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Channel Migration of Byeongmun River Caused by Roof Collapse of Gurin Cave in Mount Halla, Jeiu Island (한라산 구린굴의 천장 함몰로 인한 병문천의 유로 변경)

  • Kim, Tae-Ho;An, Jong-Gi
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.466-476
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    • 2008
  • Gurin Cave, 442 m long, is a lava tube developed on the northern slope of Mount Halla. Seventy-three meters of its lower reach became a river channel since Byeongmun River flowed into a window after roof collapse took place. The subterranean channel has a width of 447 cm and a height of 501 cm, respectively. Its banks show well-developed lava shelves of a typical lava tube, while its floor has sculpted forms which characterize a bed of a bedrock stream. The reach is likely to be collapsed and then has four collapsed windows since its roof has the densely developed testudinal joints and consists of thin lavas with a thickness of 30 to 60 cm. Before the subterranean channel appeared, a ground channel flowed over the cave and joined into a main channel of Byeongmun River at 653 m in altitude. However, the subterranean channel substituted the ground channel since a bed of the ground channel collapsed into the cave. The new channel, flowing through the cave, joined into a main channel at 660 m in altitude. As the drainage area of Byeongmun River expanded upstream the cave, the new channel changed into a main channel. Since floodwater flows down the ground channel as well as the subterranean channel, a distributary stream has temporarily appeared at the collapsed window. Lava tubes are likely to have an affect on the development of river system in Jeiu Island, in that the caves have constantly shown roof-fall.

Incipient motion criteria of uniform gravel bed under falling spheres in open channel flow

  • Khe, Sok An;Park, Sang Deog;Jeon, Woo Sung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2018.05a
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    • pp.149-149
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    • 2018
  • Prediction on initial motion of sediment is crucial to evaluate sediment transport and channel stability. The condition of incipient movement of sediment is characterized by bed shear stress, which is generated from force of moving water against the bed of the channel, and by critical shear stress, which depends on force resisting motion of sediment due to the submerged weight of the grains. When the bed shear stress exceeds the critical shear stress, sediment particles begin rolling and sliding at isolated and random locations. In Mountain River, debris flow frequently occurs due to heavy rainfall and can lead some natural stones from mountain slope into the bed river. This phenomenon could add additional forces to sediment transport system in the bed of river and also affect or change direction and magnitude of sediment movement. In this paper, evaluations on incipient motion of uniform coarse gravel under falling spheres impacts using small scale flume channel were conducted. The drag force of falling spheres due to water flow and length movement of falling spheres were investigated. The experiments were carried out in flume channel made by glass wall and steel floor with 12 m long, 0.6 m wide, and 0.6 m deep. The bed slopes were selected with the range from 0.7% to 1.5%. The thickness of granular layer was at least 3 times of diameter of granular particle to meet grain placement condition. The sphere diameters were chosen to be 4cm, 6 cm, 8 cm, 10 cm. The spheres were fallen in to the bed channel for critical condition and under critical condition of motion particle. Based on the experimental results, the Shields curve of particles Reynold number and dimensionless critical shear stress were plotted. The relationship between with drag force and the length movement of spheres were plotted. The pathways of the bed material Under the impact of spheres falling were analyzed.

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Setting limits for water use in the Wairarapa Valley, New Zealand

