• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.163-170
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• 2020

Floor acceleration plays a major role in the seismic design of nonstructural components and equipment supported by structures. Large floor acceleration may cause structural damage to or even collapse of buildings. For precision instruments in high-tech factories, even small floor accelerations can cause considerable damage in this study. Six P-wave parameters, namely the peak measurement of acceleration, peak measurement of velocity, peak measurement of displacement, effective predominant period, integral of squared velocity, and cumulative absolute velocity, were estimated from the first 3 s of a vertical ground acceleration time history. Subsequently, a new predictive algorithm was developed, which utilizes the aforementioned parameters with the floor height and fundamental period of the structure as the new inputs of a support vector regression model. Representative earthquakes, which were recorded by the Structure Strong Earthquake Monitoring System of the Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan from 1992 to 2016, were used to construct the support vector regression model for predicting the peak floor acceleration (PFA) of each floor. The results indicated that the accuracy of the predicted PFA, which was defined as a PFA within a one-level difference from the measured PFA on Taiwan's seismic intensity scale, was 96.96%. The proposed system can be integrated into the existing earthquake early warning system to provide complete protection to life and the economy.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.5-12
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• 1990

In this paper, ground vibration and other properties measurements were conducted to deter mine empirical equation based on careful test blasting with crawler drill(diameter 70-75mm). The empirical euqations for ground vibration are obtained as follows where V is peak particle velocity in cm 1 sec, D is distance in m and W is maximum charge weight per delay in kg

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.527-532
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• 2002

Near field ground motions contain distinct and large amplitude pulses in both velocity and displacement. This paper investigates characteristics of near field earthquakes and their effects on seismic demands. 20 EQGMs were selected for this purpose that satisfied 5 conditions for Near field motion. Among them ten EQGMs have one distinct peak velocity pulse in the velocity time history. In this study the responsed are Linear Elastic Response Spectrum(LERS), Response Modification Factor(R) and Inelastic Response Spectrum(IRS). The effect of the selection of Near field EQGMs on these response parameters are investigated.

• 화약ㆍ발파
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2005

구조물의 발파진동에 대한 허용 수준 설정은 구조물의 반응 특성이 발파 진동의 특성과 전파 매질인 지반의 특성, 대상 구조물의 특성, 구조물의 기초 특성 등 여러 인파에 따라 달리 나타나므로 표준화된 기준을 적용하기는 쉽지 않은 일이다. 국외의 경우 영국, 독일, 스위스, 스웨덴과 같이 국가별로 허용수준에 대한 표준을 마련한 나라들도 있으며 아직 별도로 기준을 마련하지 않은 국가들도 많다. 우리나라는 통상 적용되고 있는 기준이 있으나 아직 국가 표준화는 되어 있지 않은 상황이며 민원 해결의 근거를 위한 합리적인 기준 마련의 필요성이 대두되고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 국가적으로 기준을 갖고 있는 미국, 영국, 독일, 스위스, 스웨덴 등의 사례와 개정 작업을 하고 있는 호주 및 브라질의 사례 분석을 통하여 다양한 형태의 기준들에 대한 특징을 파악하고 현행 사용되고 있는 국내 기준의 문제점을 고찰하였다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.1227-1236
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• 2018

From all of the environmental problems, blast-induced vibrations often cause concern to surrounding residents. It is often claimed that damage to building superstructures is due to blasting, and sometimes the building owner files a lawsuit against the company that perform blasting operations. The blast-vibration problem has been thoroughly investigated in the past and continues to be the subject of ongoing research. In this study, a tunnel construction has been performed by a construction company, according to their contract they must have used drilling & blasting method for excavation in tunnel inlet and outlet portal. The population is very condensed with almost tunnel below in the vicinity houses of one or two floors, typically built with stone masonry and concrete. This situation forces the company to take extreme precautions when they are designing blasts so that the blast effects, which are mainly vibration and aerial waves, do not disturb their surrounding neighbors. For this purpose, the vibration measurement and analysis have been carried out and a new methodology in minimizing the blast induced ground vibrations at the target location, was also applied. Peak particle velocity and dominant frequencies were taken into consideration in analyzing the blast-induced ground vibration. The methodology aims to employ the most suitable time delays among blast-hole groupings to render destructive interference of surface waves at the target location.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2006

The test blasts were carried out by detonating some single blastholes at two upper sites of the underground storage cavern for the crude oil. One was performed at the entrance site of the construction tunnel and the other at the middle area of the underground storage cavern. Based on the blast-induced nitration measured by the test blasts, we suggested the propagation equations of blasting vibration that were capable of estimating the peak particle velocity. In addition, in order to assess the stability of the adjacent ground storage tank, we did the frequency analysis and the response spectrum analysis with the particle velocity-time history and the particle acceleration-time history that were measured by the test blast carried out on the entrance site of the construction tunnel. In result, it was predicted that the displacement on the highest part of the tank shell was less than the allowable displacement.

