• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.205-215
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• 1999

파쇄성 사질토 지반은 세계각지의 해안을 중심으로 넓게 분포되어 있고, 칼슘성분을 다량 함유한 석회질 모래지반은 입자파쇄의 영향으로 높은 압축성을 나타내는 특징이 있다. 본 연구에서는 모래의 강도-변형특성에 관여하는 입자파쇄의 특성을 명백히 하기 위하여, 세가지 종류의 카보네이트계 모래와 실리카계의 모래를 이용하여 광범위한 응력영역에 대한 등방압축시험을 실시하였다. 다양한 상대밀도에 대한 등방압축 조건에서 압축 항복응력과 입자 파쇄응력과의 관계로부터 파쇄성지표 K를 제안하였다. 제안된 파쇄성지표 K는 흙입자 강도와도 밀접한 관계를 가지며, 흙의 파쇄성을 평가하기 위한 중요한 인자로 사료된다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.216-221
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• 2010

본 연구는 탄산칼슘형성세균을 이용하여 시멘트-모래 모르타르의 압축강도증진 및 균열보수의 응용에 연구의 목적이 있다. 독도로부터 분리한 7가지의 탄산칼슘형성세균을 16S rDNA 염기서열을 이용하여 동정했다. 고체배지상의 콜로니 주변부에 형성되는 광물결정을 확인했다. Urea-$CaCl_2$ 배지에서 형성되는 광물의 모양은 종 특이적인 것을 확인했다. Arthrobacter nicotinovorans KNUC601, Microbacterium resistens KNUC602, Agrobacterium tumefaciens KNUC603, Exiguobacterium acetylicum KNUC604, 및 Bacillus thuringiensis KNUC606균주는 인위적으로 만든 모르타르 균열부위를 메우는 것을 확인했다. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia KNUC605가 혼입된 시멘트-모래 모르타르는 음성대조구에 비해 14.7%정도 강도가 증가됐다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.19-32
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• 2014

중동지역 Sabkha층 탄산질 모래는 패각류가 퇴적되어 생성되었으며, 내부간극을 포함한 다공질의 입자로 구성되어 있다. 일반적으로 흙은 항복하중에서 구조가 파괴되어 간극수압 및 침하량이 급격히 증가하게 된다. 그러나 석영질 모래와는 달리 탄산질 모래의 경우 항복하중에 따른 입자파쇄시 내부간극이 외부로 노출되어 간극수압이 감소 될 수 있다. 탄산질 모래에서 발생된 과잉간극 수압은 하중 재하시 상대밀도 증가로 인한 과잉간극수압과 입자파쇄에 따른 내부간극 노출로 인한 과잉간극수압, 파쇄입자의 재배열로 인한 과잉간극 수압의 합에 의해 결정되며, 내부간극의 노출량에 따라 음(-)의 값이 나타날 수 있다. 입자파쇄량이 크면 간극수압이 작게, 입자파쇄량이 작으면 간극수압이 크게 나타난다. 삼축압축시험 결과 음(-)의 간극수압이 나타난 구간은 외부간극 감소에 비해 입자파쇄가 우세한 영역이며, 현장 Sabkha층에서 확인된 입자파쇄 우세 영역의 크기는 1.50~3.46%의 값을 나타내었다.

• 동굴
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• 제34권35호
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• pp.78-104
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• 1993

Analysis of one sinkhole, the Dodgeville sinkhole, developed in Ordovician dolostones in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin in the Upper Midwest'd Driftless Area reveals homogenous clayey sediment fills reflecting a range of dissolutional processes during the Quaternary or Pre-Quaternary. Granulometric analysis, graphical moments statistics, carbonate minerals, ana sand grain lithology were used to differentiate sinkhole sediment sources and modes of accumulation. Sediments in the dolostone sinkholes developed by dissolution. Sediments contain two major types of sediments : residual redish clay( autogenic sediments) and aeolian silt (allogenic sediments). The massive clay is generated from the weathered dolostone bedrocks as a in situ materials. The loessial silt is mostly derived from transportation of the surrounding surface materials, with some evidences of penetrated deposition. Unlike the collapsed sandstone sinkholes (Oh et al., 1993), dolostone sinkholes reveal homogenous, autogenic clay materials, and a geochemical composition indicative of in situ autogenic karstification. Dolostone sinkhole si1ts (26.9%) and sands (34.9%) are derived from weathered Plattevi1le-Galena dolostones, and contain high carbonate(37.5%), chert (57.2%) and lead ore (3%). Graphical moments statistics for sorting, skewness, and kurtosis indicate that sand grains from dolostones were derived entirely from local bedrock by in situ dissolution. Upper sinkhole sediments are pedagogically very young as carbonate is unleashed. Materials of the sinkhole sediment are definitely inherited from internal dolostones by dissolution and weathering, because not only a granulomatric comparison of dolostone and sandstone sediments demonstrates that they have heterogeneous paticle size distributions, but also 1ithologic analyses displays they differ completely.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.133-140
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• 2023

