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In-Situ Evaluation Technique for Hydraulic Conductivity in Excavation Disturbed Zone (EDZ) (굴착영향영역(EDZ) 투수특성의 실험적 평가기술)

  • Kim, Hyung-Mok;Ryu, Dong-Woo;Synn, Joong-Ho
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.91-97
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, in-situ technique for measuring hydraulic conductivity of Excavation Disturbed Zone (EDZ) in a direct way and its application to an Underground Research Laboratory (URL) site were introduced. It was understood that both the EDZ oriented test equipment as a hardware and analysis/evaluation technique as a software should be integrated for upgrading a quality of estimated EDZ hydraulic conductivity. The well-estimated EDZ hydraulic conductivity is expected to enhance a reliability of stability evaluation for caverns under groundwater table and design of a waterproof or drainage system as well as a grout system.

Influence of plastic viscosity of mix on Self-Compacting Concrete with river and crushed sand

  • Rama, J.S. Kalyana;Sivakumar, M.V.N.;Kubair, K. Sai;Vasan, A.
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.37-47
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    • 2019
  • In view of the increasing utility of concrete as a construction material, the major challenge is to improve the quality of construction. Nowadays the common problem faced by many of the concrete plants is the shortage of river sand as fine aggregate material. This led to the utilization of locally available materials from quarries as fine aggregate. With the percentage of fines present in Crushed Rock Fines (CRF)or crushed sand is more compared to river sand, it shows a better performance in terms of fresh properties. The present study deals with the formulation of SCC mix design based on the chosen plastic viscosity of the mix and the measured plastic viscosity of cement pastes incorporating supplementary cementitious materials with CRF and river sand as a fine aggregate. Four different combinations including two binary and one ternary mix are adopted for the current study. Influence of plastic viscosity of the mix on the fresh and hardened properties are investigated for SCC mixes with varying water to cement ratios. It is observed that for an increasing plastic viscosity of the mix, slump flow, T500 and J-ring spread increased but V-funnel and L-box decreased. Compressive, split tensile and flexural strengths decreased with the increase in plastic viscosity.

A Study on the Quality of Groundwater in Sahagu, Busan, Korea (부산 사하구지역 지하수의 수질 연구)

  • Im, HyunChul
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.217-224
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    • 2004
  • 20 groundwater samples in Sahagu Busan were analyzed to understand the characteristics of groundwater quality of the area. Using the data, physical and chemical property, mineral contents, water-rock reaction of the groundwater carried out. The water type in the area is Ca2+-HCO3- and Ca2+-(Cl-+SO42-). Average EC value of the groundwater is 540μS/cm, but in the case of several samples influenced by eawater, the value is up to 4,140μS/cm. Some samples are exceeding the drinking water tandard in NO3-N and NH4-N. On the other hand, contamination by heavy metal is not found.

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A Study on River Space Restoration and Improvement of Water Quality in Nihonbashi River

  • Ito, Kazumasa
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.22-30
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    • 2007
  • Nihonbashi River takes more time to discharge water pollution because it runs low-lying areas and is easy to affect tidal flow from downstream. After rainfall, the water environment of the river has become worse. Even though the river is located in the important metropolitan area in Tokyo, it dose not have any connection with people's lives. We took Nihonbashi River as an example to consider methods for river restoration of improving water quality and river environment in densely inhabited urban areas. Especially, the major issue of river restoration is how smoothly and quickly discharges water pollution which flows into with river flow. The conclusion of this project is the effectiveness of improvement of water environment to construct of rock gates in Nihonbashi River and Kanda River to control inflows from upstream and tidal flows from downstream.

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Decision Making Model for Optimal Earthwork Allocation Planning (최적 토량배분 계획을 위한 의사결정 모델)

  • Gwak, Han-Seong;Seo, Byoung-Wook;Lee, Dong-Eun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.162-163
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents a mathematical model for optimizing earthwork allocation plan that minimizes earthwork cost. The model takes into account operational constraints in the real-world earthwork such as material-type (i.e., quality level of material) and quantities excavated from cut-sections, required quality of material and quantities for each embankment layer, top-down cutting and bottom-up filling constraints, and allocation orders. These constraints are successfully handled by assuming the rock-earth material as the three dimensional (3D) blocks. The study is of value to project scheduler because the model identifies the optimal earth allocation plan (i.e., haul direction (cut and fill pairs), quantities of soil, type of material, and order of allocations) expeditiously and is developed as an automated system for usability. It is also relevant to estimator in that it computes more realistic earthworks costs estimation. The economic impact and validity of the mathematical model was confirmed by performing test cases.

