• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.421-432
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• 2020

Cutting of rocks is very common encountered in tunneling and mining during underground excavations. A deep understanding of rock-tool interaction can promote industrial applications significantly. In this paper, a distinct element method based approach, PFC^3D, is adopted to simulate the rock cutting under different operation conditions (cutting velocity, depth of cut and rake angle) and with various tool geometries (tip angle, tip wear and tip shape). Simulation results showed that the cutting force and accumulated number of cracks increase with increasing cutting velocity, cut depth, tip angle and pick abrasion. The number of cracks and cutting force decrease with increasing negative rake angle and increase with increasing positive rake angle. The numerical approach can offer a better insight into the rock-tool interaction during the rock cutting process. The proposed numerical method can be used to assess the rock cuttability, to estimate the cutting performance, and to design the cutter head.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제72권4호
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• pp.469-477
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• 2019

The understanding of tool-rock interaction mechanism is of high essence for improving the rock breaking efficiency and optimizing the drilling parameters in mechanical rock breaking. In this study, the tool-rock interaction models of indentation and cutting are carried out by employing the discrete element method (DEM) to examine the rock failure modes of various brittleness rocks and critical indentation and cutting depths of the ductile to brittle failure mode transition. The results show that the cluster size and inter-cluster to intra-cluster bond strength ratio are the key factors which influence the UCS magnitude and the UCS to BTS ratio. The UCS to BTS strength ratio can be increased to a more realistic value using clustered rock model so that the characteristics of real rocks can be better represented. The critical indentation and cutting depth decrease with the brittleness of rock increases and the decreasing rate reduces dramatically against the brittleness value. This effort may lead to a better understanding of rock breaking mechanisms in mechanical excavation, and may contribute to the improvement in the design of rock excavation machines and the related parameters determination.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구물리탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the international symposium on the fusion technology
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• pp.162-169
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• 2003

Excavation by TBM can be characterized by a rock-machine interaction during the cutting process on a small scale, but on a large scale the interaction between the rock mass and TBM becomes very significant. For the planning and evaluation of TBM tunnelling it needs to understand rock fracture mechanism by a cutter or cutters on a small scale, and to estimate penetration rate, advance rate and utilization on a large scale. In this study rock chipping mechanism due to cutter-penetration is analysed by numerical simulation, showing that rock chipping is mainly occurred by tensile failure. Also, through the analysis of factors that affect on TBM procedures in various assessment systems, it is determined that the key elements that should be considered in the planning and evaluation of TBM tunnelling are classified into rock properties, the geological structures and properties of rock mass, and the structural and functional specifications of the machine. The user-friendly assessment tool is developed, so that penetration rate, advance rate and TBM utilization are evaluated from various input data. The tool developed in this study can be applied to a practical TBM tunnelling by understanding TBM tunnelling procedures.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.96-107
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• 1993

This paper deals with the analysis of rock slope stability using the distinct element method. This method consists in analysis of the interaction of discrete block assemblage delimited by elementary joints, which permits to consider the heterogeneous, anisotropic and discontinuous features of the rock mass. In particular, we were able to show that this method, and especially the BRIG3D software, is an outstanding tool which gives informations of greatest interest in order to analyze the toppling mechanisms. We have confirmed the fundamental role of the rock mass structure with different simulations. In the case of toppling phenomena, the essential parameter is the dip of major discontinuities. It has an influence on the intensity and volume of deformations. The anisotropic and heterogeneous features of the rock mass play also an important role. It is proved by insertion of thick rock bars in the structure or varying rock block sizes in the mass. These models modified considerably the stress distribution and the deformation distribution. Finally, we have analyzed the influence of mechanical parameters such as friction angle and tangential stiffness.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.429-437
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• 2017

In this study, the effect of the tensile strength and ratio of disc spacing to penetration depth on the efficiency of tunnel boring machine (TBM) is investigated using Particle flow code (PFC) in two dimensions. Models with dimensions of $150{\times}70mm$ made of rocks with four different tensile strength values of 5 MPa, 10 MPa, 15 MPa and 20 MPa were separately analyzed and two "U" shape cutters with width of 10 mm were penetrated into the rock model by velocity rate of 0.1 mm/s. The spacing between cutters was also varied in this study. Failure patterns for 5 different penetration depths of 3 mm, 4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm, and 7 mm were registered. Totally 100 indentation test were performed to study the optimal tool-rock interaction. An equation relating mechanical rock properties with geometric characteristics for the optimal TBM performance is proposed. The results of numerical simulations show that the effective rock-cutting condition corresponding to the minimum specific energy can be estimated by an optimized disc spacing to penetration depth, which, in fact, is found to be proportional to the rock's tensile strength.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.161-176
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 기존의 불연속 변형 해석(DDA) 방법에 대한 세가지 방향의 새로운 개선 방법들이 제시되었다. 이 개선 방법들은 암반 균열에서 암석 블록과 지하수 흐름의 수리-역학적 커플링, 연속적인 하중 재하 또는 제하, 그리고 록볼트, 숏크리트와 콘크리트 라이닝에 의한 보강으로 구성되었다. Shi (1988)와 Lin (1995)에 의한 기존 DDA 프로.그램은 이 방법들에 의하여 추가로 개선되었으며, 이 새로운 DDA프로그램에 대한 몇 가지 적용예들이 제시되었다. 또한, 경부고속철도 공사의 일부인 운주 터널의 지하굴착에 대한 시뮬레이션을 통하여 절리를 통한 지하수의 흐름, 굴착순서, 그리고 록볼트와 숏크리트에 의한 보강이 터널안정에 미치는 영향을 연구하였다. 그 결과 절리를 통한 지하수의 흐름과 부적절한 굴착순서는 터널의 안정성에 악영향을 미치나, 한편 록볼트와 숏크리트에 의한 보강은 터널을 안정화 시킨다는 사실을 밝혀냈었다. 그 결과 세가지 개선방법이 추가된 DDA프로그램은 지하구조물 설계에 있어서 유용한 해석방법으로 사용될 수 있다는 사실을 보여주었다.

