• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.41-49
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• 1997

This paper presents the result of an international cooperative research on the post-correlation analysis of forced vibration tests and the prediction of earthquake responses of a large-scale seismic test structure. The dynamic analysis is carried out using the axisymmetric finite element method incorporating in finite elements for the for field soil region. Through the post-correlation analysis, the properties of the soil layers are revised so that the best correlation in the responses may be obtained compared with the measured force vibration test data. Utilizing the revised soil properties as the initial linear values, the seismic responses are predicted for an earthquake using the equivalent linearlization technique. It has been found that the predicted responses by the equivalent nonlinear procedure are in excellent agreement with the observed responses, while those using the linear properties are fairly off from the measured results.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.53-62
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• 2002

Site soil condition affects significantly on the seismic response of a structure and is a critical factor for the performance based seismic design of a structure. In this paper, the effects of nonlinear soil properties on the elastic response spectra of a structure including the nonlinearity of a soil due to the earthquake excitation is investigated using one step finite element approach for the entire soil structure system and approximate linear iterative procedure to simulate the nonlinear soil behavior with the Ramberg-Osgood soil model. Studies were carried out for a linear SDOF system of a variable period with and without a pile group for the 1940 CI Centro earthquake recorded on ground rather than rock. The study results showed clearly that the effect of the nonlinear behavior of soft soil is very important on the elastic seismic response of a structure suggesting the necessity of the performance based seismic design.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.670-681
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• 2020

Purpose: This study aims to derive a PGV prediction equation and to enhance the application of the Onsite EEW technology which has developed through previous studies. Method: The prediction equation for the Onsite EEW derived from earthquake data M≥3.0 and MMI≥II over the past four years. Local seismic risk is estimated using M and PGV deduced from P wave properties. Result: The improved PGV prediction equation estimated the MMI with an average accuracy of 94.8% and the 𝜏_c : Pd method also showed valid performance for alerting local seismic risks. Conclusion: Onsite EEW technology is successfully applied to Korea, and becomes to reduce the blind zone to about 14km.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2008

Ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) positions are one of the key parameters in an OBS-airgun seismic survey for crustal structure study. To improve the quality of these parameters, we have developed a new method of determining OBS positions, using airgun shot data and bathymetric data in addition to available distance measurements by acoustic transponders. The traveltimes of direct water waves emitted by airgun shots and recorded by OBSs are used as important information for determining OBS locations, in cases where there are few acoustic transponder data (<3 sites). The new method consists of two steps. A global search is performed as the first step, to find nodes of the bathymetric grid that are the closest to explaining the observed direct water-wave traveltimes from airgun shots, and acoustic ranging using a transponder system. The use of precise 2D bathymetric data is most important if the bottom topography near the OBS is extremely rough. The locations of the nodes obtained by the first step are used as initial values for the second step, to avoid falling into local convergence minima. In the second step, a non-linear inverse method is executed. If the OBS internal clock shows large drift, a secondary correction for the OBS internal clock is obtained, as well as the OBS location, as final results by this method. We discuss the error and the influence of each measurement used in the determination of OBS location.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.197-207
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• 2002

Energy dissipation capacity and earthquake responses of steel structures installed with unbonded braces(UB) were investigated. Parametric studies were performed for a single-degree-of-freedom structure under harmonic loads, and optimum yield strength of unbonded braces were derived. Nonlinear dynamic time history analyses were carried out to investigate the seismic response of multi-story model structures with UB having various size and strength. Various techniques were applied to determine proper story-wise distribution of UB in multi-story structures. The analysis results show that the maximum displacements of structures generally decrease as the stiffness of UB increases. However for some natural frequencies and seismic loads the maximum displacement and accumulated damage increases as the stiffness of UB increases.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.51-61
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• 1989

