• 지질공학
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.545-554
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• 2007

자연사면 산사태는 주요 유발인자인 강우나 지진 이외에 토질특성, 지형 및 지질요소 등 다양한 인자의 영향으로 발생될 수 있다. 본 연구지역의 경우 파괴의 시점에 인공구조물이 시공되어 있어 이들과 사면붕괴와의 관련성을 밝히는 것은 매우 의미가 있다. 이를 위해 원지반의 물성을 추정하여 자연사면 자체의 붕괴에 대한 취약성을 파악하고 구조물에 의해 변화된 지반에 대한 불안정성을 비교하여 붕괴원인을 살펴보았다. 현장조사와 실내시험으로 원지반과 성토지반의 물성을 구하였고, 지구물리탐사를 통해 추정된 파괴면의 심도를 이용하여 지하수위 변화에 따른 2차원과 3차원 한계평형해석을 각각 수행하였다. 해석결과는 지반의 토질특성과 강도정수에 상관없이 비슷한 안전율을 보였고, 지하수위는 만수위시 불안정해지는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.5654-5663
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• 2015

부(-)의 간극수압으로서 불포화토 내에 작용하는 석션은 입자간 응력을 증가시키며, 이에 따라 토립자 골격의 항복응력 및 소성전단강성을 증대시키는 등, 불포화토의 역학적 특성에 지대한 영향을 미친다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 이러한 석션의 효과를 지진 등의 동적 하중조건에서 고려하기 위하여 불포화토에 대해 확장된 반복탄소성구성식에 근거한 응력-변형율 관계를 제 1 항복함수 및 제 2 항복함수를 고려하여 유도하였다. 본 관계를 2차원 및 3차원 수치해석에서 액상화 이후의 압밀거동 예측 등에 적용하는 경우에는 평균골격응력(Mean skeleton stress)의 변화를 반영하는 제 2 항복함수의 도입이 필요하나, 요소시뮬레이션에서는 제 1 항복함수만으로도 수치해석을 위한 각 물성치 및 석션 파라미터 결정이 가능할 것으로 사료된다. 본 관계와 응력반전을 반영한 반복재하 루틴을 함께 코딩(Coding)할 경우 불포화조건 하에서의 반복삼축압축시험에 대한 수치해석적 모사가 가능할 것으로 보이며, 본 연구결과는 동적 하중이 작용하는 불포화토 거동 예측의 정확도 제고에 기여할 것으로 전망된다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2005

액상화에 따른 지반의 과도한 변형으로 인한 피해가 자주 발생되고 있다. 그에 따른 지반의 움직임을 예측하기 위해서는 유효응력 개념에 기초한 수치해석 기법이 요구되어 진다. 본 연구에서는 지진 및 유사한 반복 하중에 따른 수압의 상승을 예측할 수 있는 연성(fully coupled) 유효응력 구성모델인 UBCSAND를 제안하였다. 제안된 모델은 간단한 완전탄소성모델인 Mohr-Coulomb을 변형한 형태로 마찰각(friction angle)과 팽창각(dilation angle)을 점진적으로 증가시킴으로써, 기존의 파괴상태내에서도 연속적인 소성변형 발생을 표현할 수 있다. 항복함수는 전단응력과 평균응력의 비인 $(\sigma'_1-\sigma'_3)/(\sigma'_1-\sigma'_3)$로 나타내며, 응력도의 원점에서 시작하는 무한개의 방사선을 의미한다. 따라서, Mohr-Coulomb의 파괴면과 같은 형태의 무수한 항복면을 가진다. 소성 경화법칙은 등방경화(isotropic hardening)와 이동경화(kinematic hardening)를 혼합한 형태를 이루고 있다. 재하(loading) 및 재재하(reloading)시에는 연속적인 소성 변형이 일어나나, 제하(unloading)시에는 탄성변형을 가정하였다. 제안된 모델은 느슨한 Fraser River 모래를 이용한 직접단순전단시험(Direct simple shear test)결과와 비교하여 검증하였다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.41-47
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• 2007

