• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.217-231
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• 2017

The subsidence of ground in urban area can be caused by the occurrence of the cavity and the change in ground volumetric water content. The objective of this study is the detection of abnormal area of ground in urban area where the cavity or the change in ground volumetric water content is occurred by the ground penetrating radar signal. GPR survey is carried out on the test bed with a circular buried object. From the GPR survey, the signals filtered by the bandpass filtering are measured, and the methods consisting of gain function, time zero, background removal, deconvolution and display gain are applied to the filtered signals. As a result of application of the signal processing methods, the polarity of signal corresponds with the relation of electrical impedance of the cavity and the ground in test bed. In addition, the relative permittivity calculated by GPR signal is compared with that of predicted by volumetric water content of the test bed. The relative permittivities obtained from two different methods show similar values. Therefore, the abnormal area where the change in ground volumetric water content is occurred can be detected from the results of the GPR survey in case the depth of underground utilities is known. Signal processing methods and estimation of relative permittivity performed in this study may be effectively used to detect the abnormal area of ground in urban area.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.95-104
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• 2009

This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between the dielectric constant and air void of asphalt concrete. Standard specimens that have air voids of various range $(0%{\sim}20%)$ were used to measure the dielectric constant using parallel plate method that measures low frequency dielectric constant. From the tests, dielectric constant of asphalt concrete was tend to decrease as the frequency was increased, and the decrement slope was varied with the types of asphalt binders. Dielectric constant was decreased linearly as air void was increased from zero to twenty percent. Consequently, the effect of temperature and moisture content on dielectric constants of asphalt concrete was evaluated to develop the standard curve between dielectric constant and air void of asphalt concrete. The standard curve developed in this study can be used to calibrate or develop the algorithm of non-destructive density gauge.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.698-707
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• 1998

For inverse scattering problems reconstructing cross-sectional permittivity distributions of dielectric cylinders, the angular spectral inverse technique using the moment method with pulse basis function suffers from large reconstruction error even if very small noise due to requiring the higher spectral informations on the larger cross-section of the cylinder. To reduce the number of higher-order spectra, this paper presents an improved inverse technique in angular spectral domain applying the moment procedure with a series-expansion basis function for the induced field in each enlarged cross-sectional cell. By choosing adequate spectra and averaging over the enlarged cells with a suitable weighting function, the reconstruction profiles reveal fine enough to suppress the noise effect significantly.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.113-117
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• 2002

최근 산란함수의 곱셈전개에 근거를 둔 새로운 공명 산란이론이 개발되어 공명성분의 크기와 위상을 수치적으로 정확하게 얻게 해 주었다. 또한 음파분야에서는 공명스펙트럼을 얼기 위해 MIIR 라는 실험방법을 개발되어 사용하여 왔다. 본 논문에서는 원통형 유전체에 의한 산란장 문제에 공진 산란이론을 적용하여 공진 주파수를 얻고, MIIR 의 실험 모델에 수치 해석방법인 FDTD를 적용하여 이로부터 역으로 유전율 등에 관한 정보를 얻기 위한 산란장 스펙트럼을 예측하였다.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.17 no.1 s.50
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• pp.41-47
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• 2007

Geotechnical Phenomena such as landslide, groundwater recharge and groundwater fluctuation due to rainfall can be explain to use a dielectric response and infiltration variation by the movement of a wetting front in the subsurface. The infiltration of a wetting front is infiltrating to the connected pores which are distributed in unsaturated soil. In this study we carried out to laboratory experiment of a vertical infiltration column test using ethanol mix-ing tracer which has same the specific gravity of water. All physical values are detected to use a variation of dielectric constant and calculated to use a dielectric mixing model and tracer test model. This dielectric method measured by each dielectric constant of geological soil porous materials should be of for the geotechnical information and useful a field monitoring technique for detecting the variations of the volumetric water content and the wetting front, which are insignificant the key parameter to understanding the landslide by rainfall.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 1997.05a
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• pp.475-479
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• 1997

다공질매체에서의 포화-비포화 흐름 거동을 파악하기 위하여는 시간에 따른 함수량의 변화과정을 정확하고 빠르게 측정하여야 한다. 본 연구는 실험실에서 함수량을 측정하는 방법의 하나로서 TDR(Time Domain Reflectometer)을 사용하는 실험 방법에 관한 연구이다. TDR 이란 전기신호의 전도특성 이용하여 토양내 설치된 탐침(probe)의 전기신호 반향시간을 측정하는 기기로서 이 반향시간과 토양의 유전율상수(dielectric constant)의 관계를 이용하여 함수량을 추정할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 TDR의 원리설명과 이를 이용한 함수량측정방법을 제시하고 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.3A
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• pp.321-327
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• 2006

In this paper, when a H-polarized plane wave is incident on the grating consisting of uniform resistive strips, electromagnetic scattering is analyzed using the moment of methods (MoM). The current density of each resistive strip on a grounded dielectric plane is fixed by zero at both edges. To satisfy the condition at both ends of each resistive strip, the induced surface current density is expanded in a series of cosine and sine functions. The scattered electromagnetic fields are expanded in a series of floquet mode functions. The boundary conditions are applied to obtain the unknown current coefficients. According to the variation of the involving parameters such as strip width and spacing and angle of the incident field, numerical simulations are performed by applying the Fourier-Galerkin moment method. The numerical results of the normalized reflected power for resistive strips case for zero and several resistivities are obtained.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.123-134
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• 1999

The electrical properties such as dielectric constant, dielectric loss factor and AC conductivity of grain were presented to measure the moisture content of grain using RF impedance. At frequency ranging from 1 to 10MHz and room temperature, $20^{\circ}C$, vector network analyzer(HP4195) and coaxial type sample holder were used to analyze the electrical properties of paddy(11∼24%w.b.), brown rice(11∼18%w.b.), barley(11∼21%w.b.) and wheat(11∼23%w.b.) depending on the moisture content, frequency and bulk density. The dielectric constant and AC conductivity of grain samples increased with moisture content and bulk density. The dielectric constants decreased with frequency and could be expressed as function of the moisture density(decimal moisture $content{\times}bulk$ density).

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.57-58
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 1997.12a
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• pp.179-185
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• 1997