• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.113-119
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• 2018

The probabilistic seismic safety assessment is one of the methodology to evaluate the seismic safety of the nuclear power plants. The site characteristics of the nuclear power plant should be reflected when evaluating the seismic safety of the nuclear power plant. The Korea seismic characteristics are strong in high frequency region and may be different from NRC Regulatory Guide 1.60, which is the design spectrum of nuclear power plants. In this study, seismic response of a nuclear power plant structure by Pohang earthquake (2017.11.15. (KST)) is investigated. The Pohang earthquake measured at the Cheongsong seismic observation station (CHS) is scaled to the peak ground acceleration (PGA) of 0.2 g and the seismic acceleration time history curve corresponding to the design spectrum is created. A nuclear power plant of the containment building and the auxiliary buildings are modeled using OPENSEES to analyze the seismic response of the Pohang earthquake. The seismic behavior of the nuclear power plant due to the Pohang earthquake is investigated. And the seismic performances of the equipment of a nuclear power plant are evaluated by the HCLPF. As a result, the seismic safety evaluation of nuclear power plants should be evaluated based on site-specific characteristics of nuclear power plants.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제3권3_4호
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• pp.231-248
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• 2012

In this study, a systematic investigation is carried out on the seismic behaviour of plane moment resisting steel frames (MRF) to repeated strong ground motions. Such a sequence of earthquakes results in a significant damage accumulation in a structure because any rehabilitation action between any two successive seismic motions cannot be practically materialised due to lack of time. In this work, thirty-six MRF which have been designed for seismic and vertical loads according to European codes are first subjected to five real seismic sequences which are recorded at the same station, in the same direction and in a short period of time, up to three days. Furthermore, the examined frames are also subjected to sixty artificial seismic sequences. This investigation shows that the sequences of ground motions have a significant effect on the response and, hence, on the design of MRF. Additionally, it is concluded that ductility demands, behaviour factor and seismic damage of the repeated ground motions can be satisfactorily estimated using appropriate combinations of the corresponding demands of single ground motions.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.24-33
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• 2017

국내 도시철도 지하역사는 주로 개착식 공법으로 건설되었으며, 1970~80년대에 건설된 지하역사는 내진설계가 반영되지 않았다. 한반도 뿐 만 아니라, 전 세계적으로 지진 발생빈도는 증가하고 있는 추세이며, 내진설계가 적용되지 않은 기존 지하역사에 지진이 발생될 경우 막대한 인명 및 재산피해가 우려된다. 본 연구에서는 내진보강이 된 지하역사의 지반-구조물 상호작용과 보강효과를 검토하기 위해, Kobe 지진파 및 Northridge 지진파를 1/60축소모형에 적용하여 원심모형실험을 수행하였다. 내진보강은 주 부재인 기둥, 측벽, 슬래브의 강성을 증가시켜 내진보강 전후를 비교 검토하였다. 현장 조건에 따른 모형 지반을 모사하기 위해 공진주시험을 통해 실제 깊이 및 밀도에 따른 전단파 속도의 변화를 모사하였다. 지반과 구조물은 비교적으로 유사한 거동을 하였으며, 지표면으로 가까워질수록 상대변위가 증가하였다. 또한, 내진 보강전후의 지하역사 구조물의 슬래브에 비해 기둥과 측벽에서 상대변위와 모멘트 구조 거동을 통해 내진 보강 효과를 확인할 수 있었으며, 단주기인 Northridge지진파에 비해 Kobe지진파에서 구조물의 변형이 크게 발생하는 것을 통해 지진파는 주요 설계인자임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2017

In this study, the characteristics of site amplification at seismic observation stations in Japan were estimated using the attenuation relationship of each station's response spectrum. Ground motion records observed after 32 earthquakes were employed to construct the attenuation relationship. The station correction factor at each KiK-net station was compared to the transfer functions between the base rock and the surface. For each station, the plot of the station correction factor versus the period was similar in shape to the graphs of the transfer function (amplitude ratio versus period). Therefore, the station correction factors are effective for evaluating site amplifications considering the period of ground shaking. In addition, the station correction factors were evaluated with respect to the average shear wave velocities using a geographic information system (GIS) dataset. Lastly, the site amplifications for specific periods were estimated throughout Japan.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.523-529
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• 2004

