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Study on Optimized Manual Development and Optimum Lighting System within Luminance-based Tunnel (휘도기반 터널내 운전자 적정조명시스템 개발 연구)

  • Lee, Mi-Ae;Kim, Yeon-Hwa;Han, Seung-Hun;Kim, Ji-Heon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.18-29
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    • 2015
  • The purposes of this research and development are as follows: first, to provide pleasant driving environments inside tunnels; second, to improve the current illumination environments lacking in diffusion luminance meters to meet tunnel lighting standards; and, third, to reduce the consumption of tunnel lighting energy accounting for approximately 65% of tunnel maintenance costs because of inadequate visual environments and tunnel operations. Further details are listed below. Firstly, an image luminance meter for tunnels that can implement the L20-method which is a tunnel luminance method that follows the international standards of CIE88, which was developed in order to improve and change the existing illumination-based tunnel lighting operation system to a luminance-based system. (The margin of error of below 5% according to the results of a test by an authorized agency and field test). Secondly, early illumination control is possible since the lighting control system that can be operated based on luminance enables interlocking control of the inside and outside of a tunnel using ethernet communication. Thirdly, guidelines for field application of the system are proposed. In addition, the luminance inducers of tunnels are found and the reflexibility of each facility that may reduce luminance of the boundaries is also proposed. Fourthly, as a result of a test bed, power consumption of luminance-based lighting operations decreased by 15.6% compared to illumination-based operations. Applying the feedback controls and maintenance factors of internal/external luminance meters, it reduced by 36.4%. Therefore, we became able to provide a luminance-based lighting operation system that complies with tunnel lighting design standards and provides a visual environment for drivers.

A Study on the Estimation of Stress Relaxed Zone around a Tunnel Periphery for the Design of 2-Arch Tunnel Lining (2-ARCH 터널의 라이닝 설계를 위한 터널굴착주변 응력이완 영역산정에 관한 연구)

  • You, Kwang-Ho
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.343-352
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    • 2005
  • In this study, the existing methods proposed to estimate the relaxed load due to a tunnel excavation are compared and analyzed. Also a new approach, by which the stress relaxed zone around an excavated tunnel periphery can be systematically estimated, was suggested for the design of 2-arch tunnel lining. To this end, local factors of safety are calculated from the redistributed stresses after the excavation of a tunnel. The height of the relaxed load is inferred based on the assumption that the stress relaxed zone might coincide with the region corresponding to the local safety factor of 2.0 or 3.0. The new approach proposed in this study has the advantage of estimating the height of the relaxed load independent of the shape of a tunnel and the ground conditions, Since the height of the relaxed load is estimated according to the local factor of safety, which is a relatively clear criterion, the designer's subjectivity involved in the design of concrete tunnel lining might be reduced.

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Development of Monitoring and Control System of Utility-Pipe Conduit (Power Tunnel) using PLC

  • Lee, Tae-Young;Park, Byung-Seok;Ju, Seong-Ho;You, Dong-Hee;Lim, Yong-Hoon;Song, Seok-Young
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.116-119
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    • 2004
  • The existing monitoring and control systems of utility-pipe conduit (power tunnel, cable tunnel etc) have established communication lines using optical fiber, leaky coaxial cable (LCX), and several kinds of control cable. Due to the properties of the used media, the cost of equipment is considerably high and the maintenance of the system is difficult. Also, the term of carrying out is long so that the extension of the system is in difficulty. Now it is desirable to adopt Power Line Communication (hereinafter, PLC) technology in the monitoring and control systems and use the existing low-voltage power-line for lamplight as communication line. This will lead the reduction of the construction cost and the easy maintenance of the system. In this paper, we research the characteristics of PLC in conduit, design and manufacture the field test system, and analyze the performance of the system by field test. Then, we introduce the reliable monitoring and control system of utility-pipe conduit using PLC.

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Deterministic and reliability-based design of necessary support pressures for tunnel faces

  • Li, Bin;Yao, Kai;Li, Hong
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.35-48
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    • 2020
  • This paper provides methods for the deterministic and reliability-based design of the support pressures necessary to prevent tunnel face collapse. The deterministic method is developed by extending the use of the unique load multiplier, which is embedded within OptumG2/G3 with the intention of determining the maximum load that can be supported by a system. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional examples are presented to illustrate the applications. The obtained solutions are validated according to those derived from the existing methods. The reliability-based method is developed by incorporating the Response Surface Method and the advanced first-order second-moment reliability method into the bisection algorithm, which continuously updates the support pressure within previously determined brackets until the difference between the computed reliability index and the user-defined value is less than a specified tolerance. Two-dimensional reliability-based support pressure is compared and validated via Monte Carlo simulations, whereas the three-dimensional solution is compared with the relationship between the support pressure and the resulting reliability index provided in the existing literature. Finally, a parametric study is carried out to investigate the influences of factors on the required support pressure.

Effects of Turbulence Intensities on Wake Models of Horizontal Wind Turbines (난류 강도가 수평축 풍력발전기 후류 모델에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Seung-Ho;Jeong, Houi-Gab;Kwon, Soon-Duck
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.273-279
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, wind tunnel tests of a scaled wind turbine have been performed to investigate the effects of turbulent intensity of oncoming flow on turbine wake field. The scaled turbine model was carefully designed to satisfy the similarity conditions. The wind velocities and turbulent intensities were measured using hotwire anemometer in order to compare with existing wake model. It was found from the tests that the existing wake models well fit with test results at turbulent flow rather than at uniform flow. Finally modified wake model has been proposed based on the measured data.

