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Tectonic Features along the South Scotia Ridge, Antarctica (남극해 남스코시아 해령 주변의 지체구조)

  • Hong, Jong-Kuk;Jin, Young-Keun;Lee, Joo-Han;Nam, Sang-Heon;Park, Min-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.215-219
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    • 2005
  • Multichannel seismic survey has conducted along the South Scotia Ridge which is located in the northern part of Weddell sea, Antarctic sea. The South Scotia Ridge is part of continental crust extended from Antarctic Peninsula. It borders on Oceanic plates, the Scotia sea plate and Powell basin. Transtensional tectonics along the sinistral transform fault plate boundary led to the creation of the present tectonic geomorphology of the South Scotia Ridge. The fan-shaped deposits with angular unconformities in the central depression is interpreted as a divergent tectonic movement along the ridge.

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A Case Study on the Field Monitoring of the Deep Rock Excavation Site in Urban Area (도심지 대심도 암반 굴착현장에서의 Face Mapping 적용사례)

  • Kim, Tae-Seob;Kim, Hyung-Min;Jo, Choong-Sick;Kang, Tae-Seong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2009.09a
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    • pp.1307-1316
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    • 2009
  • In this case, powerfulness quorum of destruction side which we have expected are supposed general limit value for rock floor when retaining of earth on the section of rock floor in the urban area. For digging in the urban area, there are a lot of dislocations to be disadvantage for safety of digging ants. The displacement of the pondside didn't converged with the phase of the excavation. Also, the speed of displacement got higher than the percentages of risk in the construction. So, we put into operation Face mapping for checking special quality of dislocations which appear on the digging ants. This results were used to decide a destruction in the case of the final excavation by analyzing with other results. It was possible to know the unstable distribution of a fault line in Face Mapping and to get powerful lens of a surface of discontinuity by tests indoors and outdoors. The results were also used to make a solution. Therefore, It's a successful example using the Partial TopDown for stable digging. And it is important that Face Mapping have to be practiced for solving the uncertainty of ground organization when digging design in the urban city.

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A Study on the Optimal Divergence Spacing of the Connecting Grounding Rod to the Dangerous Voltage in the Global Earthing Network of Urban Rail Transit (도시철도 통합접지망에서의 위험전압에 따른 연접접지봉의 최적 분기간격에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Ho-Sung;Park, Young;Kim, Hyeng-Chul;Kim, Jin-Hee;Kim, Jae-Moon;Cho, Dae-Hoon
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.61 no.9
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    • pp.1374-1379
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    • 2012
  • Urban rail transit tends to global grounding system in order to control ground potential rise and potential differences between electric equipments. In addition, global grounding system can discharge the large capacity surge current to the ground safely. Since some railway electric equipments are installed all section of line, the global grounding system connected with the connecting grounding wire is more effectively. However, if the fault occurred in the connecting grounding wire area, some dangerous voltage is generated. So, the installation of additional grounding rod will be required. In this study, the global grounding system is simulated using CDEGS program to analyze the divergence spacing of additional ground rod depending on dangerous electric potential characteristics. Grounding net of the each station is modelled in depending on the size of the platform, and the spacing of the connecting grounding rod are compared 50m, 100m, 250m and 400m. Simulation results considering of earth resistivity and underground condition of the connecting grounding wire, spacing of the connecting grounding rod is that less than 250m to spacing of the ground rod was appropriately confirmed.

ESR dosimetry and Dating toward $21^{st}$ Century

  • Ikeya, Motoji
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.84-88
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    • 2002
  • Dating and dosimetry using electron spin resonance (ESR) in 20th Century developed at both Yamaguchi University and Osaka University have been reviewed with emphasis on new prospects and strategies in 21th century. Natural radiation have been generating radicals that accumulated in archaeological and geological materials. ESR detects these radicals and the ESR signal intensity is proportional to the radiation dose and therefore the age. The assessment of the total dose of natural radiation and the annual dose rate give their ESR ages. The ESR dating of stalactites and stalagmites ant Akiyoshi cave in Yamaguchi prefecture in 1975 was extended to anthropological dating using bones and tooth enamel excavated in Greek Petralona cave. Fossils of shells and corals gave the ages of marine terraces and sea-level changes. Quartz grains gave the ages of geothermal alteration and fault movements. Future ESR dating of ices at outer planets anf their satellite are also investigated as basic studies for ices od $H_2O,\;CO_2,\;SO_2$ as well as terrestrial hydrates in laboratory. Atomic bomb radiation dosimetry at Hiroshima and Nagasaki using ESR lead to the dosimetry of personnel, Chemobyl and JCO criticality accidents. Monitoring of radiation dose with sensitive materials with tissue equivalence are being developed. finally a new scanning ESR imaging apparatus (a near field microwave microscope) developed in our laboratory gave ESR images of Radicals from fossils to Si-CVD and diamond films as summarized in my book in 2002.

