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Prospects for Building a Legal System for Marine Environment Protection in China (중국의 해양환경법제 분석과 전개방향에 관한 고찰)

  • Yang, Hee-Cheol;Park, Seong-Wook;Park, Su-Jin;Kwon, Suk-Jae
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.89-107
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    • 2008
  • Marine environment is subject serious destruction because of frequent accidents during exploration of marine resources and overseas transport. Also, as many industrial enterprises discharge high volume of wastes and contamination, marine pollution has become a serious threat to people (especially in China). China is quickly becoming a world economic leader of the 21st century. Rapid industrialization and social changes have raised the standard of living of millions of the Chinese, mainly in the areas of East and South East coast. The process of industrialization, however, is often followed by deterioration of the marine environment and rarely turned around until a country has increased its standard of living. Solving these array of problems will take decades and currently the government is addressing minor specific issues only. Fortunately, the Chinese government has enacted a number of marine pollution control laws. On 25 December 1999, the 13th Session of the Ninth Standing Commettee of the National People's Congress passed the amended the Marine Environment Protection Law of the People's Republic of China. This Law establishes rights and responsibilities of the relevant departments concerning marine environment management and provides for two new chapters on "Marine Environment Supervision" and "Marine Ecological Protection", along with "Supervision of Pollution Prevention for Marine Construction Projects", "Marine Ecological Protection" and "Marine Environment Pollution Prevention for Marine Construction Projects". Also, the Law was amended with provisions for integrated pollution discharge control system and oil spillage emergency response plan and enhanced legal responsibilities. Chinese government recognizes that international and national experience can be useful for China to prevent further ecological degradation of the marine environment.

Numerical Analysis for Evaluation of Bearing Capacity on Soft Ground with Geotextile (Geotextile이 포설된 연약지반 지지력 평가를 위한 수치해석 비교분석)

  • Chae, Yu-Mi;Kim, Jae-Hong
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.217-223
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    • 2020
  • As construction work on soft ground increases, many researchers have studied to secure the stability of trafficability with interest in construction safety accidents due to reinforcement work. Although the stability of soft ground is evaluated based on the allowable bearing capacity of theoretical equations proposed in the literature such as Yamanouchi and Meyerhof formulas, further numerical verification also requires comparison of the stress increase (Δσz) and deformation of the distributed contact pressure on the soft ground. In this study, the deformation of the soft ground is compared with the increasing the seam tensile strength of geotextile using the finite element analysis program, and the stress increase is investigated by variation of the distributed contact pressure by appling input data of case study.

A Study on Development of 3D Data Model for Underground Facilities Using CityGML ADE (CityGML ADE를 이용한 3차원 지하시설물 데이터 모델 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Da Woon;Shin, Dong Bin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.245-252
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    • 2021
  • Underground facilities were constructed as needed by various management organizations, the result of which was the disordered and scattered underground spaces. This phenomenon can be viewed as the main cause of safety accidents in the underground space. To solve this problem, research on systematic construction and management of underground facilities should be conducted. Therefore, to improve the accuracy and the quality of information and to facilitate the systematic construction and management of underground facility information, this study aims to establish a 3D data model that conforms to international spatial information standards for pipeline underground facilities and to implement the data model to enable visualization. The result of this study can be used to improve the consistency of information not only between underground facilities, but also the correspondence between above ground and underground facilities. As such, this study has academic significance in that it presents an integrated data model that includes various objects in the ground and underground spaces and enables interoperability between diverse domain data.

Causes of accidents and preventive measures due to defects in pump car booms (펌프카의 붐대 결함에 의한 사고원인과 방지대책)

  • Cho Choonhwan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Construction Safety
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2024
  • Pump car is an equipment that transports concrete products as needed to the place where they are poured. In order to pour a large amount of concrete in a short period of time, using a pump car is the most efficient in terms of economic efficiency and quality control. However, recently, many casualties have occurred due to boom damage during concrete pouring, so this study suggests that improvements are needed in the equipment manufacturing stage, inspection standards for old equipment, and equipment rental system. The reason is that, as a result of the finite element analysis of the pump car, the significant stress acting at the second stage of the boom and the maximum stress at the top of the boom were found to be 895.39 MPa, and M.S. Since it was evaluated the lowest at 0.04, the need for reinforcement was recognized. And it was confirmed that the 2nd stage boom was the most stressful and vulnerable part of the 1st to 5th stage booms. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the thickness and rigidity of members at the design and manufacturing stage, and to reinforce the steel plates of currently used equipment. In addition, it is urgent to establish a system that makes non-destructive testing mandatory for all general construction machinery and holds inspection agencies responsible for missing boom defects during non-destructive testing and regular inspections.

Reduction Gear Stability Estimation due to Torque Variation on the Marine Propulsion System with High-speed Four Stroke Diesel Engine (고속 4행정 디젤엔진을 갖는 선박 추진시스템에서 토크변동에 의한 감속기어 안정성 평가)

  • Kim, InSeob;Yoon, Hyunwoo;Kim, Junseong;Vuong, QuangDao;Lee, Donchool
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.25 no.12
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    • pp.815-821
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    • 2015
  • Maritime safety has been more critical recently due to the occurrence of shipboard accidents involving prime movers. As such, the propulsion shafting design and construction plays a vital role in the safe operation of the vessel other than focusing on being cost-efficient. Smaller vessels propulsion shafting system normally install high speed four-stroke diesel engine with reduction gear for propulsion efficiency. Due to higher cylinder combustion pressures, flexible couplings are employed to reduce the increased vibratory torque. In this paper, an actual vibration measurement and theoretical analysis was carried out on a propulsion shafting with V18.3L engine installed on small car-ferry and revealed higher torsional vibration. Hence, a rubber-block type flexible coupling was installed to attenuate the transmitted vibratory torque. Considering the flexible coupling application factor, reduction gear stability due to torque variation was analyzed in accordance with IACS(International Association of Classification Societies) M56 and the results are presented herein.

