• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2022

A semi-analytical solution to responses of overconsolidated (OC) unsaturated soils surrounding an expanding spherical cavity under constant suction condition is presented. To capture the elastoplastic hydro-mechanical property of OC unsaturated soils, the unified hardening (UH) model for OC unsaturated soil is adopted in corporation with a soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) and two suction yield surfaces. Taking the specific volume, radial stress, tangential stress and degree of saturation as the four basic unknowns, the problem investigated is formulated by solving a set of first-order ordinary differential equations with the help of an auxiliary variable and an iterative algorithm. The present solution is validated by comparing with available solution based on the modified Cam Clay (MCC) model. Parametric studies reveal that the hydraulic and mechanical responses of spherical cavity expanding in unsaturated soils are not only coupled, but also affected by suction and overconsolidation ratio (OCR) significantly. More importantly, whether hydraulic yield will occur or not depends only on the initial relationship between suction yield stress and suction. The presented solution can be used for calibration of some insitu tests in OC unsaturated soil.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.17-30
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• 1992

연약한 점토지반에서는, 정규압밀상태와 더불어 미약한 과압밀상태에서의 구성관계가 실제 지반구조물의 거동을 해석하는 데 중요한 역할을 한다. 미약한 과압밀상태의 거동에 실용적으로 적용될 수 있는 구성모델은 비교적 간편한 계수만을 사용하여 실제의 다양한 거동을 정확하게 예측할 수 있도록 개발되어야 한다. 이러한 연유로 본 연구에서는 등가응력 (자)으로규준화하였을 때 나타나는 지반의 비 배수거동을 재현하여 미약한 과압밀상태에 적용할 수 있는 구성모델을 제안하였다. 제안된 모델은 단지 정규압밀상태의 거동으로 도출할 수 있는 모델계수만을 사용하여 초기항복면내부에서 발생하는 항복현상을 표현할 수 있다. 뿐만아니라 제안된 모델은 과압밀상태, 2차압밀, 응력이완등의 영향에 따른 실제의 거동을 기존의 모델들에 비하여 더욱 간편하고 정확하게 예측할 수 있다.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.37-46
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• 1989

본 논문은 반복하중을 받는 과추밀 실트질 점토의 일반적 특성에 관한 연구로서 재성형 시료를 과압밀 상태로 제작하여 일련의 변형-제어 반복 삼축시험을 수행하였다. 일반적으로 단일하중의 경우에 과압밀점토의 축차응력-축변형률 관계는 그 형태에 있어 정규압밀점토의 결과와 흡사하지만, 반복하중을 받게 쾨면 시료 내의 간극수압 거동은 시료의 압밀리력 과 반복응력의 크기에 따라 변화하게 된다. 그러므로 서로 다른 과압밀비를 가진 시료에 대한 반복 하중시험 결과를 통하여 나타난 일반적 응력-변형 특성에 관하여 상호 비교 분석하고,이들의 종합적인 관계로부터 변형 및 강도 특성을 찾고자 하였다. 또한 시료가 평형상웅로 존재할 수 있는 반복응력의 한계치를 의미하는 직선 혹은 곡선형태의 평형상태선을 결정하고 과압밀비 의 변화에 따른평형상태선의 경향을 관찰하였다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2001년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.239-244
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• 2001

Natural clayey soils or improved grounds are in a overconsolidated conditions due to changes in vertical stress and pore pressures, desiccation, ageing and so on. These grounds show inelastic stress-strain behaviour characteristics within all range of strain except very small strain (${\gamma}$$\_$s/$\leq$10￣$^3$∼10￣$^4$%) when construction, such as excavations and retaining walls, is performed. Also it strongly depends on loading rate of current stress path and recent stress path. This study carried out drained stress path tests by varying loading rate of current and recent stress path. Test results indicated that stress-strain behaviour of overconsolidated clay depends on loading rate, especially loading rate of current stress path.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제23권10호
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• pp.73-84
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• 2007

원추 후면에서 간극수압이 측정되는 표준 피에조콘의 경우, 일반적인 소산곡선은 간극수압이 초기값에서부터 단조적으로 감소하는 경향을 보인다. 그러나, 간극수압이 일시적으로 증가한 후에 감소하는 지연소산 거동이 과압밀비 4 이하의 약간 과압밀된 점성토 지반에서 확인되었다. 이와 같은 비정규적인 소산 거동은 주로 매우 과압밀된 지반에서 발생하는 것으로 보고되었으며, 기존의 연구도 이러한 경우로 한정되어 진행되었다. 본 연구에서는 약간 과압밀된 점성토 지반에서 발생하는 지연소산의 메커니즘을 규명하였다. 피에조콘 시험으로부터 산정된 지반의 특성과 지연소산의 상관성을 분석하였으며, 콘 관입 이후의 소산거동에 대하여 유한차분해석을 수행하였다. 연구 결과, 약간 과압밀된 점성토에서는 원추 선단에서 발생하는 큰 과잉간극수압이 원추 후면 필터로 상향 전파되어 지연소산이 유발되고, 과압밀비(OCR) 및 정수일$(u_0)$과 관련된 원추 선단과 원추 후면의 초기 과잉간극수압비$({\Delta}u_{1i}/{\Delta}u_{2i})$가 지연소산에 영향을 미치는 것이 확인되었다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2006년도 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.312-333
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• 2006

