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Mechanism Analysis of Tunnel Collapse in Weak Ground (미고결 지반에서의 터널붕락 메커니즘 분석)

  • Lee, Jae-Ho;Jeong, Yun-Young;Kim, Young-Su;Moon, Hong-Duk
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.339-347
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    • 2009
  • Despite the recent improvement in tunnel excavation technique, Tunnel collapse accidents still happen. This paper suggest two typical cases in unconsolidated ground condition. Collapse causes of each case were analyzed by the measurement records and numerical simulation, and then mechanism of tunnel collapse was investigated about each case. From this study, the crucial indicators of tunnel collapse were the variation of shear strain and ground water level, also, tunnel collapse deeply related to how shear deformation around tunnel was developed according to the excavation step.

Consideration of Failure Type on the Ground Excavation (지하굴착에 따른 붕괴유형에 대한 고찰)

  • Lee, Jung-Jae;Jung, Kyung-Sik;Lee, Chang-No
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2009.09a
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    • pp.660-670
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    • 2009
  • Neighboring construction becomes mainstream of Ground excavation in downtown area. This causes the displacement, deformation, stress condition, etc of the ground surroundings. Therefore Neighboring construction have an effect on Neighboring structure. All these years a lot of Neighboring construction carried out, and the accumulation of technology also get accomplished. But earth retaining structure collapse happens yet. Types of earth retaining structure collapse are 12. 1. Failure of anchor or strut system, 2. Insufficiency of penetration, 3. H-pile Failure on excessive bending moment, 4. Slope sliding failure, 5. Excessive settlement of the back, 6. Deflection of H-pile, 7. Joint failure of coupled H-pile, 8. Rock failure when H-pile penetration is rock mass, 9. Plane arrangement of support systems are mechanically weak, 10. Boiling, 11. Heaving, 12. Over excavation. But field collapses are difficult for classification according to the type, because collapse process are complex with various types. When we consider the 12 collapse field, insufficient recognition of ground condition is 4 case. Thorough construction management prevents from fault construction. For limitations of soil survey, It is difficult to estimate ground condition exactly. Therefore, it should estimate the safety of earth retaining system, plan for necessary reinforcement, according to measurement and observation continuously.

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Depletion Kinetics of Ground State FeO Molecules by $O_2, N_2O, and \;N_2$

  • Son, H. S.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.583-587
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    • 2000
  • Depletion kinetics of ground state FeO molecules by $0_2$, $N_2O$ and $N_2$ has been studied at room temperature. The ground state FeO molecules were generated by photolysis of a $Fe$(CO)_5$/M(O_2$, $N_2O)/He$ mixture using an unfocused weak UV laser beam. The formation of ground state FeO molecules was identified by a laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) method. The intensity distribution of those undisturbed rotational lines suggests that the rotational temperature of the ground state FeO molecules is lower than room temperature. The LIF intensities of FeO molecules at different partial pressures of $0_2$, $N_2O$ and $N_2$ were monitored as a function of the time delay between the photolysis and probe laser pulses to obtain the depletion rate constants for the ground state FeO. They were 1.7+ 0.2x $10^{-12}$, 4.8 $\pm0.4$ x $10^{-12}$, and $1.4\pm$ 0.2x $10^{-12}cm^3$molecule^{-1}s^{-1}$$ by $0_2$, $N_20$, and $N_2$, respectively.

A Study on the Location Error Measurement to Resolve the Problem of Weak Signal Areas for Satellite Navigation System (위성항법시스템기반의 도심지역 음영해소를 위한 위치오차 측정에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Chi-Ho
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.48 no.10
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    • pp.13-19
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    • 2011
  • This study is to explore the causes for weak signal areas and suggest solutions for the problem of weak signal areas through the experiments for location error of satellite navigation system depending on the characteristics of locations. For kinematic point positioning, a moving object can have different number of satellite navigation systems available depending on its location. It has to receive location data from at least four satellite navigation systems for precise point positioning. However, drastic urbanization and poor surroundings have caused greater location error and weak signal areas. To reduce location error and remove the occurrence of weak signal areas, it is necessary to verify the characteristics of metropolitan surroundings. Therefore, experiments were conducted to measure location error and discover the causes for the occurrence of weak signal areas in metropolitan area, residential area, woods, ocean area, and open ground. In addition, this study suggests a point positioning algorithm with high precision suitable for local surroundings and an algorithm to remove weak signal areas.

Seismic Performance of Bridge with Pile Bent Structures in Soft Ground against Near-Fault Ground Motions (연약지반에 건설된 단일형 현장타설말뚝 교량의 근단층지반운동에 대한 내진성능)

  • Sun, Chang-Ho;An, Sung-Min;Kim, Jung-Han;Kim, Ick-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.23 no.7
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    • pp.137-144
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    • 2019
  • For the structures near the seismogenic fault, the evaluation of seismic performance against near-fault ground motions is important as well as for design ground motions. In this study, characteristics of seismic behaviors and seismic performance of the pile-bent bridge constructed on the thick soft soil site with various weak soil layers were analyzed. The input ground motions were synthesized by the directivity pulse parameters for intra-plate regions. The ground motion acceleration histories of each layer were obtained by one-dimensional site response analysis. Each soil layer was modeled by equivalent linear springs, and multi-support excitations with different input ground motions at each soil spring were applied for nonlinear seismic analyses. The analysis result by the near-fault ground motions and ground motions matched to design spectra were compared. In case of the near fault ground motion input, the bridge behaved within the elastic range but the location of the maximum moment occurred was different from the result of design ground motion input.

