• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.199-210
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• 2023

The physical properties of rocks in reservoirs change after CO₂ injection, we modeled a reservoir with a transition zone within which the physical properties change linearly. The function of the Wolf reflection coefficient consists of the velocity ratio of the upper and lower layers, the frequency, and the thickness of the transition zone. This function can be used to estimate the thickness of a reservoir or seafloor transition zone. In this study, we propose a method for predicting the thickness of the transition zone using deep learning. To apply deep learning, we modeled the thickness-dependent Wolf reflection coefficient on an artificial transition zone formation model consisting of sandstone reservoir and shale cap rock and generated time-frequency spectral images using the continuous wavelet transform. Although thickness estimation performed by comparing spectral images according to different thicknesses and a spectral image from a trace of the seismic stack did not always provide accurate thicknesses, it can be applied to field data by obtaining training data in various environments and thus improving its accuracy.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.137-144
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• 2019

For the structures near the seismogenic fault, the evaluation of seismic performance against near-fault ground motions is important as well as for design ground motions. In this study, characteristics of seismic behaviors and seismic performance of the pile-bent bridge constructed on the thick soft soil site with various weak soil layers were analyzed. The input ground motions were synthesized by the directivity pulse parameters for intra-plate regions. The ground motion acceleration histories of each layer were obtained by one-dimensional site response analysis. Each soil layer was modeled by equivalent linear springs, and multi-support excitations with different input ground motions at each soil spring were applied for nonlinear seismic analyses. The analysis result by the near-fault ground motions and ground motions matched to design spectra were compared. In case of the near fault ground motion input, the bridge behaved within the elastic range but the location of the maximum moment occurred was different from the result of design ground motion input.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.31 no.12
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• pp.59-69
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• 2015

This study examined the magnitude and distribution of earth pressure on the support system in a jointed rock mass due to the different joint sets as well as varying the rock type and joint condition (joint shear strength and joint inclination angle). Based on a physical model test and its numerical simulation, a series of numerical parametric analyses were conducted using a discrete element method. The results showed that the induced earth pressure was affected significantly by a joint set depending on the inclusion of the joint inclination angle, which induces a joint sliding condition, but the number of joint sets alone was not important, even though the earth pressure could be increased slightly as the number of joint sets is increased. In addition, the study results were compared with Peck's earth pressure for soil ground, which indicated that the earth pressure in a jointed rock mass could be considerably different from that in soil ground. The study suggests that the effects of joint sets as well as rock type and joint condition are important factors affecting the earth pressure in a jointed rock mass and they should be considered when designing a support system in a jointed rock mass.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.5C
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• pp.239-250
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• 2009

Tunnelling-induced settlements and lateral ground movements have been investigated by numerical parametric studies considering ground condition, excavation characteristics, and ground layers. Before the numerical study the existing methods of ground movement estimation have been collected and analysed to have some information of ground movements and to improve them providing a fundamental material for the numerical study. Numerical model simulation has been performed of a physical model test of tunnel excavation in which the ground movements were measured reliably and the results have been used to determine the numerical approach and the appropriate soil constitutive mode. With this procedure done, the results of numerical parametric studies have been put together to analyze and understand tunnelling-induced settlements and lateral ground movements.

• Proceedings of the KSEG Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.155-160
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• 2002

지구물리검층기법을 이용하여 시추공 내에서 수리상수를 결정을 위한 예비연구의 하나로 모형시추공을 이용한 전기전도도 검층기법의 적용을 시도하였다. 실험은 모형 시추공 내에 전기전도도가 다른 지층수를 유입, 유출시키면서 공내수의 전기전도도 변화를 모니터링하는 방법으로 이루어졌다. 실험 결과, 전기전도도 분포의 변화 양상은 단위 시간당 유량과, 공내수와 지층수의 전기전도도 차, 밀도 차에 의하여 크게 영향받는 것으로 나타났으며 모형 시추공 내에서의 전기도도 변화는 매우 일정한 경향을 보였다. 모형 시추공 내에서의 전기도도 변화는 유량의 변화와 매우 좋은 상관이 얻어졌으며 이로부터 투수계수 유도를 위한 모델 방정식이 유도될 수 있었다. 전기전도도검층 기법은 시추공 내에서의 투수계수를 구하는데 있어서 매우 효과적일 방법이 될 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.517-520
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• 2010

BIM 설계시 의무사항으로 포함되어 있는 원지형과 암층별 지층, 흙막이 공법 중 CIP(Cast in Place Pile)공법, 구조물 형상을 3차원 정보 모델로 생성하고, 모델을 통해 정확한 2D 도면의 생성, 각 공정간의 간섭검토, 암층별 토공량 및 흙막이의 수량을 산출하였다. 최종 설계안을 도출하기 위해 3차원 기법이 설계 초기에 도입되어 반복적인 노력과 시간을 최소화하여 많은 설계대안을 제시하도록 하였으며, 정확한 설계결과를 얻기 위해, 2D 설계와 3D 설계를 병행 수행함과 동시에 이 과정과 결과를 비교하여 3차원 모델의 효과를 검증하였다.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.116-126
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• 2008

