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Research and practice of health monitoring for long-span bridges in the mainland of China

  • Li, Hui;Ou, Jinping;Zhang, Xigang;Pei, Minshan;Li, Na
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.555-576
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    • 2015
  • The large number of long-span bridges constructed in China motivates the applications of structural health monitoring (SHM) technology. Many bridges have been equipped with sophisticated SHM systems in the mainland of China and in Hong Kong of China. Recently, SHM technology has been extended to field test systems. In this view, SHM can serve as a tool to develop the methods of life-cycle performance design, evaluation, maintenance and management of bridges; to develop new structural analysis methods through validation and feedback from SHM results; and to understand the behavior of bridges under natural and man-made disasters, rapidly assess the damage and loss of structures over large regions after disasters, e.g., earthquake, typhoon, flood, etc. It is hoped that combining analytical methods, numerical simulation, small-scale tests and accelerated durability tests with SHM could become the main engine driving the development of bridge engineering. This paper demonstrates the above viewpoint.

Tower Crane Foundation Design and Stability Review Model (타워크레인 기초설계 및 안정성 검토 모델)

  • Ho, Jong-Kwan;Han, Kap-Kyu;Kim, Sun-Kuk
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.99-106
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    • 2007
  • Tower crane is a large construction equipment which is extremely tall for its section when it is erected, with its high slenderness ratio, and it has a heavy load by itself due to large lifting stuff to handle. In line with the construction projects in these days which increasingly tend to become higher, larger and complex, the stuff and height subject to lifting are also getting larger and higher, which has also increased the risk of disastrous accidents. A stable foundation design thus to deal with the increasing self load becomes more important. When a typhoon Maemi swept the nation in 2003, as many as 43 tower cranes fell down or collapsed, causing a severe damage to the people and the properties. Considering such fatal damages, a technical evaluation of the stability to prevent the safety accident with the tower crane must be very crucial. Tower cranes operation in domestic construction sites, in fact, have been simply dependent on personal experience and intuition of the engineers. Particularly when it comes to the foundation design, it mostly depends on manufacturer's recommendation. The study hence was intended to develop the fundamental measures for granting the objective stability, instead of following the individual's experience only. The simulation model recommended in the study is expected to make a good commitment to achieving an effective lifting work as well as preventing the safety accident.

A Study of the Integration of the Distributed Disaster Resources (국가 재난관리자원 통합에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Changyeol;Kim, Taehwan;Park, Giljoo
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.304-311
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    • 2014
  • Disaster Resources are the resources used in the disaster fields such as fire, typhoon, flood, collapse, flood damage, distress, relief, sanitary, explosion and so forth. The resources are distributed by the several institutes including governmental agencies, public institution, and private sectors. When the large scale disaster is occurred, many kinds of the disaster resources are needed. But it is not easy to know where institutes has the needed resources, because the resource management systems are all distributed in the each institute. To integrate or connect the resource data among the systems, it need the several kinds of coordinations such as terms, classification, and resource exchange protocols. In this paper, we propose the standard specifications and how to connect and exchange the data among the systems.

Development of Loss Functions for Public Facilities Damage - by Heavy Rain and Typhoon - (호우·태풍 피해에 따른 공공시설물 손실함수 개발에 관한 연구 - 도로 및 상·하수도 시설물 -)

  • Hwang, Shin Bum;Kim, Sang Ho;Lee, Chang Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.25-25
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    • 2019
  • 자연재해에 따른 피해로부터 국민의 재산과 인명 등을 보호하기 위해서는 예상되는 재해로부터 발생하는 피해규모에 대한 분석과 예측을 통한 대책 마련이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 최근 10년간 발생되어진 자연재해 원인과 시설물별 분류 결과를 통하여 가장 많은 피해가 발생되어진 호우 태풍에 따른 공공시설물 피해에 대한 피해규모를 예측할 수 있는 손상 손실함수를 개발하고자 하였다. 공공시설물 중에서도 제외지에서 대부분의 피해가 발생하는 하천시설물 외에 국민의 생활영역인 제내지에서 피해규모가 크게 발생하였으며, 국가재난관리시스템(NDMS)의 피해내역 시설물 분류가 명확한 도로 시설물과 상 하수도 시설물을 함수 개발 대상물로 선정하였다. 도로와 상 하수도 시설물에 대한 국가재난관리시스템(NDMS)의 과거 피해내역과 호우 태풍에 의한 피해발생 규모로서 일반적으로 활용되고 있는 침수예상도 범람도 등을 활용하기 위하여 피해액을 종속변수로 침수면적을 독립변수로 이용하여 도로와 상 하수도 시설물의 피해액을 추정할 수 있는 손실함수를 개발하였다. 개발되어진 도로 시설물 및 상 하수도 시설물에 대한 손실함수는 향후 재해에 따라 발생 가능한 추정 피해액 규모 분석 등을 통하여 재해저감 대책을 위한 기초자료로 활용될 것으로 기대한다.

