• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2009

Purpose: A missed fracture is a very common occurrence in the Emergency Department (ED) and can have serious results because of delays in treatment, resulting in long-term disability. It is also one of the most common causes leading to medical legal issues. We analyzed the causes of missed fractures by using a bone scan which is known to be an effective tool for diagnosing bony lesions. Methods: We reviewed the medical records of trauma patients who underwent a bone scan after being discharged the ED from September 2006 to March 2008. Cases of missed fractures were identified by using electronic medical records to review each diagnosis. Definition of missed fracture was read after bone scan by radiologist. We decided that there was no fracture if we read 'trauma-related lesion' or 'cannot rule out fracture' on a bone scan read by a radiologist. Enrolled patients were analyzed by age, sex, time until bone scan and Injury Severity Score (ISS). Patients were divided into two groups, alert mentality and not-alert mentality, so there were split between a diagnosis group and a missed fracture group. ISS was also used in determining the severity of the patient's injury upon discharge from the ED. Results: A total of 532 patients were enrolled in this study. Of those, 487 patients were in the diagnosis group, and 45 patients (8.4%) were discovered to have had a fracture. Of the 45 missed fracture patients, 34 patients (6.4%) had one-site fractures, 8 patients (1.5%) had two-site fractures, and 3 patients (0.6%) had three-site fractures. The most commonly missed fracture was multiple rib fractures (18 patients, 30.5%), followed by lumbosacral (LS) spine fractures (10 patients, 16.9%), thoracic spine fractures (8 patients, 13.6%), and clavicle fractures (6 patients, 10.2%). Mean age was $50.12{\pm}18.54$ years in the diagnosis group and $57.38{\pm}16.88$ years in the missed fracture group. For the diagnosis group, the mean ISS was $9.03{\pm}8.26$, but in the missed fracture group it was $17.53{\pm}9.69$. Missed fractures were much more frequent in the not-alert mentality (p<0.01) and in the high (ISS$ ISS{\geq}16$) group (p<0.01). Conclusion: Missed fractures occur most frequent in patients of old age, not-alert mentality, and high ISS. Multiple rib and spine fractures were found to be the most frequent missed fractures, regardless of trauma severity. This study also shows a high possibility of clavicle and scapula fractures in patients with severe trauma.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2002년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.119-126
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• 2002

Fractures, especially faults have most significant influence on the difficulties encountered in various engineering and mining works, because they can give rise to inevitable reductions in shear strength as well as large increase in permeability. Thus, before underground access is possible, it is desirable to estimate the distribution and geometry of fractures in advance, if reliable structural data from e.g. Televiewer tool are available. To this end, fracture face mapping is just the evaluation method used to form a fracture image determined by intersecting of each fracture plane with a selected plane section of a rock mass, assuming that all fractures be planar with fixed-aperture. Although many fractures are geometrically complex and others are altered chemically, according to the abundant experiments in recent years, it would seem that the technique could be applied to benefit the design of numerous engineering works such as slope stability, tunnel excavations, dam foundation and diverse environmental works. This paper presents at first an evaluation algorithm for fracture face mapping and then concludes with various representative examples of applications.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2009

암반 내 구조물을 시공하는 경우 역학적 안정성을 평가하기 위하여 암반의 특성을 조사한다. 이 경우 암반의 특성은 주로 암반 내 절리의 특성에 의하여 좌우된다. 지금까지는 암반 내 절리의 특성을 조사하기 위하여 암반이 노출된 사면이나 노두에 접근하고 육안으로 직접 관찰하였다. 이때 급사면과 같은 곳에서 접근의 문제, 작업의 안전 문제, 많은 시판이 걸리는 문제, 조사시간에 비하여 얻은 정보량의 부족, 정보의 재현 문제, 측정 오차 문제 등의 제한이 있었다. 따라서 이와 같은 문제를 개선하기 위하여 LIDAR (light detection and ranging)로 암반을 스캔하여 얻은 포인트 클라우드(point cloud)글 Split-FX 소프트웨어로 처리한 결과 절기의 방향과 간격 및 절리면의 거칠기 등 절리의 특성을 정확하고 효율적으로 분석할 수 있었다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.149-157
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• 1999

