• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.5-16
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• 2016

A rainfall induced slope failure is a common natural hazard in mountainous areas worldwide. Sudden and rapid failures which have a high possibility of occurrence in a steep slope are always the most dangerous due to their suddenness and high velocities. Based on a series of experiments this study aimed to determine a critical angle which could be considered as an approximate threshold for a sudden failure. The experiments were performed using 0.42 mm mean grain size sand in a 200 cm long, 60 cm wide and 50 cm deep rectangular flume. A numerical model was created by integrating a 2D seepage flow model and a 2D slope stability analysis model to predict the failure surface and the time of occurrence. The results showed that, the failure mode for the entire material will be sudden for slopes greater than $67^{\circ}$; in contrast the failure mode becomes retrogressive. There is no clear link between the degree of saturation and the mode of failure. The simulation results in considering matric suction showed good matching with the results obtained from experiment. A subsequent discarding of the matric suction effect in calculating safety factors will result in a deeper predicted failure surface and an incorrect predicted time of occurrence.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2003년도 사면안정학술발표회
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• pp.23-32
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• 2003

In order to reduce the damage of property and the loss of lives caused by slope failure, the development of an efficient cut slope management system and the proposal of an appropriate countermeasure are required. However, recognizing the cause of slope failure and proposing the adequate countermeasure for failure are difficult tasks because slope failure is occurred by many complicated failure reasons. Therefore, the cut slope database system is developed in this study for the effective tool which Is able to analyze the characteristics and relationship for reasons of slope failure. In addition, this system contributes to the curtailment of governmental budget spending for countermeasures of slope. Moreover, GIS system will be adopted to the database system and the investigation of characteristics relationship between one and another area is in progress.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.561-575
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• 2014

Estimating seismic displacements has a great importance for foundations on or adjacent to slope surfaces. However, dynamic solution of the problem has received little attention by previous researchers. This paper presents a new analytical model to determine seismic displacements of the shallow foundations adjacent to slopes. For this purpose, a dynamic equilibrium equation is written for the foundation with failure wedge. Stiffness and damping at the sliding surface are considered variable and a simple method is proposed for its estimation. Finally, for different failure surfaces, the calculated dynamic displacement and the surfaces with maximum strain are selected as the critical failure surface. Analysis results are presented as curves for different slope angles and different foundation distances from edge of the slope and are then compared with the experimental studies and software results. The comparison shows that the proposed model is capable of estimating seismic displacement of the shallow foundations adjacent to slopes. Also, the results demonstrate that, with increased slope angle and decreased foundation distances from the slope edge, seismic displacement increases in a non-linear trend. With increasing the slope angle and failure wedge angle, maximum strain of failure wedge increases. In addition, effect of slope on foundation settlement could be neglected for the foundation distances over 3B to 5B.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제89권3호
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• pp.253-263
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• 2024

Slope stability is generally paid more attention to in slope protection works, especially for slope containing weak layers. Two indexes of safety factor and failure model are selected to perform slope stability. Moreover, the finite element limit analysis method comprehensively combines the advantage of the limit analysis method and the finite element method obtaining the upper and lower bounds of the safety factor and the failure mode under the slope stability limit state. In this study, taking a waste dump containing a weak layer as an engineering background, the finite element limit analysis method is adopted to explore the potential failure mode. Meanwhile, the sensitivity analysis of slope stability is performed on geometrical and geotechnical parameters of the waste dump. The results show that the failure mode of the waste dump slope is two wedges if the weak layer is located on the ground surface (Model A), while the slope can be observed as three wedges failure if the weak layer is below the ground surface (Model B). In addition, both failure modes are highly sensitive to the friction angle of the weak layer and the shear strength of waste disposal, and moderately sensitive to the heap height, the dip angle and cohesion of the weak layer, while the toe cutting has limited effect on the slope stability. Moreover, the sensitivity to the excavation of the ground depends on the location of the weak layer and failure mode.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2003년도 사면안정학술발표회
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• pp.129-144
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• 2003

Generally, investigation methods of cut slope are conducted only geological surface survey to gain engineering geological data of cut slopes. These methods have many problems such as limitations of investigation for a special area. So geophysical investigations such as geotomography, seismic and electrical resistivity methods have been used to search for failure surface in potential failure slopes or failed slopes. But investigation method using the borehole camera is recently a used method and it is thought that this method is more reliable method than other investigation methods because of being able to see by the eyes. Therefore, this paper was conducted investigations of borings and BIPS(Borehole Image Processing System) to search for potential sliding surfaces and was applied to obtain information of discontinuity on failed and potential failure slope in highway. As the results of BIPS, we could decide potential sliding surface in the slope, conducted to check slope stability and decided slope stability measures.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2000

This paper deal with the stability evaluation and suggestion of progressive failure slope in biotite granite area of Andong. Based on geological site investigation and field test, stability analysis of slope was performed in conjunction with limit equilibrium methods and stereographic projection. Additionally, initial design and construction procedure was critically evaluated. Series of the slope stability analysis reveals the detection of local wedge and plane failure under the current slope condition. It is additionally appeared that a certain synthetic behavior of circle and plane failure exists on the right spot where the overall failure's going in progress. In order to construct more stable slope based on the suitability for the real state of the slope circumstances, this study issues a solution to eliminate the primary factors which cause the instability, by means of the grade of weathering and RMR classification of rock mass.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2003년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.117-122
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• 2003

