• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.13-21
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• 2018

The magnitude and distribution of earth pressure on the excavation wall in jointed rock mass were examined by considering different wall permeability conditions as well as rock types and joint inclination angles. The study was numerically extended based on a physical model test (Son & Park, 2014), considering rock-structure interactions with the discrete element method, which can consider various characteristics of rock joints. This study focused on the effect of the permeability condition of excavation wall on the earth pressure in jointed rock masses under a groundwater condition, which is important but has not been studied previously. The study results showed that the earth pressure was highly influenced by wall permeability as well as rock type and joint condition. Earth pressure resulted from the study was also compared with Peck's earth pressure in soil ground, and the comparison clearly showed that the earth pressure in jointed rock mass can be greatly different from that in soil ground.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.75-91
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• 2009

It is known that retaining walls were severely damaged as well in the most recent earthquakes having occurred in the countries in the active seismic belts of the world. This damage can be ascribed to the calculation methods used for the designs of retaining walls in the event of their constructions and employment having been accurately carried out. Generally simplified pseudo-static methods are used in the analysis of retaining walls with analytical methods and soil-structure interaction are not considered. In view of these circumstances, in this article by taking soil interaction into consideration, linear and nonlinear behaviours of retaining walls are analyzed with the assistance of LUSAS which is one of the structural analysis programs. This investigations are carried out per LUSAS which employs the finite element method as to the Erzincan (1992) Earthquake North-South component and the obtained findings are compared with the ones obtained from the method suggested in Eurocode-8, which is still effective today, and Mononobe-Okabe method. Not only do the obtained results indicate the distribution and magnitude of soil pressures are depend on the filling soil but on the foundation soil as well and nonlinear effects should be considered in designs of these walls.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.475-483
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• 2019

Vegetation cover plays a vital role in stabilizing the soil structure, thereby contributing to surface erosion control. Surface vegetation acts as a shelterbelt that controls the flow velocity and reduces the kinetic energy of the water near the soil surface, whereas vegetation roots reinforce the soil via the formation of root-particle interactions that reduce particle detachment. In this study, two vegetation-testing trials were conducted. The first trial was held on cool-season turfgrasses seeded in a biopolymer-treated site soil in an open greenhouse. At the end of the test, the most suitable grass type was suggested for the second vegetation test, which was conducted in an environmental control chamber. In the second test, biopolymers, namely, starch and xanthan gum hydrogels (pure starch, pure xanthan gum, and xanthan gum-starch mixtures), were tested as soil conditioners for improving the water-holding capacity and vegetation growth in sandy soils. The results support the possibility that biopolymer treatments may enhance the survival rate of vegetation under severe drought environments, which could be applicable for soil stabilization in arid and semiarid regions.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2012

이 논문에서는 유체-구조물-지반의 상호작용을 고려한 해상풍력발전기의 지진응답해석법을 제시하였다. 풍력발전기는 tower와 그 정점에 집중된 질량으로 모델링 되었다. 이 tower는 유연한 해저지반에 기초하고 있는 튜브형 cantilever로 이상화하였다. Tower와 해수 간의 동적 상호작용, 기초와 지반간의 동적 상호작용이 고려된 유체-구조물-지반 연성계의 지배방정식은 부분구조법과 Rayleigh-Ritz방법에 의해서 유도되었다. 해수는 압축성 비점성 이상 유체로 이상화하였다. 해수로 포화된 층상지반에 놓인 footing의 동적 강성은 Thin Layer법에 의해서 계산하여 상부구조물 모델과 결합시켰다. 이 해석법을 해상풍력발전기 모델의 지진응답해석에 적용하였다. 해석 결과를 준거해와 비교해서 제안한 해석법의 타당성을 검증하였다. Tower의 유연성, 지반의 강성이 해상풍력발전기 지진거동에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 유체-구조물 상호작용과 지반-구조물 상호작용의 지진응답에 대한 상대적인 중요도를 비교 평가하였다.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2015

The water jetting system for a jack-up spudcan requires the suitable design considering the platform/spudcan particulars, environments, and soil conditions, either the surficial clay or surficial sand. The usage of water jetting depends critically on soil conditions. The water jetting is usually used for the smooth and fast extraction of the spudcan in the surficial clay condition. It is also required for inserting spudcan up to the required depth in the surficial sand condition, which is investigated in this paper. Especially, it should be very careful to use the water jetting during an installation of spudcan in the surficial sand condition, because there is a risk of overturning accident related to the punch-through. Therefore, in this study, the effect of water jetting flow rate and time on the change of soil properties and penetration resistance is analyzed to better understand their interactions and correlations when inserting the spudcan with water jetting in surficial sand condition. For the investigation, a wind turbine installation jack-up rig (WTIJ) is selected as the target platform and the multi layered soil (surficial sand overlaying clays) is considered as the soil condition. The environmental loading and soil-structure interaction (SSI) analysis are performed by using CHARM3D and ANSYS. This kind of investigation and simulation is needed to decide the proper water jetting flow rate and time of spudcan for the given design condition.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.85-103
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• 2011

