• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.201-213
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• 2020

Seismic damages that occurred by the effects of epicenter distance of the earthquake are one of the most important problems for the earthquake engineering. In this study, it is aimed to examine the nonlinear seismic behaviors of concrete gravity (CG) dams considering various epicenter distances. For this purpose, Boyabat CG dam that is one of the biggest concrete gravity dams in Turkey is selected as a numerical application. FLAC3D software based on finite difference method is used for modelling and analyzing of the dam. Drucker-Prager nonlinear material model is used for the concrete body and Mohr-Coulomb nonlinear material model is taken into account for the foundation. Special interface elements are used between dam body and foundation to represent interaction condition. Free-field and quiet non-reflecting boundary conditions are utilized for the main surfaces of 3D model. Total 5 various epicenter distances of 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake are considered in 3D earthquake analyses and these distances are 5 km, 11 km, 24 km, 85 km and 93 km, respectively. According to 3D seismic results, x-y-z displacements, principal stresses and shear strain failures of the dam are evaluated in detail. It is clearly seen from this study that the nonlinear seismic behaviors of the CG dams change depending to epicenter distance of the earthquake. Thus, it is clearly recommended in this study that when a CG dam is modelled or analyzed, distance of the earthquake fault to the dam should be strongly examined in detail. Otherwise, earthquake damages can be occurred in the concrete dam body by the effects of seismic loads.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구물리탐사학회 2007년도 공동학술대회 논문집
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• pp.64-68
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• 2007

The classic graphical method to determine the epicenter uses differences between the arrival times of P and S waves at each station. In this research, a robust approach is proposed, which provides a fast and intuitive estimation of earthquake epicenters. This method uses an empirical relationship between epicentral distance and traveltime of the first arrival P phase of local or regional earthquake. The relationship enables us to estimate epicentral distances and draw epicentral circles from each station with P-traveltimes counted from a probable origin time. As the assigned time is getting close to the origin time of the earthquake, epicentral circles begin to intersect each other at a possible location of the epicenter. Then the possibility of the epicenter can be expressed by a function of the time and the space. We choose the location which gives the minimum standard deviation of the origin time as an estimated epicenter. In this research, 918 P arrival times from 84 events occurring from 2005 to 2006 listed in the KMA earthquake catalog are used to determine the empirical P-traveltime function of epicentral distances.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.297-319
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• 2013

Two destructive earthquakes occurred on October 23 and November 9, 2011 in Van province of Turkey. The damage in residential units shows significant deviation from the expectation of decreasing damage with increasing distance to epicenter. The most damaged settlement Ercis has the same distance to the epicenter with Muradiye, where no damage occurred while relatively less damage observed in Van having half distance. These three cities seem to have resembling soil conditions. If the damages are evaluated: joint failures and insufficient lap splice lengths are observed to be the main causes of the total collapses in RC buildings. Additionally, low concrete strength, reinforcement detailing mistakes, soft story, heavy overhang, pounding and short columns are among other damage reasons. Examples of damages due to non-structural elements are also given. Remarkable points about seismic damages are: collapsed buildings with shear-walls, heavily damaged buildings despite adequate concrete strength due to detailing mistakes, undamaged two-story adobe buildings close to totally collapsed RC ones and undamaged structural system in buildings with heavily damaged non-structural elements. On the contrary of the common belief that buildings with shear-walls are immune to total collapse among civil engineers, collapse of Gedikbulak primary school is a noteworthy example.

• 대한건축학회논문집:계획계
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to analyze integration of the surface of Prada Aoyama Epicenter by Herzog & de Meuron. To understand various aspects of surfaces & constituents related, each elevations are analyzed minutely by distance both inside and outside. The results of this study were as follows; the individual surface of Prada Aoyama Epicenter sets a multi-layered relationship with the actual environment. Their architectural surface still has a significance in presenting a way of creating a building along with everyday surroundings.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.211-217
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• 2018

The Pohang earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 occurred on November 15, 2018. The epicenter of this earthquake located in south-east region of the Korean peninsula. Since instrumental recording for earthquake ground motions started in Korea, this earthquake caused the largest economic and life losses among past earthquakes. Korea is located in low-to moderate seismic region, so that strong motion records are very limited. Therefore, ground motions recorded during the Pohang earthquake could have valuable geological and seismological information, which are important inputs for seismic design. In this study, ground motions associated by the 2018 Pohang earthquake are generated using the point source model considering domestic geological parameters (magnitude, hypocentral distance, distance-frequency dependent decay parameter, stress drop) and site amplification calculated from ground motion data at each stations. A contour map for peak ground acceleration is constructed for ground motions generated by the Pohang earthquake using the proposed model.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2017

