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Performance Evaluation of Imote2-Platformed Wireless Smart Sensor Node for Health Monitoring of Harbor Structures (항만구조물 건전성 모니터링을 위한 Imote2 플랫폼 기반 스마트 무선센서노드의 성능 평가)

  • Park, Jae-Hyung;Kim, Jeong-Tae;Lee, So-Young
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.26-33
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    • 2011
  • In this study, a high-sensitive smart wireless sensor based on an Imote2 sensor platform is developed for structural health monitoring of harbor structures. To achieve the objective, the following approaches are implemented. Firstly, the smart wireless sensor based on the high-performance Imote2 sensor platform is designed to measure acceleration with high sensitivity from structures. Secondly, embedded software is designed for autonomous structural health monitoring. Finally, the performance of the smart wireless sensor is estimated from experimental tests on a lab-scaled caisson structure.

Performance Evaluation of Earthquake Resistant Caisson Type Quay Walls (케이슨식 안벽의 내진보강 성능 평가 -수치해석적 측면에서-)

  • 권오순;황성춘;박우선
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.129-139
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    • 2000
  • The liquefaction of reclaimed land generally caused the harbor facilities to hazards. In Korea, the major harbor quay walls are gravity type and the gravity quay wall is not a good earthquake resistant structure. Recently, various earthquake resistant quay walls have been suggested, but the study on the efficiency of reinforced quay wall was not much performed. In this study, numerical analysis is carried out for performance evaluation of easily adoptable earthquake resistant quay walls. The results of numerical analysis are compared with shaking table test that is performed at the same cross-section.

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Verification of the Numerical Analysis on Caisson Quay Wall Behavior Under Seismic Loading Using Centrifuge Test (원심모형시험을 이용한 케이슨 안벽의 지진시 거동에 대한 수치해석 검증)

  • Lee, Jin-Sun;Park, Tae-Jung;Lee, Moon-Gyo;Kim, Dong-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.34 no.11
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    • pp.57-70
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    • 2018
  • In this study, verification of the nonlinear effective stress analysis is performed for introducing performance based earthquake resistance design of port and harbor structures. Seismic response of gravitational caisson quay wall in numerical analysis is compared directly with dynamic centrifuge test results in prototype scale. Inside of the rigid box, model of the gravitational quay wall is placed above the saturated sand layer which can show the increase of excess pore water pressure. The model represents caisson quay wall with a height of 10 m, width of 6 m under centrifugal acceleration of 60 g. The numerical model is made in the same dimension with the prototype scale of the test in two dimensional plane strain condition. Byrne's liquefaction model is adopted together with a nonlinear constitutive model. Interface element is used for sliding and tensional separation between quay wall and the adjacent soils. Verification results show good agreement for permanent displacement of the quay wall, horizontal acceleration at quay wall and soil layer, and excess pore water pressure increment beneath the quay wall foundation.

Development of Dry Process Caisson Method for Maintenance of Submerged Harbor Structure (수중 항만구조물의 유지보수를 위한 건식 케이슨 공법 개발)

  • Lee Joong-Woo;Oh Dong-Hoon;Kwak Seung-Kyu;Kim Sung-Tae
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.30 no.6 s.112
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    • pp.447-455
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    • 2006
  • Together with the trend of enhancement in domestic industrial development and economic progress due to import and export, the demand for construction of the roads, bridges, especially port facilities, and several coastal protection and ocean structures is increasing rapidly. MOMAF of Korean Government is driving construction cf 9 new ports and renovation cf the existing fishery ports. Among these structures most of bridge base, wharves, dolphins, quays, and jetties are being newly built cf steel or concrete pile. As the base, supporting bulkheads, and piles are underwater after construction, it is difficult to figure out the status of structures and not enough to get maintenance and strengthen the structures. Every year, moreover, these works suck the government budget due to higher incomplete maintenance expense for protection from corrosions cf structures and increased underwater construction period. For the purpose cf cutting down the expense cf government budget, it is necessary to extend the life cycle of the existing structures. Therefore, we developed a new method for maintenance of submerged structures near the waterline by allowing dry work environment with the floating caisson. The method shows easy to move around the working area and handle. It also showed not only a significant reduction of maintenance expenses and time for anti-corrosion work but also better protection This will be a milestone to reduce the maintenance and construction expenses for the shore and water structures.

