• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.23-27
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• 1998

To protect the underground pipeline from the mechanical damage and to enhance the cathodic protection effect, the river sand has been backfilled traditionally around the buried pipeline. However, river sand became depleted and expensive. One has to seek for the economic alternative materials. Crashed stone is a good candidate for the backfill material. In this study, how much the particle size and shape of the crashed stone can effect on the gas pipeline coating was examined. A series of laboratory and field test was performed. In the Lab, the increasing loads were applied to the coated pipeline surrounded by the crashed stone, where no significant damage was observed.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.285-292
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• 2023

As various accidents have occurred in underground spaces, we aim to improve the quality validation standards and methods as specified in the Regulations on Producing Integrated Map of Underground Spaces devised by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea for a high-quality integrated map of underground spaces. Specifically, we propose measures to improve the quality assurance of pipeline-type underground facilities, the so-called life lines given their importance for citizens' daily activities and their highest risk of accident among the 16 types of underground facilities. After implementing quality validation software based on the developed quality validation standards, the adequacy of the validation standards was demonstrated by testing using data from two-dimensional water supply facilities in some areas of Busan, Korea. This paper has great significance in that it has laid the foundation for reducing the time and manpower required for data quality inspection and improving data quality reliability by improving current quality validation standards and developing technologies that can automatically extract errors through software.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.595-600
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• 2007

Greater expansion and more frequent operation of the railroad transportation system anticipated due to its characteristics including low cost, safety and mass transportation. Recently, effects on the railway structures due to expansion of newly constructed road, construction of subway, city gas pipeline, communication network, electric power network and construction of other railway underground crossing in accordance with urban planning and organization has influenced safe operation of trains. Accordingly, standard for selection of construction method that will enable construction of more economical and rational subway underground crossing structures by preventing problems occurring at the time of above construction works and accidents in safe operation of trains due to construction in advance is definitively necessary. Although there are numerous construction methods that can be applied at the time of construction of railway underground crossing, there are much difficulties in selection of appropriate construction method that considers characteristics of each construction method on non-excavation type construction method, train operation plan of number of operational routes and on-site circumstances. Therefore, this research aims to present rational standard for selection of construction method for such, and standard for slowdown speed and interception of train when passing the areas of slowdown in sectors under construction.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.5
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• pp.876-883
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• 2007

The magnetic flux leakage(MFL) type nondestructive testing(NDT) method is widely used to detect corrosion, defects and mechanical deformation of the underground gas pipelines. The object pipeline is magnetically saturated by the magnetic system with permanent magnet and yokes. Hall sensors detect the leakage fields in the region of the defect. The defects are sometimes occurred in group. The accuracy of the detecting signals in this defect cluster become lowered because of the complexity of the defect cluster. In this paper, the effects of the multi -defects are analyzed. The detecting signals are computed by 3-dimensional finite element method and compared with real measurement. The results say that, rather than the size of the defects, the effects of the relative position of the multi-defects are very important on the detecting signals.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.429-430
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• 2015

HVDC 송전망의 형태는 가공선로(Overhead Transmission Line)와 지중선로(Underground Transmission line)가 있다. 가공선로는 비교적 건설비가 저렴하고 쉽게 설치 할 수 있다는 장점이 있지만 설치할 부지를 확보하기 어렵다는 단점이 있다. 또한 지중선로는 설치되는 지역의 외관을 해치지 않고 주변 환경에 크게 영향을 주지 않는다는 장점이 있지만 케이블을 매설하기 위해서 깊은 관로를 파야하며 이때 많은 비용이 발생하게 된다는 단점이 있다. 새롭게 제시하는 HVDC Pipeline은 두 가지 송전망과 다른 새로운 방식으로서 도로에 Pipeline형태로 HVDC케이블을 얕게 매설하거나 지표면에 도출시키는 방식이다. 도로를 이용함으로서 가공선로의 새로운 부지를 확보해야한다는 단점을 개선하고 깊은 관로로 인해 발생하는 지중선로의 높은 공사비용을 감소시킬 수 있는 방안이라고 생각한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.11b
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• pp.315-317
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• 1999

