• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.1017-1022
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• 2014

Since the opening of Seoul Subway Line #1 in 1974, the number of passengers has been increasing. The possibility for passenger's accidents in railway stations has also increased. In order to decrease these kind of accidents, railway operation systems have been automated. Nevertheless, the possibility of a casualty accident in railway stations remains. This study analyzed the type of casualty accidents, casualty accidents by age, sex, pedestrian facility, and passenger type based on the internal data of Seoul Metro. The causes of casualty accidents are also found out. Finally, the establishment of railway safety education program and railway safety experience center are suggested in order to prevent the urban railway casualty accident in advance at railway stations.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.275-283
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• 2015

Excavation of underground space in soft ground implicate to the structure, such as subsidence. As a result, it has been acting as a serious risk to the stability of the roads and facilities. Therefore, in order to stabilize the soil stabilization and reinforcement of the structure, we have been using a number of methods and injecting material. In this study, we compared and analyzed the amount of subsidence regarding the ground reinforcement during underground excavation in soft ground by performing model test. And three-dimensional numerical analysis was performed using FLAC 3D. The subsidence was simulated numerically according to the tunnel excavation. The subsidence results of the model tests and numerical analyzes were relatively consistent. Thus comparing the ground subsidence by varying the reinforcement area on the numerical analysis was analyzed. As a results, three-dimensional numerical simulation could be regarded to simulate better on the ground subsidence by various kinds of underground excavation and it can be used as a material of subsidence prevention methods.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.31-40
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• 2013

For the matter of elevator, one of the multi-use facilities for unspecified public, the JIS has re-established and reformed to apply to the environment in South Korea for the past 20 years. In the aspect of safety assurance, it was inevitable to suggest improved measures. The government, Ministry of Public Administration and Security has secured the safety by enhancing the safety management functions in the elevator inspection standards and expanding its safety device measures. Further, the international inspection standard has been introduced, which is about unifying inspection standard system into the international standard code. In March 14th 2012, the international standard (EN) has been amended and fully announced. Escalator and passenger conveyor among lift devices have several common danger factor that cause safety accident. First, the accident caused by decreased braking power of brake. Second, the accident caused by the rate difference between handrail and tread-board. Third, the accident caused by defects of contraflow preventing device or carelessness inspection. Fourth, the accident caused by wet tread-board or wet floor of platform which makes passenger slip and fall. As the improvements to prevent and reduce these negligent accidents, the inspection list to check and methods should be subdivided and applied for each accident likelihood cause for safety management enhancement and safety assurance of existing escalator and passenger conveyors. The escalators and passenger conveyors without safety devices in existence should be obliged to modify the part of the system or install additional safety device. With making these measures obligations, it requires to improve the system to be suitable for the international inspection standard and to have measures to prevent safety accidents. It also needs to arrange improvements for skid accident of tread-board by the external environment factors such as snow and rain.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.1710-1715
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• 2010

Service life of water pipes buried in the underground is considerably affected from various factors such as environmental characteristics, pipe characteristics, operation and maintenance, etc. Therefore it is difficult to determine their service life as uniformly the same value assigned by related laws and ordinances. As a result, the service life should be determined by the technical judgement based on the assessment for the condition of water pipes. In this study, It was established that the methodology could predict present and future failure risk, and plan short and long-term strategies for replacement/rehabilitation through the assessment for the physical deterioration and economical values of buried water pipe. The methodology was applied for the verification and reliability to several sites selected in multi-regional transmission pipelines. The proposed method could helps to support reasonable and economical decision of rehabilitation/replacement in the present and future. To improve conventional assessment method of aged water pipes, affecting factors are simplified based on the statistical analysis results from the measured data in the field and the physical deterioration mechanism for better reliability. Also, the guide-line is developed to carry out the reasonal rehabilitation planning through water pipe condition assessment.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.139-149
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• 2014

Lifeline service disruptions can have significant impacts on local community in the aftermath natural disaster. Although effective restoration strategies with accurate damage assessment are required, the internal complexity of lifeline networks and their interdependency makes the understanding restoration process of lifeline systems a difficult issue. Additionally, the limitations of previous research relating the influence assessment of lifeline to community disaster resilience, highlight the need for understanding of lifeline networks. Therefore, this paper presents an agent-based model to discover emergent behavior and evaluate the interdependency and resiliency in lifeline networks. This research will provide basic guideline of resource allocation in order to mitigate cascading failures of the post disaster restoration processes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.197-198
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to investigate the problems of the VR simulator industry represented by the 4th industrial revolution and to examine measures for industrial promotion. For this purpose, we consider the VR simulator regulation and examine the problems. Since the VR simulator has the features of existing arcade games and amusement facilities, it should be classified as game or inspected with amusement facilities depending on the viewpoint. This can be a dual regulation, and before the VR simulator industry starts, there is a risk that the industry itself can be damaged by existing legal limitations. For this purpose, it is necessary to provide a unique legal system for VR simulator and it is necessary to examine the contents to be included in such laws and systems. It is expected that the legal system of VR simulator will lead to promotion of new industry.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.275-275
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• 2015