• 화약ㆍ발파
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2004

화약발파를 이용한 터널굴착은 지반진동 및 소음과 같은 발파공해적 요소가 수반됨으로써 주위 환경조건에 따라 여러 가지 형태의 피해를 유발할 수 있으며 시공 중에 종종 발생하는 민원의 주요 원인이 되고 있다. 본 연구는 터널 건설과정에서 노선이 통과하는 직상부 지역에 위치한 민가들과 인근의 아파트를 대상으로 발파로 인한 지반진동의 영향여부를 검토함으로써 사전에 발파작업으로부터의 안전성을 확보할 수 있는 근거를 마련코자 실시되었다. 먼저, 대상지역에 위치한 건물들에 대한 발파진동 허용수준은 보수적인 관점에서 0.5cm/sec를 관리수준으로 설정하였고, 터널 굴착과정에서 발생하는 발파진동 발생특성을 실측하기 위하여 총 6회의 굴진 발파에 대하여 총 70개소 이상의 측점에서 현장계측을 실시하였다. 발파진동 영향평가에서는 현장계측으로부터 획득한 자료들을 처리하여 발파로 발생하는 최대진동수준을 예측하기 위한 전파식들을 지상과 지하의 계측장소별로 유도하였다. 지반진동의 영향여부를 결정하기 위한 진동 예측식은 엄격한 기준을 적용하여 전체자료의 95%를 포함하는 식을 채택하였고, 지표 및 지하터널에 대해 각기 별도의 식을 사용할 것을 제안하였다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.39-53
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• 2021

By means of installing sloped rolling-type seismic isolators (SRI), the horizontal acceleration transmitted to the to-be-protected object above can be effectively and significantly reduced under external disturbance. To prevent the maximum horizontal displacement response of SRI from reaching a threshold, designing large and conservative damping force for SRI might be required, which will also enlarge the transmitted acceleration response. In a word, when adopting seismic isolation, minimizing acceleration or displacement responses is always a trade-off. Therefore, this paper proposes that by exploiting the possible information provided by an earthquake early warning system, the damping force applied to SRI which can better control both acceleration and displacement responses might be determined in advance and accordingly adjusted in a semi-active control manner. By using a large number of ground motion records with peak ground acceleration not less than 80 gal, the numerical results present that the maximum horizontal displacement response of SRI is highly correlated with and proportional to some important parameters of input excitations, the velocity pulse energy rate and peak velocity in particular. A control law employing the basic form of hyperbolic tangent function and two objective functions are considered in this study for conceptually developing suitable control algorithms. Compared with the numerical results of simply designing a constant, large damping factor to prevent SRI from pounding, adopting the recommended control algorithms can have more than 60% reduction of acceleration responses in average under the excitations. More importantly, it is effective in reducing acceleration responses under approximately 98% of the excitations.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.59-69
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• 2021

Historical records of earthquakes are generally used as a basis to extrapolate the instrumental earthquake catalog in time and space during the probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA). However, the historical catalogs' input parameters determined through historical descriptions rather than any quantitative measurements are accompanied by considerable uncertainty in PSHA. Therefore, quantitative assessment to verify the historical earthquake parameters is essential for refining the reliability of PSHA. This study presents an approach and its application to constrain reliable ranges of the magnitude and corresponding epicenter of historical earthquakes. First, ranges rather than specific values of ground motion intensities are estimated at multiple locations with distances between each other for selected historical earthquakes by reviewing observed co-seismic natural phenomena, structural damage levels, or felt areas described in their historical records. Based on specific objective criteria, this study selects only one earthquake (July 24, 1643), which is potentially one of the largest historical earthquakes. Then, ground motion simulations are performed for sufficiently broadly distributed epicenters, with a regular grid to prevent one from relying on strong assumptions. Calculated peak ground accelerations and velocities in areas with the historical descriptions on corresponding earthquakes are converted to intensities with an empirical ground motion-intensity conversion equation to compare them with historical descriptions. For the ground motion simulation, ground motion prediction equations and a frequency-wavenumber method are used to consider the effects of possible source mechanisms and stress drop. From these quantitative calculations, reliable ranges of epicenters and magnitudes and the trade-off between them are inferred for the earthquake that can conservatively match the upper and lower boundaries of intensity values from historical descriptions.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.31-37
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• 1994

The effects of blasting and ground vibratons on curing concrete have not been well studied. As a results unrealistic and costly ground vibration constraints have been placed on blasting and piling when it occurs in the vicinity of curing concrete. To study the effects of ground vibrations, a shaking table was made to produce peak particle velocities in the nearly same frequency range as found in construction blasting. Concrete blocks of 33.3X27.7X16.2cm were molded and placed on the shaking table. Different sets of concrete blocks were subjected to peak vibrations of 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 5.0 and 10cm/sec. The impulses were applied at two hour intervals for thirty seconds. Along with unvibrated concrete blocks, the vibrated concrete samples with 60.3mm in diameters were measured for elastic moduli, sonic velocity, tensile and uniaxial compressive strength. Test results showed that the vibrations in curing concrete generally have effects on the uniaxial compressive strength or physical properties of the concrete.