최근 지진에 의한 액상화 피해를 입은 지역에서의 조사결과에 의하면 모래지반 뿐만 아니라 세립분을 함유한 흙 또는 비소성실트 지반에서도 액상화 피해사례가 보고되고 있으나, 지금까지 액상화는 느슨한 포화 모래지반에서 발생하는 것으로만 알려져 비소성실트의 액상화특성에 대하여 거의 알려져 있지 않다. 특히, 액상화강도는 전단탄성파속도와 밀접한 관계가 있어 현장에서는 PS검층 등을 이용하여 원위치에서 흙의 강성을 조사하며, 실내 실험에서는 정확한 흙의 강성을 조사하기 위하여 벤더엘레먼트를 이용한다. 본 연구에서는 단순전단시험기에 벤더엘레먼트를 장착하여 비소성실트의 강성을 조사하였으며 단순전단시험 결과와 비교하였다. 그 결과 벤더엘레먼트에 의한 비소성실트의 강성은 단순전단시험결과보다 약간 크게 나타나지만 그 차이는 적으며, 점토의 강성보다 작은 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.265-277
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• 2019

Framed masonry wall structures represent a typical high-rise structural system that are also seismically vulnerable. During ground motions, they are excited in both in-plane and out-of-plane terms. The interaction between the frame and the infill during ground motion is a highly investigated phenomenon in the field of seismic engineering. This paper presents a numerical investigation of two distinct static out-of-plane loading methods for framed masonry wall models. The first and most common method is uniformly loaded infill. The load is generally induced by the airbag. The other method is similar to in-plane push-over method, involves loading of the frame directly, not the infill. Consequently, different openings with the same areas and various placements were examined. The numerical model is based on calibrated in-plane bare frame models and on calibrated wall models subjected to OoP bending. Both methods produced widely divergent results in terms of load bearing capabilities, failure modes, damage states etc. Summarily, uniform load on the panel causes more damage to the infill than to the frame; openings do influence structures behavior; three hinged arching action is developed; and greater resistance and deformations are obtained in comparison to the frame loading method. Loading the frame causes the infill to bear significantly greater damage than the infill; infill and openings only influence the behavior after reaching the peak load; infill does not influence initial stiffness; models with opening fail at same inter-storey drift ratio as the bare frame model.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2019

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations are powerful tools to monitor surface's displacement very accurately, induced by earthquake, volcano, ground subsidence, glacier movement, etc. Especially, radar interferometry (InSAR) which utilizes phase information related to distance from sensor to target, can generate displacement map in line-of-sight direction with accuracy of a few cm or mm. Due to decorrelation effect, however, degradation of coherence in the InSAR application often prohibit from construction of differential interferogram. Offset tracking method is an alternative approach to make a two-dimensional displacement map using intensity information instead of the phase. However, there is limitation in that the offset tracking requires very intensive computation power and time. In this paper, efficiency of parallel computing has been investigated using high performance computer for estimation of glacier velocity. Two TanDEM-X SAR observations which were acquired on September 15, 2013 and September 26, 2013 over the Narsap Sermia in Southwestern Greenland were collected. Atotal of 56 of 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon processors(28 physical processors with hyperthreading) by operating with linux environment were utilized. The Gamma software was used for application of offset tracking by adjustment of the number of processors for the OpenMP parallel computing. The processing times of the offset tracking at the 256 by 256 pixels of window patch size at single and 56 cores are; 26,344 sec and 2,055 sec, respectively. It is impressive that the processing time could be reduced significantly about thirteen times (12.81) at the 56 cores usage. However, the parallel computing using all the processors prevent other background operations or functions. Except the offset tracking processing, optimum number of processors need to be evaluated for computing efficiency.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제83권2호
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• pp.153-166
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• 2022

Structural pounding due to strong seismic excitations can result in severe damage or even collapse of colliding structures. Many researchers focused on studying the mutual pounding between two adjacent structures while very few researches were concerned with the pounding of a series of structures. This paper aims to study the pounding effect on a series of four buildings having different natural frequencies. The paper also investigates the effect of different arrangements of the four buildings on their pounding response. For this, a mathematical model was constructed using Matlab code where, pounding was modeled using a contact force-based approach. A Non-Linear viscoelastic (Hertzdamp) contact element was used and activated only during the approach period of collision. The mathematical model was validated by comparing its prediction versus experimental results on three adjacent buildings. Then the model was used to study the pounding between four adjacent structures arranged in different sequences according to their natural frequencies. The results revealed that increasing the gap distance generally led to decrease the peak responses of the towers. Such response is somehow different from that predicted earlier by the authors for the case of three adjacent buildings. Moreover, the arrangement of towers has a significant effect on their pounding response. Significant difference between the natural frequencies of adjacent structures increases the pounding forces especially when the more flexible buildings are located at the outer edge of the series. The study points out the need for further researches on buildings in series to gain a better understanding of such complex phenomena.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.625-635
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• 2022

