• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.131-139
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• 2018

The preparation of repeatable and uniformly reconstituted soil specimens up to the specified conditions is an essential requirement for the laboratory tests. In this study for large samples replication, the simultaneous usage of the traveling pluviation and curtain raining technique is used to develop a new method, called the curtain travelling pluviator (CTP). This simple and cost effective system is based on the air pluviation approach, whilst reducing the sample production time, can reproduce uniform samples with relative densities ranging from 25% to 96%. In order to investigate the resulting suitability and uniformity from the proposed method, a series of tests is performed. The effect of curtain traveling velocity, curtain width, drop height, and flow rate on the parameters of the sample is thoroughly investigated. Increase in the curtain velocity and drop height leads to the increase in relative density for the sand specimen. Increase in curtain width typically resulted in the reduction of relative density. Test results reveal that the terminal drop height for the sand specimen in this study is more than 500 mm. Relative density contour lines are presented that can be utilized in optimizing the drop height and curtain width parameters. Sample uniformity in the vertical and horizontal orientation is investigated through the sampling containers. Increasing relative density tends to result in the higher sample repeatability and uniformity.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.431-441
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• 2024

A newly developed line-style sand pluviator has been calibrated to prepare repeatable sand specimens of specific statuses of compactness and homogeneity for laboratory tests. Sand is falling via a bottom slot of a fixed hopper, and by moving the sample container under the slot, the container is evenly filled with sand. The pluviator is designed with high flexibility: The falling height of sand, the hopper's opening width and the relative moving speed between the hopper and the sample box can be easily adjusted. By changing these control factors, sand specimens of a wide range of densities can be prepared. A series of specimen preparation was performed using the coarse Merwede River sand. Performance of the pluviator was systematically evaluated by exploring the alteration of achievable density, as well as checking the homogeneity and fabric of the prepared samples by CT scanning. It was found that the density of prepared coarse sand samples has monotonic correlations with none of the three control factors. Furthermore, CT scanning results suggested that the prepared samples exhibited excellent homogeneity in the horizontal direction but periodical alteration of density in the vertical direction. Based on these calibration test results, a preliminary hypothesis is proposed to describe the general working principles of this type of pluviators a priori, illustrating the mechanisms dominating the non-monotonic correlations between control factors and the relative density as well as the vertically prevalent heterogeneity of specimens. Accordingly, practical recommendations are made in a unified framework in order to lessen the load of similar calibration work.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 춘계 학술발표회
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• pp.584-594
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• 2010

It is difficult to prepare a specimen for directly testing a tensile strength of soils. Therefore, a tensile strength of soils has been measured indirectly. In this study, a mold and sample preparation tool for directly testing a tensile strength of soils has been developed and a tensile strength of weakly cemented sand was measured by using such device. A compressive strength of the cemented sand was also measured and its value was 30 times greater than its tensile strength.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.291-304
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• 2022

Maximum shear modulus (G_max or G₀) is an important soil property useful for many engineering applications, such as the analysis of soil-structure interactions, soil stability, liquefaction evaluation, ground deformation and performance of seismic design. In the current study, bender element (BE) tests are used to evaluate the effect of the void ratio, effective confining pressure, grading characteristics (D₅₀, C_u and C_c), anisotropic consolidation and initial fabric anisotropy produced during specimen preparation on the G_max of sand-gravel mixtures. Based on the tests results, an empirical equation is proposed to predict G_max in granular soils, evaluated by the experimental data. The artificial neural network (ANN) and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) models were also applied. Coefficient of determination (R²) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) between predicted and measured values of G_max were calculated for the empirical equation, ANN and ANFIS. The results indicate that all methods accuracy is high; however, ANFIS achieves the highest accuracy amongst the presented methods.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.207-219
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• 2021