Behavior of Walls of Open-cell Caissons Using Filler under Abnormally High Waves (고파랑 대비 채움재를 이용한 오픈 셀 케이슨의 전단 벽체 거동 분석)

  • Seo, Jihye;Won, Deokhee;Park, Woo-Sun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.83-91
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    • 2017
  • In order to cope with the abnormally high waves during the storm surge due to climate change, various methods have been proposed for interlocking adjacent caissons to enhance stability of harbor structures. Among the methods, it was studied the method based on an open-cell caisson having reduction effect increasing the cohesion with adjunction caissons by filling materials such as crushed rocks in an inter-cell formed by two facing open-cells which consist of transverse walls. It is necessary to investigate the shear behaviors of an inter-cell to secure the stability using calculating shear forces on inter-cell under oblique wave loadings. It was analyzed the shear force share ratio with the length of internal and external wall and the number of internal walls. Numerical results show that 60~70% of the shear load is transmitted to adjacent caisson through the internal walls, more than 30% is through the external wall. It was applicable in the assumption that filling materials was uniformly distributed in inter-cells, and further studies were worth consideration on other conditions under construction.

Development of Dry Process Caisson Method for Maintenance of Submerged Harbor Structure (수중 항만구조물의 유지보수를 위한 건식 케이슨 공법 개발)

  • Lee Joong-Woo;Oh Dong-Hoon;Kwak Seung-Kyu;Kim Sung-Tae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2006.06b
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    • pp.163-170
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    • 2006
  • Together with the trend of enhancement in domestic industrial development and economic progress due to import and export, the demand for construction of the roads, bridges, especially port facilities, and several coastal protection and ocean structures is increasing rapidly. MOMAF of Korean Government is driving construction of 9 new ports and renovation of the existing fishery ports. Among these structures most of bridge base, wharves, dolphins, quays, and jetties are being newly built of steel or concrete pile. As the base, supporting bulkheads, and piles are underwater after construction, it is difficult to figure out the status of structures and not enough to get maintenance and strengthen the structures. Every year, moreover, these works suck the government budget due to higher incomplete maintenance expense for protection from corrosions of structures and increased underwater construction period. For the purpose of cutting down the expense of government budget, it is necessary to extend the life cycle of the existing structures. Therefore, we developed a new method for maintenance of submerged structures near the waterline by allowing dry work environment with the floating caisson. The method shows easy to move around the working area and handle. It also showed not only a significant reduction maintenance expenses and time for anti-corrosion work but also better protection. This will be a milestone to reduce the maintenance and construction expenses for the shore and water structures.

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Reliability Analysis of Caisson Type Quaywall (안벽구조물의 신뢰성 해석)

  • Yoon, Gil-Lim;Kim, Dong-Hywan;Kim, Hong-Yeon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.498-509
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    • 2008
  • Reliability analyses of Level I, II and III for bearing capacity, overturning and sliding of quaywall are carried out to investigate their safety levels depending upon its failure modes, and sensitivity analyses of each design variable are performed to find their effects on safety levels of quaywall. Reliability indices was 1.416 for both level II and III for case study I, and with 2.201 and 1.880, respectively, for the case study II at the critical loading conditions. Thus we were able to know that Level II (FORM) approach is good enough to use in practical design. Generally, it was found that probabilities of failure of quaywall were higher for sliding and bearing capacity failure modes and lower for overturning failure mode. From sensitivity analyses, the most influential design variables to reliability index of quaywall were coefficient of friction, residual water pressure and resistance moment for the sliding, overturning and bearing capacity failure modes, respectively. Especially, the sensitivity of reliability index due to inertial force and dynamic water pressures, which include a large COV when earthquake occurs, did not change greatly.

