• Computers and Concrete
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.141-161
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• 2015

A significant portion of residential areas of Turkey is located in active earthquake zones. In Turkey occurred major earthquakes in last twenty years, such as Erzincan (1992), Kocaeli and $D{\ddot{u}}zce$ (1999), $Bing{\ddot{o}}l$ (2003), Van (2011). These earthquakes have demonstrated that reinforced concrete (RC) buildings having horizontal and vertical irregularities are significantly damaged, which in turn most of them are collapsed. Architectural design and arrangement of load-bearing system have important effect on RC building since architectural design criteria in design process provide opportunity to make this type of buildings safer and economical under earthquake loads. This study aims to investigate comparatively the effects of weak story irregularity on earthquake behavior and rough construction costs of RC buildings by considering different soil-conditions given in the Turkish Earthquake Code. With this aim, Sta4-CAD program based on matrix displacement method is utilized. Considering that different story height and compressive strength of concrete, and infill walls or their locations are the variables, a set of structural models are developed to determine the effect of them on earthquake behavior and rough construction costs of RC buildings. In conclusion, some recommendations and results related to making RC buildings safer and more economical are presented by comparing results obtained from structural analyses.

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.494-507
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• 2019

A diagnostic investigation of the conservation state of damaged murals of the Payathonzu temple mainly indicated delamination, exfoliation, and contamination of the coloring layer; cracks and damage to the wall; and separation from gaps. In particular, vulnerabilities resulting from cracks in the wall and damage from gaps demand swift reinforcement measures. Ultrasonic testing uncovered damage caused by gaps between the base layer and plastered wall in several areas of the mural, vulnerable parts in the wall around the cracks, and considerable degradation of the physical properties where cracks and gaps were severe. Moisture measurements identified vast disparities in moisture depending on location even within a single area of the mural, and it was clear that these disparities were the result of environmental conditions such as humidity. Damage to the murals in monument 477 was the most severe, and a diagnostic of the physical properties uncovered severe physical damage to the upper part of the mural as well as to the corridor ceiling, thus presenting the need for conservation treatment utilizing scientific diagnosis as well as objective data.

• Wind and Structures
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.45-56
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• 2018

Wind damage of urban trees arises to be a serious issue especially in the typhoon-prone areas. As a family of tree species widely-planted in Southeast China, the structural behaviors of Plane tree is investigated. In order to accommodate the complexities of tree morphology, a fractal theory based finite element modeling method is proposed. On-site measurement of Plane trees is performed for physical definition of structural parameters. It is revealed that modal frequencies of Plane trees distribute in a manner of grouped dense-frequencies; bending is the main mode of structural failure. In conjunction with the probability density evolution method, the fragility assessment of urban trees subjected to wind excitations is then proceeded. Numerical results indicate that small-size segments such as secondary branches feature a relatively higher failure risk in a low wind level, and a relatively lower failure risk in a high wind level owing to windward shrinks. Besides, the trunk of Plane tree is the segment most likely to be damaged than other segments in case of high winds. The failure position tends to occur at the connection between trunk and primary branches, where the logical protections and reinforcement measures can be implemented for mitigating the wind damage.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.21-33
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• 2007

Different vegetation indices from satellite images have been used for monitoring drought damages, and this study aimed to develop a drought index using NOAA/AVHRR NDVI(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and to analyze the temporal and spatial distribution of spring drought severity in North Korea from 1998 to 2001. A new drought index, DevNDVI(Deviation of NDVI), was defined as the difference between a monthly NDVI and average monthly NDVI at the same cover area, and the DevNDVI images at all years except for 2001 demonstrated the drought-damaged areas referred from various domestic and foreign publications. The vegetation of 2001 showed high vitality despite the least amount of rainfall among the target years, and the reason was investigated that higher temperature above normal average would shift the growing stages of plants ahead. Therefore, complementary methods like plant growth models or ground survey data should be adopted in order to evaluate drought-induced plant stress using satellite-based NDVI and to make up far the distortion induced by other environments than lack of precipitation.

• Conservation Science in Museum
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• v.2
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• pp.9-17
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• 2000

This is a case study of conservation treatment of the textiles and costumes excavated from Soonchun Park's tomb in Eumsung, North Chungcheong province. When excavated, the objects were found fairly wet and badly smelled since they decayed in wooden coffin. They were wet-treated with deionized water to remove dirt and dried at room temperature, during which the objects were blocked and flattened to keep them in shape. Silk crepeline was under-layed and stitched to the damaged areas with silk-hair threads. Each costume was individually stored in a tray made of paulownia wood and flat textiles were rolled up in paper cylinders with 6 and 10 cm in diameter. Thymol was used to prevent microorganisms.

