• 자원환경지질
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.697-707
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• 2012

정량적인 산사태 취약성 분석은 산사태를 유발하는 인자 및 모델에 대한 접근방법에 따라 통계적 기법과 지질역학적 기법으로 구분된다. 이 중 지질역학적 기법은 산사태 모델을 가정하고 사면의 기하학적 특성과 사면 구성물질의 공학적 특성을 고려하여 산사태의 취약성을 판단하는 기법으로 산사태의 발생메커니즘과 과정을 고려할 수 있다는 장점을 가지고 있어 산사태의 취약성 분석에 가장 효과적인 기법 중의 하나로 보고되고 있다. 지질역학적 해석기법의 경우 최근 들어 무한사면모델이 주로 사면 모델로 사용되고 있으며 GIS의 활용을 통해 광역적인 지역에 대한 분석이 가능해짐에 따라 무한사면모델을 이용한 광역적인 지역에서의 산사태 취약성 분석이 가능해졌다. 기존의 무한사면모델을 활용한 연구의 경우 연구지역의 지하수위를 지반이나 강우의 특성에 대한 고려 없이 임의로 가정하여 해석함으로써 강우량과 연구지역의 지반특성에 따라 지하수위가 유동적으로 포화되는 것을 전혀 고려할 수 없는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이를 보완하기 위해 산사태의 유발에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 강우강도와 지반의 수리특성을 반영할 수 있는 수리학적 모델을 무한사면모델과 결합하여 연구지역의 현장 조건을 반영한 산사태 취약성 분석을 수행하였다. 또한 기존의 해석방법과 본 연구에서 제안된 해석기법을 비교분석하기 위하여 2006년 7월 대규모의 산사태가 발생한 강원도 진부지역을 대상으로 분석을 수행하였다. 그 결과 본 연구에서 제안된 해석기법이 기존의 해석기법에 비해 높은 예측 정확도를 보이는 것으로 분석되었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.213-222
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• 2024

Determination of jointed rock mass properties plays a significant role in the design and construction of underground structures such as tunneling and mining. Rock mass classification systems such as Rock Mass Rating (RMR), Rock Mass Index (RMi), Rock Mass Quality (Q), and deformation modulus (Em) are determined from the jointed rock masses. However, parameters of jointed rock masses can be affected by the tunnel depth below the surface due to the effect of the in situ stresses. In addition, the geomechanical properties of rocks change due to the effect of metamorphism. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to apply correlation analysis to investigate the relationships between rock mass properties and some parameters related to the depth of the tunnel studied. For this purpose, the field work consisted of determining rock mass parameters in a tunnel alignment (~7.1 km) at varying depths from 21 m to 431 m below ground surface. At the same excavation depths, thirty-seven rock types were also sampled and tested in the laboratory. Correlations were made between vertical stress and depth, horizontal/vertical stress ratio (k) and depth, k and Em, k and RMi, k and point load index (PLI), k and Brazilian tensile strength (BTS), Em and uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), UCS and PLI, UCS and BTS. Relationships were significant (significance level=0.000) at the confidence interval of 95% (r = 0.77-0.88) between the data pairs for the rocks taken from depths greater than 166 m where the ratio of horizontal to vertical stress is between 0.6 and 1.2. The in-situ stress parameters affected rock mass properties as well as metamorphism which affected the geomechanical properties of rock materials by affecting the behavior of minerals and textures within rocks. This study revealed that in-situ stress parameters and metamorphism should be reviewed when tunnel studies are carried out.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.331-339
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• 2018

Worldwide growth in hydrocarbon and energy demand is driving the oil and gas companies to drill more wells in complex situations such as areas with high-pressure, high-temperature conditions. As a result, in recent years the number of wells in these conditions have been increased significantly. Wellbore instability is one of the main issues during the drilling operation especially for directional and horizontal wells. Many researchers have studied the wellbore stability in complex situations and developed mathematical models to mitigate the instability problems before drilling operation. In this work, a fully coupled thermoporoelastic model is developed to study the well stability in high-pressure, high-temperature conditions. The results show that the performance of the model is highly dependent on the truly evaluated rock mechanical properties. It is noted that the rock mechanical properties should be evaluated at elevated pressures and temperatures. However, in many works, this is skipped and the mechanical properties, which are evaluated at room conditions, are entered into the model. Therefore, an accurate stability analysis of high-pressure, high-temperature wells is achieved by measuring the rock mechanical properties at elevated pressures and temperatures, as the difference between the model outputs is significant.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.393-405
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• 2019

