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Thermal Characteristics with Various Thermal Insulation Types in Basement Structures (지하층 구조체의 단열재 설치방법에 따른 열전달 특성)

  • 이재윤;조동우
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.15 no.11
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    • pp.918-927
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    • 2003
  • This study is to analyze thermal characteristics of the basement structures with a non-thermal insulation and various thermal insulations. From the results through the field experiments and computer simulations, the thermal bridges and heat loss is found in non-insulation structure of the basement under the definite depth of ground level. Therefore, the thermal insulation structure should be installed for preventing the heat loss in the basement.

Proposal of the Development Direction on the Special Act on Underground Safety Management for Preparation of the Proactive Underground Safety Management System (선제적 지하안전관리체계 마련을 위한 지하안전관리에 관한 특별법의 발전방향 제시)

  • Han, Yushik
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.34 no.7
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    • pp.17-27
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    • 2018
  • Sinkholes have occurred in various places around the world and concerns about public safety have been raised in recent years. Particularly, a ground subsidence may occur due to a variety of conditions when developing underground spaces. Ground subsidence refers to the sinking of the Earth's surface caused by the loss of the soil constituting ground due to a certain artificial cause in the ground. Ground subsidence is induced by artificial causes such as the leakage of water supply/sewage pipes and groundwater disturbance, and it is different from a sinkhole, where the sinking of the Earth's surface is induced by the cavity formed due to the melting of limestone in the ground with limestone bedrock. In recent underground development in the urban areas of Korea, damages to surrounding buildings have frequently led to many difficulties with civil complaints and compensation issues, and the collapse of some buildings has resulted in the loss of lives and property. Accordingly, the central government has legislated the Special Act on Underground Safety Management, which will take effect from January 1, 2018. This law specifies an underground safety management system for securing underground safety, under which underground safety impact assessment is performed for projects involving underground excavation work that exceeds a certain size, and safety inspection is regularly performed for underground facilities and the surrounding ground. In this study, the contents of the special act on underground safety management are reviewed, and the direction of development of underground safety policy for preparing preemptive underground safety management preparation and response system is suggested.

Post-Liquefaction Induced Ground Settlement by Dissipation of Porewater Pressure under Drained Condition (지반 배수조건을 고려한 액상화 이후 과잉간극수압 소산에 따른 지반의 침하)

  • Yun, Seong-Kyu;Kim, Donghwan;Yang, Yeongchan;Kang, Gichun
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.38 no.6
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    • pp.5-16
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    • 2022
  • In the case of domestic seismic design, deformation of structures and ground is reviewed through undrained condition analysis and applied to design and maintenance. However, when the ground undergoes dissipation after liquefaction due to a dynamic load such as an earthquake, additional displacement occurs and greater damage occurs. Therefore, it is necessary to additionally analyze the drained conditions, It is necessary to grasp the exact ground behavior such as calculating and reviewing the amount of subsidence of the ground that has undergone the loss process after an earthquake and apply it to design and maintenance together. Therefore, in this study, numerical analysis was performed assuming undrained and drained conditions by dividing pure sandy soil into loose soil with Dr=30% and high-density soil with Dr=70%. In particular, when a dynamic load such as an earthquake is applied, considering the drained conditions of the ground, the settlement amount and the pore water pressure ratio of loose and dense ground are compared, This study focused on comparative analysis of settlement amount and pore water pressure ratio in the process of ground loss after an earthquake. As a result, the amount of subsidence during the dissipation process was 30 to 60 times greater than that of the earthquake.

Changes in the Quality of Ground Beef with Additions of Medicinal Plants(Cinnamon, Licorice and Bokbunja) during Cold Storage (약용 식물을 첨가한 쇠고기 분쇄육의 냉장 저장 중 품질 변화)

