• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.543-554
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• 2019

İzmir Bay reserves high amount of residual alluvial deposits generated by Meles River at its stream mouth. These carried sediments with high water content and low bearing capacity are unsuitable in terms of engineering purposes. In-situ soil stabilization with deep soil mixing method is considered to improve properties of soil in this location. This method is widely used especially over Scandinavia, Japan and North America. Basically, the method covers mixing appropriate binder into the soil to improve soil profile according to the engineering needs. For this purpose, soil samples were initially provided from the site, classification tests were performed and optimum ratios of lime and cement binders were determined. Following, specimens representing the in-situ soil conditions were prepared and cured to be able to determine their engineering properties. Unconfined compression tests and vane shear tests were applied to evaluate the stabilization performance of binders on samples with different curing periods. Scanning electron microscope was used to observe time-dependent bonding progress of binders in order to validate the results. Utilization of 4% lime and 4% cement mixture for the long-term performance and 8% lime and 8% cement mixture for short term performance were suggested for the stabilization of Meles Delta soils. Development of CSH and CAH in a gel form as well as CSH crystals were clearly observed on SEM images of treated specimens.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.665-681
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• 2023

Liquefaction is one of the most devastating geotechnical phenomena that severely damage vital structures and lifelines. Before constructing structures on problematic ground, it is necessary to improve the site and solve the geotechnical problem. Among ground improvement methods dealing with liquefaction, gravel drain (GD) columns and deep soil mixing (DSM) columns are popular. In this study, the results of a series of seismic experiments in a 1g environment on a structure located over liquefiable ground with different thicknesses reinforced with GD and DSM techniques were presented. The dynamic response of the reinforced ground system was investigated based on the parameters of subsidence rate, excess pore water pressure ratio, and maximum acceleration. The time history of the input acceleration was applied harmonically with an acceleration range of 0.2g and at frequencies of 1, 2, and 3 Hz. The results show that the thickness of the liquefiable layer and the frequency of the input motion have a significant impact on the effectiveness of the improvement method and all responses. Among the two techniques used, DSM in thick liquefied layers was much more efficient than GD in controlling the subsidence and rupture of the soil under the foundation. Maximum settlement values, settlement rate, and foundation rotation in the thicker liquefied layer at the 1-Hz input frequency were higher than at other frequencies. At low thicknesses, the dynamic behavior of the GD was closer to that of the DSM.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2020

Design techniques for the deep mixing method, one of the soft ground improvement methods, include two ways to interpret the ground as composite ground and pile ground. However, since comparative studies on these two approaches are insufficient, it is difficult to clearly define the analysis criteria in the design. In this study, two-dimensional and three-dimensional analyses have been performed with different conditions. The three conditions, the embankment height, depth of soft ground, and replacement ratio of reinforcement zones were varied and the analysis was performed on the basis of the assumption of composite ground and pile ground for each condition. As a result, the minimum depth of improvement in the two-dimensional analysis was deeper by 6.85~9.08% than in the three-dimensional analysis. The pile ground analysis showed that the depth of improvement was deeper by 12.22~14.45% than the composite ground analysis. Based on these results, it is concluded that for more accurate design, three-dimensional analysis should be performed rather than two-dimensional analysis. also, it is judged that necessary to analyze the ground as composite ground for economical design, and as the pile ground analysis for stable design.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.45-50
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• 2011

As the Deep Cement Mixing Method is composed of drilled natural soft soil structure and injected cement slurry to be mix together in it, the nature of excavated ground is influenced directly to the application of constructability. Also the nature of in situ soil is the main material, the mix design and construction work plan should be established before the investigation of soil which is performed through the whole site confirm the soil parameter before construction. The nature of investigated soil and water level as should be performed accurately.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.55-62
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• 2000

심층혼합처리공법에 의해 개량된 연약지반상에 사석제를 축조한 후 배면매립을 실시할 경우 사석호안의 변형거동을 관찰하기 위해 계측을 실시하였다. 개량지반상에 사석호안을 축조하기 위한 설계기준을 마련하기 위하여 유한요소법을 이용한 지반변형해석과 Bishop의 간편법을 이용한 사면안정해석을 실시하였다. 이들 해석을 사석제부, 연약지반부 그리고 뒷채음성토부의 토질조건 및 형상이 다른 여러 경우에 대하여 실시하여 그 결과를 서로 비교 분석하였다. 즉, 해석결과를 이용하여 사석제 정사부에서의 수평변위량과 침하？을 호안의 사면안정률과 연과지어 검토하였다. 본 연두결과 사석호안의 사면안전률 1.3보다 낮을 경우 상당히 큰 지반변형이 발생하는 것으로 나타났다.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.431-441
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• 2018

