• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.70 no.4
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• pp.479-497
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• 2019

In the current code design, the use of a uniform internal pressure coefficient of cooling towers as internal suction cannot reflect the 3D characteristics of flow field inside the tower body with different ventilation rate of shutters. Moreover, extreme weather such as heavy rain also has a direct impact on aerodynamic force on the internal surface and changes the turbulence effect of pulsating wind. In this study, the world's tallest cooling tower under construction, which stands 210m, is taken as the research object. The algorithm for two-way coupling between wind and rain is adopted. Simulation of wind field and raindrops is performed iteratively using continuous phase and discrete phase models, respectively, under the general principles of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Firstly, the rule of influence of 9 combinations of wind speed and rainfall intensity on the volume of wind-driven rain, additional action force of raindrops and equivalent internal pressure coefficient of the tower body is analyzed. The combination of wind velocity and rainfall intensity that is most unfavorable to the cooling tower in terms of distribution of internal pressure coefficient is identified. On this basis, the wind/rain loads, distribution of aerodynamic force and working mechanism of internal pressures of the cooling tower under the most unfavorable working condition are compared between the four ventilation rates of shutters (0%, 15%, 30% and 100%). The results show that the amount of raindrops captured by the internal surface of the tower decreases as the wind velocity increases, and increases along with the rainfall intensity and ventilation rate of the shutters. The maximum value of rain-induced pressure coefficient is 0.013. The research findings lay the basis for determining the precise values of internal surface loads of cooling tower under extreme weather conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.119-126
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• 2016

Across the world, the industrialization has increased the frequency of climate anomaly. The size of damage due to recent natural disasters is growing large and fast, and the human damage and economic loss due to disasters are consistently increasing. Urbanization has a structure vulnerable to natural disasters. Therefore, in order to reduce damage from natural disasters, both hardware and software approaches should be utilized. Currently, however, the development of a statistical access process for 'analysis of disaster occurrence factor' and 'prediction of damage costs' for disaster prevention and overall disaster management is inadequate. In case of local governments, overall disaster management system is not established, or even if it is established, unscientific classification system and management lead to low utility of natural statistics of disaster year book. Therefore, in order to minimize disaster damage and for rational disaster management, the disaster damage survey process should be improved. This study selected gale as the focused analysis target among natural disasters recorded in disaster year book such as storm, torrential rain, gale, high seas, and heavy snow, and analyzed disaster survey process. Based on disaster year book, the gale damage size was analyzed and the issues occurring from the correlation of gale and damage amount were examined, so as to suggest an improvement plan for reliable natural disaster information collection and systematic natural disaster damage survey.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.59-65
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• 2017

The basic goal of urban safety is to support citizens' quality of life and city competitiveness, and its importance is increasing. Since the risk of disasters is growing, there is a growing demand from society for minimizing the damage by preventing and responding to them in advance. In case of urban governments, securing safety emerges as one of the most important policy tasks due to natural disasters such as heavy rain and heavy snow and human disasters such as various accidents. Recently, it is emphasized the necessity to increase the prevention effect through disaster analysis using Big Data. This study examined paradigm change of disaster safety management using big data centering on Seoul city. In particular, the study tried case analysis from the viewpoint of maximizing effective government services for disaster safety management, and sought the strategic meaning in connection with the ordinance.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.594-601
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• 2020

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to identify factors affecting anxiety about disaster damage potential in Gyonggi-do and evacuation behavior that influences evacuation behavior. Method: Multiple regression analysis was performed to test the hypothesis and to analyze the influence of anxiety about disaster damage potential and perceived stress, and analyzed similarity in correspondence between age and anxiety about disaster damage potential. Results: The anxiety about disaster damage potential of a group vulnerable to safety and anxiety about disaster damage potential of disaster system collapse were perceived in close proximity. Disaster system collapse, evacuation life, and natural disasters were found to be factors affecting perceived stress. Stress and natural disasters were found to be influencing factors on evacuation behavior. Conclusion: The necessity of managing stress was confirmed since anxiety about natural disaster damage potential and stress affect evacuation behavior. The recent experiences of heavy rain disasters indicate that the anxiety about disaster damage potential is expected to increase. The findings also indicate the importance of preventive planning and psychological management to manage the anxiety about disaster damage potential.

• Wind and Structures
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.11-27
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• 2018

The straight-cone steel cooling tower is a novel type of structure, which has a distinct aerodynamic distribution on the internal surface of the tower cylinder compared with conventional hyperbolic concrete cooling towers. Especially in the extreme weather conditions of strong wind and heavy rain, heavy rain also has a direct impact on aerodynamic force on the internal surface and changes the turbulence effect of pulsating wind, but existing studies mainly focus on the impact effect brought by wind-driven rain to structure surface. In addition, for the indirect air cooled cooling tower, different additional ventilation rate of shutters produces a considerable interference to air movement inside the tower and also to the action mechanism of loads. To solve the problem, a straight-cone steel cooling towerstanding 189 m high and currently being constructed is taken as the research object in this study. The algorithm for two-way coupling between wind and rain is adopted. Simulation of wind field and raindrops is performed with continuous phase and discrete phase models, respectively, under the general principles of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Firstly, the rule of influence of 9 combinations of wind sped and rainfall intensity on flow field mechanism, the volume of wind-driven rain, additional action force of raindrops and equivalent internal pressure coefficient of the tower cylinder is analyzed. On this basis, the internal pressures of the cooling tower under the most unfavorable working condition are compared between four ventilation rates of shutters (0%, 15%, 30% and 100%). The results show that the 3D effect of equivalent internal pressure coefficient is the most significant when considering two-way coupling between wind and rain. Additional load imposed by raindrops on the internal surface of the tower accounts for an extremely small proportion of total wind load, the maximum being only 0.245%. This occurs under the combination of 20 m/s wind velocity and 200 mm/h rainfall intensity. Ventilation rate of shutters not only changes the air movement inside the tower, but also affects the accumulated amount and distribution of raindrops on the internal surface.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.83-88
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• 2011

