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Stress-Path Dependent Deformation Characteristics of Anisotropic Cohesive Soil (응력경로(應力經路)에 따른 이방성(異方性) 점성토(粘性土)의 변형특성(變形特性))

  • Kwon, Oh Yeob
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.133-141
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    • 1989
  • Lightly overconsolidated clays are commonly anisotropic, and exibit substantial ranges of approximately linear behavior at stress levels which do not produce yielding. The theory of cross-anisotropic elasticity is adopted to predict the stress-strain behavior of such an anisotropic soil. Equivalent elastic parameters $A^*$ and $B^*$ which express the relationships of stress and strain in the theory have been proposed. It is shown that constitutive relationships derived from the theory represents well the mechanical response of anisotropic soil.

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A Study on Side Slope Determination of Earth Dam (EARTH DAM의 비탈면 기울기 결정에 관한 연구)

  • 이원희;김시원
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.86-102
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    • 1981
  • The soil test data of 28 earth dams, scheduled to be constructed in Kore3, were selected for this study. The safety factors of their side slops were computed using Fellenius' "slice Method" by computer. The results summarized in this study are as follows; 1. Dam sections can be easily determined by fig.10 without a time consuming trial and error calculations of assumed sections. 2. For the economical design of earth dam sections, it was found that more cohesive soil was suitable for lower dams(dam height less than 25m) and soils with a higher friction angle was better for higher dams 3. In the case that used soil materials have the same Internal friction angle, side slope increase was almost same. 4. The relationship between side slope and friction angle was found as log.S=a tan ø+b (Fig. 7) 5. The relationship between side slope and cohesion (c) was also found as log. S=a c+b (Fig. 8) 6. The change of safety factors due to the change of central core materials was very little (Table-2) 7. The decrease of safety factors according to the unit weight increase of embankment materials was negligible. 8. In general the relationship between the wet unit weight and the saturated unit weight was r sat = (rt)$^2$+0. 140. This study will contribute to the determination of economic and safe planning and designing of earth dams, embankments and cutting side slopes.

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Estimation of Depth of Improvement by Dynamic Compaction with Soil Conditions (지반조건에 따른 동다짐의 개량심도 평가)

  • Lee, Bong-Jik;Youn, Jun-Sik;Lee, Jong-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.55-61
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    • 2005
  • Dynamic compaction is a ground improvement technique which is particularly effective for loose granular soils. It has also been used successfully to the cohesive soils with high void ratio, and wastes and fills. For the design of dynamic compaction method, prediction of depth of improvement is very important. The depth of improvement is influenced not only by compaction energy but also by many parameters such as grid spacing, soil property, degree of saturation and site conditions. Based on the test results, the depth of improvement were evaluated with considering compaction energy, soil type and ground water level.

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A Study on Estimation of the Collapse Pattern of Road Sink Using Distinct Element Method (개별요소법을 이용한 도로함몰 붕괴양상 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Ham, Myoung Soo;Park, Seon Woo;Lee, Hyun Dong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2019
  • The road sinks in the sewer line or subway section are affected by the ground characteristics. Therefore, it is necessary to accurately identify the relationship between the soil properties and the ground motion in the area where cavities occurred in order to establish a countermeasure against the road sink. In this paper, simulation was performed by using EDEM program, which is one of the Discrete Element Method programs, for sandy soil and clayey soil, which are most common in alluvial deposits, with different locations and sizes of cavities in the underground. As a result, it was found that the sink size occurred more in the sandy soil than in the cohesive soil. Deeper and larger cavity is more likely to occur the road sink In the sand soil model while road sink in the clay model is easy to occur when the cavity is more shallower.

Effects of Grain Size Distribution in Soil on the Strength Characteristics of Lime-Soil Mixtures (흙의 粒度分捕가 石灰混合土의 强度特性에 미치는 影響)

