• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.113-132
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• 2014

With the global warming phenomenon, the deep sea water area that fishing vessels can enter and operate is ever widening. For example, the Arctic Ocean recently has overall competitive advantages due to having many deep-sea fish stocks. The North Pacific region is a strategic coastal district, the closest access point of Arctic Ocean. For Korean fishing vessels which now operate in North Pacific region, and want to entry the Arctic Ocean, the analysis of technical efficiency is needed for preparing the better industry's future. This paper aims to analyze the relative efficiency, and select the low effective deep-sea fishing vessels in the North Pacific, and to suggest their desirables strategies. As a research methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Malmquist Index are applied to 16 fishing vessels for the periods(2009 to 2013). To draw out the efficiency of targeted deep-sea fishing vessels, gross tons, horsepowers, and operating days are used as input variables while total catch stands for an output variable. As a result, CCR efficiency, BCC efficiency and scalability efficiency are measured to be 0.8405, 0.9484 and 0.8858 respectively for 5 years (2009 to 2013). In conclusion, 38% of total tons, 36% of horsepowers and 29% of operating days each fishing vessel should be reduced to keep their competitive powers.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.420-427
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• 2003

The results of recent studies indicate that atmospheric distribution of Hg in the arctic environment is unique enough to show strong depletion during spring followed by notable increases during summer. The observations of this abnormal trend contrast quite sharply with what had been recognized as Hg geochemical behavior in air over the past decades. Using the long-term measurement data of Hg obtained from both the Arctic and Korea, we attempted to provide valuable insights into the unique mercury depletion phenomenon (MDP) in the polar regions of the globe.

• Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2008

As arctic energy resource is attracting public attention, arctic shipping market will also be growing in large as expected to increase in LNG trade from Arctic area to the western countries by shipping. During the voyages through such routes, collision with icebergs may be possible. In the present report, ice collision analyses are carried out from a practical point of view to verify the safety of hull structural strength of LNG carriers equipped with GTT $MKIII^{TM}$ membrane type cargo containment system. From the results of collision analyses and the operation-friendly design concept of no-repairing of cargo containment system, a safe operating envelope against ice collision is proposed for LNG carriers of membrane type cargo containment system. Based on the currently proposed safety criteria, it is concluded that LNG carriers with membrane tank type can operate safely with regard to the integrity of CCS in regions where collision between LNG carrier and iceberg is expected.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.411-420
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• 2019

It is essential to design crashworthy marine structures for operations in Arctic regions, especially ice-covered waters, where the structures must have sufficient capacity to resist iceberg impact. In this study, a numerical analysis of a colliding accident between an iceberg and stiffened plates was carried out employing the commercial finite element code ABAQUS/Explicit. The ice material model developed by Liu et al. (2011) was implemented in the simulations, and its availability was verified by performing some numerical simulations. The influence of the ambient temperature on the structural resistance was evaluated while the local stress, plastic strain, and strain energy density in the structure members were addressed. The present study revealed the risk of fracture in terms of steel embrittlement induced by ambient temperature. As a result, the need to consider the possibility of brittle failure in a plate-stiffener junction during operations in Arctic regions is acknowledged. Further experimental work to understand the structural behavior in a plate-stiffener junction and HAZ is required.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.57 no.6
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• pp.365-372
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• 2020

Ice induced abrasion is known as a critical problem in concrete gravity based offshore structures, which are mainly used in the arctic regions. Although many researches on ice abrasion have been conducted for the last several decades, there still are some difficulties in designing concrete gravity based offshore structures against abrasion problem because there is no standardized method yet due to the uncertain physics involved in. This paper presents an experimental study for the evaluation of concrete abrasion characteristics due to ice friction on concrete surface. For the test, a testing machine capable of abrasion and friction was designed and produced, and standardized procedure was proposed to produce ice specimen used for abrasion test. For the experiment, compressive strength of the ice specimen were explored through a static compression test. Then the friction test between ice specimen and concrete surface was performed and friction coefficients were derived using measured vertical and horizontal forces. Dependency of friction coefficients on some test parameters were studied and discussed as well.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.6_2
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• pp.1273-1282
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• 2018