Soil erosion can cause scouring and failures of underwater structures, therefore, various soil improvement techniques are used to increase the soil erosion resistance. The microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) method is proposed to increase the erosion resistance, however, there are only limited experimental and numerical studies on the use of MICP treatment for improvement of surface erosion resistance. Therefore, this study investigates the improvement in surface erosion resistance of sands by MICP through laboratory experiments and numerical modeling. The surface erosion behaviors of coarse sands with various calcium carbonate contents were first investigated via the erosion function apparatus (EFA). The test results showed that MICP treatment increased the overall erosion resistance, and the contribution of the precipitated calcium carbonate to the erosion resistance and critical shear stress was quantified in relation to the calcium carbonate contents. Further, these surface erosion processes occurring in the EFA test were simulated through the coupled computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and discrete element method (DEM) with the cohesion bonding model to reflect the mineral precipitation effect. The simulation results were compared with the experimental results, and the developed CFD-DEM model with the cohesion bonding model well predicted the critical shear stress of MICP-treated sand. This work demonstrates that the MICP treatment is effective in improving soil erosion resistance, and the coupled CFD-DEM with a bonding model is a useful and promising tool to analyze the soil erosion behavior for MICP-treated sand at a particle scale.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.57-71
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• 1985

The characteristics of compaction and unconfined compressive strength were investigated by mixing with lime to all soils adjusted by given percentages of two kinds of clays to sand to obtain the most effective distribution of grain size and the optimum lime content for soil stabilization. In addition, unconfined compressive strength and durability tested by adding of sodium metasilicate, sodium sulfate, sodium carbonate, sodium gydroxide and magnesium oxide to lime-soil mixture mixed with 8 percent lime to adjusted soil having the mixing percentage of 60 percent of cohesive black clay and 40 percent of sand by weight to get the effect and the optimum content of chemicals. The results obtained were as follows; 1.With the addition of more lime, the optimum moisture content was increased, and the maximum dry density was decreased, whereas the more the amount of clay and the less was the maximum drt density. 2. In the soil having more fine grain size the unconfined compressive strength was larger in the earlier stage of curing period, in accordance with the longer period, the mixing percentages of sand to clay showing the maximum unconfined compressive strength, on the basis of 28-day strength, were 60% : 40% (black clay) and 40% : 60% (brown clay) respectively. 3. The reason why the soil adjusted with black clay was remarkably bigger in the unconfined compressive strength than ones adjusted with brown clay for all specimen of lime-soil mixture was the difference in the kind of clay, the amount of chemical compositions the value of pH. Black clay was mainly composed of halloysite that reacted with lime satisfactorily, whereas the main composition of brown clay was kaolinite that was less effect in the enhance of unconfined compressive strength. Also the difference of unconfined compressive strength was because black clay was larger in the amount of composition of calcium oxide and magnesium oxide in the value of pH affecting directly on the unconfined compressive strength of lime-soil mixture than brown clay. 4. In the lime-soil mixture mixed with 8 percent of lime to soil that mixing percentage of sand to black clay was 60% : 40%, on the standard of 7-day strength, the effect of chemical was arranged in the order of magnesium oxide, sodium carbonate, sodium sulfate, sodium hydroxide and sodium metasilicate. 5. The optimum amount of chemical being applicable to the maximum unconfined compressive strength of lime-chemical-soil mixture was 1 percent by weight for air dry soil in the case of adding sodium carbonated and 0.75 percent on sodium hydroxide, the unconfined compressive strength was increased continuously with increase of the amount of chemical up to 2 percent of chemical content is the lime-chemical-soil mixture added sodium metasilicate, sodium sulfate and magnesium oxide. 6. It was considered that the chemical played and accelerant role of early revelation of strength because the rate of increase of unconfined compressive strength of all of lime-chemical-soil mixtures was largest on the 7-day cured specimen. 7. The effect of test on freezing and thawing after adding suitable amount of chemical on the lime-soil mixture mixed with 8 percent of lime to soil that mixing percentage of sand to black clay was 60% : 40% was arranged in the order of magnesium oxide, sodium carbonate, sodium sulfate, sodium metasilicate and sodium hydroxide.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.465-473
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• 2019

