Damages of large embankment dams by recent strong earthquakes in the world highlight the importance of seismic security of dams. Some of recent dam construction projects for water storage and hydropower are located in highly seismic zone, hence the seismic performance evaluation is an important issue. While state-of-the-art numerical analysis technology is generally utilized in practice for seismic performance evaluation of large dams, physical modeling is also carried out where new construction technology is involved or numerical analysis technology cannot simulate the behavior appropriately. Geotechnical centrifuge modeling is widely adopted in earthquake engineering to simulate the seismic behavior of large earth structures, but sometimes it can’t be applied for large embankment dams due to various limitations. This study proposes a dynamic centrifuge testing method for large embankment dams and evaluated its applicability. Scaling relations for a case which model scale and g-level are different could be derived considering the stress conditions and predominant period of the structure, which is equivalent to previously suggested scaling relations. The scaling principles and testing method could be verified by modified modeling of models using a model at different acceleration levels. Finally, its applicability was examined by centrifuge tests for an embankment dam in Korea.

A diagnostic tool has been proposed to convert the observed surface distribution of hydrogen recombination line intensities into the radial distributions of the electron temperature and the density in HII regions. The observed line intensity is given by an integral of the volume emission coefficient along the line of sight, which comprises the Abel type integral equation for the volume emission coefficient. As the emission coefficient at a position is determined by the temperature and density of electrons at the position, the local emission coefficient resulted from the solution of the Abel equation gives the radial distribution of the temperature and the density. A test has been done on the feasibility of our diagnostic approach to probing of HII regions. From model calculations of an HII region of pure hydrogen, we have theoretically generated the observed surface brightness of hydrogen recombination line intensities and analyzed them by our diagnostic tool. The resulting temperatures and densities are then compared with the model values. For this case of uniform density, errors in the derived density are not large at all the positions. For the electron temperature, however, the largest errors appear at the central part of the HII region. The errors in the derived temperature decrease with the radial distance, and become negligible in the outer part of the model HII region.

Liquefaction-induced lateral spreading continues to be a major cause of damage to deep foundations. Currently there is a huge uncertainty associated with the maximum lateral pressures and forces applied by the liquefied soil to deep foundations. Furthermore, recent centrifuge and is shaking table tests of pile foundations indicate that the permeability of the liquefied sand is an extremely important and poorly understood factor. This article presents experimental results and analysis of one of the centrifuge tests that were conducted at the 150 g-ton RPI centrifuge to investigate the effect of soil permeability in the response of single piles and pile groups to lateral spreading.

본 연구에서는 괴산댐 하류 달천에서 성어기 피라미에 대한 물리 서식처 모의를 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 퍼지논리에 의한 서식처 적합도 지수를 산정하는 CASiMiR 모형을 이용하였다. 또한 모의결과를 서식처 선호도 곡선을 이용하여 서식처 적합도 지수를 산정할 수 있는 수리모형인 River2D 모형의 결과와 비교, 분석하였다. CASiMiR 모형의 수위 자료는 River2D 모형을 통한 수위계산결과를 활용하였으며 현장측정자료와 비교한 결과 잘 반영하는 것을 확인하였다. 대상구간의 만곡부 상류 직선구간에 있는 여울에서 성어기 피라미의 서식처가 가장 적합한 것으로 나타났다. CASiMiR 모형의 경우 7.23m3/s의 유량조건에서 가중가용면적이 최대값을 보였고, River2D 모형은 9m3/s의 유량에서 최대 가중가용면적을 예측하였다. 또한 갈수량(Q355), 저수량(Q275), 평수량(Q185), 풍수량(Q95) 유량조건에서 CASiMiR 모형은 River2D 모형에 비해 가중가용면적을 0.3～25.3% 정도 과대 추정하는 결과를 보였다.