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Detection of inflow permeable zones using fluid conductivity logging in coastal aquifer (공내수 치환기법을 이용한 연안지역 대수층의 수리특성 평가)

  • Hwang Seho;Park Yunsung;Shim Jehyun;Park Kwon Gp;Choi Sun Young;Lee Sang Kyu
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.09a
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    • pp.83-92
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    • 2005
  • Fluid conductivity logging has been applied in the boreholes to identify the permeable fi:actures and estimate the origin of saline groundwater in coast area. Fluid replacement technique measures the fluid electrical conductivity with depth at different times in a well after the borehole is first washed out with different water by passing a tube to the borehole bottom. Then formation water flows into the borehole through aquifer such as permeable fractures or porous formation during ambient or pumping condition. Measured conductivity profiles with times therefore indicate the locations of permeable zone or fractures within the open hole or the fully slotted casing hole. As a result of fluid conductivity logging for three boreholes in the study area, it is interpreted that saline groundwater is caused by seawater intrusion through fractured rock, although the effect by land reclamation partially remains. We are planning the quantitative analysis to estimate the hydraulic characteristics using fluid replacement technique, and this approach might be usefully utilized for assessing the characteristics of seawater intrusion, the design of optimal pumping, and estimating the hydraulic properties in coastal aquifer.

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Collision Hazards Detection for Construction Workers Safety Using Equipment Sound Data

  • Elelu, Kehinde;Le, Tuyen;Le, Chau
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.736-743
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    • 2022
  • Construction workers experience a high rate of fatal incidents from mobile equipment in the industry. One of the major causes is the decline in the acoustic condition of workers due to the constant exposure to construction noise. Previous studies have proposed various ways in which audio sensing and machine learning techniques can be used to track equipment's movement on the construction site but not on the audibility of safety signals. This study develops a novel framework to help automate safety surveillance in the construction site. This is done by detecting the audio sound at a different signal-to-noise ratio of -10db, -5db, 0db, 5db, and 10db to notify the worker of imminent dangers of mobile equipment. The scope of this study is focused on developing a signal processing model to help improve the audible sense of mobile equipment for workers. This study includes three-phase: (a) collect audio data of construction equipment, (b) develop a novel audio-based machine learning model for automated detection of collision hazards to be integrated into intelligent hearing protection devices, and (c) conduct field experiments to investigate the system' efficiency and latency. The outcomes showed that the proposed model detects equipment correctly and can timely notify the workers of hazardous situations.

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Long-term condition monitoring of cables for in-service cable-stayed bridges using matched vehicle-induced cable tension ratios

  • Peng, Zhen;Li, Jun;Hao, Hong
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.167-179
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    • 2022
  • This article develops a long-term condition assessment method for stay cables in cable stayed bridges using the monitored cable tension forces under operational condition. Based on the concept of influence surface, the matched cable tension ratio of two cables located at the same side (either in the upstream side or downstream side) is theoretically proven to be related to the condition of stay cables and independent of the positions of vehicles on the bridge. A sensor grouping scheme is designed to ensure that reliable damage detection result can be obtained even when sensor fault occurs in the neighbor of the damaged cable. Cable forces measured from an in-service cable-stayed bridge in China are used to demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed method. Damage detection results show that the proposed approach is sensitive to the rupture of wire damage in a specific cable and is robust to environmental effects, measurement noise, sensor fault and different traffic patterns. Using the damage sensitive feature in the proposed approach, the metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall and F1 score, which are used to evaluate the performance of damage detection, are 97.97%, 95.08%, 100% and 97.48%, respectively. These results indicate that the proposed approach can reliably detect the damage in stay cables. In addition, the proposed approach is efficient and promising with applications to the field monitoring of cables in cable-stayed bridges.

Anti-Islanding Scheme for a Number of Grid-connected Inverters under Parallel Operation (병렬연결된 다수 대 계통연계형 인버터를 위한 단독운전 방지 기법)

  • Kim, Dong-Gyun;Park, Kwan-nam;Cho, Sang-Yoon;Lee, Young-Kwoun;Yu, Gwon-Jong;Song, Seung-Ho;Choy, Ick;Choi, Ju-Yeop
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2016.07a
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    • pp.351-352
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    • 2016
  • Since anti-islanding scheme of grid-connected inverter is a key function of standards compliance, unintentional islanding results in safety hazards, reliability, and many other issues. Therefore, many anti-islanding schemes have been researched, however, existing anti-islanding schemes show poor power quality and non-detection zone issues. Besides, most of them have problems which deteriorate performance of islanding detection under parallel-operation. Therefore, this paper proposes a new anti-islanding scheme that has both negligible power quality degradation, no non-detection zone and precise islanding detection under parallel-operation. Finally, both simulation and experimental results validate the proposed scheme.

