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Application on the New Technology of Construction Structures Disaster Protection Management based on Spatial Information

  • Yeon, Sangho
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.136-145
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    • 2018
  • The disaster monitoring technique by combination of the measurement method and the fine precision of the sensor collecting the satellite-based information that can determine the displacement space is available in a variety of diagnostic information and the GIS/GNSS by first sensor it is being requested from them. Be large and that the facility is operated nationally distributed torsional displacement of the terrain and facilities caused by such natural disasters progress of various environmental factors and the surroundings. To diagnose this spatial information, which contains the various sensors and instruments tracks the precise fine displacement of the main construction structures and the first reference in the Geospatial or more three-dimensional detailed available map and location information using the installed or the like bridges and tunnels produced to a USN/IoT change at any time, by combining the various positioning analysis of mm-class for the facility main area observed is required to constantly in the real time information of the USN/IoT environment sensor, and to utilize this as a precise fine positioning information by UAV/Drone to the precise fine displacement of the semi-permanent infrastructures. It managed to be efficient management by use of new technologies, analyzing the results presented to a method capable of real-time monitoring for a large structure or facility to construction disaster prevention.

Performance evaluation of in-service open web girder steel railway bridge through full scale experimental investigations

  • Sundaram, B. Arun;Kesavan, K.;Parivallal, S.
    • Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.255-268
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    • 2019
  • Civil infrastructures, such as bridges and tunnels are most important assets and their failure during service will have significant economic and social impact in any country. Behavior of a bridge can be evaluated only through actual monitoring/measurements of bridge members under the loads of interest. Theoretical analysis alone is not a good predictor of the ability of a bridge. In some cases, theoretical analyses can give less effect than actual since theoretical analyses do not consider the actual condition of the bridge, support conditions, level of corrosion and damage in members and connections etc. Hence actual measurements of bridge response should be considered in making decisions on structural integrity, especially in cases of high value bridges (large spans and major crossings). This paper describes in detail the experimental investigations carried out on an open web type steel railway bridge. Strain gages and displacement transducers were installed at critical locations and responses were measured during passage of locomotives. Stresses were evaluated and extrapolated to maximum design loading. The responses measured from the bridge were within the permissible limits. The methodology adopted shall be used for assessing the structural integrity of the bridge for the design loads.

Infrastructure of Propulsion Test Facility of Liquid Rocket (액체로켓 추진기관 시험설비 기반시설 고찰)

  • Cho, Namkyung;Kim, Sunghyuk;Han, Yeoungmin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.87-94
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    • 2019
  • Liquid rocket propulsion test facility should provide for the interface condition installed on the upper level system for the test article. In addition, safety provision should be provided to be ready for accident such as explosion which can be occurred during development stage. For this purpose infra-structures of test facilities must be constructed so that stable combustion test can be performed and be guard against accidents. In this article, various aspects for infrastructures of propulsion test facilities are investigated including architecture and civil engineering aspects, test stand, room arrangements, interfaces among facilities, fire-fighting facilities, electrical power facilities.

Transfer Learning Based Real-Time Crack Detection Using Unmanned Aerial System

  • Yuvaraj, N.;Kim, Bubryur;Preethaa, K. R. Sri
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.351-360
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    • 2020
  • Monitoring civil structures periodically is necessary for ensuring the fitness of the structures. Cracks on inner and outer surfaces of the building plays a vital role in indicating the health of the building. Conventionally, human visual inspection techniques were carried up to human reachable altitudes. Monitoring of high rise infrastructures cannot be done using this primitive method. Also, there is a necessity for more accurate prediction of cracks on building surfaces for ensuring the health and safety of the building. The proposed research focused on developing an efficient crack classification model using Transfer Learning enabled EfficientNet (TL-EN) architecture. Though many other pre-trained models were available for crack classification, they rely on more number of training parameters for better accuracy. The TL-EN model attained an accuracy of 0.99 with less number of parameters on large dataset. A bench marked METU dataset with 40000 images were used to test and validate the proposed model. The surfaces of high rise buildings were investigated using vision enabled Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAV). These UAV is fabricated with TL-EN model schema for capturing and analyzing the real time streaming video of building surfaces.

Impact of Bridge Construction on County Population in Georgia

  • Jeong, M. Myung;Kang, Mingon;Jung, Younghan E.
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.1017-1023
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    • 2022
  • Past research shows that the construction of new infrastructure accelerates economic growth in the region by attracting more people and commodities. However, the previous studies only considered large-scale infrastructures such as sea-cross bridges and channel tunnels. There is a paucity of literature on regional infrastructure and its impact on socio-economic indicators. This paper explores the impact of new bridge construction on the human population, particularly focusing on regional bridges constructed during the 2000s in the state of Georgia. The human population at a county level was selected as a single socio-economic factor to be evaluated. A total of 124 cases were investigated as to whether the emergence of a new bridge affected the population change. The interrupted time series analysis was used to statistically examine the significance of population change due to the construction by treating each new bridge as an intervention event. The results show that, out of the 124 cases, the population of 67 cases significantly increased after the bridge construction, while the population of 57 cases was not affected by the construction at a significance level of 0.05. The 124 cases were also analyzed by route type, functional class, and traffic volume, but the results revealed, unlike large-scale infrastructure, that no clear evidence was found that a new bridge would bring an increase in the human population at a county level.

