• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 춘계 학술발표회
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• pp.599-606
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• 2010

It has been reported that many slope failures in unsaturated soils are mainly caused by downward infiltration due to rainfall. The rainfall characteristics could be an important factor, and more predictable slope failures can be achieved by considering more reasonable rainfall conditions. So, a need exists that these trends of infiltration in weathered soils, which is commonly found in Korea, are assessed by considering rainfall conditions based on phenomenological approach. In this paper, numerical analyses of unsaturated soil slope under rainfall conditions are presented based on the soil-water characteristic curve in the laboratory and huff method. Then the performance of unsaturated weathered soil slopes was evaluated under various conditions after applying the effect of overburden pressure on SWCCs and fines contents. The results demonstrated that the rainfall conditions using Huff method can be very effective and the proper application on analysis is very important to enhance the prediction on unsaturated slope stability.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2006

Changes in the soil physical property and the topographic condition derived from agricultural activities like as farming activities, land clearance and cutting down resulted in environmental and economic problems including the outflow of nutrient from farms and the water pollution. Several theories on the soil conservation have been developed and reviewed to protect soil erosion in the regions having a high risk of erosion. This study was done using the USLE model developed by Wischmeier and Smith (1978), and model for the slope length and steepness made by Desmet and Govers (1996), and Nearing (1997) to evaluate the potential of the soil erodibility. Therefore, several results were obtained as follows. First, factors affecting the soil erosion based on the USLE could be extracted to examine the erosion potential in farms. Soil erodibility (K), slope length (L), and slope steepness (S) were used as main factors in the USLE in consideration of the soil, not by the land use or land cover. Second, the soil erodibility increased in paddy soils where it is low in soil content, and the very fine sandy loam exists. Analysis of the slope length showed that the value of a flat ground was 1, and the maximum value was 9.17 appearing on the steep mountain. Soil erodibility showed positive relationship to a slope. Third, the potential soil erodibility index (PSEI) showed that it is high in the PSEI of the areas of steep upland and orchard on the slope of mountainous region around Dokjigol mountain, Dunji mountain, and Deummit mountain. And the PSEI in the same land cover was different depending on the slope rather than on the physical properties in soil. Forth, the analysis of land suitability in soil erosion explained that study area had 3,672.35ha showing the suitable land, 390.88ha for the proper land, and 216.54ha for the unsuitable land. For unsuitable land, 8.71ha and 6.29ha were shown in fallow uplands and single cropping uplands, respectively.

• 지질공학
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.57-64
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• 2011

화강암과 안산암질 암맥이 공존하고 있는 붕괴사변을 대상으로 지질에 의한 전단강도의 차이를 반영한 3차원 사면안정해석을 수행하였다. 지질이 서로 다른 두 종류의 파괴면에 대한 전단강도를 파악하기 위하여 흙-암 경계면 직접전단시험을 수행하였고, 또한 상부 풍화토층에 대한 실내토질시험을 실시하였다. 시험결과 풍화토층에 비하여 흙-암 경계면의 전단강도가 낮게 나타났다. 사면내 지질분포의 차이가 안정성해석 결과에 영향을 주는 것을 알아보기 위하여 한계평형법을 이용한 2차원사면안정성 해석을 대표단면에서 실시하였으며, 사면내 분포지질에 따라 입력치를 다르게 할 수 있는 3차원사면안정성해석을 실시하여 2차원안정성해석과 그 결과를 비교하였다. 해석결과에 의하면 안전율이 건기시 0.92와 포화시 0.32로 모두 불안정하게 나타난 2차원해석결과와는 달리 3차원해석결과에서는 건기시에 안전율이 1.26, 포화시에 0.55로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 사면내 지질분포를 고려할 경우 안정성 해석의 결과가 달라질 수 있음을 보여주고 있으며, 우기 직후 붕괴가 일어났던 점을 고려하면 3차원해석결과가 보다 현실적인 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제65권5호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2023

Due to climate change and aging of reservoirs, damage to embankment slopes is increasing. However, the safety diagnosis of the reservoir slope is mainly conducted by visual observation, and the time and economic cost are formidable to apply soil mechanical tests and slope stability analysis. Accordingly, this study presented a predicting method for the compaction and strength characteristics of the reservoir embankment soil using a portable static cone penetration test. The predicted items consisted of dry density, cohesion, and internal friction angle, which are the main factors of slope stability analysis. Portable static cone penetration tests were performed at 19 reservoir sites, and prediction equations were constructed from the correlation between penetration resistance data and test results of soil samples. The predicted dry density and strength parameters showed a correlation with test results between R² 0.40 and 0.93, and it was found to replace the test results well when used as input data for slope stability analysis (R² 0.8134 or more, RMSE 0.0320 or less). In addition, the prediction equations for the minimum safety factor of the slope were presented using the penetration resistance and gradient. As a result of comparing the predicted safety factor with the analysis results, R² 0.5125, RMSE 0.0382 in coarse-grained soil, R² 0.4182 and RMSE 0.0628 in fine-grained soil. The results of this study can be used as a way to improve the existing slope safety diagnosis method, and are expected to be used to predict the characteristics of various soils and inspect slopes.

