• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.195-204
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• 2018

Based on theories of rock mechanics, rock fragmentation, mechanics of elasto-plasticity, and energy dissipation etc., a method is presented for evaluating the rock fragmentation efficiency by using plastic energy dissipation ratio as an index. Using the presented method, the fragmentation efficiency of rocks with different strengths (corresponding to soft, intermediately hard and hard ones) under indentation is analyzed and compared. The theoretical and numerical simulation analyses are then combined with experimental results to systematically reveal the fragmentation mechanism of rocks under indentation of indenter. The results indicate that the fragmentation efficiency of rocks is higher when the plastic energy dissipation ratio is lower, and hence the drilling efficiency is higher. For the rocks with higher hardness and brittleness, the plastic energy dissipation ratio of the rocks at crush is lower. For rocks with lower hardness and brittleness (such as sandstone), most of the work done by the indenter to the rocks is transferred to the elastic and plastic energy of the rocks. However, most of such work is transferred to the elastic energy when the hardness and the brittleness of the rocks are higher. The plastic deformation is small and little energy is dissipated for brittle crush, and the elastic energy is mainly transferred to the kinetic energy of the rock fragment. The plastic energy ratio is proved to produce more accurate assessment on the fragmentation efficiency of rocks, and the presented method can provide a theoretical basis for the optimization of drill bit and selection of well drilling as well as for the selection of the rock fragmentation ways.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.444-454
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• 2003

최근 TBM등의 기계식 터널 굴착에 널리 사용되는 커터 디스크 관입에 의한 암석 파쇄 기술은 커터디스크 관입에 따라 국부적으로 높은 응력이 발생하고 미소균열이 생성 및 전파되는 과정이며, 이러한 현상은 암석의 불균질성에 기인한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 수치해석적으로 TBM에 의한 파괴 메카니즘을 규명하기 위하여. Weibull 분포함수를 이용하여 암석의 불균질 강도 물성을 고려하였으며, 파괴후 물성 저하를 고려하기 위하여 저감지수를 도입하였다. 본 연구결과로부터 단일 커터 디스크 관입시 측압이 매우 중요한 영향을 미치며, 측압이 작을수록 관입에 저항하는 강도는 약하여 커터 디스크와 접촉하는 면과 수직한 방향으로 파괴가 잘 발생하고 측압이 클수록 암석 표면을 따라 chipping 현상이 잘 나타났다. 또한 두 개의 커터 디스크가 작용하는 경우 파괴영역이 전파되고 상호 연합되어 최종적으로 파괴가 발생하는데, 커터 디스크 간격이 70 mm인 경우가 40 mm와 100 mm인 경우 비해 좋은 파쇄효율을 나타내었다. 이상의 결과로부터 커터 디스크 관입에 의한 암석의 chipping 과정 및 메카니즘의 이해와 TBM 터널 설계를 위한 다양한 검토를 해석적 기법으로서 제시할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1047-1059
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• 2018

This paper focuses on the cracking and fragmentation process in rock materials containing a pair of non-parallel flaws, which are through the specimen thickness, under vertical compression. Several numerical experiments are conducted with varying flaw arrangements that affect the initiation and tensile wing cracks, shear crack growth, and crack coalescing behaviors. To obtain realistic numerical results, a parallelized peridynamics formulation coupled with a finite element method, which is able to capture arbitrarily occurring cracks, is employed. From previous studies, crack initiation and propagation of tensile wing cracks, horsetail cracks, and anti-wing cracks are well understood along with the coalescence between two parallel flaws. In this study, the coalescence behaviors, their fragmentation sequences, and the role of an x-shaped shear band in rock material containing two non-parallel flaws are discussed in detail on the basis of simulation results strongly correlated with previous experimental results. Firstly, crack initiation and propagation of tensile wing cracks and shear cracks between non-parallel flaws are investigated in time-history and then sequential coalescing behavior is analyzed. Secondly, under the effect of varying inclination angles of two non-parallel flaws and overlapping ratios between a pair of non-parallel flaws, the cracking patterns including crack coalescence, fragmentation, and x-shaped shear band are investigated. These numerical results, which are in good agreement with reported physical test results, are expected to provide insightful information of the fracture mechanism of rock with non-parallel flaws.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제69권5호
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• pp.537-545
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• 2019

