• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.548-554
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• 2016

Optimal range of soil physical quality to enhance crop productivity or to improve environmental health is still in dispute for the upland soil. We hypothesized that the optimal range might be established by comparing soil physical parameters and their interactions inhibiting crop growth. The parameter identifying optimal range covered favorable conditions of aeration, permeability and root extension. To establish soil physical standard two experiments were conducted as follows; 1) investigating interactions of bulk density and aeration porosity in the laboratory test and 2) determining effects of soil compaction and deep & conventional tillage on physical properties and crop growth in the field test. The crops were Perilla frutescens, Zea mays L., Solanum tuberosum L. and Secale cereael. The saturated hydraulic conductivity, bulk density from the root depth, root growth and stem length were obtained. Higher bulk density showed lower aeration porosity and hydraulic conductivity, and finer texture had lower threshold bulk density at 10% aeration bulk density. Reduced crop growth by subsoil compaction was higher in silt clay loam compared to other textures. Loam soil had better physical improvement in deep rotary tillage plot. Combined with results of the present studies, the soil physical quality was possibly assessed by bulk density index. Threshold subsoil bulk density as the upper value were $1.55Mg\;m^{-3}$ in sandy loam, $1.50Mg\;m^{-3}$ in loam and $1.45Mg\;m^{-3}$ in silty clay loam for optimal soil physical quality in upland.

• 아시안잔디학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.95-102
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• 2005

USGA green specification is currently accepted in construction method of Korea. This study was carried out to find the factors influencing growth of turfgrass associated with soil physical properties of soil root-zone on golf green constructed with USGA method. Three putting greens in poor turfgrass and one in good turfgrass condition were selected for investigation on one golf course site at mid-South Korean peninsula. Soil hardness, moisture content, root length, and turf density were measured on-site greens, and soil physical properties and soil chemical properties also analyzed in laboratory. As a result of on-site surveys and soil physical tests in laboratory, soil physical properties were most important factors which influenced on turfgrass growth at tested greens. The results of soil particle analysis on green No. 2, in good turf condition, matched USGA sand particle recommendations. But those greens such as Nos. 1, 11 and 16, in poor putting greens, showed high soil compaction and improper soil particle distribution. Those factors created low leaf density, poor root depth, and higher moisture content compared with lower part of topsoil. Such phenomena caused inadequate turfgrass growth with soil hardening associated with poor drainage. Therefore, declines of soil physical properties associated with improper particle distribution caused a major factor influencing on turfgrass growth in golf green. Adequate test of soil particle analysis by USGA specification and proper construction method followed by adequate turf maintenance should be performed to obtain optimal turf quality on putting green.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.453-462
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• 2010

Nowadays, the challenges of ensuring good water quality and quantity of river are becoming more important for human society, but there has been troublesome for purifying river water. In this study, we performed the fundamental study of a river water treatment system using riverside soil and eco-friendly optimal media for improving river water quality and can also treat a large amount of river water. As the results of the physical and chemical characterization of the two different soils (Kyungan and Chungrang, The Republic of Korea), which were collected from real stream sides in the Han River basin, and five kinds of media (zeolite, perlite, steel slag, woodchip and mulch), both soils were all classified as a sand, and effective size ($D_{10}$) and uniformity coefficient (U) of the soil were about 0.2 mm and 4 or so, respectively. Through the batch and column experiments with the soil and eco-friendly media, zeolite and mulch were found to be efficient for decreasing nitrogen. In addition, steel slag was especially superior to the other media for phosphorus removal. From soil reforming tests volume ratios were 2.8, 1, and 1 of Kyungan soil, zeolite, and steel slag hydraulic conductivity of mixed soil was increased $1.30{\times}10^{-2}$ from $2.85{\times}10^{-3}$ of Kyungan soil, and the removal efficiencies of nitrogen and phosphorus were also improved. These results show that reforming of the soil enhanced the purification of a large amount of water, and zeolite, mulch, and steel slag might be facilitated as proper functional media.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.138-141
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• 2007

