• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.435-445
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• 2019

A series of element tests with different drainage conditions and strain rates were performed on compacted unsaturated non-plastic silt in unconfined conditions. Soil samples were compacted at water contents from dry to wet of optimum with the degree of saturation varying from 24 to 59.5% while maintaining the degree of compaction at 80%. The tests performed were shear infiltration tests in which specimens had constant net confining pressure, pore air pressure was kept drained and constant, just before the shear process pore water pressure was increased (and kept constant afterwards) to decrease matric suction and to start water infiltration. In constant water content tests, specimens had constant net confining pressure, pore air pressure was kept drained and constant whereas pore water pressure was kept undrained. As a result, the matric suction varied with increase in axial strain throughout the shearing process. In both cases, maximum shear strength was obtained for specimens prepared on dry side of optimum moisture content. Moreover, the gradient of stress path was not affected under different strain rates whereas the intercept of failure was changed due to the drainage conditions implied in this study.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.497-505
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• 2019

Biocementation based on the microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) process is a novel soil improvement method. Biocement can improve significantly the properties of soils by binding soil particles to increase the shear strength or filling in the pores to reduce the permeability of soil. In this paper, results of triaxial consolidated undrained (CU) tests and constant shear drained (CSD) tests on biocemented Ottawa sand are presented. In the CU tests, the biocemented sand had more dilative behaviour by showing a higher stress-strain curves and faster pore pressure reducing trends as compared with their untreated counterparts. In the CSD tests, the stress ratio q/p' at which biocemented sand became unstable was higher than that for untreated sands, implying that the biocementation will improve the stability of sand to water infiltration or liquefaction.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.35-52
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• 2009

A significantly thick zone of steep slopes is commonly encountered above groundwater table and the soils within this zone are unsaturated with negative pore-water pressures (i.e., matric suction). Matric suction contributes significantly to the shear strength of soil and to the factor of safety of unsaturated slopes. However, infiltration during rainfall increases the pore-water pressure in soil resulting in a decrease in the matric suction and the shear strength of the soil. As a result, rainfall infiltration may eventually trigger a slope failure. Therefore, understanding of shear strength characteristics of saturated and unsaturated soils under shearing-infiltration (SI) conditions have direct implications in assessment of slope stability under rainfall conditions. This paper presents results from a series of consolidated drained (CD) and shearing-infiltration (SI) tests. Results show that the failure envelope obtained from the shearing-infiltration tests is independent of the infiltration rate. Failure envelopes obtained from CD and SI tests appear to be similar. For practical purposes the shear strength parameters from the CD tests can be used in stability analyses of slopes under rainfall conditions. The SI tests might be performed to obtain more conservative shear strength parameters and to study the pore-water pressure changes during infiltration.

• 한국지반신소재학회논문집
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.55-66
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 지반 특성에 관계없이 일률적으로 적용되는 피에조콘 관입속도 2cm/s 조건 하에서, 저소성 실트 지반의 경우 부분배수 내지는 완전 배수 현상이 발생된다는 관점에서 저소성 실트 지반의 비배수전단강도선과 완전배수 전단강도선 사이에서의 피에조콘계수($N_{kt}$)에 의한 전단강도 분포 경향을 기준으로 부분배수 전단강도를 평가하였다. 그 결과, 인천, 화성 및 군산 저소성 실트 지반의 부분배수 내부마찰각(${\varphi}^{\prime}$)은 $3{\sim}15^{\circ}$에서 분포하는 것으로 분석되었다. 한편, 강제치환 역해석 결과 및 비압밀비배수 삼축시험으로부터 얻어진 내부마찰각(${\varphi}^{\prime}$)은 소성지수 감소에 따라 $2{\sim}14^{\circ}$의 범위에서 분포되어, CPTU 데이터에 의한 부분배수 내부마찰각(${\varphi}^{\prime}$)과 유사한 경향을 나타내어 이에 대한 적용성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.173-181
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 정적 및 액상화와 같은 동적하중을 받는 흙의 거동해석을 위한 두 개의 활성면을 가진 구성모델을 제안하였다. 이 모델은 두 개의 활성면에 기초하고 있으며, 첫번째면은 회전하는 최대전단면을 나타내며 두 번째면은 고정된 수평면을 나타낸다. 이와 같은 두 개의 활성면을 이용하여 본 모델은 초기의 다른 응력상태하에 있는 시료의 직접단순전단시에 발생하는 주응력회전현상을 모델링할 수 있다. 제안된 모델은 초기의 응력비에 관계없이 평균유효응력이 동일할 경우에 유사한 거동을 보이는 흙의 실내실험결과를 묘사할 수 있다 그리고, 배수시 반복 직접단순전단으로 발생하는 흙의 거동 즉 제하시에 나타나는 체적감소 및 대변형에서 발생하는 체적팽창을 묘사할 수 있다. 비배수시의 흙의 정적 및 동적 거동은 배수거동에서 흙 골격사이에 존재하는 물의 구속력을 고려함으로써 해석하였다. 본 모델의 구성관계식은 응력-물의 상관관계를 동시에 묘사할 수 있는 FLAC을 이용하여 구현하였다. 배수 직접단순전단 시험을 이용한 Fraser River Sand의 실험결과를 이용하여 모델을 먼저 검증하였으며, 동일한 입력변수를 이용한 Fraser River Sand 비배수 거동의 예측치와 실험치를 비교하여 검증하였다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.301-311
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• 2020

