• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.39-48
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• 2023

Because a railway bridge is designed over a long period of time and covers a large site, it involves various environmental factors and uncertainties. For this reason, design changes often occur, even if the design was thoroughly reviewed in the initial design stage. In particular, design changes of large-scale facilities, such as railway bridges, consume significant time and cost, and it is extremely inefficient to repeat all the procedures each time. In this study, a technique that can improve the efficiency of learning after design change was developed by utilizing the learning result before design change through transfer learning among deep-learning algorithms. For analysis, scenarios were created, and a database was built using a previously developed railway bridge deep-learning-based prediction system. The proposed method results in similar accuracy when learning only 1000 data points in the new domain compared with the 8000 data points used for learning in the old domain before the design change. Moreover, it was confirmed that it has a faster convergence speed.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.37-45
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• 2010

Salt cementation, a typical naturally-cemented phenomenon, may occur due to water evaporation under the change of climate. Capillary force may influence the distribution of cement in granular soils. This study addresses the effect of capillary force on salt cementation using five different techniques: cone penetration test, electrical conductivity measurement, photographic imaging technique, nondestructive imaging technique, and process monitoring by elastic wave. Glass beads modeling a particulate media was mixed with salt water and then dried in an oven to create the cementation condition. Experimental results show that salt cementation highly concentrates at the top of the small particle size specimens and at the middle or the bottom of the large particle specimens. The predicted capillary heights are similar to the locations of high salt concentration in the cemented specimens. Five suggested methods show that the behavior of salt-cemented granular media heavily depends on the capillary force.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.165-172
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• 2006

This study describes a series of model tests on instrumented pile groups embedded in HAP-CHEN sand undergoing lateral movement. We tried to find the effect of group piles dependent on a number of factors, including the position of the pile in a group, the pile spacing, and the pile arrangement. The results of test are as follows. For the group piles, the bending moment profile for each pile is similar in shape to that of single pile, although the magnitude and the position of the maximum bending moment are different. $R_M$ (the ratio of maximum bending moment) and $R_F$ (the ratio of resistance to lateral soil movement) were found to increase with increasing pile spacing. When a pile is in a group under lateral soil movement, RM increased in the order of the middle row, front row, back row, according to the direction of lateral deformation, and the outer pile has a larger RM than the inner pile.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.5-15
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• 2009

Dynamic shear properties of Nak-Dong river sand were investigated to build a soil property database for Nak-Dong delta region. Samples were taken from the estuary and the midstream of the river. Laboratory specimens were prepared by air pluviation method, and were tested by using RC/TS apparatus at various confining stresses, relative densities and numbers of cycles. Shear modulus reduction and damping curves were developed using Ramberg-Osgood and Modified Hyperbolic Models. The developed curves, compared to those reported by other investigators, show only a slight difference. The outcome of this RC/TS experiments can be very important resources when accessing the dynamic response of sandy soils in Nak-Dong delta region in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.107-118
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• 2009

As CPT penetration tends to show a similar behavior to that of pile driving, a number of methods for estimating the toe bearing capacity of piles based on CPT data have been proposed. To evaluate the applicability of the methods in this country, a total of 172 dynamic load tests data on PHC piles and 82 CPT data at a site in the Nakdong River estuary were collected. A specific four-step procedure was adopted for the selection of the reliable data, and statistical techniques were then applied to the analysis of the applicability. The results indicated that among a total of 10 CPT-based methods applied, the best one is the Aoki method (1975), followed by the LCPC (1982), ICP (2005) methods and others.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.69-75
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• 2008

Shear tests were carried out on interface between two concrete eco-blocks which comprise segmental retaining wall. Three interface conditions were considered : 1) direct contact of two blocks, 2) placing rubber pad between two blocks, 3) placing rubber pad and shear key between two blocks. According to shear tests, shear load-shear displacement relationship which was obtained from direct contact of two blocks was similar to elastic-perfectly plastic behavior. Ductile behavior of shear load-shear displacement relationship was observed for the interface condition of placing rubber pad. Apparent minimum shear capacities and apparent friction angles for the interface conditions of direct contact of two blocks, placing rubber pad between two blocks, placing rubber pad and shear key were 1.7 kN/m, $27.6^{\circ}$ and 4.2 kN/m, $26.2^{\circ}$ and 20.9 kN/m, $26.0^{\circ}$ respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.249-249
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• 2021

