• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2004

콘프레셔미터는 피에조콘 시험과 프레셔미터 시험을 동시에 수행할 수 있는 현장시험기로서 본 연구에서는 국내 점토지반에서 수행한 시험결과를 해석적으로 분석하였다. 콘프레셔미터 결과에 대한 이론적인 해는 흙이 비선형 거동을 하는 경우와 전단변형 중 체적변화가 발생하지 않는 경우에 대하여 해석적인 해가 존재한다. 이러한 해석적인 해로부터 콘프레셔미터의 결과중 하중 재하구간과 제하구간에 대해 Curve Fitting 방법을 사용한 콘프레셔미터 결과의 해석 방법을 제안하였다. 20개소의 현장에서 수행한 콘프레셔미터 결과 중 지반교란의 영향을 적게 받는 제하구간에 대하여 Curve Fitting 방법을 적용하여 점성토의 비배수 전단특성을 구하였다. 이렇게 구한 지반의 비배수 전단강도와 현장 Vane, 일축압축, 삼축압축 시험결과로부터 구한 지반의 비배수 전단강도를 서로 비교하여 콘프레셔미터 시험 결과로부터 Curve Fitting 방법을 통한 점성토 지반의 전단강도 특성파악의 적정성에 대해 평가하였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.165-177
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• 2015

Purpose: Accurate monitoring of soil strength is a key technology applicable to various precision agricultural practices. Soil strength has been traditionally measured using a cone penetrometer, which is time-consuming and expensive, making it difficult to obtain the spatial data required for precision agriculture. To improve the current, inefficient method of measuring soil strength, our objective was to develop and evaluate an in-situ system that could measure horizontal soil strength in real-time, while moving across a soil bin. Methods: Multiple cone-shape penetrometers were horizontally assembled at the front of a vertical plow blade at intervals of 5 cm. Each penetrometer was directly connected to a load cell, which measured loads of 0-2.54 kN. In order to process the digital signals from every individual transducer concurrently, a microcontroller was embedded into the measurement system. Wireless data communication was used between a data storage device and this real-time horizontal soil strength (RHSS) measurement system travelling at 0.5 m/s through an indoor experimental soil bin. The horizontal soil strength index (HSSI) measured by the developed system was compared with the cone index (CI) measured by a traditional cone penetrometer. Results: The coefficient of determination between the CI and the HSSI at depths of 5 cm and 10 cm ($r^2=0.67$ and 0.88, respectively) were relatively less than those measured below 20 cm ($r^2{\geq}0.93$). Additionally, the measured HSSIs were typically greater than the CIs for a given numbers of compactor operations. For an all-depth regression, the coefficient of determination was 0.94, with a RMSE of 0.23. Conclusions: A HSSI measurement system was evaluated in comparison with the conventional soil strength measurement system, CI. Further study is needed, in the form of field tests, on this real-time measurement and control system, which would be applied to precision agriculture.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.261-273
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• 2020

This paper presents an efficient method utilizing user-defined computer functional codes to determine the reliability of an embankment slope with spatially varying soil properties in real time. The soils' mechanical properties varied with the soil layers that had different degrees of compaction and moisture content levels. The Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) for the degree of compaction and Kriging simulation of moisture content variation were adopted and programmed to predict their spatial distributions, respectively, that were subsequently used to characterize the spatial distribution of the soil shear strengths. The shear strength parameters were then integrated into the Geostudio command file to determine the safety factor of the embankment slope. An explicit metamodal for the performance function, using the Kriging method, was established and coded to efficiently compute the failure probability of slope with varying moisture contents. Sensitivity analysis showed that the proposed method significantly reduced the computational time compared to Monte Carlo simulation. About 300 times LHS Geostudio computations were needed to optimize precision and efficiency in determining the failure probability. The results also revealed that an embankment slope is prone to high failure risk if the degree of compaction is low and the moisture content is high.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.484-494
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• 2019

This paper presents a preliminary investigation of the optimum nutrients combination required for bioremediation of spent-engine oil contaminated soil using Box-Behnken-Design. Three levels of cow-manure, poultry-manure and inorganic nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium (NPK) fertilizer were used as independent biostimulants variables; while reduction in total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) and total soil porosity (TSP) response as dependent variables were monitored under 6-week incubation. Ex-situ data generated in assessing the degree of biodegradation in the soil were used to develop second-order quadratic regression models for both TPH and TSP. The two models were found to be highly significant and good predictors of the response fate of TPH-removal and TSP-improvement, as indicated by their coefficients of determination: $R^2=0.9982$ and $R^2=1.000$ at $p{\leq}0.05$, respectively. Validation of the models showed that there was no significant difference between the predicted and observed values of TPH-removal and TSP-improvement. Using numerical technique, the optimum values of the biostimulants required to achieve a predicted maximum TPH-removal and TSP-improvement of 67.20 and 53.42%-dry-weight per kg of the contaminated soil were as follows: cow-manure - 125.0 g, poultry-manure - 100.0 g and NPK-fertilizer - 10.5 g. The observed values at this optimum point were 66.92 and 52.65%-dry-weight as TPH-removal and TSP-improvement, respectively.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 추계 학술발표회 2차
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• pp.61-67
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• 2010

