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Experimental study on the relaxation zone depending on the width and distance of the weak zone existing ahead of tunnel face (터널 굴진면 전방에 위치한 연약대 폭과 이격거리에 따른 이완영역에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Ham, Hyeon Su;Lee, Sang Duk
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.855-867
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    • 2018
  • When a weak zone exists ahead of tunnel face, the stress in the adjacent area would increase due to the longitudinal arching effect and the stability of the tunnel is affected. Therefore, it is critical to prepare a countermeasure through the investigation of the frontal weakness zone of the excavated face. Although there are several researches to predict the existence of weak zone ahead of tunnel face, such as geophysical exploration, numerical analysis and tunnel support, lack of studies on the relaxation zone depending on the width or distance from the vulnerable area. In this study, the impact of the weak zone on the formation of the relaxation zone was investigated. For this purpose, a series of laboratory test were carried out varying the width of the weak zone and the separation distance between tunnel face and weak zone. In the model test, sand with a water content of 3.8% was used to form a model ground. The model weak zone was constructed with dry sand curtains. The tunnel face was adjusted to allow a sequential excavation of upper and lower half part. load cells were installed on the bottom of the foundation and the tunnel face and measuring instruments for displacement were installed on the surface of the model ground to measure the vertical stress and surface displacements due to tunnel excavation respectively. The test results show that the width of weak zone did not affect the ground settlement while the ground subsidence drastically increased within 0.25D. The vertical stress and horizontal stress increased from 0.5D or less. In addition, the longitudinal arching effect is likely within the 1.0D zone ahead of the tunnel face, which may reduce the vertical stress in the ground following tunneling direction.

Pullout Capacity of Ground Anchors in Weathered Soil (풍화토 지반에 설치된 앵커의 인발 특성)

  • 김낙경
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.231-239
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    • 2001
  • 건설 현장에서 널리 사용되고 있는 그라운드 앵커의 거동 특성을 연구하기 위하여 계측기를 부착한 일곱 개의 그라운드 앵커를 국내에 널리 분포되어 있는 화강 풍화토 지반인 $\bigcirc$$\bigcirc$$\bigcirc$대학교 지반 시험장에 설치하여 인발 시험을 수행하였다. 저압 그라우트 인장형 앵커 3개와 압축형 앵커 4개를 시험하였고, 시험은 AASHTO 규정에 의거한 인발시험, 크리프시험, 장기거동시험을 수행하였다. 시험 결과로부터 화강 풍화토 지반에 설치된 저압그라우트 직선형 앵커의 지반과의 마찰계수, 크리프 변형율, 하중감소 특성을 평가하였다.

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Stress Release Zone Around Sub-structure Constructed by Non-open Cut Methods (비개착공법으로 건설된 지하구조물 주변 지반 응력이완영역 규명)

  • Seo, Ho-Sung;Cho, Kook-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.480-488
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    • 2016
  • For the development of areas around railway lines, subsurface construction using the non-open cut method under the railway has recently been increased. However, when a structure under a railway is constructed, the stress release of the ground is not considered an important factor in the design. In this study, laboratory tests were conducted to determine a zone of stress relaxation. Field tests using an inclinometer were performed to measure the horizontal displacement of the ground during non-open cut construction. The stress release zone and the subgrade stiffness were investigated by numerical analysis. The results of the laboratory tests indicated that the failure zone in the ground was similar to a Rankine's active earth pressure zone. The measured data from the inclinometer in the field tests showed that displacements started when a steel pipe was pushed into the ground. The results of numerical analysis show that lateral earth pressure was also close to Rankine's active earth pressure. The roadbed support stiffness of the soil around the structure decreased to 40% of the original value. The ground around the subsurface structure constructed using nonopen cut methods should be reinforced to maintain the running stability of train.

Behavior Characteristics of Precast Concrete-Panel Retaining Wall Adhered to In-situ Ground through Large Scaled Load Test (대형재하시험을 통한 원지반 부착식 패널옹벽의 거동특성)

  • Shin, Yuncheol;Min, Kyongnam;Kim, Jinhee;Ahn, Taebong
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.17 no.11
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    • pp.45-53
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    • 2016
  • A precast panel wall system resists against the horizontal earth pressure by increasing the shear strength of ground by reinforcement connected to the panel. The application of precast panel wall system is growing to lately minimize the earth work and environmental damage caused by large cut slope and to use the limited land effectively. The ground adhered panel wall system is the construction method that has the panel engraved with natural rock shape to improve the landscape. This system is developed to complete Top-Down method, and it is possible to have vertical cut, and to adhere to in-situ ground, improve construction ability by minimizing the ground relaxation and exclusion the trench and backfill process. In this study the field tests were performed to verify the construction ability about the vertical cut and complete Top-Down process and the construction behavior of ground adhered panel wall system was analyzed by large scale loading test and measurement results during loading test.

The stability analysis on large sectional tunnel station considering construction steps (시공단계를 고려한 대단면 정거장 터널 안정성 해석)

  • Kang, Eun-Gu;Kim, Yang-Woon;Ahn, Kyeong-Cheol;Han, Myeong-Sik
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.1062-1068
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    • 2009
  • Urban construction has numerous difficulties due to ground weakness and various complaints from third party, so it is not economically efficient and constructability is not favorable. Therefore, underground, which has good ground conditions, was used for construction field and facilities such as stations, and they are scaled up to enhance accommodation of facility limitation and function of stations. Large section tunnel station construction has numerous risk factors such as work boundary of excavation equipment, a relaxation of stress concentration, a safety plan of tunnel stability, and so on. Therefore, by using large section tunnel station stability analysis considering construction step, we expect to analyze the latent problem during construction, and to stabilize a future project plan of a large section structure design by using an auxiliary method and a support design.

