• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2014

석션버켓기초는 펌프로 버켓 내부의 물을 외부로 배출할 때 발생한 압력차로 지반에 설치되는 기초이다. 버켓기초는 외해의 플랫폼이나 석유 가스 시추시설을 계류시키기 위한 앵커로 주로 사용되었으나, 최근 유럽을 중심으로 해상풍력발전의 기초로 적용되기 시작하면서 국내에서도 큰 관심을 받고 있다. 석션버켓기초의 관입저항력 산정은 석션버켓기초를 성공적으로 시공하기위해 고려해야 할 주요 사항 중의 하나이다. 본 연구는 석션버켓기초를 관입시킬 때 필요한 관입력을 평가하기 위해 실내모형실험을 수행하였다. 실내모형실험은 압입설치 및 석션설치에서 측정한 관입저항력을 관입성능평가에서 많이 사용되는 기존의 이론식과 비교하여 강도감소계수의 적절한 범위를 검토하였다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.459-469
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• 2019

It is important to estimate the shear strength of shallow compacted soils as a construction material. A series of constant water content triaxial compression (CWCC) tests under low confining state in this study were performed on compacted geomaterials. For establishing a relationship of the shear strengths between saturated and unsaturated states on compacted geomaterials, the suction stresses were derived by two methods: the conventional suction-measured method and the Suction stress-SWRC Method (SSM). Considering the suction stress as an equivalent confining stress component in the (${\sigma}_{net}$, ${\tau}$) plane, it was found that the peak deviator stress states agree well with the failure line of the saturated state from the triaxial compression test when the SSM is applied to obtain the suction stress. On the other hand, the cavitation phenomenon on the measurement of suction affected the results of the conventional suction-measured method. These results mean that the SSM is distinctly favorable for obtaining the suction value in the CWCC test because the SSM is not restricted by the cavitation phenomenon. It is expected that the application of the SSM would reduce the time required, and the projected cost with the additional equipment such as a pore water measuring device in the CWCC test.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.35-52
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• 2009

A significantly thick zone of steep slopes is commonly encountered above groundwater table and the soils within this zone are unsaturated with negative pore-water pressures (i.e., matric suction). Matric suction contributes significantly to the shear strength of soil and to the factor of safety of unsaturated slopes. However, infiltration during rainfall increases the pore-water pressure in soil resulting in a decrease in the matric suction and the shear strength of the soil. As a result, rainfall infiltration may eventually trigger a slope failure. Therefore, understanding of shear strength characteristics of saturated and unsaturated soils under shearing-infiltration (SI) conditions have direct implications in assessment of slope stability under rainfall conditions. This paper presents results from a series of consolidated drained (CD) and shearing-infiltration (SI) tests. Results show that the failure envelope obtained from the shearing-infiltration tests is independent of the infiltration rate. Failure envelopes obtained from CD and SI tests appear to be similar. For practical purposes the shear strength parameters from the CD tests can be used in stability analyses of slopes under rainfall conditions. The SI tests might be performed to obtain more conservative shear strength parameters and to study the pore-water pressure changes during infiltration.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.41-47
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• 2013

일반적으로 입도분포가 양호하며 조밀한 흙은 공학적 성질이 우수하다. 불포화토의 공학적 성질, 즉 전단강도, 압축성, 투수성 등의 거동은 흙의 함수특성곡선과 밀접한 관계가 있다. 따라서 사질토의 입도분포 및 다짐상태와 관련있는 균등계수와 공극율이 그 흙의 함수특성곡선에 미치는 영향을 연구하는 것은 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 6개의 사질토 시료에 대하여 템페셀을 사용하여 함수특성곡선시험을 하였다. 시험결과를 Fredlund and Xing 모델식으로 최적화하여 모델식의 매개변수를 구하였고, 시료의 균등계수와 공극율이 매개변수에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 시료의 잔류흡수력은 시료의 공극율이 작을수록, 그리고 균등계수가 클수록 증가하였으며, 함수특성곡선의 최대경사는 시료의 균등계수와 상관없이 공극율이 작을수록 완만해짐을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2008년도 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.1199-1203
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• 2008

It has been recognized that unsaturated soil behavior plays an importantrole in geomechanics. In the last decade several constitutive models have been proposed and used in the analysis. Many of them, however, are constructed in the frame work of rate independent model such as elasto-plastic one. Although rate dependency is an important characteristics of soil for both saturated and unsaturated soils, very few models have been developed taking account of rate dependency. In the present paper, we have developed an elasto-viscoplastic model considering an effect of suction based on the overstress-type viscoplasticity with soil structure degradation. In the model, we have adopted an averaged pore pressure composed of pore water pressure and air pressure to determine the effective stress.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.93-101
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• 1997

