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Effect of Airgun Intervals on marine Seismic Acquisition (탄성파 탐사에서 건 간격이 미치는 영향)

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    • Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1998.06c
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    • pp.483-486
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    • 1998
  • 한국해양연구소 온누리호에 장착된 에어건 배열에서 건 간격에 따른 빔 패턴 변화를 확인하였으며 남극해역에서 획득된 탐사자료와 비교하였다. 컴퓨터 모의과정과 배열 이론을 이용하여 신호진폭 및 빔 폭 변화 등을 시간 및 주파수 영역에서 분석하였다. 154 Hz에서 송이배열 (cluster array) 및 폭 배열 (wide array)의 빔 폭 변화는 배열 형태보다는 건 간격에 큰 영향을 받고 있어 배열 형태가 달라도 빔 폭은 서로 유사하게 변한다. 건 간격이 클수록 송이배열이 90$^{\circ}$의 빔 패턴에서 주엽 (mainlobe)이 최대치가 되는 것과는 달리 폭배열은 0$^{\circ}$에서 최대치를 나타내며 부엽 (sidelobe)은 건 간격과 무관하게 나타난다. 두 배열의 선형간섭이 점차 줄어드는 건 간격은 2.43 m이다. 남극해 탐사자료는 건 간격이 증가함에 따라 주신호 진폭은 약하게 기포는 강하게 증가한다. 이러한 결과는 빔 패턴 변화에서도 마찬가지로 나타나는데 건 간격이 클수록 주엽의 빔 폭이 점차 좁아져 강한 빔 패턴을 나타냄으로서 남극 탐사자료와 서로 잘 일치한다.

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Pounding Mechanism and Mitigation Effect of Pounding between Adjacent Decks during Strong Earthquake (강지진시 인접교량간의 충돌 매커니즘과 충격 저감 효과)

  • Kwon, Young-Rog;Kim, Jin-Woo;Choi, Kwang-Kyu
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.20 no.5 s.72
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    • pp.63-69
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    • 2006
  • An isolated bridge using a laminated rubber bearing provides an elastic support of continuous span and prevents the transmission of excessive seismic force from the substructure of the bridge, which uses a metal bearing, as this permits a relative displacement between the super-and substructure. Hawever, this kind of bridge is caused long periodic, as a result of enlargingtotal thickness of the rubber, since it corresponds to temperature change and increases the horizontal displacement of the superstructure. This paper uses a numerical study to describe the pounding problem between adjacent decks when subjected to a strong earthquake. Furthermore, numerical results are clarified for the buffer rubber used to mitigate the pounding force between adjacent decks.

On Installation of Bus Trunk System for Wind Tower (풍력타워용 부스닥트 포설시스템 개발)

  • Lee, Joon-Keun;Kim, Bong-Seok;Park, Seong-Hee;Ahn, Hyung-Joon;Lee, Hee-Nam
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2012.04a
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    • pp.330-335
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    • 2012
  • A Bus Trunk System for Wind Tower is introduced. A marine cable has been widely used in wind tower or other offshore structure. However, as the electric load capacity is getting increased, the large number of cable lines should be used to cover such a huge amount of electric capacities, which makes the installation make quite difficult due to the heavy weight and volume of the present cables. On the other hand, by using a single bus trunk system line, the power capacity amount of 16 number of cable can be delivered with significant compactness. However, unlike flexible cable, the bus trunk is relatively stiff which could arise resonance phenomenon in the operating condition of wind tower, therefore, the vibration characteristics of bus trunk should be investigated and verify its long-term reliability during the life time of the wind tower.

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Radar Measurement of Slow Deformation in the Baekdusan Stratovolcano

  • Kim, Sang-Wan;Won , Joong-Sun
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.221-228
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    • 2005
  • Baekdusan is a Cenozoic stratovolcano in which a series of micro-seismic events and gaseous emissions have been reported in 1990s. Two-pass DInSAR technique was applied to determine displacement in the volcano by using 10 ERS SAR and 41 JERS-1 SAR datasets. Most interferometric phases out of 58 JERS-1 differential interferograms showed concentric fringe patterns that correlated with elevation. From an analysis of fringe-duration relation, the fringe patterns were found to be severely distorted specifically by stratified troposphere. To estimate the tropospheric delay, we used the data in the Sobaeksan located about 20 km away from the summit of Baekdusan. The maximum and mean magnitudes of the phase delay in the Baekdusan were respectively 13.8 cm and 3.8 cm over 1200 m in altitude. After removing tropospheric effects, a mean inflation rate was estimated to be about 3 mm per year from 1992 to 1998. Although the inflation rate of the volcano is inconclusive without ground truth data, the results indicate that there exists slow upward deformation in the Baekdusan volcano.

