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The Fracjection: An analytical system for projected fractures onto rock excavation surface from boreholes and outcrops (시추 및 야외조사 자료의 절취면 투영 분석 시스템 Fracjection)

  • Hwang, Sang-Gi;Lim, Yu-Jin
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.1882-1889
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    • 2007
  • Surveying rocks for engineering aims for prediction of geological feature of the construction site. Conventionally, survey information at outcrops and bore holes are projected to the construction sites, such as tunnel and slopes, and rock properties of the sites are predicted by interpretations of specialists. This system, the "Fracjection", aims to assist the specialist for visualization of the projected fractures from borehole and outcrop survey. The Fracjection accepts the BIPS and outcrop survey data to its database and allows plotting them in AutoCad map. The software also reads elevation data from contours of the topographic map and constructs DEM of the construction sites. With user's guide, it generates 3D excavation sites such as slopes and tunnels at the topographic map. The s/w projects borehole and outcrop surveyed fractures onto the modeled excavation surface and allows analysis of failure criteria, such as plane, wedge, and toppling failures by built-in stereonet function. Projected fractures can further be analyzed for structural homogeneities and rock mass quality. Moving window style correlation comparison of stereonet plots are used for formal analyses, and RQD type counts of the projected fractures are adopted for the latter analyses.

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Case Study of Slope Investigation on the Cretaceous Sedimentary Rocks Using the Geological Cross-Sections

  • Ihm, Myeong-Hyeok;Kim, Woo-Seok;Kwon, Oil
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.463-478
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    • 2021
  • The subjects of the study are the sedimentary rock slope of the Mesozoic Gyeongsang Supergroup, which has a high risk of failure. The orientation of the slope-face represents a variety of changing characteristics. The rocks of the slope shall be sandstone, siltstone and dacite, and discontinuities shall develop beddings, shear joints, extension joints, and dacite dyke boundary planes. The type and scale of failure varies depending on the type of rock and the strike/dip of the discontinuities, but the toppling failure prevails. Based on the face-mapping data, SMR, physical and mechanical testing of rocks, analysis and review of the stereonet projections and the critical equilibrium analysis, all four representative sections required a countermeasure method because the acceptable safety factor during dry and rainy seasons were far below Fs = 1.5 and Fs = 1.2. After applying the countermeasure method, both the dry and wet conditions of the slope exceeded the allowable safety factor. In particular, the face-mapping data of the slope-face, the geological cross-sections of several representative sections perpendicular to the slope-face, and the critical equilibrium analysis and the presentation of countermeasure methods that have been reviewed based on them are expected to be reasonable tools for the slope stability. In addition, it will be possible to use it as basic data for performance evaluation for slope maintenance.

Case Study of Derivation of Input-Parameters for Ground-Structure Stability on Foliation-Parallel Faults in Folded Metamorphic Rocks (단층 발달 습곡지반 상 구조물 안정성을 위한 설계정수 도출 사례 연구)

  • Ihm, Myeong Hyeok
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.467-472
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    • 2020
  • Methods for deriving design input-parameters to ensure the stability of a structure on a common ground are generally well known. Folded metamorphic rocks, such as the study area, are highly foliated and have small faults parallel to the foliation, resulting in special research methods and tests to derive design input parameters, Etc. are required. The metamorphic rock ground with foliation development of several mm intervals has a direct shear test on the foliation surface, the strike/dip mapping of the foliation, the boring investigation to determine the continuity of the foliation, and the rock mass rating of the metamorphic rock. etc. are required. In the case of a large number of small foliation-parallel faults developed along a specific foliation plane, it is essential to analyze the lineament, surface geologic mapping for fault tracing, and direct shear test. Folded ground requires additional geological-structural-domain analysis, discontinuity analysis of stereonet, electrical resistivity exploration along the fold axis, and so on.