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Effects of Soil Discharges on the Impulsive Ground Impedance of Ground Rod with Needles (침상 접지봉의 임펄스접지임피던스에 미치는 지중방전의 영향)

  • Yoo, Yang-Woo;Cho, Sung-Chul;Lee, Bok-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.98-105
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    • 2014
  • Soil discharges near the ground rod play an important role to reduce the ground potential rise and the ground impedance and to help the fault current to spread into the earth. This paper presents the effects of soil discharges on the transient and conventional ground impedances when the lightning impulse voltage was applied to a ground rod with radial needles. The current-voltage (I-V)curves and transient ground impedance curves were calculated based on the measured current and potential traces. Soil discharge behaviors related to I-V curves and transient ground impedance curves were analyzed as a function of the magnitude of lightning impulse voltages. As a result, the soil discharges occurred near the ground electrode contribute to the reduction of conventional ground impedance and limits the ground potential rise effectively under lightning impulse voltages.

The Heating of Cu-oxide and Arc Properties according to Electrical Poor Contact (전기적 불완전 접촉에 따른 동산화물의 발열 및 아크 특성)

  • Kim, Wansu;Park, SangJune;Hwang, DongHyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2019
  • As industry is progressing and standards of living are improved, the demand of electrical energy is expected to grow 8-9% annually. Therefore, the importance of electrical fire prevention technology with the ability of the power supply is being emphasized. According to the statistics of fire in Korea, fire occurred about 45,000 cases annually, and electrical fire possessed about 20%. The electrical fire by poor contact has increased gradually, can be connected as great fire to secondarily induce short circuit and earth fault. Then analysis of heating causes of electrical connections between copper and copper alloy is needed. Also, detection and analysis algorithm of oxide at copper alloy are necessary. In this research, in order to understand the characteristics of oxide growth with rising resistance and heating, it is demonstrated that the oxide at electrical connections can cause fire due to arcing.

Integrity, Orbit Determination and Time Synchronisation Algorithms for Galileo

  • Merino, M.M. Romay;Medel, C. Hernandez;Piedelobo, J.R. Martin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2006
  • Galileo is the European Global Navigation Satellite System, under civilian control, and consists on a constellation of medium Earth orbit satellites and its associated ground infrastructure. Galileo will provide to their users highly accurate global positioning services and their associated integrity information. The elements in charge of the computation of Galileo navigation and integrity information are the OSPF (Orbit Synchronization Processing Facility) and IPF (Integrity Processing Facility), within the Galileo Ground Mission Segment (GMS). Navigation algorithms play a key role in the provision of the Galileo Mission, since they are responsible for computing the essential information the users need to calculate their position: the satellite ephemeris and clock offsets. Such information is generated in the Galileo Ground Mission Segment and broadcast by the satellites within the navigation signal, together with the expected a-priori accuracy (SISA: Signal-In-Space Accuracy), which is the parameter that in fault-free conditions makes the overbounding the predicted ephemeris and clock model errors for the Worst User Location. In parallel, the integrity algorithms of the GMS are responsible of providing a real-time monitoring of the satellite status with timely alarm messages in case of failures. The accuracy of the integrity monitoring system is characterized by the SISMA (Signal In Space Monitoring Accuracy), which is also broadcast to the users through the integrity message.