The seismic monitoring at Syowa Station$(69^{\circ}S,\;39^{\circ}E: SYO)$, located on the continental margin of the Eastern Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, began in 1959. Phase readings of the earthquakes have been reported since 1967 and have been annually published as part of the Data Report Series of the National Institute of Polar Research since 1968. An observation of a tripartite seismic network was carried out at SYO for a period of three years from 1987 to 1990. Epicenters of local earthquakes were determined for the first time by using the array network for the three-year period. Many different types of earthquakes, such as the mainshock-aftershock type, twin earthquake, earthquake swarms, etc., were detected during the period. After this, local events around SYO have been detected empirically from their waveforms recorded on seismograms. The seismic activity for the period of 1987-1990 was higher than that of the following decade. Earthquake epicenters, occurring during that period, were highly localized along the coast and in the central part of the $L\"{u}tzow-Holm$ Bay (LHB). Nine local earthquakes, recorded during the period of 1990-1996, showed many different types of events. The seismicity for the period of 1990-1996 was very low and the magnitudes ranged from 0.1 to 1.4. The locations of some events were determined by using the single station method for SYO, i.e., using the particle motions of the initial phase and S-P time. Two local events were detected in 1998 and one event in 2001. It would be estimated that the stress concentration was related to the glacial rebound around the LHB. Afterwards, we will be able to eventually examine the relationship between the seismicity around Antarctica and deglacial phenomena such as crustal uplift, and sea level change within the earth environmental system.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.983-997
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• 2015

This research evaluates the soil conditions for seismic stations situated in Romania using the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR). The strong ground motion database assembled for this study consists of 179 analogue and digital strong ground motion recordings from four intermediate-depth Vrancea seismic events with $M_w{\geq}6.0$. In the first step of the analysis, the influence of the earthquake magnitude and source-to-site distance on the H/V curves is evaluated. Significant influences from both the earthquake magnitude and hypocentral distance are found especially for soil class A sites. Next, a site classification method proposed in the literature is applied for each seismic station and the soil classes are compared with those obtained from borehole data and from the topographic slope method. In addition, the success and error rates of this method are computed and compared with other studies from the literature. A more in-depth analysis of the H/V results is performed using data from seismic stations in Bucharest and a comparison of the free-field and borehole H/V curves is done for three seismic stations. The results show large differences between the free-field and the borehole curves. As a conclusion, the results from this study represent an intermediary step in the evaluation of the soil conditions for seismic stations in Romania and the need to perform more detailed soil classification analysis is highly emphasized.

• 지질공학
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.137-153
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• 1996

본 연구는 이미 알려져 있는 공동 지역에서 1년 6개월에 걸친 고정점 관측 및 이동 관측망에 의한 실험을 통하여 지하 매질에 공동이 존재할 때에 나타나는 지진파의 이상 현상에 의하여 지하에 존재하는 공동을 탐지 및 식별할 수 있는 가능성을 찾는데 그 목적이 있다. 한양 대학교 지진 연구소에서는 경기도 화성군 봉담면에 위치한 삼보 광산에서 고정 지진 관측을 수행하였다. 이 자료의 대부분은 인근 골재 채취장에서의 화약류 발파에 의한 것이며 본 연구에서는 이 화약류 발파에 의한 자료를 이용하였다. 고정 관측소 관측의 경우 지상 관측과 삼보 광산의 갱도 안에서의 지하 관측을 수행하였다. 이 두 자료으 경우 종파의 초동 후 150 ~ 250 msec 후에 전환파(converted phase)의 출현에 의하여 편파 특성이 매우 급격하게 변하는 양상을 보여 준다. 전환파가 발생하는 깊이는 평균 약 190m 정도로서 삼보 광산의 갱도 깊이와 잘 일치되는 결과를 보여 준다. 또한 횡파 분열(Shear-wave Splitting) 현상이 관측되었다. 빠른 횡파(fS)와 느린횡파(sS)의 시간 차이는 약 30-60ms 정도의 차이(평균 42 ms)를 보인다. 이러한 결과는 다른 연구의 결과보다는 상당히 큰 값을 보여 주는데 이는 지하 공동에 의한 균열(Crack)이 상당히 발달해 있는 것을 나타내는 결과이다. 또한 화약 발파 실험에 의한 자료는 공동에 설칠한 지진계와 비공동 지역에 설피한 지진계를 비교 분석하였다. 공동 지역에서 설치한 지진계의 경우 고정 관측소의 경우와 같이 종파의 초동후에 편파 특성이 매우 급격하게 변하는 양상을 보이나 비공동 지역에 설치한 지진계의 경우는 편파 특성이 매우 안정적인 양상을 보인다. 또한 공동 지역을 지난 지진파의 특징은 현저한 고주파수 성분의 감쇄와 탁월한 저주파의 성질을 갖는 위상이 관측되었다.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 1998년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집 Proceedings of EESK Conference-Spring 1998
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• pp.391-398
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• 1998

