• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 초청강연 및 논문집
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• pp.111-118
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• 2008

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the overburden effect on soil-water characteristic curve and unsaturated permeability of unsaturated weathered soils. For this, unsaturated suction and permeability tests under various overburden stress were conducted respectively. Then, the coefficient of unsaturated permeability and moisture capacity of weathered soils were estimated and compared. All these results are presented in the paper.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2006년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.28-33
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• 2006

Shallow failures of slopes in weathered soils are caused by infiltration due to prolonged rainfall. These failures are mainly triggered by the deepening of the wetting band accompanied by a decrease in suction induced by the water infiltration. In this paper, hysteresis on soil-water characteristic curve(SWCC) of granite and gneiss weathered soils are investigated using transient flow analysis respectively. Each case was subjected to artificial rainfall intensities and time duration depending on the laboratory-based drying and wetting processes. The results show that the unsaturated seepage on weathered slopes are very much affected by the initial suction of soils and unsaturated permeability of the soils. In addition, a granite weathered soil has a lower air-entry value, residual matric suction, and wetting front suction and less hysteresis loop than a gneiss weathered soil.

• 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.

• 토지주택연구
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2018

The causes of landslides are dependant on rainfall events and the soil characteristics of a slope. For the conventional slope stability, the slope stability analysis has been carried out assuming the saturated soil theory. But, in order to clearly explain a proper soil slope condition by rainfall, the research should be performed using the unsaturated soil mechanism suitable for a soil slope in the field. In the study, by using two major categories of soils in Korea, such as granite and gneiss weathered soils, landslide model test and finite element method have been compared with the difference of seepage and soil stability analysis. The hydraulic conductivity of gneiss weathered soil is slower than that of granite weathered soil, and the gneiss weathered soil contains much finer soils than the granite weathered soil. It was confirmed that the instability of the slope was progressing slowly due to the slow rate of volumetric water content of the surface layer.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.49-60
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• 2010

지반의 투수특성은 다양한 지반구조물의 설계 및 해석에서 중요한 지반물성이다. 특히 불포화 상태에서 모관흡수력의 영향을 받으며 모판흡수력 증가에 따라 감소하는 경향은 함수특성 변화와 유사하다. 불포화 투수계수는 실내실험을 통해 직접적으로 구하거나 함수특성곡선으로부터 유추된 이론식을 통해 간접적으로 얻을 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 국내 7개 지역에 대한 시료를 대상으로 함수특성실험과 본 연구에서 개발한 불포화 투수실험 장비를 이용하여 불포화 투수실험을 실시하였다. 지반의 함수상태를 나타내는 함수특성곡선이 불포화 투수계수와 밀접한 관련이 있으므로 함수특성곡선으로부터 불포화 투수곡선을 유추하는 여러 모텔 결과와 실험결과를 비교하였다. 그러나 기존의 추정방법은 국내지반의 투수특성을 잘 표현하지 못하고 있다. 따라서 국내 풍화토의 불포화 투수곡선을 정확히 유추하기 위하여 보정계수를 적용하여 FXK-M 투수모델을 제시하였고 보정계수를 함수특성곡선의 공기함입치로부터 산정할 수 있는 수식을 제안하였다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2012

불포화토를 대상으로 $K_0$ 압밀조건에서 삼축시험을 수행하여 전단강도를 분석하였다. 불포화 삼축압축시험에서는 대구지역에 있는 풍화토 시료를 성형하여 다양한 모관흡수력을 조절하였다. 건조 및 습윤 시 함수특성시험을 수행하여 실험치들을 van Genuchten 곡선으로 모델하였다. 함수특성곡선으로부터 모관흡수력이 유효응력에 기여하는 성분을 평가할 수 있다. 이로부터 유효응력을 산정하였으며 유효응력에 따른 전단강도를 결정하였다. 다양한 모관흡수력에 따른 전단강도는 유효응력으로 기술하였을 때, 유일한 직선으로 나타나며 포화토의 파괴포락선과 일치함을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제30권1C호
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• pp.53-63
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• 2010

