• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.8 no.4 s.30
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• pp.25-36
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• 2006

Through field surveys and evaluation on several widened concrete pavements, issues on construction and design related problems are broken down into three categories to be discussed; poor smoothness, influence of traffic vibration on concrete curing, and poor connection to the existing pavement. There are many places where about 100mm only of the marginal strip is removed and where defects such as widening and faulting are observed. Also cracks arise again from the patched areas due to stress concentration near the joint. Roughness on the widened concrete pavement was evaluated and there are some stations where the smoothness limit is over passed. For design consideration, shortage of the required force in the tie-bar is expected in case of road widening specially from 3 lanes to 4 lanes. Finally the average pull-out force of specimens made from the current practice was about 57% of the required force. New connecting methods were suggested in this study.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.5 no.1 s.15
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• pp.11-18
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• 2003

Road roughness, as the key factor influencing not only drivers' ride quality and safety but also pavement deterioration, is one of the most important pavement performance indicator to be evaluated by users' subjective assessment. For this reason, a specific number of the pavement roughness has been adopted to monitor the condition of a road for pavement management systems and to evaluate the quality of newly constructed sections, however, none of the unified methodology was internationally accepted. In Korea highway network, road roughness has been used mainly to evaluate newly placed pavement by using 7.6m CP (California Profile meter) to calculate PrI (Profile Index). But this instrument is manually operated to measure road profiles by traffic closure and their interpretation depends on personal bias. Therefore, problems arisen from the manually operated instrument will be overcome by using the APL (Longitudinal Profile Analyzer) which can be operated in the speed of 80km per hour. A study was conducted to correlate the relation from both concrete and asphalt pavement between IRI (measured by APL) and PrI (measured by 7.6m CP). Test results showed that there was a good correlation between IRI and PrI.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.167-174
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• 2009

The simulation of dynamic load was conducted based on surface profile on asphalt concrete pavement, vehicle speeds, and suspension types using a truck simulation program. The results of the simulated dynamic load based on different surface profile, vehicle speeds, and suspension types are analyzed. As pavement roughness and vehicle speed are increased, the dynamic load was increased. Walking beam suspension produces greater dynamic load than air spring suspension. Pavement damage index is calculated based on covariance of dynamic load and Paris-Erdogan fracture parameter, n which is based on creep compliance tests of asphalt mixtures used in Korea. The higher covariance of dynamic load, confidence level, and fracture parameter are used, the greater pavement damage index is obtained. Specification of pavement roughness can be developed in various vehicle speeds and asphalt mixtures, and pay factor can be determined after constructing asphalt concrete pavement using pavement damage concepts.

• 한국도로학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.227-232
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• 2008

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.22-29
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• 2013

Warm mix asphalt(WMA), which is produced at lower temperatures than hot mix asphalt, has advantages in reductions of fuel consumption and greenhouse-gas emission. In this study, field tests such as skid resistance, rutting(permanent deformation), and roughness were conducted for analysis of long-term field performance of modified warm mix asphalt pavement. Skid resistance after 20 months represents the result similar to initial performance results but rutting and roughness decreased somewhat depending on the period of performance. Measurement results of permanent deformation and roughness could be acceptable because measured pavement location is bus lane that a lot of buses pass and stop. There were no cracks after 11 months, but some minor cracks were observed after 20 months. These results were influenced by increased crack resistance due to fiber addition.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.52-59
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• 2023

Flatness inspection of PC elements is normally conducted manually by inspectors at manufacturing sites. However, the manual inspection is error-prone and subjective, so it is necessary to develop a robust and efficient flatness measurement method. Recently, a few studies of laser scanner-based flatness inspection have been conducted. However, little attention on field applicability in terms of accuracy, time and cost has been paid. To tackle the limitation, this study aims to compare three sensing method including floor profiler, terrestrial laser scanner and total station for flatness inspection of PC elements. A series of experiments on two full-scale PC slabs were conducted and the results show that the laser scanning method is the most suitable for the PC elements flatness inspection in the aspects of accuracy, time and cost.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.133-141
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• 2017