불연속 변형 해석법(Discontinuous Deformation Analysis Method)은 1988년에 Shi에 의해 개발되었으며, 암반-구조물 상호작용 모델링에 매우 효율적인 해석법이다. 이 해석법에서 암반은 유한하고 변형가능한 블록으로 간주되며, 암반의 대변형 및 이동이 가능하다. 그 후, DDA 방법에 대한 여러가지 보완사례가 발표되었으나, 균열이 발달한 암반의 지표 또는 지중 굴착 모델링에 긴요한 지하수-암반블록 상호작용 모델링은 불가능하다. 본 논문에서는 암반 블록 사이의 수리 력학적 커플링을 고려하기 위한 새로운 방법이 제시된다. 또한, 이 방법이 보완된 새로운 DDA해석법의 적용 예가 제시된다. 본 연구결과 암반 균열 사이를 흐르는 지하수는 터널의 안정성에 나쁜 영향을 미친다는 사실이 확인되었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.333-366
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• 2023

Rock as a mass generally exhibits discontinuities, commonly witnessed in rock slopes and underground structures like tunnels, rock pillars etc. When these discontinuities experiences loading, a new crack emerges from them which later propagates to a macro scale level of failure. The failure pattern is often influenced by the nature of discontinuity, geometry and loading conditions. The study of crack growth in rocks, namely its initiation and propagation, plays an important role in defining the true strength of rock and corresponding failure patterns. Many researchers have considered the length of the discontinuity to be fully persistent on rock or rock-like specimens by both experimental and numerical methods. However, only during recent decades, there has been a substantial growth in research interest with non-persistent discontinuities where the crack growth and its propagation phenomenon were found to be much more complex than persistent ones. The non-persistence fractures surface is generally considered to be open and closed. Compared to open flaws, there is a difference in crack growth behaviour in closed or narrow flaws due to the effect of surface closure between them. The present paper reviews the literature that has contributed towards studying the crack growth behaviour and its failure characteristics on both open and narrow flaws subjected to uniaxial and biaxial compression loading conditions.

• 지질공학
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.455-469
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• 2007

연구지역인 경상북도 경주시 봉길리 지역은 백악기 퇴적암을 기반암으로 제3기의 화성암과 암맥들이 관입하여 분포한다. 이 지역에 대한 단열의 발달 특성을 이해하기 위하여 비교적 균질하고 신선한 제3기 화강암에 대한 격자분석을 통하여 단열발달사와 단열밀도 분포에 대한 연구를 실시하였다. 단열군들은 북서-남동방향의 연성 전단띠 (set a) ${\to}$ 북북서-남남동 방향의 인장단열 (set d) ${\to}$ 서북서-동남동 방향의 인장 또는 정단층성 단열 (set b) ${\to}$ 북동-남서 방향의 우수향 주향이동성 단열 (set c) ${\to}$ 서북서-동남동 방향의 정단층이 재활성된 역단층성 단열 (set e)의 순서로 발달되었음이 인지되었으며, 북서-남동방향의 연성 전단띠 (set a)는 이후에 좌수향으로 취성의 재활성 운동을 겪었음을 보여 준다. 서로 다른 암상에 대한 단열 밀도분석 결과는 단열의 밀도가 암석의 생성시기보다는 암석의 물성에 더 강하게 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났으며, 같은 암상에서의 단열밀도는 단층손상대에서 급격하게 증가함을 보여주었다. 또한 이러한 단열밀도의 변화는 암상의 차이와 관입접촉부를 따른 단층운동뿐만 아니라 암맥의 관입시의 냉각에 의한 절리의 형성에도 일부 원인이 있을 것으로 해석된다. 그러나 그 원인에 상관없이 이러한 단열의 증가는 유체의 유동에 좋은 통로의 역할을 하게 되어 이를 따른 유체의 유동뿐만 아니라 이에 포함된 원소의 이동에도 매우 중요한 기여를 할 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방사성폐기물학회 2009년도 학술논문요약집
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• pp.187-187
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• 2009

