• 한국농공학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.90-99
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• 1994

To investigate the undrained shear strength characteristics of marine soils with high water content, high compressibility and weak bearing capacity, a series of undrained triaxial tests with pore pressure measurements on undisturbed and disturbed Banwol marine clay in normally consolidated and overconsolidated states is carried out. The results and main conclusions of this study are summarized as follows : 1 . When the consolidation pressure is increased, the maximum deviator stress of disturbed and undistubed clay in normally consolidated state is increased. Pore pressure parameters and internal friction angle of undisturbed clay are greater than those of disturbed clay. 2. The relationship between pore pressure and axial strain of undisturbed clay in normally consolidated state can be expressed as a hyperbolic function like stress-strain relation proposed by Kondner. 3. In the pore pressure-axial strain relation of disturbed clay in normally consolidated state, failure ratio R'f is greatly deviated in the range of 0.7~0.9 proposed by Christian and Desai. 4. For overconsolided clay, when overconsolidation ratio (OCR) is increased, normalized maximum deviator stress is increased and maximum pore pressure is decreased gradually. 5. Cohesion of overconsolidated clay is greater than that of nomally consolidated clay and internal friction angle slightly is decreased. 6. Pore pressure parameter at failure (Af) of overconsolidated clay is varied with OCR, Af becomes negative values with increment in OCR

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.175-185
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• 2018

Sand Compaction Piles (SCPs) are constructed by feeding and compacting sand into soft clay ground. Sand piles have been installed with irregular cross-sectional shapes, and mixtures of both sand and clay, which violate the design requirement of circular shape according to the replacement area ratio due to various factors, including side flow pressure. Therefore, design assumptions cannot be satisfied according to the conditions of the ground and construction and the replacement area ratio. Two case histories were collected, examined, and interpreted in order to study the effect of the shape of SCPs. The effects of the distortion of SCP shape and the mixture of sand and clay were studied with the results of large direct shear tests. The design internal friction angle was secured with the irregular cross-sectional sand piles regardless of the replacement area ratio. The design internal friction angle was secured regardless of mixed condition when the mixture of sand and clay was higher than the replacement area ratio of 65%. Therefore, systematic construction management is recommended with a replacement area ratio below 65%.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.179-191
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• 2019

Based on the effective stress principle, a new formula for shear strength of unsaturated soil is derived under the general nonlinear Mohr-Coulomb (M-C) strength criterion to improve the classical strength criterion of unsaturated soil. Meanwhile, the simple irrigation model under steady seepage is adopted to obtain the distribution of the matrix suction or the degree of saturation (DOS) above the groundwater table in the slope. Then, combined with the improved strength criterion of unsaturated soil and the simple irrigation model under steady seepage, the limit equilibrium (LE) solutions for the unsaturated slope stability are established according to the global LE conditions of the entire sliding body with assumption of the stresses on the slip surface. Compared to the classical strength criterion of unsaturated soil, not only the cohesion soil but also the internal friction angle is affected by the matric suction or the DOS in the improved strength criterion. Moreover, the internal friction angle related to the matric suction has the nonlinear characteristics, particularly for a small of the matric suction. Thereafter, the feasibility of the present method is verified by comparison and analysis on some slope examples. Furthermore, stability charts are also drawn to quickly analyze the unsaturated slope stability.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.41-54
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• 2023

The use of a skirt, a vertical projection attached to the footing, is a recently developed method to increase the bearing capacity of soils and reduce foundation settlements. Most of the studies were focused on vertical skirted circular footings resting on clay while neglecting the rigidity and inclination of skirts. This study employs finite element limit analysis to investigate the bearing capacity enhancement of flexible and rigid inclined skirts in cohesionless soils. The results indicate that the bearing capacity initially improves with an increase in the skirt inclination but subsequently decreases for both flexible and rigid skirts. However, the rigid skirt exhibits more apparent optimum skirt inclination and bearing capacity enhancement than the flexible one, owing to differences in their failure mechanisms. Furthermore, the bearing capacity of the inclined skirted foundation increases with the skirt length, footing depth, and internal friction angle of the soil. In the case of rigid skirts, the bearing capacity increases linearly with skirt length, while for flexible skirts, it reaches a stable value at a certain skirt length. The efficiency of the flexible footing reduces as the footing depth and soil internal friction angle increase. Conversely, the efficiency of the rigid skirt decreases only with an increase in the depth of the footing. The paper also presents a detailed analysis of various failure patterns, highlighting the behaviour of inclined skirted footings. Additionally, nonlinear regression equations are provided to quantify and predict the bearing capacity enhancement with the inclined skirts.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.135-147
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• 2023