Every year in domestic slope failure caused by rainfall is happening frequently. Specially, causable failure accident by localized downpour accompanied when summer rainy season period and produces typhoon gets damage of large scale human life and property. Failure happened at slope of 121 places ranged whole country national highway by No.15 typhoon Rusa that strike whole country during 3 days from August 30, 2002. Slope failure that happen by typhoon are judged for major cause to effect of ground saturation and surface water by localized downpour. In this research, failure characteristic was analyzed to target 20 places attaining site investigation among failure slope. As a result, erosions by surface water was construed for major cause of failure and judged for direct relation in failure slope weathering and topography Also, result that analyze inclination of failure part, in the case of ripping rock, inclination of failure side is forming Incline of the lowest 40$^{\circ}$, because surface failure of depth 4m on or so scale happened, it is require that regulating plan gently design standard inclination of weathered rock and soil layer And it is considered that desirable preparation of design standard about measure that help smooth drainage of surface water and can restrain percolation in ground to reduce failure damage by rainfall.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2004

최근 발생하는 집중호우 및 태풍을 동반한 국지성 호우로 인한 사면붕괴가 자연재해 피해의 큰 부분을 차지하고 있으며, 사면붕괴로 인한 피해가 해마다 증가하는 추세에 있다. 본 연구에서는 사면붕괴를 예지하기 위하여 예 경보시스템 도입에 대한 검토를 다음 사항에 중점을 두어 수행하였다. (1) 사면붕괴의 유형과 원인을 분석한다. (2) 현재 많이 사용하고 있는 사면안정성 평가기준을 검토한다. (3) 사면의 지형적 지질학적 특성뿐 아니라 사면을 구성하는 물질들의 특성을 고려함으로써 사면의 안정성을 평가한다. 그리고 (4) 사면안정성에 영향을 미치는 가장 중요한 변수들을 결정한다. 사면 예 경보는 자동계측시스템을 이용하여 데이터를 수집하고 인터넷 기술을 이용하여 수집된 데이터를 전송하여 분석하면 관리 기준값과 비교를 통하여 예 경보가 이루어지는 시스템을 제안하였다. 이 연구에서 제안한 관리 기준값은 경보단 산정의 기준이 되는 1차, 2차 기준값으로 구분하였는데, 측정된 계측 데이터의 분석 및 연구를 통하여 기준값의 지속적인 수정 및 보완이 필요하다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2009년도 춘계 학술발표회
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• pp.434-443
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• 2009

Slope stability analysis is an essential part of rock slope design. For highly fractured rock, the limit equilibrium method (LEM) based slope stability analysis with a circular failure surface is often carried out assuming the rock mass behaves more or less as a continuum. This paper examines first, the applicability of the finite-element method (FEM) based shear strength reduction (SSR) technique for highly fractured rock slope, and second the use of Mohr-Coulomb (MC) failure criterion in conjunction with generalized Hoek-Brown (HB) failure criterion. The numerical results on a number of cases are compared in terms of the factor of safety (FS). The results indicated that the FEM-based SSR technique yields almost the same FSs from LEM, and that the MC and HB failure criteria yield almost identical FSs when the strength parameters for MC failure criterion are obtained based on the modified HB failure criterion if and only if value of the Hoek-Brown constant $m_i$ is smaller than 10 and slope angle is smaller than 1:1, otherwise MC failure criteria over-estimate the factor of safety.

• 지질공학
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.209-219
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 강우에 따른 사면 내 지반특성 변화와 사면붕괴 형상을 실험적으로 규명하기 위하여 인공강우장치와 모형토조를 이용한 실내모형실험을 수행하였다. 이를 위하여 균질한 모래를 대상으로 모형 실험을 수행하였으며, 계측장치를 이용하여 강우침투에 의한 사면 내 포화양상을 조사하였다. 모형사면은 30°의 경사면에 35°의 사면경사로 조성하였고 강우강도는 50 mm/hr를 적용하였다. 토층의 깊이는 모형토조의 크기를 고려하여 35 cm로 선정하고 TDR센서는 깊이별로 설치하여 시간에 따른 지반특성 변화를 고찰하였다. 실험결과 강우 시 모형사면은 강우침투로 인하여 지표에서 지중으로, 선단부에서 정상부로 포화가 진행됨을 알 수 있다. 즉, 강우의 침투로 인하여 사면의 선단부가 먼저 포화되고 이후 지속적인 강우로 인하여 포화의 영역이 사면의 선단부로부터 정상부로 확대됨을 알 수 있다. 모형사면의 붕괴는 사면의 선단부에서부터 붕괴가 시작되어 이후 사면의 정상부로 확장되는 진행성 사면붕괴가 발생되었으며, 최종 사면붕괴시점에서 붕괴면적이 급격하게 증가하였다. 또한 활동면은 원호활동의 형태로 발생되었다. 한편, 사면 내 모관흡수력이 흙-함수특성곡선(SWCC)에서 산정된 공기함입치(AEV)에 이르게 되면 사면붕괴가 발생되는 것으로 나타났다.