• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2022

The cohesive non-swelling soil (CNS) cushion technology has been widely applied in the subgrade and slope improvement at expansive soil regions. However, the mechanism of the inhibition effect of the CNS layer on expansive soil (ES) has not been fully understood. We performed four outdoor model tests to further understand the inhibition effect, including different kinds of upper layer and thickness, under the unidirectional seepage condition. The swelling deformation, soil pressure, and electrical resistivity were constantly monitored during the saturation process. It is found that when a CNS layer covered the ES layer, the swelling deformation and electrical resistivity of the ES layer decreased significantly, especially the upper part. The inhibition effect of the CNS layer increases with the increase of CNS thickness. The distribution of vertical and lateral soil pressure also changed with the covering of a CNS layer. The electrical resistivity can be an effective index to describe the swelling deformation of ES layer and analyze the inhibition effect of the CNS layer. Overall, the CNS deadweight and the ion migration are the major factors that inhibit the swelling deformation of expansive soil.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2008

골계최대치수 및 골재의 품질상태 등이 숏크리트에 미치는 역학적 영향성을 실내실험과 현장실험을 통해 평가하였다. 실험결과 골계최대치수가 13mm에서 8mm로 작아질수록 유동 특성은 감소되었으나, 경화 콘크리트의 강도 및 동탄성계수는 크게 증가하였으며, 이러한 결과를 토대로 골재최대치수 8mm인 경우가 10, 13mm인 경우보다 유동성, 시공성 및 내구성이 더욱 우수할 것으로 판단된다. 따라서 숏크리트 품질개선과 재료분리 최소화를 위해 본 연구에서 개발하고자 하는 레디믹스트 숏크리트의 적정 골재최대치수는 공장생산방식을 통해 정제된 8mm 골계를 적용하는 것이 바람직하다고 판단된다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 초청강연 및 논문집
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• pp.987-997
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• 2008

Successful design, construction and maintenance of geotechnical structure in soft ground and marine clay demands prediction, control, stability estimation and monitoring of settlement with high accuracy. It is important to predict and to estimate the compression index of soil for predicting of ground settlement. Lab. and field tests have been and are indispensable tools to achieve this goal. In this paper, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) model with Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm and field database were used to predict compression index of soil in Korea. Based on soil property database obtained from more than 1800 consolidation tests from soils samples, the ANNs model were proposed in this study to estimate the compression index, using multiple soil properties. The compression index from the proposed ANN models including multiple soil parameters were then compared with those from the existing empirical equations.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2001년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.453-458
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• 2001

Copper slag is produced about 700,000 tons annually though copper refining process in Korea. In the paper, a laboratory investigation was carried out to estimate the geotechnical properties of copper slag and examine the feasibility of using the copper slag as a substitute for conventional construction materials and the improvement of the soft clay deposit. The specific gravity of copper slag is 3.45, and pH is 7.83. And the size distribution of the copper slag is well graded, so usage of copper slag will be extended in Geotechnical engineering fields. Copper slag has the permeability of 3.502${\times}$10￣$^2$cm/sec, which is satisfied with the criterion of sand drainage materials.. At the same time, it is thought to be suitable material for sand mat since it meets JIS of grain size distribution. The content of CaO from steel slag is about 40 percent while that of CaO from copper slag is about 5 percent. Based on this fact, copper slag has less hardening property compared to steel slag. Therefore, copper slag can be used as vertical drains, filters, and sand mats for improving the soft deposit.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2004

사례 연구를 통해서 실제 세립토 교량현장에 대해 기존 교량세굴 해석모델들의 적용성을 분석하였다. 하상이 실트질 점토로 구성된 강화 초지대교를 대상교량으로 선정하여 현장조사를 실시하였다. 초음파 센서장비를 이용하여 교각주변의 세굴심을 직접 측정하였으며, 불교란시료를 채취하여 지반공학적 특성을 결정하고, 또한 세굴률 실험을 통해 대상 지반의 유속별 세굴률을 분석하였다. 그 결과를 바탕으로 기존에 제안된 대표적인 교량세굴 해석모델들을 이용하여 주요 교각의 세굴심을 예측하여 실측 세굴심과 비교하였다. 지반의 침식특성을 고려하지 않는 기존의 교량세굴 해석모델들은 모두 3.6∼6.5의 비율로 세굴심을 과대평가하는 경향을 보였으며, SRICOS 방법은 실측세굴심에 비해 1.7배의 합리적인 결과를 보여주었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.771-785
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• 2016

