• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.77-87
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• 2022

Many geotechnical analyses require the investigation of water flow within partially saturated soil zone to incorporate the effect of climatic conditions. It is widely understood that the hydraulic properties of the partially saturated soil should be included in the transient seepage analyses. However, the characteristics of dual porosity soils with dual-mode water retention curve are normally modelled using single-mode mathematical equation for simplification of the analysis. In reality, the rainwater flow can be affected significantly by the dual-mode hydraulic properties of the soil. This paper presents the variations of safety factor for dual porosity soil slope with dual-mode water retention curve and dual-mode unsaturated permeability. This paper includes the development of the new dual-mode unsaturated permeability to represent the characteristics of soil with the dual-mode water retention curve. The finite element analyses were conducted to examine the role of dual-mode water retention curve and dual-mode unsaturated permeability on the variations of safety factor under rainfall loading. The results indicate that the safety factor variations of dual porosity soil slope modelled using the dual-mode water retention curve and the unsaturated permeability equation are lower than those of dual porosity slope modelled using single-mode water retention curve and unsaturated permeability equations.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.431-439
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• 2020

Soil-water retention curve (SWRC) contains key information for the application of unsaturated soil mechanics principles to engineering practice. The SWRC variables are commonly used to describe the hydro-mechanics of soils. Generally, these parameters are determined using the graphical method which can be time consuming. The SWRC is highly dependent on the pore size distribution (PSD). Theoretically, the PSD obtained by mercury intrusion porosimetry test can be used to determine some SWRC variables. Moreover, the relationship between SWRC and shrinkage curve has been investigated. A new method to determine total SWRC variables directly without curve-fitting procedure is proposed. Substituting the variables into linear SWRC equations construct SWRC. A good agreement was obtained between predicted and measured SWRCs, indicating the validity of the proposed method for unimodal SWRC.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제39권11호
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• pp.53-62
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• 2023

동결토의 부동수분특성은 지반의 열-수리-역학적 거동 전반에 걸쳐 지배적인 영향을 미치며, 동결 지반의 안정성 평가를 위해서는 대상 지반재료의 부동수분특성에 대한 면밀한 검토가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 간극수 염분농도를 고려한 동결 사질토의 부동수분곡선을 평가하기 위하여 흙의 어는점 및 부동수분을 측정하는 실내 실험을 수행하였으며, 계측된 실험데이터를 기반으로 부동수분포화도 곡선을 간편하게 추정할 수 있는 경험적 모델을 새롭게 제시하였다. 또한, 제안된 경험적 모델을 입력자료로 적용한 해석모델의 시뮬레이션 결과를 실험데이터와 비교함으로써 사용된 부동수분곡선의 적정성을 검증하였다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.75-87
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• 2021

Because the hydraulic/mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soil is more complicated than that of saturated soil, one of the most important issues in modelling unsaturated soil is to properly couple its stress-strain relationship with its water retention characteristics. Based on the results of a series of tests, the stress-strain relationship and the changes in suction and saturation of unsaturated completely decomposed granite (CDG, also called Masado) vary substantially under different loading/hydraulic conditions. To precisely model the hydraulic/mechanical behaviour of unsaturated Masado, in this study, the superloading concept was firstly introduced into an existing saturated/unsaturated constitutive model to consider the structural influences. Then a water retention curve (WRC) model considering the volumetric change in the soil, in which the skeleton and scanning curves of the water retention characteristics were assumed to shift in parallel in accordance with the change in the void ratio, was proposed. The proposed WRC model was incorporated into the constitutive model, and the validity of the newly proposed model was verified using the results of tests conducted on unsaturated Masado, including water retention, oedometer and triaxial tests. The accuracy of the proposed model in describing the stress-strain relationship and the variations in suction and saturation of unsaturated Masado is satisfactory.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제32권4C호
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• pp.169-175
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• 2012

불포화토의 함수특성은 구속효과 및 이력현상에 따라 변화한다. 이로 인하여 불포화 지층의 유효응력을 정의할 때, 모관흡수력이 기여하는 효과가 깊이에 따라 변화하거나 침투 및 증발과정에서 상이하게 나타난다. 불포화토의 유효응력은 흡수응력 특성곡선에 근거하여 일반화 할 수 있다. 이러한 일반화를 위해서, 구속응력과 함수특성곡선의 관계를 찾는 것이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 다양한 구속응력을 가한 상태에서 압력판 추출시험을 수행하고 건조 및 습윤과정에서 나타나는 함수특성의 이력현상을 획득하였다. 그리고 각 이력과정에 대한 유효 체적함수비와 모관흡수력 관계를 구할 수 있었다. 이로부터 모관흡수력에 따른 흡수응력 특성곡선을 정의할 수 있었다. 또한 삼축시험시 구한 불포화 전단강도로부터, 흡수응력과 유효응력을 모관흡수력으로부터 구할 수 있었다. 함수특성에 근거한 유효응력 파괴규준은 유일하게 나타났으며 포화시 파괴포락선과 일치하였다. 삼축시험으로부터 구한 흡수응력은 대표 함수특성곡선으로부터 구한 것과 유사하게 나타났다. 따라서 각 이력과정에서 구속효과에 대하여 함수특성곡선이 유일하게 정의될 수 있음을 입증하였다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제30권1C호
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• pp.53-63
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• 2010

