• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.95-107
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• 2002

A reliability analysis on sliding of monolithic vertical caisson of composite breakwaters is extensively carried out in order to make the basis for the applicability of reliability-based design method. The required width of caisson of composite breakwaters is determined by the deterministic design method including the effect of impulsive breaking waves as a function of water depth, also studied interactively with the results of reliability analyses. It is found that the safety factor applied in current design may be a little over-weighted magnitude for the sliding of caisson. The reliability index/failure probability is also seen to slowly decrease as the water depth increases for a given wave condition and a safety factor. In addition, optimal safety factor can roughly be evaluated by using the concept of target reliability index for several incident waves. The variations of optimal safety factor may be resulted from the different wave conditions. Finally, it may be concluded from the sensitivity studies that the reliability index may be more depended on the incident wave angles and the wave periodsrather than on the bottom slopes and the thickness of rubble mound.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.51 no.9
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• pp.827-837
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• 2018

The stabilities of sliding and overturning of caisson and bearing capacity of mound against eccentric and inclined loads, which possibly happen to a composite caisson breakwaters, have been analyzed by using the technique of multiple failure modes. In deterministic approach, mathematical functions have been first derived from the ultimate limit state equations. Using those functions, the minimum cross section of caisson can straightforwardly be evaluated. By taking a look into some various deterministic analyses, it has been found that the conflict between failure modes can be occurred, such that the stability of bearing capacity of mound decreased as the stability of sliding increased. Therefore, the multiple failure modes for the composite caisson breakwaters should be taken into account simultaneously even in the process of deterministically evaluating the design cross section of caisson. Meanwhile, the reliability analyses on multiple failure modes have been implemented to the cross section determined by the sliding failure mode. It has been shown that the system failure probabilities of the composite breakwater are very behaved differently according to the variation of incident waves. The failure probabilities of system tend also to increase as the crest freeboards of caisson are heightening. The similar behaviors are taken place in cases that the water depths above mound are deepening. Finally, the results of the first-order modal are quite coincided with those of the second-order modal in all conditions of numerical tests performed in this paper. However, the second-order modal have had higher accuracy than the first-order modal. This is mainly due to that some correlations between failure modes can be properly incorporated in the second-order modal. Nevertheless, the first-order modal can also be easily used only when one of failure probabilities among multiple failure modes is extremely larger than others.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.287-292
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• 2021

Load and resistance factor design is an efficient design approach that provides a system of consistent design solutions. This study aims to determine the load and resistance factors needed for the design of breakwater foundations within a probabilistic framework. In the study, four typical types of Korean breakwaters, namely, rubble mound breakwaters, vertical composite caisson breakwaters, perforated caisson breakwaters, and horizontal composite breakwaters, are investigated. The bearing capacity of breakwater foundations under wave loading conditions is thoroughly examined. Two levels of the target reliability index (RI) of 2.5 and 3.0 are selected to implement the load and resistance factors calibration using Monte Carlo simulations with 100,000 cycles. The normalized resistance factors are found to be lower for the higher target RI as expected. Their ranges are from 0.668 to 0.687 for the target RI of 2.5 and from 0.576 to 0.634 for the target RI of 3.0.

• 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.