Subsidence estimation of breakwater built on loosely deposited sandy seabed foundation: Elastic model or elasto-plastic model

  • Shen, Jianhua;Wu, Huaicheng;Zhang, Yuting
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.418-428
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    • 2017
  • In offshore area, newly deposited Quaternary loose seabed soils are widely distributed. There are a great number of offshore structures has been built on them in the past, or will be built on them in the future due to the fact that there would be no very dense seabed soil foundation could be chosen at planed sites sometimes. However, loosely deposited seabed foundation would bring great risk to the service ability of offshore structures after construction. Currently, the understanding on wave-induced liquefaction mechanism in loose seabed foundation has been greatly improved; however, the recognition on the consolidation characteristics and settlement estimation of loose seabed foundation under offshore structures is still limited. In this study, taking a semi-coupled numerical model FSSI-CAS 2D as the tool, the consolidation and settlement of loosely deposited sandy seabed foundation under an offshore breakwater is investigated. The advanced soil constitutive model Pastor-Zienkiewics Mark III (PZIII) is used to describe the quasi-static behavior of loose sandy seabed soil. The computational results show that PZIII model is capable of being used for settlement estimation problem of loosely deposited sandy seabed foundation. For loose sandy seabed foundation, elastic deformation is the dominant component in consolidation process. It is suggested that general elastic model is acceptable for subsidence estimation of offshore structures on loose seabed foundation; however, Young's modulus E must be dependent on the confining effective stress, rather than a constant in computation.

Study of Stability for Armor Weight of Stand-alone Caisson at Yongsu Wave Power Plant (용수 파력발전소 사례에서 독립 케이슨의 피복석 안정성 연구)

  • Kim, Gunwoo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.478-484
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    • 2019
  • The submarine cable for Yongsu wave power plant was cut in 2014 winter. This study investigated the probability of high-wave occurrence exceeding the 50-year return period and the underestimation of armor unit weight used to protect the cable. The observation data from KMA buoy and the hindcast wave data were reviewed to determine the return period of wave height during the winter. In order to investigate the armor unit weight of cable-protection, we calculated the required weight of armor unit using not only Design Standard for Harbor and Fishery Port, but also the previous researches for the wave with large incident angle. As a result, it appeared that the high wave exceeding the 50-year return period did not occur during the winter of 2014 and the armor unit weight of the cable protection was not sufficient to sustain the obliquely incident wave, which induced the cable protection failure.

Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Interaction between Composite Breakwater and Seabed under Irregular Wave Action by olaFlow Model (olaFlow 모델에 의한 불규칙파 작용하 혼성방파제-해저지반의 비선형상호작용에 관한 수치시뮬레이션)

  • Lee, Kwang-Ho;Bae, Ju-Hyun;Jung, Uk Jin;Choi, Goon-Ho;Kim, Do-Sam
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.129-145
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    • 2019
  • For the design of composite breakwater as representative one of the coastal and harbor structures, it has been widely discussed by the researchers about the relation between the behavior of excess-pore-water pressure inside the rubble mound and seabed caused by the wave load and its structural failure. Recently, the researchers have tried to verify its relation through the numerical simulation technique. The above researches through numerical simulation have been mostly applied by the linear and nonlinear analytic methods, but there have been no researches through the numerical simulation by the strongly nonlinear mutiphase flow analytical method considering wave-breaking phenomena by VOF method and turbulence model by LES method yet. In the preceding research of this study, olaFlow model based on the mutiphase flow analytical method was applied to the nonlinear interaction analysis of regular wave-composite breakwater-seabed. Also, the same numerical techniques as preceding research are utilized for the analysis of irregular wave-composite breakwater-seabed in this study. Through this paper, it is investigated about the horizontal wave pressures, the time variations of excess-pore-water pressure and their frequency spectra, mean flow velocities, mean vorticities, mean turbulent kinetic energies and etc. around the caisson, rubble mound of the composite breakwater and seabed according to the changes of significant wave height and period. From these results, it was found that maximum nondimensional excess-pore water pressure, mean turbulent kinetic energy and mean vorticity come to be large equally on the horizontal plane in front of rubble mound, circulation of inflow around still water level and outflow around seabed is formed in front of rubble caisson.