• 한국지반신소재학회논문집
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2008

우리나라에서는 강우로 인한 얕은 사면파괴 형태를 흔하게 볼 수 있다. 즉, 강우시 발생하는 사면의 얕은 파괴는 지표로 침투하는 강우에 의한 포화깊이 증가에 의해 발생한다. 본 연구에서는 침투가 사면 표면이 안정에 미치는 영향을 평가하기 위해 한계평형법을 이용하는 무한사면 해석방법을 적용하였다. 재현기간에 따른 강우강도와 지속기간이 고려되는 임의의 강우에 의해 유발되는 얕은 사면파괴의 가능성을 평가하기 위해서 일차원 침투모델인 Green-Ampt 모델에 바탕을 둔 침투능에 따른 침투깊이를 산정한 Pradel & Raad 방법을 이용하였다. 즉, 이론해에 의한 결과와 비교하기 위하여 동일한 조건으로 SEEP/W를 통한 수치해석을 수행하였다. 결과, 화강풍화토의 함수특성곡선을 이용하여 불포화사면의 강도정수를 추정하여 계산된 불포화 지반의 해석이 기존 포화사면의 해석에 비하여 보다 정확한 결과임을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.71-75
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• 2014

Forest roads failure is one of the most common problems caused by heavy rainfalls. This study investigated the characteristics on stabilization measures installed for cutting slopes failure of forest road resulted from heavy rainfalls. Three primary factors (slope length, slope gradient, soil type) affecting cutting slope failure were considered and stabilization measures were classified into two types (A type: wooden fence, vegetation sandbag, stone masonry; B type: wire cylinder, gabion, concrete retaining wall) through discriminant analysis based on their capacity of resistance to slope failure. Results showed that A type was mainly installed in such conditions as cut slope <8 m, cut slope gradient $30-40^{\circ}$ and soil type with soil while B type occurred in locational conditions as cut slope length >8 m, cut slope gradient < $30^{\circ}$ and > $30^{\circ}$, and soil type of gravelly soil and rock.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.263-278
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• 2014

The spudcan requires the suitable design considering the soil, platform, and environmental conditions. Its shape needs to be designed to secure sufficient reaction of soil so that it can prevent overturning accidents. Its shape also has to minimize the installation and extraction time. Even in the same soil condition, the reaction of soil may be different depending on the shape of spud can, mainly the slope of top and bottom plates. Therefore, in this study, the relation between the slope of plates and the reaction of soil with and without water jetting is analyzed to better understand their interactions and correlations. For the investigation, a wind turbine installation jack-up rig (WTIJ) is selected as the target platform and the Gulf of Mexico is considered as the target site. A multi layered (sand overlying two clays) soil profile is applied as the assumed soil condition and the soil-structure interaction (SSI) analysis is performed by using ANSYS to analyze the effect of the slope change of the bottom plate and water jetting on the reaction of soil. This kind of investigation and simulation is needed to develop optimal and smart spudcan with water-jetting control in the future.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.125-139
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• 1996

This study was performed to provide the design method for soil structure which guarantees proper safety with uncertainty of soil parameters. For this purpose, the effect of uncertainty of soil parameters for slope stability was analyzed by Bishop's simplified method and Monte Carlo simulation(MC). And reliability analysis program, RESFEM, was developed by combining elastic theory, MC, FEM, SFEM, and reliability, which can consider uncertainty of soil parameters. For factor of safety(FS) 1.0 and 1.2 by Bishop's simplified method, the probability of failure(Pf) was analyzed with varying coefficient of variation(c.o.v.) of soil parameters. The Pf increased as c.o.v. of soil parameters increased. This implies that FS is not the absolute index of slope safety, and even if FS is same, it has different Pf according to c.o.v. of soil parameters. The RESFEM was able to express the Pf at each element in slope quantitatively according to uncertainty of soil parameters. The variation of Pf with uncertainty of soil parameters was analyzed by RESFEM, and it was shown that the Pf increased as the c.o.v. of soil parameters increased.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.261-273
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• 2020

This paper presents an efficient method utilizing user-defined computer functional codes to determine the reliability of an embankment slope with spatially varying soil properties in real time. The soils' mechanical properties varied with the soil layers that had different degrees of compaction and moisture content levels. The Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) for the degree of compaction and Kriging simulation of moisture content variation were adopted and programmed to predict their spatial distributions, respectively, that were subsequently used to characterize the spatial distribution of the soil shear strengths. The shear strength parameters were then integrated into the Geostudio command file to determine the safety factor of the embankment slope. An explicit metamodal for the performance function, using the Kriging method, was established and coded to efficiently compute the failure probability of slope with varying moisture contents. Sensitivity analysis showed that the proposed method significantly reduced the computational time compared to Monte Carlo simulation. About 300 times LHS Geostudio computations were needed to optimize precision and efficiency in determining the failure probability. The results also revealed that an embankment slope is prone to high failure risk if the degree of compaction is low and the moisture content is high.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.47-57
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• 2010

Newmark 활동블록법을 이용하여 지진시 토사면의 영구변위를 산정할 경우 항복지진계수의 결정은 매우 중요하다. 그러나 기존에 제안된 항복지진계수는 일반적으로 한계평형해석에 기초하고 있어 역학적조건 중 평형조건만을 만족하므로 역학적으로 엄밀하지 못하다. 따라서 기 제안된 항복지진계수를 이용하여 토사면의 영구변위를 산정할 경우 문제점를 야기할 수 있다. 한계해석은 역학적으로 엄밀한 해의 범위를 산정하는 해석기법으로 항복지진계수의 역학적 엄밀성을 판단하는데 유용하다. 본 연구에서는 안정수, 사면경사, 지반물성 등에 따른 다양한 해석조건을 고려하여 실무적용에 유용한 항복지진계수 산정도표를 제안하였다.