Soil resistivity has a relation with the corrosion of underground buried structures as a water pipeline, gas pipeline and power cable casing. And it's a main factor in the cathodic protection and earth design. This paper presents soil resistivity maps each depth through measuring the soil resistivity in Kwachon, Kyonggi province. Also examines the soil resistivity characteristics on a change of temperature, moisture content and ion content in the laboratory.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.195-196
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• 2015

유해화학물질 이송관로의 실시간 유지관리를 위하여 파손사전 예방감시를 위한 이중구조 파이프 제작, GIS관망 구축을 위한 측량 및 시공 속성정보 수집을 위한 스마트 폰 앱 프로그램 개발, 실시간 감시를 위한 서버프로그램 개발을 수행하였다. 또한, 파일럿규모의 야외시험시설을 구축하여 시스템 동작여부를 확인하였다. 파손 예방은 파이프에 부착된 센서 케이블을 통하여 감지하도록 하였고, 누수는 압력센서를 일정한 간격으로 설치하여 시험하였다. VRS 측량장비와 스마트폰을 연계할 수 있는 앱 프로그램으로 실시간 자료 수집을 수행할 수 있도록 하였고, 감시 서버프로그램을 통하여 실시간 감시 및 알람이 가능하도록 하였다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.353-362
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• 2022

The seismic failure-prone region in Istanbul has been examined in terms of the segmented pipelines. Although some researchers have suggested that this territory should be left as a green land, many people continue to live in this area. This region is about 9-10 km away from the North Anatolian Fault Line. This fault zone is an active right-lateral strike-slip fault line in Turkey and an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0-7.5 is expected in the Marmara Sea. Therefore, superstructures and infrastructures are under both land sliding risks and seismic risks in this area. Because there are not any pipeline-fault line intersection points in the region, in this study, it has been focused on the behaviors of the segmented (sewage or stormwater) pipelines subject to earthquake-induced permanent ground deformation and seismic wave propagation. Based on the elastic beam theory some necessary analyses have been carried out and obtained results of this approximation have been examined.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.54-66
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• 2004

In this article, we are to suggest the hazard-assessing method for the underground pipelines, and find out the pipeline-maintenance schemes of high efficiency in cost. Three kinds of methods are applied in order to refer to the approaching methods of listing the hazards for the underground pipelines: the first is RBI(Risk Based Inspection), which firstly assess the effect of the neighboring population, the dimension, thickness of pipe, and working time. It enables us to estimate quantitatively the risk exposure. The second is the scoring system which is based on the environmental factors of the buried pipelines. Last we quantify the frequency of the releases using the present THOMAS' theory. In this work, as a result of assessing the hazard of it using SPC scheme, the hazard score related to how the gas pipelines erodes indicate the numbers from 30 to 70, which means that the assessing criteria define well the relative hazards of actual pipelines. Therefore. even if one pipeline region is relatively low score, it can have the high frequency of leakage due to its longer length. The acceptable limit of the release frequency of pipeline shows 2.50E-2 to 1.00E-l/yr, from which we must take the appropriate actions to have the consequence to be less than the acceptable region. The prediction of total frequency using regression analysis shows the limit operating time of pipeline is the range of 11 to 13 years, which is well consistent with that of the actual pipeline. Concludingly, the hazard-listing scheme suggested in this research will be very effectively applied to maintaining the underground pipelines.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.325-331
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• 2005

The magnetic Hut leakage (MFL) type nondestructive testing (NDT) method is widely used to detect corrosion and defects, mechanical deformation of the underground gas pipelines. The object pipeline is magnetically saturated by the magnetic system with permanent magnet and yokes. Because of the strong magnetic field enough to saturate the pipe, there could be distortion of the sensing signals because of the magnetization of the pipeline itself, To detect the defects precisely, the sensing signals are need to be compensated to eliminate the distortions coming from the media hysteresis. In this paper, the magnetizations of the pipeline in MFL type NDT are analyzed by Preisach model and 3D FEM. The distortions of the sensing signals are analyzed.