  • Jung, In-Chul;Lee, Kyung-Soo;Moon, Yoon-Hee
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.224-230
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    • 2009
  • This study was to investigated the effects of adding of medicinal herbal (cinnamon, licorice and Bokbunja) to ground beef during storage by examining surface color, water holding capacity, cooking loss, increased rate of thickness, decreased rate of diameter, pH, VBN (volatile basic nitrogen) content and TBARS (2-thiobarbituric acid reactive substances) values of the beef under cold ($4{\pm}1$) storage conditions for 9 days. Four types of ground beef were prepared by adding the follow: 10% water (control), 10% cinnamon extracts (T-1), 10% licorice extracts (T-2), and 10% Bokbunja extracts (T-3). The $L^*$ (Lightness) and $a^*$ (Redness) values of the beef significantly decreased (p<0.05) whereas no significant changes were shown in the $b^*$ (Yellowness) value during storage, and which were not influenced by the additions of herbal extracts. Water holding capacity was significantly increased during cold storage (p<0.05), and was not influenced by the addition of the extracts. The cooking loss of the control, T-2 and T-3 were significantly decreased during cold storage (p<0.05), and T-1 had no significant changes in cooking loss. There were no significant changes in the thickness and diameter during cold storage, and which were not influenced by the addition of the extracts. The pH of the control decreased until 6 days of storage, but increased at 9 days, and the pH levels of T-1, T-2 and T-3 decreased during cold storage. VBN content was increased during cold storage and the VBN contents of the samples containing herbal extracts were lower than that of the control. In addition, the TBARS values of the ground beef containing the extracts were lower than that of the control.

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Assessment of seismic parameters for 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes

  • Bilal Balun
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.88 no.2
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    • pp.117-128
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    • 2023
  • On February 6, 2023, Türkiye woke up with a strong ground motion felt in a wide geography. As a result of the Kahramanmaraş, Pazarcık and Elbistan earthquakes, which took place 9 hours apart, there was great destruction and loss of life. The 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes occurred on active faults known to pose a high seismic hazard, but their effects were devastating. Seismic code spectra were investigated in Hatay, Adıyaman and Kahramanmaraş where destruction is high. The study mainly focuses on the investigation of ground motion parameters of 6 February Kahramanmaraş earthquakes and the correlation between ground motion parameters. In addition, earthquakes greater than Mw 5.0 that occurred in Türkiye were compared with certain seismic parameters. As in the strong ground motion studies, seismic energy parameters such as Arias intensity, characteristic intensity, cumulative absolute velocity and specific energy density were determined, especially considering the duration content of the earthquake. Based on the study, it was concluded that the structures were overloaded far beyond their normal design levels. This, coupled with significant vertical seismic components, is a contributing factor to the collapse of many buildings in the area. In the evaluation made on Arias intensity, much more energy (approximately ten times) emerged in Kahramanmaraş earthquakes compared to other Türkiye earthquakes. No good correlation was found between moment magnitude and peak ground accelerations, peak ground velocities, Arias intensities and ground motion durations in Türkiye earthquakes. Both high seismic components and long ground motion durations caused intense energy to be transferred to the structures. No strong correlation was found between ground motion durations and other seismic parameters. There is a strong positive correlation between PGA and seismic energy parameter AI. Kahramanmaraş earthquakes revealed that changes should be made in the Turkish seismic code to predict higher spectral acceleration values, especially in earthquake-prone regions in Türkiye.

Heat Transfer Experiment and Analysis to Predict the Efficiency of Heat Exchanger for Deep Geothermal System (심부지열 용 동축 열교환기 성능예측을 위한 열전달 실험 및 해석)

  • Jung, Kuk-Jin;Jeong, Yoon-Seong;Park, Jun Su;Lee, Dong Hyun
    • Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2017
  • The Heat exchanger for deep geothermal system is very important to enhance the efficiency of the system. The co-axial heat exchanger is used due to the limitation of digging space. The heat transfer on the external surface of outer pipe should be high to receive a large amount of heat from the ground. However, the inner pipe should be insulated to reduce the heat loss and increase the temperature of discharge water. This study made experiment apparatus to describe the co-axial heat exchanger and measure the heat transfer coefficients on the internal and external surface. And the pin-fin was designed and fixed on the internal surface to increase the efficiency of heat exchanger. Finally, we calculated the temperature of discharge water using the heat transfer circuit of co-axial heat exchanger and heat transfer coefficient which from experimental results. The water temperature was reached the ground temperature at -500 m and following the ground temperature. When the water return to the ground surface, the water temperature was decreased due to heat loss. As the pin-fin case, the heat transfer coefficient on the internal surface was decreased by 30% and it mean that the pin-fin help to insulate the inner pipe. However, the discharge water temperature did not change although pin-fin fixed on the inner pipe.