Thick soft clay deposits which are generally located at the west and south coast of the Korean peninsula have complicated characteristics according to their orientation and formation history. Thus, several geotechnical problems could possibly occur when those soft clay deposits are used as foundations for marine structures. Deep cement mixing (DCM) method is one of the most widely used soft soil improvement method for various marine structures, nowadays. DCM method injects binders such as cement into the soft ground directly and mixes with the in-situ soil to improve the strength and other geotechnical properties sufficiently. However, the natural impacts induced by dynamic motions such as ocean waves, wind, typhoon, and tusnami give significant influences on the stability of marine structures and their underlaying foundations. Thus, the dynamic properties become important design criteria to insure the seismic stability of marine structures. In this study, the dynamic behavior of cemented Busan clay is evaluated. Laboratory unconfined compression test and resonant column test are performed on natural in-situ soil and cement mixed specimens to confirm the strength and strain-dependent dynamic behavior variation induced by cement mixing treatment. Results show that the unconfined compressive strength and shear modulus increase with curing time and cement content increment. Finally, the optimized cement mixing ratio for sufficient dynamic stability is obtained through this study. The results of this study are expected to be widely used to improve the reliability of seismic design for marine structures.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제50권12호
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• pp.839-856
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• 2022

우주 개발 경쟁은 지난 10년간 가속되어 왔으며, 많은 우주국들은 달 지상 탐사 및 유인 탐사를 목표로 연구를 수행 중에 있다. 장기적이고 지속 가능한 우주 탐사를 위하여 달에 유인기지와 기반 시설을 구축하고자 하는 계획이 전 세계에서 추진되고 있다. 하지만 건설에 필요한 재료를 지구로부터 운송하기 위해서는 천문학적인 비용이 소요된다. 따라서 달 현지의 자원을 활용하여 건설 재료를 생산하기 위한 기술이 개발되고 있으며, 그중 하나로 월면토를 소결하는 방안이 제시되었다. 본 논문에서는 대표적인 다섯 가지 소결 기술들인 일반 소결, 태양열 소결, 스파크 플라즈마 소결, 레이저 소결, 마이크로파 소결 기술을 소개하고 향후 필요로 되는 연구 과제에 대해 논의한다.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.68-74
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• 2012

Investigation of the effective soil thermal conductivity($k$) is the first step in designing the ground loop heat exchanger(borehole) of a geothermal heat pump system. Another important factor is the borehole thermal resistance($R_b$). Thermal response tests offer a good method to determine the ground thermal properties for the total heat transport in the ground. The first step is measured for initial soil temperature. This is done by supplying a only pump power into a borehole heat exchanger. They need to supply into water unload heat power more than 30 minutes. In this study, the initial soil temperature was found to analysis $14.1{\sim}16.0^{\circ}C$,the ratio was 68.7% represented. In this case of $k$, was 2.1~3.0 $W/m{\cdot}k$, $R_b$ was 0.11~0.20 $m{\cdot}K/W$. In this work, it is also shown that the distribution of a soil thermal conductivity and borehole thermal resistance were on the influence of initial soil temperature. And soil thermal conductivity was related with factors of equation by linear least square method, borehole thermal resistance was on the influence of composite factors.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 1999년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.423-430
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• 1999

A weathered residual soil is a soil-like material derived from the in situ weathering and decomposition of rock which has not been transported from its original location. Undisturbed sampling of residual soils is extremely difficult, which has an important effect on investigating the strength and compression characteristics. Thus, a special undisturbed sampling device (direct shear box with shoe) was developed and undisturbed samples were successfully obtained for direct shear tests, Direct shear testing was conducted under unsoaked and soaked condition. As a result, the shear strength of soaked samples was less than that of unsoaked samples, and it was verified that direct shearing of undisturbed samples can evaluate reasonably the shear strength and the slope stability.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2016

개단말뚝은 폐색정도에 따라 지지력이 다르게 나타나므로 개단말뚝 설계시 폐색효과를 고려하여야 한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 대변형 수치해석 기법 중 하나인 Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian(CEL) 기법을 이용하여 말뚝의 항타 관입을 모사하여 사질토, 점성토 지반조건, 단일 지반의 탄성계수, 말뚝 선단지지 조건, 다층지반 조건에 대한 영향 분석을 수행하였다. 해석 결과 사질토 지반에서 점성토 지반보다 폐색정도가 큰 것으로 확인되었고, 사질토의 경우 지반의 강성이 클수록 폐색정도가 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 말뚝 선단이 지지층에 근입된 경우, 그렇지 않은 경우보다 정지토압계수가 크게 나타나 폐색정도가 큰 것으로 확인되었다. 또한, 지반의 배열이 이질층인 경우 지반강성에 따라 정지토압계수가 다르게 결정됨을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 지반조건, 지층 등에 따라 정지토압계수를 다르게 적용하여 관내 내부마찰력을 산정할 필요가 있으며 이를 반영한 합리적인 지지력 산정을 할 필요가 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 토지주택연구
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.145-155
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• 2011

It is very important for successful construction to estimate the soil volume conversion factor of domestic weathered ground accurately and reasonably. However, it is very difficult to quantify the weathering degree of weathered ground at the field, so that the soil volume conversion factor used in Korea is often dependent upon the standard of foreign countries. Besides, the soil volume conversion factor of domestic weathered ground has been rarely studied and the use and accuracy of the soil volume conversion factor have been questioned persistingly. This study suggests a simple but robust method for estimating the soil volume conversion factor and measuring the weathering degree reasonably, and attempts to establish the utilization of a soil volume conversion factor measurement system based on experimental and analytical results. We made relationship between electrical resistivity and weathering degree presented from weathering index obtained through laboratory tests using field samples, and an estimation method of in-situ weathering degree for granites and a calculation method of soil volume conversion factor using electrical resistivity. And also, we suggested the photogrametry measurement-equipment system for measuring the volume of cargo box and the application plan of stand equipment and RFID for calculating the earth volume and distinguishing buggies in order to design the measurement system for soil volume conversion factor applicable to the field. Ultimately, the Weathered Earth-work Management Program (WEMP) was developed, so field managers may easily obtain the information about earth volume and soil volume conversion factor at the weathered ground.