• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.271-305
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• 2020

An effect of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical and chemical (THMC) behavior is an essential part of the performance and safety assessment of geological disposal systems for high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. Furthermore, numerical models and modeling techniques are necessary to analyze and predict the coupled THMC behavior in the disposal systems. However, phenomena associated with the coupled THMC behavior are nonlinear, and the constitutive relationships between them are not well known. Therefore, it is challenging to develop numerical models and modeling techniques to analyze and predict the coupled THMC behavior in the geological disposal systems. It is also difficult to verify and validate the development of the models and techniques because it requires expensive laboratory tests and in-situ experiments that need to be performed for a long time. DECOVALEX was initiated in 1992 to efficiently develop numerical models and modeling techniques and validate the developed models and techniques against the lab and in-situ experiments. In Korea, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has participated in DECOVALEX-2011, DECOVALEX-2015, and DECOVALEX-2019 since 2008. In this study, all tasks in the three DECOVALEX projects were introduced to the researcher in the field of rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering in Korea.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.279-280
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• 2012

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.24 no.9
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• pp.41-46
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• 2023

Numerical analysis of frost heave is challenging due to the influence of soil and environmental factors. Thermo-hydromechanical coupled analysis relies heavily on excessive input variables and primarily focuses on validating clayey soils, so it is limited to frost susceptible silty soils. An empirical approach based on thermodynamics offers relatively simple frost heave analysis and the advantage of linking constitutive equations with frost heave to enable geomechanical interpretations. In this paper, we introduce an empirical numerical model using the Segregation Potential (SP) and evaluate reliability through comparative analysis with experimental results of frost susceptible silty soils. While the SP model enables frost heave analysis for the given silty soils, further investigation on various silty soils is necessary to gather data on key input variables.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.42-51
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• 1991

MBE 성장시 기판 표면에서의 성장과정을 운동론적 지배과정과 열역학적 지배과정으로 나누어 성장모델을 제시하였으며, 화학적 평형상태에서의 열역학이 III-V compound의 성장속도와 composition 에 미치는 영향을 기존의 보고된 결과 데이터와 비교 분석하였다. 특히 miscibility gap 내에 존재하는 III-V ternary compound의 경우 박막의 성질 및 소자의 특성에 영향을 미치는 alloy clustering은 저온 성장시 surface kinetics에 의해, 고온성장시에는 열역학적 spinodal decomposition에 의해 결정됨을 알수 있었다. 열역학적 모델에서는 기판과 layer사이의 lattice mismatch와 재료의 elastic coefficient의 함수인 additive strain Gibbs free energy, 그리고 ternary solid solution의 regular behavior를 가정하여 ternary alloy의 mixing에 기인한 excess Gibbs free energy를 고려하였다.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.38-51
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• 2019

Barcelona Basic Model (BBM) can describe not only swelling owing to decrease in effective stress, but also wetting-induced swelling due to decrease in suction. And the BBM can also consider increase in cohesion and apparent preconsolidation stress with suction, and decrease in the apparent preconsolidation stress with temperature. Therefore, the BBM is widely used all over the world to predict and to analyze coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of bentonite which is considered as buffer materials at the engineered barrier system in the high-level radioactive waste disposal system. However, the BBM is not well known in Korea, so this paper introduce the BBM to Korean rock engineers and geotechnical engineers. In this study, Modified Cam Clay (MCC) model is introduced before all, because the BBM was first developed as an extension of the MCC model to unsaturated soil conditions. Then, the thermo-elasto-plastic version of the BBM is described in detail.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.338-342
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• 2015

