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A Simple Model of Shrinkage Cracking Development for Kaolinite

수축 균열 발달 과정을 위한 단순 모델

  • Min, Tuk-Ki (Dept. of Civil & Engiron. Engrg., Univ. of Ulsan) ;
  • Nhat, Vo Dai (Dept. of Civil & Engiron. Engrg., Univ. of Ulsan)
  • Published : 2007.09.30
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Abstract

The experiments have been conducted on Kaolinite in laboratory to investigate the development of shrinkage cracking and propose a simple model. Image analysis method consisting of control point selection(CPS) technique is used to process and analyze images of soil cracking captured by a digital camera. The distributions of crack length increment and crack area increment vary as a three-step process. These steps are regarded as stages of soil cracking. They are in turn primary crack, secondary crack and shrinkage crack stages. In case of crack area, the primary and secondary stages end at normalized gravimetric water content(NGWC) of 0.92 and 0.70 for different specimen thicknesses respectively. In addition, the primary stage in case of crack length also ends at NGWC of 0.92 while the secondary stage stops at NGWC of 0.79, 0.82, and 0.85 for the sample thicknesses of 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 cm respectively Based on the experimental results, the distributions of crack length increment and crack area increment appear to be linear with a decrease of NGWC. Therefore, the development of shrinkage cracking is proposed typically by a simple model functioned by a combination of three linear expressions.

본 연구에서는 카올린점토에 대한 실내실험을 통하여 수축으로 인한 균열발생을 조사하고 균열 단계를 모사할 수 있는 단순모델을 제안하였다. CPS 기법을 이용하여 디지털 카메라에 의해 얻은 균열 이미지를 분석하였다. 함수비의 감소에 따라 균열의 길이와 면적은 1차 균열단계, 2차 균열단계, 수축단계 균열의 3단계로 나타났다. 균열 면적의 1차 및 2차 균열 최종 단계에서의 정규화된 함수비는 시료 두께에 상관없이 각각 0.92와 0.70에서 발생하였다. 반면 균열 길이는 1차 균열 최종 단계에서의 함수비는 시료 두께와 상관없이 0.92에서 발생하였으나, 2차 균열 최종 단계에서의 함수비는 시료 두께가 0.5, 1.0, 2.0cm로 증가함에 따라 함수비는 0.79, 0.82, 0.85로 증가하였다. 수축 균열을 모사할 수 있는 3개의 직선으로 구성된 단순모델을 제안하였다.

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