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Reinforcement Bulb Body Pull-out Resistance Force Behavior Characteristics according to Ground Conditions (지반조건에 따른 보강구근체 인발저항력 거동 특성)

  • An, JunYoung;Shim, JeongHoon;Jeong, JiSu;Lee, SeungHo
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2017
  • In this study, we tried to confirm the influence range in the ground due to Bulbed, Reinforcement change and ground conditions change through numerical analysis. By checking the increase width of the reinforcement effect accompanying the increase of Bulbed, grasping the trend accompanying the change of the ground conditions and deciding soil nail Reinforcement and Bulbed, so that economical construction will be carried out It can be judged that it can be utilized as basic material. In this paper, we analyzed the Displacement due to positional load of reinforcement by utilizing MIDAS GTS NX which is a universal numerical analysis program. In addition, it is necessary to ensure the diameter star economy of Bulbed size and Reinforcement by comparing / analyzing whether the Bulbed relaxation region of Reinforcement represents arbitrary characteristics in the ground in Sandy soil, Weathered granite soil ground due to soil nail pullout load Numerical analysis was conducted to select criteria that can be done.

Reinforcing Effect of Pre-Tensioned Rock Bolts in the Jointed Rocks Condition (록볼트 긴장에 의한 수평절리암반의 보강효과)

  • An, Joung-Hwan;Lee, Sang-Duk
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.388-396
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    • 2009
  • Rock bolt is one of the most important supports for tunnelling to prevent excessive ground relaxation at the primary tunnel excavation stage. It forms a ground arch band by confining the ground around a tunnel. Rock bolt has various effects, such as support or hanging effect, internal pressure effect, arching effect, ground improvement effect etc. Most studies on rock bolt focused on the concept of support, but only a few researches on the ground reinforcing effect by pre-tensioning a rock bolts. In this study, large scale model tests are performed to investigate the ground reinforcing effect of rock bolts for regularly jointed rocks. Simple beam model was built to find out the reinforcing effect of jointed rocks, which was reinforced by pre-tensioned rock bolts. Settlement of model beam was analyzed through measuring its sagging for various installation intervals.

Passive suppression of helicopter ground resonance instability by means of a strongly nonlinear absorber

  • Bergeot, Baptiste;Bellizzi, Sergio;Cochelin, Bruno
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.271-298
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we study a problem of passive suppression of helicopter Ground Resonance (GR) using a single degree freedom Nonlinear Energy Sink (NES), GR is a dynamic instability involving the coupling of the blades motion in the rotational plane (i.e. the lag motion) and the helicopter fuselage motion. A reduced linear system reproducing GR instability is used. It is obtained using successively Coleman transformation and binormal transformation. The analysis of the steadystate responses of this model is performed when a NES is attached on the helicopter fuselage. The NES involves an essential cubic restoring force and a linear damping force. The analysis is achieved applying complexification-averaging method. The resulting slow-flow model is finally analyzed using multiple scale approach. Four steady-state responses corresponding to complete suppression, partial suppression through strongly modulated response, partial suppression through periodic response and no suppression of the GR are highlighted. An algorithm based on simple criterions is developed to predict these steady-state response regimes. Numerical simulations of the complete system confirm this analysis of the slow-flow dynamics. A parametric analysis of the influence of the NES damping coefficient and the rotor speed on the response regime is finally proposed.

Energy Transfer Fluorescence Quenching of $Pr^{3+}$ in LaOCI

  • Kim, Taesam;Ha, Younggu
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.125-129
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    • 1995
  • The energy transfer is observed in double-activator-doped LaOCl:Pr, Tb and LaOCl:Pr, Eu system. From laser excitation and fluorescence spectra, a peculiar process for energy transfer between the activators is found. The energy absorbed by $Tb^{3+}$ is directly transferred to $Pr^{3+}$ ion. A cascade relaxation of an excited $Pr^{3+}$ level to lower level, $^1D_2$ is induced by $Eu^{3+}$, $Tb^{3+}$, which has $^7F_J$ ground levels like $Eu^{3+}$ ion, does not affect the cascade relaxation. The result represents that the quantum state of ion is not absolute condition for the energy transfer and that the energy transfer is competitive between levels of activator when the activator ions are closely located.

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Numerical Calculation for Impedance of Horizontal Ground Electrode for Information and Communication Facilities with Considering Characteristics of Permittivity in Soil (토양의 유전율 특성을 고려한 정보통신설비용 수평접지전극의 임피던스 계산)

  • Ahn, Chang-Hwan
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.50 no.10
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    • pp.245-251
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    • 2013
  • An impedance of ground electrode for information and communication facilities has a significant relationship with the electrical characteristics of soil where the ground electrode is buried. Especially, the impedance of ground electrode is directly affected by the characteristics of permittivity and conductivity in soil as a function of a frequency of an applied electric field. The program based on the electromagnetic field model was developed in MATLAB. Because both permittivity and conductivity can not be modified in commercial programs. The permittivity of soil was applied with the Debye equation which is a model of dielectric relaxation. And the empirical equation of the conductivity in soil was quoted in other paper. In order to confirm the reliability of proposed program, the impedance measurement of ground electrode was carried out, which were compared with the results of simulation in commercial program. In result, it was confirmed that the impedance and phase different simulated by appling the characteristics of permittivity and conductivity in soil are in good agreement with the measured values than results of NEC.