• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.171-180
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• 2014

Since the execution of structural design by professional structural engineers is not mandatory for small-size buildings in Korea, structural design is conducted by architects or contractors resulting in concern about the seismic safety of the buildings. Therefore, the Korean Structural Engineers Association proposed dedicated structural design criteria in 2012. The criteria were developed based on a deterministic approach in which the structural members are designed only with information of story and span length of the buildings and without structural analyses. However, due to the short time devoted to their development, these criteria miss satisfactory basis and do not deal with structural walls popularly used in Korea. Accordingly, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport launched a research on the 'development of structural performance enhancement technologies for small-size buildings against earthquakes and climate changes'.. As part of this research, this paper intends to establish direction for the preparation of deterministic structural design guidelines for seismic safety of domestic small-size reinforced concrete buildings. To that goal, a typical plan of these buildings is selected considering frames only and frames plus walls, and then design is conducted by changing the number of stories and span length. Next, the seismic performance is analyzed by nonlinear static pushover analysis. The results show that the structural design guidelines should be developed by classifying frames only and frames plus walls. The size and reinforcement of structural elements should be provided in the middle level of the current Korean Building Code and criteria for small buildings by considering story and span length for buildings with frames only, and determined by considering the shape and location of walls and the story and span length as well for buildings with frames plus walls. It is recommended that the design of walls should be conducted by reducing the amount of walls along with symmetrically located walls.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.633-647
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• 2012

Applying Information Technology (IT) in practical engineering has become one of the most important issues in the past few decades, especially on internal solitary wave, intelligent robot interaction, artificial intelligence, fuzzy Lyapunov, tension leg platform (TLP), consumer and service quality. Other than affecting the traditional teaching mode or increasing the inter-relation with users, IT can also be connected with the current society by collecting the latest information from the internet. It is apparently a fashion-catching-up technology. Therefore, the learning of how to use IT facilities is becoming one of engineers' skills nowadays. In addition to studying how well engineers learn to operate IT facilities and apply them into teaching, how engineers' general capacity of information effects the results of learning IT are also discussed. This research introduces the "Combined TAM and TPB mode," to understand the situation of engineers using IT facilities.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.29-41
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• 2023

The 3D geospatial modeling of geotechnical information can aid in understanding the geotechnical characteristic values of the continuous subsurface at construction sites. In this study, a geostatistical optimization model for the three-dimensional (3D) mapping of subsurface stratification and the SPT-N value based on a trial-and-error rule was developed and applied to a dam emergency spillway site in South Korea. Geospatial database development for a geotechnical investigation, reconstitution of the target grid volume, and detection of outliers in the borehole dataset were implemented prior to the 3D modeling. For the site-specific subsurface stratification of the engineering geo-layer, we developed an integration method for the borehole and geophysical survey datasets based on the geostatistical optimization procedure of ordinary kriging and sequential Gaussian simulation (SGS) by comparing their cross-validation-based prediction residuals. We also developed an optimization technique based on SGS for estimating the 3D geometry of the SPT-N value. This method involves quantitatively testing the reliability of SGS and selecting the realizations with a high estimation accuracy. Boring tests were performed for validation, and the proposed method yielded more accurate prediction results and reproduced the spatial distribution of geotechnical information more effectively than the conventional geostatistical approach.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2024.07a
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• pp.119-126
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• 2024

After increasing to 84 trillion yen in FY1992 following the burst of Japan's economic bubble, construction investment in Japan fell to 42 trillion yen in FY2010 in the wake of the global financial crisis. It subsequently recovered to 67 trillion yen in FY2022, driven largely by demand for reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Abenomics. On the other hand, the sustainability of Japanese construction is under threat due to a declining population and a decrease in the number of construction workers. A breakdown in sustainability is not only detrimental to the population, but also leads to delays in disaster recovery for Japan, which is a disaster-prone country. It is therefore necessary to analyze the status and trends in building construction in recent years to clarify the future sustainability of building construction in Japan. This study reviews basic information on buildings constructed in recent decades using raw data from the Statistical Survey of Building Starts, a statistical survey undertaken by the Japanese government, and analyzes statistical data such as number of buildings, location, building type, total floor area, construction cost, and construction duration. Finally, the sustainability of building construction in Japan is discussed.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2024.07a
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• pp.783-790
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• 2024

As cities continue to evolve and expand, the importance of accurately modeling and simulating urban environments to predict and assess various risk scenarios has become increasingly recognized. Since city simulation can capture the intricate dynamics of urban life, the versatility of city simulation has been demonstrated in numerous case studies across diverse applications. Owing to this capacity, city simulation plays a critical role in the disaster risk management field, especially in accounting for the uncertainties in natural/man-made disasters. For example, in the event of an earthquake, having detailed information about an urban area is instrumental for evaluating stakeholder decisions and their impact on urban recovery strategies. Although numerous research efforts have been made to introduce city simulation techniques in disaster risk reduction, there is no clear guideline or comprehensive summary of their characteristics and features. Therefore, this study aims to provide a high-level overview of the latest research and advancements in urban simulation under different hazards. The study begins by examining the simulation techniques used in urban simulation, with a focus on their applicability in disaster scenarios. Subsequently, by analyzing various case studies, this research categorizes them based on their unique characteristics and key findings. The knowledge gained from this literature review will serve as a foundation for subsequent research on simulating the impacts of urban areas under various hazards.