This paper presents yield surfaces and hardening laws for describing the state of an unsaturated soil under isotropic compression and suction changes. The yield surface is formulated within the framework of hardening plasticity using two independent sets of stress variables : the excess of total stress over air pressure and the suction. And the application of the yield surfaces and hardening laws are confirmed from the result of the experiment. To this end a series of suction-controlled isotropic tests are conducted on clayey soils. Matric suction is controlled by the axis translation technique using high air entry ceramic disk. The specimens are compacted using a half of Proctor compaction energy with 5 % lower of water content than the optimum moisture contents. From test results, existence of the yield surfaces and an application of hardening laws to samples are confirmed by comparison between test and predicted results. And it is confirmed that LC yield locus is extened with the total plastic deformations induced by suction or stress changes, however, SI yield locus is only extended with the plastic deformations by induced suction changes.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.247-258
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• 2020

The shear strength of unsaturated soils, a research hotspot in geotechnical engineering, has great guiding significance for geotechnical engineering design. Although kinds of calculation models for the shear strength of unsaturated soil have been put forward by predecessors, there is still need for new models to extensively consider the nonlinear variation of shear strength, particularly for the nonlinear effect of the net normal stress on the shear strength of unsaturated soil. Here, the shear strength of unsaturated soils is explored to study the nonlinear effects of net normal stress with the introduction of a general nonlinear Mohr-Coulomb (M-C) strength criterion, and the relationship between the matric suction (or suction stress) and degree of saturation (DOS) constructed by the soil-water characteristics curve (SWCC) of van Genuchten is also applied for unsaturated soil. Then, two calculation models (i.e., an envelope shell model and an effective stress model) are established for the shear strength of unsaturated soils under the nonlinear strength theory. In these two models, the curve of the shear strength of unsaturated soils versus the net normal stress exhibits a tendency to gently. Moreover, the proposed formulas have flexibility and convenience with five parameters (for the effective stress model) or six parameters (for the envelope shell model), which are from the M-C strength parameters of the saturated soil and fitting parameters of SWCC of van Genuchten. Thereafter, by comparison with the classical theory of the shear strength of unsaturated soils from some actual cases, the rationality and accuracy of the present models were verified.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제32권3C호
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• pp.113-120
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• 2012

진주 잔류토 사면의 실제 붕괴사례에 대한 해석을 수행하였다. 강우시 침투로 인하여 불포화층에서 유효응력과 전단 강도가 감소하여 안전율이 저하된다. 본 연구에서는 함수특성곡선을 이용하여 흡수응력에 기반한 유효응력을 산정하였다. 대상 현장에서 채취한 시료로부터 함수특성곡선, 투수계수, 전단강도와 관련한 불포화 물성들을 획득하였다. 실제 강우에 대한 불포화층의 침투해석을 수행하고 사면 지층의 간극수압 분포를 구할 수 있었다. 유한요소 응력장에서 탄성 해석으로 지층내 전응력을 계산하고 활동면에 작용하는 전단응력의 분포를 계산하였다. 활동면에 작용하는 흡수응력 및 유효응력을 산정하여 전단강도를 평가할 수 있었다. 이로부터 강우에 따른 안전율을 계산하였으며, 실제 강우에 의하여 사면이 활동이 일어나는 것을 모의할 수 있었다. 또한 활동면에서 흡수응력이 증가하고 유효응력이 감소하는 동시에 전단강도가 감소하는 것을 추적할 수 있었다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.25-35
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 불포화토의 역학특성을 해명하기 위하여 4개의 횡변위 계측시스템(proximeter)을 이용하는 방법으로 포화 삼축시험기를 개량하여 불포화 삼축압축시험을 수행하였다. 등방응력조건하에서 다양한 석션을 작용시켜 압축 특성을 검토한 결과, 공시체의 초기 석션 보다 작은 석션을 작용시켰을 경우 흡수에 의한 체적압축(wetting collapse)이 발생함을 알았다. 또한 다양한 석션 레벨 및 구속압에서 삼축압축시험을 수행하여, 불포화토에 미치는 영향을 검토하였다. 그 결과, 초기 석션이 클수록 동일 축변형률에 대한 전단강도가 커지고 체적변형률이 작게 나타났다. 그러나, 구속압에 의한 체적변형률 및 배수량의 변화는 작게 나타났으며, 구속압 보다는 초기 석션에 더 의존하고 있다는 사실을 알았다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.153-163
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• 2020

Laboratory experiments were conducted with two different soil conditions to investigate rainfall infiltration characteristics. The soil layer materials that were tested were weathered granite soil and weathered gneiss soil. Artificial rainfall of 80 mm/hr was reproduced through the use of a rainfall device, and the volumetric water content and matric suction were measured. In the case of the granite soil, the saturation velocity and the moving direction of the wetting front were fast and upward, respectively, whereas in the case of the weathered gneiss soil, the velocity and direction were slow and downward, respectively. Rainfall penetrated and saturated from the bottom to the top as the hydraulic conductivity of the granite soil was higher than the infiltration capacity of the artificial rainfall. In contrast, as the hydraulic conductivity of the gneiss soil was lower than the infiltration capacity of the rainfall, ponding occurred on the surface: part of the rainfall first infiltrated, with the remaining rainfall subsequently flowing out. The unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function of weathered soils was determined and analyzed with matric suction and the effective degree of saturation.