. 두 지역에서 옹벽이 16%이상을 차지하는 것은 하천경사가 급하고 만곡 수충부가 많아 홍수 시 구조적인 안정성이 큰 옹벽을 통한 호안보호에 따른 것으로 판단된다. 옹벽을 제외하면 하천평면이 호안공법 선택에 큰 영향을 미치지 않은 것으로 보이며 오히려 하천경사나 하천재료 특성이 반영된 것으로 판단된다. 호안파괴의 원인은 홍수 시 하상의 세굴이다. 그러나 옹벽호안은 국부적인 하상세굴에도 콘크리트 구조특성으로 쉽게 파괴되지는 않는 것으로 판단된다. 보 하류지점에 설치된 돌망태 호안은 하상저하와 보에 의한 유향변동으로 발생된 강한 수충현상에 의해 파괴되는 것으로 조사되었다. 호안의 식생 활착은 블록형, 망태형, 쌓기형 호안의 순으로 양호한 것으로 나타났다. 망태형이나 쌓기형 호안은 영동지역보다는 영서지역에서 높은 식생 피복도를 나타냈으며, 이는 하천의 경사와 호안의 침수빈도와 관계가 큰 것으로 판단된다. 식생블록형 호안은 지역 구분 없이 식생피복도가 높고 하천경사나 재료특성에도 불구하고 강원도의 하천호안공법으로 우수한 기능을 한다. 시급히 식생을 도입하고자 하는 경우 식생블록형 호안이 추천되며 호안공의 안정성과 식생의 다양성 측면에서는 망태형 호안공법이 추천된다.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.9 no.1 s.31
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• pp.29-38
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• 2007

The Korea National Police Agency launched a campaign to encourage drivers in stop line observance and to discourage stop line violation by intensively imposing fines. It was to increase stop line observance of drivers and thus traffic safety. According to statistics, the stop line observance rate was increased over 80 % of drivers during the campaign but regressed to the past after the campaign. This paper delivers the effect of the location of traffic signal lights on driver's stop line observance and develops a guideline to improve highway traffic environment in long terms. Statistical tests conducted based on field data showed that the drivers' stop line observance increases when traffic signal lights are closely installed from a stop line. It was proposed from the study that traffic signal lights be installed $10{\sim}20m$ from a stop line.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.493-511
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• 2018

This paper deals with visual confirmation device for tensile force verification in order to cope with tensile force loss of ground anchor. Ground anchors are constructed to ensure the stability of social infrastructure facilities, but continuous loss of tensile force is seriously concerned about safety of the facilities. This requires the maintenance of the anchors, but the current measuring of residual tensile force is done by sampling, taking into account economic aspects, which limits precision. In this paper, conducted a conceptual design, tensile experiment, and field test for the purpose of developing an anchor tensile force visual device to check the tensile force of the anchors.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.293-300
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• 2013

Road signs are important infrastructures for safe and smooth traffic by providing useful information to drivers. It is necessary to establish road sign DB for managing road signs systematically. To provide such DB, manually detection and recognition from imagery can be done. However, it is time and cost consuming. In this study, we proposed algorithms for automatic recognition of direction information in road sign image. Also we developed algorithm code using OpenCV library, and applied it to road sign image. To automatically detect and recognize direction information, we developed program which is composed of various modules such as image enhancement, image binarization, arrow region extraction, interesting point extraction, and template image matching. As a result, we can confirm the possibility of automatic recognition of direction information in road sign image.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.25-31
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• 2003

Most recently, environmental problems arise from management waste tires by increasing number of automobiles. Waste tires are not compressible and not easy for degradation in landfill. Even if it were landfill, it is difficult to treat. Total amount of waste tires is about 20 million per year and the collection is 68.6% in this country. Structure of slope stability using waste tire blocks filled with concrete increases durability, reduce construction period, and it can be utilized as an example. Therefore, it reduces the volume of waste and recycles waste. Also, it prevents the air pollution due to the incineration and creates economic value.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.157-168
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• 2018

Recently, the occurrence of typhoons and heavy rainfall is increasing due to climate change. This causes increase in possibility of landslide damages in rural areas. However, in reality, the precise engineering stability assessment studies are still insufficient. Therefore, in order to reduce the landslide damages and effectively manage mountainous areas, the development of disaster prevention techniques is needed. In this study, to analyze the shock absorbing effect of the buffer-spring during application of dynamic impact load in the debris flow protection system, numerical analysis is carried out for each free field of the buffer-spring and the load sharing ratio of the buffer-spring is also examined. In addition, the field applicability is verified by comparison of the tensile strength of the conventional buffer-spring and the wedge type buffer-spring on various magnitudes of dynamic impact load. As a result of the study, it is found that the net-type debris protection system is effective to mitigate loss of properties and human lifes during landslide.