• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.37-45
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• 2014

An embedded length of monopile caused by a scouring should be evaluated to monitor the stability of offshore foundations, because offshore foundations are affected by horizontal load. The objective of this study is to evaluate the scouring around offshore foundation by using electrical resistivity and to estimate ground stiffness by using shear wave tomography. The electrical resistivity profiles and shear wave tomography were measured according to the scour depth of model ground prepared with sand and cement. Several electrodes and bender elements were used to measure the electrical resistivity and shear waves, respectively. The electrode sets are attached on the monopile surface and bender elements are arranged in $7{\times}7$ arrays by using nylone frames. The electrical resistivity profiles and shear wave tomography are acquired by laboratory experiment. Maximum scour depth was estimated by electrical resistivity profiles and the ground stiffness of model ground was estimated by shear wave tomography. This study suggests that the electrical resistivity profiles and shear wave tomography may be useful for monitoring the stability of the offshore foundations.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.374-382
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• 2021

The scour risk assessment was conducted for ultimate limit state of newly developed penta pod suction bucket support structures for a 5.5 MW offshore wind turbine. The hazard was found by using an empirical formula for scour depth suitable for considering marine environmental conditions such as significant wave height, significant wave period, and current velocity. The scour fragility curve was calculated by using allowable bearing capacity criteria of suction foundation. The scour risk was assessed by combining the scour hazard and the scour fragility.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.453-458
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• 2016

While the design of weirs requires a scour-considered strategy, research on the analysis of the effectiveness of hydraulic energy dissipaters and design criteria are scarce due to the limited experimental facilities and restraint in the experiment conduction period. The study analyzed the scour dissipation effect of multidirectional dissipaters to improve the scour problems of a weir downstream and suggests design criteria to minimize scour. A hydraulic model experiment was conducted for Nakdong River Hapcheon-Changnyeong Weir and a model in 1/25 of horizontal accumulation and 1/25 of vertical accumulation was produced. The experimental equipment was classified into channels and a flow rate supply and an underwater pump were installed to enable flow at a maximum of 2.0 m3/s. The experimental inflow was 1.3 m3/s, the upstream water level was 0.36 m, downstream water level was 0.24 m, and a cylinder wooden baffle, a dissipater, with a diameter of 0.05 m was made. A 3D scanner was also used for an accurate scour depth comparison for a length change of the baffle before and after installing the baffle. When the baffle was arranged in the shape of a V, the depth of scour decreased by 36% while the scour length decreased by 49% due to flow reduction compared to that before installing the baffle.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.241-252
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• 2016

In this study, the characteristics of flow and bed changes with variation of space and length of serial spur dikes were investigated with 2 dimensional numerical simulation. Upstream spur dike was affected by flow and made a role as a single spur dike. As time increased, local scouring was developed around outside of spur dike, and migrated upstream. The aggradation of the bed at the back of spur-dike was made at the initial stage of experiment and numerical modelling. However, the aggradation of the bed was increased in the downstream area. The scour whole around a spur dike upstream was not deep as the Dimensionless spur-dike interval (b) of the dike increased. The depth of scour hole was nearly constant at the dynamic equilibrium state. The dimensionless scour depth ($y_s/H$) increased with L/b. The spur dike downstream had the characteristics of single spur dike as the L/b was larger than 10. However, the spur dike downstream was affected by the dike upstream as the L/b was less than 4, and the bed of the upstream in the spur dike was aggradated and the effects of the serial spur dikes on the bed decreased.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.445-454
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• 2008

Many countermeasures for local scour at bridge piers constructed on the river and sea have been developed and researched to protect piers against local scour. The most commonly employed method is riprap protection, which is sometimes required the filter installation between riprap and base layers. However, the construction of stone filters are really hard to perform in the field, require the high cost, or sometimes are impossible. The experimental modeling is conducted to analyze the riprap failure modes and the stability of riprap protection without filters based on the different approach velocity and riprap layer thickness conditions. Also, the stability index to evaluate the performance of riprap protection is developed using the experimental results. The cover and thickness of the riprap layer play a very important role in the stability and thicker riprap layers can prevent a total disintegration of the riprap layer effectively, especially due to winnowing failure.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.677-686
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• 2011

This study proposes a formula to calculate length of river bed protection through experimental research and an experimental plant has been installed to investigate the parameters which influence the length of scouring in the river after overflowing the weir. Through hydraulic experiments, the critical velocity, difference of water level between upstream and downstream and height of weir have been selected as independent variables. And new formula to calculate a length of river bed protection is suggested as the result of this study in the consideration of complex weir that consists of movable and fixed weir. The new formula is verified through additional experiments. Results of this study can be used for weir structures' construction and maintenance plans.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.126-133
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• 2014