Integration of finite element analysis (FEA) software into various software platforms is commonly used in coupling systems such as systems involving structural control, fluid-structure, wind-structure, soil-structure interactions and substructure method in which FEA is used for simulating the structural responses. Integrating an FEA program into various other software platforms in an efficient and simple way is crucial for the development and performance of the entire coupling system. The lack of simplicity of the existing integration methods makes this integration difficult and therefore entails the motivation of this study. In this paper, a novel practical technique, namely CS technique, is presented for integrating a general FEA software framework OpenSees into other software platforms, e.g., Matlab-$Simulink^{(R)}$ and a soil-structure interaction (SSI) system. The advantage of this integration technique is that it is efficient and relatively easy to implement. Instead of OpenSees, a cheap client handling TCL is integrated into the other software. The integration is achieved by extending the concept of internet based client-server concept, taking advantage of the parameterization framework of OpenSees, and using a command-driven scripting language called tool command language (TCL) on which the OpenSees' interface is based. There is no need for any programming inside OpenSees. The presented CS technique proves as an excellent solution for the coupling problems mentioned above (for both linear and nonlinear problems). Application examples are provided to validate the integration method and illustrate the various uses of the method in the civil engineering.

• 한국재난관리표준학회지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.79-85
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• 2008

본 연구는 지진이 발생한 경우, 교량이 위치하고 있는 기초부 주변토체의 영향을 포함하고 그 위에 위치한 교량시스템의 동적거동을 예측하여 결과적으로 전체적 교량시스템의 내진거동을 분석하기 위한 통합된 새로운 방법론(Unified Dynamic Analysis Method)에 대하여 제안하고자 한다. 주변토체의 영향을 포함한 교량의 내진거동을 분석하는 통합된 방법론은 교량의 내진평가시에 적절하게 사용 될 수 있다는 것을 밝혔다. 본 방법론을 이용시 다중입력파에 대한 영향분석도 용이할 수 있다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제30권6C호
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• pp.255-263
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• 2010

본 논문은 터널굴착으로 인해 발생된 인접지반에서의 지반변위가 구조물에 미치는 영향을 시공조건(지반손실) 및 지반의 특성을 달리하면서 지반-구조물 상호작용이 고려된 상태에서 조사한 것이다. 터널굴착에 의해 발생된 지반변위에 노출된 4층 블록식구조물이 서로 다른 시공조건(지반손실) 및 지반조건에 노출될 때 발생되는 구조물 거동이 수치해석을 통해 조사되었다. 수치해석을 위한 구조물은 소요전단 및 인장강도 이상의 응력이 발생할 때 구조물에 실제크랙이 발생될 수 있도록 개별요소법(DEM)을 이용하여 모델링되었다. 터널굴착유발 지반변위에 노출된 4층 블록식구조물의 거동 및 손상정도가 지반변위의 크기에 따라 조사되었으며, 발생된 구조물의 거동 및 손상정도는 구조물에 발생한 변형, 크랙크기 및 분포를 고려하여 시공조건(지반손실) 및 지반조건별로 비교되었다. 뿐만아니라, 다양한 시공조건(지반손실) 및 지반조건의 변화에 의해 구조물에 유발될 수 있는 손상정도의 크기가 손상도 예측기준(Son and Cording, 2005)을 사용하여 제시되었다. 이러한 결과들은 향후 터널굴착으로 인해 유발되는 인접구조물의 손상을 제어하고 최소화하는데 필요한 정보를 제공할 것이다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.291-304
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• 2022

Maximum shear modulus (G_max or G₀) is an important soil property useful for many engineering applications, such as the analysis of soil-structure interactions, soil stability, liquefaction evaluation, ground deformation and performance of seismic design. In the current study, bender element (BE) tests are used to evaluate the effect of the void ratio, effective confining pressure, grading characteristics (D₅₀, C_u and C_c), anisotropic consolidation and initial fabric anisotropy produced during specimen preparation on the G_max of sand-gravel mixtures. Based on the tests results, an empirical equation is proposed to predict G_max in granular soils, evaluated by the experimental data. The artificial neural network (ANN) and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) models were also applied. Coefficient of determination (R²) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) between predicted and measured values of G_max were calculated for the empirical equation, ANN and ANFIS. The results indicate that all methods accuracy is high; however, ANFIS achieves the highest accuracy amongst the presented methods.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.33-43
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• 2015

This paper investigated the magnitude and distribution of earth pressure on the support system in jointed rock mass by considering different earth pressure coefficients, rock types and joint inclination angles. The study mainly focused on the effect of the earth pressure coefficients on the earth pressure. Based on a physical model test (Son & Park, 2014), extended studies were conducted considering rock-structure interactions based on the discrete element method, which can consider the joints characteristics of rock mass. The results showed that the earth pressure was highly influenced by the earth pressure coefficients as well as the rock type and joint inclination angles. The effects of the earth pressure coefficients increased when the rock suffered more weathering and has no joint slide. The test results were also compared with Peck's earth pressure for soil ground, and clearly showed that the earth pressure in jointed rock mass can be greatly different from that in soil ground. This study indicated the earth pressure coefficients considering the rock types and joint inclination angles are important parameters influencing the magnitude and distribution of earth pressure, which should be considered when designing the support systems in jointed rock mass.