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Novel Islanding Detection Method using Frequency Drift for Grid-connected PV System (계통연계형 태양광발전 시스템의 주파수 변동에 의한 새로운 고립운전 검출기법)

  • Eun Suk-Jun;;;Lee Dong-Chun
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.54 no.6
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    • pp.294-302
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    • 2005
  • PV system's islanding occurs when the uitilty grid is removed but local sources continue to operate and provide power to local loads. Islanding is one of the serious problems in an electric power system connected with dispersed power sources. Also, this can present safety hazards and the possibility of damage to other electric equipments. If the real and reactive power of RLC load and PV system are closely matched, islanding detection by passive methods becomes difficult. This paper shows the simulation and comparision for the previous active methods and novel islanding detection method using frequency drift is proposed for grid-connected PV system.

A Novel Islanding Detection Scheme without Non Detection Zone (불검출영역이 없는 새로운 단독운전 검출기법)

  • Jo, Yeong-Min;Kim, Dong-Gyun;Cho, Sang-Yoon;Song, Seung-Ho;Choy, Ick;Lee, Young-Kwoun;Choi, Ju-Yeop
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.540-549
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    • 2015
  • Unintentional islanding results in safety hazards, reliability, and many other issues. Therefore, the islanding detection of a power conditioning system of a distributed generation, such as a grid-connected photovoltaic inverter, is a key function for standard compliance. Currently, many anti-islanding schemes have been examined, but existing anti-islanding schemes have poor power quality and non-detection zone issues. Therefore, this study analyzes the non-detection zone in a more deliberate manner than the existing analysis of the non-detection zone and proposes a new anti-islanding scheme, which has negligible power quality degradation and no non-detection zone. Simulation and experimental results validate that the proposed scheme shows much better performance than other existing schemes.

A Ring-Oriented Multicast Architecture over Mobile Ad Hoc Sensor networks

  • Yang, Yubai;Hong, Choong Seon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.1259-1262
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    • 2004
  • Detecting environmental hazards and monitoring remote terrain are among many sensor network applications. In case of fire detection, it is significantly valuable to monitor fire-spot's shape and trend in time. Mobile ad hoc sensor nodes right round are responsible for sensoring, processing and networking packets, or even launching extinguisher. In this paper, we proposed a ring-oriented Multicast architecture based on "Fisheye State Routing" (MFSR) to organize a group of mobile ad hoc sensor nodes in a multicast way. It is familiar with traditional mesh-based multicast protocol [1] in mobile ad hoc network, trying to concentrates on efficiency and robustness simultaneously. Certain applications-based solution for hazards is proposed, quantitative results including architecture and recovery algorithms of MFSR are also investigated in this paper.

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Strategy of Technology Development for Landslide Hazards by Patent Analysis (특허 분석을 통한 산사태재해 관련 기술개발 전략)

  • Bae, Khee Su;Sawng, Yeong-Wha;Chae, Byung-Gon;Choi, Junghae;Son, Jeong Keun
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.615-629
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    • 2014
  • This study analyzed existing patents related to real-time monitoring and detection technology for landslides on natural terrain. The purpose of patent analysis is to understand landslide hazard technology trends and to develop new advanced technology. This study searched patent data using key words related to landslide monitoring and detection in Korea, the USA, Japan, China (Hong Kong), Europe, and Taiwan. The patents were divided into five main categories and five to seven subcategories in each main category and analyzed by year, country, and applicants. The results were utilized to derive a portfolio of promising technologies for each country. The analysis results will also contribute to the development of more effective research strategies and to categorize research findings from previous studies on landslide hazards.

Performance Improvement of Islanding Detection Technique in Photo-Voltaic System (계통 연계형 PV 시스템의 고립운전 검출기법의 성능개선)

  • Choi, Chul-Hoon;Choi, Jong-Woo
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2011.07a
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    • pp.378-379
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    • 2011
  • PV system's islanding occurs when the uitilty grid is removed but local sources continue to operate and provide power to local loads. Islanding is one of the serious problems in an electric power system connected with dispersed power sources. Also, this can present safety hazards and the possibility of damage to other electric equipments. If the real and reactive power of RLC load and PV system are closely matched, islanding detection by passive methods becomes difficult. Novel islanding detection method is proposed for grid-connected PV system.

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Novel Islanding Detection Method using Frequency Drift for Grid-connected PV System (계통연계형 PV 시스템의 주파수 변동에 의한 새로운 단독운전 검출기법)

  • Eun Seog-Jun;Choi Jong-Woo;Kim Heung-Geun
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.133-137
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    • 2004
  • PV system's islanding occurs when the uitilty grid is removed but local sources continue to operate and provide power to local loads. Islanding is one of the serious problems m an electric power system connected with dispersed power sources. Also, this can present safety hazards and the possibility of damage to other electric equipments. If the real and reactive power of RLC load and PV system are closely matched, islanding detection by passive methods becomes difficult. Novel islanding detection method using frequency drift is proposed for grid-connected PV system.

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