The thermal conductivity of soils is an important property in energy-related geotechnical structures, such as underground heat pumps and underground electric power cable tunnels. This study explores the effects of geotechnical engineering properties on the thermal conductivity of soils. The thermal conductivities of quartz sands and Korean weathered silty sands were documented via a series of laboratory experiments, and its variations with effective stress, porosity, and water saturation were examined. While thermal conductivity was found to increase with an increase in the effective stress and water saturation and with a decrease in porosity, replacing air by water in pores the most predominantly enhanced the thermal conductivity by almost one order of magnitude. In addition, we have suggested an improved model for thermal conductivity prediction, based on water saturation, dry thermal conductivity, saturated thermal conductivity, and a fitting parameter that represents the curvature of the thermal conductivity-water saturation relation.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.519-533
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• 2024

Many materials including cementitious concrete-type materials undergo material property changes during high-rate loading. There is a wealth of research regarding this phenomenon for concrete in compression and tension. However, there is minimal knowledge about how mortar material used in concrete masonry unit (CMU) construction behaves in high-rate shear loading. A series of experiments was conducted to examine the bond strength of mortar bonded to CMU units under high-rate shear loading. A novel experimental setup using a shock tube and dynamic ram were used to load specially constructed shear triplets in a double lap shear configuration with no pre-compression. The Finite Element Method was leveraged in conjunction with data from the experimental investigation to establish if the shear bond between concrete masonry units and mortar exhibits any rate dependency. An increase in shear bond strength was observed when loaded at a high strain rate. This data indicates that the CMU-mortar bond exhibits a rate dependent strength change and illustrates the need for further study of the CMU-mortar interface characteristics at high strain rates.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2003년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.123-130
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• 2003

The estimation of key soil properties and subsequent quantitative assessment of the associated uncertainties has always been an important issue in geotechnical engineering. It is well recognized that soil properties vary spatially as a result of depositional and post-depositional processes. The stochastic nature of spatially varying soil properties can be treated as a random field. A practical statistical approach that can be used to systematically model various sources of uncertainty is presented in the context of reliability analysis of slope stability Newly developed expressions for probabilistic characterization of soil properties incorporate sampling and measurement errors, as well as spatial variability and its reduced variance due to spatial averaging. Reliability analyses of the probability of slope failure using the different statistical representations of soil properties show that the incorporation of spatial correlation and conditional simulation leads to significantly lower probability of failure than obtained using simple random variable approach.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.15-32
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• 1991

최근 선진각국은 회복탄성계수를 적용한 포장 설계.해석법의 적용을 확대해 나가고 있다. 특히, 1986년 AASHTO도로 포장구조설계지침의 변경이후 다양한 포장재료에 대한 합리적 인 시험 방법의 정립 및 Mn특성규명에 대한 연구들이 활발히 수행되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 가까운시일내 에 우리나라에서도 MR적용포장설계, 해석법의 적용이 불가피함을 고려하여, 이에 필요한 가장 기 본 적인 내용이라 할 수 있는국내 여건에 적합한 노상토의 Mr시험 방법의 정립, 국내 노상토의 Mr특성 및 MR-CBR상관관계에 대해서 논의하였다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2006년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.1148-1154
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• 2006

Composite discharge capacity tests and smear effect tests are carried out to estimate the parameters for the reliability-based design of vertical drain method. Also the probabilistic and deterministic solutions of radial consolidation theory are presented. It compared to the result of reliability-based design and that of deterministic design using the tested and estimated parameters. The results indicated that the drain spacing is larger the deterministic method than the probabilistic method because the former is not considered the uncertainties in the properties of soil. The divergence of methods is dependent on the probability of achieving target degree of consolidation by a given time and the coefficient of variation(COV) of the coefficient of horizontal consolidation$(c_h)$.