The F2-layer critical frequency (foF2) data from several ionosondes are employed to study the long-distance effect of the M8.8 Chile Earthquake of February 27, 2010, on the F2 layer. Significant perturbations of the peak F2-layer electron density have been observed following the earthquake at two South African stations, Hermanus and Madimbo, which are located at great circle distances of ~8,000 and ~10,000 km from the earthquake epicenter, respectively. Simplified estimates demonstrate that the observed ionospheric perturbations can be caused by a long-period acoustic gravity wave produced in the F-region by the earthquake.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.89-95
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• 2008

최근까지도 많은 시간이력 지진해석이 연약지반의 증폭영향을 고려하지 않고 연약지반 위 지표면에서 기록된 지진거동으로 수행되었다. 그러나 합리적인 구조물의 지진해석을 위해서는 지반조건을 고려하고 암반지진기록을 이용하는 것이 중요하다. 이 연구에서는 연구를 위해 태평양지진연구센터(PEER)에서 제공하는 공개된 1557개의 지진기록 중에서 26개 암반지진기록을 선정하고 암반지진 기록의 특성을 분석하였다. 연구결과에 의하면, 지반조건을 고려하지 않고 지진규모로부터 지진가속도를 추정하는 것은 합리적이지 못하며, PEER 데이터베이스 암반지진기록으로는 지진가속도, 지진규모, 진앙거리 사이의 일반적인 상관관계를 추정하는 것도 어려운 것으로 평가되었다. 그러나 이 연구에서 선정한 26개 암반지진기록은 구조물-지반체계의 시간이력 지진해석을 위해 암반지진기록으로 사용할 수는 있지만, 이 지진기록을 사용할 때에도 지진가속도, 지진규모, 진앙거리 및 지반조건이 유사한 지진기록을 사용하는 것이 필요하다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.59-68
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 지진 기록계에 할당된 우선순위에 따라 가장 먼저 수신되는 이벤트 패킷으로부터 실제 지진과 연관된 패킷만을 추출하여 진앙을 추정하는 기법을 제안한다. 각 관측소의 지진 기록계로부터 수신된 이벤트 패킷의 신호 시간, 신호 주기 및 SNR 등을 통계적 방법으로 평가하여 실제 지진의 P파와 연관된 패킷을 추출한다. 그리고 초동 P파의 도달시간을 이용한 진앙 추정기법을 이용하여 P파와 연관된 패킷으로부터 진앙을 추정하였다. 2007년 기상청에서 발표한 국내 지진에 대하여 해당 일자의 이벤트 패킷을 이용하여 본 논문에서 제안한 P파 연관 패킷의 추출과 진앙을 추정하였다. 지진 감지 네트워크 내에서 발생한 지진의 경우 4개 이상의 관측소로부터 이벤트 패킷이 도착한 후에 매우 작은 오차 범위 내에서 진앙이 결정되는 것으로 확인되었다. 각 관측소간의 평균거리를 감안하여 타 관측기관의 이벤트 패킷을 이용할 경우에 더욱 빠른 진앙 결정과 지진경보 발령이 가능한 것으로 검증되었다. 따라서 본 연구의 결과는 국내 지진 조기 경보체계의 구축에 효율적으로 이용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 화약ㆍ발파
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.50-58
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• 2010

본 연구는 아직 국내에서 연구가 미비한 분야인 슬롯드릴링 공법에 대해 분석한 것이며 슬롯드릴링 공법을 공사현장에서 적용할 수 있는 이론적인 기반을 마련하고자 하였다. 본 연구는 슬롯드릴링 공법을 통해 진동저감의 가능성을 제안한다. 수치해석을 통해 슬롯드릴링의 유효제원 관해 크게 두 가지를 분석 하였다. 하나는 슬롯과 진원 사이의 거리에 따른 진동속도의 변화를 분석이며 다른 하나는 진동제어를 위한 적절한 크기의 슬롯너비와 슬롯높이를 찾고자 하였다. 결론적으로 진원과 슬롯사이의 거리가 멀어질수록 진동저감 효과가 감소함을 알 수 있었다. 그리고 슬롯제원의 변화에 따른 임의의 계측지점에서의 진동속도에 대한 영향도 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 1997년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집 Proceedings of EESK Conference-Fall 1997
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• pp.90-97
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• 1997

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the seismic response characteristics of Wolsong nuclear power plant (NPP) structures for the Kyeongju earthquake(ML=4.3) occurred on June 26, 1997. The seismograms are obtained from five accelerographs of nuclear power plant at Wolsong, Kyeongbuk. The distance from the epicenter is about 25km. The peak acceleration (PA) due to the earthquake is 0.0235g, which is far lower value than that of design basis earthquake(DBE). The PA at the containment wall is about twice as large as that at free field. Also, the higher the accelerograph is located in, the larger the PA is measured to be From the response spectrum analysis, the dominant frequency of the response is close to 4 Hz, which is similar to the free field is poor because of contamination by high frequency waves as a result of reflection and diffraction between ground and NPP structure. We are of opinion that the accelerograph at the free field should be moved approximately twice the building dimension away from the containment structure.