The classical spectral analysis of random vibration is not applicable to the random vibration of nonlinear structures or the dynamic response of active mechanical systems whose governing equations contain random parametric and inhomogeneous excitations. If the random load is simulated, dynamic responses can be obtained with the application of numerical integration schemes to the governing equations of above problems. Thus, in this paper, efficient and practical methods of simulating nonstationary random seismic ground accelerations are presented by using the fast Fourier transform technique. Typical applications of the simulated ground accelerations are the simulations of the dynamic response of rotor-bearing systems under earthquake excitations. The study of accuracy is presented to determine the applicability and practicality of methods of simulation.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.23-34
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• 1998

A dynamic fluid-structure-soil interaction analysis method is developed to investigate the effects of translational and/or rocking motions on the seismic response of flexible rectangular liquid storage tanks founded on the deformable ground. The governing equation for the dynamics of 3-D rectangular tanks subjected to the translational and/or rocking motion is abtained by applying Rayleigh-Ritz method. The dynamic stiffness matrices of a rigid rectangular foundation resting on the surface of a stratum overlaid bedrock are calculated by hyperelement method. The seismic responses of 3-D flexible tank model founded on the deformable ground is calculated by combining the governing equation for the fluid-tank system with the dynamic stiffness matrix of th rigid surface foundation.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.17-24
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• 2002

Dynamic behaviors of a bridge system with several simple spans are evaluated to examine the effects of nonlinear abutment motions upon the seismic responses of the bridge. The idealized mechanical model for the whole bridge system is developed by adopting the multi-degree-of-freedom system, which can consider various influential components. To compare the results, both linear and nonlinear abutment-backfill models are prepared. The linear system has the constant abutment stiffness, and the nonlinear system has the nonlinear stiffness considering the abutment stiffness degradation due to the abutment-soil interaction. From simulation results, the nonlinear abutment motion is found to have an important influence upon the global bridge motions. Maximum relative distances between adjacent vibration units are found to be larger than those found from the linear system. In particular, maximum relative distances at the location with the highest possibility of unseating failure are increased up to about 30% in the nonlinear system. The effects of nonlinear behavior of an abutment on the bridge seismic behaviors are also increased as the number of span increase. Therefore, it can be concluded that the abutment-soil interaction should be considered in the seismic analysis of the bridge system.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.144-151
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• 1997

구조물로부터 측정된 가속도 시간이력을 이용하여 구조손상을 찾아내고 평가하는 기법을 제시하였다. 구조계의 손상을 찾아내는 알고리즘의 주요한 수단으로써 parametric system identification 방법을 사용하였고 매개변수화된 구조물의 최적 매개변수를 추정하기 위해 구속된 비선형 최적화기법을 사용하였다. 손상된 부재를 분리하기 위한 방법으로서 적합적 매개변수 모음법을 적용하였고 손상의 정도를 통계적으로 평가하기 위하여 측정된 가속도 시간이력에 time window 기법을 적용하였다. 가속도 이력 측정에 있어서의 불충분성과 측정오차를 고려하여 알고리즘을 개발하였고, 조화진동하중으로 구조물을 가진하여 구조 손상을 진단하는 수치모의 실험을 실시하였다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.10-17
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• 2012

최근 지구 온난화에 따른 이상 기후 변화로 인하여 지진, 쓰나미 등 각종 재해가 빈번히 발생 하고 있다. 특히, 2011년 일본 동북부 지역의 거대 지진과 쓰나미로 인하여 엄청난 재산손실 및 인명피해가 발생하였다. 이로 인하여, 전세계적으로 휴대 전화를 통한 재난문자 서비스의 필요성이 크게 부각되고 있는 상황이다. 본 고에서는 현재 3GPP 차세대 이동통신 (LTE) 망에서의 재난문자서비스 기술 및 표준화 동향에 대해서 알아본다. 또한, 일본, 미국, 유럽, 한국의 재난문자서비스 시스템 및 요구 사항들에 대해서 각각 설명하고 표준화 문서를 기반으로 현재까지 진행된 기술 내용에 대해서 알아본다.