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A case study on excessive displacements occurred in the tunnels caused by rainfall (강우로 인한 터널내부 과다변위 사례 연구)

  • Kim, Nag-Young;Kim, Hong-Jong;Oh, Young-Seok;Kim, Chang-Yong;Yang, Tae-Sun
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.561-573
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    • 2012
  • Recently, tunnel constructions have been increased in Korea. According to the increment of tunnel constructions, cases of tunnel collapses also have been increased under tunnel construction. Among these tunnel collapses, after a certain amount of time has elapsed due to excessive displacements on slope of tunnel exit or entrance, cases of tunnel collapse have been increased rapidly. Therefore, the case study was conducted in this study to figure out factors effect on the tunnel collapses due to excessive displacements on tunnel exit or entrance slopes. Base on the case study, the fragmental zone of fault and the rainfall were most important factors on the collapse.

Sensitivity analysis of tunnel stability with a consideration of an excavation damaged zone (암반손상대를 고려한 터널 안정성 민감도 분석)

  • Kim, Jin-Soo;Kwon, Sanki
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.91-104
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    • 2014
  • An Excavation Damaged Zone (EDZ), in which rock properties are permanently changed due to blasting impact or stress redistribution, can influence the behavior and stability of structures. In this study, the mechanical stability of an underground opening was simulated by using FLAC, which is a two-dimensional modeling code, with a consideration of EDZ. A sensitivity analysis was also carried out with fractional factorial design. From the modeling, it was found that the behavior and the stability of an underground tunnel are strongly dependent on the existence of the EDZ. The sensitivity analysis showed that the key parameters affecting the factor of safety around the tunnel are in-situ stress ratio, depth, cohesion, reduction ratio, internal friction angle, and height and width of the tunnel. It is necessary to consider the EDZ, which can significantly affect mechanical stability in tunnel design.

Site Investigation of Abandoned Coal Mine and Stability of Road Tunnel (도로터널공사구간의 폐갱도 정밀조사 및 터널의 안정성 평가)

  • Shin, Hee-Soon;Kim, Jung-Yul;Lee, Byung-Joo;Han, Kong-Chang;Sunwoo, Choon;Song, Won-Kyung;Synn, Joong-Ho;Kim, Yoo-Sung;Park, Chan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2001.03a
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2001
  • Several underground cavities were found during construction of a road tunnel in 600m length . The area belong to Whasoon coalfield where extensive ground subsidences have occurred. It is necessary to find other underground cavities which might be located just near the road tunnel for safety, The field surveys and laboratory tests were conducted such as surface geological survey(672m), surface reflection seismic exploration(399m), drilling test(3 NX holes), 9 laboratory tests for rocks, 3 boreholes televiewer tests, reflection seismic exploration in tunnel(2, 342m). To estimate the effects of underground cavities on the road tunnel, 3 geological section were analysed with FLAC-2D modeling. The effects of the ground reinforcement were also analysed.

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A study on comparison of a ground water influx quantity in Seoul subway tunnel (서울지하철 터널내의 지하수 유입량에 대한 비교 연구)

  • Woo, Jong-Tae
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.353-359
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    • 2009
  • As ground water influx quantity which flows into the tunnel inside from the 7.937 km section of Han River and small and 7 medium-sized rivers which pass through subway line 5 is average $34,444\;m^3/day$ and it's 55.3% of the underground water influx quantity $62,272\;m^3/day$ which flows into whole tunnel section 31.29 km. If we suppressed the underground water influx from the rivers, it would be expect that the maintenance and management expenses would be able to reduce a lot. In addition, as the result of investigating the difference between the ground water influx quantity which flows into the river section and that of the design standard, the ground water influx quantity is $3.01\;m^3/min$ and it is flowing to similar level of tunnel design standard $3.00\;m^3/min$. However, when it is compared with tunnel average influx quantity $1.38\;m^3/min$, it has been found that 2.18 times of ground water flows into rivers.

Evaluation of failure mode of tunnel-type anchorage for a suspension bridge via scaled model tests and image processing

  • Seo, Seunghwan;Lim, Hyungsung;Chung, Moonkyung
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.457-470
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    • 2021
  • In this study, the pull-out behavior of a tunnel-type anchorage for suspension bridges was investigated using experimental tests and image processing analyses. The study focused on evaluating the initial failure behavior and failure mode of the tunnel-type anchorage. In order to evaluate the failure mode of tunnel-type anchorage, a series of scaled model tests were conducted based on the prototype anchorage of the Ulsan Grand Bridge. In the model tests, the anchorage body and surrounding rocks were fabricated using a gypsum mixture. The pull-out behavior was investigated under plane strain conditions. The results of the model tests demonstrate that the tunnel-type anchorage underwent a wedge-shaped failure. In addition, the failure mode changed according to the differences in the physical properties of the surrounding rock and the anchorage body and the size of the anchor plate. The size of the anchor plate was found to be an important parameter that determines the failure mode. However, the difference in physical properties between the surrounding rock and the anchorage body did not affect its size. In addition, this study analyzed the initial failure behavior of the tunnel-type anchorage through image analysis and confirmed that the failure was sequentially transferred from the inside of the tunnel to the surrounding rock according to the image analysis. The reasonable failure mode for the design of the tunnel-type anchorage should be wedge-type rather than pull-out type.

Deep Learning-based Object Detection of Panels Door Open in Underground Utility Tunnel (딥러닝 기반 지하공동구 제어반 문열림 인식)

  • Gyunghwan Kim;Jieun Kim;Woosug Jung
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.665-672
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: Underground utility tunnel is facility that is jointly house infrastructure such as electricity, water and gas in city, causing condensation problems due to lack of airflow. This paper aims to prevent electricity leakage fires caused by condensation by detecting whether the control panel door in the underground utility tunnel is open using a deep learning model. Method: YOLO, a deep learning object recognition model, is trained to recognize the opening and closing of the control panel door using video data taken by a robot patrolling the underground utility tunnel. To improve the recognition rate, image augmentation is used. Result: Among the image enhancement techniques, we compared the performance of the YOLO model trained using mosaic with that of the YOLO model without mosaic, and found that the mosaic technique performed better. The mAP for all classes were 0.994, which is high evaluation result. Conclusion: It was able to detect the control panel even when there were lights off or other objects in the underground cavity. This allows you to effectively manage the underground utility tunnel and prevent disasters.