• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.293-300
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• 2007

In Korea, the seismic design regulations was established since 1988 about regularity scale of structures. However, It was not established about seismic performance and evaluation method as the most existing buildings was constructed before Earthquake-Resistant Design(1988). In this study, for model structures which are 4 units of non-seismic designed apartment and 3 units of seismic designed in Korea performed seismic performance evaluation by suggested KISTC (2004). And the result compare to evaluate Capacity Spectrum Method by using MIDAS Gen and SDS. As a result, we observed that suggested KISTC's method have overestimated for shear stress and drift index. The purpose of this study provides most conformity seismic performance evaluation process and the appropriate method of calculating the seismic performance index in Korea.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.61-73
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• 2017

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in 2011 and California Power Failure in 2001 are examples of the importance of the power plant safety management that caused huge national loss with a power-related mass casualty incident. In a situation where humans cannot live without electricity, efforts to strengthen the systematic firefighting safety management in power plants that produce electricity with large amounts of hazardous materials as fuel, such as nuclear energy, coal and gas, are essential to protect life and prevent property loss and stable economic growth from fire explosion accident or radiation leak due to the negligence of safety management and natural disasters such as earthquakes, which has recently become an issue. This study examined the operating situation of firefighting safety management in power plants with firefighting officials employed by five power generation companies including Korea Southern Power Co., Ltd. and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd., which are in charge of the domestic power supply. As a result, for the systematic firefighting safety management of power plants, improvement plans were drawn, including the development of an effective business manual and a comprehensive management system, the substantiality of firefighting safety education, and the strengthening of seismic designs to prepare for earthquakes.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.13-21
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• 2014

Recently, a great number of natural disasters have more frequently happened than the past. The National Emergency Management Agency of Korea has made preparation for the integrated management system of steep slope lands. There is information based on the steep slope inspection sheets and the underground spatial information related to the prevention against steep slope disasters. Nevertheless, building a complete DB System to prevent the hazards and secure the safeties should be urgently dealt with. It is mainly because the information of the National Disaster Management System is restricted to the text-based brief data. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to suggest the method as to building steep slope DB system for disaster prevention and maximizing the availabilities. This study shows the way of building a web-based DB system having its root in the steep slope inspection sheets. The method of establishing the ideal DB system that has liaisons between the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the National Emergency Management Agency is discussed in this study. Furthermore the optimization of DB utilization will assist the various integrated steep slope management systems based on U-IT which are ongoing projects.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.89-98
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• 2018

Fire accidents in foreign countries, like the accident in a thermal power plant in Beijing, the accidents in domestic power plants, including Boryeong Power Plant in 2012 and Taean Power Plant in 2016, a disaster in a nuclear power plant in Fukushima in 2011 or the large-scale power failure in California in 2001 are safety accidents related to electric power, which caused losses in the people's stable lives and the countries. Electricity has an absolute impact on the people's life and the economy, so we can easily expect the serious situation affecting economic growth as well as direct damage to the protection of the people's lives and the losses of properties, if there are fire or explosion accidents or radioactive leak because of negligence in safety management, or problems because of natural disasters like an earthquake in power plants that generate electricity. In this study, it was drawn the improvement of the organizations exclusively in charge of firefighting, the operation of a program for the improvement of professional competency, the development of a customized firefighting management system for plants for systematic firefighting safety management and the improvement of the earthquake-proof correspondence system, which has recently become an issue, as measures for improvements through a survey of the actual conditions concerning the necessity of the construction of a firefighting safety management system for power plants with five power generation companies, including Korea Southern Power Co., Ltd., and the persons in charge of firefighting safety Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.136-145
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• 2009

Site characteristic is an important input parameter in the geologic hazard assessments including, but not limited to, earthquakes, liquefaction and landslides. Although it is a routine to use data collected by boreholes or seismic prospecting for site classifications, we used indirect methods using the geologic and the topographic maps. A site classification map in the Gyeongsang Province has been produced by GIS tools based on geologic age, rock types, and elevations from the geologic map and the topographic map of Korea. Site B (rock site) is dominant in the study area, although softer soils are observed along rivers and in reclaimed lands. We have found that 73% of the site classification results in the study are in concordance with those obtained from borehole data. Observed discrepancies are attributed to errors in the geologic and the topographic maps. For some sites, the origin of the differences is not clear, which requires a further field study or a drilling. Site classification from this study provides essential information for reliable hazard assessments of earthquakes, floods, landslides and liquefaction. Results obtained in the study also play a crucial role in land use planning for developing areas.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.5_2
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• pp.849-858
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• 2023

Investigating disaster sites such as earthquakes and landslides involves significant risks due to potential secondary disasters like facility collapse. In situations where direct access is challenging, there is a need to develop methods for safely acquiring high-precision 3D disaster information using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) equipped drone survey systems. In this study, the feasibility of using drone LiDAR in disaster scenarios was examined, focusing on the collapse accident at Jeongja Bridge in Bundang-gu, Seongnam City, in April 2023. High-density point clouds for the accident bridge were collected, and the bridge's 3D terrain information was reconstructed and compared to the measurement performance of 10 ground control points. The results showed horizontal and vertical root mean square error values of 0.032 m and 0.055 m, respectively. Additionally, when compared to a point cloud generated using ground LiDAR for the same target area, a vertical difference of approximately 0.08 m was observed, but overall shapes showed minimal discrepancies. Moreover, in terms of overall data acquisition and processing time, drone LiDAR was found to be more efficient than ground LiDAR. Therefore, the use of drone LiDAR in disaster sites with significant risks allows for safe and rapid onsite investigations.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.133-141
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• 2013