A Study on the Epidemiological Characteristics of Industrial Ocular Injuries (직업성 안상해(眼傷害)에 관한 기술역학적 연구)

  • Lee, Won-Chul;Lee, Kang-Sook;Meng, Kwang-Ho;Lee, Seung-Han;Chung, Sang-Moon
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.21 no.1 s.23
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    • pp.113-120
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    • 1988
  • A total of 181 cases of industrial ocular injuries hospitalized and treated at the St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul during the 5-year period was studied on their epidemiological characteristics. Of these patients 96.7% were males, and 43.6% were in twenties, 49.7% of the cases were injured on left eyes. There were no statistically significant differences in frequencies of study subjects by day of the week and month of the year. Most common injury hour were between 10- <12 AM(13.6%) and between 2- <4 PM(20%). Of the total 101 cases, 37.6% were working less than 6 months, and 73.7%, less than 2 years. Of the total, 42.3% were involved in machinary work and 13.9%, in construction work. According to the American National Standard Method of recording basic facts relating to the nature and occurrence of work injuries, 62%, among all source of injuries was metal item and the most common accident type was struck by flying objects(76.2%). Among 181 cases, only 2 cases were wearing protective equipment when the accidents occurred.

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A Study on the Estimation of the Optimum Lifetime of Elevator Components for Elevator Accident Prevention (엘리베이터 사고예방을 위한 승강기 부품의 최적 수명 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Han-jin;Hwang, Min-soo;Choi, Og-man;Lee, An-ki;Kim, Jae-chul
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.66 no.8
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    • pp.1278-1284
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    • 2017
  • As of December 2016, there are 608,828 elevators in operation in Korea and 179,790 elevators in more than 15 years. 30.4% of all elevator are aging. Improved maintenance of the elevator and proactive replacement of the parts of the elevator can extend the lifetime of the elevator and ensure safety. An unclean environment reduces the lifetime of elevator parts. If you do not clean the environment and prevent preventive parts replacement, eventually shortening the lifetime of the parts connected to the failed part or causing more damage will result in greater economic loss. Also, the risk of elevator safety accidents due to failures of elevator parts will be increased accordingly. The study of optimum replacement time of elevator parts will contribute to prevention of safety accident of elevator and prolongation of lifetime of elevator through preventive replacement of elevator parts.

Restaurants settled and health management awareness of employees of the Health Education System (요식업 종사원의 보건교육 시스템의 정착 및 보건관리 인식제고)

  • Yun, Young-Hwa;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.179-190
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    • 2016
  • Awareness about health is still in short supply, sufficient research and investment is falling mothayeo made, the development of image and health technology for health compared to productivity enhancement technology behind the relative reality. Through the analysis and study of special measures and health education in the country catering to propose measures and methods for this. Current analyzed and summarized to find a special health and safety training relevant provisions appear in the national legislation. By analyzing the characteristics and to leverage to workers unearthed an in-depth awareness and issues for the institutions and laws. Survey research methods to analyze the documents and government publications and research through an Internet search. Survey Research conducted a self - survey on new knowledge and attitude toward the concessionaires to sanitation target, the attitude of the sanitary administration, attitudes to hygiene education and hygiene practice Conditions received health education carried out by catering Federation regularly. Health education is a systematic settlement system for the external reality of professional education. Health and health administrators to establish an organizational structure strengthening phase. Employers and health care workers are raising awareness. Employers have a responsibility to prevent industrial accidents. Consequently, special health education targeted construction workers changed to fit the content-driven information on the species and the proper arrangement of time "based health education" currently being conducted.

Oxygen contents monitoring in the building for launch and test facilities (발사대 및 시험장 건물 내의 산소농도 관리)

  • Kim, Ji-Hoon;Yoo, Byung-Il;Cho, Sang-Yeon;Kang, Sun-Il;Oh, Seung-Hyub
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.246-249
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    • 2009
  • Test and launch facilities which use oxygen as the propellant of a launch vehicle have hazards of fire and explosion by the leakage of oxygen. Also, the personnel operating the facilities, which use the high-pressured gases like nitrogen and helium in the closed room, is exposed to the hazard of death from suffocation. Consequently, we should keep out of the hazards and the accidents by monitoring the contents of oxygen in the air. The method and the system construction for monitoring oxygen contents in the air and the results from its application to Naro space center are described on this paper.

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The Application Methods of Dark Tourism Contents in SEWOL-HO Ferry Accident (다크 투어리즘의 세월호 참사에 대한 적용 방안 연구 -관련 콘텐츠의 설계와 구성 관점을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Hern-Sik;Yang, Jeong-Ho
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.9
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    • pp.176-187
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    • 2014
  • Tour is cultural method that makes educational effects smoothly, metaphorically. In a context, dark tour have a function that sustains memorial of accidents and with social meaning, ethic value. This study aims to understand practical solutions of Sewol-Ho memorial on focusing Dark Tourism. This paper considers fascination with this subject and examines explored for good decision. It means that we examines a construction of tour contents within the dark tourism. This article evaluates an dark tourism in a contents program various country, for considering in a case at a Sewol-Ho accident. As a result, we comment some variety choice of strategy effectiveness for a sustainability of ethic value and education memorial.