Late Quaternary Sequence Stratigraphy in Kyeonggi Bay, Mid-eastern Yellow Sea (황해 중동부 경기만의 후기 제4기 순차층서 연구)

  • Kwon, Yi-Kyun
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.242-258
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    • 2012
  • The Yellow Sea has sensitively responded to high-amplitude sea-level fluctuations during the late Quaternary. The repeated inundation and exposure have produced distinct transgression-regression successions with extensive exposure surfaces in Kyeonggi Bay. The late Quaternary strata consist of four seismic stratigraphic units, considered as depositional sequences (DS-1, DS-2, DS-3, and DS-4). DS-1 was interpreted as ridge-forming sediments of tidal-flat and estuarine channel-fill facies, formed during the Holocene highstand. DS-2 consists of shallow-marine facies in offshore area, which was formed during the regression of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS)-3 period. DS-3 comprises the lower transgressive facies and the upper highstand tidal-flat facies in proximal ridges and forced regression facies in distal ridges and offshore area. The lowermost DS-4 rests on acoustic basement rocks, considered as the shallow-marine and shelf deposits formed before the MIS-6 lowstand. This study suggests six depositional stages. During the first stage-A, MIS-6 lowstand, the Yellow Sea shelf was subaerially exposed with intensive fluvial incision and weathering. The subsequent rapid and high amplitude rise of sea level in stage-B until the MIS-5e highstand produced transgressive deposits in the lowermost part of the MIS-5 sequence, and the successive regression during the MIS-5d to -5a and the MIS-4 lowstand formed the upperpart of the MIS-5 sequence in stage-C. During the stage-D, from the MIS-4 lowstand to MIS-3c highstand period, the transgressive MIS-3 sequence formed in a subtidal environment characterized by repetitive fluvial incision and channel-fill deposition in exposed area. The subsequent sea-level fall culminating the last glacial maximum (Stage-E) made shallow-marine regressive deposits of MIS-3 sequence in offshore distal area, whereas it formed fluvial channel-fills and floodplain deposits in the proximal area. After the last glacial maximum, the overall Yellow Sea shelf was inundated by the Holocene transgression and highstand (Stage-F), forming the Holocene transgressive shelf sands and tidal ridges.

Analysis of Seismicity by Observation of micro-earthquakes in the Central Region of South Korea (남한 중부지역의 미소지진관측에 의한 지진활동 분석)

  • Kyung, Jai-Bok;Chung, Tae-Woong;Lee, Duk-Ki;Lee, Jae-Gu;Lee, Eun-A
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.201-212
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    • 2000
  • Recent seismicity of the central region of South Korea is investigated by using the micro-earthquake data recorded at the seismic network of KNUE(Korea National University of Education) since December, 1997. About two earthquakes are observed each month, which indicates relatively low seismic activities of the region, without showing any temporal characteristics of seismicity. The b-value of the region obtained from the data we used is found to be about 1.15. The epicenters of the micro-earthquakes are mostly located in the Okchon Zone, especially around Munkyong area, Poeun-Sokri Mt.-Youngdong area, and Kunsan-Nonsan area.

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Swell Noise Attenuation Using a Cascade of F-X Filter and Median Filter (F-X 필터와 중앙값 필터를 연속적으로 사용한 파랑잡음 제거)

  • Kim, Sookwan;Hong, Jong Kuk
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.199-208
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    • 2012
  • High-amplitude swell noises (HASN) are very difficult to eliminate from the marine seismic data. In this paper, we applied F-X filter and median filter in order to suppress HASN. Test data have been acquired on the northern offshore of the South Shetland Islands in December, 2010. Parts of data have been contaminated by HASN caused by bad weather during the cruise. We applied F-X filter and median filter to test data with HASN. After F-X filtering, most of non-coherent noises and small-amplitude swell noises are eliminated effectively but HASN are still remained significantly. With median filter, HASN was suppressed better than F-X filter, however some of non-coherent noises are still remains. We applied a cascade of two filters and results show HASN and non-coherent noises are suppressed effectively. After the cascade of two filtering, it is possible to define reflection layers clearly on the velocity spectrum and to produce better stacked section with a good signal-to-noise ratio.

