• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.29-35
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• 2002

In order to establish the applicability of organic soil as Earthwork Materials, this research conducts a battery of laboratory tests using two kinds of test materials. The test material A, a mixture of sand and organic soil, and the test material B, a mixture of granite soil and organic soil varying the proportion of organic soil through 5%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and 50% are used. Continuous column leaching tests of the test materials A and B indicate that their COD value is substantially smaller than that of pure organic soil, the COD value of the early leached water slightly exceeds the standard level for leached water. The COD value after 4 hours of leaching becomes very small. The mixed soil of sand and organic soil is considered usable as embankment materials when the proportion of organic soil is up to 40% with the corresponding concentration ratio of organic contents is less than 11.3%. Similarly, the mixed soil of granite soil and organic soil is considered usable as earthwork materials when the proportion of organic soil is less than 30% with the corresponding concentration ratio of organic contents is less than 16.4%.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.13-20
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• 2023

The Gangneung region has an environment suitable for the formation of organic soil, and there is an alluvial layer in which sedimentary sand layers are distributed on the upper and lower parts of the organic soil. In order to evaluate the seismic safety of the railway roadbed passing through the Gangneung area, a railway roadbed and ground model considering the similarity ratio was fabricated, a shaking table test was conducted, and the seismic stability was evaluated by comparing the effective stress analysis results. The applied seismic waves were artificial seismic waves, Gyeongju seismic waves, Borah seismic waves, Nahanni seismic waves, and Tabas seismic waves. It became. Due to the ground reinforcement effect by jet grouting applied to the lower ground of the new roadbed, the displacement of the new roadbed was found to be reduced from a minimum of 33.7% to a maximum of 56.7% compared to the existing roadbed. The shaking table test results were verified by effective stress analysis using the Finn model of the Flac program, and showed a similar trend to the shaking table test values.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.23-30
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• 2001

A Series of laboratory tests were conducted to investigate the engineering characteristics for organic soil widely distributed in Yong-dong region which always makes problems in construction works. Physical characteristics of Yong-dong organic soil area were measured in terms of such categories as nature water content, organic content, specific gravity, liquid limit, and plasticity index. As a result, it was found that nature water content was $50.8^{\circ}-343.5%$, organic content 12.1-42.5%, specific gravity 1.76-2.71, liquid limit 46.6-440.2%, and plasticity index 9.2-557.2%. Also, as consolidation load increases, consolidation coefficient slightly decreases with small up and down. The ratio of secondary consolidation coefficient to compression index is 0.001-0.091 $C_a/C_c$, secondary coefficient tends to increase greatly when organic content is in the range of 11-22%.

• Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.61-69
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• 1999

When the repeated loading, such as vehicel etc, acts on soft ground, consolidation behaviors due to repeated loading wil show different from standard one. A series of tests was performed to investigate the characteristics of consolidation of lowly organic soil subjected to repeated loadings. Lowly organic soil with Lig. 23.5% was sampeld in Chonbuk Province and tested using a partially and a fully repeated loadings. From test results it was found that void ration, volume change, consolidation coefficient, permeability and secondary consolidation coefficient were greatly affected according to the repetition number and the load weight. The secondary consolidation coefficient was decreased with increase of the repetition number. The results obtained from this research can be used as basic for the improvement of soft ground.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.29-32
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• 2016

A series of laboratory tests were conducted to investigate the geotechnical engineering characteristics of muskeg soil for construction machinery widely distributed in cambridge region in Canada which makes problems in construction works. Physical characteristics of cambridge region muskeg soil were measured in terms of such categories as nature water content, organic content, specfic gravity, liquid limit, and plasticity index. As the test result, it was found that nature water content, organic content, specific gravity, liquid limit, plasticity index, and compression strength were 50.8~343.8%, 12.1~42.5%, 1.76~2.57, 46.6~440.2%, 25.6~280.5, $0.665{\sim}1.537kg/cm^2$, respectively.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.31 no.B
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• pp.91-98
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• 2011

