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A Quality-control Experiment Involving an Optical Televiewer Using a Fractured Borehole Model (균열모형시추공을 이용한 광학영상화검층 품질관리 시험)

  • Jeong, Seungho;Shin, Jehyun;Hwang, Seho;Kim, Ji-Soo
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.17-30
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    • 2020
  • An optical televiewer is a geophysical logging device that produces continuous high-resolution full-azimuth images of a borehole wall using a light-emitting-diode and a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor image sensor to provide valuable information on subsurface discontinuities. Recently, borehole imaging logging has been applied in many fields, including ground subsidence monitoring, rock mass integrity evaluation, stress-induced fracture detection, and glacial annual-layer measurements in polar regions. Widely used commercial borehole imaging logging systems typically have limitations depending on equipment specifications, meaning that it is necessary to clearly verify the scope of applications while maintaining appropriate quality control for various borehole conditions. However, it is difficult to directly check the accuracy, implementation, and reliability for outcomes, as images derived from an optical televiewer constitute in situ data. In this study, we designed and constructed a modular fractured borehole model having similar conditions to a borehole environment to report unprecedented results regarding reliable data acquisition and processing. We investigate sonde magnetometer accuracy, color realization, and fracture resolution, and suggest data processing methods to obtain accurate aperture measurements. The experiment involving the fractured borehole model should enhance not only measurement quality but also interpretations of high-resolution and reliable optical imaging logs.

Physical Properties of and Joint Distribution Within the Cheongju Granitic Mass, as Assessed from Drill-core and Geophysical Well-logging Data (시추 및 물리검층자료의 상관해석을 통한 청주화강암체의 물성 정보 및 절리 분포)

  • Lee, Sun-Jung;Lee, Cheol-Hee;Jang, Hyung-Su;Kim, Ji-Soo
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2011
  • To clarify the distribution of joints and fracture zones in the Cheongju granitic mass, we analyzed drill-core and geophysical well-logging data obtained at two boreholes located 30 m from each other. Lithological properties were investigated from the drill-core data and the samples were classified based on the rock mass rating (RMR) and on rock quality designation (RQD). Subsurface discontinuities within soft and hard rocks were examined by geophysical well-logging and cross-hole seismic tomography. The velocity structures constructed from seismic tomography are well correlated with the profile of bedrock depth, previously mapped from a seismic refraction survey. Dynamic elastic moduli, obtained from full waveform sonic and ${\gamma}-{\gamma}$ logging, were interrelated with P-wave velocities to investigate the dynamic properties of the rock mass. Compared with the correlation graph between elastic moduli and velocities for hard rock at borehole BH-1, the correlation points for BH-2 data showed a wide scatter. These scattered points reflect the greater abundance of joints and fractures near borehole BH-2. This interpretation is supported by observations by acoustic televiewer (ATV) and optical televiewer (OTV) image loggings.

Verifying Rehabilitation and Evaluation of Bedrock Wells using Air-brush Surging and Explosive Methods (공기-브러쉬와 폭약 세척 방법에 의한 암반관정의 세척 효과 검증)

  • Lee, Jeong-Hwan;Hamm, Se-Yeong;Han, Suk-Jong;Ok, Soon-Il;Cha, Eun-Jee;Cho, Heuy-Nam;Choo, Chang-Oh;Kim, Moo-Jin
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.369-379
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    • 2011
  • The application of appropriate rehabilitation works can improve productivity and water quality of clogged wells, with extending the operation of the wells for a certain period. This study verified rehabilitation effect of the clogged wells by means of explosive method and air brush surging and by using hydraulic tests, water quality, and geophysical logs (optical and acoustic televiewer logs) before and after the cleaning works on the two wells drilled in bedrock in Mt. Geumjeong, Busan City. Air-brush surging method resulted in maximum 273% increase of the productivity with the concentration of $F^-$, $SiO_2$, and a decrease of turbidity and the concentration of $Cl^-$, $NO_3^-$. The explosive method resulted in maximum 156% increase of the productivity with an increase of the concentration of $F^-$, $SiO_2$ and a decrease of turbidity, $Cl^-$, $NO_3^-$.