Opening of fractures induced by shear dilation or normal deformation can be a significant source of fracture permeability change in fractured rock, which is important for the performance assessment of geological repositories for spent nuclear fuel. As the repository generates heat and later cools the fluid-carrying ability of the rocks becomes a dynamic variable during the lifespan of the repository. Heating causes expansion of the rock close to the repository and, at the same time, contraction close to the surface. During the cooling phase of the repository, the opposite takes place. Heating and cooling together with the, virgin stress can induce shear dilation of fractures and deformation zones and change the flow field around the repository. The objectives of this work are to examine the contribution of thermal stress to the shear slip of fracture in mid- and far-field around a KBS-3 type of repository and to investigate the effect of evolution of stress on the rock mass permeability. In the first part of this study, zones of fracture shear slip were examined by conducting a three-dimensional, thermo-mechanical analysis of a spent fuel repository model in the size of 2 km $\times$ 2 km $\times$ 800 m. Stress evolutions of importance for fracture shear slip are: (1) comparatively high horizontal compressive thermal stress at the repository level, (2) generation of vertical tensile thermal stress right above the repository, (3) horizontal tensile stress near the surface, which can induce tensile failure, and generation of shear stresses at the comers of the repository. In the second part of the study, fracture data from Forsmark, Sweden is used to establish fracture network models (DFN). Stress paths obtained from the thermo-mechanical analysis were used as boundary conditions in DFN-DEM (Discrete Element Method) analysis of six DFN models at the repository level. Increases of permeability up to a factor of four were observed during thermal loading history and shear dilation of fractures was not recovered after cooling of the repository. An understanding of the stress path and potential areas of slip induced shear dilation and related permeability changes during the lifetime of a repository for spent nuclear fuel is of utmost importance for analysing long-term safety. The result of this study will assist in identifying critical areas around a repository where fracture shear slip is likely to develop. The presentation also includes a brief introduction to the ongoing site investigation on two candidate sites for geological repository in Sweden.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.248-260
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• 2004

응력 증가에 의한 취성 암석의 손상은 미세균열의 개시로부터 시작하여 각 개별 균열들의 전파 및 결합에 의해 거시적인 파괴면을 발생시킨다. 전통적으로 암반의 손상 및 파괴현상을 설명하기 위해 거시적인 파괴 기준이나 탄소성 모델과 같은 연속체적인 접근법이 주류를 이루어왔다. 하지만 개별적인 균열들의 개시와 전락 과정을 명시적으로 고려할 수 있다면 현상론적인 관점에서 보다 실제에 가까운 암석 손상 및 파괴 과정을 재현할 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 암석의 균열 진전 모델링을 위해 개발된 경계요소 코드인 FRACOD를 이용하여 암석의 손상 및 파괴 과정을 모사한 결과를 제시한다. 수치일축압축시험을 통해 개발된 모델의 적정성을 검증하고 암반의 치수효과를 고려한 현실적인 암석 파괴 과정을 재현하였다. 또한 이러한 접근법의 적용 사례로서, 실제 굴착이 진행중인 심부 수갱 암반 주변에서 심도와 암반 특성에 따라 균열 진전과 이에 따른 암반 손상의 범위를 예측한 결과를 제시하였다. 이 접근법은 취성도가 큰 암반에서 발생하는 안정성 문제에 대한 공학적인 해법을 찾는데 기여를 할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구물리탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the international symposium on the fusion technology
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• pp.437-440
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• 2003

As we know, roof is composed of heterogeneous rock. When roof fractures, a large amount of energy would be released in the form of seismic wave. How to identify the abnormal signal of seismic wave is a much difficult problem, there are many methods used usually, such as Fourier Transformation, filter technique etc., but abnormal signal can't be recognized accurately. In this paper, multi-resolution wavelet technique is used to identify the first and second variation point, based on the Lipschitz $\alpha$. A living example analysis shows, multi-resolution wavelet technique can identify the abnormal signal of seismic wave effectively in different scale, and the omen of roof fall can be grasped in order to forecast the roof fall accurately. It provides a new idea for the predication of catastrophe on rock mechanics and engineering.

• 물과 미래
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.227-237
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• 1990

본 연구에서는 암반에 분포된 열극이 미치는 영향을 고려하여 줌으로써 암반에서의 지하수 유동특성을 보다 더 정확하게 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 GFFP-WT 모형을 사용하여 암반에서의 지하수 유동 특성을 분석해 본 결과, 암반의 특수계수가 작은 화강반암 지층에서는 등수두선이 수렴하므로 지하수 유동로의 방향이 변화되며, 암반내에 분포한 열극은 유동지역의 수두분포값을 변화시키므로 지하수의 유동시간에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.