This paper evaluates the geotechnical and geo-engineering properties of the South Pars Zone (SPZ) marls in Assalouyeh, Iran. These marly beds mostly belong to the Aghajari and Mishan formations which entail the gray, cream, black, green, dark red and pink types. Marls can be observed as rock (soft rock) or soil. Marlstone outcrops show a relatively rapid change to soils in the presence of weathering. To geotechnically characterise the marls, field and laboratory experiments such as particle-size distribution, hydrometer, Atterberg limits, uniaxial compression, laboratory direct-shear, durability and carbonate content tests have been performed on soil and rock samples to investigate the physico-mechanical properties and behaviour of the SPZ marls in order to establish empirical relations between the geo-engineering features of the marls. Based on the experiments conducted on marly soils, the USCS classes of the marls is CL to CH which has a LL ranging from 32 to 57% and PL ranging from 18 to 27%. Mineralogical analyses of the samples revealed that the major clay minerals of the marls belong to the smectite or illite groups with low to moderate swelling activities. The geomechanical investigations revealed that the SPZ marls are classified as argillaceous lime, calcareous marl and marlstone (based on the carbonate content) which show variations in the geomechanical properties (i.e., with a cohesion ranging from 97 to 320 kPa and a friction angle ranging from 16 to 35 degrees). The results of the durability tests revealed that the degradation potential showed a wide variation from none to fully disintegrated. According to the results of the experiments, the studied marls have been classified as calcareous marl, marlstone and argillaceous lime due to the variations in the carbonate and clay contents. The results have shown that an increase in the carbonate content leads to a decrease in the degradation potential and an increase in the density and strength parameters such as durability and compressive strength. A comparison of the empirical relationships obtained from the regression analyses with similar studies revealed that the results obtained herein are reasonably reliable.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.281-293
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• 2021

Uncertainties in geomechanical input parameters which mainly related to inappropriate data acquisition and estimation due to lack of sufficient calibration information, have led wellbore instability not yet to be fully understood or addressed. This paper demonstrates a workflow of employing Quantitative Risk Assessment technique, considering these uncertainties in terms of rock properties, pore pressure and in-situ stresses to makes it possible to survey not just the likelihood of accomplishing a desired level of wellbore stability at a specific mud pressure, but also the influence of the uncertainty in each input parameter on the wellbore stability. This probabilistic methodology in conjunction with Monte Carlo numerical modeling techniques was applied to a case study of a well. The response surfaces analysis provides a measure of the effects of uncertainties in each input parameter on the predicted mud pressure from three widely used failure criteria, thereby provides a key measurement for data acquisition in the future wells to reduce the uncertainty. The results pointed out that the mud pressure is tremendously sensitive to UCS and SHmax which emphasize the significance of reliable determinations of these two parameters for safe drilling. On the other hand, the predicted safe mud window from Mogi-Coulomb is the widest while the Hoek-Brown is the narrowest and comparing the anticipated collapse failures from the failure criteria and breakouts observations from caliper data, indicates that Hoek-Brown overestimate the minimum mud weight to avoid breakouts while Mogi-Coulomb criterion give better forecast according to real observations.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 1999년도 추계학술발표회
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• pp.73-76
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• 1999

Soil-bentonite mixtures are frequently used as impervious for waste disposal sites. In the present work, bentonite composite liner systems(BCL) have been developed by utilizing Korean zeolitic bentonites. The geomechanical properties of the liner systems, such as strength, hydraulic conductivity, etc. have been studied. The laboratory and field test results are also be presented.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.20-29
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• 2021