Wind tunnel modeling of flow over mountainous valley terrain

  • Li, C.G.;Chen, Z.Q.;Zhang, Z.T.;Cheung, J.C.K.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.275-292
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    • 2010
  • Wind tunnel experiments were conducted to investigate the wind characteristics in the mountainous valley terrain with 4 simplified valley models and a 1:500 scale model of an existing valley terrain in the simulated atmospheric neutral boundary layer model. Measurements were focused on the mean wind flow and longitudinal turbulence intensity. The relationship between hillside slopes and the velocity speed-up effect were studied. By comparing the preliminary results obtained from the simplified valley model tests and the existing terrain model test, some fundamental information was obtained. The measured results indicate that it is inappropriate to describe the mean wind velocity profiles by a power law using the same roughness exponent along the span wise direction in the mountainous valley terrain. The speed-up effect and the significant change in wind direction of the mean flow were observed, which provide the information necessary for determining the design wind speed such as for a long-span bridge across the valley. The longitudinal turbulence intensity near the ground level is reduced due to the speed-up effect of the valley terrain. However, the local topographic features of a more complicated valley terrain may cause significant perturbation to the general wind field characteristics in the valley.

A Study on the Development for the Coastal Fishing Boat attached Protected-Tunnel for Propeller (세미워터제트형 연안어선 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 고재용;심상목;박충환;서성부;배동균
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.16-20
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    • 2003
  • Recently, The fast change of fishing boat fishery surrounding environment is connected by request of fan shape development that meet in restructuring of existing fishing boat fishery and new community, economical surrounding. In southern sea district along the coast work and district along the coast fishing bats that sail to exposed propeller fishing net, rope etc.. cold real condition that accident is increasing every year. This study is thing which analyze main performance of minuteness water jet type district along the coast fishing boat through model examination to propeller protection tunnel sticking district along the coast fishing boat that correct existing stem shape for marine accident prevention of district along the coast fishing boat in viewpoint such as ideal and examines.

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Stability analysis of an existing utility tunnel due to the excavation of a divergence tunnel emerging from double-deck tunnel (복층터널의 분기터널 굴착에 따른 지하 공동구의 안정성 분석)

  • Nam, Kyoung-Min;Choi, Min-ki;Kim, Jung-Joo;Jafri, Turab H.;Yoo, Han-Kyu
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.231-248
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    • 2017
  • Government plans to construct a double-deck tunnel under a portion of Gyeongbu Expressway that will solve traffic problems and could also be used as a flood storage facility. Divergence tunnels connect the main tunnel to the urban areas and their construction effects on adjacent structures at shallow depth need to be analyzed. This study primarily includes the numerical analysis of construction effects of divergence tunnels on utility tunnels. The utility tunnel was analyzed for three cases of volume loss applied to the divergence tunnel and two cases of the angle between main tunnel and divergence tunnel ($36^{\circ}$ and $45^{\circ}$). The results show that the more the volume loss was applied and the shorter the distance was between utility tunnel and divergence tunnel, the more the utility tunnel was affected in terms of induced displacements, angular displacement and stability. The worst scenario was found out to be the one where the angle between main tunnel and divergence tunnel was $36^{\circ}$ and the distance between divergence tunnel and utility tunnel was 10 m, resulting in the largest displacement and differential settlement at the bottom of the utility tunnel. A relationship between the angular displacement and the distance to diameter ratio was also established.

The Effect of Cut-slope on Structural Behavior of Cut-and-Cover Tunnel (굴착경사가 개착식터널의 구조적거동에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

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    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.245-255
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    • 2001
  • Existing cut-and-cover tunnels are designed regardless of cut-slope under the assumption that the overburden weight of backfill soil acts on tunnel arch and the earth pressure at rest acts on tunnel walls. However, actual earth pressures acting on the tunnel lining depend on open-cut size composed of cut-slope and cut-width, and thus the tunnel lining shows a different structural behavior. This study investigated the effect of cut-slope on structural behavior of the cut-and-cover tunnel lining as follows; Firstly, a comprehensive numerical analysis method using FLAC2D code was used and verified by field measurements of tunnel profile. Secondly, based on the verified numerical analysis technique, earth pressure acting on the lining, and displacement and sectional force developed on the lining were estimated with various shapes of cut-slopes$30^{\circ}\;, 456{\circ},\; 60^{\circ},\; and\;75^{\circ}%). Numerical analysis results indicate that the steeper cut-slope shows the more displacement and moment of the tunnel lining.

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A study on the estimation of safety in long railway tunnel (장대 철도터널에서의 방재 안전성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Geun;Kim, Dong-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.287-298
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    • 2007
  • Recently, as the construction of new railway and the relocation of existing line increase, tunnel structures get longer. The railway fire accidents in long tunnel bring large damages of human life and disaster. The interest on safety in long tunnel has been growing and the safety standard for long tunnels is tightening. For that reason, at the planning stage of a long tunnel, the optimum design of safety facility for minimizing the risks and satisfying the safety standard is required. For the reasonable design of a long railway tunnel considering high safety, qualitative estimation for tunnel safely is required. In this study, QRA (Quantitative Risk Analysis) technique is applied to design of a long railway tunnel for assuring the safety function and estimating the risk of safety. The case study for safety design was carried out to verify the QRA technique for two railway tunnels.

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