• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.597-606
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• 2015

Until now, u-turn lane installation methods have been studied variously. But, There is no specific standard yet. This study ranges are commercial area in Incheon metropolitan city through field investigation and presents specific design standard for efficient operation of left turn using a field data through calculating relevant permitted u-turn lane length and minimum separation distance from the front intersection to starting point of permitted u-turn lane in urban signalized intersections in commercial area. Relevant permitted u-turn lane length is found to be 32m and minimum separation distances from the front intersection to starting point of permitted u-turn lanes are 72m, 40m, 24m in case of 1 left turn lane, 2 left turn lanes and 3 left turn lanes respectively. By comparing result values and field data, they had a large difference under the similar situations in their lengths. This result is caused of no specific standard about design of u-turn lanes. If results of this study applied to design of u-turn lanes, signalized intersections in urban commercial areas would be operated more safety and efficiently.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.79-87
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• 2007

The interchanges of urban freeways have many problems with traffic operation due to high off-ramp flows and frequent congestion at adjacent intersections. The flow exiting from off-ramps is affected by the operational status and traffic volume conditions of the nearest signalized intersection. As a result, off-ramp flow cannot exit and the queue backs up the freeway mainline when queues from the signalized intersection form up to the junction of the off-ramp and street. The spacing between an off-ramp and an adjacent intersection is likely to determine the traffic conditions at the adjacent intersection. However, the current design guidelines do not consider such a factor. This study is to develop a model calculating the spacing between off-ramps and adjacent intersections considering the signal, traffic, and road conditions. The variables affecting the model in this study are effective green time (g/C), volume-capacity ratio (v/c), the number of lanes, and off-ramp volume. Various scenarios are designed to represent the effects of the variables and the road networks are constructed using VISSIM, which is a common traffic micro-simulation software package. The queue length is derived from VISSIM and this length is considered as the recommended spacing between the off-ramp and the adjacent intersection. Through the simulation analysis, regression models are developed to calculate the queue length reflecting the various conditions such as signals, traffic, and road configurations. The developed model can be used to create road design guidelines to determine the location of off-ramps in the planning stage.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.273-279
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• 2019

Development of mountain area is increasing due to the demand for improvement of traffic convenience and development of underdeveloped area. Therefore, there frequently are sections where tunnels and interchanges are located close to each other. These sections do not only affect tunnel planning, types and length of interchanges, but also affect more on route selection. In Korea, several design criteria present each reference value but these values are very similar. In the situation, the minimum value among them is usually applied when planning roads and it could cause traffic safety problems in different site conditions. In this study, the problems of design speed, illuminance adaptation distance, and lane change intervals are analyzed by simulating the cases that the problem could occur when calculating the separation distance between tunnel and interchange. The results obtained from this study can be summarized as following: the driving speed should be applied in case that the site has a big gap between design speed and driving speed because the uniform application of the design speed is not safe; the illuminance adaptation distance should include the influence distance in the section affected by the direct light; in addition, the lane change distance should include the time to perceive the situation of the next lane after the lane change in the section required for successive lane change.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.15-21
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• 2012

An analysis was completed of the hazards distance of hydrogen accidents such as jet release, jet fire, and vapor cloud explosion(VCE) of hydrogen gas, and simplified equations have been proposed to predict the hazard distances to set up safety distance by the gas dispersion, fire, and explosion following hydrogen gas release. For a small release rate of hydrogen gas, such as from a pine-hole, the hazard distance from jet dispersion is longer than that from jet fire. The hazard distance is directly proportional to the pressure raised to a half power and to the diameter of hole and up to several tens meters. For a large release rate, such as from full bore rupture of a pipeline or a large hole of storage vessel, the hazard distance from a large jet fire is longer than that from unconfined vapor cloud explosion. The hazard distance from the fire may be up to several hundred meters. Hydrogen filling station in urban area is difficult to compliance with the safety distance criterion, if the accident scenario of large hydrogen gas release is basis for setting up the safety distance, which is minimum separation distance between the station and building. Therefore, the accident of large hydrogen gas release must be prevented by using safety devices and the safety distance may be set based on the small release rate of hydrogen gas. But if there are any possibility of large release, populated building, such as school, hospital etc, should be separated several hundred meters.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.17-23
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• 2016