  • Cho, Seong-Jeong;Kang, Yea-Mook
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.57-71
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    • 1985
  • The characteristics of compaction and unconfined compressive strength were investigated by mixing with lime to all soils adjusted by given percentages of two kinds of clays to sand to obtain the most effective distribution of grain size and the optimum lime content for soil stabilization. In addition, unconfined compressive strength and durability tested by adding of sodium metasilicate, sodium sulfate, sodium carbonate, sodium gydroxide and magnesium oxide to lime-soil mixture mixed with 8 percent lime to adjusted soil having the mixing percentage of 60 percent of cohesive black clay and 40 percent of sand by weight to get the effect and the optimum content of chemicals. The results obtained were as follows; 1.With the addition of more lime, the optimum moisture content was increased, and the maximum dry density was decreased, whereas the more the amount of clay and the less was the maximum drt density. 2. In the soil having more fine grain size the unconfined compressive strength was larger in the earlier stage of curing period, in accordance with the longer period, the mixing percentages of sand to clay showing the maximum unconfined compressive strength, on the basis of 28-day strength, were 60% : 40% (black clay) and 40% : 60% (brown clay) respectively. 3. The reason why the soil adjusted with black clay was remarkably bigger in the unconfined compressive strength than ones adjusted with brown clay for all specimen of lime-soil mixture was the difference in the kind of clay, the amount of chemical compositions the value of pH. Black clay was mainly composed of halloysite that reacted with lime satisfactorily, whereas the main composition of brown clay was kaolinite that was less effect in the enhance of unconfined compressive strength. Also the difference of unconfined compressive strength was because black clay was larger in the amount of composition of calcium oxide and magnesium oxide in the value of pH affecting directly on the unconfined compressive strength of lime-soil mixture than brown clay. 4. In the lime-soil mixture mixed with 8 percent of lime to soil that mixing percentage of sand to black clay was 60% : 40%, on the standard of 7-day strength, the effect of chemical was arranged in the order of magnesium oxide, sodium carbonate, sodium sulfate, sodium hydroxide and sodium metasilicate. 5. The optimum amount of chemical being applicable to the maximum unconfined compressive strength of lime-chemical-soil mixture was 1 percent by weight for air dry soil in the case of adding sodium carbonated and 0.75 percent on sodium hydroxide, the unconfined compressive strength was increased continuously with increase of the amount of chemical up to 2 percent of chemical content is the lime-chemical-soil mixture added sodium metasilicate, sodium sulfate and magnesium oxide. 6. It was considered that the chemical played and accelerant role of early revelation of strength because the rate of increase of unconfined compressive strength of all of lime-chemical-soil mixtures was largest on the 7-day cured specimen. 7. The effect of test on freezing and thawing after adding suitable amount of chemical on the lime-soil mixture mixed with 8 percent of lime to soil that mixing percentage of sand to black clay was 60% : 40% was arranged in the order of magnesium oxide, sodium carbonate, sodium sulfate, sodium metasilicate and sodium hydroxide.

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Effect of Loading Frequency Dependent Soil Behavior on Seismic Site Effect (하중의 주파수에 의하여 지배받은 흙의 동적 거동이 부지증폭현상에 미치는 영향)

  • Park Du-Hee;Hashash Y.M.A;Lee Hyun-Woo;Kim Jae-Yoen
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.23-35
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    • 2006
  • Equivalent linear analysis is widely used in estimating local seismic site effects. The soil behavior in the analysis is often assumed to be rate-independent and is not influenced by the seismic loading frequency. Laboratory results, however, indicate that cohesive soil behavior is greatly influenced by the loading frequency. A new equivalent linear analysis method that accounts for the loading frequency dependent soil behavior is developed and used to perform a series of one dimensional site response analyses. Results indicate that while frequency dependent shear modulus has limited influence on computed site response, frequency dependent soil damping greatly filters out high frequency components of the ground motion and thus results in lower response.

The Influence of Fine Particles under 0.08 mm Contained in Aggregate on the Characteristics of Concrete (골재 중 0.08 mm 이하 미립분의 종류가 콘크리트의 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Song, Jin-Woo;Choi, Jae-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.347-354
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    • 2013
  • Recently, crushed fine aggregates are being widely used due to the shortage of natural sand. In Korea, the amount of fine particles under 0.08 mm contained in crushed fine aggregates is restricted to be less than 7%, which is similar to the regulations of ASTM but is still very strict compared to the regulations of the other nations. In addition, the crushed aggregates already have in them about 20% of fine particles under 0.08 mm which occurs while they are crushed. The fine particles are not easy to wash out, and also to maximize the use of resources it is deemed necessary to review the possibility of enhancing the limit of the amount of fine particles. Therefore, this study conducted experiments to analyze the characteristics of fine particles under 0.08mm and their influence on the properties of concrete. Experiments using silt and cohesive soil were also done for comparison. In the experiments on fine particles, the methylene blue value was more in the soil dust contained in silt and cohesive soil than in the stone powder contained in crushed fine aggregates. Also, the methylene blue value had a close correlation with packing density and liquid & plastic limit. In the experiments done with concrete, the quantity of high range water reducing agent demanded to obtain the same slump increased as the fine particle substitution rate heightened. However, in the experiment which used stone powder testing the compressive strength and tensile strength of concrete in the same water-cement ratio, there was little change in strength with less than 20% addition of fine particles among the fine aggregates, and no meaningful difference in the amount of drying shrinkage of concrete.