  • Mike, Thompson
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2015.05a
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    • pp.227-227
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    • 2015
  • The Wairarapa Valley occupies a predominantly rural area in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It supports a mix of intensive farming (dairy), dry stock farming (sheep and beef cattle) and horticulture (including wine grapes). The valley floor is traversed by the Ruamahanga River, the largest river in the Wellington region with a total catchment area of 3,430 km2. Environmental, cultural and recreational values associated with this Ruamahanga River are very high. The alluvial gravel and sand aquifers of the Wairarapa Valley, support productive groundwater aquifers at depths of up to 100 metres below ground while the Ruamahanga River and its tributaries present a further source of water for users. Water is allocated to users via resource consents by Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC). With intensifying land use, demand from the surface and groundwater resources of the Wairarapa Valley has increased substantially in recent times and careful management is needed to ensure values are maintained. This paper describes the approach being taken to manage water resources in the Wairarapa Valley and redefine appropriate limits of sustainable water use. There are three key parts: Quantifying the groundwater resource. A FEFLOW numerical groundwater flow model was developed by GWRC. This modelling phase provided a much improved understanding of aquifer recharge and abstraction processes. It also began to reveal the extent of hydraulic connection between aquifer and river systems and the importance of moving towards an integrated (conjunctive) approach to allocating water. Development of a conjunctive management framework. The FEFLOW model was used to quantify the stream flow depletion impacts of a range of groundwater abstraction scenarios. From this, three abstraction categories (A, B and C) that describe diminishing degrees of hydraulic connection between ground and surface water resources were mapped in 3 dimensions across the Valley. Interim allocation limits have been defined for each of 17 discrete management units within the valley based on both local scale aquifer recharge and stream flow depletion criteria but also cumulative impacts at the valley-wide scale. These allocation limits are to be further refined into agreed final limits through a community-led decision making process. Community involvement in the limit setting process. Historically in New Zealand, limits for sustainable resource use have been established primarily on the basis of 'hard science' and the decision making process has been driven by regional councils. Community involvement in limit setting processes has been through consultation rather than active participation. Recent legislation in the form of a National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management (2011) is reforming this approach. In particular, collaborative consensus-based decision making with active engagement from stakeholders is now expected. With this in mind, a committee of Wairarapa local people with a wide range of backgrounds was established in 2014. The role of this committee is to make final recommendations about resource use limits (including allocation of water) that reflect the aspirations of the communities they represent. To assist the committee in taking a holistic view it is intended that the existing numerical groundwater flow models will be coupled with with surface flow, contaminant transport, biological and economic models. This will provide the basis for assessing the likely outcomes of a range of future land use and resource limit scenarios.

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Design of Dang-San Steel Railway Bridge (당산철교의 설계)

  • 유동호;김선일
    • Computational Structural Engineering
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.69-69
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    • 1999
  • Design of Dangsan Steel Railway Bridge(a part of Seoul Subway Line NO. 2), which is supposed to be replaced after its 15years survice, was done, and the reconstruction has begun in Dec. 1997. The design include new superstruc-ture and bridge piers, retrofitting of the foun-dation, rail system, electric and signal, etc. In this paper, design of the structure is mainly summarized. The main span superstructure, across Han river, is composite section which is com-posed of steel box and reinforced concrete deck slab with 9 span continuous. The superstructure for the approaches is bottom througth type 2-cell steel box girder with steel floor system and concrete deck slab with 3 or 4 span continuous. The bridge piers was planned to be reconstructed based upon the result from the various investi-gations, while the foundation(cassion and pile foundation) was planned to be retrofitted. For superstructure erection, the method of combination of barge bent and heavy lifting and the launching truss method was investigated for the main span and approach spans, respectively.

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Analysis of the Relationship between Three-Dimensional Built Environment and Urban Surface Temperature (도시의 3차원 물리적 환경변수와 지표온도의 관계 분석)

  • Li, Yige;Lee, Sugie;Han, Jaewon
    • Journal of Korea Planning Association
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    • v.54 no.2
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    • pp.93-108
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    • 2019
  • This study examines the relationship between three-dimensional urban built environment and urban surface temperature using LANDSAT 8 satellite image data in Seoul city. The image was divided into 600m×600m grid units as an unit of analysis. Due to the high level of spatial dependency in surface temperature, this study uses spatial statistics to take into account spatial auto-correlation. The spatial error model shows the best goodness of fit. The analysis results show that the three-dimensional built environment and transport environment as well as natural environment have statistically significant associations with surface temperature. First, natural environment variables such as green space, streams and river, and average elevation show statistically significant negative association with surface temperature. Second, the building area shows a positive association with surface temperature. In addition, while sky view factor (SVF) has a positive association with surface temperature, surface roughness (SR) shows a negative association with it. Third, transportation related variables such as road density, railway density, and traffic volume show positive associations with surface temperature. Moreover, this study finds that SVF and SR have different effects on surface temperature in regard to the levels of total floor areas in built environment. The results indicate that interactions between floor area ratio (FAR) and three-dimensional built environmental variables such as SVF and SR should be considered to reduce urban surface temperature.