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Effect of Different Wind-break Net on Reducing Damage of Cold Sea Wind (수도 풍해경감을 위한 방풍강 강목의 효과)

  • 이승필;김상경;이광석;최대웅;김칠용
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.352-361
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    • 1990
  • The reducing effect of wind injury was investigated using several wind-break nets in Youngdeok province where cold-wind damage is often occurred during rice growing season. The white-head damage of rice have been often occurred by typhoon during the period between August 15 to September 10 in the cold wind area of the eastern coastal during the last 11 years (1979-1989). This may suggest that the critical period for heading will be by August 15 in the regions. High evaporation coefficient, more than 250 due to typhoon passage over the regions resulted high injury of white head. Generally, the wind injury have been caused by warm and dry westerlies through Fohn apperance in Taebaeg mountains and by cool-humid wind which blows from coast to inland. The frequency of occurrence of the two types of typhoons were 25, 20%, respectively during rice cultivation. The instalation of wind-break net significantly reduced the wind blowing speed, depending on the net mesher with the higher effect in dence net. The distances between the net and cropping area also affect the wind speed: 23% reduction at 1m distance. 34% at 10m and 28% at 20m, respectively. The reducing effect was also observed even at 10 times height of the wind-break net. The instalation of wind-break net gave several effects on climate factor, showing that temperature increased by 0.8$^{\circ}C$(maximum), 0.7$^{\circ}C$(minimum), 0.6$^{\circ}C$(average) : water temperatures increased by 0.5$^{\circ}C$(maximum), 0.6$^{\circ}C$(minimum), 0.5$^{\circ}C$(average) : soil temperature increased 0.4$^{\circ}C$. The earlier heading and increasing growth rate, use of light, culm length, panicle number per hill, spikelet number per panicle, fertility and 1,000 grain weight were observed in the fields with the wind-break nets resulting in 10-15% increase in rice yield using 0.5${\times}$0.5cm nets. The increasing seedlings per hill gave higher grain yield by 13% in the cold wind damage regions of eastern coastals. and the wind-break was more significant in the field without the wind-break net. Wind injury of rice plant in the cold wind regions of eastern coastals in korea could be reduced by selection of tolerant varieties to wind injury, adjustment of transplanting time, and establishment of wind-break nets.

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Roadside Landslide and Ditch Erosion in Mountain Forest Road (산악지림도(山岳地林道)의 노견(路肩) 사면붕괴(斜面崩壞)와 측구침식(側溝浸蝕)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究))

  • Ma, Sang Kyu
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.76 no.2
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    • pp.161-168
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    • 1987
  • Forest road (10 Km) constructed for the demonstrational purpose by Forest Work Training Center (F.T.C.) in 1984 was partly damaged through the roadside landside and ditch erosion by the typhoon in 1986. The causes were investigated to apply for protecting against the damage of mountain forest road. The damaging length caused by roadside landside is around 3% out of total length of 10 Km forest road, and mostly coming from the curve road filled up more than 10 m slope length on the concave mountain slope, partly from the foot of fillslope along the ever-following valley and from the both side of fillslope under the outlet of culvert with ever-flowing water. In case of ditch erosion, the big damage at V-type ditch is coming from the overflow of valley water flowing down along the inside slope. Other problem is also showing in the steepness of longitudial gradient, which is felt as a problem in road to be constructed under more than 10 persent of gradient. Other cause of ditch erosion is coming from the bury of sand basin (water collecting wall) by the debris in small diameter culvert zone, namely less than 400mm, in diameter and by the soil mass slumped down from steep wall slope. From above results the causes of F.T.C. model road damage is showing to come from no-following the general guide or little experience to protect against the forest road damage. When improved above mentioned mistakes, F.T.C. Method of mountain forest road type could be developed as a model of Mountain forest road.

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Behavior Characteristics of Floating Debris Spilled from the Nakdong River (낙동강 유출 부유쓰레기의 거동 특성)

  • Jang, Seon Woong;Kim, Dae Hyun;Chung, Yong Hyun;Yoon, Hong-Joo
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.127-136
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    • 2014
  • When the mouth of the Nakdong River, opens its floodgate, thousands of tons of litter should flown into the South Sea, moving towards nearby coast, thus causing serious social and economic damage. For this reason, in the present study, research was performed on one certain area in northeast coast of Geoje island, which is assumed as area damaged due to rainy season and typhoon in 2012, and research for trace of movement route was implemented by using buoy to identify characteristic of movement of floating debris caused from Nakdong River. Flows related to the movement of floating debris was also identified by analyzing ocean meteorological environment. As a result of the study, total 40 tons of litter composed of grasses and trees(or plants litter) were flown into Heungnam beach on 16th, Jul which is the rainy season. Plus, the location tracking buoy, which was dropped when the typhoon SANBA was coming, was passed by southern sea of Gadeok-do and was flown into Geoje beach 1 ~ 2 days after it was dropped. The wind direction was mostly northeasterly wind around the Geoje beach at the time the buoy and floating debris were flown into northeast coast and there was common sea surface currents which was flowing into the coast.

