• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.21-30
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• 2010

This study presents a numerical simulation of sea water-exchange as a preliminary accessing tool of water quality in the protected shore behind a overtopped breakwater. The overtopped breakwater is taken into account for a safe swimming and beach protection. The overtopping rate is calculated by empirical models and the consequent currents, known as wave-induced currents, are calculated under the conditions of H.W.O.S.T and L.W.O.S.T. The rate of sea water exchange is used to evaluate the characteristics of sea water exchange and calculated through the simulation processes such as advective discharging through the outlets and random-walking diffusion of particles released within a basin. The numerical results show that the overtopped waves sufficiently improve the water exchange without healthless stagnation of contaminated mass and the consequent currents are not too strong for swimming.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.1-5
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• 2002

In the past, ports have been mainly developed in natural harbors but nowadays ports are built wherever they can be economically justified. Therefore, construction of breakwater in area that establishment of structure is disadvantageous is risen according to the change of conditions to the location for ports. In case of building gravity breakwater in such point, need that plane shapes of more reasonable section permitting wave overtopping is necessary. One of the earliest methods for solving unsteady incompressible flow including free surfaces is the MAC(Marker And Cell) method by Harlow and Welch (1965). Recently. VOF(Volume Of Fluid) method to improve several drawbacks of MAC method is suggested by Hirt and Nichols(1981) and utilized extensively in fields of hydrodynamics. Wave overtopping phenomenon is simulated including wave breaking for permeable breakwater by numerical analysis and investigated features of wave overtopping behind structure using VOF method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.716-716
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• 2012

최근 항만구조물을 설계함에 있어 대수심 및 고파랑 지역에 설치되는 외곽시설의 상당수는 직립식 케이슨 혼성제 단면을 채택하고 있다. 이는 상대적으로 수심이 깊고, 설계파와 같은 외력 조건이 크기 때문에 경사제에 비하여 경제성 및 시공성이 유리하기 때문으로 판단된다. 그렇지만 아직까지 소규모 항만 및 어항시설에 있어 경사제를 채택하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이와 같은 경사식 구조물을 설계함에 있어 월파에 의한 방파제 배후 경사면에 피복된 피복재의 안정성을 검토하며, 실험사례를 통하여 최적 설계안 및 설계방향을 제시하고자 한다. 경사식 구조물 배후 사면 피복재의 안정 중량에 대해서는 우리나라의 항만 구조물의 설계기준(항만 및 어항설계기준, 2005) 뿐만 아니라 국외의 설계기준(CEM, Coastal engineering manual, 2005 등)에서도 아직까지 설계법을 제시하고 있지 않고 있다. 본 연구에서 수행한 단면 수리모형실험에서는 1/50의 실험축척을 적용하여 대상 외곽 구조물에 대하여 수리특성과 안정성을 검토하였다. 특히 경사제 배후의 안정성 확보를 위하려 동일 구간에 대하여 설계파 조건 등을 중심으로 총 9개의 실험안을 설정하여 안정성을 검토하였다. 아래 그림은 이중 초기 설계안과 최종적으로 제안된 제시안에 대한 완성모형, 실험장면 및 결과이다. 일반적으로 접안시설과 외곽시설이 어느 정도 이격되어 있어 적정량의 월파를 허용할 수 있는 경우 상치콘크리트의 형상 및 마루높이을 변경하여 월파의 낙하 및 도달거리를 배후면의 안정성을 확보할 수 있을 정도로 유도함으로써 안정적인 구조물 설계가 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.154-162
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• 2011

A reliability analysis model is developed for evaluating the crest freeboard of vertical breakwaters based on the concepts of maximum overtopping volume of individual wave. A reliability function is formulated by defining the margin of admissible overtopping volume and maximum overtopping volume that is depend on the number of overtopping waves, dimensionless crest freeboard, and mean overtopping discharge. In addition, Level III MCS technique is straightforwardly suggested by which the related empirical parameters to reliability function can be considered to be random variables with the wide range of different uncertainties. It can be possible to calculate the probabilities of failure according to the relative crest freeboard with the variations of the incident wave directions, the structural types of vertical breakwaters, and admissible overtopping volumes in conditions of the long and short crested-waves.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.113-127
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• 2007

In this study, a model to calculate the expected total construction cost is developed that simultaneously considers the rehabilitation cost related to the sliding of the caisson, the economic damage cost due to harbor shutdown in the event of excessive caisson sliding, and the economic damage cost due to temporal operational stoppage by excessive wave overtopping. A discount rate is used to convert the damage costs occurred at different times to the present value. The optimal cross-section of a caisson is defined as the cross-section that requires a minimum expected total construction cost within the allowable limit for the expected sliding distance of the caisson during the lifetime of the breakwater. Two values are used for the allowable limit: 0.3 and 0.1 m. It was found that the economic damage cost due to harbor shutdown by excessive caisson sliding is more critical than the rehabilitation cost of the caisson or the economic damage cost by excessive wave overtopping in the decision of the optimal cross-section. In addition, the optimal cross-section of the caisson was shown to be determined by the allowable limit for the expected sliding distance rather than the minimum expected total construction cost as a larger value is used for the threshold sliding distance of the caisson for harbor shutdown.