도시지역의 우수유출해석 모형인 SWMM 모형의 매개변수는 유역유출관련 매개변수와 우수관로 매개변수로 구분이 된다. 이중 우수관로내 수리거동에 영향을 대표적인 매개변수는 조도계수가 있다. 우수관로 조도계수는 우수관로의 규격 및 재료에 따라 적용범위가 제시되어 있지만 현상태 관로내 퇴적 및 협잡물 등에 의한 조도변화가 발생하게 된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 우수관로 조도계수의 변화에 따른 유량의 민감도를 검토하고 모니터링 유량과 비교를 통한 연구 대상지역의 최적 조도계수를 선정하였다. 연구 대상지역은 울산광역시 삼호동 일대이며 대상지역 내 발생한 우수유출은 최종적으로 태화강으로 방류되는 구조를 갖고 있는 배수분구이다. 조도계수 민감도 분석에 적용한 조도계수의 범위는 일반적인 원형 우수관로의 조도계수 0.013을 기준으로 하고 0.002씩 증감을 시켜 총 6개 CASE에 대한 민감도 분석을 수행하였다. 모의 유량의 비교군이 되는 관측 유량의 경우는 초음파 유량계로 관측한 총 3개 지점의 유량자료를 이용하여 민감도 분석에 활용하였다. 조도계수 민감도 분석결과 조도계수 증가에 따라 첨두유량은 감소하게 된다. 각 지점별 첨두유량 변화 폭은 지점 4, 5, 6에 각각 7.0% (-3.4~3.6%), 14.3% (-7.5~6.8%), 15.6% (-7.7~7.9%) 증감 폭을 갖는 것으로 분석되었으며, 유역의 하류부로 갈수록 변동 폭이 커지는 것으로 분석되었다. 시계열 수문곡선 비교결과 지점 4에서는 조도계수 0.011, 지점 5는 0.013, 지점 7은 0.015를 적용하는 것이 실측치와의 상관계수가 가장 높게 나타나는 것으로 분석되었다. 이상의 분석 결과를 토대로 유역의 관 흐름 상태의 변화는 관로의 퇴적, 부유물, 폐유부착 등의 유지관리 상태에 따라 달라지며 특히 유역의 하류부로 갈수록 퇴적, 부유물 등의 축척이 누적되어 조도계수를 상류부 보다 기준 값보다 크게 적용해야 관측치 유량과 유사하게 모의되는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 도시유출해석 모형에서의 조도계수 적용은 우수관로의 유지관리 상태 등을 고려하여 우수관로별 적용 값 다르게 입력하는 것이 타당한 것으로 판단된다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.2C
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• pp.133-140
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• 2010

A series of triaxial test was performed in order to determine critical state parameters of calcareous Jeju sand, which comprises angular shape particles with many pores in the surface. It is observed that Jeju sand mainly shows the contractive behavior during triaxial shear due to high extreme void ratios and large compressibility. The peak friction angle of Jeju sand decreases slightly with increasing mean effective stress due to the particle crushing of carbonate materials. However, the peak friction angle of Jeju sand is higher than that of other silica sands because of the more angular particle shape. The critical state friction angle of Jeju sand gradually decreases when the mean effective stress at a critical state increases. Whereas, there is not a clear influence of void ratio on the critical state friction angle. Critical state parameters of Jeju sand are similar to those of calcareous sands, but significantly larger than those of common sands.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.5C
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• pp.313-320
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• 2008

The discharge capacity testing apparatus using penetration method, being able to simulate in laboratory the condition of embedding plastic board drains in field, was developed to investigate consolidation characteristics of ground and to figure out discharge capacity of drains. The developed apparatus with a mandrel and penetrating device was designed to insert PBD into the ground prepared by previously applied pressure, being different from the conventional testing method that the drain was installed and the ground material was poured subsequently. Discharge capacity tests with the conventional apparatus as well as the newly developed one were performed to assess the applicability of the latter. As a result of tests, the conventional method showed delayed consolidation due to overall disturbance of ground and local deformation of drain caused by inhomogeneity of ground. Therefore discharge capacity of drain with the conventional apparatus was measured more or less larger than the expected values whereas discharge capacity with new one could be measured similar to the actual value in field.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.6A
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• pp.577-585
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• 2009

A 9-node degenerated shell finite element(FE), which has been developed for assessment of ultimate pressure capacity and nonlinear analysis for nuclear containment building is described in this paper. Reissner-Midnlin(RM) assumptions are adopted to develop the shell FE so that transverse shear deformation effects is considered. Material model for concrete prior to cracking is constructed based on the equivalent stress-equivalent strain relationship. Tension stiffening model, shear transfer mechanism and compressive strength reduction model are used to model the material behavior of concrete after cracking. Niwa and Aoyagi-Yamada failure criteria have been adapted to find initial cracking point in compression-tension and tension-tension region, respectively. Finally, the performance of the developed program is tested and demonstrated with several examples. From the numerical tests, the present results show a good agreement with experimental data or other numerical results.