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http://dx.doi.org/10.12814/jkgss.2014.13.3.001

A Study on the Applicability of Levee Leakage Monitoring System Using Movable TDR Sensor  

Cho, Jinwoo (Dept. of Geotechnical Engrg., KICT)
Choi, Bong-Hyuck (Dept. of Geotechnical Engrg., KICT)
Cho, Won-Beom (Dept. of Geotechnical Engrg., KICT)
Kim, Jin-Man (Dept. of Geotechnical Engrg., KICT)
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Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society / v.13, no.3, 2014 , pp. 1-10 More about this Journal
Abstract
Several types of methods such as resistivity survey, ground penetration radar, etc are used for detection of levee leakage and according to the river design guidelines detection of levee leakage is performed by measuring the hydraulic conductivity of levee soil. But, the former can not verify the leakage point and degree of saturation, the latter is an after treatment method. Movable sensor, which is a high-tech TDR system developed since 2000, can obtain directly the dielectric constant profile covering the whole depth of levee. In this study, laboratory and field model experiments were carried out using movable TDR sensor in order to evaluate the applicability as detection system of levee leakage, As the result, movable TDR system has proven to be 3 times more sensitive to water contents than dry unit weight, and the results conclude that the dielectric constant, water contents and density of the ground proved to have a correlation among them, and the dielectric constant is expected to be a basic data on detection of levee leakage.
Keywords
Levee leakage; Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR); Movable sensor; Dielectric Constant; Water Contents;
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