Annually, many parts of the Korea have been damaged from the localized heavy rain and/or typhoons which peak between June and September, which result in extensive financial and human loss. Especially, because the most area of Gangwon province is composed of the steep slope mountains, the damages by the debris flow or land-sliding are more frequent and the frequency has been increased. To analyze the characteristics and causes of these debris flow disasters, lots of study are recently being conducted through database of weather, hydrologic, soil etc using a GIS or remote sensing. In this study, we applied GIS method to analyze the risk of the debris flow area. With the statistical analysis and infinite slope stability model(SINMAP), the debris flow risk level of the mountain slope was generated. As a result, the GIS statistical analysis showed high correlation that former model of SINMAP in determining the debris flow risk area.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.297-298
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• 2016

최근 들어 지구온난화에 따른 이상기후과 집중호우 그리고 급격한 도시화로 예측하기 어려운 수문현상의 변화가 생기고 있다. 특히 최근 기후변화로 인해 돌발성 집중호우가 짧은 시간에 집중하게 되면 수위가 급상승하게 되어 많은 재해를 유발시키는 일이 늘어나고 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 집중호우로 피해가 빈번하게 발생하는 하천주변의 홍수피해지역을 분석하였으며, 대상 지역으로는 경기도 포천시 군내면에 위치한 포천천과 좌의천이 합류되는 지점에 침수가 발생한 공장을 대상지역으로 선정하였다. 수리 수문분석을 위해 FastTABS 모형을 이용하였으며, 피해발생 후 측량한 수위 등을 이용하여 분석하였다. 당시 침수피해 상황에 대하여 수리 수문학적인 측면에서 피해 원인분석을 하였으며, 본 연구에서 제시한 결과는 향후 호우피해에 관한 기초자료로 활용될 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.198-199
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 조선왕조실록을 중심으로 조선시대의 호우 및 홍수기록의 기술방법에 대해 텍스트마이닝 분석을 실시하였다. 조선왕조실록은 조선시대의 큰 호우사상은 모두 포함하고 있기 때문에 이를 일정한 등급으로 나누어 분류한다면 극치 호우 사상의 발생특성을 이해하는데 도움이 될 수 있다. 전체적으로 '큰비'에서와 같이 강우에 대한 언급만이 있는 경우가 '큰물', '홍수', '폭우'와 같이 홍수유출 및 이에 따른 피해가 설명되어 있는 경우보다 강우의 재현기간이 작게 나타나는 것을 파악할 수 있었다. 또 하나 주목할만한 점은 기록된 호우사상이 강우의 총량보다는 강우의 지속기간에 보다 민감하다는 점이다. 즉, 일시에 많은 비가 온 경우보다는 장기간에 걸쳐 내린 호우사상에 보다 초점이 맞추어져 있다는 점이다. 즉, 홍수유출의 크기 및 이에 따른 피해의 정도가 실제 이들 호우사상이 기록으로 남게 되는 원인으로 파악된다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.308-327
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• 2004

As use of tunnels and subways increase there also are accidents proportionate to it. Daegu Subway Station fire, Hongjimoon tunnel fire led people to be conscious of disaster protection and as a result, there is a trend to adopt standards for fire protection. Accordingly, this thesis is focused on investigating various fire and water protection related issues for subaqueous tunnel under Ran river. The thesis developed evacuation and disaster prevention plan as fire level increases and have identified the suitability of disaster prevention through evacuation and fire simulation, countermeasure of a water leakage during construction and operation considering the subaqueous tunnel. And we selected EPB shield TBM equipment considering the ground condition and effect of boring hole, and accomplished reasonable water protection design through setting goals using event-tree method, as well as examining model test of boring hole and flooding in heavy rain. Also included structured total system consist of water leakage sensing system, water protection gate, pumping system and fire protection system to respond systematically in emergency.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.53 no.11
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• pp.1025-1037
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• 2020

This study attempted to evaluate the spatial characteristics and applicability of the predicted ensemble rainfall data used for heavy rain alarms. Limited area ENsemble prediction System (LENS) has 13 rainfall ensemble members, so it is possible to use a probabilistic method in issuing heavy rain warnings. However, the accessibility of LENS data is very low, so studies on the applicability of rainfall prediction data are insufficient. In this study, the evaluation index was calculated by comparing one point value and the area average value with the observed value according to the heavy rain warning system used for each administrative district. In addition, the accuracy of each ensemble member according to the LENS issuance time was evaluated. LENS showed the uncertainty of over or under prediction by member. Area-based prediction showed higher predictability than point-based prediction. In addition, the LENS data that predicts the upcoming 72-hour rainfall showed good predictive performance for rainfall events that may have an impact on a water disaster. In the future, the predicted rainfall data from LENS are expected to be used as basic data to prepare for floods in administrative districts or watersheds.