The main source of bridge destruction is due to scour. The bridge scour is the result of erosive action of flowing water taking away ground materials from near the abutment or pier. Furthermore, the water level must be also monitored whiling flooding, because it dangers not only the stability of bridge itself, but the safety of bridge users. This study is intended to develop a new measuring system for bridge scour by overcoming the current limitation of scour measurement technique. This measuring system is confirmed its excellence and validity through this study. The newly developed measuring system finds the distance between the water surface and the ground surface by detecting temperature difference along the abutment vertically. The measuring mechanism for monitoring the bridge scour and water level is based on identifying the temperature difference among mediums, including air, water and ground. In order to validate the new measuring system, the lab experiments and the field tests are conducted and compared. It has been confirmed that this system can effectively measure the bridge scour and the water level by analyzing the temperature distribution between mediums and the temperature variation over time.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.45-45
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• 2020

하천 횡단구조물 하류부에서는 고유속 및 ±압력에 의해 하상재료가 유실되는 세굴현상이 발생한다. 이러한 세굴을 방지하기 위해 횡단구조물 하류부에는 석재, 콘크리트 및 콘크리트 블록 등을 설치 및 포설하여 하상보호공을 설치한다. 하상보호공을 설치하면 설치된 부분은 세굴이 방지 되지만, 하상보호공 끝단 이후에는 지반이 노출되어 있어 노출된 지반에서 고유속 흐름 및 압력변화에 의한 세굴이 발생하는 경우가 많다. 이에 본 연구에서는 하상보호공 끝단 즉, 하상이 노출된 지반에서 압력변화에 따라 하상재료가 유실되므로 압력에너지를 감쇄시키기 위한 하상보호장치를 개발하였다. 개발한 하상보호장치는 본래 다수개가 열을 지어 메트릭스 형태로 설치되도록 하여야 하지만 실험 여건상 단일체로 수리실험을 진행하였다. 하상보호장치는 상판과 하판이 조립된 형태이며 상판과 하판 사이에 이격공간이 구비되어있다. 하상보호장치 검증을 위해 상판과 하판에 쓰이는 판은 수로재질과 같은 아크릴로 제작하였으며, 하상재료의 공극률을 반영하여 다공성 판으로 제작하였다. 다공판의 전체 구멍 면적 대비 판 면적은 35 % 로 동일하다. 상판 구멍 지름 15.0 mm, 4.5 mm 2가지로 제작하였으며, 하판 구멍 지름 3.0 mm 으로 동일하다. 압력변화가 큰 곳에서 작은 곳으로 물이 이동하게 되므로 고유속 수리조건에서 상판과 하판 사이에서의 압력변화를 측정하기 위해 판 중간에 압력계를 설치하였다. 하상보호장치 설치지점 앞 0.3 m 부근에 PIV를 설치하여 유속을 측정하였다. 실험결과 상판의 구멍 직경(15.0 mm)이 클 경우 상판부 압력이 하판부로 전달되어 하판에서 측정되는 압력이 증폭 되었으며, 상판의 다공성 구멍 직경(4.5 mm)이 작을 경우 상판부에서 하판부로 전달되는 압력이 감소하여 하판에서 측정되는 압력이 감소하였다. 상판과 하판의 다공성 구멍의 직경을 적절한 사이즈로 조절하면 상판부의 압력이 하판부로 전달되는 것을 막고 압력에 의해 하상에서 흡출되는 유사를 막을 수 있는 것으로 판단되며 추후 상판과 하판의 다공성판 구멍 직경의 상대적 차이에 따른 압력 감소효율에 관한 연구가 필요하다고 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.13-21
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• 2002

A new method called S-SRICOS is proposed to predict the local scour depth around bridge piers. The S-SRICOS method is a simplified version of the SRICOS method which was developed to predict the scour depth versus time curve around bridge piers. The SRICOS method which considers the time effect based on the soil properties and the hydraulic parameters can handle a multi-flood hydrograph and multi-layer soil systems with the SRICOS program. An attempt was made to simplify the method to the point where only hand calculations would be required. The concept of the equivalent time was developed leer this purpose. The S-SROICOS method requires only 4 parameters such as pier width, design bridge life, design velocity corresponding to the design bridge life, and initial scour rate of the soil. The S-SRICOS method was verified against 55 cases of the scour depth results using the SRICOS method.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.89-96
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• 2004

Many researches have been devoted to developing a model fur bridge scour analysis which can consider both of the erosive potential of flowing water and the relative ability of the soil to resist erosion. The scour rate apparatus that can quantify the erosion rate of the soil has been developed by virtue of the extensive efforts. The scour rate tests were performed on 3 types of the remolding clay samples using the scour rate apparatus. The erosion characteristics of the fine-grained soil samples according to the variation of the remolding loads are examined and the correlation between the soil properties and erosion rates is also analyzed. The results of the tests and analyses show that the soil properties, especially the dry unit weight and the shear strength of the soil have great influence on the erosion characteristics.