함수특성곡선은 불포화지반의 거동을 분석하는데 있어서 매우 중요한 물성으로 활용되고 있으나 많은 경우 상재하중과 세립분의 영향을 고려하지 않은 상태에서 측정되어 적용해 왔다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 국내의 대표적인 풍화토를 대상으로 상재하중과 점토의 함유량에 따른 함수특성 영향을 살펴보았다. 상재하중, 세립분, 그리고 이력 조건을 고려하여 함수특성과 불포화 투수계수를 SWCC 시험결과를 토대로 평가하였다. 또한 불포화시 습윤용적과 확산능력에 대하여도 살펴보았다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.411-420
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• 2020

Numbers fitting-curve equations have been proposed to predict soil-water retention curve (SWRC) whose parameters have no definitude physical meaning. And these methods with precondition of measuring SWRC data is time-consuming. A simplified directly method to estimate SWRC without parameters obtained by fitting-curve is proposed. Firstly, the total SWRC can be discretized into linear segments respectively. Every segment can be represented by linear formulation and every turning point can be determined by the pore-size distribution (PSD) of Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP) tests. The pore diameters governing the air-entry condition (AEC) and residual condition (RC) can be determined by the PSDs of MIP test. The PSD changes significantly during drying in SWR test, so the determination of AEC and RC should use the PSD under corresponding suction conditions. Every parameter in proposed equations can be determined directly by PSD without curve-fitting procedure and has definitude physical meaning. The proposed equations give a good estimation of both unimodal and bimodal SWRCs.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.235-244
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• 2018

Potential maximum soil moisture retention (S) is a dominant parameter in the Soil Conservation Service (SCS; now called the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)) runoff Curve Number (CN) method commonly used in hydrologic modeling for event-based flood forecasting (SCS, 1985). Physically, S represents the depth [L] soil could store water through infiltration. The depth of soil moisture retention will vary depending on infiltration from previous rainfall events; an adjustment is usually made using a factor for Antecedent Moisture Conditions (AMCs). Application of the method for continuous simulation of multiple storms has typically involved updating the AMC and S. However, these studies have focused on a time step where S is allowed to vary at daily or longer time scales. While useful for hydrologic events that span multiple days, this temporal resolution is too coarse for short-term applications such as flash flood events. In this study, an approach for deriving a time-variable potential maximum soil moisture retention curve (S-curve) at hourly time-scales is presented. The methodology is applied to the Napa River basin, California. Rainfall events from 2011 to 2012 are used for estimating the event-based S. As a result, we derive an S-curve which is classified into three sections depending on the recovery rate of S for soil moisture conditions ranging from 1) dry, 2) transitional from dry to wet, and 3) wet. The first section is described as gradually increasing recovering S (0.97 mm/hr or 23.28 mm/day), the second section is described as steeply recovering S (2.11 mm/hr or 50.64 mm/day) and the third section is described as gradually decreasing recovery (0.34 mm/hr or 8.16 mm/day). Using the S-curve, we can estimate the hourly change of soil moisture content according to the time duration after rainfall cessation, which is then used to estimate direct runoff for a continuous simulation for flood forecasting.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.93-103
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• 2012

A suction-saturation control technique based on flow pump system was developed to investigate hydraulic properties in unsaturated soils. The flow pump system is designed based on the principle of the axis-translation technique and triaxial equipment, and gives the suction-time and suction-saturation curves, the primary relationship needed for interpreting the response of unsaturated soils and link between theory and the material properties in unsaturated soil mechanics. Using the suction-saturation control technique, suction-time relationship and soil-water retention curve (SWRC) during hydraulic hysteresis were investigated with different net confining pressures and porosities. Three types of soils-two sands and a silt were used in this paper. This paper showed the effect of the hysteresis on the SWRC due to different net confining pressures and porosities. This means that a careful decision must be made as to which condition is to be modeled, since the delicate difference of the conditions in physical modeling can cause the different experimental output.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2013

Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function is one of key parameters to solve the flow phenomena in problems of landslide. Prediction models for hydraulic conductivity function related to soil-water retention curve equations in many geotechnical applications have been still used instead of direct measurement of the hydraulic conductivity function since prediction models from soil-water retention curve equations are attractive for their fast and easy use and low cost. However, many researchers found that prediction models for the hydraulic conductivity function can not predict the hydraulic conductivity exactly in comparison with experimental outputs. This research introduced an inverse analysis to evaluate the hydraulic conductivity function corresponding to experimental output from the flow pump system. Optimisation process was carried out to obtain the hydraulic conductivity function. This research showed that the inverse analysis with flow pump system was suitable to assess the hydraulic conductivity in unsaturated soil, and the prediction models for the hydraulic conductivity were led to the significant discrepancy from actual experimental outputs.