• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.112-121
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• 2005

The effectiveness of quicklime-based stabilization/solidification (S/S) in immobilizing lead (Pb) was assessed by performing semi-dynamic leaching tests (ANS16.1). In order to simulate landfill leaching conditions, the ANS 16.1 test was modified by using 0.014 N acetic acid (pH = 3.25) instead of distilled water. Artificial soil samples as well as field soil samples contaminated with Pb were tested. The effectiveness of quicklime treatment was evaluated by determining diffusion coefficients ($D_e$) and leachability indices (LX). A model developed by de Groot and van der Sloat was used to elucidate the controlling Pb leaching mechanisms. Overall, upon quicklime treatment Pb leachability was significantly reduced in a]l of the samples tested. The mean LX values were higher than 9 for an artificial soil sample containing 30% kaolinite treated with 10% quicklime and for a field soil sample treated with 10% quicklime, which suggests that S/S treated soils can be considered acceptable for "controlled utilization". Moreover, quicklime treatment was more effective in artificially contaminated soil with high kaolinite content (30%), indicating the amount of clay plays an important role in the success of the treatment. The controlling Pb leaching mechanism was found to be diffusion, in all quicklime treated samples.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.59-76
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• 2016

Penetration problems in geomechanics are common. Usually the soil is heavily disturbed around the penetrating bodies and large deformations and distortions can occur. The simulation of the installation of displacement piles is a good example of the interest of these types of problems for geomechanics. In this paper the Material Point Method is used to overcome the difficulties associated with the simulations of problems involving large deformation and full displacement type penetration. Recent modifications of the Material Point Method known as Generalized Interpolation Material Point and the Convected Particle Domain Interpolation are also used and evaluated in some of the examples. Herein a footing submitted to large settlements is presented and simulated, together with the processes associated to a driven pile under undrained conditions. The displacements of the soil surrounding the pile are compared with those obtained by the Small Strain Path Method. In addition, the Modified Cam Clay model is implemented in a code of MPM and used to simulate the process of driving a pile in dry sand. Good and rather encouraging agreement is found between compared data.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.303-315
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• 2021

A rigorous and generic similarity solution is developed for assessment of the undrained expansion responses of a cylindrical cavity expansion in K₀-consolidated anisotropic soils. A K₀-consolidated anisotropic modified Cam-clay (K₀-AMCC) model that can represent the initial stress anisotropy and the effects of stress-induced anisotropy is used to model the soil behaviors during cavity expansion. All the seven basic unknowns, the three stress components, the pore water pressure, the particle velocity, the specific volume and the hardening parameter, are reduced to the functions of a dimensionless radial coordinate and are taken as coupled variables to formulate the problem. The governing equations are formulated by making use of the equilibrium equation, the constitutive equation, the consistency condition, the continuity condition and the undrained condition, which are then solved as an initial value problem. The proposed rigorous similarity solution is compared with some well-documented rigorous solutions to validate the solution and to highlight the special expansion responses in anisotropic soils. The results reveal that the present solution can yield more predictions for cavity expansion problems in soils with initial anisotropic stresses.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.493-503
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• 2022

Cavity expansion is a classical problem in the field of solid mechanics with a wide range of applications in geotechnical and petroleum engineering. A drained solution is developed for cylindrical cavity expansion in anisotropic soils under biaxial in-situ stresses using a K0-based anisotropic modified Cam-clay model (K0-AMCC). The problem is formulated by solving differential equations using an auxiliary variable, which provides analytical expressions for the volume and four stress components of the soil around the cylindrical cavity. The solution is validated by comparisons with existing well-developed solutions. The results show that the present solution well captures the cavity expansion responses in anisotropic soils under biaxial in-situ stresses, and removes limiting assumptions that the cylindrical cavity expands under uniform in-situ stress in isotropic soils. The elastic-plastic boundary of the expanding cylindrical cavity in K0-consolidated anisotropic soils under biaxial in-situ stresses is a circle rather than an ellipse in isotropic soils, and the mathematical proof is provided in detail.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.601-613
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• 2023

Low liquid limit silt, widely distributed in the middle and down reaches of Yellow River, has the disadvantages of poor grading, less clay content and poor colloidal activity. It is very easy to cause vehicle jumping at the bridge-embankment transition section when the low liquid limit silt used as the backfill at the abutment back. In this paper, a series of laboratory tests were carried out to study the physical and mechanical properties of the low liquid limit silt used as back filling. Ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) was excited by active MgO and hydrated lime to solidify silt as abutment backfill. The optimum ratio of firming agent and the compaction and mechanical properties of reinforced soil were revealed through compaction test and unconfined compressive strength (UCS) test. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) test was used to study the pore characteristics and hydration products of reinforced soil. 6% hydrated lime and alkali activated slag were used to solidify silt and fill the model of subgrade respectively. The pavement settlement regulation and soil internal stress-strain regulation of subgrade with different materials under uniformly distributed load were studied by model experiment. The effect of alkali activated slag curing agent on curing silt was verified. The research results can provide technical support for highway construction in silt area of the Yellow River alluvial plain.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.181-192
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• 2014