Recently, active research on the Arctic Ocean has been conducted due to the influence of global warming and new Arctic ship route. Although previous studies already calculated quantitative extent of sea ice using passive microwave radiometers, melting at the edge of sea ice and surface roughness were hardly considered due to low spatial resolution. Since Sentienl-1A/B data in Extended Wide (EW) mode are being distributed as free of charge and bulk data for Arctic sea can be generated during a short period, the entire Arctic sea ice data can be covered in high spatial resolution by mosaicking bulk data. However, Sentinel-1A/B data in EW mode, especially in HV polarization, needs significant radiometric correction for further classification. Thus, in this study, we developed algorithms that can correct thermal noise and scalloping effects, and confirmed that Arctic sea ice and open-water were well classified using the corrected dual-polarization SAR data.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.53 no.6
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• pp.529-535
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• 2016

This study focuses on the comparison of measured data from 6-DOF motion sensor and strain gauge installed in the IBRV ARAON during 2015 summer voyage in the Arctic. Procedures to calculate the global ice load from MotionPak II inertial measurement system and the local load from stain gauge system are discussed. The ship's speed and peak load are determined in the concept of an ice collision "event". It is found that the peak values in the global ice calculated form whole ship motion analysis fall in the range of 1.5~3 times of the local ice load based in strain gauge measurement.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.215-224
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• 2023

While melting glaciers due to global warming have facilitated the development of polar routes, Arctic vessels require reliable anti-icing methods to prevent hull icing. Currently, the existing anti-icing method, i.e., the heating coil method, has disadvantages, such as disconnection and power inefficiency. Therefore, a carbon nanotube-based surface heating element method was developed to address these limitations. In this study, the numerical analysis of the surface heating element method was performed using ANSYS. The numerical analysis included conjugate heat transfer and computational fluid dynamics to consider the conduction solids and the effects of wind speed and temperature in cold environments. The numerical analysis method of the surface heating element method was validated by comparing the experimental results of the heating coil method with the numerical analysis results (under the -30 ℃ conditions). The surface heating element method demonstrated significantly higher efficiency, ranging from 56.65-80.17%, depending on the conditions compared to the heating coil method. Moreover, even under extreme environmental conditions (-45 ℃), the surface heating element method satisfied anti-icing requirements. The surface heating element method is more efficient and economical than the heating coil method. However, proper heat flux calculation for environmental conditions is required to prevent excessive design.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2009.03a
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• pp.143-146
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• 2009

다산기지 주변 해역인 스발바드섬은 북반구 해빙 분포지역의 가장자리에 위치해 있으며 해빙의 이동이 비교적 빠른 지역이다. 지구 온난화의 영향을 받는 대표적인 지역으로 이 지역의 해빙변화에 대한 연구는 지구온난화의 지표로서 중요성을 가진다. 스발바드섬 주변의 해빙에서 얻어진 다편파 SAR 데이터를 분석하여 해빙에 대한 후방산란계수의 특성을 분석하고자 한다. 데이터 획득에는 ENVISAT/ASAR (2002 년 발사 C-밴드, 다편파 사용)과 PALSAR (2006 년 발사, L-밴드, 다편파 사용)의 두 가지 SAR 가 이용되었으며 데이터 획득 시기는 해빙의 변화가 활발한 4 월경이다. 기본적으로 L-밴드와 C-밴드의 두 가지 밴드별 차이에 관한 특성을 알아보고 기타 후방산란계수에 영향을 주는 요소들에 대하여 알아보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2009.03a
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• pp.159-162
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• 2009

북극의 환경은 전 지구적으로 환경변화에 민감하다. 그중 해빙의 증가 및 감소는 지구의 온난화 진행의 지표로 작용을 한다. 따라서 향후 지구온난화의 진행 상황을 예측하기 위하여 북극 해빙 면적의 변화에 대한 지속적인 모니터링이 이루어 져야한다. 북극의 지역적, 환경적 특성상 인공위성을 이용한 원격 탐사가 가장 효과적이며 1970년대부터 수동 마이크로파 센서를 이용한 해빙관찰을 시작하였다. 현재 해빙원격탐사기술의 현황은 광학센서, 수동마이크로파센서, SAR 화상 등을 이용하고 있는데 이중 본 연구에서는 수동 마이크로파 센서인 AMSR-E를 이용하여 북극을 중심으로 북위 $60^{\circ}$ 이내의 지역에서 2002년$\sim$2009년 동안의 북극 해빙 면적에 관한 데이터를 획득하고 북극 해빙 전체 면적의 증가 및 감소에 관한 변화를 관측하였다.