• 화약ㆍ발파
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2016

유체 동역학 코드는 고속 충돌을 모델링하는 수치해석 툴로서 재료가 유체처럼 거동한다고 가정하며, 화약을 이용한 암반발파와 같은 충돌 문제를 푸는 데 광범위하게 사용된다. 암반발파를 현실적으로 모사하기 위해서는 화약을 수치해석적으로 모델링할 필요가 있으며, 이를 통해 암반과 화약의 상호작용 문제를 완전 연계된 방식으로 풀 수 있다. 화약을 수치 모델링하기 위해서는 특정 물리적 조건에서 재료의 상태를 나타내는 상태 방정식이 수립되어야 한다. 본 고에서는 발파 과정을 수치 모델링하기 위한 유체 동역학 코드, 화약의 상태 방정식과 관련 매개변수의 결정방법에 대해 소개하였다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.561-572
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• 2017

Seismic base isolation has been accepted as one of the most popular design procedures to protect important structures against earthquakes. However, due to lack of information and experimental data the application of base isolation is quite limited to nuclear power plant (NPP) industry. Moreover, the effects of inelastic behavior of soil beneath base-isolated NPP have raised questions to the effectiveness of isolation device. This study applies the wavelet analysis to investigate the effects of soil-structure interaction (SSI) on the seismic response of a base-isolated NPP structure. To evaluate the SSI effects, the NPP structure is modelled as a lumped mass stick model and combined with a soil model using the concept of cone models. The lead rubber bearing (LRB) base isolator is used to adopt the base isolation system. The shear wave velocity of soil is varied to reflect the real rock site conditions of structure. The comparison between seismic performance of isolated structure and non-isolated structure has drawn. The results show that the wavelet analysis proves to be an efficient tool to evaluate the SSI effects on the seismic response of base-isolated structure and the seismic performance of base-isolated NPP is not sensitive to the effects in this case.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.45-56
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• 2006

The finite element method is a practical tool to compute the response of the irregularly layered soil deposit to the base-rock motions. The method is useful not only in estimating the interaction between the structure and the surrounding soil as a whole and the local behavior of the contacting area in detail, but also in predicting the resulting behavior of the superstructure affected by such soil-structure interactions. However, the computation of finite element analysis is marched in the time domain (TD), while the site response analysis has been carried out mostly in the frequency domain (FD) with equivalent linear analysis. This study is intended to compare the results of the TD and FD analysis with focus on the peak response accelerations and the predominant frequencies, and thus to evaluate the applicability and the validity of the finite element analysis in the site response analysis. The comparison shows that one can obtain the results very close to that of FD analysis, from the finite element analysis by including sufficiently large width of foundation in the model and further by applying partial mode superposition. The finite element analysis turned out to be well agreeing with FD analysis in their computed results of the peak acceleration and the acceleration response spectra, especially at the surface layer.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.167-183
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• 2021

고준위방사성폐기물 처분장의 장기 안전성 확보를 위해서는 공학적방벽 및 천연방벽 내에서 발생하는 복잡한 열-수리-역학-화학적(THMC) 복합거동 해석에 대한 이해가 필수적이다. 특히 고준위방사성폐기물에서 발생하는 열로 인해 암반 및 완충재 내의 지하수에서 압력 증가 및 상변화가 발생하게 되며, 지하수의 유입으로 인해 공학적방벽 내 포화도가 변화하게 된다. 또한 포화도의 변화는 완충재 내에서의 열전달 및 다상 유동 특성에 영향을 미치게 된다. 따라서 복합거동 특성의 복잡성으로 인해 수치해석은 처분시스템에서의 THMC 복합거동 평가와 예측 및 안전성 평가에 있어 강점을 지니고 있으며, DECOVALEX 국제공동연구는 THMC 복합거동에 대한 이해도 증진 및 해석기법 검증을 목적으로 1992년부터 시작되었다. 국내에서는 2008년부터 한국원자력연구원이 지속적으로 참여하여 연구를 수행하고 있으며, 본 기술보고에서는 현재 진행 중인 DECOVALEX-2023의 주요 연구내용을 국내 암반 및 지반공학자들에게 소개하였다.