투과성이 낮은 셰일층에서의 다단계 수압파쇄 시, 파쇄단계 간의 서로 근접한 균열로 인해 지층 간 응력간섭이 발생하는 '응력그림자효과'가 나타날 수 있다. 이로 인해 균열의 전파 방향성이 변화하거나 비정형적인 형태의 균열이 발생하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 응력그림자효과의 영향에 따른 수압파쇄 균열형태와 생산성을 분석하고자 상용 수압파쇄 시뮬레이터 full-3D모델인 'GOHFER'를 사용하였다. 균질한 저류층 모델에서 응력그림자효과 고려 유무에 따른 분석을 수행하였다. 또한 지력학적 물성이 다른 두 셰일층에서 수압파쇄 모델링을 수행하여 영률과 포아송비에 따른 응력그림자효과를 분석하였다. 선행 파쇄단계의 균열로 인한 응력변화는 최대/최소 주응력을 역전시켜 T-방향보다는 생산성이 미비한 L-방향 균열이 주로 형성되었다. 또한 Marcellus 셰일의 경우 연성 특성을 갖는 Eagle Ford 셰일에 비해 높은 취성으로 인해 균열의 폭이 더 두껍게 형성되어 균열 체적이 더욱 크게 산출되었다. Marcellus 셰일지층의 영률이 Eagle Ford 셰일에 비해 크게 낮기 때문에 stage 2에서 응력그림자효과의 영향을 적게 받는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이처럼 응력그림자효과는 균열 간의 간격 뿐만 아니라 지력학적 물성에 따라서도 크게 달라진다. 그러므로 좀 더 정확한 균열 형태와 현실성 있는 생산성 예측하기 위해 응력그림자효과는 고려되어야 한다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 추계 학술발표회 2차
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• pp.45-52
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• 2010

Thermal properties of geomaterial are overlooked with other geomechanical properties. The transient line-source (TLS) method is one of the most used testing methods for measuring the thermal conductivity (K) and thermal diffusivity ($\alpha$) of materials. But more recently, Transient Plane-Source method was developed to measure these. It has several advantage of comparing with TSL method, but there has not been documented application in geomaterial. A Resistance Temperature Detector is used to construct sensor. For durability of Probe, Adopt a new technique that two probes are bonded in exact matching. For standard materials, such as glycerin, and ice the measured K and a values of these materials were generally within 2-5% from the standard values in the literature. This document present to evaluate the thermal properties of geomaterials and its application was tested for varying degree of saturation using the Transient Plane Source method. The result of this study suggests that it is an comparatively accurate method for simultaneously measuring thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity and can identify the feasibility to geomaterial.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.416-422
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• 2010

Estimating condition of geotechnical structures are difficult because of nonlinear time dependency and seasonal effects. Measuring data of structure failure is highly variable in time and space, and a unique approach cannot be defined to model structure movements. Characteristics of movements are obtained by using a statistical method called Principal Component Analysis(PCA). The PCA is a non-parametric method to separate unknown, statistically uncorrelated source processes from observed mixed processes. Instead, since the "best" mathematical relationship is estimated for given data sets of the input and output measured from target systems. As a consequence, this method is advantageous in modeling systems whose geomechanical properties are unknown or difficult to be measured.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.65-70
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• 2000

최근 폐기물 매립지에서 침출수의 누출방지를 위하여 벤토나이트를 함유하는 복합라이너시스템을 많이 활용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 국내에 부존하고 있는 제올라이트성 벤토나이트를 이용하여 복합라이너시스템을 개발하였으며, 본 시스템에 대한 강도, 부수율 등 지반공학적특성을 조사하였다. 라이너시스템의 강도 특성을 파악하기 위하여 실내제작 및 현장 코아에 대한 일축압축강도 시험을 수행한 결과 하부층 첨가제에 의한 일축압축강도가 현저히 개선됨을 확인하였다. 또한, 현장투수 실험결과 폐기물 매립지 차수층 설치기준인 $1{\times}10^{-3}cm/s$ 이하의 법적 투수계수기준을 만족하는 것으로 나타났다.