• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.23-35
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• 2005

Excavation of an opening in a saturated porous rock may lead to the development of pore pressure around the opening due to the redistribution of initial rock stresses. The built-up of pore pressure, in turn, may affect the mechanical behavior of rock mass and give the different pattern of stress distribution around the opening from that of the case where the coupling is neglected. In this study, the short time response of an opening excavated in saturated ground under anisotropic initial stress conditions was investigated numerically. Not on the wall of opening but at a short distance from the wall, the tangential stresses were peak during the short period after excavation when the hydro-mechanical coupling is considered.

• Geotechnical Engineering
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.17-26
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• 1993

The mechanism of wave -induced stresses and liquefactions in a seabed is studied theoretically and experimentally, A constitutive equation which is governing wave -induced effective stresses and porepressures in an unsaturated seabed under the hydraulically anisotropic conditions is developed. It is learned that the effective stresses and excessive porewater pressures are governed by the conditions of waves and sedimentary layers, Especially the magnitude of effective stresses and the depth of disturbed zone induced by waves is controlled by the degree of saturation of the unsaturated seabeds.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.215-224
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• 1990

Finite element model capable of solving coupled deformation-fluid diffusion equations for the fully saturated porous medium was developed using Galerkin's residual method. This model was used to study the mechanical and hydraulic behaviors of unconsolidated sediment near South Harbor, Pusan. The vertical displacement of top surface clay sediment, when subjected to the external load, is significantly affected by the excessive pore pres- sure buildup and its decay due to the pore fluid diffusion. The sand deposit overlain by the much less permeable clay layer serves as a flow channel. Consequently, the fluid diffusion due to pore pressure difference is significantly facilitated, which also affects the diffusion-dependent sediment deformation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 1989.10a
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• pp.1.1-10
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• 1989

본 연구에서는 유효응력 개념에 기초를 둔 응력-변형을 관계식을 이용하여 비배수 지하굴착 거등을 모댈하기 위한 수치해석적 방법이 개발된다. 비배수 조건 시 적용되는 체적불변형 조건은 조건방정식(Penalty formulation)의 혁태로 공극수압 변수를 이용하여 주어지며 결과되는 유한요소 방정식에 상닻히 른 물외 체적변형 개수를 부여함으로서 이루어진다. 이러한 형태와 조건식은 지하굴착 과정에서 발생되는 비배수 공극수압의 계산을 가능케 한다. 체적불변형 조건 부여 시 발생되는 mesh locking은 그 결과에 상당한 영향을 미치므로 이러한 mesh locking 문제는 T-방법에 근거를 둔 salective 적분방법월 적용함으로서 해결될 수 있다. 또한 흙의 거등을 모델하기 위하여 사용 된 Cam-Clay모텔과 Drucker-prager모텔에 새로운 implicit 웅력적분 방법을 적용함으로서 효율적인 방법으로 비선형거동을 해석할 수 있다. 개발된 지하 굴착 해석방법의 적용성을 검증하기 위하여 실재 현장에서 측정된 지하굴착 거동을 예제로 이용하였다.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.242-255
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• 2020

The numerical simulations of Heater Experiment-D (HE-D) at the Mont Terri rock laboratory in Switzerland were performed to investigate an applicability of FLAC3D to reproduce the coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) behaviour in Opalinus Clay, as part of the DECOVLEX-2015 project Task B. To investigate the reliability of numerical simulations of the coupled behaviour using FLAC3D code, the simulation results were compared with the observations from the in-situ experiment, such as temperature at 16 sensors, pore pressure at 6 sensors, and strain at 22 measurement points. An anisotropic heat conduction model, fluid flow model, and transversely isotropic elastic model in FLAC3D successfully represented the coupled thermo-hydraulic behaviour in terms of evolution for temperature and pore pressure, however, performance of the models for mechanical behavior is not satisfactory compared with the measured strain.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.249-256
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• 2002