• The Journal of Engineering Research
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.13-22
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to find out how we can improve the Registered Cultural Properties System in order to preserve and utilize of modern buildings which have been damaged and destroyed. The main object of the Registered Cultural Properties System is to build the cultural properties preservation system. But nowadays, it is very difficult to preserve modern buildings in city areas because of the desire of development for the site. So we need to approach economically in order to compensate for Registered Cultural Properties System. In this study, I suggested 4 type of system to preserve modern buildings by economical and lawful approach.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.152-157
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• 2006

Satellite imagery is generally used for investigating the damage from natural disaster for wide area and remotely piloted vehicle or aerial photos are used for the local damage. But for more detailed information such as damages of public facilities, these methods are inadequate and so in this case field surveying has been carried out. We tried to estimate the damage of public facilities faster and more accurately using photogrammetric method. We developed a digital stereo camera system by fixing two digital cameras on a frame, and with this system the photos of actually damaged areas were collected. The damages were estimated from these stereo photos. Then the estimated data was compared with field surveying data in order to verify our system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.91-98
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• 2016

Outbreaks of highly contagious livestock diseases can cause direct and indirect economic impacts such as lower productivity of cattle farms, fall in tourism in damaged areas and countries, and decline in exports. They also incur tremendous social costs associated with disease elimination and restoration work. Thus, it is essential to prevent livestock diseases through monitoring and prediction efforts. Currently, however, it is still difficult to provide accurate predictive information regarding occurrences of livestock diseases, because existing cattle health monitoring or forecasting systems are only limited to monitor environmental conditions of livestock barns and check activities of cattle by using a pedometer or thermal image. In this paper, we present a biosensor-based cattle health monitoring system capable of collecting bio-signals of farm animals in an effective way. For the presented monitoring system, we design an integrated monitoring device consisting of a sensing module to measure bio-signals of cattle such as the heartbeat, the breath rate and the momentum, as well as a Zigbee module designed to transmit the biometric data based on Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). We verify the validity of the monitoring system by the comparison of the correlations of designed device with a commercial ECG equipment through analyzing the R-peak of measured signals.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.1069-1075
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• 2006

Starting from Jan. 1, 2006, pursuant to Article 28 of the Natural Environment Conversation Act for development acts with natural Landscape as a subject, the Consultation System on the Effects of Natural Landscape has been put into force in order to, in advance, analyze and predict the effects of natural Landscape according to the implementation of various development plans and development projects and also minimize adverse effects by preparing plans to reduce the effects. The consultation on the effects of natural Landscape is based on the objective and scientific approaches of data with Landscape to minimizing the effects of natural Landscape by developments with the preservation, restoration, outlook and harmonization as basic principles, and looking into the review of natural Landscape damage and harmonization of the site to be developed. For more objectively analyzing the visual effects of natural Landscape according to development acts, the purpose of this study is to provide basic materials of continued Landscape management plans in the planning stage of development plans and after the completion of developments by analyzing the sensitivity of Landscape and deriving areas, whose Landscape will be damaged, mainly focusing on the area of visibility using GIS.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.121-127
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 피해 전 후 고해상도 항공영상을 이용하여 풍수해 피해정보를 자동 추출하는데 있어 결과물의 신뢰성 제고 방안에 대해 연구하였다. 연구 대상지역은 2008년 집중호우로 인해 큰 피해를 입은 경상북도 봉화지역을 선정하였으며, 해당 지역 중 특히 피해가 집중된 서벽리, 애당리 지역에 대하여 피해 전 후 영상을 확보하고 자동탐지를 수행하였다. 피해 지역의 자동탐지 수행 전 Normalizing, 대비강조, Equalizing 등의 영상처리를 수행하고, 자동추출 결과의 정확도를 비교하여 피해항목별 최적의 영상처리를 결정하였다. 최적의 영상처리가 적용된 영상에 대하여 피해 항목별 피해형태를 파악하였으며, 가장 정확한 결과물이 추출되는 최적의 임계치를 결정하였다. 도로 항목의 경우 Normalizing 영상처리를 수행하고 임계치를 120으로 부여하여 자동탐지를 수행한 경우 가장 정확한 추출 결과가 나타났으며, 농경지 항목의 경우 대비강조 영상처리와 임계치가 100으로 부여된 경우 피해 지역의 추출이 가장 정확하게 나타났다. 본 연구결과는 향후 유사한 재해 발생 시 초기 신속한 피해규모 산출이 가능하게 하여 적절한 후속 조치를 취할 수 있도록 한다. 또한, 다중밴드 피해 전 후 영상 확보가 가능할 경우 추가적인 피해 항목의 최적 영상처리와 임계치 결정이 가능해지며, 토지피복 분류를 거쳐 피해지역 자동탐지 수행 시 원하는 피해항목만을 선택적으로 추출하는 것도 가능할 것으로 판단된다.