• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.86-90
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• 2011

The mining of imitated manganese noodles in 1000 m of seawater is planned for 2012. Thus, it is necessary to prepare the lifting pipes to be used for the test. Because of storage and expense constraints, flexible and economic HDPE pipe is being considered, making it necessary to test the structural safety. Material, pressure-chamber tests and finite element analysis of HDPE pipe for the 1000-m depth were performed. The tangential stiffness of HDPE was obtained through tension and three-point bending material tests and used for a structural analysis. FEA results show that the current sample pipe segment is safe for 1000 m of water pressure, and the stress result is also within the safe value. From the current results, the HDPE pipe seems to be acceptable only for the currently suggested constraints. However, more numerical and pressure tests need to be considered by applying additional physical conditions such as gravitational and hydrodynamic loads, external and internal fluid pressure, axial force induced ship motion, and heavy pump pressure to determine future usage.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.447-464
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• 2015

Millions of scrap tires are discarded annually in Turkey. The bulk of which are currently landfilled or stockpiled. These tires consume valuable landfill space or if improperly disposed, create a fire hazard and provide a prolific breeding ground for rats and mosquitoes. Used tires pose both a serious public and environmental health problem which means that economically feasible alternatives for scrap tire disposal must be found. Some of the current uses of scrap tires are tire-derived fuel, creating barrier reefs and as an asphalt additive in the form of crumb rubber. However, there is a much need for the development of additional uses for scrap tires. One development the creation of shreds from scrap tires that are coarse grained, free draining and have a low compacted density thus offering significant advantages for use as lightweight subgrade fill and backfill material. This paper reports a comprehensive laboratory study that was performed to evaluate the use of a shredded tire-sand mixture as a backfill material in trench conditions. A steel frame test tank with glass walls was created to replicate a classical trench section in field conditions. The results of the test demonstrated that shredded tires mixed with sand have a definite potential to be effectively used as backfill material for buried pipe installations.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제26권7호
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• pp.107-115
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 수직 밀폐형 지중열교환기 뒤채움 용도로, 기존 벤토나이트 그라우트의 대안으로서 시멘트 그라우트의 적용성을 검토하였다. 실내 시험을 통하여 물/시멘트 비, 천연규사 첨가비 흑연 첨가비의 변화에 따른 시멘트 그라우트 열전도도 및 유동성에 미치는 영향을 평가하였으며 배합비에 따른 시멘트 그라우트의 일축압축강도를 측정하였다. 실제 지중열교환기용 파이프내 순환유체의 온도변화가 시멘트 그라우트의 재료적 안정성에 미치는 영 향을 검토하기위해 $-5^{\circ}C$와 $50^{\circ}C$를 한 주기로 하여 일축압축강도를 반복적으로 측정하였다. 또한, 시멘트 그라우트가 지중에서 양생된 후, 냉난방 운전에 따른 순환수의 계절적 변화에 의한 시멘트 그라우트와 순환파이프의 접촉면의 양호한 부착성 유지 여부를 판단하기 위해 시멘트 그라우트에 HDPE 파이프를 삽입한 시료의 등가투수계수를 flexible wall penneameter) 이용하여 장기간 측정하였다.