Lessons learned from recent destructive Van, Turkey earthquakes

  • Yon, Burak;Sayin, Erkut;Calayir, Yusuf;Ulucan, Zulfu Cinar;Karatas, Mehmet;Sahin, Humeyra;Alyamac, Kursat Esat;Bildik, Abdullah Tevfik
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.431-453
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    • 2015
  • A destructive earthquake, the magnitude of this earthquake was 7.2, hit Van, Turkey on October 23, 2011. After this devastating earthquake, a moderate earthquake which had 5.7 magnitude on November 9, 2011 occurred in Edremit, Van. These earthquakes caused heavy damages and collapses in many reinforced concrete buildings with loss of lives. In this paper, characteristics of ground motions of these earthquakes were studied and, deficiencies in structural elements and engineering faults such as poor workmanship and quality of construction, soft and weak stories, strong beam-weak column, short column, large overhang, hammering and unconfined gable wall were investigated. According to the observations, it was seen that, low quality of structural materials, lack of engineering services, inappropriate design and construction with insufficient detailing of the structural elements were the main reasons of heavy damages.

A study for the extraction of DGS 4-port equivalent circuit and it's parameters (DGS 구조의 4-port 등가회로 및 파라미터에 대한 추출 방법에 대한 연구)

  • Son, Chang-Sin;Jeong, Myung-Sub;Choi, Wan-Seoung;Park, Jun-Seok;Lim, Jae-Bong;Choi, Hong-Goo
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2004.07c
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    • pp.2043-2045
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    • 2004
  • This thesis complemented the weak points that the existing theses did not represented a phase characteristic as the equivalent circuit by applying 4-port simulation to DGS (Defected Ground Structure) characteristic and an equivalent circuit, which are the transmission line structure that has the defect made in the ground surface. We used a distribute device and a lumped device, obtained the equivalent circuit by applying the structure of balun to a discontinuous part. An indicated DGS (Defected Ground structure) is a dumbbells-shaped single defect, we indicated satisfying a magnitude and phase characteristics by applying this equivalent circuit.

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Probabilistic study of the influence of ground motion variables on response spectra

  • Yazdani, Azad;Takada, Tsuyoshi
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.39 no.6
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    • pp.877-893
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    • 2011
  • Response spectra of earthquake ground motions are important in the earthquake-resistant design and reliability analysis of structures. The formulation of the response spectrum in the frequency domain efficiently computes and evaluates the stochastic response spectrum. The frequency information of the excitation can be described using different functional forms. The shapes of the calculated response spectra of the excitation show strong magnitude and site dependency, but weak distance dependency. In this paper, to compare the effect of the earthquake ground motion variables, the contribution of these sources of variability to the response spectrum's uncertainty is calculated by using a stochastic analysis. The analytical results show that earthquake source factors and soil condition variables are the main sources of uncertainty in the response spectra, while path variables, such as distance, anelastic attenuation and upper crust attenuation, have relatively little effect. The presented formulation of dynamic structural response in frequency domain based only on the frequency information of the excitation can provide an important basis for the structural analysis in some location that lacks strong motion records.

Installation Methodology of Parallel Ground Conductor and SVL for Single Point Bonding System on Underground Power Cable (지중 전력 선로 편단접지 시스템에서의 병행지선 및 SVL 설치방안)

  • Ha, C.W.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.119-121
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    • 2008
  • In underground power cable system, the device for limiting over-voltage is needed when transient over-voltage break out between sheath and ground. For this reason, the SVL(Sheath Voltage Limiter) has been applied on weak points. But the broken SVLs which are installed on the single point bonding system on underground cable are frequently found. In this paper, EMTP(Electromagnetic Transient Program) is utilized to analyze effects on the installation methodology of the parallel ground conductor and SVL for the single point bonding system on the underground cable. The result shows that the proposed installation methodology can be applied for single point bonding system and contribute for power system stabilization.

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A study of modeling novel DGS 4-port equivalent circuit for mounting active device (능동 소자의 실장을 위한 새로운 DGS구조와 4-port등가 모델링 방법 연구)

  • Son Chang-Sin;Park Jun-Seok;Kim Hyeong-Seok;Lim Jae-Bong
    • 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.386-389
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    • 2004
  • This thesis complemented the weak points that the existing theses did not represented a phase characteristic as the equivalent circuit by applying 4-port simulation to DGS (Defected Ground Structure) characteristic and an equivalent circuit, which are the transmission line structure that has the defect made in the ground surface. We used a distribute device and a lumped device, obtained the equivalent circuit by applying the structure of balun to a discontinuous part. An indicated DGS (Defected Ground structure) is a dumbbells-shaped single defect, we indicated satisfying a magnitude and phase characteristics by applying this equivalent circuit.

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