함수특성곡선은 불포화지반의 거동을 분석하는데 있어서 매우 중요한 물성으로 활용되고 있으나 많은 경우 상재하중과 세립분의 영향을 고려하지 않은 상태에서 측정되어 적용해 왔다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 국내의 대표적인 풍화토를 대상으로 상재하중과 점토의 함유량에 따른 함수특성 영향을 살펴보았다. 상재하중, 세립분, 그리고 이력 조건을 고려하여 함수특성과 불포화 투수계수를 SWCC 시험결과를 토대로 평가하였다. 또한 불포화시 습윤용적과 확산능력에 대하여도 살펴보았다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2004년도 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.334-341
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• 2004

The coefficient of permeability is one of the most important properties in unsaturated soils. The permeability varies with change in the water content as the soil water characteristic curve(SWCC) does. Thus the permeability curve of unsaturated soils has the similar shape with the soil-water characteristic curve(SWCC). Therefore, the methodologies have been studied to simply predict the unsaturated permeability from the SWCC. In this study, the experimental tests of SWCC and permeability were carried out for domestic weathered granite soils. The SWCC test results were fitted to Fredlund and Xing's SWCC equation and then it was found that there are some relationships between the parameters of SWCC equation and the basic soil properties. Accordingly we used an ANN(artificial neural network) model to obtain the SWCC parameters from the basic soil properties. Finally, the coefficients of permeability were predicted from these results by a prediction model.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.153-163
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• 2020

Laboratory experiments were conducted with two different soil conditions to investigate rainfall infiltration characteristics. The soil layer materials that were tested were weathered granite soil and weathered gneiss soil. Artificial rainfall of 80 mm/hr was reproduced through the use of a rainfall device, and the volumetric water content and matric suction were measured. In the case of the granite soil, the saturation velocity and the moving direction of the wetting front were fast and upward, respectively, whereas in the case of the weathered gneiss soil, the velocity and direction were slow and downward, respectively. Rainfall penetrated and saturated from the bottom to the top as the hydraulic conductivity of the granite soil was higher than the infiltration capacity of the artificial rainfall. In contrast, as the hydraulic conductivity of the gneiss soil was lower than the infiltration capacity of the rainfall, ponding occurred on the surface: part of the rainfall first infiltrated, with the remaining rainfall subsequently flowing out. The unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function of weathered soils was determined and analyzed with matric suction and the effective degree of saturation.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.133-142
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 불포화 투수계수를 측정하기 위하여 Klute(1965a)에 의하여 제안된 정적측정방법의 원리에 axis-translation의 기법을 적용하여 새로운 실험장치를 개발하였다. 이 실험장치는 모관흡수력(matric suction)의 증가에 따른 함수특성과 투수계수의 변화를 동시에 측정할 수 있도록 설계되었다. 실험에는 불포화 투수특성과 No.200체 통과 세립분의 상호관계를 규명하기 위하여 각각 세립함유량이 7.3%(인주), 19.6%(성환), 35.9%(구리)인 시료를 인주, 성환, 구리지역에서 채취하여 사용하였다. 실험결과에 의하면 불포화토의 투수계수와 체적함수는 시료의 밀도가 증가하는 경우 전체적으로 감소하였으며 모관흡수력이 증가함에 따라 점차 비선형적으로 감소하는 거동을 보였다. 또한 불포화토의 투구계수와 체적함수비는 상호 비선형거동을 보였다. 체적함수비와 투구계수를 직접 비교하는 방법으로 경험상수 A,B를 No.200체 통과 세립분의 함유량에 따라 결정하였으며, 경험상수 A, B를 이용하면 직접 흙의 함수특성곡선으로부터 불포화 투수계수를 추정할 수 있다.