• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.53-66
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• 2009

Recently, the importance of investigation for soft ground has been raised, so that various techniques of the investigation for soft ground are being introduced and applied. In particular, Piezocone penetration test has been utilized frequently home and abroad to identify many features of grounds precisely and gain various results in accordance with dividing strata and depth constantly by measuring continuously. In this study, to identify some features of soft clays distributed in the estuary of Nakdong river, researchers conducted field tests and laboratory tests with boring tests, and analyzed and compared with Piezocone penetration test. In addition, credible Piezocone factor of communities of subjects for this study was estimated to analyze some features of undrained shear strength of clay and calculate Piezocone factor compared with corrected cone resistance and apply some statistical techniques to estimated Piezocone factor.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.5-16
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• 2021

In this study, piezocone coefficients of clays (Hwasung, Gunsan, Changwon, Busan) were analyzed from piezocone penetration tests those accompanied with vane shear and UU tests. Piezocone coefficients of west sea clays (Hwasung, Gunsan), i.e, N_kt is 12.6 and N_qu is 8.8, while those of south sea clays are 16.5 and 9.2 respectively. The difference of liquid limit between south and west clays causes main roles those which west sea clay is generally lower than 50%, i.e, CL, and liquid limit of south sea clay is mostly higher than 50%, i.e CH. Piezocone coefficients obtained from several tests show similar trends even though they still have some differences depending on each test. However, they show clear differences depending on liquid limit. Therefore, piezocone coefficients need to be used with caution depending on LL.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.89-100
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• 2008

Applying graph and correlation developed in other countries to the domestic field has limits. Therefore, it is necessary that Piezocone factor should be determined by including ground characteristics obtained from various test results in the domestic site for better application. In this study, laboratory tests and field tests were performed to find the characteristics of soft ground which was widely distributed around Siwha lake. A comparative analysis of these tests with Piezocone penetration test was performed and the Piezocone factor was estimated by correlationship analysis of undrained shear strength and cone resistance. Also, an appropriate Piezocone factor in the study site was reestimated by utilizing statistical analysis method for deriving reliable result.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.41-49
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• 2012

In this study, laboratory test, in-situ vane shear test and piezocone penetration test in the study area were conducted to investigate the engineering characteristics of soft soils at Cheongra District, Songdo District in Incheon City, the west coast of Gyeonggi province, and Sihwa District in Ansan city. The correlations among compression index, and in-situ vane shear test, and cone resistance were obtained. The variations of liquid limit, plasticity index, water content and compression index with respect to depth exhibit strong similarity. This means that they have strong correlations, which can be used to evaluate the local characteristics of the study area. Thus, the correlations between compression index and physical properties were analysed to investigate the engineering characteristics of soft soil in the study area. The relationships between the measured piezocone factor by empirical methods, and undrained shear strength obtained by triaxial compression test or in-situ vane shear test were compared. It shows the significant correlation and piezocone factors, $N_{kT}$are suggested for the study area.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.31-39
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 수정 Cam Clay 모델과 혼합체 커플링 이론(coupled theory of mixtures)을 이용하여 피에조콘 관입시험을 해석하여 지반의 투수계수와 과잉간극수압의 정량적 관계를 고찰하였다. 본 연구의 이론적 해석 결과는 시험결과들과 비교하였으며 그 결과 피에조콘 관립 시험시 관측된 과잉간극수압은 지반의 투수계수가 $10^{-9}$m/sec에서 $10^{-6}$m/sec의 범위에서는 투수계수에 따라 피에조콘 관립 시험시 관측된 과잉간극수압이 현저하게 변하는 것으로 나타나 피에조콘 관입시험시 관측한 과잉간극수압을 이용하여 지반의 투수계수를 결정할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 지반의 투수계수가 $10^{-9}$m/sec 이하에서는 지반이 거의 완전 비배수 상태에 가까운 거동을 나타내면, 투수계수가 $10^{-6}$m/sec 이상에서는 거의 완전 배수상태에 가까운 거동을 하는 것으로 나타났다.으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.15-24
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• 2001