• Atmosphere
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.471-479
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• 2014

A road surface temperature prediction model (UM-Road) using input data of the Unified Model (UM) output and road physical properties is developed and verified with the use of the observed data at road weather information system. The UM outputs of air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, downward shortwave radiation, net longwave radiation, precipitation and the road properties such as slope angles, albedo, thermal conductivity, heat capacity at maximum 7 depth are used. The net radiation is computed by a surface radiation energy balance, the ground heat flux at surface is estimated by a surface energy balance based on the Monin-Obukhov similarity, the ground heat transfer process is applied to predict the road surface temperature. If the observed road surface temperature exists, the simulated road surface temperature is corrected by mean bias during the last 24 hours. The developed UM-Road is verified using the observed data at road side for the period from 21 to 31 March 2013. It is found that the UM-Road simulates the diurnal trend and peak values of road surface temperature very well and the 50% (90%) of temperature difference lies within ${\pm}1.5^{\circ}C$ (${\pm}2.5^{\circ}C$) except for precipitation case.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.24-31
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• 2009

The Environment of disaster has more complicated, diversified and unpredicted sides, which causes extensive damage to humankind. Above all, presently the climatic change causes worldwide disaster of nature like cataclysm, intense heat, drought, earthquake and hard winter. After 9.11, most of countries continuously try to protect their own compatriots' life and property which forms the social safety net as well. This research investigates the current system used by the firerenation which is the national disaster response agency.ict also suggests the unation whiih is the nasystem unationdisaster mthe nasys accundihg to tionld el of disaster like the constructe naof DB, disaster cycld repunt, analysis of danger, facilities ih is ation system, disaster media system, location search system, disaster damage collection system.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.263-275
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• 2015

This study presents conceptual information of newly optimized shapes and connectivity of the so-called outrigger truss system for modern tall buildings that resists lateral loads induced by wind and earthquake forces. In practice, the outrigger truss consists of triangular or Vierendeel types to stiffen tall buildings, and the decision of outrigger design has been qualitatively achieved by only engineers' experience and intuition, including information of structural behaviors, although outrigger shapes and the member's connectivity absolutely affect building stiffness, the input of material, construction ability and so on. Therefore the design of outrigger trusses needs to be measured and determined according to scientific proofs like reliable optimal design tools. In this study, at first the shape and connectivity of an outrigger truss system are visually evaluated by using a conceptual design tool of the classical topology optimization method, and then are quantitatively investigated with respect to a structural safety as stiffness, an economical aspect as material quantity, and construction characteristics as the number of member connection. Numerical applications are studied to verify the effectiveness of the proposed design process to generate a new shape and connectivity of the outrigger for both static and dynamic responses.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.1275-1288
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• 2015

A microscale weather analysis module (about 1km or less) is a microscale numerical weather prediction model designed for operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs such as radiant energy, thermal energy, and humidity. The accuracy of the module is directly related to the usefulness and quality of real-time microscale weather information service in the metropolitan area. This paper suggests an object based verification method useful for spatio-temporal evaluation of the accuracy of the microscale weather analysis module. The method is a graphical method comprised of three steps that constructs a lattice field of evaluation statistics, merges and identifies objects, and evaluates the accuracy of the module. We develop lattice fields using various evaluation spatio-temporal statistics as well as an efficient object identification algorithm that conducts convolution, masking, and merging operations to the lattice fields. A real data application demonstrates the utility of the verification method.

• Advances in environmental research
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.95-108
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• 2016

Urban geology is the study of urban geologic environments to provide a scientific basis for rational land use planning and urban development and provides information on geologic environments as a basis for city planners. Based on AEG recommendations, urban geological studies covered the urbanism and historical backgrounds, geological setting, engineering geological constraints and environmental assessments of understudied cities. The aim of this study is to provide a good view of urban geology of Tabriz city the capital of East Azerbaijan province in Iran. The topics of discussions about Tabriz city urban geology are included geologic (geomorphology, geology, climatology and hydrogeology), engineering geological (earthquake, landslide and geotechnical hazards investigations) and environmental characteristics (air, soil and water hazards assessment).The results of the urban geologic studies indicated that Tabriz city in terms of engineering geological and environmental constraints is at high risk potential and in terms of seismic activity and landslide instability is highly potential. In terms of air, soil and water pollution there are many important environmental concern in this city.