Several additives are used to enhance the geotechnical properties (e.g., shear wave velocity, shear modulus) of soils to provide sustainable, economical and eco-friendly solutions in geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering. In this study, piezoelectric ring actuators are used to measure the shear wave velocity of unreinforced, fiber, cemented, and fiber reinforced cemented Toyoura sand. One dimensional oedometer tests are performed on medium dense specimens of Toyoura sand-cement-fiber-silica flour mixtures with different percentages of silica flour (0-42%), fiber and cement (e.g., 0-3%) additives. The experimental results indicate that behavior of the mixtures is significantly affected by the concentration of silica flour, fiber and cement additives. Results show that with the addition of 1-3% of PVA fibers, the shear wave velocity increases by only 1-3%. However, the addition of 1-4% of cement increases the shear wave velocity by 8-35%. 10.5-21% increase of silica flour reduces the shear wave velocity by 2-5% but adding 28-42% silica flour significantly reduces the shear wave velocity by 12-31%. In addition, the combined effect of cement and fibers was also found and with only 2% cement and 1% fiber, the shear wave velocity increase was found to be approximately 24% and with only 3% cement and 3% fibers this increased to 35%. The results from this study for the normalized shear modulus and normalized mean effective stress agree well with previous findings on pure Toyoura sand, Toyoura silty sand, fiber reinforced, fiber reinforced cemented Toyoura sand. Any variations are likely due to the difference in stress history (i.e., isotropic versus anisotropic consolidation) and the measurement method. In addition, these small discrepancies could be attributed to several other factors. The potential factors include the difference in specimen sizes, test devices, methods of analysis for the measurement of arrival time, the use of an appropriate Ko to convert the vertical stresses into mean effective stress, and sample preparation techniques. Lastly, it was investigated that there is a robust inverse relationship between α factor and 𝞫₀ exponent. It was found that less compressible soils exhibit higher 𝜶 factors and lower 𝞫₀ exponents.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.117-126
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• 2001

본 연구는 일반 콘크리트와 SBR 라텍스 개질 콘크리트의 부착강도 특성을 분석하고자 신 구 콘크리트로 구성된 직접인장 시험체를 제작하여 부착강도를 측정하였다. 이때, 시험체와 측정기의 연결장치가 $360^{\circ}$ 회전이 가능하도록 시험장비를 개선하여 시험체의 편심이 부착강도 측정에 미치는 영향을 최소화였다. 주요 실험변수로는 라텍스 혼입율, 표면 처리상태, 표면 함수상태로 정하였으며 실험결과는 다음과 같다; 라텍스 혼입률이 증가함에 따라 부착강도도 증가하였으며, 혼입률 15%에서 37%의 증진을 보였다. 이것은 라텍스가 골재와 시멘트 페이스트 사이에 충전되어 필름 막을 형성하고 부착력을 증진시켰기 때문인 것으로 판단된다. 표면처리에 따라 부착강도의 변화를 고찰한 결과, 샌드 그라인딩과 와이어 부러쉬에 의해 표면처리를 하였을 경우 부착강도는 단순 절단한 경우보다 약 49% 증가하였다. 표면함수 상태에 따른 영향을 고찰한 결과, 부착강도는 기존 콘크리트 표면이 건조하였을 경우에 가장 작게 나타났고, 자유수가 표면에 있을 때가 그 다음을 나타냈으며, 표면건조포화상태에선 37% 증가하여 가장 크게 나타났다. 따라서 부착강도를 증진시키기 위해서는 적절한 표면처리와 표면함수상태의 유지가 필수적임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.5-12
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• 2005

화강풍화토의 강도와 변형특성을 조사하기 위하여 불포화배수 삼축압축실험을 실시하였다. 본 실험을 위하여 야마구치현의 시모노세키에서 화강풍화토를 구하였으며 주응력방향과 다짐방향을 0,45, 90도의 세가지 방향성을 갖도록 하였다. 등방압축시 발생하는 압축변형률은 다짐각도에 따라 크게 영항을 받는다. 이차압축시의 변형거동에 관한 시간의존성은 다짐각도와 관계가 없다. 다짐각도가 압축강도와 변형에 미치는 영향은 특히 낮은 구속압력시에 크다. 다짐각도가 다르다 하더라도 다일러틴시 비율은 다일러턴시로 인한 강도증가와 상관하여 변화한다. 따라서 다짐풍화토는 초기 비등방성 조직을 갖고 있는 모래와 같이 비등방성 역학적 성질을 갖는다고 할 수 있다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2024

동상은 동토지반의 중요한 공학적 특성 중 하나로, 겨울철에 국내에서는 동상으로 인한 다양한 피해가 발생한다. 미국과 일본은 동토지역을 포함하고 있어 동상에 대한 연구가 활발히 이루어졌으며, 표준화된 실험법을 보유하고 있다. 특히, 일본 동상 실험법은 시료 준비와 실험 과정이 비교적 간단하다는 장점이 있다. 그러나 동상 실험 결과의 공학적 해석이 모호하며, 동상 민감성 판정 기준이 제시되지 않아 실제 활용에 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 모래-실트 혼합토를 대상으로 일본 동상 실험법에 따라 온도제어형 셀을 활용한 실내실험을 수행하고, 동상속도 산정 과정을 면밀히 분석하였다. 더불어, 일본 동상 실험법으로 산정된 동상속도가 미국에서 제시한 동상 민감성 판정 기준에 적용 가능한지 검토하였다.