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Genetic Implications of Ultramafic Rocks from the Bibong Area in the Kyeonggi Gneiss Complex (경기편마암복합체내 비봉지역에 분포하는 초염기성암에 대한 성인적 적용)

  • Song, Suck Hwan;Choi, Seon Gyu;Woo, Jun Gie
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.477-491
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    • 1997
  • In the Bibong area of the western part of Chungcheongnam-do, ultramafic masses occur as discontinuous isolated lenticular bodies in the Precambrian Kyeonggi gneiss complex. They extend for about 200 m long to NNE directions which are parallel to fault lines in the gneiss complex. The ultramafic masses contact with the adjacent gneiss complex as steeply dipping faults. They are dunites and harzburgites and many of them are partially or completely serpentinized. The ultramafic rocks dominantly show protogranular, equigranular and equigranular-$m{\grave{o}}saic$ textures. They also show porphyroclastic (megacrystic) or recrystallized textures reflecting several stages of metamorphism. They contain varying amounts of olivine $(Fo_{89-92})$, enstatitic to bronzitic orthopyroxene, diopsidic clinopyroxene, tremolitic to pargasitic hornblende, and spinel with serpentine, talc, chlorite, calcite and magnetite. The ultramafic rocks have high magnesium numbers and transitional element contents, low alkali contents and show deplete REE patterns. Comparing with available data, geochemical and mineralogical characteristics shown in the ultramafic rocks of the Bibong area are similar to those of worldwide mantle xenoliths and orogenic related ultramafic rocks. The field evidences, petrographical, geochemical and mineralogical characteristics shown in the ultramafic rocks of the Bibong area are similar to alpine type ultramafic rocks emplaced into the crust by the faulting as mantle slab types. With the petrographical characteristics, these mineralogical compositions suggest that the ultramafic rocks of the Bibong area have experienced several stages of retrogressive metamorphism in a condition ranging from the upper amphibolite facies to greenschist facies.

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Analysis of Rock Slope Stability for Natural Slope and Cut Slope of Gneiss Area in Andong, Korea (편마암지역 자연사면.절취사면의 안정성 분석 사례)

  • Kim, Man-Il;Bae, Du-Won;Kim, Jong-Tae;Chae, Byung-Gon;Jeong, Gyo-Cheol
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.17 no.2 s.52
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    • pp.289-297
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    • 2007
  • Slope failure that is occurred by rainfall generates a lot of property damages and loss of lives. Slope stability management and reinforcement countermeasure can be attained through continuous monitoring about various slope types that adjoin in human's life for reducing slope failure from natural and artificial cut slope hazards. The study area is rock slope that is consisted of gneiss, and large scale joint set is ranging by fault activity. This rock mass is exposed during long period and has lithological weathering property of weathered rock or soft rock. In-situ investigation carried out after divide by natural slope and cut slope. As a result, the natural slope appeared to high possibility of planar failure and wedge failure in few joint points that main joint set is formed. On the other hand, slope failure conformation in cut slope was superior only wedge failure occurrence possibility in eight joint points. In result of numerical analysis using SLIDE 2D, the minimum safety factor was analyzed slope stability for cut slope relatively low than natural slope in this study.

Development of Improved Rock Bolt for Reinforcement of Fracture Zone in Slope and Tunnel (사면 및 터널에서의 암반 파쇄대 보강을 위한 개량형 록볼트 개발)

  • Kim, Soo-Lo;Kim, Jong-Tae;Park, Seong-Cheol;Kim, Tae-Heok;Kwon, Hyun-Ho;Jeong, Gyo-Cheol
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.101-109
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    • 2010
  • There are many slopes generally developed by excavation and cut slope with small steps on massive slopes of roads. Especially these cut slopes which excavating around fault fracture zone need a reinforcement technology in order to ensure safety. In the case of slope excavation, it is difficult to use the existing slope support at fracture zone because of geological characteristics. Especially the factor of safety decreases significantly due to the movement of blocks in bed rocks and the expansion of interspace of discontinuous planes in fractured zones caused by excavation. Thus an efficient reinforcement technique in accordance with geological properties of fracture zones needs to be developed because the existing slope support has a restricted application. Therefore it is necessary to develop the specialized rock bolt technique in order to ensure an efficient factor of safety for anomalous fracture zones in slopes and tunnels. The purpose of this study is to develop newly improved rock bolt to increase a supporting effect of the swellex bolt method used recently as a friction type in fracture zones.