• Title/Summary/Keyword: Geotechnical investigations

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Technical Trend of Offshore Geotechnical Site Investigations (해상 지반조사 분야의 기술 동향)

  • Cho, Sung-Min
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2007.09a
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    • pp.639-653
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    • 2007
  • Offshore geotechnical site investigation of the seabed ground has been a key factor of the successful construction of various types of offshore structures like as sea-crossing bridges, submerged tunnels, and other marine facilities. Offshore investigations are not easy tasks because of the wave, wind, tidal ebb and flows, and others. Recent developments of offshore equipment including platforms and testing devices like as maine cone penetrator have inspired us to get more reliable characteristics of the seafloor. General information on the offshore site investigations and technical trends concerned are introduced.

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Site Investigations for Design Parameter Determination (설계정수 산정을 위한 지반조사)

  • Cho, Wan-Jei
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2009.09a
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    • pp.785-789
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    • 2009
  • It is essential to carry out appropriate site investigations for the accurate prediction of the geo-structure. However, the importance of the site investigation is often overlooked due to the time and expense constraints. In this study, several cases of geotechnical design perfromed in United States are introduced with the lessons about how the site investigations are planned, performed and applied for the actual design parameter determination. Based on the case studies presented herein, experienced geotechnical engineer should participate in site investigations from the planning stage through the final boring logs and utilize all the laboratory and field tests to have consistent input parameters for the soil constitutive models. Furthermore, it is also desired to have close relationship between construction industry and the academia to compensate their needs.

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Numerical investigations on stability evaluation of a jointed rock slope during excavation using an optimized DDARF method

  • Li, Yong;Zhou, Hao;Dong, Zhenxing;Zhu, Weishen;Li, Shucai;Wang, Shugang
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.271-281
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    • 2018
  • A jointed rock slope stability evaluation was simulated by a discontinuous deformation analysis numerical method to investigate the process and safety factors for different crack distributions and different overloading situations. An optimized method using Discontinuous Deformation Analysis for Rock Failure (DDARF) is presented to perform numerical investigations on the jointed rock slope stability evaluation of the Dagangshan hydropower station. During the pre-processing of establishing the numerical model, an integrated software system including AutoCAD, Screen Capture, and Excel is adopted to facilitate the implementation of the numerical model with random joint network. These optimizations during the pre-processing stage of DDARF can remarkably improve the simulation efficiency, making it possible for complex model calculation. In the numerical investigations on the jointed rock slope stability evaluations using the optimized DDARF, three calculation schemes have been taken into account in the numerical model: (I) no joint; (II) two sets of regular parallel joints; and (III) multiple sets of random joints. This model is capable of replicating the entire processes including crack initiation, propagation, formation of shear zones, and local failures, and thus is able to provide constructive suggestions to supporting schemes for the slope. Meanwhile, the overloading numerical simulations under the same three schemes have also been performed. Overloading safety factors of the three schemes are 5.68, 2.42 and 1.39, respectively, which are obtained by analyzing the displacement evolutions of key monitoring points during overloading.

Characteristics of Youngjong Deposits with Engineering and Geological Standpoints (공학적/지질학적 관점에서 본 영종도 퇴적지반의 특성)

  • Kim, Ju-Hyong;Choi, Kyung-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2009.09a
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    • pp.755-760
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    • 2009
  • It is essential to carry out site investigations such as SPT, CPT sampling etc. to understand the characteristics of soil deposits. However, the results deduced only from the engineering standpoint have limited information to fully understand ground characteristics. In this study, it is discussed site investigation results on Youngjong deposits obtained from not only the geotechnical standpoint, but also geotechnical and geological mixed standpoint to understand correct characteristics of Youngjong soil deposit.

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A Study on Geotechnical Lineament Analysis by Image Processing Method (영상사진을 이용한 지반공학적인 선구조분석 연구)

  • 이수곤;금동헌
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.593-600
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    • 2000
  • Most of ground investigations can be grasped geological distribution which like rock name, geological structure, soil condition, underwater condition, land slide, ground cave-in, ground collapse by geological survey. But geological survey is limited to part region geological structure, not wide region. Therefore, Image Processing Method must need to grasp wide region geological structure. The object of this research is presented analysis data of geotechnical engineering in first step investigation.

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Experimental and Field Investigations for the Accuracy of the Frost Depth Indicator with Methylene Blue Solution (실내실험과 현장실험을 통한 Methylene Blue 동결깊이 측정장치 신뢰성 검토에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hak Seung;Lee, Jangguen;Kim, Young Seok;Kang, Jae-Mo;Hong, Seung-Seo
    • Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.75-79
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    • 2013
  • The frost depth is one of important factors in the design of structures such as roadways, buried pipeline, and foundations. A frost indicator with methylene blue solution has several advantages with respect to installation cost, maintenance, and simple measurement. However, as a geotechnical engineering aspect, the accuracy of the frost indicator has not been proved yet. This paper presents experimental and field investigations of the accuracy of the frost indicator and contour maps of maximum frost depth. The contour maps of maximum frost depth can be applied to design geo-infrastructure in South Korea.