최근 기후변화에 따른 극한 강우사상의 증가로 인하여 농업용 저수지의 재해 위험도가 증가하고 있는 추세이며, 사고가 발생할 때 마다 파손/붕괴된 시설물을 보수하는 대응형 유지관리체계에서 벗어나 기반시설의 성능과 생애주기 등을 고려하여 재해 발생을 사전에 예보 및 경보를 알릴 수 있는 예방적 관리체계로의 전환이 필요하다. 한국농어촌공사는 전국 1,500개 저수지에서 10분 단위 수위자료를 측정하고 있으며, 이를 분석하여 재해예방에 활용할 수 있는 기반이 조성되어 있으나 이에 대한 관리가 이루어지지 않고 있고 수집된 자료를 활용하여 재해 징후를 분석할 수 있는 재해 예방적 분석기술이 마련되어 있지 않은 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 농업용 저수지 수위자료를 이용한 저수지 이상거동을 판별하기 위하여 전국 34개 한국농어촌공사 관할 저수의 시계열 수위자료의 특성(Feature)을 분석하고자 한다. 시계열 자료의 시계열 특성을 분석하기 위하여 한국농어촌공사 관할의 전국 34개 저수지를 선정하여 분석을 실시하였다. 대상저수지는 지역별, 저수용량, 안정등급, 붕괴발생, 1개 지사관할 저수지로 각각 구분하여 선정하였으며, 각 저수지의 수위 측정기간(최소 5개년)에 대한 자료를 수집하였다. 농업용 저수지의 시계열 수위 자료의 특성을 분석하기 위하여 자료의 전처리를 수행하였다. 자료의 전처리는 시계열 수위자료의 잡음 특성, 기상자료 관련 변동특성 등 분류(Classification)에 영향을 미치는 노이즈 요소를 제거하는 과정이다. 전처리과정을 거친 자료는 특징(Feature) 추출 과정을 거치게 되고, 추출된 특징의 적합성에 따라 분류 알고리듬 성능에 많은 영향을 미친다. 따라서 시계열 자료의 특성을 파악하고 특징을 추출하는 것은 이상치 탐지에 있어 매우 중요한 과정이다. 본 연구에서는 시계열 자료 특징 추출 방법으로 물리적인 한계치, 확률적인 문턱값(Threshold), 시계열 패턴, 주변 저수지와의 시계열 상관분석 등을 적용하였으며, 이를 데이터베이스로 구축하여 이후 분류알고리듬 학습에 적용하여 정상치와 이상치를 판별하는데 이용될 수 있도록 하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제시되는 농업용 저수지의 시계열 특성은 다양한 분류알고리듬에 적용할 수 있으며, 이를 통하여 저수지 이상거동 판별을 위한 최적을 분류알고리듬의 선택에 도움이 될 것이다.

• 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.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.107-113
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• 2019

Recently, due to global warming, the trend shows an increase in number of lightning strikes which increase risk regarding industry infrastructures. Especially in case where the lightning strikes infrastructures including refinery, petorchemical plant facilities or storage tanks, it can cause power failures, electrical machine malfunction and damage which can lead to fire explosion and multiple calamities. Therefore, detailed case studies must be conducted through a systematic research regarding lightning strike accidents in order to understand its mechanism and devise preventive measures. This paper aims to study cases of explosion regarding waste water storage tanks in refineries and petrochemical plants in order to analyze its root cause and provide preventive measures for avoiding lightning related incidents.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.65-72
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• 2018

The uses of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been expanding in agriculture surveys, obtaining real time updates of dangerous facilities where human access is difficult, disaster monitoring, and 3D modeling. In reality, there is an upsurge in the application of UAVs in fields like, construction, infrastructure, imaging, surveying, surveillance and transportation. Especially, when the slope failure such as landslide occurs, the uses of UAVs are increasing. Since, the UAVs can fly in three dimensions, they are able to obtain spatial data in places where human access is nearly impossible. Despite of these advantages, however, the uses of UAVs are still limited during slope failure. In order to overcome these limitations, this study computes the soil volume change during slope failure through the computation technique using photogrammetric information obtained from UAV system. Through this study, it was found that photogrammetric information from UAV can be used to acquire information on amount of earthworks required for repair works when slope collapse occurs in mountainous areas, where human access in difficult.