In order to evaluate undrained shear strength of clayey soils using Piezocone Penetration Test (CPTu), piezoncone factor is utilized. Commonly, piezoncone factors determined by empirical basis were preferred, which were established by correlation between measurements of piezocone test and undrained strengths obtained from other shearing tests. However, previous studies on the empirical piezocone factors were site-specific and there have been no systematic investigations on the effect of both engineering characteristics of clayey soils and soil non-homogeneity on the piezocone factor. Accordingly, the direct application of the previous results to Korean clayey soils without verification may be inappropriate. In this study, empirical piezocone factors are evaluated by comparing 46 CPTu results of 10 test sites with undrained shear strength obtained from Field Vane Test (FVT) and laboratory triaxial tests. Their reliabilities are investigated by the comparison with the previous piezocone factors and the deviation of data distribution from the mean values. And the effects of referencing test methods and typical engineering characteristics of clayey soils such as overconsolidation ratio (OCR) and plastic Index (I$_{p}$) are examined. Because piezocone factors obtained for various soil conditions are widely distributed, it is not appropriate to use the mean value as a representative. Instead, it is recommended to apply the piezocone factors with OCR, which is found to be a major factor in deriving piezocone factor. The necessitated piezocone factors are presented.d.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.59-67
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• 2019

Using the results from laboratory soil test, field vane test and piezocone penetration test, the engineering characteristics of the soft ground at east side of Gwangyang Port, which is located at south coast of Jeollanam-do, were investigated and optimal piezocone penetration test depth was derived to calculate piezocone factor. In this paper, the results of 61 laboratory soil tests, 226 times of field vane tests and 26 piezocone penetration tests were used. The result of laboratory soil test suggested that some physical properties such as specific gravity, moisture content, liquid limit and plastic index and others are higher than other south coast regions, meanwhile uniaxial compression strength, undrained shear strength, defined as mechanical property, appeared to be relatively small, distributed widely. According to the plastic chart, the ground was classified as high compressibility clay and low compressibility clay, mostly represent to Type 3 clay by Robertson (1990)'s classification chart. Piezocone factor was calculated by empirical method, based on the undrained shear strength which was obtained by the field vane test. According to the analysis with 3 different depth range, to set the appropriate measured depth range of piezocone penetration for comparation, using average value of the range of 5 times the vane length showed the highest correlation.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.153-160
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• 2001

딜라토메터를 이용한 현장 수평압밀계수 추정법의 국내 점토지반 및 실트질 지반에의 적용성을 평가하기 위해 국내 점토지반과 실트지반에 대하여 각각 딜라토메터 관입시험 및 소산시험을 수행하였다. 소산시험 결과로부터 DMT-C법 [p$_2$-log t법과 C-√t법]과 DMT-A법을 이용하여 수평압밀계수를 추정하여 상호 비교하였으며 다른 실험방법에서 얻어진 결과들과도 함께 비교하고 평가하였다. 비교대상으로는 동일지반의 현장 피에조콘 소산시험으로 얻어진 수평압밀계수 및 불교란시료에 대하여 수행된 로셀압밀실험 및 일차원 실내압밀실험 결과가 함께 이용되었다. 연구결과 C-√t법을 제외한 p$_2$-log t법과 DMT-A법은 국내 점토지반에 대하여 상호일치하는 결과를 줄 뿐 아니라 피에조콘 결과와도 비교적 잘 일치하는 수평 압밀계수를 측정하였으며 다른 결과와 비교할 때 신뢰성 있는 결과를 주었다. 그러나 실트질 지반에 대하여는 p$_2$-log t법만이 적용 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• 지반과기술
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.36-42
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• 2006

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2001.03a
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• pp.153-160
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• 2001

피에조콘관입시험(PCPT)의 소산시험은 in-situ 상태의 압밀계수(c/sub v/)를 추정하는 방법으로 널리 이용되어왔다. 본 연구에서는 spherical cavity expansion theory 및 axisymmetric uncoupled linear consolidation equation(Gupta & Davidson, 1986)을 이용하여 과압밀점토에서의 초기과잉간극수압의 분포 및 과잉간극수압의 시간에 대한 소산현상을 해석하는 수치해석방법을 제안하여 현장시험결과 및 실내시험결과와 비교 분석하였다. ADIS (alternating direction implicit scheme)를 이용한 FDM 해석을 실시한 결과와 현장시험의 소산곡선은 잘 부합되는 것으로 나타났으며 압밀계수도 실내실험 또는 피에조콘관입 시험에 대한 추정방법으로 산출된 값과 비교적 일치하는 것으로 나타났다.