In gas hydrate survey, seismic amplitude and frequency characteristics play a very important role in determining whether gas hydrate exists. According to the variation of source frequency and scatterer size, we study seismic amplitude characteristics using elastic modeling applied at staggered grids. Generally speaking, scattering occurs in proportion to the square of source frequency and the scatterer volume, which has an effect on seismic amplitude. The higher source frequency is, the more scattering occurs in gas hydrate bearing zone. Therefore, BSR is hardly observed in high frequencies. On the other side, amplitude blanking zone and BSR is clearly observed in lower frequencies although the resolution is poor as a whole. Seismic reflections traveling through free-gas layer below gas hydrate bearing zone decay so severely a high frequency component that a low frequency term is dominant. Amplitude anomaly of BSR result from high acoustic impedance contrast due to free-gas, which is a very crucial factor to estimate gas hydrate bearing zone. Seismic frequency analysis is carried out using wavelet transform method that frequency component could be decomposed with time variation. In application of wavelet transform to the seismic physical experiments data, we can observe that reflections traveling through air layer, which corresponds to the free-gas layer, decay a high frequency component.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.349-358
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• 2010

For imaging complex subsurface structures such as salt dome, faults, thrust belt, and folds, seismic prestack reverse-time migration in depth domain is widely used, which is performed by the cross-correlation of shot-domain wavefield extrapolation with receiver-domain wavefield extrapolation. We apply the prestack reverse-time migration, which had been developed at KIGAM, to the seismic field data set of Block 5 in Jeju basin of Korea continental shelf in order to improve subsurface syncline stratigraphy image of the deep structures under the shot point 8km at the surface. We performed basic data processing for improving S/N ratio in the shot gathers, and constructed a velocity model from stack velocity which was calculated by the iterative velocity spectrum. The syncline structure of the stack image appears as disconnected interfaces due to the diffractions, but the result of the prestack migration shows that the syncline image is improved as seismic energy is concentrated on the geological interfaces.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.395-407
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• 2019

The duplex system has been considered as an important slip-transfer mechanism to evaluate the evolution of orogenic belts. Duplexes are generally found in the hinterland portion of fold-thrust belts and accommodate large amounts of total shortening. Thus, understanding its geometric and kinematic evolution can give information to evaluate the evolution of the entire orogenic belt. Duplexes are recognized as closed-loop thrust traces on map view, indicating higher connectivity than imbricate fans. As originally defined, a duplex is an array of thrust horses which are surrounded by thrust faults including the floor and roof thrusts, and imbricate faults between them. Duplexes can accommodate regional layer-parallel shortening and transfer slip from a floor thrust to a roof thrust. However, an imbricate fault is not the only mean for layer-parallel shortening (LPS) and displacement transfer within duplexes. LPS cleavages and detachment folds can also play the same role. From this aspect, a duplex can be divided into three types; 1) fault duplex, 2) cleavage duplex and 3) fold duplex. Fault duplex can further be subdivided into the Boyer-type duplex, which was firstly designed duplex system in the 1980s that widely applied most of the major fold-thrust belts in the world, and connecting splay duplex, which has different time order in the emplacement of horses from those of the Boyer-type. On the contrary, the cleavage and fold duplexes are newly defined types based on some selected examples. In the Korean Peninsula, the Yeongwol area, the western part of the Taebaeksan Zone of the Okcheon Belt, gives an excellent natural laboratory to study the structural geometry and kinematics of the closed-loops by thrust fault traces in terms of a duplex system. In the previous study, the Yeongwol thrust system was interpreted by alternative duplex models; a Boyer-type hinterland-dipping duplex vs. a combination of major imbricate thrusts and their connecting splays. Although the high angled beds and thrusts as well as different stratigraphic packages within the horses of the Yeongwol duplex system may prefer the later complicate model, currently, we cannot choose one simple answer between the models because of the lack of direct field evidence and time information. Therefore, further researches on the structural field investigations and geochronological analyses in the Yeongwol and adjacent areas should be carried out to test the possibility of applying the fold and cleavage duplex models to the Yeongwol thrust system, and it will eventually provide clues to solve the enigma of formation and its evolution of the Okcheon Belt.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.290-290
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• 2020

연구지역인 충청남도 홍성군 갈산면 신곡마을은 상시 가뭄지역으로서 농번기 물부족을 겪고 있으며, 물 확보의 수단으로서 지하수 인공함양이 고려되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 수치모델을 이용하여 수직정 방식의 지하수 인공함양시 주입 효과를 예비 평가하였다. 모델 지역은 가로 세로 2,450 × 2,350 m로서 10 × 10 m 간격의 격자로 구성하였으며, 현장에서 실시된 지하수위 조사 및 9공의 시추조사, 1개공의 양수시험 결과로부터 수리전도도, 지층분포 등을 구성하였다. 정류모델결과, 실측 및 예측 지하수위의 표준오차(Standard error of the estimate)는 0.53 m, 표준화제곱근오차(Normalized RMS)는 6.79%, 상관계수는 0.99%로 나타났다. 수직정을 통한 주입 효과를 평가하기 위하여, 주입량을 5 ㎥/d, 10 ㎥/d, 15 ㎥/d, 20㎥/d, 주입기간을 1일, 3일, 7일, 우물의 개수를 1개, 3개, 5개일 때 등 다양한 조건하에서의 부정류 모델을 수행하였다. 이로부터 주입의 효과인 지하수위 상승량 및 상승 범위 등을 토대로 물 부족 기간의 인공함양 시나리오(주입정의 위치, 갯수, 심도, 기간 등)를 예비적으로 제시하였으며, 추후 정밀 모델 및 실제 현장 주입 시험 등을 토대로 인공함양 설계를 추진할 예정이다.