• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.759-768
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• 2015

The ground motions of large dimensional structures such as long span bridges at different stations during an earthquake, are inevitably different, which is known as the ground motion spatial variation effect. There are many causes that may result in the spatial variability in seismic ground motion, e.g., the wave passage effect due to the different arrival times of waves at different locations; the loss of coherency due to seismic waves scattering in the heterogeneous medium of the ground; the site amplification effect owing to different local soil properties. In previous researches, the site amplification effects have not been considered or considered by a single-layered soil model only. In this study, however, the ground motion amplification and filtering effects are evaluated by multi-layered soil model. Spatially varying ground motion at the sites with different number of layers, depths, and soil characteristics are generated and the variation characteristics of ground motion time histories according to the correlation of coherency loss function and soil conditions are evaluated. For the bridge system composed of two unit bridges, seismic behavior characteristics are analyzed using the generated seismic waves as input ground motion. Especially, relative displacement due to coherency loss and site effect which can cause the unseating and pounding between girders are evaluated. As a result, considering the soil conditions of each site are always important and should not be neglected for an accurate structural response analysis.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.162-164
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• 2018

This study quantified the carbon storage and uptake by street trees in Seoul and explored suitable planting and management strategies. A systematic sampling model was used to select 50 plots to survey the structures of street trees. The average density and cover of street trees were approximately 5.8 trees/$100m^2$ and 12.1%, respectively. Trees with a dbh of less than 30 cm accounted for about 66.3% of the total number of trees surveyed. The total carbon storage and uptake by the street trees were approximately 103,641 t and 10,992 t/yr, respectively. The total carbon uptake equaled the amount of annual carbon emissions from driving of about 11,000 cars. Street tree planting and management strategies were proposed to enhance carbon uptake. They included multi-layered and multi-aged planting, securing ground and space for plant growth, and avoiding excessive tree pruning.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.4C
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• pp.229-238
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• 2006

Observed field behaviors are frequently different from the behaviors predicted in the design state due to several uncertainties involved in soil properties, numerical modeling, and error of measuring system even though a sophisticated numerical analysis technique is applied to solve the consolidation behavior of drainage-installed soft deposits. In this study, genetic algorithms are applied to back-analyze the soil properties using the observed behavior of soft clay deposit composed of multi layers that shows complex consolidation characteristics. Utilizing the program, one might be able to appropriately predict the subsequent consolidation behavior from the measured data in an early stage of consolidation of multi layered soft deposits. Example analyses for drainage-installed multi-layered soft deposits are performed to examine the applicability of proposed back-analysis method.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.25-30
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• 2022

It is very important to investigate the ground properties of a construction site for the stability during the construction of the retaining wall. In the retaining wall construction stage, ground properties are checked through ground investigation, but the actual ground properties may be different from the ground investigation result. In order to analyze the stability of the retaining wall in real time, it is important to reflect the properties of the actual ground. Also, when it is judged that the wall is unstable, an appropriate solution must be provided for the stability of the wall. This study aims to present a technique for predicting the actual ground properties through a differential evolution algorithm and judging the stability of the earth wall in real time through the digital twin of the retaining wall.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.69-72
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• 2008

The so-called Pier-Shafts system which consists of the continuous column and shaft is often used to support the highway bridge structure because of advantages in easy construction and low cost. In the earthquake region, the Pier-Shafts system undergoes large displacements and represents a nonlinear behavior under the lateral seismic loading. The soil-pile interaction should be considered for more accurate analysis of the Pier-Shafts system. In this study, a transverse response of a reinforced concrete Pier-Shafts system inside multi-layered soil medium is predicted using a finite element program which adopts an elasto-plastic interface model for the interface behavior between the shaft and the soil. Then, seismic analysis is performed to evaluate the performance of Pier-Shafts system under strong ground motion and their results are verified with experimental data.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.3-13
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a method for filling out the occlusions in generating multi-view images from one source image and its ground-truth depth image. The method is based on image inpainting and layered interpolation. The source image is first divided into several layers using depth information. The occlusions are interpolated separately in every layered image using the image inpainting algorithm. Finally, the interpolated layered images are combined to obtain different viewpoint images. Interpolating occlusions with depth-correlated texture information that is contained to each layer makes it possible to obtain more detailed and accurate results than previous methods. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown through experimental results.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.507-527
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• 2023

Accurately estimation of the geo-mechanical parameters in Artificial Ground Freezing (AGF) is a most important scientific topic in soil improvement and geotechnical engineering. In order for this, one way is using classical and conventional constitutive models based on different theories like critical state theory, Hooke's law, and so on, which are time-consuming, costly, and troublous. The others are the application of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to predict considered parameters and behaviors accurately. This study presents a comprehensive data-mining-based model for predicting the Young's Modulus of frozen sand under the triaxial test. For this aim, several single and hybrid models were considered including additive regression, bagging, M5-Rules, M5P, random forests (RF), support vector regression (SVR), locally weighted linear (LWL), gaussian process regression (GPR), and multi-layered perceptron neural network (MLP). In the present study, cell pressure, strain rate, temperature, time, and strain were considered as the input variables, where the Young's Modulus was recognized as target. The results showed that all selected single and hybrid predicting models have acceptable agreement with measured experimental results. Especially, hybrid Additive Regression-Gaussian Process Regression and Bagging-Gaussian Process Regression have the best accuracy based on Model performance assessment criteria.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.55 no.5
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• pp.59-69
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 동적 점탄-점소성 구성식에 기초한 다층지반의 1차원 액상화 해석을 수행하였다. 일본 고베 포트아일랜드에서 발생한 1995 Hyogoken Nanbu 지진에 대하여 지반 모델링을 하였으며, 사질토 지반에는 탄소성 모델을, 점성토 지반에는 점탄-점소성 모델 및 탄-점소성 모델을 각각 적용하였다. 본 연구 결과, 모델 지반의 경우 지표 10 m 아래를 전후하여 액상화가 발생하였으며 액상화가 발생한 지반을 통과하는 지진파는 감쇠특성을 나타내고 이 때 전단변형률을 크게 증가시켰다. 또한, 대변형률 영역에서의 점성토의 동적거동 해석에서는 점소성 거동특성이 지배적이므로 점소성 모델의 적용이 중요함을 알 수 있었다. 한편 동적 점탄-점소성 구성모델은 대변형률 영역에서 점성토의 소성변형을 유발하는 대형 지진 발생시 점성토의 증폭 및 감쇠특성 분석에 적용 가능한 모델임을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.340-343
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• 2002

Electromagnetic(EM) radiation problems and their possible solutions are addressed in this paper for the split power plane of high-speed digital systems. Stitching and decoupling capacitors are proved to be very effective fur reducing signal noise, ground bounce as well as electromagnetic radiation from the split power plane. Simulations based on 3D-Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method are utilized for the analysis of practical high frequency multi-layered PC main board

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.75-80
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• 2002

Signal integrity problems and their possible solutions are addressed in this paper for split power plane of high-speed digital systems. Stitching and decoupling capacitors are proved to be very effective for reducing signal noise, ground bounce as well as electromagnetic radiation from the split power plane. Simulations based on 3D-Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method are utilized for the analysis of practical high frequency multi-layered PC main board.