This paper describes the earthquake risk evaluation of 15 sites of architectural heritages, which are considered ground conditions of sites in Seoul. In order to acquire the input data of earthquake response analysis, surface wave exploration was performed at the site. Earthquake response analysis and 3D earthquake safety evaluation were carried out under the base of scenario earthquakes. Ground displacements of areas, which are located on architectural heritages, are showed about 0.5 mm ~ 9.7 mm, and it was analyzed to small affected by earthquakes. In case of Naksungdae three-story stone pagoda, ground displacement is similar to the others. However, displacement of three-story stone pagoda with granite is 30 mm on the top, because the greatest occurrence of that is caused by stress release at seismic wave effect.

• Korean Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.293-305
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• 2020

An eruption of Taal Volcano in the Philippines began on January 12, 2020. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) subsequently issued an Alert Level 4, indicating that "a hazardous explosive eruption is possible within hours to days." It was a phreatic eruption and phreatomagmatic eruption from the main crater that spewed ashes to Calabarzon, Metro Manila, some parts of Central Luzon, and Pangasinan in Ilocos Region, resulting in the suspension of classes, work schedules, and flights. By January 26, 2020, PHIVOLCS observed inconsistent, but decreasing volcanic activity in Taal, prompting the agency to downgrade its warning to Alert Level 3. After February 14, Alert status was set to Level 2 because of overall decreasing trend of volcanic activities, but it does not mean that the threat of an eruption has disappeared. In addition, the Alert Level can be raised to Alert Level 3 if there is a symptom of increasing unrest at any time.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.139-149
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• 2017

The maintenance, repair, and reinforcement projects and structural stability assessments of Seokguram have primarily focused on examining the condition of stone members of Seokguram and the concrete dome structure for Seokguram. However, a 12 m-high rock slope located behind Seokguram raises a concern of slope failure and rockfall, which may reduce stability of Seokguram. It is also unclear whether the soil slopes and masonry wall at the side and the front of Seokguram have sufficient long-term stability against localized heavy rains and earthquakes, which have been frequent in recent years. The present study investigates the ground and the slopes around Seokguram using detailed field survey to identify geographical and geological risk factors, and assess structural stability of the exposed rock mass behind and the slope in front of Seokguram and the masonry wall using stability analysis.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.188-188
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• 2011

작년 아이슬란드에서의 화산폭발로 발생된 화산재가 대기 중으로 이동하면서 유럽 공항 곳곳의 항공기 수천 편이 운항 중지되기도 하였다. 한반도내의 백두산은 약 1000전(서기 946년~947년 경) 대규모로 분화하였고, 서기 1903년, 소규모 분화한 후, 앞으로 수년~수십 년 사이에 폭발적인 분화를 재개할 가능성이 제기되고 있으며, 백두산 분화 시, 아이슬란드 화산폭발 때보다 훨씬 심각한 피해가 예상되고 있다. 따라서 백두산 화산에 대한 현지 자료의 수집과 꾸준한 모니터링(감시, 관측) 자료의 분석과 재해 예상 범위 및 대응 방안의 모색이 필요한 시점이다. 본 연구에서는 지리적으로 가까이 있으며 108개 활화산의 화산재해 방재에 관하여 꾸준히 활동하고 있는 일본에서의 화산감시 및 분화대응 시스템을 파악하고, 우리나라의 화산재해대책을 수립하기위한 시사점들을 고찰하였다. 화산의 평균적인 분화 간격은 풍수해나 지진 등 다른 재해에 비해 길기 때문에 일본 기상청에서는 과거１만년 이내에 분화한 증거가 있는 화산이 활화산으로서 인정되고 있다. 백두산은 약 1000년 전에 분화한 뒤 최근 분화의 전조현상을 보이고 있으며, 중국과 북한에 인접하여 있으므로 우리나라에 직접적인 피해는 예상되지 않으나, 우리나라에 일본과 같은 활화산이 존재하지 않기 때문에 생소하였던 화산재해란 어떠한 것이며, 향후 잠재적인 분화 가능성을 가지고 있는 백두산폭발로 인한 재해의 종류를 미리 예상하고 준비할 필요가 있다. 일본의 경우 계속적인 감시와 관측을 통한 분화예보, 경보를 발령하고 분화 시 즉각적인 방재정보를 전달, 지역주민들이 빠르게 인지, 주의하도록 화산재해 대책 시스템이 갖추어져 있다. 우리나라는 아직 중국과 북한에 인접한 백두산에 대한 관측 자료가 거의 없고, 연구를 위한 접근 또한 쉽지 않은 상황이다. 분화로 인한 직접적인 영향권에서는 벗어난다할지라도 계절적인 기상장의 영향 및 아직 예측 불가능한 백두산의 잠재적인 폭발규모에 따라 간접적인 영향을 받을 경우에 대비하여야 할 필요성이 있다고 사료된다. 또한 우리나라의 화산재해 방재력을 향상시키기 위하여 백두산 폭발로 인한 재해위험범위를 가시화하고, 분화 시에 대한 구체적인 가상시나리오를 작성하여, 화산재 및 대기오염물질의 확산시뮬레이션, 기후변화에 끼치는 영향 등을 포함하는 화산재해대책을 미리 세워 피해를 저감시킬 수 있는 방재대책을 수립해야 할 것이다.