In Korea, the chemical oxygen demand($COD_{sed}$) in freshwater sediments has been measured by the potassium permanganate method used for marine sediment because of the absence of authorized analytical method. However, this method has not been fully verified for the freshwater sediment. Therefore, the use or modification of the potassium permanganate method or the development of the new $COD_{sed}$ analytical method may be necessary. In this study, two modified $COD_{sed}$ analytical methods such as the modified potassium permanganate method for $COD_{Mn}$ and the modified closed reflux method using potassium dichromate for $COD_{Cr}$ were compared. In the preliminary experiment to estimate the capability of the two oxidants for glucose oxidation, $COD_{Mn}$ and $COD_{Cr}$ were about 70% and 100% of theoretical oxygen demand(ThOD), respectively, indicating that $COD_{Cr}$ was very close to the ThOD. The effective titration ranges in $COD_{Mn}$ and $COD_{Cr}$ were 3.2 to 7.5 mL and 1.0 to 5.0 mL for glucose, 4.3 to 7.5 mL and 1.4 to 4.3 mL for lake sediment, and 2.5 to 5.8 mL and 3.6 to 4.5 mL for river sediment, respectively, within 10% errors. For estimating $COD_{sed}$ recovery(%) in glucose-spiked sediment after aging for 1 day, the mass balances of the $COD_{Mn}$ and $COD_{Cr}$ among glucose, sediments and glucose-spiked sediments were compared. The recoveries of $COD_{Mn}$ and $COD_{Cr}$ were 78% and 78% in glucose-spiked river sediments, 91% and 86% in glucose-spiked lake sediments, 97% and 104% in glucose-spiked sand, and 134% and 107% in glucose-spiked clay, respectively. In conclusion, both methods have high confidence levels in terms of analytical methodology but show significant different $COD_{sed}$ concentrations due to difference in the oxidation powers of the oxidants.

• 청정기술
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.24-32
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• 2021

미연 탄소(unburned carbon, UC)는 대두유를 포수제로 사용하여 부유선별공정을 통해 최대 85.8 wt%까지 비산재로부터 성공적으로 회수되었다. CM (ceramic microsphere)은 부유선별공정 다음 공정인 하이드로 사이클론 분리공정으로부터 18 wt%의 수율을 얻을 수 있었고 회수한 UC와 CM을 각각 고무증량재와 플라스틱(polypropylene) 충진재의 대체재로 사용하여 산업재로 활용 가능성을 조사하였다. 입자가 큰 UC는 볼밀을 사용하여 평균입경 10.2 ㎛로 작게 분쇄하였다. 분쇄된 UC를 점토 대신에 고무증량재로 사용하였을 때 인장강도와 신율이 다소 낮게 나와 고무제품의 표준조건을 만족시키지는 못하였다. 따라서 표준조건을 충족시키기 위해 UC는 고무와 보다 긴밀한 결합이 필요하였고, 이를 위한 표면 에너지를 향상시키는 추가적인 처리가 필요하였다. CM은 평균입경이 5 ㎛의 구형입자로 관찰되었으며, 입자의 표면을 페놀수지, 폴리올, 스테아린산, 올레인산으로 개질하였다. 표면 개질된 CM은 PP (polypropylene) 충진재로 사용되었다. 표면 개질된 CM을 사용한 제품은 흐름성은 양호하였으나 결합력 부족으로 충격강도 및 굴곡강도는 향상되지 못하였다. 그러나 표면 개질된 CM에 유기물과 무기물의 대표적 컬플링제인 실란 1 wt%을 추가적으로 혼합함으로써 충격강도 및 굴곡강도가 크게 향상되는 효과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.1666-1672
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• 2003

