• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2010.09a
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• pp.569-579
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• 2010

Tolerable vertical displacement of a bridge is dependent on the superstructure-type, slope, span, and etc.. In the design stage, however, resultant force of cross section is examined supposed that the settlement is 1 cm at the bearing point. And the 1cm is sometimes considered as if the criteria of allowable foundation settlement. It is needed to establish the criteria of the tolerable displacement for the small and middle bridges which are widely used in domestic area. The design data of domestic bridges including expressway bridges were collected and analyzed according to the types of superstructures and foundations. And numerical simulations were conducted for RC rigid frame bridges, PSC girder bridges, IPC girder bridges, PSC box girder bridges, and steel box girder bridges to examine the tolerable displacements.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.99-100
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• 2010

The objective of this research aims at improving the structural and economical efficiency of small and medium-span reinforced concrete bridges by importing the Inverted-T girders (hereinafter, called as IT). This new Rahmen bridge with IT girders has an advantage over minimizing the construction process which could cause environmental pollution and traffic congestion. Especially it is thought that this new composite bridge can give better aesthetic and view than existing old bridges, and can be a good construction method to solve labor shortage problems due to coming aging society. Therefore, this IT method should be one of very effective construction technologies to improve the constructibility and to reduce the construction cost.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.273-284
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• 2003

In this paper, the reasons of damages and the case study are review in which bridge pier with debris accumulation, and safety Influence factors by debris around the bridge piers are review. Also experiment Is conducted for the characteristic of flow around piers by different area and angle of debris and the basic characteristics was review for safe design of bridge and embankments. As result of review of several standards of design, hydraulic structure's freeboard is simply decided by discharge, so it needs more detail standards. And as result of experiment, in the case of that water depth is deep and velocity is slow, variation of water depth Is more increase as increasing of debris. Therefore the variation regime of flow characteristics like velocity and water depth by debris is more large in the stream of small or medium size, which streams have large water depth and slow velocity so Froude Number Is expressed as small in the flood. Also when Froude Number is about 0.5, the water elevation is over freeboard in the standard if the debris over 20%. Therefore when hydraulic structure is constructed in the stream of small or medium size, it need to conduct more detail experiments about influence of debris, distribution of velocity and variation of elevation, and than the more safe freeboard will be presented using the experimental results.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.56 no.12
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• pp.837-844
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• 2023

Small and medium-sized mountain rivers that flow through steep, confined valleys carry large amounts of coarse-grained sediment and woody debris during floods. It causes an increase in flood water level by aggrading the riverbed and the cross-section blockage due to driftwood accumulation during flooding. However, the existing flood level calculation in the river basic plan does not consider these changes. In this study, using the Typhoon Hinnamnor flood in September 2022 as an example, we performed numerical simulations using the HEC-RAS model, taking into account the blockage of a cross-section at the bridge and changes in riverbed elevation that occurred during floods, and analyzed the flood level to predict flood risk. This study's results show that flooding occurs if more than 30% of the cross-section is blocked. The rise of flood water levels corresponds to that of the riverbed due to sediment deposition. These results can be used as basic data to prevent and effectively manage flood damage and contribute to establishing flood defense measures that consider actual phenomena.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.3 s.55
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• pp.53-62
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• 2007

This paper presents a new vibration control method for long-span bridges using complex damper system. The new system presents simple mechanical configuration with oil and elasto-plastic dampers which have velocity and displacement dependency in vibration energy absorbing. This system can produce various damping forces according to the applied external forces by the velocity and displacement-dependent characteristics of the dampers. The oil damper dissipates vibration energy for relatively frequent and small amplitude like in the case for small to moderate earthquakes, whereas the elasto-plastic damper system works for rare and large amplitude vibration such as high seismic excitation. Thus, the proposed system exhibits the advantage of low cost with high performance since the roles of the two different dampers are effectively separated. A numerical model is established for the complex damper system, and the response characteristics and effectiveness of the proposed system are presented through numerical simulations. Numerical results show that the proposed complex damper system can significantly improve the seismic performance of long-span bridge structures with much more effective damping mechanism than single conventional passive damper systems.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.209-218
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• 2010