This study assessed the behavior of rock pillar in tunnel asymmetric diverging area by using a three dimensional numerical analysis. The stability of pillar is very important for the ensure the stability of the tunnel asymmetric diverging area. Based on parameters affecting the behavior of rock pillar, this study evaluated different safety factors according to pillar width, depth and rock conditions. It turned out that as the rock pillar width increases, the change curve of safety factors in accordance with depth and rock conditions shows more of the nonlinear behavior. By the assessment of the minimum safety factor, a safety factor chart on the behavior of rock pillar in tunnel asymmetric diverging area was suggested.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.16-23
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• 2008

In this research, the visualization experiment for a scaling tunnel was conducted to establish the optimum fire protection system in tunnel fires. In order to find the optimal operating condition of jet fan with the fire, the characteristics of smoke propagation was considered to find the optimal operating condition of jet fan at the time of tunnel fire, the concentration of smoke was measured experimentally for various jet fan position and it's operating condition. As a result, when jet fan in the vicinity of fire operates at the upstream, the back-layering of the smoke should be considered with separation distance from the fire source. The distance between the jet fan and the fire should be longer than 50 m. On the other hand, when the vicinity jet fan operates at the downstream, the back-layering of smoke does not occur, but stratification is not maintained because the smoke dispersion occurs at the downstream due to the operation of the jet fan.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1181-1182
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 초고압 가스절연개폐장치(GIS, Gas Insulated Switchgear) 내 고체 절연물인 스페이서에서 삼중점의 전계를 완화하기 위한 쉴드링 설계 방법과 그에 따른 효과를 분석하였다. 이를 위해 420kV GIS 스페이서를 축대칭 모델로 단순화하여 전계해석을 수행하였으며, 쉴드링 직경에 따른 삼중점 전계세기 변화를 확인하였다. 또한 쉴드링과 스페이서 계면 사이의 최소 이격거리를 계산하여 쉴드링의 최적 직경을 구하였다. 추가적으로, 새로운 설계 기법인 Double 쉴드링 기법을 소개하고 기존의 쉴드링이 하나인 경우와 비교 분석하여 그 효과를 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.417-421
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 우리나라 전역에 군락으로 서식하는 상록 다년초인 맥문동을 이용한 현장 실험을 실시하여 지표화 방지 및 확산속도 저지를 위한 산불 이격거리를 제시하고자 삼척시 검봉산 맥문동 식재지에서 식재지 미식재지 총 4종류의 실험구를 설정하고 실험한 결과 맥문동 식재지는 미식재지에 비해 1.1-2.9배 산불확산속도 저지 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 지표화 발생시 산림내로 확산되기 전 초동진화에 필요한 시간(30분)을 감안하면, 산림인접지 부근의 식재폭은 최소 69m 최대 203m가 필요한 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.102-107
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• 2012

In this paper, we presented interference scenarios and an evaluation methodology for the co-frequency radio interference between a multi-beam mobile satellite communication system and a mobile communication system in 2.1 GHz band. Radio interferences between these systems are calculated using a minimum coupling loss method and an assesment for minimum separation distances was conducted for coexistence of a mobile satellite system and a mobile system in the same geographical area.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.232-237
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• 2004

영상 워핑 및 모핑은 영상 안에서 각 화소들 사이의 공간적인 관계를 재구성하는 영상처리와 컴퓨터 그래픽스 기술이 결합된 분야로서 메쉬 방식과 필드 방식 둥이 대표적이다. 이중에서 필드 방식은 상대적으로 많은 연산량을 요구하는 것에 반해 제어선 설정이 용이하며 설정된 제어선의 위치나 길이의 변화에 대해 비교적 덜 민감하다는 장점이 있다. 필드 방식은 사용자가 제어선을 지정하는 과정의 대부분을 수작업에 의존하기 때문에 작업 시간이 많이 소요될 뿐만 아니라 양질의 결과를 얻기 위해서는 숙련을 요하는 불편함이 있다. 본 논문은 소스 영상과 목표 영상에서 워핑 대상체 쌍의 형상 정보를 획득한 상태에서 사용자가 수동으로 최소한의 특징점 쌍만을 지정하면 이렇게 지정된 특징점 쌍을 기준 삼아 다각형 기반 정점 탐색에 의해 소스 영상과 목표 영상에 상호 대응되는 제어선들을 자동적으로 설정한 후, 제어선 길이의 비율과 제어선으로부터의 이격 거리를 이용하여 영상 워핑과 모핑을 수행함으로써 영상 워핑 및 모핑의 반자동화를 실현할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에 따르면, 사용자가 제어선을 설정하는 시간을 단축할 수 있고 비숙련자도 최소의 제어선만을 지정하여 자연스러운 워핑 및 모핑의 결과를 획득할 수 있는 이점이 있다.