A Case Study of Calculating Flood Inundation Area by HEC-GeoRAS (HEC-GeoRAS 모형에 의한 침수면적산정 사례연구)

  • Kim, Chang-Soo;Lee, Young-Dai;Lee, Hwan-Woo
    • Journal of Korean Society of societal Security
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2009
  • During the past few years, Korea has experienced extraordinary floods, which have caused many damages of lives and properties. Flooding caused by typhoon is the most common disastrous phenomenon of nature among all catastrophes. As the average temperature of the earth has been increasing by global warming, the possibility of typhoon is also increased by abnormal climate changes. Along with the river improvement as a part of flood control, the time of concentration has been decreased, so the pick discharge has been increased. Moreover, with the land development activities, the area of storage has been diminishing, and the damages from inundation have been continuously increasing. There were a lot of damages to farmland in 1960's, industrial and public facilities in 1970's, and a lot of sufferings from the windstorm in 1980's. In 1990's, however, the amount of damages was increased substantially. So, there is need to decrease the number of the victims and loss of properties by applying preventive measures against natural calamities. This study has employed a simulation system to calculate the depth and amounts of inundation areas to forecast and prevent from flood damage by using rainfall-runoff model. In this study, a case study method is adopted to show inundation by using rainfall-runoff model, HEC-GeoRAS and Arcview. It is hoped that, this study would be conducive to professionals and organizations working in the field of disaster management.

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Development of a Flood Disaster Evacuation Map Using Two-dimensional Flood Analysis and BIM Technology (2차원 침수해석과 BIM 기술을 활용한 홍수재난 대피지도 작성)

  • Jeong, Changsam
    • Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.53-63
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the two-dimensional flow analysis model Hydro_AS-2D model was used to simulate the situation of flooding in Seongsangu and Uichang-gu in Changwon in the event of rising sea levels and extreme flooding, and the results were expressed on three-dimensional topography and the optimal evacuation path was derived using BIM technology. Climate change significantly affects two factors in terms of flood damage: rising sea levels and increasing extreme rainfall ideas. The rise in sea level itself can not only have the effect of flooding coastal areas and causing flooding, but it also raises the base flood level of the stream, causing the rise of the flood level throughout the stream. In this study, the rise of sea level by climate change, the rise of sea level by storm tidal wave by typhoon, and the extreme rainfall by typhoon were set as simulated conditions. The three-dimensional spatial information of the entire basin was constructed using the information of topographical space in Changwon and the information of the river crossing in the basic plan for river refurbishment. Using BIM technology, the target area was constructed as a three-dimensional urban information model that had information such as the building's height and location of the shelter on top of the three-dimensional topographical information, and the results of the numerical model were expressed on this model and used for analysis for evacuation planning. In the event of flooding, the escape route is determined by an algorithm that sets the path to the shelter according to changes in the inundation range over time, and the set path is expressed on intuitive three-dimensional spatial information and provided to the user.

Field Experimental Study on a Soft Protecting Method for Coastal Erosion Prevention (유연재를 이용한 연안잠식방지에 대한 현장실험 연구)

  • Peng, Ta-Hsiung;Jan, Chyan-Deng
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.216-222
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    • 2010
  • The structural methods used to protect coastal erosion are usually very expensive in construction as well as in spending on maintaining the structures from damage. Those structures like embankments, breakwaters, jetties etc. are commonly constructed with concretes (rigid methods) to protect coastal erosion. But those rigid methods are not effective always, because the wave energy and impact force on the structures could not be effectively reduced by those methods. For avoiding sediment erosion on coastal areas by the way of reducing wave energy, a flexible breakwater is introduced which will reduce energy and protect coastline economically and environmentally. The flexible device is a combination of flexible wire nets and stack of rings made of used vehicle tires and soft blades on surfaces. This flexible wire net is placed in between two stacks of rings. The stack of rings is mainly used to hold the flexible wire nets and the flexible wire net is mainly used to reduce wave energy and helps to deposit sediments in coastal area. For a field experiment study, the above-mentioned flexible breakwater of coastal protection has been set up at the Shuang-Chun coastal area in Tainan County since June 10, 2009. The length of the flexible device is 50.0 meters and the height is 2.0 meters. The function of the device has been examined by Typhoon Linfa during June 19~22, 2009 and by Typhoon Morakot during August 6~10, 2009. The result shows that the flexible breakwater has effectively trapped sediments and let them deposit on coastal. The depth of sediment deposition around the device was about 0.5 to 0.8 meters.