• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.211-218
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• 2022

This study characterizes Proctor and geophysical properties in a broad range of grading and fines contents. The results show that soil index properties such as uniformity and fines plasticity control the optimum water content and peak dry unit trends, as well as elastic wave velocity. The capillary pressure at a degree of saturation less than S = 20% plays a critical role in determining the shear wave velocity for poorly graded sandy soils. The reduction in electrical resistivity with a higher water content becomes pronounced as the water phase is connected A parallel set of compaction and geophysical properties of sand-kaolinite mixtures reveal that the threshold boundaries computed from soil index properties adequately capture the transitions from sand-controlled to kaolinite-controlled behavior. In the transitional fines fraction zone between F_F ≈ 20 and 40%, either sand or kaolinite or both sand and kaolinite could dominate the geophysical properties and all other properties associated with soil compaction behavior. Overall, the compaction and geophysical data gathered in this study can be used to gain a first-order approximation of the degree of compaction in the field and produce degree of compaction maps as a function of water content and fines fraction.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.393-399
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• 2022

The Segregation Potential (SP) is one of the most widely used predictors of frost heave in cold regions. Laboratory step-freezing tests determining a representative SP at the onset of the formation of the last ice lens (near the thermal steady state condition) can predict susceptibility to frost heave. Previous work has proposed empirical semi-log fitting for determination of the representative SP and applied it to several fine-grained soils, but considering only frost-susceptible soils. The presence of fines in coarse-grained soil affects frost susceptibility. Therefore, it is required to evaluate the applicability of the empirical semi-log fitting for both frost-susceptible and non-frost-susceptible soils with fines content. This paper reports laboratory frost heave tests for fines contents of 5%-70%. The frost susceptibility of soil mixtures composed of sand and silt was classified by the representative SP, and the suitability of the empirical semi-log fitting method was assessed. Combining semi-log fitting with simple laboratory frost heave testing using a temperature-controllable cell is shown to be suitable for both frost-susceptible and non-frost-susceptible soils. In addition, initially non-frost-susceptible soil became frost susceptible at a 10%-20% weight fraction of fines. This threshold fines content matched well with transitions in the engineering characteristics of both the unfrozen and frozen soil mixtures.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제37권12호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2021

영하의 온도에 의해 지반이 동결되며 발생하는 음의 간극수압은 frozen fringe로부터 간극수 이동을 유발해 ice lens를 형성시키며, ice lens 형성으로 인한 흙의 동상 및 동상팽창압은 지반구조물의 피해를 발생시킨다. 동상에 의한 피해를 방지하기 위해 다양한 동상민감성 판정이 수행되고 있으며, 그 중 가장 활발하게 활용되는 방법은 SP(Segregation Potential)를 이용한 동상민감성 판정이다. 또한, 간극수 이동에 의한 ice lens의 확장은 동상 메커니즘의 핵심 원인으로 작용하기 때문에 수리전도도에 관한 평가가 필요한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 모래와 실트를 다양한 중량비로 혼합해 동상실험 및 투수실험에 활용하였으며, 각 경우에 대해 SP 및 수리전도도를 도출하여 비교분석하였다. 그 결과 SP 및 수리전도도가 급격하게 변화하는 임계 전이값이 각각 실트 함유량이 20% 및 50% 인 경우에 나타났다. 이러한 임계 전이값의 차이에도 불구하고 SP는 수리전도도가 감소함에 따라 일정 값에 수렴하는 상관관계를 나타내고 있으며, 향후 임계 전이값 사이에 관한 추가적인 연구가 필요할 것으로 판단된다.