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Antitank Mine Detection with Geophysical Prospecting (물리탐사를 이용한 대전차 지뢰 탐지)

  • Cho, Seong-Jun;Kim, Jung-ho;Son, Jeong-Sul;Bang, Eun-Seok;Kim, Jong-Wook
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.219-224
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    • 2007
  • We conducted geophysical surveys to detect antitank mine at Namji-eup, Gyeongsangnam-do which had been installed during Korean war. The surveys consisted of 2 stages, at the first stage we divided the survey area into 7 block and carried out magnetic gradient survey and GEM-3 EM survey sequentially for each block. Hence we verified anomaly areas using an excavator and a metal detector. Most of anomalies were found to be garbages such as trash cans, metallic wastes, and so on. And also, the concrete pipe was found at depth of 1 m, which had not referred in any report of that area. At the second stage, after trenching the covered soil down to 75 cm the same surveys were conducted. We could not find the strong signal to be inferred from a antitank mine, but we pointed out some anomalies to need careful handling because demining is very dangerous work even though there is few possibility that is mine.

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Feasibility test on EDZ detection by using borehole radar survey

  • Cho, Seong-Jun;Kim, Jung-Ho;Son, Jeong-Sul;Kim, Chang-Ryol;Sugn, Nak-Hun
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.239-244
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    • 2006
  • Borehole radar reflection surveys were carried out in the horizontal borehole to detect EDZ while constructing the tunnel for the research facility of the nuclear waste disposal in Korea. The horizontal borehole has been bored at a length of 35 m from shelter to be parallel with the tunnel which would be planed. While the tunnel has been constructing with the explosive excavation, the borehole radar reflection surveys carried out 5 times with the interval of 2 or 4 days for monitoring EDZ. The most typical change of the reflection event resulted from the face of the wall of tunnel which had been produced newly by the excavation of the tunnel daily, EDZ has been detected with constructing images of difference between two measurement stages, and also the change of EDZ through the time has been done, which is due to the generation of crack and weakening of the rock strength of the face of the tunnel's wall near previous portion of the face of a blind end of tunnel according to explosive excavation.

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GEOTECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT SURVEY (2) (고심도 지반환경 조사 - 비파괴 물리탐사의 적용 (2))

  • HoWoongShon;SeungHeeLee;HyungSooKim
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.261-268
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    • 2003
  • Lots of various utilities are buried under the surface. The effective management of underground utilities is becoming the very important subject for the harmonious administration of the city. Ground Penetrating Radar(GPR) survey including other various underground survey methods, is mainly used to detect the position and depth of buried underground utilities. However, GPR is not applicable, under the circumstances of shallow depth and places, where subsurface materials are inhomogeneous and are composed of clay, salt and gravels. The aim of this study is to overcome these limitations of GPR and other underground surveys. High-frequency electromagnetic (HFEM) method is developed for the non-destructive precise deep surveying of underground utilities. The method is applied in the site where current underground surveys are useless to detect the underground big pipes, because of poor geotechnical environment. As a result, HFEM survey was very successful in detecting the buried shallow and deep underground pipes and in obtaining the geotechnical information, although other underground surveys including GPR were not applicable. Therefore this method is a promising new technique in the lots of fields, such as underground surveying and archaeology.

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Resistivity and Calibration Error Estimations for Small-Loop Electromagnetic Method

  • Sasaki, Yutaka;Son, Jeong-Sul;Kim, Chang-Ryol;Kim, Jung-Ho
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.167-172
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    • 2007
  • The frequency-domain small-loop electromagnetic (EM) instruments are increasingly used for shallow environmental and geotechnical surveys because of their portability and speed. However, it is well known that the data quality is generally so poor that quantitative interpretation of the data is not justified in many cases. We present an inversion method that allows the correction for the calibration errors and also constructs multidimensional resistivity models. The key point in this method is that the data are collected at least at two different heights. The forward modeling used in the inversion is based on an efficient 3-D finite-difference method, and its solution was checked against 2-D finite-element solution. The synthetic and real data examples demonstrate that the joint inversion recovers reliable resistivity models from multi-frequency data severely contaminated by the calibration errors.

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A Review of Instrumentation System and Construction of Korea Highway Test Road (시험도로 건설과 계측시스템 구축)

  • 최준성;김도형;김성환
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.603-606
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    • 2000
  • The cost needed for the construction and management of highways in the whole nation is rapidly growing so the research that can decrease the cost is required. However, most of the highway specs have simply converted from those of other countries, including USA. Therefore, some of our design and construction specs were not the optimum ones based on our own situation, requiring a research under the actual traffic and environment of our nation. The use of test road develops many aspects of highway engineering. Those are evaluation of construction materials, a general overview of korea pavement design and serviceability under the actual traffic and environmental condition of the nation. It is also economical and efficient compared to the trial construction of each item in spreaded form. A test road, 7.7km long with two lanes, is being constructed on the Inner Central Expressway. In this test road, 2.7km is planned for asphalt pavement and 3.4km is planned for concrete pavement. Three test bridges and five earth retaining structures will be included in the test road. Based on the master plan, the major performance was progressing such as detailed research modules of each area, preliminary research for the future research, sensor surveys for the behavior analyses of pavements and structures with installation methods and data acquisition systems, the foundation research of Integrated Instrumentation System and the Management Plan for automated measurement. Some area(structure research division, geotechnical research division) was designed the instrumentation plan because some instrument sensors must be installed during the construction of the test road. And then the instrumentation plan of each area was enforcing because a large majority of the instrument sensors must be installed after the construction of the test road. The field surveys with material property tests and pilot instrumentation test with sensor tests was also performing in accordance with the construction in the field.