In this study, shear strength behavior of fine-grained soils was investigated under unsaturated conditions. The samples in the unsaturated state were subjected to a net normal stress (σ-u_a) of 40 kPa and different matric suctions (u_a-u_w) of 50, 100 and 150 kPa. The matric suction values applied in the triaxial tests were selected according to the bubbling pressures determined from the SWC curves. The study was carried out on prepared re-constituted cylindrical samples by uniaxial consolidation of soil slurries. First, consolidated drained (CD) triaxial compression tests were performed on the saturated samples and the cohesion and angle of internal friction were determined. After that, drained triaxial compression tests under matric suctions were performed on the unsaturated samples. In order to obtain unsaturated test results, cohesion and internal friction angle values of saturated samples were used. The nonlinear surface representing the shear strength surface was approximated consisting of two planes (double planar surface). The reason for the nonlinear behavior of some soils is that the amount of sand content contained in it is relatively high and the bubbling pressure/permanent water content value is relatively low.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.219-231
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• 2022

Geotechnical materials such as silt, fine sand, or coarse granular soils may be unstable under undrained shearing or during rainfall infiltration starting an unsaturated state. Some researches are available describing the instability of coarse granular soils in drained or undrained conditions. However, there is a need to investigate the instability mechanism of unsaturated silty soil considering the effect of degree of compaction and net confining stress under partially and fully drained conditions. The specimens in the current study are compacted at 65%, 75%, & 85% degree of compaction, confined at pressures of 60, 80 & 120 kPa, and tested in partially and fully drained conditions. The tests have been performed in two steps. In Step-I, the specimens were sheared in constant water content conditions (a type of partially drained test) to the maximum shear stress. In Step-II, shearing was carried in constant suction conditions (a type of fully undrained test) by keeping shear stress constant. At the start of Step-II, PWP was increased in steps to decrease matric suction (which was then kept constant) and start water infiltration. The test results showed that soil instability is affected much by variation in the degree of compaction and confining stresses. It is also observed that loose and medium dense soils are vulnerable to pre-failure instability i.e., instability occurs before reaching the failure state, whereas, instability in dense soils instigates together with the failure i.e., failure line (FL) and instability line (IL) are found to be unique.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.401-417
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• 2013

The results of an experimental program regarding the effects of gradation on shear strength and volume change behavior of silty sands are presented. Consolidated drained direct shear tests were performed on two clean base sands and twelve silty sands obtained by mixing those base sands with two different non-plastic silts at various fines contents (${\leq}$ 25%). Drained shear strengths were observed to be not significantly influenced by either base sand gradation or silt gradation or fines content for the studied range. Increasing fines content has increased the volumetric contraction of specimens at similar void ratio. However, the amount of increase in volumetric contraction of silty sands were found to be affected by silt gradation when other influencing factors such as fines content, base sand gradation and mineralogy were kept the same. Moreover, the amount of increase in volumetric contraction of silty sands were also found to be affected by base sand gradation when other influencing factors such as fines content, silt gradation and mineralogy were kept the same.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.77-92
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• 2003

사질토에서의 한계상태정수 결정시 근본적인 물리적 과정들과 고유적 인 한계성들을 파악하기 위하여 일련의 표준삼축시험을 실시하였다. 시험결과에 의하면, 주어진 흙에 대하여 한계상태마찰각은 배수조건에 상관없이 일정한 반면에, e-log p＇공간상에서의 한계상태선은 주로 표준삼축시험에서 충분치 못하게 도달하는 변형률과 비배수시험에서의 변형률 국지화효과 때문에 배수조건에 따라 다른 결과를 보였다. 실내시험을 통하여 한계상태정수를 산정하는 최선의 방법은 균일하고 느슨하게 성형된 시료를 배수조건하에서 전단하는 것으로 나타났다. 더불어 배수시험에서 다일러턴 시효과나 변형률 국지화효과를 피할 수 있는 시험을 계획하기 위한 참고상태정수를 제시하였다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.243-252
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• 1993

본 연구에서는 실트를 포함하는 모래의 액상화강도 및 전단특성을 검토하기 위하여 비배수상태에서 동적 단순전단시험 및 동적 삼축압축시험을 행했다. 그 결과 실트를 포함하는 모래의 액상화강도는 일정한 상대밀도의 조건에서는 실트 함유율 30%정도에서 가장 약한 것으로 판명되었다. 그 원인은 실트 함유량에 따른 DILATANCY 특성의 차에 있는 것으로 판단되며 실트를 포함하는 모래의 DILATANCY 특성을 조사하기 위해 정적 배수 및 비배수 전단시험을 행하였다. 그 결과 액상화강도 특성은 배수 및 비배수 전단특성과 밀접한 상관관계를 나타냈으며, 응력-DILATANCY 관계의 기울기인 ${\lambda}$치와 액상화 강도 사이에 는 깊은 관련성이 있음이 판명되었다.