• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.55-61
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• 2009

Recently, highway tunnel construction has rapidly been increased due to the limited ground usage and geographical characteristic in Korea, i.e. Korea consists of 70% mountains. In this paper, it was analyzed tunnel collapse patterns in the weathered rockmass. Recent tunnel collapse pattern is quite different from that of past ten years. Tunnels in past years have been collapsed at shallow valley area because of shear strength decrease after heavy rain. Tunnels, which have been constructed recently, were collapsed at even the deeper ground position after primary support. Also in the case that proper reinforcement was not applied, it caused excessive crack at shotcrete and local collapse near tunnel face. In this paper, it was analysed the cause of the recent tunnel collapses and proper reinforcement for the collapsed tunnels.

• 지반과기술
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.20-31
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• 2013

본 터널 붕락 사례 연구를 종합적으로 분석해 볼때, 시공 공정 중에 발생 가능한 붕괴 및 붕락은 앞서와 같이 과거의 여러 사례들을 토대로 분석함으로서 예측 할 수 있지만, 시공 외적인 요인에 대해서는 사실상 조사, 설계, 시공 중의 오류에 의해 발생되는 것이기 때문에 파악하기 어렵다. 본 터널 붕락사례를 통해 원인을 분석 정리 하면 다음과 같다. (1) 불규칙한 지반구조적 원인 대부분의 터널 붕락을 일으키는 불규칙한 지반구조는 과거 지반구조의 침식 또는 대규모 지반운동 등 지반구조의 급속한 변화에 기인한 것이다. 터널 시공전에 면밀한 사전 지반조사와 선진 보오링 등으로 정확한 지반구조를 파악한다면 이로 인한 터널 붕락은 최소화 시킬수 있다. (2) 기획과 설계단계에서의 오류 충분치 못한 지반조사에 의한 설계 및 부적절한 시공자재 사용등으로 터널 붕락이 발생 될수 있다. 터널 굴착 주변 지반조건과 이러한 지반조건에 적합한 터널 굴착 및 보강공법 등이 터널 설계시 심도있게 검토되어야 할 가장 중요한 요소이다. (3) 시공 및 관리에서의 오류 경험이 부족한 터널기술자의 현장 감독과 현장에서 수집되는 각종 계측자료의 신뢰성 부족과 결과의 재적용 미흡으로 효율적인 계측 및 지반정보를 활용한 정밀 시공이 이루어지지 않는 것도 터널 붕락의 중요한 요인으로 분석되었다. (4) 현장관리 조사서의 표준화 부족 터널굴착공사중 붕락이 발생된 현장의 막장조사결과를 보면 조사자가 임의로 표시를 하여 각 터널별 막장조사결과가 매우 상이할 뿐만 아니라 각 터널별로 기재방법, 양식이 달라서 실제 원인분석에 활용하기가 어려운 것으로 분석되었다.

• 기술발표회
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• s.2006
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• pp.331-341
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• 2006

터널 설계시 일반적으로 지반조사와 물리탐사를 시행하여 지층에 따른 적절한 터널 지보패턴을 설정하고 있으나, 다양한 지반 및 지질특성과 설계단계에서 미쳐 발견되지 못한 단층등의 연약대로 인하여 시공시 터널내에서 종종 붕락사고가 발생하고 있다. 터널 굴착시 발생하는 붕락은 터널의 안정성 저하 및 공기 지연 등의 큰 문제점들을 발생시키므로 조기에 적절한 보강방안이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 터널 굴착시 발생한 두개의 붕락사고에 대해서 붕락원인과 붕괴유형을 파악하고 현장 여건에 맞는 신속한 보강대책을 제시하고 시공한 보강사례이다. 향 후 본 사례와 유사한 터널붕락사고가 발생할 경우 보강설계 및 보강방안을 계획.수립하는데 유용한 참고자료가 될 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.117-127
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• 2000

터널 시공과 굴착과정에서 파쇄대, 절리, 연약대, 균열 등 암반에서의 불연속면은 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 연구에서는 지반 고유의 특징인 불확실성에 의한 터널 설계와 시공 과정에서 겪는 많은 시행오차를 최소화하기 위해서 국내의 터널 붕락 현장의 지반조사 자료를 분석하여 터널 붕락 유형 및 규모를 제시할수 있는 Geo-predict 시스템을 개발하였다. Geo-predict 시스템은 총 104개 터널 붕괴/붕락자료(국외84개, 국내20개)를 분석한 자료를 테이터베이스로 인공신경망 학습을 토해서 터널 붕괴 형태와 규모를 추론하는 시스템이다. 본 논문에서는 Geo-predict의 개발과정 및 구성.기능을 소개하였으며 104개 터널 현장 자료를 지반조건별로 분석하고 이를 데이터베이스화하여 인공신경함을 이용한 추론 시스탬을 구축하고, 2개 고속전철 터널현장과 1개 지하철 시공현장에 적용성 평가를 실시하여, 터널의 붕락 가능 및 붕락 규모를 추론하였다.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.13-24
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• 2000