Good quality seedlings produced in the seedbed of Yangjik, traditional seedling cultivation, is one of the most important factors in determining the yield and quality of $4{\sim}6-year-old$ ginseng. This study was carried out to substitute Yacto, traditional organic fertilizer, for economical compost in the cultivation of seedling by fertilizing relatively little amount of compost into seedbed soil. Bulk density and solid phase were decreased in physical properties of seedbed soil, while air phase and porosity were increased by more addition of compost. When the amount of applied compost in seedbed soil was above $8{\ell}$ per Kan, the contents of nutrient were exceeded the range of optimal standard for ginseng cultivation. Chlorophyll content and stem length were increased by more addition of compost, while the length and the width of leaves showed the highest value at the application level of $8{\ell}$ per Kan. Heat injury was also increased distinctly above the application level of $8{\ell}$ per Kan. The number of first grade seedlings and usable seedlings, and fresh root weight per plant showed the peak at application level of $8{\ell}$ per Kan, respectively. Fertilizing the compost of $8{\ell}$ per Kan into seedbed soil was the optimal amount for producing the good quality seedlings.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.105-110
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• 2011

유기농 토마토 재배에서 유기자원인 혼합유박과 볏짚의 혼용에 대한 적정 시용량을 구명하고자, 무처리구, 혼합유박 1.0 N(표준시비구), 볏짚구, 볏짚+혼합유박 0.5 N, 볏짚+혼합 유박 1.0 N 등 5처리를 두고 4작기에 걸쳐 2년간 시험을 수행하였다. 작물의 수량을 기준으로 한 질소 양분기준은 1작기에서의 시험 전 토양의 질산태 질소 함량이 220 mg/kg 인 경우 모든 처리에서 수량의 차이가 없어 무시비 재배가 가능한 것으로 판단되었다. 하지만 2작기에서는 무처리 및 볏짚구에서 수량의 감소를 보였으며, 3작기에서는 볏짚+혼합유박 0.5 N처리에서 유의성 있는 차이를 나타내었는데 이러한 수량의 차이를 보이는 시험 전 토양의 질산태 질소의 함량 기준은 160 mg/kg으로 평가되었으며, 질소 부족에 따른 질소공급원인 혼합유박 등의 표준시비가 요구되었다. 유기자원의 연용에 처리에서 볏짚은 용적밀도, 토양입단, 양이온치환용량, 부식함량 등 토양 물리성을 개선시키는 효과를 보였으나, 혼합유박에서는 토양 물리성 개량에의 유의성 있는 차이를 보이지 않았다. 그러므로 토마토 유기재배에서의 시비관리는 토양 중 질산태질소 함량에 따른 혼합유박의 적정 시비량 적용과 함께 토양물리성 개량 효과가 뛰어난 볏짚을 같이 시용해야 할 것으로 판단되었다.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.108-116
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• 2009

As an aging society accelerates its pace for the present, providing a pleasant environment to nursing homes is such an environmental requirement with which elderly people could improve their quality of life and even acquire the effects of healing. As an optimal element of ensuring amenity, nature is a general hospital that heals human beings physically and mentally. In this vein, the investigator drew out the frame of analysis, namely emotional/healing/relating amenity, by means of theoretical examination of such natural elements as water, light, soil/stone, and plant. And on the basis of the drawn amenity, the investigator examined the application of natural elements to study subjects in order to analyze the ensured amenity. Study findings show that the existing nursing homes have ensured healing amenity sufficiently, but they are unsatisfactory in ensuring emotional and relating amenity. Based on interview survey, the investigator suggests that the introduction of natural elements into nursing homes such public space as mediation space, interaction space, and rest places to ensure emotional/healing/relating amenity must be ideally equipped with the formation of outdoor forest in which water, light, soil/stone, and plant get joined together, rather than Introducing a single element respectively. In addition, the plan of construction of nursing homes must take residing elderly people's emotional/healing/relating amenity into account on the basis of physical amenity.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제27권7호
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• pp.5-16
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• 2011

고체 역학 및 유체 역학 분야에서 대상 물체의 변형, 변위 및 속도를 측정하기 위하여 디지털 이미지 해석 기법이 개발, 사용되고 있다. 지반 공학에서도 흙을 포함한 지반 구조물의 변형을 관측하기 위하여 Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)와 Digital Image Correlation (DIC) 기법이 실내 시험 및 모형 시험 등에 적용되기 시작하는 추세이다. 이미지 해석은 시료의 종류 및 크기, 카메라 해상도, 해석 범위, 이미지 해석 조건에 영향을 받으므로, 다양한 조건에서의 정밀도를 평가하여 합리적으로 최적 조건을 결정할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 디지털 이미지 해석 결과에 영향을 미치는 다양한 요소를 정리하였다. 그리고 높은 정확도의 해석 결과를 얻을 수 있는 최적의 이미지 해석 조건을 결정하는 절차를 제안하였으며 최종적으로 제안된 절차의 적용성을 점성토 시료에 대하여 검증하였다.