Sand columns in clayey soil are considered one of the most economical and environmentally-friendly soil-improving techniques. It improves the shear strength parameters, reduces the settlement, and increases the bearing capacity of clayey soils. The aim of this paper is to study the effect of grain shape in sand columns on their performance in improving the mechanical properties of clayey soils. An intensive series of consolidated-drained triaxial tests were performed on clay specimens only and clay specimens with sand columns. The parameters examined during the experimental work were grain shape in sand columns (angular, rounded, sub-rounded) and effective confining pressure (50 kPa, 100 kPa, 200 kPa). The results indicated that there is a significant improvement in the deviatoric stress and stiffness values of specimens with sand columns. Improving deviatoric stress values in the use of angular sand grains was found to be higher than those in the use of sub-rounded and rounded sand grains. A 187%, 159%, and 153% increment in deviatoric stress values were observed for the sand columns with angular, sub-rounded, and rounded grain shapes, respectively. The specimens were observed to be more contractive as the sand column was installed, and as the angularity of grains in the sand column was increased. Sand column installation improves significantly the angle of internal friction, and the effective angle of internal friction increases as the angularity of the sand grains increases.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.417-440
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• 2024

Artificial neural networks (ANN) have been the focus of several studies when it comes to evaluating the pile's bearing capacity. Nonetheless, the principal drawbacks of employing this method are the sluggish rate of convergence and the constraints of ANN in locating global minima. The current work aimed to build four ANN-based prediction models enhanced with methods from the black hole algorithm (BHA), league championship algorithm (LCA), shuffled complex evolution (SCE), and symbiotic organisms search (SOS) to estimate the carrying capacity of piles in cold climates. To provide the crucial dataset required to build the model, fifty-eight concrete pile experiments were conducted. The pile geometrical properties, internal friction angle 𝛗 shaft, internal friction angle 𝛗 tip, pile length, pile area, and vertical effective stress were established as the network inputs, and the BHA, LCA, SCE, and SOS-based ANN models were set up to provide the pile bearing capacity as the output. Following a sensitivity analysis to determine the optimal BHA, LCA, SCE, and SOS parameters and a train and test procedure to determine the optimal network architecture or the number of hidden nodes, the best prediction approach was selected. The outcomes show a good agreement between the measured bearing capabilities and the pile bearing capacities forecasted by SCE-MLP. The testing dataset's respective mean square error and coefficient of determination, which are 0.91846 and 391.1539, indicate that using the SCE-MLP approach as a practical, efficient, and highly reliable technique to forecast the pile's bearing capacity is advantageous.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.13-26
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• 2024

Studies pertaining to the seismic bearing capacity analysis of skirted footings using the pseudo-static approach for estimation of the earthquake force in association with finite element method have been presented in this paper. An attempt has been made to explain the behaviors of the skirted footings by means of failure patterns obtained for rigid and flexible skirts. The skirts enhance the seismic bearing to some extent with an increase in seismic loading, after which it decreases nonlinearly. The effectiveness of skirts increases initially to some extent with an increase in seismic loading, after which it decreases nonlinearly. Other parameters that inversely affect the effectiveness of skirts are the depth of footing and the internal friction angle of the soil. The detailed finite element analysis regarding the various failure patterns of skirted footings under seismic forces shows the failure mechanism changes from a general shear failure to local shear failure with an increase in seismic force. An opposite trend has been observed with the increase in the angle of internal friction of the soil. The obtained analysis results suggest that a rigid skirted footing behaves similar to a conventional strip footing under seismic and static loadings. The excessive deflection of flexible skirts under combined gravity and seismic loading renders them relatively ineffective than rigid skirts.