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Mechanical properties of carbon fiber sheet and carbon fiber strand sheet based on carbon fibers for the reinforcement of highway bridge RC slabs (도로교 RC 상판 보강을 위한 탄소섬유 기초 carbon fiber sheet와 carbon fiber strand sheet의 역학특성)

  • Won, Chan Ho;Abe, Tadashi;Ahn, Tae-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.290-293
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    • 2015
  • Recently, a lot of interest has been shown in structural maintenance managements of civil infrastructures. Many researchers have been conducted on various maintenance techniques and repair materials. Among other fiber materials the carbon fiber materials are especially focused on maintenance management of Highway Bridges. Extensive work has been done on Carbon Fiber Sheet (CFS). Nevertheless, Carbon Fiber Strand Sheet (CFSS) is a newly developed material, on which limited work has been done until now. Therefore, in this study bonding the CFSS to RC slab specimen and fatigue resistance evaluation has been conducted. The results demonstrated an increase of 25.3 times more reinforcement of RC slab compared to non-reinforced RC slab. Moreover, compared to CFS-bonded RC slab, The CFSS-bonded RC slab showed 1.2 times greater reinforcement.

Developing Stereo-vision based Drone for 3D Model Reconstruction of Collapsed Structures in Disaster Sites (재난지역의 붕괴지형 3차원 형상 모델링을 위한 스테레오 비전 카메라 기반 드론 개발)

  • Kim, Changyoon;Lee, Woosik
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.33-38
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    • 2016
  • Understanding of current features of collapsed buildings, terrain, and other infrastructures is a critical issue for disaster site managers. On the other hand, a comprehensive site investigation of current location of survivors buried under the remains of a building is a difficult task for disaster managers due to the difficulties in acquiring the various information on the disaster sites. To overcome these circumstances, such as large disaster sites and limited capability of rescue workers, this study makes use of a drone (unmanned aerial vehicle) to effectively obtain current image data from large disaster areas. The framework of 3D model reconstruction of disaster sites using aerial imagery acquired by drones was also presented. The proposed methodology is expected to assist fire fighters and workers on disaster sites in making a rapid and accurate identification of the survivors under collapsed buildings.

QR Code-Based Strength Labeling Techniques for Concrete Life-Cycle Quality Maintenance (콘크리트 생애주기 품질관리를 위한 QR 코드 기반 강도 라벨링 기술)

  • Kim, Tae-Heon;Kim, Dong-Jin;Park, Seung-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.603-608
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    • 2011
  • In recent years, numerous mega-sized and complex civil infrastructures are being constructed all over the world. Therefore, more precise construction and maintenance technologies are required for these complicated construction projects. Especially, exact strength measurement and curing process monitoring of the concrete structures are very crucial to confirm the safety and effectiveness of these complicated structures. In this paper, a new Quick Response (QR) code-based concrete strength labeling technique using embedded self-sensing monitoring system is introduced. It is important to note that the QR code-based concrete labeling technique enables easy access of the databases related to the concrete strength at anytime, anywhere, and any smart PC devices. Finally, by integrating the proposed QR code-based concrete labeling with the concrete strength databases already prepared at a designated web-server, a feasibility of the current system is investigated for a next generation concrete life-cycle quality maintenance.

Analysis of Construction Management Market Using System Thinking (시스템 사고를 이용한 건설사업관리 시장 영향요인 분석)

  • Kim, Yoon-Woo;Park, Hee-Sung
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.32 no.3D
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    • pp.239-245
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    • 2012
  • The necessity of professional construction management has been increased as a construction project is getting larger, more complex and specialized. Thus, the CM market has steadily expanded since 1996 in Korea. Despite the external expanding of the CM market, experts claim that domestic CM regulations and infrastructures should be revised. Therefore, this paper developed a causal map which consists of elements vitalizing CM market. Then, the simulation model using NUMBER (Normalized Unit Modeling by Elementary Relationships) to predict the size of the CM market is established. As a result, in the case of more regulation related CM, the quantity of CM projects could not reach of construction supervision until 2020. This paper can be used as a baseline providing a prospection of the change of CM market according to causal relation between the improvement as well as the base of revitalization research of CM market based on non-institutional factors change.

Workability of Polymeric Concrete for Lunar Infrastructure (달 시설물을 위한 폴리머 콘크리트의 시공성 연구)

  • Lee, Jaeho;Lee, Tai Sik;Ann, Ki Yong;Chang, Byung Chul
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.507-512
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    • 2017
  • For manned planetary exploration, human beings are developing technologies that can permanently reside on the planet, and the basic three elements of residence, such as clothing and shelter, are required to support essential technologies in construction. In order to develop infrastructure construction technology internationally, various materials and methods such as local cementation, sulfur and aluminum have been tried. in this study, a purpose is proposed a polymer concrete construction validation technology that appropriates the conditions required for manmade exploration in order to develop construction infrastructure material technology using polymer. Concrete specimens with a 10% weight ratio polymer prepared by heating on the bottom were stabilized after 2 hours of heating, and the strength was lower than the top heating method, but the solidifying speed was 2 times faster. These results are expected to be applicable not only to construction of lunar facilities for manned exploration but also to improve the construction of infrastructures such as roads and levees to prevent dust.