To set up the future research and development direction for Auger bit, this study analyzed publicized patent trends of Deep Cement Mixing method (DCM) in Korea, USA, Japan, and Europe. DCM method was firstly classified into wing shapes and the number of rods according to the technical scope, and secondly, classified into 8 types according to type of screw and rotation axial. A total of 2,815 patents were searched and 448 validated patents were selected through de-duplication and filtering. As a result of the analysis of the portfolio through the number of patents and growth stages, it was selected as the core technology that auger is deemed to have high growth potential and if there is a patent similar to core technology through a patent barrier analysis, the basic data is suggested to develop the design around and differentiated technologies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.178-182
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• 2004

To establish the design criteria for construction of the rubble mound on improved ground, two kinds of analyses for the soil deformation behavior and the slope stability were performed on various cases for rubble mounds, soft grounds and back fills with application of the finite element method and the Bishop simplified method. The horizontal displacements and settlements at the crest of rubble mounds were analyzed as a function of the safety factor of embankments. The analyzed result shows that the soil movement increases considerably when the safety factor of rubble mounds is lower than 1.3.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.2
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• pp.506-515
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• 2023

This study is to find a method to learn engine sound after the start-up of a diesel generator installed in nuclear power plant with an unsupervised deep learning algorithm (CNN autoencoder) and a new method to predict the failure of a diesel generator using it. In order to learn the sound of a diesel generator with a deep learning algorithm, sound data recorded before and after the start-up of two diesel generators was used. The sound data of 20 min and 2 h were cut into 7 s, and the split sound was converted into a spectrogram image. 1200 and 7200 spectrogram images were created from sound data of 20 min and 2 h, respectively. Using two different deep learning algorithms (CNN autoencoder and binary classification), it was investigated whether the diesel generator post-start sounds were learned as normal. It was possible to accurately determine the post-start sounds as normal and the pre-start sounds as abnormal. It was also confirmed that the deep learning algorithm could detect the virtual abnormal sounds created by mixing the unusual sounds with the post-start sounds. This study showed that the unsupervised anomaly detection algorithm has a good accuracy increased about 3% with comparing to the binary classification algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2009.03a
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• pp.883-887
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• 2009

In this study, a new soil retaining system was proposed by soil cement mixing method. The new soil retaining system is based on deep cement mixing method by large diameter reinforcing blocks (piles). Large diameter reinforcing blocks (usually $\varnothing$300-500 mm) have the advantage to make reinforcements over a relatively short depth and thus reduce the amount of reinforcement necessary. A field case has been reviewed for actual application of the soil retaining system at a downtown site. Research was conducted to evaluate the behavior of the installed soil retaining wall, with reinforcing blocks (400 mm in diameter and 4 m in length) placed into a 10 m excavation wall at a $20^{\circ}$ angle. As a result, the potential for applying this method to the downtown excavation site was confirmed.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.99-103
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• 2009

This research is the result of investigating engineering characteristics of slime generated during construction of deep mixing method. Mechanical characteristics of slime have been studied through literature review and laboratory tests of unconfined compression test, permeability test and settling tests were performed. As result of field observation of slime being generated, slime started to be produced right after flight auger was penetrated into a ground and its amount was increased in progress. Unconfined compressive strength of specimen with slime obtained from in field was measured in the range of $929.7{\sim}3,509.8kN/m^2$ and the value of unconfined compressive strength was found to be changed significantly with mixing ratio of soil, cement and binder. Permeability of them was measured in the range of $4.53{\times}10^{-7}{\sim}6.62{\times}10^{-6}cm/sec$ so that the mixture was appropriate as a impervious barrier. It was also know that the value of permeability was changed with the mixing ratio of binder. As test results of solidifying slime specimen prepared in the laboratory, good quality of cement mixture with coarse soil of sand were produced, compared with fine soils of silt and clay.