To understand the current seismic activity and regional tectonic status in and around Gyeongsang basin, Korea Institute of Geology, Mining, and Materials(KIGAM) has performed the earthquake monitoring around the Gyeongsang basin since early 1980's with portable analog seismic instruments for about two months every year. As a part of POSEIDON project, Korea-Japan joint observation around gyeongsang basin in 1991 and 1992, was performed using by temporary seismic station. KIGAM has been continuously operated nine short-period 3-components digital seismic stations since the end of 1994. During the observation period, 247 earthquakes were analyzed and their magnitude was less than 4.5. In general, we could not find any relationship between seismic activity and known surface geological features. But the epicenters were rather concentrated with NW-SE direction. The most active seismicity was found in Gyeongbuk Gyeongjugun Seokeupri and Hyodongri, and Yeongilgun Janggiri and Guryongpo in land, and in three region along the east coast which are 10km and 30km east off from Gampo and 30km east off from Jongja in offshore.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2003년도 춘계 학술발표회논문집
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• pp.12-15
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• 2003

Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources(KIGAM) is operating Wonju Korea Seismic Research Station(KSRS), 29 regional seismic research stations and 5 Korea-China joint seismic stations in China. Also KIGAM is operating Korea Earthquake Monitoring System (KEMS) to archive the real-time data stream and to determine event parameters (epicenter, origin time, and magnitude) by the automatic processing and analyst review. To do this, KEMS used KIGAM's regional seismic network and other institute's network in a near real-time base. From Dec. 1, 2001 to Nov. 30, 2002, 3,827 seismic events were analyzed in a automatic processing procedure and finally 3,437 events were analyzed by analyst and archived. But problem is this event catalog includes not only natural earthquake, but also artificial events produced by the blast. More than 80 % events were concentrated in daytime and many events were concentrated in the confirmed blast sites, Pyeongyang, Pocheon, Yeongjong-do, Donghae city, etc. Because these artificial events are a major potential cause of error when estimating the seismicity of a specific region, discrimination procedure has to be developed in the first place.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.303-316
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• 2023

Rapid post-earthquake damage estimation of subway stations is particularly necessary to improve short-term crisis management and safety measures of urban subway systems after a destructive earthquake. The conventional Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) framework with constant earthquake occurrence rate is invalid to estimate the aftershock risk because of the time-varying rate of aftershocks and the uncertainty of mainshock-damaged state before the occurrence of aftershocks. This study presents a time-varying probabilistic seismic risk assessment framework for underground structures considering mainshock and aftershock hazards. A discrete non-omogeneous Markov process is adopted to quantify the time-varying nature of aftershock hazard and the uncertainties of structural damage states following mainshock. The time-varying seismic risk of a typical rectangular frame subway station is assessed under mainshock-only (MS) hazard and mainshock-aftershock (MSAS) hazard. The results show that the probabilities of exceeding same limit states over the service life under MSAS hazard are larger than the values under MS hazard. For the same probability of exceedance, the higher response demands are found when aftershocks are considered. As the severity of damage state for the station structure increases, the difference of the probability of exceedance increases when aftershocks are considered. PSDR=1.0% is used as the collapse prevention performance criteria for the subway station is reasonable for both the MS hazard and MSAS hazard. However, if the effect of aftershock hazard is neglected, it can significantly underestimate the response demands and the uncertainties of potential damage states for the subway station over the service life.