The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential of an alumninosilicate clay, marketed under the trade name Biotite V, to improve growing-finishing pig performance and to determine its effects on nutrient digestibility and excretion. Sixty crossbred pigs (22.3${\pm}2.7kg$, Camborough 15 Line female${\times}$Canabred sire) were assigned on the basis of sex, weight and litter to one of four dietary treatments in a $2{\times}4$ (two sexes and four treatments) factorial design experiment. The experimental diets were based on barley and soybean meal and contained 0, 0.25, 0.5 or 0.75% biotite during the growing period (22.3-60.5 kg) and 0, 0.5, 1.0 or 1.5% biotite during the finishing period (60.5-110.3 kg). Each pig was allowed access to its own individual feeder for 30 min twice daily (07:00 and 15:00 h). Individual pig body weight, feed consumption and feed conversion were recorded weekly. The pigs were slaughtered at a commercial abattoir when they reached an average weight of 110.3 kg. Carcass weight was recorded and dressing percentage calculated. Carcass fat and lean measurements were obtained with a Destron PG 100 probe between the 3rd and 4th last ribs, 70 mm of the midline. Total tract digestibility coefficients for dry matter, energy, nitrogen and phosphorus were determined using three males and three females per treatment starting at an average weight of $52.2{\pm}3.8kg$. These pigs were housed under identical conditions as those used in the growing stage and were fed the same diets modified only by the addition of 0.5% chromic oxide as a digestibility marker. Over the entire experimental period (22.3-110.3 kg), daily gain was unaffected (p>0.05) by the inclusion of biotite in the diet. There was a cubic response for feed intake (p=0.06) and a quadratic response (p=0.07) for feed conversion due to biotite. Feeding biotite produced no significant (p>0.05) linear or quadratic effects on any of the carcass traits measured. Dry matter digestibility decreased linearly (p=0.02) with increasing levels of biotite in the diet. However, digestibility coefficients for energy, nitrogen and phosphorus were unaffected (p<0.05) by biotite inclusion. Lactobacilli and enterobacteria numbers were unaffected by inclusion of biotite while Salmonella was not detected in any of the fecal samples. The overall results of this experiment indicate that biotite inclusion did not reduce fecal excretion of nitrogen or phosphorus and failed to improve nutrient digestibility. Neither growth rate nor carcass quality was improved while a modest improvement in feed conversion was observed at lower levels of inclusion. Based on the results of this experiment, it would be difficult to justify the routine inclusion of biotite in diets fed to grower-finisher pigs. Whether or not a greater response would have been obtained with pigs of a lower health status is unknown.

• 폴리머
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.458-463
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• 2003

표면처리된 몬모릴로나이트 (montmorillonite, MMT)가 PP 나노복합재료의 열안정성에 미 치는 영향을 조사하였다. $Na^{+}$-MMT는 dodecylammonium chloride를 이용하여 유기적으포 개질하였다. 비표면적 ( $S_{BET}$), 평형확산압력 ($\pi$$_{e}$ ), 그리고 비극성 요소 (${\gamma}$ $s^{L}$)를 포함하는 표면 특성은 $N_2$ 흡착을 이용하는 BET 방법을 이용하여 고찰하였다. 또한, 나노복합재료의 열안정성은 시차주사열량계 (DSC)와 열중량 분석기 (TGA)를 통해 알아보았다. 실험 결과, 오존처리된 dodecylammonium chloride (DA-MK ( $O_3$))의 $\pi$$_{e}$ 과 ${\gamma}$ $s^{L}$는 1.7과 3.5 mJ/ $m^2$로 증가하였는데, 이는 미세기공이 증가하기 때문으로 판단된다. DSC 결과로부터, PP/DA-MK와 PP/DA-MK ( $O_3$)의 용융 온도와 결정화 온도는 순수한 PP보다 더 높았는데, 이러한 결과는 나노크기의 DA-MK가 PP 결정화를 위한 핵생성 효과를 유도하기 때문으로 판단된다. 또한, PP/DA-MK ( $O_3$) 나노복합재료의 열안정성은 64 kJ/mol 향상되었는데, 이는 PP 매트릭스 내 DA-MK ( $O_3$)의 분산성 향상에 기인하는 것으로 판단된다.단된다.다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.203-209
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• 2007

비지로부터 분리한 Bacillus subtills PUL-A 균주를 이용한 비지발효물로부터의 biopolymer flocculant 생산은 glutamate 함량이 5% 첨가한 후 $42^{\circ}C$에서 24시간동안 발효하는 경우에 PGA 생산량은 52.2g/kg으로 최대를 나타내었다. 부분 정제된 biopolymer flocculant의 PGA의 함량은 87%이었으며, 분자량은 $1.3{\times}10^6$ dalton 이상을 나타내었다. PGA의 pH 변화에 따른 점조도는 pH 6을 기준으로 산성 쪽으로 갈수록 급격하게 감소하였으나, 분자량의 변화는 거의 나타나지 않았다. Bioflocculant의 유동특성은 농도가 증가할수록 전단속도가 증가되어 전형적인 의가소성 흐름특성을 나타내었으며, 항복력도 증가하였다. Bioflocculant 용액의 점조도 값은 pH가 높을수록 열에 상당히 안정하였으나 열처리온도 및 시간이 증가할수록 pH에 따라 급격하게 감소하였다. Kaolin clay suspension을 이용한 응집활성에서 bioflocculant의 농도가 15 mg/L 일 때 최대 응집활성을 나타내었으며, 응집활성은 $Ca^{2+}$을 첨가할 때 가장 높게 증가하였으며 최적 농도는 4.5mM로 나타났다. 그러나 3가 양이 온인 $Fe^{3+}$을 첨가할 경우는 응집활성이 급격하게 감소하였다. 응집활성은 pH 5에서 가장 높게 나타났으며, $60{\sim}100^{\circ}C$에서 열처리함에 따라 응집활성은 급격하게 감소하였다. 또한 저분자량의 PGA보다는 native 고분자량의 PGA가 응집활성에 매우 효과적인 것으로 나타났다.