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Detection of anomalous features in an earthen dam using inversion of P-wave first-arrival times and surface-wave dispersion curves

P파 초동주시와 표면파 분산곡선 역산을 통한 흙댐의 이상대 탐지

  • Kim, K.Y. (Department of Geophysics, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Jeon, K.M. (Office of Technology, Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering E&R) ;
  • Hong, M.H. (E&P Technology Team, LG International Corp.) ;
  • Park, Young-Gyu (Office of Environmental Geology, Korea Rural Community Corporation)
  • Received : 2010.10.31
  • Accepted : 2010.12.13
  • Published : 2011.02.28
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Abstract

To locate anomalous features including seepage pathways through the Daeryong earth-fill dam, P and Rayleigh waves were recorded along a 250-m profile on the crest of the dam. Seismic energy was generated using a 5-kg sledgehammer and detected by 24 4.5-Hz vertical-axis geophones installed at 3-m intervals. P-wave and apparent S-wave velocities of the reservoir dam and underlying bedrock were then inverted from first-arrival traveltimes and dispersion curves of Rayleigh waves, respectively. Apparent dynamic Poisson's ratios as high as 0.46 were obtained at the base of the dam near its north-east end, where an outlet conduit occurs, and in the clay core body near the south-west end of the profile where the dam was repeatedly grouted to abate seepage before our survey. These anomalies of higher Poisson's ratios in the upper part of clay core were also associated with effusion of grout on the downstream slope of the dam during post-survey grouting to abate leakage. Combining P-wave traveltime tomography and inversion of Rayleigh wave velocities was very effective in detecting potential pathways for seepage and previous grouted zones in this earthen dam.

대룡 흙댐익 누수경로를 포함한 이상대 탐지를 위하여, 댐 정상부의 250 m 측선을 따라 P 파와 레일리파를 기록하였다. 5 kg 해머를 이용하여 인공적으로 소규모 지진파를 발생시켰으며, 3m 간격으로 설치한 4.5 Hz 수직지오폰 24개로 탐지하였다. 이 저수지댐과 하부 기반암의 P파 속도와 S파 겉보기속도를 초동주시와 레일리파 분산곡선 역산으로 각각 구하였다. 겉보기 동포아송비가 0.46에 달하는 높은 값들이 복통이 위치한 북서쪽 끝부분의 댐 기저와 누수저지를 위해 과거 여러 차례 그라우팅 작업을 실시한 측선 남서쪽 끝 부분의 점토코아 내에서 탐지되었다. 상부 점토코아의 높은 포아송비를 갖는 이 이상대는, 조사 후 실시한 그라우팅 작업 시 그라우트 물질이 유출된 부분에 해당한다. P파 토모그래피와 레일리파 분산곡선 역산을 함께 사용하면 흙댐의 잠재적 누수경로 및 기존 그라우팅 위치를 매우 효과적으로 탐지할 수 있다.

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