• 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방사성폐기물학회 2011년도 추계학술논문요약집
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• pp.557-558
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• 2011

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.790-799
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• 2010

The Upper Devonian Grossmont Formation in Alberta, Canada reserves an estimated 50 billion cubic meters of bitumen and possess about 1/6 of the total bitumen resources in northern Alberta. However, unlike the overlying Athabasca oil sands, non conventional bitumen resources has not been developed as yet. The carbonate rocks of Grosmont Formation have been subject to various stages of diagenesis, including dolomatization and karstification with a strong effect on the distribution of porosity and permeability, which resulted in highly heterogeneous reservoirs. An extensive fracture logging and mapping was performed on total of six boreholes located in the study area to explore the characteristics of fracture geometry system and the subsurface structures of carbonates reservoir that holds bitumen. Fractal dimension was used as a measure of the statistical homogeneity of the fractured rock masses. The applicability of random Cantor dust, Dc, as a fractal parameter was examined systematically. The statistical homogeneity of fractured carbonates rock masses was investigated in the study area. The structural domains of the rock masses were delineated depthwise according to estimated Dc. The major fracture orientation was dominated by horizontal beddings having dip of $0-20^{\circ}$. Also, fractures having high dip angles existed with relatively low frequency. Three dimensional fracture network modeling for each structural domain has been performed based on fracture orientation and intensity, and some representative conceptual models for carbonates reservoir in the study area has been proposed. The developed subsurface conceptual models will be used to capture the geomechanical characteristics of the carbonates reservoir.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2006년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.69-74
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• 2006

Recently, spillways are need to control stable water level for supporting main dams because of floods by unusual change of weather such as Typhoon Rusa. This study has been focused on the amount of leakage through the rock mass distributed fractures and joints under the opened emergency spillway. It is very important to evaluate the amount of leakage as these affect stability of spillway by interaction between effective stress and pore pressure. The commercial program MAFIC has been used for analyzing groundwater flow in fractured rock mass. The results showed that the values of range, average and deviation of leakage were $2.85\sim\;3.79\times10^{-1}$, $3.32\times10^{-1}$ and $1.70\times10^{-2}\;m^3/day/m^2$ respectively. Secondary, we have estimated the effect of grouting after the transmissivity$(T_f)$ of joint 1 as main pathway of leakage known from above results was changed from $1.78\times10^{-7}$ to $1.59\times10^{-9}\;m^2/s$. The results showed that the values of range, average and deviation of leakage were $7.80\times10^{-4}\sim1.53\times10^{-3}$, $1.18\times10^{-3}$ and $1.32\times10^{-4}\;m^3/day/m^2$ respectively. As the result, the amount of leakage after grouting has been decreased by a ratio of 1 to 277.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.585-594
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• 2019

In-situ leaching could be one of the promising mining methods to extract the minerals from deep fractured rock mass. Constrained by the low permeability at depth, however, the performance does not meet the expectation. In fact, the rock mass permeability mainly depends on the pre-existing natural fractures and therefore play a crucial role in in-situ leaching performance. More importantly, fractures have various characteristics, such as aperture, persistence, and density, which have diverse contributions to the promising method. Hence, it is necessary to study the variation of fluid rate versus fracture parameters to enhance in-situ leaching performance. Firstly, the subsurface fractures from the depth of 1500m to 2500m were mapped using the discrete fracture network (DFN) in this paper, and then the numerical model was calibrated at a particular case. On this basis, the fluid flow through fractured rock mass with various fracture characteristics was analyzed. The simulation results showed that with the increase of Fisher' K value, which determine the fracture orientation, the flow rate firstly decreased and then increased. Subsequently, as another critical factor affecting the fluid flow in natural fractures, the fracture transmissivity has a direct relationship with the flow rate. Sensitive study shows that natural fracture characteristics play a critical role in in-situ leaching performance.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.481-495
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• 2015

Many hydropower stations in southwest China are located in regions of brittle rock mass with high geo-stresses. Under these conditions deep fractured zones often occur in the sidewalls of the underground caverns of a power station. The theory and methods of fracture and damage mechanics are therefore adopted to study the phenomena. First a flexibility matrix is developed to describe initial geometric imperfections of a jointed rock mass. This model takes into account the area and orientation of the fractured surfaces of multiple joint sets, as well as spacing and density of joints. Using the assumption of the equivalent strain principle, a damage constitutive model is established based on the brittle fracture criterion. In addition the theory of fracture mechanics is applied to analyze the occurrence of secondary cracks during a cavern excavation. The failure criterion, for rock bridge coalescence and the damage evolution equation, has been derived and a new sub-program integrated into the FLAC-3D software. The model has then been applied to the stability analysis of an underground cavern group of a hydropower station in Sichuan province, China. The results of this method are compared with those obtained by using a conventional elasto-plastic model and splitting depth calculated by the splitting failure criterion proposed in a previous study. The results are also compared with the depth of the relaxation and fracture zone in the surrounding rock measured by field monitoring. The distribution of the splitting zone obtained both by the proposed model and by the field monitoring measurements are consistent to the validity of the theory developed herein.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.79-88
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• 2012

Migration tests were performed with conservative tracers in a fractured zone that had a single fracture of about 2.5 m distance at the KURT. To interpret the migration of the tracers in the fractured rock, a solute transport model was developed. A two dimensional variable aperture channel model was adopted to describe the fractured path and hydrology, and a particle tracking method was used for solute transport. The simulation tried not only to develop a migration model of solutes for open flow environments but also to produce ideas for a better understanding of solute behaviours in indefinable fracture zones by comparing them to experimental results. The results of our simulations and experiments are described as elution and breakthrough curves, and are quantified by momentum analysis. The main retardation mechanism of nonsorbing tracers, including matrixdiffusion, was investigated.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.281-287
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• 2006