Stress analysis of bottom-hole rock has to be considered with much care to further understand rock fragmentation mechanism and high penetration rate. This original study establishes a fully coupled simulation model and explores the effects of overburden pressure, horizontal in-situ stresses, drilling mud pressure, pore pressure and temperature on the stress distribution in bottom-hole rock. The research finds that in air drilling, as the well depth increases, the more easily the bottom-hole rock is to be broken. Moreover, the mud pressure has a great effect on the bottom-hole rock. The bigger the mud pressure is, the more difficult to break the bottom-hole rock is. Furthermore, the maximum principal stress of the bottom-hole increases as the mud pressure, well depth and temperature difference increase. The bottom-hole rock can be divided into three main regions according to the stress state, namely a) three directions tensile area, b) two directions compression areas and c) three directions compression area, which are classified as a) easy, b) normal and c) hard, respectively, for the corresponding fragmentation degree of difficulty. The main contribution of this paper is that it presents for the first time a thorough study of the effect of related factors, including stress distribution and temperature, on the bottom-hole rock fracture rather than the well wall, using a thermo-poroelastoplasticity model.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.977-995
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• 2017

It is well accepted that rock failure mechanism influence the cutting efficiency and determination of optimum cutting parameters. In this paper, an attempt was made to research the factors that affect the failure mechanism based on discrete element method (DEM). The influences of cutting depth, hydrostatic pressure, cutting velocity, back rake angle and joint set on failure mechanism in rock-cutting are researched by PFC2D. The results show that: the ductile failure occurs at shallow cutting depths, the brittle failure occurs as the depth of cut increases beyond a threshold value. The mean cutting forces have a linear related to the cutting depth if the cutting action is dominated by the ductile mode, however, the mean cutting forces are deviate from the linear relationship while the cutting action is dominated by the brittle mode. The failure mechanism changes from brittle mode with larger chips under atmospheric conditions, to ductile mode with crushed chips under hydrostatic conditions. As the cutting velocity increases, a grow number of micro-cracks are initiated around the cutter and the volume of the chipped fragmentation is decreasing correspondingly. The crack initiates and propagates parallel to the free surface with a smaller rake angle, but with the rake angle increases, the direction of crack initiation and propagation is changed to towards the intact rock. The existence of joint set have significant influence on crack initiation and propagation, it makes the crack prone to propagate along the joint.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.403-411
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• 2003

다단 장약에 의한 터널 심빼기 발파를 제안하여 개별요소법과 유한요소해석법으로 수치해석 하였다. 그 결과, 단당 장약량을 줄이고 다단으로 분산시키면 발파로 인한 파쇄도 효과적이고, 진동도 감소할 수 있음을 보여 주었다. 이러한 현상은 파괴역학적으로도 설명이 가능하여 제안된 방법이 성공적으로 적용될 수 있음을 보였다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.440-449
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• 2009

LCM 시험은 TBM에서의 디스크 커터 설계와 굴진성능 예측을 위한 가장 신뢰성 있는 시험 중의 하나이다. 그러나 이는 실대형 암석시료의 채취, 운반 및 거치에 많은 비용이 소요되는 단점을 가지고 있으며, 절리가 포함된 시료에 대한 시험이 용이하지 않아 시험에서 예측된 모델을 설계에 활용하기 어려운 경우가 많다. 따라서 LCM 시험이 갖는 이러한 경제적 시간적 제약점들을 극복할 수 있는 현실성 있는 수치모델링이 고려된다면, 현장에서의 복잡한 검토과정 없이 현장에 직접 적용할 수 있는 적합한 형태의 TBM 절삭모델을 제시할 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 UDEC을 이용하여 단일절리를 포함한 암석시료에 대한 디스크 커터의 절삭 메커니즘 분석을 위해 디스크 커터의 가압지점의 위치와 절리의 방향성에 따른 균열전파양상을 분석하였으며, 이를 통하여 절리의 방향에 따른 적절한 디스크 커터의 가압지점 위치 및 디스크 커터의 적정 간격을 도출하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제83권4호
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• pp.495-513
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• 2022