The collapse shapes and causes of tunnel in the highway were analyzed and reinforced methods of tunnel were investigated in the paper. Collapse shapes of tunnel are divided into three types such as subsurface failure, small scale wedge failure and slickenside strata failure. These three shapes consist of 35%, 50%, and 15%, respectively. The 85% of collapse was located near the entrance and exit of tunnel. The 15% was located at the intersection of emergency laybys. When tunnel collapses are analyzed by the failure concept, sliding failure amounts to more than 83%.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.236-247
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• 2009

Overpopulation has significantly increased the use of underground spaces in urban areas, and led to the developments of shallow-depth underground space. Due to unexpected rock fall, however, it is very necessary to understand and categorize the rock mass behaviors prior to the tunnel excavation, by which unnecessary casualties and economic loss could be prevented. In case of cave-in, special attention should be drawn since it occurs faster and greater in magnitude compared to rock fall and plastic deformation. Types of cave-in behavior are explained and categorized using seven parameters - Uniaxial Compressive Strength (UCS), Rock Quality Designation (RQD), joint surface condition, in-situ stress condition, ground water condition, earthquake & ground vibration, tunnel span. This study eventually introduces a new index called Cave-in Behavior Index (CBI) which explains the behavior of cave-in under given in-situ conditions expressed by the seven parameters. In order to assess the mutual interactions of the seven parameters and to evaluate the weighting factors for all the interactions, survey data of the experts' opinions and Rock Engineering Systems (RES) were used due to lack of field observations. CBI was applied to the tunnel site of Seoul Metro Line No. 9. UDEC analyses on 288 cases were done and occurrences of cave-in in every simulation were examined. Analyses on the results of 288 cases of simulations revealed that the average CBI for the cases when cave-in for different patterns of tunnel support was estimated by a logistic regression analysis.

• Journal of Korean Society of societal Security
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.75-81
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• 2009

This paper presents the geotechnical characteristics of tunnel co \l apse based on the case studies. For domestic cases, most collapses are likely to happen along the weakest zone of shear strength due to the change of stresses induced by excavation specially when soft or weathered rock exist in front of a tunnel. In other words, the collapse of a tunnel occurs along the highly weathered fractured zone due to blasting and excavation. In Europe, collapses have been occurred by one joint group even though the ground is relatively fresh and for the rocks of which RQD is over 50%. In addition, the amount of ground water flow does not seem to be seriously affected by the RQD range.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.45-52
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• 2014

The tunnel construction is increasing in order to secure a good driving performance of the car and train. A cases of tunnel collapse and the tunnel excessive displacement are increasing with the increase in tunnel construction. In terms of empirical construction methods using the strength characteristics of soil, it is important for tunnel construction to analyze causes of collapse and displacement. In the paper, it was analyzed the causes of collapse and excessive displacement of tunnel in the fractured ground condition. The results of analysis is that the increase of rainfall and lasting increase of displacement and large scale fractured ground are interconnected.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.15 no.2 s.55
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• pp.102-110
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• 2005

○ ○ tunnel that is located at Iksan - Jangsu freeway ○ ○, has collapsed during construction at the valley with shallow depth. Although, the site investigations, such as TSP, drilling exploration and so of indicated the presence of discontinuities in this section. The RMR was upgraded and the construction were carried out because that not only actual rock qualities were relatively good during construction but also the tunnel foe was stabilized. However, the tunnel was collapsed at the same time blasting of full face, and surface and underground water was infiltrated due to the settlement of the upper part of the tunnel face. To restore the collapsed section, 3-d tunnel stability analysis was performed and suitable reinforcement methods were chosen. The cavity of the upper tunnel face was stabilized by means of UAM and ALC injection. And the settlement was restored using L.W grouting method.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.14-20
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• 2015

Three-dimensional (3D) resistivity method is an effective tool in the engineering site survey because it can provide a 3D resistivity distribution of the site. In this study, we tried to find out faults, fractures and coal seams that can cause the collapse of the tunnel. We carried out 2D resistivity survey along 5 parallel lines and 11 cross lines and merged all the apparent resistivity data for 3D inversion. Finally, from the 3D resistivity image and drilling data we presented the 3D distribution of faults, fractures and coal seams that are considered the main cause of the tunnel collapse.