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A Study on the Design/construction Standard of Unlined Tunneling Method (Unlined Tunnel 공법 지보재의 설계 및 시공 기준 고찰)

  • 서영화;김성구;나승훈
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.121-134
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    • 2002
  • Tunneling is a very dangerous and expansive work. Especially, the concrete lining works need many long hours and much cost. As an alternative, the unlined tunneling methods including NMT have been developed in various country. These methods have advantages in cost, time and quality. In Korea, many considerations have been conducted to apply the unlined tunneling method in comparatively good rock. Since primary reinforcements play the role of the final supporting system in unlined tunnels, the initial stiffness and long term durability of reinforcements are very important for tunnel safety. To establish the reinforcements standard suitable to Korea, we investigated the foreign standards and construction cases, comparing geological and construction conditions of foreign land and Korea. As the result, we have proposed the standard of primary supporting system for unlined tunnel in aspects of material, design, construction and quality control etc.

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Quality characteristics comparative study on the stone board which it processes with the polishing and flame burner (연마와 화염버너로 가공한 석판재의 품질특성 비교연구)

  • Kang Ji-Ho;Jang Myoung-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.189-195
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    • 2004
  • It compared quality characteristics for the stone surface treatment system and its products. With the result, the flame burner equipment was mainly used to the surface treatment of granite, but it occurred greatly the high temperature, the rock fragment, the noise and dust. For the other side, the whetstone polishing machine for the polishing was a maintenance for the specific physical properties of stone, and it did not occur the stone fragment and the dust. The durability of the stone products due to the flame burner was investigated with that it falls to $20\sim25\%$ more than the surface treatment by the whetstone polishing. Share's hardness of the polishing products in the durability test showed more greatly index than the flame burner and conventional product. The polishing products of Pochon stone in the case of the abrasion resistance showed great more $15\%$ than the general products, more $9\%$ than the products by the flame burner.

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Quality Evaluation of shotcrete due to Properties of Steel Fiber (강섬유 특성이 숏크리트 품질에 미치는 영향)

  • Ryu, Jong-Hyun;Kim, Dong-Weon;Jeon, Hyun-Kyu
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.673-676
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    • 2006
  • Steel FibreReinforced Shotcrete(SFRS) is one of the main tunnel support along with the rock bolt during the excavation and after the completion of the tunnel. In the standard qualification of the SFRS defined by Korea Highway Corporation, 28 day core specimen has to meet the compressive strength of 19.6 MPa and over 90 % fibre contents. Furthermore, for the 28 days brick shaped specimen made by shooting, flexural strength should be over 4.4 MPa and flexural toughness ratio which can be calculated from flexural toughness factor has to meet more than 68% of flexural strength. In shotcrete, accelerating agent is added for the rapid strength development. Silicate and aluminate type agents are known to develop shotcrete strength rapidly, however, has such problem to degrade the middle and long term strength. Hence, using poly carboxylic super plasticizer, it was aimed to enhance the quality of the shotcrete with the lower water-cement ratio and the same level of workability. The present paper shows the part of the field test result and its analysis.

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Characterization of Groundwater Chemistry and Fluoride in Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network of Korea

  • Han, Jiwon
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.42 no.5
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    • pp.556-570
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    • 2021
  • This study presents the data analysis results of groundwater chemistry and the occurrence of fluoride in groundwater obtained from the groundwater quality monitoring network of Korea. The groundwater data were collected from the National Groundwater Information Center and censored for erratic values and charge balance (±10%). From the geochemical graphs and various ionic ratios, it was observed that the Ca-HCO3 type was predominant in Korean groundwater. In addition, water-rock interaction was identified as a key chemical process controlling groundwater chemistry, while precipitation and evaporation were found to be less important. According to a non-parametric trend test, at p=0.05, the concentration of fluoride in groundwater did not increase significantly and only 4.3% of the total groundwater exceeded the Korean drinking water standard of 1.5 mg/L. However, student t-tests revealed that the fluoride concentrations were closely associated with the lithologies of tuff, granite porphyry, and metamorphic rocks showing distinctively high levels. This study enhances our understanding of groundwater chemical composition and major controlling factors of fluoride occurrence and distribution in Korean groundwater.

Framework for Estimating Appropriate Construction Duration of CFRD in the Planning Phase

  • Kim, In Kyum;Kim, Kyong Ju;Yun, Won Gun
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.604-605
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    • 2015
  • To secure quality of dam construction needs appropriate construction duration. Tight construction schedule may have negative influence on infrastructure quality, work safety and maintenance cost. It is necessary to reflect proper construction duration in the planning phase. There have been standards for estimating construction duration of building and industrial complex development but dam construction have not. In order to estimate construction duration of CFRD, feasible study reports and design reports were analyzed to acquire available information. After that, considering on construction duration methods such as comparison with similar cases, approximate estimating formula, approximate quantity assumption were adapted to Critical Path items. Hence, this study present framework for construction duration estimating of CFRD in the planning phase. This framework can be applied other types of dam along the same line.

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