The fatigue phenomenon, which is induced by stress accumulation due to the repeated loading of vehicles in the long term, is one of the main factors of the span of life of a steel bridge. In this paper, the effects of traffic properties on the fatigue life of ordinary short- and medium-span steel plate girder bridges that are exposed to relatively large dynamic effects are investigated. From the analysis, it was known that the fatigue life of the bridge becomes shorter with increasing traffic volume and number of large vehicles, and is affected by the weights of the vehicles. Based on the analysis results, a new parameter that can represent the traffic property that affects the fatigue life of the subject bridge is suggested, and the validity of the parameter is confirmed.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.146-154
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• 2011

Recently, the paradigm of social infrastructure investment has been changed from new construction to maintenance and management. As a consequence, the management and maintenance system of existing highway facilities needed an innovation involving the concept of asset management. This paper discusses the new facility management system suitable to local highway agencies. The new system incorporates asset management concept so that it can analyze the network level facility management solution and it can also improve the budget efficiency for local government. This paper also presents systematic method to integrate various facilities for management system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.946-946
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• 2012

현재 국내 하천의 설계홍수량은 하천정비 기본계획이나 유역종합 치수계획 등을 통하여 고시 되고 있다. 이러한 설계홍수량은 홍수량 산정 지침에 따라 산정되며, 최종적으로 결정된 설계홍수량을 기준으로 하도계획이나 교량, 암거 등의 설계를 실시하였다. 현재 많은 수의 홍수조절용 다목적 댐과 강변저류지 등 각종 수리조작 구조물들이 축조되면서부터 홍수량을 시간별로 조절할 수 있게 되었지만, 미계측 유역에서는 유역의 유출량을 예측하기가 쉽지 않기 때문에 수리조작 구조물들의 효과를 예상하고 조작 및 운영방법을 결정하기 어려운 실정이다. 이러한 이유로, 본 연구에서는 미계측 유역 내 축조하는 수공 구조물의 최적 설계 및 운영방법 결정을 위하여 설계홍수량과 함께 합성단위도법을 적용한 수문곡선을 적용할 수 있도록 Nash 모형을 이용하였다. 유역의 유출특성이 반영된 대표단위도를 산정하기 위해 여러 유역의 다양한 형상계수를 이용하여, 도달시간과 첨두유량에 관한 회귀식을 산정하였다. 이렇게 산정된 회귀식을 여러 형태의 유역과 강우-유출 사상에 적용하여, 미계측 유역의 특정지점에서 발생의 개연성이 충분하고 수공구조물의 설계와 효과에 가장 중요하게 영향을 미칠 수 있는 설계홍수수문곡선을 도출하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 본 연구의 결과로 나타나는 대표홍수수문곡선을 미계측 유역에 적용한다면 미지의 설계홍수량을 추정함과 동시에 설계홍수량에 상응하는 수문곡선을 도출하여 수공구조물 설계에 이용할 수 있을 것이라 기대한다.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.340-344
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• 2006

The objective of this paper was to investigate the potential of road-crossing structures as biological corridors that can overcome wildlife habitat fragmentation caused by road construction. Snow tracking on animal trace adjacent to and under bridges, underpasses, and culverts of eight rural highways in Korea was carried out. A total 89 structures were monitored and the results follow. First, the probability of road crossing increases with the increasing cross sectional size of crossing structures. Second, small to medium sized carnivores such as raccoon dog, leopard cat, and Siberian weasel use all types of structures. Finally, water deer, or large herbivore crossed only under bridges. Consequently, further studies are necessary to identify suitable types of road crossing structures that can mitigate the probability of road-kills and habitat fragmentation of water deer.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 1994

This study presents the nonlinear dynamic analysis method of the multi-span continuous bridge considering the friction of the expansion bearings. Also the numerical analysis is performed for estimating the effect of the friction on the seismic response of the multi-span continuous bridge under the longitudinal ground motion compatible to Korean bridge design response spectra. It is found that even small friction coefficient of the expansion bearings has significant effect on reducing the superstructure displacement due to energy dissipation and distributing the inertia force of the superstructure to the substructures due to frictional force. It is observed that such favorable friction effects increase as the friction coefficient increases and the magnitude of the ground motion decreases. Therefore, the friction of the expansion bearings can be effectively used for the safe and economic design of the continuous span bridge with many spans and large superstructure weight under the small to medium scale longitudinal ground motions.