Nonlinear Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis of a Seismically Isolated Nuclear Power Plant Structure using the Boundary Reaction Method (경계반력법을 이용한 지진격리 원전구조물의 비선형 지반-구조물 상호작용 해석)

  • Lee, Eun-Haeng;Kim, Jae-Min;Lee, Sang-Hoon
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents a detailed procedure for a nonlinear soil-structure interaction of a seismically isolated NPP(Nuclear Power Plant) structure using the boundary reaction method (BRM). The BRM offers a two-step method as follows: (1) the calculation of boundary reaction forces in the frequency domain on an interface of linear and nonlinear regions, (2) solving the wave radiation problem subjected to the boundary reaction forces in the time domain. For the purpose of calculating the boundary reaction forces at the base of the isolator, the KIESSI-3D program is employed in this study to solve soil-foundation interaction problem subjected to vertically incident seismic waves. Wave radiation analysis is also employed, in which the nonlinear structure and the linear soil region are modeled by finite elements and energy absorbing elements on the outer model boundary using a general purpose nonlinear FE program. In this study, the MIDAS/Civil program is employed for modeling the wave radiation problem. In order to absorb the outgoing elastic waves to the unbounded soil region, spring and viscous-damper elements are used at the outer FE boundary. The BRM technique utilizing KIESSI-3D and MIDAS/Civil programs is verified using a linear soil-structure analysis problem. Finally the method is applied to nonlinear seismic analysis of a base-isolated NPP structure. The results show that BRM can effectively be applied to nonlinear soil-structure interaction problems.

Evaluation of the Soil-structure Interaction Effect on Seismically Isolated Nuclear Power Plant Structures (지반-구조물 상호작용이 면진 원전구조물의 지진응답에 미치는 영향 평가)

  • Lee, Eun-haeng;Kim, Jae-min;Joo, Kwang-ho;Kim, Hyun-uk
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.379-389
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    • 2016
  • This study intends to evaluate the conservativeness of the fixed-base analysis as compared to the soil-structure interaction (SSI) analysis for the seismically isolated model of a nuclear power plant in Korea. To that goal, the boundary reaction method (BRM), combining frequency-domain and time-domain analyses in a twofold process, is adopted for the SSI analysis considering the nonlinearity of the seismic base isolation. The program KIESSI-3D is used for computing the reaction forces in the frequency domain and the program MIDAS/Civil is applied for the nonlinear time-domain analysis. The BRM numerical model is verified by comparing the results of the frequency-domain analysis and time-domain analysis for the soil-structure system with an equivalent linear base isolation model. Moreover, the displacement response of the base isolation and the horizontal response at the top of the structure obtained by the nonlinear SSI analysis using BRM are compared with those obtained by the fixed-base analysis. The comparison reveals that the fixed-base analysis provides conservative peak deformation for the base isolation but is not particularly conservative in term of the floor response spectrum of the superstructure.

Characterization of Deep Shear Wave Velocity Profiles in the Gimhae Plains Using the Microtremor Array Method (상시미동 표면파 분석에 의한 김해평야 퇴적층 심부 전단파 속도 결정)

  • Kim, Jae Hwi;Jeong, Seokho
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.38 no.8
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    • pp.17-27
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    • 2022
  • To characterize the dynamic properties of Gimhae Plains sediments, we calculated natural frequencies using microtremor horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratios and derived shear wave velocity profiles by inversion of Rayleigh-wave dispersion curves obtained by the high frequency-wavenumber and modified spatial autocorrelation methods. Our results suggest that in this region, strong amplification of ground motion is expected in the vibration frequency (f ≥ 1 Hz). Additionally, obtained velocity profiles show that shear wave velocities are ~200 and 400 m/s for the shallow marine and old fluvial sediments, respectively. Bedrock is possibly encountered at depths of 60-100 m at most sites. We developed a simplified shear wave velocity model of shallow sediments based on the obtained profiles. Our results suggest that a large area in the Gimhae Plains could be categorized as an S6 site based on the Korean seismic design code (KDS 17 10 00).