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), a machine learning model which can handle time-series data, can possess more varied structures than a feed-forward neural network, since a RNN allows hidden-to-hidden connections. This research focuses on the network structure among hidden neurons, and discusses the information processing capability of RNN. Time-series learning potential and dynamics of RNNs are investigated upon several well-established network structure models. Hidden neuron network structure is found to have significant impact on the performance of a model, and the performance variations are generally correlated with the criticality of the network dynamics. Especially Preferential Attachment Network model showed an interesting behavior. These findings provide clues for performance improvement of the RNN.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.38 no.7
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• pp.522-534
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to verify urban flow and thermal environment by using the simulated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model in the area of Gangnam Seonjeongneung, and then to compare the CFD model simulation results with that of Seonjeongneung-monitoring networks observation data. The CFD model is developed through the collaborative research project between National Institute of Meteorological Sciences and Seoul National University (CFD_NIMR_SNU). The CFD_NIMR_SNU model is simulated using Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) Local Data Assimilation Prediction System (LDAPS) wind and potential temperature as initial and boundary conditions from August 4-6, 2015, and that is improved to consider vegetation effect and surface temperature. It is noticed that the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of wind speed decreases from 1.06 to $0.62m\;s^{-1}$ by vegetation effect over the Seonjeongneung area. Although the wind speed is overestimated, RMSE of wind speed decreased in the CFD_NIMR_SNU than LDAPS. The temperature forecast tends to underestimate in the LDAPS, while it is improved by CFD_NIMR_SNU. This study shows that the CFD model can provide detailed and accurate thermal and urban area flow information over the complex urban region. It will contribute to analyze urban environment and planning.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.27 no.11
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• pp.55-69
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• 2011

The importance of unsaturated state in various geo-engineering problems has led to the advance of mechanical constitutive model emulating behavior of unsaturated soils in response to thermo-hydro-mechanical loading. Elasto-plastic mechanical constitutive model for unsaturated soil is formulated based on Bishop's effective stress. Effective stress and temperature are main variables in constitutive equation, and incremental formulation of constitutive relationship is derived to compute stress update and stiffness tensor. Numerical simulations involving coupled THM processes are conducted to discuss numerical stability and applicability of developed constitutive model: one-dimensional test, tri-axial compression test, and clay-buffering at high level radioactive waste disposal. Numerical results demonstrated that developed model can predict very complex behavior of coupled THM phenomena and is applicable to geo-engineering problems under various environmental conditions, as well as interpret typical behavior of unsaturated soils.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.568-585
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• 2022

In the present study, we proposed a numerical method for simulating thermally induced fracture slip using a grain-based distinct element model (GBDEM). As a part of DECOVALEX-2023, the thermo-mechanical loading test on a saw-cut rock fracture conducted at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology was simulated. In the numerical model, the rock sample including a saw-cut fracture was represented as a group of random Voronoi polyhedra. Then, the coupled thermo-mechanical behavior of grains and their interfaces was calculated using 3DEC. The key concerns focused on the temperature evolution, thermally induced principal stress increment, and fracture normal and shear displacements under thermo-mechanical loading. The comparisons between laboratory experimental results and the numerical results revealed that the numerical model reasonably captured the heat transfer and heat loss characteristics of the rock specimen, the horizontal stress increment due to constrained displacement, and the progressive shear failure of the fracture. However, the onset of the fracture slip and the magnitudes of stress increment and fracture displacement showed discrepancies between the numerical and experimental results. We expect the numerical model to be enhanced by continuing collaboration and interaction with other research teams of DECOVALEX-2023 Task G and validated in further study.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.244-258
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• 1999

정보화 촉진 정책 개발 도구로써 정보화 지표의 문제점 및 한계를 지적하고, 이를 보완할 수 있는 방안으로서 시스템 사고에 입각한 동적 역학 모델을 개발하는데 본 연구의 목적이 있다. 정보화 진행모형은 정보화 진행속도는 촉진요인과 저해요인의 상호 영향도에 의해 결정된다는 점에서부터 출발하여 이들 양자간 존재하는 Push-Pull 패러다임 하에 상호 역학관계를 시스템 다이내믹스 모형(System Dynamics model)을 개발하였다. 나아가 개발된 모델을 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션으로 구현, 시행함으로서 향후 정보화 촉진을 위한 정책변수의 도출과 각 변수의 영향도를 측정할 수 있는 가능성을 제시하였다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 모델에 반영된 기초 자료는 가능한 한 실제 데이터를 분석, 이용하였으나, 시계열 자료의 부족으로 상당부분 추정 및 가정을 도입하였다. 결국 시뮬레이션 시행으로 얻은 결과치 그 자체는 현실성을 결여하고 있는 문제를 안고 있으나, 정보화 촉진 정책 입안과 그에 대한 효과를 사전에 분석해 볼 수 있는 새로운 돌파구를 마련하였다는 점에서 본 연구의 의미를 찾을 수 있을 것으로 기대된다