• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.885-895
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was evaluated on achievement of the Target water quality (TWQ) with Load Duration Curve (LDC) as well as materials collected through the implementation of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), targeting 41 unit watersheds in the Nakdong River Basin in korea, and examines the adequacy of the LDC method to evaluate the TWQ by comparing methods through current regulations. It aims to provide basic materials for TMDL development in Korea. This determination resulted from the fact that the measured data placed on the LDC mean that they are beyond TWQ in a certain condition of water flow when actually measured load values were displayed in a form of LDC. In addition to water quality surveys, it is considered that information on the level of damage in a water body by water flow grade can be utilized as a basic material to identify compliance with the total admitted quantity, and establish rational plans to improve water quality. This information helps in the identification of the degree of damage in water quality according to water flow.

• Journal of Advanced Research in Ocean Engineering
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.99-111
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• 2016

Seabed affected by scouring, sedimentation, and siltation occurrences often cause exposure, which induces risks to existing structures or crude oil or gas pipeline buried subsea. In order to prevent possible risks, more economical structure installation methodology is proposed in this study by predicting and managing the risk. Also, the seabed does not only consist of sandy material, but clayey soil is also widespread, and the effect of undrained shear strength should be considered, and by cyclic environmental load, pore water pressure will occur in the seabed, which reduces shear strength and allows particles to move easily. Based on previous research regarding sedimentation or erosion, the average value of external environmental loads should be applied; for scouring, a 100-year period of environmental conditions should be applied. Also, sedimentation and erosion are mainly categorized by the bed load and suspended load; also, they are calculated as the sum of bed load and suspended load, which can be obtained from the movement of particles caused by sedimentation or erosion.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.407-420
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• 2022

Embedded piles, which are typically used in Korea, are precast piles inserted into prebored ground with cement paste. Dynamic pile tests tend to underestimate the bearing capacity of embedded piles because of the undeveloped shaft resistance prior to the curing of the cement paste and the insufficient energy transferred after the curing. In this study, a resistance combination method using the base resistance before the cement paste is cured and the shaft resistance after the cement paste is cured is proposed to obtain a combined load-settlement curve from dynamic pile tests. Two pairs of embedded piles with diameters of 600 and 500 mm are installed. Each pair comprises one pile for the dynamic pile test and another pile for the static load test. The shape of the load-settlement curve obtained using the proposed method is similar to that obtained from the static load test. Thus, the resistances evaluated using the proposed method at selected settlements are similar to those obtained from the static load test. This study shows that the resistance combination method may be used effectively in dynamic pile tests to accurately evaluate the bearing capacity of embedded piles.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.731-744
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• 2023

Vehicle load information is an important role in operating and ensuring the structural health of cable-stayed bridges. In this regard, an efficient and economic method is proposed for vehicle load detection based on the observed cable tension and vehicle position using a graph neural network (GNN). Datasets are first generated using the practical advanced analysis program (PAAP), a robust program for modeling and considering both geometric and material nonlinearities of bridge structures subjected to vehicle load with low computational costs. With the superiority of GNN, the proposed model is demonstrated to precisely capture complex nonlinear correlations between the input features and vehicle load in the output. Four popular machine learning methods including artificial neural network (ANN), decision tree (DT), random forest (RF), and support vector machines (SVM) are refereed in a comparison. A case study of a cable-stayed bridge with the typical truck is considered to evaluate the model's performance. The results demonstrate that the GNN-based model provides high accuracy and efficiency in prediction with satisfactory correlation coefficients, efficient determination values, and very small errors; and is a novel approach for vehicle load detection with the input data of the existing monitoring system.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제39권12호
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• pp.714-722
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• 2017

수질오염총량관리제도(이하 총량제)는 하천의 목표수질을 달성하기 위해 유역에서 배출되는 오염물질의 총량을 관리하는 제도이다. 유역에서 배출되는 오염물질의 허용총량은 수질모델을 활용하여 산정하며, 이과정에서 오염부하량은 발생, 배출, 유달부하량으로 구분할 수 있다. 유달부하량은 배출부하량과 유달율의 곱으로 계산되며 유달율은 유역에서 배출된 오염물질이 하천의 특정지점에 도달하는 비율로 정의된다. 본 연구에서는 Hwang(2016) 등이 제시한 기준유량 조건의 유달율 추정방법을 영강유역에 적용하고 QUALKO2 수질모델의 수질 입력자료를 생성하여 기준유량 조건의 유달율 산정방법(식 (3))과 평균 개념의 유달율 산정 방법(식 (2))의 비교분석을 통해 유달율 추정방법에 대한 검증 연구를 수행하였다. 연구결과, 유달율 함수식은 식 (2)와 식 (3) 모두 사용 가능하나, 배출계수 적용에 따라 방법론을 달리할 필요가 있다. 식 (2)를 사용할 경우는 배출계수를 저수량, 평수량 구분없이 1로 동일하게 사용해야 하며, 식 (3)을 사용할 경우는 기술지침에서 정한 배출계수(저수량 0.15, 평수량 0.5)를 적용해야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.37-54
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• 2019