The stability of slurry trench system is closely associated with the characteristics of the filter cake (assumed impervious membrane) transferring the hydrostatic force of slurry to the trench walls. The effectiveness of this assumption in a wide range of trench systems has been examined with the aid of a Finite Element program. Build up of excess porewater pressure in the soil mass behind the filter cake is a function of the slurry density, the properties of filter cake, the ground conditions, time, the geometry of trench and the original ground water level. These factors were all investigated by the Finite Element Method. The most significant factors were found to be the ground conditions and the properties of filter cake.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.447-455
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• 2013

A micro-mechanical pipe network model with the shape of a cube was developed to simulate the behavior of fluid flow through a porous medium. The fluid-flow mechanism through the cubic pipe network channels was defined mainly by introducing a well-known percolation theory (Stauffer and Aharony, 1994). A non-uniform flow generally appeared because all of the pipe diameters were allocated individually in a stochastic manner based on a given pore-size distribution curve and porosity. Fluid was supplied to one surface of the pipe network under a certain driving pressure head and allowed to percolate through the pipe networks. A percolation condition defined by capillary pressure with respect to each pipe diameter was applied first to all of the network pipes. That is, depending on pipe diameter, the fluid may or may not penetrate a specific pipe. Once pore pressures had reached equilibrium and steady-state flow had been attained throughout the network system, Darcy's law was used to compute the resultant permeability. This study investigated the sensitivity of network size to permeability calculations in order to find out the optimum network size which would be used for all the network modelling in this study. Mean pore size and pore size distribution curve obtained from field are used to define each of pipe sizes as being representative of actual oil sites. The calculated and measured permeabilities are in good agreement.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.15-22
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• 1985

The author has studied the collapse of a slope with seepage occuring in sand model with a trapezodial cross section. The primary objective of this study was to examine the failure phenomenon of embankment with respect to change in void pressure at embankment slope. The contents of this experiments are as follows; 1) Determination of exit point by seepage line. 2) Evaluation of partial failure at exit point. 3) The effects of seepage force at embankment.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.39-47
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• 1982

Geotextile effects as reinforcement and vertical drain materials are studied through the laboratory model embankments on weak clays. The experiments are carried out in four stages; no woven fabrics between clay-crushed stone boundary, fabrics between boundary with no initial pretensioning of fabrics, and fabrics between boundary with two different initial pretensionings of fabrics. In all stages, vertical drains utilizing non-woven fabrics are installed in the clay layer in square pattern to accelarate the consolidation. The experimental model has plane dimensions of $32cm{\times}330cm$. The height for the clay container is 60 cm. The 47 cm height of crushed stone embankment is constructed over the 50 cm deep clay layer. The time dependent pore pressures are measured utilizing the 8 piezometers installed symmetrically on both sides of the wall at different heights. The time dependent deformations are measured utilizing the LED indicating lamp matrix inserted in the crushed stone embankment and the dialgauges put on top of the clay layer where the crushed stones are not laid. The measurements are carried out for 10 days which is equivalent to the time required for the primary consolidation. Through the experimental study, an analytical procedure is developed to predict the time dependent embankment settlement even if the top of the clay layer is reinforced with woven fabrics. This can be done through measuring the maximum pore pressures developed in the clay layer and comparing with the theoretical maximum pore pressures when no reinforcing fabrics are employed.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.9-20
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• 1991

The characteristics of the unconsolidated sediment in Gwangyang bay was analyzed from the core samples. The porosity of the sediment showed irregular variation with respect to the sedimentation depth, which indicated that sediment weight-induced consolidation was not significant. Numerical analysis for the mechanical and hydraulic behavior of the unconsolidated sediment due to the tidal sea level change was processed. Because of the delayed excessive pore pressure change in the very low permeable mud medium, the magnitude of the excessive pore pressure for the duration of the minimum sea level exceeded the total stress from the sea water weight, which resulted in the negative (tensional) effective stress below the top surface. The in-situ effective stress, obtained by superposing the tensional effective stress on the solid weight-induced compressive stress, was remained to be tensile (quick-sand condition) near the top surface of the mud deposit. The occurrence of the quirk-sand condition provided a theoretical evidence for the insignificant consolidation and the irregular porosity variation of the sediment. When the sand is distributed on the top surface of the mud layer, the quick-sand condition occurred below the sandy mud layer and the downward movement of sand particles was facilitated.