High-rise buildings (HRBs) are considered one of the most common structures nowadays due to the population growth, especially in crowded towns. The lack of land in crowded cities has led to the convergence of the HRBs and the absence of any gaps between them, especially in lands with weak soil (e.g., liquefaction-prone soil), but then during earthquakes, these structures may be exposed to the risk of collision between them due to the large increase in the horizontal displacements, which may be destructive in some cases to the one or both of these adjacent buildings. To evaluate methods of reducing the risk of collision between adjacent twin HRBs, this research investigates three vibration control methods to reduce the risk of collision due to five different earthquakes for the case of two adjacent reinforced concrete (RC) twin high-rise buildings of 15 floors height without gap distance between them, founded on raft foundation supported on piles inside a liquefaction-prone soil. Contact pounding elements between the two buildings (distributed at all floor levels and at the raft foundation level) are used to make the impact strength between the two buildings realistic. The mitigation methods investigated are the base isolation, the tuned mass damper (TMD) method (using traditional TMDs), and the pounding tuned mass damper (PTMD) method (using PTMDs connected between the two buildings). The results show that the PTMD method between the two adjacent RC twin high-rise buildings is more efficient than the other two methods in mitigating the earthquake-induced pounding risk.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.133-143
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• 2022

The catastrophic earthquake-induced failure of slopes concentrically distributed at near-fault area, which indicated the special features of near-fault ground motions, i.e. horizontal pulse-like motion and large vertical component, should have great effect on these geo-disasters. We performed shaking table tests to investigate the effect of both horizontal pulse-like motion and vertical component on dynamic response of slope. Both unidirectional (i.e., horizontal or vertical motions) and bidirectional (i.e., horizontal and vertical components) motions are applied to soft rock slope model, and acceleration at different locations is reordered. The results show that the horizontal acceleration amplification factor (AAF) increases with height. Moreover, the horizontal AAF under unidirectional horizontal pulse-like excitations is larger than that subject to ordinary motion. The vertical AAF does not show an elevation amplification effect. The seismic response of slope under different bidirectional excitations is also different: (1) The horizontal AAF is roughly constant under horizontal pulse-like excitations with and without vertical waves, but (2) the horizontal AAF under ordinary bidirectional ground motions is larger than that under unidirectional ordinary motion. Above phenomena indicate that vertical component has limited effect on seismic response when the horizontal component is pulse-like ground motion, but it can greatly enhance seismic response of slope under ordinary horizontal motion. Moreover, the vertical AAF is enhanced by horizontal motion in both horizontal pulse-like and ordinary motion. Thence, we should pay enough attention to vertical ground motion, especially its horizontal component is ordinary ground motion.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.439-452
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• 2022

A forecast of slope behavior during catastrophic events, such as earthquakes is crucial to recognize the risk of slope failure. This paper endeavors to eliminate the significant supposition of predefined slip surfaces in the slope stability analysis, which questions the relevance of simple conventional methods under seismic conditions. To overcome such limitations, a methodology dependent on the slip line hypothesis, which permits an automatic generation of slip surfaces, is embraced to trace the extreme slope face under static and seismic conditions. The effect of earthquakes is considered using the pseudo-static approach. The current outcomes developed from a parametric study endorse a non-linear slope surface as the extreme profile, which is in accordance with the geomorphological aspect of slopes. The proposed methodology is compared with the finite element limit analysis to ensure credibility. Through the design charts obtained from the current investigation, the stability of slopes can be assessed under seismic conditions. It can be observed that the extreme slope profile demands a flat configuration to endure the condition of the limiting equilibrium at a higher level of seismicity. However, a concurrent enhancement in the shear strength of the slope medium suppresses this tendency by offering greater resistance to the seismic inertial forces induced in the medium. Unlike the traditional linear slopes, the extreme slope profiles mostly exhibit a steeper layout over a significant part of the slope height, thus ensuring a more optimized solution to the slope stability problem. Further, the susceptibility of the Longnan slope failure in the Huining-Wudu seismic belt is predicted using the current plasticity approach, which is found to be in close agreement with a case study reported in the literature. Finally, the concept of equivalent single or multi-tiered planar slopes is explored through an example problem, which exhibits the appropriateness of the proposed non-linear slope geometry under actual field conditions.