• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.79-90
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• 2021

This paper presents a study to reduce the effect of blast pressure on the blast valves installed in protection tunnels, where the shape of the tunnel entrance and the blast pocket is optimized based on the predetermined basic shape of the protective tunnels. The reliability of the numerical tunnel models was examined by performing analyses of mesh convergence and overpressure stability and with comparison to the data in blast-load design charts in UFC 3-340-02 (DoD, 2008). An optimal mesh size and a stabilized distance of overpressure were proposed, and the numerical results were validated based on the UFC data. A parametric study to reduce the blast overpressures in tunnel was conducted using the validated numerical model. Analysis was performed applying 1) the entrance slope of 90, 75, 60, and 45 degrees, 2) two blast pockets with the depth 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 times the tunnel width, 3) the three types of curved back walls of the blast pockets, and 4) two types of the upper and lower surfaces of the blast pockets to the reference tunnel model. An optimal solution by combining the analysis results of the tunnel entrance shape, the depth of the blast pockets, and the upper and lower parts of the blast pockets was provided in comparison to the reference tunnel model. The blast overpressures using the proposed tunnel shape have been reduced effectively.

• 한국지열·수열에너지학회논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2018

This paper presents two-step simulations to calculate the influence of blast-induced pressures on explosion-protection valves installed at the boundary between a protection facility and a tunnel entering the facility. The first step is to calculate the respective overpressure on the entrance and exit of the tunnel when an explosion occurs near the tunnel entrance and exit to approach the protection facility. Secondly, the blast pressures on the explosion-protection valves mounted to walls located near the tunnel inside approaching the protection facility are analyzed with a 0.1 ms time variation using the results obtained from the first-step calculations. The following conclusions could be derived as a results: (1) The analysis of the entrance tunnel scenario, P1, leads to the maximum overpressure of 47 kPa, approximately a half of the ambient pressure, at the inner entrance due to the effect of blast barrier. For the scenario, P2, the case not blocked by the barrier, the maximum overpressure is 628 kPa, which is relatively high, namely, 5.2 times the ambient pressure. (2) It is observed that the pressure for the entrance tunnel is effectively mitigated because the initial blast pressures are partially offset from each other according to the geometry of the entrance and a portion of the pressures is discharged to the outside.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.505-512
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• 2016

철근콘크리트 건축물의 대형화 및 고층화에 대응하여 고성능 콘크리트가 개발되어 사용되고 있지만 레올로지 특성평가가 적절히 이뤄지지 않아 시공설계를 위한 수치해석에 소성점도 및 항복값의 책정이 적절하지 못한 실정이며 이로 인해 경화된 콘크리트 품질 안정화에 많은 문제점을 나타내고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고로슬래그 미분말 혼입 시멘트 페이스트를 대상으로 물분체비 및 치환율을 실험인자로 응결진행하의 시간경과에 따른 컨시스턴시 곡선을 측정하였다. 빙함모델로 가정한 회귀분석을 통해 소성점도 및 항복값을 산출한 결과 물분체비가 작을수록 초결 전후의 변화가 급격한 것을 알 수 있었다. 치환율을 40%까지 상승시키더라도 자유수변화와 고로슬래그 미분말의 불투수성 산화피막 형성에 의한 코팅효과가 상쇄되어 큰 변화로 관찰되지 않았다.