A study on the clogging of shield TBM cutterhead opening area according to the characteristics of cohesive soil content (점성토 함량 특성에 따른 shield TBM cutterhead 개구부의 폐색현상에 관한 연구)

  • Bang, Gyu-Min;Kim, Yeon-Deok;Hwang, Beoung-Hyeon;Cho, Sung-Woo;Kim, Sang-Hwan
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.265-280
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    • 2021
  • Population density due to urbanization is making people interested in underground space development and much interest in TBM construction with low vibration and noise. This led to a lot of research on TBM. However, research on the characteristics of the cutterhead opening of the TBM equipment being occluded under the ground conditions under which it is excavated is insufficient. Accordingly, a study was conducted to investigate clogging of the cutterhead opening during the shield TBM rolling. To identify the clogging of cutterhead openings in SHIELD TBM equipment, the reduced model experiment was divided into clay rate (10%, 30%, 50%, 60%), cutterhead opening rate (30%, 50%, 60%), and cutterhead rotation direction (one-way, two-way) and rotational speed (3 RPM) and conducted in 36 cases. Results of scale model test on shield TBM clogging, it was analyzed that the ground condition containing clay soil increased the clogging effect in both directions than the unidirectional rotation, and that the lower the rotational speed of the cutterhead, the less the clogging effect. Accordingly, the direction of cutterhead rotation, rotational speed and opening rate are calculated by taking into account ground conditions during ground excavation, the clogging effect can be reduced. It is believed to be effective in saving air as the clogging effect is reduced. Therefore, this study is expected to be an important material for domestic use of shield TBM.

Dynamic analyses and field observations on piles in Kolkata city

  • Chatterjee, Kaustav;Choudhury, Deepankar;Rao, Vansittee Dilli;Mukherjee, S.P.
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.415-440
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    • 2015
  • In the present case study, High Strain Dynamic Testing of piles is conducted at 3 different locations of Kolkata city of India. The raw field data acquired is analyzed using Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA) and CAPWAP (Case Pile Wave Analysis Programme) computer software and load settlement curves along with variation of force and velocity with time is obtained. A finite difference based numerical software FLAC3D has been used for simulating the field conditions by simulating similar soil-pile models for each case. The net pile displacement and ultimate pile capacity determined from the field tests and estimated by using numerical analyses are compared. It is seen that the ultimate capacity of the pile computed using FLAC3D differs from the field test results by around 9%, thereby indicating the efficiency of FLAC3D as reliable numerical software for analyzing pile foundations subjected to impact loading. Moreover, various parameters like top layers of cohesive soil varying from soft to stiff consistency, pile length, pile diameter, pile impedance and critical height of fall of the hammer have been found to influence both pile displacement and net pile capacity substantially. It may, therefore, be suggested to include the test in relevant IS code of practice.

균열암반 대수층에서의 방사성 핵종원소 거동예측을 위한 이론적/실험적 고찰

  • 이승구;이길용;조수영;김용제;윤윤열
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 2004.09a
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    • pp.406-409
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    • 2004
  • 최근 Lee et al.$^{l-2)}$ 은 화강암질 편마암내 균열면의 방해석이 Eu의 변화에 큰 영향을 주며, 아울러 Eu 은 Am의 유사체로서 매우 적합한 원소라고 제안하였다. 이 논문에서는 1)희토류원소와 액티나이드 원소의 이온반경, 배위수 등의 상호비교와 2) 응집력(cohesive energy)의 유사성과 물리적/화학적 특성 그리고 3) 희토류원소 지구화학의 최근 연구결과를 토대로 하여, 고준위 방사성 핵종원소인 Am의 지질매체내 거동을 예측하기 위한 유사체(analog)로서 Eu이 매우 유용한 역할을 해준다는 가설2)을 검증한 결과를 보고하고자 한다. 연구방법으로서, 핵종원소의 지질매체별 흡착특성을 밝혀내기 위해 금번 실험에서는 희토류원소 암상별 분포의 특성을 고려하여 4종류(화강암질 편마암류 2종, meta-basalts, 응회암)의 시료를 선별하였다. 방사화학적 흡탈착 실험의 핵종동위원소로서는 152Eu와 241Am을 선택하였다. 이는 본 연구팀의 연구결과, Eu과 Am의 밀접한 물리적/화학적 상관관계 그리고 지질환경내에서의 거동특성을 고려한 것이다. 실험결과 양 동위원소의 지질매체와의 흡착 반응 특성을 비교해 볼 때, 시간의 경과에 따라 서로간에 매우 유사한 양상의 증감을 보여주면서 변화함을 알 수가 있었다. 이 결과는 희토류원소가 액티나이드 원소의 지질환경내 거동예측을 위한 유사체로서 매우 훌륭한 도구라는 것을 입증해 주는 것이라 할 수 있다.

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