산악 지형 내 터널 굴착에 따른 지하수 유입은 실제 암반 내 발달한 절리 및 파쇄구간을 따라 유동하는 지하수에 의해 발생한다. 이러한 현상을 보다 합리적으로 분석하기 위해 정밀 지반조사 물리탐사 및 시추 탐사 등의 분석 결과를 토대로 모델영역을 선정하고 대표 절리군 1, 2 및 3을 선택하였다. 3차원 절리망을 생성하기 위해 프로그램(FracMan)을 이용하였고 불확실성을 줄이기 위해 확률적 통계기법 중 하나인 Monte Carlo Simulation 을 적용하였다. 수리특성을 파악하기 위해 실시한 불연속면 수리특성 시험 양수시험 및 수압시험 결과 대표 절리군 1, 2 및 3의 투수량 계수($T_f$)는 각각 $9.60{\times}10^{-6},\;7.35{\times}10^{-6}$ 및 $1.01{\times}10^{-5}m^2/s$ 이였다. 모델 영역의 수리적 초기조건을 파악하기 위해 지하수 연속체 프로그램(Visual MODFLOW)를 병행하여 적용하였다. 지하수 불연속체 프로그램(MAFIC)을 이용하여 해석한 결과 터널내부의 단위 길이 당 유입량은 평균 $5.40{\times}10^{-1}m^3/min/km$, 표준편차 $3.04{\times}10^{-1}m^3/min/km$로 예측되었다. 이 결과를 토대로 터널 굴착에 따른 광역적인 지하수계 변화를 분석한 결과 $8.64{\times}10^{-2}{\sim}2.30{\times}10^{-1}m^3/min/km$로 기존 및 본 설계 적용 기준인 3.00 및 $2.00m^3/min/km$의 값보다 낮은 범위로 예측되어 터널 굴착 시 지하수 유입에 따른 공극수압의 변화에 따른 응력 변화가 적어서 터널 구조의 안정성에 미치는 영향이 적을 것으로 분석되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.529-538
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• 1993

이전에 제신된 시간 균일적인 경우의 모델［1］에 대한 확장으로 균열암반내 핵종이동에 관한 연속시간 마코프 프로세스를 이용한 통계적 방법에 의한 모델이 제시되었다. 단일 평판 균일을 갖는 암반매질에서 핵종이 균열로부터 알반조직내로 확산 이동하는 경우 더 이상 균열시간적인 마코프 모델을 적용할 수 없으므로 암반으로의 확산항을 시간에 따라 변화하는 과정으로 보아 모델을 제시한 후 기존의 결정론적 해석해와 비교하였다. 통계적모델의 최종 결과는 시간의 함수로서의 상태변수에 대한 기댓값과 그 분산치일 것이다. 핵종의 시간 종속적인 확률분포가 전이강도가 주어질 때 매질내의 특성이 균질하다고 볼 수 있도록 나누어진 암반매질의 각 구획에 대해 주어지게 된다. 이 모델은 매질공간에 대해 불연속적이므로 핵종이동에 영향을 주는 변수들이 쉽게 균열암반이나 다중매질 등과 같은 비균질한 매질에 적용되어 질수 있다. 매질을 나눈 구획수가 수치적 분산에 민감한 것으로 나타났지만 분산계수의 보정에 의해 해석해와 잘 일치되는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 지질공학
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.155-165
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• 1995

열극암반내의 지하수유동 및 용질이동 해석을 위해서는 추계론적인(Simulation Techique) 3차원 불연속체 모형(Discrete Fracture Model)이 요구된다. Monte Carlo 모의기법(Simulation Techique)에 의해 구성된 추계론적 불연속체모형을 지하 유류저장공동의 기밀성평가를 위한 지하수유동 및 용질이동 모의에 적용하였다. 불연속체모형구성에 영향을 미치는 열극 특성요소는 방향서 및 크기로 분석되었으며, 구성도니 모형(Model)에서의 지하수유동에 영향을 미치는 요소는 투수성 열극밀도로 분석되었다. Particle Tracking 기법을 사용한 불연속체모형의 용질이동 모의에서는 열극의 투수성에 의해 이동경로 및 이동속도에 많은 차이가 관찰되었다. 검증된 추계론적 불연속체모형은 지하 유류저장공동 기밀성평가에 적용이 가능함이 부분적으로 인정되었다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.318-331
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 3차원 불연속균열망을 이용하여 불연속 암반을 모사하여 스미어드 균열 모델을 적용한 불연속 암반의 등가연속체 해석기법에 대해 연구를 실시했다. 연속체 해석 코드인 FLAC3D를 이용하여 모델링을 수행하였고, 해당 적용 모델의 신뢰성을 검증하기 위해 불연속체 해석에 널리 사용되는 3DEC 코드를 통해 모델의 메쉬 사이즈, 불연속면의 밀도 및 불연속면의 간극에 대한 민감도 분석을 함께 실시하여 제안 모델의 신뢰성을 검증할 수 있었다. 본 논문에서 제안된 등가연속체 해석기법을 이용한 불연속 암반의 수리해석에 대한 연구결과는 교통 터널, 석유비축기지, 방사성폐기물 처분장 등의 지하 구조물 설계 및 건설 분야에 기초자료로 활용될 것이라고 판단된다.