This paper aims to study the fracture mechanism of rocks under the 'u'shape cutters considering the effects of crack (pre-existing crack) distances, crack spacing and crack inclination angles. The effects of loading rates on the rock fragmentation underneath these cutters have been also studied. For this purpose, nine experimental samples with dimensions of 5 cm×10 cm×10 cm consisting of the non-persistent cracks were prepared. The first three specimens' sets had one non-persistent crack (pre-existing crack) with a length of 2 cm and angularity of 0°, 45°, and 90°. The spacing between the crack and the "u" shape cutter was 2 cm. The second three specimens" set had one non-persistent crack with a length of 2 cm and angularity of 0°, 45°, and 90° but the spacing between pre-existing crack and the "u" shape cutter was 4 cm. The third three specimens'set has two non-persistent cracks with lengths of 2 cm and angularity of 0°, 45° and 90°. The spacing between the upper crack and the "u" shape cutter was 2 cm and the spacing between the lower crack and the upper crack was 2 cm. The samples were tested under a loading rate of 0.005 mm/s. concurrent with the experimental investigation. The numerical simulations were performed on the modeled samples with non-persistent cracks using PFC2D. These models were tested under three different loading rates of 0.005 mm/s, 0.01 mm/sec and 0.02 mm/sec. These results show that the crack number, crack spacing, crack angularity, and loading rate has important effects on the crack growth mechanism in the rocks underneath the "u" shape cutters. In addition, the failure modes and the fracture patterns in the experimental tests and numerical simulations are similar to one another showing the validity and accuracy of the current study.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제69권1호
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• pp.16-23
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• 2010

Background: Most lung cancer patients receive systemic chemotherapy at an advanced stage disease. Cisplatin-based chemotherapy is the main regimen for treating advanced lung cancer. Recently, autophagy has become an important mechanism of cellular adaptation under starvation or cell oxidative stress. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not autophagy can occurred in cisplatin-treated lung cancer cells. Methods: H460 cells were incubated with RPMI 1640 and treated in $5{\mu}M$ or $20{\mu}M$ cisplatin concentrations at specific time intervals. Cells surviving cisplatin treatment were measured and compared using an MTT cell viability assay to cells that underwent apoptosis with autophagy by nuclear staining, apoptotic or autophagic related proteins, and autophagic vacuoles. The development of acidic vascular organelles was using acridine orange staining and fluorescent expression of GFP-LC3 protein in its transfected cells was observed to evaluate autophagy. Results: Lung cancer cells treated with $5{\mu}M$ cisplatin-treated were less sensitive to cell death than $20{\mu}M$ cisplatin-treated cells in a time-dependent manner. Nuclear fragmentation at $5{\mu}M$ was not detected, even though it was discovered at $20{\mu}M$. Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase cleavages were not detected in $5{\mu}M$ within 24 hours. Massive vacuolization in the cytoplasm of $5{\mu}M$ treated cells were observed. Acridine orange stain-positive cells was increased according in time-dependence manner. The autophagosome-incorporated LC3 II protein expression was increased in $5{\mu}M$ treated cells, but was not detected in $20{\mu}M$ treated cells. The expression of GFP-LC3 were increased in $5{\mu}M$ treated cells in a time-dependent manner. Conclusion: The induction of autophagy occurred in $5{\mu}M$ dose of cisplatin-treated lung cancer cells.