This paper presents the results of an analysis of the excess porewater pressure distribution due to piezocone penetration in overconsolidated clays. From piezocone test results for moderately and heavily overconsolidated clays, it was observed that the excess porewater pressure increases monotonically from the piezocone surface to the outer boundary of the shear zone and then decreases logarithmically to the outer boundary of the plastic zone. It was also found that the size of the shear zone decreases from approximately 2.2 to 1.5 times the cone radius with increasing OCR, while the plastic radius is about 11 times the piezocone radius, regardless of the OCR. The equation developed in this study based on the modified Cam clay model and the cylindrical cavity expansion theory, which take into consideration the effects of the strain rate and stress anisotropy, provide a good prediction of the initial porewater pressure at the piezocone location. The method of predicting the spatial distribution of excess porewater pressure proposed in this study is based on a linearly increasing ${\Delta}u_{shear}$. In the shear zone and a logarithmically decreasing ${\Delta}u_{oct}$, and is verified by comparing with the excess porewater pressure measured in overconsolidated specimens at the calibration chamber.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.561-573
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• 2020

The creep and consolidation behaviors of clays subjected to thermal cycles are of fundamental importance in the application of energy geostructures. This study aims to numerically investigate the physical mechanisms for the temperature-triggered volume change of saturated clays. A recently developed thermodynamic framework is used to derive the thermo-mechanical constitutive model for clays. Based on the model, a fully coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) finite element (FE) code is developed. Comparison with experimental observations shows that the proposed FE code can well reproduce the irreversible thermal contraction of normally consolidated and lightly overconsolidated clays, as well as the thermal expansion of heavily overconsolidated clays under drained heating. Simulations reveal that excess pore pressure may accumulate in clay samples under triaxial drained conditions due to low permeability and high heating rate, resulting in thermally induced primary consolidation. Results show that four major mechanisms contribute to the thermal volume change of clays: (i) the principle of thermal expansion, (ii) the decrease of effective stress due to the accumulation of excess pore pressure, (iii) the thermal creep, and (iv) the thermally induced primary consolidation. The former two mechanisms mainly contribute to the thermal expansion of heavily overconsolidated clays, whereas the latter two contribute to the noticeable thermal contraction of normally consolidated and lightly overconsolidated clays. Consideration of the four physical mechanisms is important for the settlement prediction of energy geostructures, especially in soft soils.

• 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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• 제4권1호
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• pp.55-65
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• 2012

This paper presents the results of an experimental study on the effect of suction on compressibility and shear behaviour of unsaturated silty soil under various types of loading. A series of laboratory experiments were conducted in a double-walled triaxial cell on samples of a compacted silty soil. In the experiments the soil samples were subjected to isotropic consolidation followed by unloading and subsequent reloading under constant suction and prescribed overconsolidated ratio. The experimental results are presented in the context of an elasto-plastic model for unsaturated soil. The effects of suction on mechanical behaviour of unsaturated silty soil are presented and discussed. It is shown that increasing suction affects the shear behaviour of unsaturated soils, but there is a limit beyond which, further increase in suction will not result in any significant change in the behaviour.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.453-462
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• 2023

Intermediate Geomaterials (IGMs) are natural formation materials that exhibit the engineering behavior (strength and compressibility) between soils and rocks. The engineering behavior of such material is highly unpredictable as the IGMs are stiffer than soils and weaker/softer than rocks. Further, the characterization of such material needs exposure to both soil and rock mechanics. In most conventional designs of geotechnical structures, the engineering properties of the IGMs are either aligned with soils or rocks, and this assumption may end up either in an over-conservative design or under-conservative design. Hence, many researchers have attempted to evaluate its actual engineering properties through laboratory tests. However, the test results are partially reliable due to the poor core recovery of IGMs and the possible sample disturbance. Subsequently, in-situ tests have been used in recent years to evaluate the engineering properties of IGMs. However, the respective in-situ test finds its limitations while exploring IGMs with different geological formations at deeper depths with the constraints of sampling. Standard Penetration Test (SPT) is the strength-based index test that is often used to explore IGMs. Moreover, it was also observed that the coefficient of variation of the design parameters (which represents the uncertainties in the design parameters) of IGMs is relatively high, and also the studies on the probabilistic characterization of IGMs are limited compared with soils and rocks. With this perspective, the present article reviews the laboratory and in-situ tests used to characterize the IGMs and explores the shear strength variation based on their geological origin.