• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2003년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.349-356
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• 2003

Almost every material of PVD (Prefabricated Vertical Drain) has the fatal problem on the condition - the length must shorten with the settlement of the surrounding grounds - which all PVDs must satisfy. Kinking deformation by buckling of PVD due to consolidation settlement Is discussed in this paper. A new testing device to clarify the deformation of PVD under consolidation of surrounding clay was developed and the fiber drain and a PVD made of plastics were compared under the same condition of consolidation using natural clay specimens. The results are also shown in this paper.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.585-599
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• 2015

Laboratory model tests were conducted to investigate the effect of surcharge loading rate on the magnitude of lateral displacement of prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) improved deposit. The test results indicate that under the condition that the system had sufficient factor of safety (FS) ($FS{\geq}1.2$), for the similar model ground under the same total applied surcharge load, the lateral displacement increases with the increase of loading rate. The test results have been used to check the validity of a previously proposed method for predicting the maximum lateral displacement, and it shows that the data points are around the middle line of the predicted range, which supports the usefulness of the proposed method. The basic idea of the prediction method is an empirical relationship between the normalized lateral displacement (NLD) and a ration of load to the undrained shear strength of the deposit (RLS). The model test results offer some modifications of the NLD-RLS relationship: (1) instead of a bilinear relationship, NLD-RLS relationship may be entirely nonlinear; (2) the upper bound value of RLS for the proposed method can be used may be limited to 2.1 instead of the originally proposed value of 3.0.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2008

개발사업과 산업발달로 인하여 발생되는 유해화학물질과 유류사용량이 늘면서 화학물질과 유류를 저장하는 지하저장탱크에서의 오염물질 유출로 토양 및 지하수 오염이 심각해지고 있다. 또한, 산업지역, 공장지대가 밀집된 매립 지반에서는 투수계수가 낮아 오염물질 추출에 한계가 있다. 이러한 문제해결 방안의 하나로 연약지반 개량공법에서 사용되고 있는 연직배수재를 이용하여 기존의 복원기술인 토양세정공법의 효율을 증진시킨 연직배수시스템에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 오염된 지반의 복원을 목적으로 사용한 연직배수시스템의 적용성 평가를 위하여 오염토양 복원시 오염지반에 영향을 주는 인자에 대한 유효성 등을 분석하였다. 본 연구에서는 연직배수시스템의 적용성을 위하여 오염토양 복원시 오염지반에 영향을 주는 인자에 대한 공학적 특성을 바탕으로 파일럿 규모의 실내 오염복원 실험을 통한 오염물질의 복원효율 등을 분석하였다. 또한, 염화나트륨을 복원실험의 추적자로 사용하였고, 도출된 결과를 바탕으로 SEEP/W와 CTRAN/W 유한요소해석 프로그램을 이용하여 압력수두와 지속시간에 따른 농도변화, 각각의 지반조건에 대한 복원률의 오염물질 흐름 해석을 통한 유효성을 평가하였다. 결과, 오염지반의 투수계수는 흐름속도와 연직배수재를 통한 추출률과 관계되며, 흐름속도와 추출률은 분산지수에 영향을 미치게 되어 결국 원위치 오염복원 과정시 중요한 역할을 하게 된다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.129-141
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• 2021

The vacuum preloading method has been used in many countries for soil improvement and land reclamation. However, the treatment time is long and the improvement effect is poor for the straight-line vacuum preloading method. To alleviate such problems, a novel combined air booster and straight-line vacuum preloading method for shallow ground treatment is proposed in this study. Two types of traditional vacuum preloading and combined air booster and straight-line vacuum preloading tests were conducted and monitored in the field. In both tests, the depth of prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) is 4.5m, the distance between PVDs is 0.8m, and the vacuum preloading time is 60 days. The prominent difference between the two methods is when the preloading time is 45 days, the injection pressure of 250 kPa is adopted for combined air booster and straight-line vacuum preloading test to inject air into the ground. Based on the monitoring data, this paper systematically studied the mechanical parameters, hydraulic conductivity, pore water pressure, settlement and subsoil bearing capacity, as determined by the vane shear strength, to demonstrate that the air-pressurizing system can improve the consolidation. The consolidation time decreased by 15 days, the pore water pressure decreased to 60.49%, and the settlement and vane shear strengths increased by 45.31% and 6.29%, respectively, at the surface. These results demonstrate the validity of the combined air booster and straight-line vacuum preloading method. Compared with the traditional vacuum preloading, the combined air booster and straight-line vacuum preloading method has better reinforcement effect. In addition, an estimation method for evaluating the average degree of consolidation and an empirical formula for evaluating the subsoil bearing capacity are proposed to assist in engineering decision making.