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A Pilot Study of In-hole Seismic Method (인홀탄성파시험의 타당성 연구)

  • Mok, Young-Jin;Kim, Jung-Han;Kang, Byung-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.23-31
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    • 2003
  • Over the past half century, borehole seismic surveys have been diversified into the three techniques such as crosshole, downhole, and suspension logging according to their devices and testing configurations. These field techniques have been improved, in terms of equipment and testing procedures, and are very valuable in the evaluation of ground characteristics for geotechnical and earthquake engineering problems. Yet, despite the importance and significance of the techniques as engineering tools, the techniques are not much used as standard penetration test (SPT) by practicing engineers. The possible explanations are cost and operational difficulties of the surveys as well as sophistication and complexity of the devices. An in-hole seismic method has been developed to meet the requirement of economical testing cost and practicality in engineering practice to measure dynamic soil properties. The prototype in-hole probe developed herein is small and light enough to be fit in three-inch boreholes and to be handled with bare hands. The performance of the source has been evaluated through extensive crosshole tests at various sites. The in-hole seismic method was adopted at three test sites and verified by comparing with crosshole results.

Application of resistivity monitoring to examine the grouting effect

  • Farooq, Muhammad;Park, Sam-Gyu;Kim, Jung-Ho;Song, Young-Soo
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.79-82
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    • 2006
  • This paper presents to examine the ability of an electrical resistivity method to monitor the grouting effect at subsidence area. To monitor the changes in ground resistivity before and during the grout, series of electrical resistivity monitoring surveys have been conducted. Data has acquired in the form of grid making nine lines parallel to road and four lines traverse the road. Two kinds of electrode arrays modify pole-pole and dipole-dipole arrays were used during resistivity data acquisition. In this paper, the results show that electrical prospecting is an effective method to detect low resistivity imaging zone by grout during the ground reinforcement.

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Case Study of Geophysical Surveys for Investigating the Volume of Bed Sediments (하상토 부존량 조사를 위한 물리탐사 사례 연구)

  • Yoon, Jong-Ryeol;Kim, Jin-Man;Choi, Bong-Hyuck
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.615-621
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    • 2007
  • Seismic refraction survey which is assumed to be effective for investigating of the amount of bed sediment was applied to two sites having different soil types. The ten lines of seismic surveys were carried out in the areas of the levee near the Wolchon Bridge, Yongin and the Damam levee, Yecheon. At the same time, two borehole data were obtained to be used in classifying geological formations on the inverted seismic sections. As the results of interpolating the depths of geological formations and the surface elevation values, it is possible to estimate the volume of the bed sediments at $24,000m^3\;and\;56,000m^3$ in Yongin and Yecheon, respectively.

Assessment of Levee Safety Using Electrical Surveys (하천제방의 안전성 평가를 위한 전기비저항탐사)

  • Yoon, Jong-Ryeol;Kim, Jin-Man;Choi, Bong-Hyuck
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.53-61
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    • 2005
  • 2-D and 3-D resistivity surveys were carried out at the Deok-In2 levee during the period of arid and rainy seasons to assess the waterproof effectiveness of sheet pile and routing sections and detect the location of pipings. Inverted resistivity sections clearly indicated the boundaries of sheet pile and grouting sections and the locations of pipings observed at the ground surface. It is necessary that proper survey parameters are determined considering inverted depth and resolution and contacting resistance is decreased to obtain favorable result.

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Development of RIMS and Present Conditions of its DB (암반정보관리시스템(RIMS)의 개발 및 DB 현황)

  • 이성민;김영구;박부성
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.131-140
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    • 1999
  • Although there have been lots of geological or geotechnical surveys for construction sites, most of data obtained from these surveys have not been reused properly for the future construction work due to the absence of systematic management of data management system. This research, therefore, has focused on the development of DB system, Rockmass Information Management System(RIMS), to save, manage and reuse these abandoned data, specially test data of rock and rockmass with site conditions. RIMS has not only the basic functions of inputting, modifying, and dynamic searching of data but also several data control modules which can manage, input and correct, analyse and report data. Furthermore it saves data such as strata status, laboratory test results, in-site test results, and so on using 3-dimensional data stacking up structure. It is using x, y coordinates to represent horizontal positions and depth to represent vertical position of data. With the development of RIMS, this research has analyzed and classified present conditions of data in RIMS according to region, rock type, etc.

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