• 지질공학
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.153-163
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 제주도 현무암에 대한 삼축압축시험을 실시하고 암석의 Mohr-Coulomb파괴규준과 Hoek-Brown파괴규준을 적용하여 강도정수를 산정하였다. 그리고 각각의 파괴규준에 의해 산정된 강도정수를 비교검토하여 각각의 파괴규준에 대한 특성을 고찰하였다. 암석의 Mohr-Coulomb파괴규준을 적용한 결과 표선리 현무암의 경우 점착력은 5.35 MPa, 내부마찰각은 $50.25^{\circ}$이고, 조면암질 현무암의 경우 점착력은 16.99 MPa, 내부마찰각은 $60.66^{\circ}$이며, 스코리아의 경우 점착력은 2.33 MPa, 내부마찰각은 $37.05^{\circ}$이다. 암석의 Hoek-Brown의 파괴규준에 대한 회귀분석결과를 토대로 암석의 점착력과 내부마찰각을 선정할 수 있다. 표선리 현무암의 경우 점착력은 4.77 MPa, 내부마찰각은 $52.47^{\circ}$이고, 조면암질 현무암의 경우 점착력은 14.69 MPa, 내부마찰각은 $60.70^{\circ}$이며, 스코리아의 경우 점착력은 2.22 MPa, 내부마찰각은 $47.60^{\circ}$이다. 이상의 결과를 토대로 Mohr-Coulomb의 파괴포락선과 Hoek-Brown의 파괴규준으로부터 추정된 파괴포락선을 비교한 결과 Hoek-Brown의 파괴규준은 Mohr-Coulomb의 파괴규준보다 점착력은 대체로 낮게 평가되는 반면, 내부마찰각은 크게 평가되고 있다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.425-433
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 한계평형법에 근거한 수동토압계수 산정에 있어서의 간단한 방법을 제시하고 그로부터 계산된 수동토압계수를 기존의 연구자들에 의한 값들과 비교해 보았다. 옹벽 배면에서의 파괴면을 구성하는 대수나선과 직선 중에서 직선파괴면의 경사각을 유도하여 수동토압계수 산정방법에 반영하였다. 그리고 수동토압계수 산정시 Rankine 수동영역에 작용하는 토압력의 분력을 고려하기 보다는 전체를 고려하였다. 본 연구를 통해 제안된 방법을 통해 구한 수동토압계수는 Coulomb 수동토압계수와 같이 뒤채움 흙의 지표면의 경사각이 증가할수록 커지고 벽체의 경사각이 감소할수록 작아지는 경향을 보였다. 또한 본 연구를 통해 얻은 수동토압계수는 비교를 위해 고려한 거의 모든 경우에 있어 Coulomb 수동토압계수 보다 작게 계산되었다. 벽마찰각의 변화에 따른 수동토압계수를 비교해 보면 제안된 방법을 통해 계산된 수동토압계수가 Coulomb 수동토압계수 보다 작게 계산되었는데 흙의 내부마찰각이 클수록, 벽마찰각이 증가할수록 그 차이는 컸다. 본 연구에서 고려한 5개의 내부마찰각 중에서 일반적인 사질토의 내부마찰각의 범주에 해당되는 $25^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$, $35^{\circ}$ 그리고 $40^{\circ}$와 3개의 벽마찰각에 대하여, 본 연구를 통해 얻은 수동토압계수와 기존의 연구자들에 의한 수동토압계수를 비교해보면 Kerisel and Absi 방법, Soubra 방법, Lancellotta 방법, $Ant\tilde{a}o$ 등에 의한 방법, Kame 방법 그리고 Reddy 등에 의한 방법에 대한 최대 차이율은 각각 4.8%, 3.8%, 31.1%, 4.0%, 20.6% 그리고 12.8% 였는데 전체적으로 볼 때 기존의 연구자들에 의한 값들과 큰 차이를 보이지는 않았다.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.283-287
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• 2008

The drag reduction agency (DRA) for gas pipeline, a novel method used for reducing friction or drag on a gas flowing to increase the transmission efficiency of gas pipeline, is a more flexible and economical technology than internal flow efficient coatings. In this paper, an effective DRA has been developed in Authors' Institute by analyzing the hydrodynamic friction resistance on internal gas pipeline and then studying the work mechanism and molecular structure of DRA. In the meantime, a group of property test for selecting DRA material has been determined, including viscosity, contact angle, volatility, corrosion, slab extending, and flow behavior in horizontal tube. The inhibition efficiency and drag reduction efficiency of the developed DRA have been investigated finally based on the relevant test methods. Results of corrosion test show that the developed DRA has very good inhibition effect on mild steel by brushing a thin layer of DRA on steel specimens, giving inhibition efficiency of 91.2% and 73.1% in 3%NaCl solution and standard salt fog environment respectively. Results of drag-reducing test also show that the Colebrook formula could be used to calculate friction factors on internal pipes with DRA as the Reynolds number is in the range of $0.75\times10^5\sim2.0\times10^5$. By comparing with normal industrial pipes, the friction resistance coefficient of the steel pipe with DRA on internal wall decreases by 13% and the gas flux increases by 7.3% in testing condition with Reynolds number of $2.0\times10^5$.