Computational Treatment for Plotting of the Planar and the Linear Structures in Fault Zone (단층대내(斷層帶內)의 면(面) 및 선구조(線構造)의 도식화(圖式化)를 위한 전산처리(電算處理))

  • Sunwoo, Choon;Lee, Byung-Joo
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.359-366
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    • 1990
  • Field sampling requires statistical description to draw inferences from data. Field data, or linear structures, are commonly analyzed by the graphical presentations, such as streonets and rose diagrams. For this purpose the DROPOL program is developed to analyze the data more efficiently with personal computer. DROPOL program written in FORTRAN 77 plots the structural data in points, poles or great circle on equalarea (Schmidt net) or equal-angle (Wulff net) projection surface. It is also capable to project the data from upper or lower hemisphere of stereonet and to draw pole contour diagrams from the plotted data. The rose diagram, representing the frequency of the strike and dip angle, can also be drawn in general or smooth type using $5^{\circ}$ or $10^{\circ}$ degrees interval.

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Stability Assesment of the Slope at the Disposal Site of Waste Rock in Limestone Mine (석회석 광산에서 폐석 적치장 사면의 안정성 평가)

  • Lee, Sang-Eun;Jang, Yoon-Ho
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.475-490
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    • 2010
  • The analysis of slope stability was performed from seven sites among total eleven sites of waste rock which are divided into two objects (mullock-pile and rock mass) according to the location of dumping-dropping point in L limestone Mine. The analysis of circular failure using Bishop's simplified method and the finite element method for mullock-pile slopes were adopted. For rock mass slopes, identification of failure modes on stereonet projection was determined, thereby limit equilibrium analysis was applied to obtain the safety factor of slopes and the finite element method was used to understand overall behavior of slope. Phi-c reduction method was used to calculate the safety factor of slopes through the finite element method. In mullock-pile slope of zone D and rock slopes of zone F and G, the assurance of slope stability was difficult, and the plans to assure the stability of slopes were proposed on the basis of the analysis of slopes at disposal sites of waste rock. Therefore, the method of piling with waste rock by dozer pushing after dumping for mullock-pile slope of zone D is required, and the method of piling after moving to the place which has no fault zone for rock slope of zone F and G is recommended.

Convergence change in a tunnel face approaching fault zones (파쇄대에 접근하는 터널의 내공변위 변화 해석)

  • Lee, In-Mo;Lee, Seung-Ju;Lee, Joo-Gong;Lee, Dae-Hyuck
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.235-245
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to figure out the tendency of tunnel convergence during excavation and to present a methodology for the prediction of a fault zone ahead of a tunnel face by analyzing three dimensional displacements in various ways. 3-D numerical analysis was performed to investigate changes of tunnel convergence vectors near a fault zone and to propose a flow chart for predicting fault zones. Results of the site investigation and results of trend line analysis of in-situ data were compared to verify the usefulness of a trend line analysis. It is concluded that the orientation of faults can be predicted by using stereonets and the direction of initial stresses can be predicted from the arm length of a displacement vector as a tunnel approaches fault zones. The results of the trend line analysis coincided with those of the site investigation, and a methodology for the prediction of a fault zone was proposed.

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A Study on the Extraction of Slope Surface Orientation using LIDAR with respect to Triangulation Method and Sampling on the Point Cloud (LIDAR를 이용한 삼차원 점군 데이터의 삼각망 구성 방법 및 샘플링에 따른 암반 불연속면 방향 검출에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sudeuk;Jeon, Seokwon
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.46-58
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    • 2016
  • In this study, a LIDAR laser scanner was used to scan a rock slope around Mt. Gwanak and to produce point cloud from which directional information of rock joint surfaces shall be extracted. It was analyzed using two different algorithms, i.e. Ball Pivoting and Wrap algorithm, and four sampling intervals, i.e. raw, 2, 5, and 10 cm. The results of Fuzzy K-mean clustering were analyzed on the stereonet. As a result, the Ball Pivoting and Wrap algorithms were considered suitable for extraction of rock surface orientation. In the case of 5 cm sampling interval, both triangulation algorithms extracted the most number of the patch and patched area.