The groundwater quality through livestock excreta survey based on "Act of the management and use of livestock excreta" was investigated by selecting sampling sites within 1 km of the farmland without considering hydrogeological units. However, these sites can be affected by various pollution sources such as chemical fertilizers and livestock excretions. Additionally, the effects of pollution sources on groundwater quality in the sites cannot be clearly distinguished from naturally occurring backgrounds. In this study, a method was developed to select the sampling sites for groundwater quality through livestock excreta survey in order to understand the effects of pollution sources especially livestock excreta. First, the concentrations of nitrate within the radius of 200 m, 300 m, 500 m and 750 m, respectively, from the farms regarded as pollution sources in hydrogeological units were compared in 2016-2017. All the nitrate concentrations at 200 - 500 m from the farms exceeded a background concentration, 13.3 mg/L. Those at 750 m and the background concentrations measured by the Ministry of Environment were comparable. Therefore, the appropriate radius was suggested as 500 m for livestock excretions survey. In this study, the areas within 500 m from the farms could be considered under the influence of livestock excretions, while those beyond 500 from the pollution sources as background in hydrogeological units. The developed method was validated by applying it to the sites selected based on both administrative divisions and watersheds for livestock excretion survey. The average densities for the developed method were 0.82 and 0.39 points/km2, respectively, which were considered as appropriate levels according to those of the European Environmental Agency.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.859-865
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• 2012

It is necessary to evaluate performances hitherto carried out in the management of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and to set up direction so that this system can be improved continuously in the future. This study was investigated load allocation achievement ratio, water quality goal achievement ratio and interrelation between water quality goal and load allocation for the first period (2004~2010). Load allocation achievement and BOD water quality goal achievement ratio were 50% and 73% in Guem River Basin, respectively. The main reason for excess of load allocation and shortfall of water quality goal were unfulfilled reduction plan and pollution sources increment. Therefore, it is necessary to develop enhanced pollution sources prediction method and make a list realizable reduction plan. 63% of the unit watershed was not interrelation between water quality goal and load allocation. The reason why water quality goal and load allocation had not correlation were water quality of upper unit watershed, increment of inflow quantity, effluent water quality of wastewater treatment plant affected the unit watershed, increment of inner productivity by algae, water quality deterioration during the specific period, river management flow, etc.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제60권6호
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• pp.97-109
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• 2018

The LDC (Load Duration Curve) method can analyze river water quality changes according to flow rate and seasonal conditions. It is also possible to visually recognize whether the target water quality is exceeded or the size of the reduction load. For this reason, it is used for the optimal reduction of TPLCs and analysis of the cause of water pollution. At this time, the flow duration curve should be representative of the water body hydrologic curve, but if not, the uncertainty of the interpretation becomes big because the damaged flow condition is changed. The purpose of this study is to estimate the daily mean flow of the unit watershed using the HSPF model and to analyze the difference of the flow duration curves according to the cumulative daily mean flow rate using the NSE technique. The results show that it is desirable to construct the flow duration curve by using the daily average flow rate of at least 5 years although there is a difference by unit watershed. However, this is the result of the water bodies at the end of Han River basin watershed, so further study on various water bodies will be necessary in the future.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.569-575
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• 2015

The current Total Pollution Load Control (TPLC) sets the Target Water Quality (TWQ) by utilizing the delivery ratio, unit loads, and water quality modeling, it also allocates the watershed's permitted discharge load. Currently, common target pollutants of every unit watershed in TPLC are BOD and T-P. This study has reviewed the 1th and 2th of TWQ setting process for the Nakdong River 3th TWQ setting in Total Pollution Load Control (TPLC). As a result of review, 1th and 2th were divided into one management basin (mulgeum) for setting management goals. However, 3th was divided into six management basins (mulgeum, gnagjeong, geumho river, nam river, miryang river, end of nakdong river). The principle of management goal setting were to achieve the objective criteria of Medium Areas for the linkage of the water environment management policy. And Anti-Degredation (principle of preventing deterioration) were applied to the 3th TWQ. Also, additional indicators were considered in accordance with the reduction scenarios for the final management goals.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.41-57
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• 2021

본 연구는 대청호 상류에 있는 서화천 유역을 대상으로 SWAT(Soil and Watershed Assessment Tool) 모형을 이용한 수질 관리 대책 적용 및 부하지속곡선(LDC, Load Duration Curve)을 이용한 대책의 효율을 평가하였다. 수질 관리 대책으로는 인공습지, 방치 축분 저감, 비닐하우스 유출량 저감, 생태하천 복원, LID(Low Impact Development) 기술 적용, 점오염원 관리를 적용하였다. 적용된 기술은 부하지속곡선을 통해 유황별 목표 수질 초과율 및 부하량 저감 정도를 이용하여 수질 개선대책의 효율을 평가하였다. 부하지속곡선은 SWAT를 이용하여 장기 유량지속곡선(FDC, Flow Duration Curve)을 만들고 목표 수질을 곱하여 작성하였으며 목표 수질은 서화천 하류에 있는 옥천천 수질 관측지점의 10년간 자료를 사용하여 60분위에 해당하는 값을 목표 수질로 설정하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 여러 가지 수질 대책을 SWAT 모형을 통해 적용 가능성을 확인할 수 있으며 부하지속곡선을 통하여 유황에 따른 시기별 적용 가능성을 검토할 수 있었다.