In this thesis, from the results of settlement measurement performed at the site where embankment earthwork was carried out on the ground consisting of highly plastic and silty soft soils interlayered with organic deposits, various methods of predicting the embankment settlement such as Hoshino's method, Asaoka's method, hyperbolic method, ${\sqrt{s}}$ method and Monden's method were used to investigate their applicability and the inverse method of finding the soil parameter related to consolidation was used to predict the consolidation behavior in the future. It was confirmed that reliable prediction of consolidation behavior under various conditions could be done to estimate soil parameter related to consolidation such as the consolidation index and consolidation coefficient by the inverse method of comparing the measured settlement with the predicted value by the settlement prediction methods.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.13-20
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• 2006

We have conducted standard penetration tests and static cone penetration tests that are widely used the land base examination on the soft ground subsurface of Yongdong area, and examined the correlation between them. We have also made a comparative analysis of the correlation between the indoor tests on the materials collected on the site and on-the-spot penetration tests. The results are as follows : The relationship between Standard Penetration Test N-value and Dutch Cone Tset show $Q_c=1.93N+0.29$ for organic soil, $Q_c=2.19N+0.20$ for clay, $Q_c=2.34N+1.06$ for silt, $Q_c=3.02N+0.54$ for silty sand, and $Q_c=3.47N+0.46$ for sand. In this case of sand $Q_c/N$ increases when the soil particles are larger. The relationship between standard penetration test N-value and Unconfined Compression Strength $q_u$ show $q_u=0.11N+0.03$ for organic soil, $q_u=0.11N+0.25$ for clay, and $q_u=0.18N-0.03$ for silt.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.29 no.10
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• pp.29-37
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• 2013

Organic soils are widely distributed at Youngdong areas in Kangwon prefecture and Jeonbuk area. Such organic soils usually consist of undecomposed fiber materials. It is difficult to exactly measure the water content of such organic soils because some organic materials may decompose at $110^{\circ}C$ in drying oven. In this study, both drying oven and microwave oven methods are used to measure the water content of organic soils. Three different levels of oven temperature, $60^{\circ}C$, $80^{\circ}C$, and the standard temperature of $110^{\circ}C$, were used to measure the water content of organic soils in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd day. The water content by microwave oven was measured for two different sample masses (30, 60 g) with five different measuring times (3, 6, 9, 12, 15 min.). As the temperature increased, the water content of organic soils increased due to the decomposition of organic materials in soils. The water content of some soils increased up to 2 times as the temperature was increased from $60^{\circ}C$ to $110^{\circ}C$. However, the water content was not changed after the 1st day, regardless of drying oven temperature and soil types. The water content by microwave oven became constant after 12 min. for the 30 g sample and 15 min. for the 60 g sample used. The measured water content by microwave oven was similar to that measured by drying oven at $60^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.93-100
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• 2024

Pore water freezes in low-temperature compaction, which leads to different compaction characteristics compared to room temperature conditions. In regions like Alberta, Canada, where organic soils are prevalent, compaction performance is influenced by the high water retention and compressibility of organic soils, as well as their sensitivity to freezing and thawing. Alberta's strict environmental regulations demand the reuse of excavated soil for backfill, and the long winter season creates challenging conditions for civil engineering projects. In this study, a laboratory compaction test was conducted to evaluate the low-temperature compaction characteristics of organic soils with varying organic content. The results indicate that the optimum moisture content increases as the organic content increases, and the maximum dry unit weight decreases by up to 21.9%. In addition, under temperature conditions below -4℃, no optimum moisture content was observed, and the dry unit weight decreased as the moisture content increased.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.11-18
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• 1991

A series of laboratory tests were conducted to verify the unhardening phenomena of Soil-Cement Wall (SCW) and the results are presented in this paper. Specimens are prepared by mixing the site soil with cement and additives at a various ratio. The hydration of the cement mixed with the in-situ soil was retarded due to the higher organic content of the soil. In order to remove the influence of the organic matters in hydration reaction, calcium chloride (CaCI$_2$) was added as an acceleration additive at a different ratio. The optimum ratio of the calcium chloride for the higher SCW strength was determined as 2% of cement weight. The strength, however, was decreased by adding 4 and 6% of the additives. The effect of other additives, NaOH and NaSiO$_2$, were also investigated and the results are included. The strength of SCW by adding sodium hydroxide was lowered. And the short term strength by adding sodium silicate was increased but the long term strength was decreased.