Biocementation due to the microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) process is a potential technique that can be used for soil improvement. However, the effect of biocementation may be affected by many factors, including nutrient concentration, bacterial strains, injection strategy, temperature, pH, and soil type. This study investigates mainly the effect of chemical concentration on the formation of calcium carbonate (e.g., quantity, size, and crystalline structure) and unconfined compressive strength (UCS) using different treatment time and chemical concentration in the biotreatment. Two chemical concentrations (0.5 and 1.0 M) and three different treatment times (2, 4, and 8 cycles) were studied. The effect of chemical concentrations on the treatment was also examined by making the total amount of chemicals injected to be the same, but using different times of treatment and chemical concentrations (8 cycles for 0.50 M and 4 cycles for 1.00 M). The UCS and CCC were measured and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis was carried out. The SEM images revealed that the sizes of calcium carbonate crystals increased with an increase in chemical concentrations. The UCS values resulting from the treatments using low concentration were slightly greater than those from the treatments using high concentration, given the CCC to be more or less the same. This trend can be attributed to the size of the precipitated crystals, in which the cementation efficiency increases as the crystal size decreases, for a given CCC. Furthermore, in the high concentration treatment, two mineral types of calcium carbonate were precipitated, namely, calcite and amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC). As the crystal shape and morphology of ACC differ from those of calcite, the bonding provided by ACC can be weaker than that provided by calcite. As a result, the conditions of calcium carbonate were affected by test key factors and eventually, contributed to the UCS values.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.421-427
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• 2019

Coastal erosion is becoming a significant problem in Greece, Bangladesh, and globally. For the prevention and minimization of damage from coastal erosion, combinations of various structures have been used conventionally. However, most of these methods are expensive. Therefore, creating artificial beachrock using local ureolytic bacteria and the MICP (Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation) method can be an alternative for coastal erosion protection, as it is a sustainable and eco-friendly biological ground improvement technique. Most research on MICP has been confined to land ureolytic bacteria and limited attention has been paid to coastal ureolytic bacteria for the measurement of urease activity. Subsequently, their various environmental effects have not been investigated. Therefore, for the successful application of MICP to coastal erosion protection, the type of bacteria, bacterial cell concentration, reaction temperature, cell culture duration, carbonate precipitation trend, pH of the media that controls the activity of the urease enzyme, etc., are evaluated. In this study, the effects of temperature, pH, and culture duration, as well as the trend in carbonate precipitation of coastal ureolytic bacteria isolated from two coastal regions in Greece and Bangladesh, were evaluated. The results showed that urease activity of coastal ureolytic bacteria species relies on some environmental parameters that are very important for successful sand solidification. In future, we aim to apply these findings towards the creation of artificial beachrock in combination with a geotextile tube for coastal erosion protection in Mediterranean countries, Bangladesh, and globally, for bio-mediated soil improvement.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2012

본 연구의 목적은 연약지반에 대한 미생물의 고결화 메커니즘을 확인하기 위함이다. 연약지반에 대한 미생물의 고결화 메커니즘을 확인하기 위해서 6가지 미생물 조건(무처리, 일반농도처리, 고농도처리, 상층액처리, 2X 고농도처리, 25% 시료 고농도처리)으로 실험되어졌다. 전자현미경(SEM, EDX)과 X선 분석 회절기(XRD)를 이용하여 실트질시료와 느슨한 모래시료의 분석을 수행하였으며, 일반농도처리 시료에 비교하여 25% 시료 고농도처리 시료에서 입자와 입자 사이에 탄산칼슘이 더욱 명확히 관찰되어졌다. 이러한 연구결과를 바탕으로 연약지반에 대한 미생물 고결화 반응을 확인할 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Railway
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.90-94
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• 2013

Cement or lime is generally used to improve the strength of soil. However, bacteria were utilized to produce cementation of loose soils in this study. The microo rganism called Bacillus, and $CaCl_2$ was introduced into loose sand and soft silt and $CaCO_3$ in the voids of soil particles were produced, leading to cementation of soil particles. In this study, loose sand and soft silt typically encountered in Korea were bio-treated with 3 types of bacteria concentration. The cementation (or calcite precipitation) in the soil particles induced by the high concentration bacteria treatment was investigated at 7 days after curing. Based on the results of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) tests and EDX analyses, high concentration bacteria treatment for loose sand was observed to produce noticeable amount of $CaCO_3$, implying a significant cementation of soil particles. It was observed that higher calcium carbonate depositions were observed in poorly graded distribution as compared to well graded distribution. In addition, effectiveness of biogrouting has also been found to be feasible by bio-treatment without any cementing agent.