Productive Structure and energy Storage of the Delta of Nak Dong River (낙동강 하류 삼각주지역 갈대초지의 생산구조와 에너지저장에 관한 연구)

  • 장남기;강호감
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Grassland and Forage Science
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.220-225
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    • 1984
  • In the grassland ecosystem dominated by Phragmites longivalvis in the delta of Nak Dong River, the production, decomposition, and accumulation of organic were estimated by the theoretical analysis. The amounts of organic carbon and organic matter of litter are $1020.43g/m^2\;and\;591.90g/m^2$, respectively. The amounts of organic matter and organic carbon on the grassland floor is $1154.96g/m^2\;and\;669.93g/m^2$, the ratio of annual litter production 'L' to the amount of accumulation on the top mineral soil (F, H and $A_2$ horizons) provided estimates of decay constant k. Constant k is 0.884 in the Phragmites longivalvis community. The vertical levels of organic matter and organic carbon is the highest in 120-140 cm of photosythetic system and in 0-20 cm of non-photosyntic system.

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Habitat Environment, Age and Feeding Ecology of the Endangered Species, Gobiobotia macrocephala (Pisces: Cyprinidae) in the Seom River, Korea (멸종위기 어류 꾸구리 Gobiobotia macrocephala (Pisces: Cyprinidae)의 서식환경과 연령, 섭식생태)

  • Ko, Myeong-Hun;Song, Ha-Yoon;Bang, In-Chul
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.278-287
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    • 2011
  • Habitat environment, age and feeding ecology of Gobiobotia macrocephala were investigated to provide baseline data for ecological characteristics and recovery in the Seom River at Heungho- ri, Buron-myeon, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do, Korea from 2010 to 2011. G. macrocephala inhabited 10~40 cm in water depth, 8~20 cm bottom size and 40~120 cm/sec in current velocity, and pebble floor were factors to be important for inhabit density. Age group of G. macrocephala in May estimated from the standard length indicated that the 28~42 mm group is 1 year old, the 43~58 mm group is 2 years old, the 59~69 mm group is 3 years old and the 69~85 mm group is more than 4 years old, and the female was 4~10 mm larger than the male. G. macrocephala did mainly feeding with nocturnal fishes between 00 h to 06 h, and they fed mainly Trichoptera (57.7%), Diptera (26.0%) and Ephemeroptera (16.3%). And their small juvenile fed mainly Ephemeroptera and Diptera, however, they ate mainly Trichoptera while growing to adult fish.

Optimum Sample Size for Development of Reaeration Coefficient Equation in Stream Water Quality Modeling (강물의 수질오염 modeling에 사용되는 재포기계수공식 개발을 위한 적정규모의 표본의 크기)

  • ;Charles S. Melching
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.155-167
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    • 1996
  • 동일한 하천의 용전산소량(DO)을 예측하는 경우에도 사용하는 재포기계수$(K^2)$는 계산하는 공식에 따라 커다란 차이를 나타매며, 부적합한 공식의 사용에 의한 $(K^2)$의 계산은 하천의 수질관리 정책결정에 지장을 초래하므로 현장사정에 적합한 공식의 개발이 필요하다. 이러한 공식의 개발은 많은 현장측정 자료를 사용하도록 신뢰성이 높으나 현장측정은 소요되는 비용에 제약을 받기 때문에 신뢰성과 경제성을 동시에 고려한 표본의 크기의 적정규모를 산정하는 것이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 Monte Carlo 방법에 의해 통계적으로 수출된 $(K^2)$를 사용해서, 주어진 자료에 의해 개발된 공식을 사용할 때 야기되는 오차가 $(K^2)$개수의 증가에 따라 얼마나 감소하는지를 널리 사용되는 공식 중에 Owen공식과 Churchill공식을 New Jersey에 있는 Passaic River에 적용시켜 검토하였다. 표본의 크기가 10에서 20으로 증가할 때 오차가 크게 감소하였으며 20을 넘어 증가시켰을 때에는 오차의 감소폭이 미미하였다. 초차의 감호형태와 단위측정당 소요되는 비용을 고려할 때 약 20정도의 표본의 크기가 적정수준의 규모에 판단된다. 이러한 적용사례의 결과는 회귀모델의 이론적 계산결과에 의한 오차 감소와 흡사하여 본 연구결과는 여러 가지(K2)공식과 광범위한 하천의 조건에 적용이 가능할 것이며, 본 연구에서 사용한 적정표본의 크기 산정방법은 회귀분석에 의해 실험식을 개발하는 다른 분야에도 적용이 가능하다.