Traffic volume increases according to highway expansion and industrial development which causes repetitive defect and durability degradation on pavement. The research of quality assurance system used abroad has introduced Korea. Korea Expressway Corporation (KEC) has developed a Quality Performance Index (QPI) that quantitatively assesses the level of quality of the final product, and practical applications. Assessment factor on concrete pavement consisted of pavement thickness, compressive strength, IRI and spacing factor. Assessment factor on concrete pavement is determined by empirical evaluation factor from abroad. In this study, analysis of evaluation factors of concrete pavement by using pavement life prediction simulation and measured data were evaluated with consideration of feasibility of the assessment factor. Pavement life, performance and durability are affected by pavement thickness, compressive strength, IRI and spacing factor in assessment factor on concrete pavement, QPI.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.534-540
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• 2010

High dimensionality and highly correlated features are the major characteristics of hyperspectral data. Linear projections such as LDA and its variants have been used in extracting low-dimensional features from high-dimensional spectral data. Regularization of LDA has been introduced to alleviate the overfitting that often occurs in a small-sized training data set and leads to poor generalization performance. Among them, a smoothness regularized LDA seems to be effective in the feature extraction for hyperspectral data due to its capability of utilizing the high correlatedness. This paper studies the performance of the regularized LDA in hyperspectral data classification experimentally with varying conditions of the training data. In addition, a new dual smoothness regularized LDA is proposed and evaluated that makes use of both the spectral-domain and spatial-domain correlations between neighboring pixels.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.8 no.3 s.29
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• pp.77-88
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• 2006

The maintenance / repair of concrete pavements has become an issue as a result of increasing of concrete pavements' service year. Asphalt overlay is applied to the concrete pavements after partial repairs on all occasions. This thesis discusses the application standard, evenness, skid resistance, noise, economical efficiency, extension of life span, etc. of diamond grinding, a method of maintenance about concrete pavements. Based on this, it was applied to the field and measured the performance. It was measured the longitudinal evenness of before and after the construction through measurement equipment. and surveyed the skid resistance the each lane classified using the SN standard value. In case of noise, it is selected the kind of vehicle, velocity, then measured the noise between control and constructed site. In addition, it is evaluated the average texture depth. As a result of the analysis, longitudinal evenness is improved about $6{\sim}40%$, skid resistance is improved 66% at first section,37% at second section. Noise is reduced 3.4dB average, and average texture depth is 79% deeper than control section. Therefore, it can be concluded that diamond grinding is suitable as maintenance / repair method of concrete pavements.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.1097-1104
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• 1997

인산형 연료전지(PAFC)용 전해질 매트릭스의 표면 거칠기를 감소시켜 분극저항을 줄이고 작업성을 향상시키기 위해 SiC whisker를 사용하여 일반적인 테이프 캐스팅법으로 제조된 매트릭스의 거친 표면을 평탄화 처리하였다. 구형 입자의 분무공정을 이용하여 표면 평탄화 처리(process l)하는 경우와 롤링을 이용하여 표면 평탄화 처리(process 2)하는 두가지 공정을시도하였으며, 두가지 공정 모두 기공율과 인산 함침도를 유지시키면서, 매트릭스의 표면 거칠기를 감소시키고 기공압, 가소성 및 인장강도를 향상시킬 수 있었다. 위와 같이 제조한 매트릭스로 연료전지를 구성하여 교류 임피던스 분석을 한 결과, 표면 평탄화 처리는 매트릭스 표면의 거칠기를 감소시킴으로써 전극과의 접촉시 계면에서의 분극 저항을 감소시켜 전지성능을 향상시키는 것으로 나타났다. process 2는 표면의 거칠기 감소뿐 아니라 표면에서의 인산함침도가 커서 가장 우수한 전지특성을 나타내었으며, process 1은 매트릭스 표면에 불규칙하게 존재하는 거대 기공을 완전히 제거하고 기공압을 크게 향상시킬 수 있기 때문에 대형의 매트릭스 제조를 가능하게 하였다.