An Accurate Radio Channel Model for Wireless Sensor Networks Simulation

  • Alejandro Martfnez-Sala;Jose-Maria Molina-Garcia-Pardo;Esteban Egea-Lopez;Javier Vales-Alonso;Leandro Juan-Llacer;Joan Garcia-Haro
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.401-407
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    • 2005
  • Simulations are currently an essential tool to develop and test wireless sensor networks (WSNs) protocols and to analyze future WSNs applications performance. Researchers often simulate their proposals rather than deploying high-cost test-beds or develop complex mathematical analysis. However, simulation results rely on physical layer assumptions, which are not usually accurate enough to capture the real behavior of a WSN. Such an issue can lead to mistaken or questionable results. Besides, most of the envisioned applications for WSNs consider the nodes to be at the ground level. However, there is a lack of radio propagation characterization and validation by measurements with nodes at ground level for actual sensor hardware. In this paper, we propose to use a low-computational cost, two slope, log-normal path­loss near ground outdoor channel model at 868 MHz in WSN simulations. The model is validated by extensive real hardware measurements obtained in different scenarios. In addition, accurate model parameters are provided. This model is compared with the well-known one slope path-loss model. We demonstrate that the two slope log-normal model provides more accurate WSN simulations at almost the same computational cost as the single slope one. It is also shown that the radio propagation characterization heavily depends on the adjusted model parameters for a target deployment scenario: The model parameters have a considerable impact on the average number of neighbors and on the network connectivity.

Case Study of Immersed Tunnel Instrumentation Management Using Wireless System (지중무선 시스템을 이용한 침매터널 구간 계측관리 사례연구)

  • Han, Sang-Wook;Kim, Byung-Hee;Han, Byung-Won;Lee, Gye-Chun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2009.03a
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    • pp.768-773
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    • 2009
  • Measuring method being applied for off-shore works is performed by using data logger or manual measuring instrument with wiring the cable connected from the sensor up to the position where measuring is allowed.(upper part of embankment or marine structure) Measuring management by using existing measuring method may be acceptable on the condition that the ground deformation volume(vertical, horizontal) is generally minimal and the site condition is good. But loss of measuring instrument, sensor cable failure or cutting is taken place frequently due to significant change of ground behavior caused by an external force change(embankment, excavation) under very soft ground condition(N value below 0-4). In case of the marine works, in particular, loss rate of measuring instrument is highly represented due to the factors of working barge anchoring, constructional interference and natural disaster. In order to solve these problems, measuring management was performed with employing underground wireless system at the immersed tunnel site. Measuring data was obtained freely under the marine environment by using underground wireless communication and cable cutting potential by ground behavior could be reduced. Measuring cost savings and its installation convenience were maximized by way of off-shore tower installation or cabling and by minimizing constructional interference of off-shore working barge. This case of measuring management was accomplished successfully.

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The Study on developing on the Roaming simulator to estimate of the communication performance of Communication-Based Train Control system (무선통신기반 열차제어시스템의 통신성능평가를 위한 로밍시뮬레이터 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kang-Mi;Jo, Hyun-Jeong;Shin, Kyung-Ho;Kim, Jong-Ki;Kim, Baek-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2006.11b
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    • pp.1454-1460
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    • 2006
  • This paper assesses communication performance using a roaming simulator when roaming occurs between onboard and ground wireless communication devices for communication based train control system (CBTC). Generally, CBTC is defined as the system regularly collecting location and speed data from each train, transmitting distance information to a train, and optimizing train speed according to train performance. When a train is moving, roaming is also performed to continuously transmit and receive train control information between the ground controller and the train. To operate CBTC, packet loss rate should be less than 1%, roaming time less than 100ms during roaming. We developed a roaming simulator to check communication performance before installing ground and onboard equipments on actual wireless sections. The roaming simulator to be introduced in this paper is for roaming simulation before conducting CBTC field test, which is the project to develop Urban Rail Signaling System Standards, being conducted in KRRI. The simulation consists of one onboard wireless communication device and three ground wireless communication devices, and the roaming simulator estimate packet loss rate occurring during roaming process of the two devices. Therefore, if you use the roaming simulator before the field test, you can predict various problems to occur in actual environment and reduce time, cost and people necessary to resolve these problems.

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RF Loss Minimization Method Using High Impedance Filter for Research (High Impedance Filter를 이용한 RF Loss 최소화 방법에 대한 연구)

  • Wang, Hyun-Chul;Seo, Hwa-Il
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.55-60
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    • 2020
  • This study designed High impedance filter to reduce RF loss to heater heating wire and increase RF current flowing to heater ground wire. Effects such as D / R improvement and process reproducibility could be seen. In addition, RF parameter distribution optimization was possible by understanding the RF path of PE-CVD equipment using Plasma and designing filter.