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A Study on Attribute of Water and Exhibition Composition - Focused on Four-major River Water Culture Pavilion in Korea - (물의 속성과 전시연출에 관한 연구 - 4대강 물문화관을 중심으로 -)

  • Song, Hyeon-Ji;Kim, Nam-Hyo
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.355-362
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    • 2012
  • Water Culture Pavilion was constructed as a part of dam construction and Four-major rivers restoration projects, which have the purpose to prevent damage of natural disaster, localized heavy rain and drought, and has several functions; promotion, education and region culture community. Exhibition space in this culture pavilion should have the excellent connection of various media, contents, and exhibition space because of limited space. The purpose of this study is to analyze flows, continuation and connection of exhibit space with the perspectives of the attribute of water and to suggest various content things, technical, spatial types. This study targets Four-major rivers Water Culture Pavilion in Korea and suggests exhibition presentation methods as analyzing contents, media and constituent of exhibition space for each pavilion exhibition. The result of this study is as follows : First, the circulation is common expressed attribute of water in these four water culture pavilion. The reason is that there is a connection between Four-major rivers restoration projects and the physical attribute of water circulating the steps of evaporation, condensation and precipitation. Second, each pavilion presents circulative solid exhibit, circulative background exhibit, circulative reflective exhibit based on circulation. These three types of exhibition is related the floor separation. Third, each pavilion exhibit zone shows the most circulation, solid, background, reflexibility through educational contents and promoting contents by using graphic, video, sound media.

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Geochemical Exploration for the Stream Sediments of the Tumbang Mirih in the Middle Kalimantan, Indonesia (인도네시아 중부 칼리만탄 뚬방미리지역의 하상퇴적물에 대한 지화학탐사)

  • Kim In-Joon;Lee Jae-Ho
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.39 no.3 s.178
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    • pp.301-328
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    • 2006
  • The geology of the Tumbang Mirih area in the Middle Kalimantan, Indonesia comprises Permian to Carboniferous Pinoh Metamorphic Rocks and Cretaceous Sepauk Plutonics of the Sunda Shield, late Eocene Tanjung Formation, Oligocene Malasan Volcanics, Oligocene to early Miocene Sintang Intrusives and Quaternary alluvium. Results of geochemical exploration and geological mapping exposed obviously that large amounts of gold-bearing quartz veins were found in the whole Tumbang Mirih areas. In many places, gold grains were megascopically detectable from panning products of stream sediments and conglomerate as Quaternary sediments. Even though no remnants of quartz veins are revealed in the most of survey area except Taran region, association of fold grains with layers of quartz pebbles and clays which correspond to the horizon of unconformity or previous river bottom indicates that the gold grains were separated from quartz veins. Along rivers often pebbles and clay layers just over or 10 to 20cm above the current waterlevel are recognized. The occurrence of gold in the conglomeratic layer was frequently confirmed during geochemical exploration. Since the conglomeratic layer was old stream sediments of Quaternary, it can be assumed that deposition of golds was controlled by shape of river floor, speed and shape of river flow, and distance from the source rock. Taran area and northern Takaoi area based on the all data are recommended as the promising areas.