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Hybrid Integration of P-Wave Velocity and Resistivity for High-Quality Investigation of In Situ Shear-Wave Velocities at Urban Areas (도심지 지반 전단파속도 탐사를 위한 P-파 속도와 전기비저항의 이종 결합)

  • Joh, Sung-Ho;Kim, Bong-Chan
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.30 no.1C
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2010
  • In urban area, design and construction of civil engineering structures such as subway tunnel, underground space and deep excavation is impeded by unreliable site investigation. Variety of embedded objects, electric noises and traffic vibrations degrades the quality of site investigation, whatever the site-investigation technique would be. In this research, a preliminary research was performed to develop a dedicated site investigation technique for urban geotechnical sites, which can overcome the limitations of urban sites. HiRAS (Hybrid Integration of Surface Waves and Resistivity) technique which is the first outcome of the preliminary research was proposed in this paper. The technique combines surface wave as well as electrical resistivity. CapSASW method for surface-wave technique and PDC-R technique for electrical resistivity survey were incorporated to develop HiRAS technique. CapSASW method is a good method for evaluating material stiffness and PDC-R technique is a reliable method for determination of underground stratification even in a site with electrical noise. For the inversion analysis of HiRAS techniuqe, a site-specific relationship between stress-wave velocity and resistivity was employed. As for outgrowth of this research, the 2-D distribution of Poisson's ratio could be also determined.

Theoretical Approach to Calculate Surface Chloride Content $C_s$ of Submerged Concrete under Sea Water Laden Environment

  • Yoon, In-Seok;Ye, Guang;Copuroglu, Oguzhan;Shalangen, Erik;Breugel, Klaas van
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2006.05b
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    • pp.197-200
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    • 2006
  • The ingress of chloride ions plays a crucial role for service life design of reinforced concrete structures. In view of durability design of concrete structures under marine environment, one of the most essential parameters is the surface chloride content of concrete. However, on the basis of the results of in-situ investigation, this value has been determining in the numerous studies on the durability design of concrete structures. Hence, it is necessary to confirm the range of the surface chloride content in order to establish a unified durability design system of concrete. This study suggests a rational and practical way to calculate the maximum surface chloride content of submerged concrete under marine environment. This approach starts with the calculation of the amount of chloride ingredients in normal sea water. The capillary pore structure is modeled by numerical simulation model HYMOSTRUC and it is assumed to be completely saturated by the salt ingredients of sea water. In order to validate this approach, the total chloride content of the mortar and concrete slim disc specimen was measured after the immersion into the artificial sea water solution. Additionally, the theoretical, the experimental and in-situ investigation results of other researchers are compiled and analyzed. Based on this approach, it will follow to calculate the maximum surface chloride content of concrete at tidal zone, where the environment can be considered as a condition of dry-wetting cycles.

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Rotational effect on Rayleigh, Love and Stoneley waves in non-homogeneous fibre-reinforced anisotropic general viscoelastic media of higher order

  • Abo-Dahab, S.M.;Abd-Alla, A.M.;Khan, Aftab
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.58 no.1
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    • pp.181-197
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we investigated the propagation of surface waves in a nonhomogeneous rotating fibre-reinforced viscoelastic anisotropic media of higher order of nth order including time rate of strain. The general surface wave speed is derived to study the effect of rotation on surface waves. Particular cases for Stoneley, Love and Rayleigh waves are discussed. The results obtained in this investigation are more general in the sense that some earlier published results are obtained from our result as special cases. Also results for homogeneous media can be deduced from this investigation. For order zero our results are well agreed to fibre-reinforced materials. Also by neglecting the reinforced elastic parameters, the results reduce to well known isotropic medium. It is also observed that, surface waves cannot propagate in a fast rotating medium. Comparison was made with the results obtained in the presence and absence of rotation and parameters for fibre-reinforced of the material medium Numerical results are given and illustrated graphically. The results indicate that the effect of rotation and parameters for fibre-reinforced of the material are very pronounced.

An experimental study on the effect of parameters for onset of nucleate boiling in concentric annuli flows (이중 동심관 유동에서 핵비등 시발점의 영향인자에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Song, J.H.;Kim, K.C.;Lee, S.H.;Park, J.H.;Suk, H.C.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2000.04b
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    • pp.373-378
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    • 2000
  • An experimental investigation on the incipience of nucleate boiling in forced flow of water is performed as a verification and extension of previous analysis. The effects of the subcooling, Reynolds number and surface curvature on the onset of nucleate boiling(ONB) in a concentric annulus flow channel with smooth inner heating surface is investigated experimentaly. Through flow visualization, the boiling phenomenon was observed directly and the experimental results were examined to find ONB heat flux. The results show that the variation of heat flux at ONB is increased linearly as the Reynolds number and subcooling are increased. The effect of surface curvature is very great specially for a small radius when radius of the inner heating tube is increased, the heat flux at ONB is almost inversely increased for the range of this investigation. It is found that the effect of convex surface curvature on ONB heat flux is very significant for a small radius.

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Development of Contact Algorithms for Three Dimensional Surfaces (삼차원 곡면에 대한 접촉해석기법의 개발)

  • 박채현;박종진
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 1994.10a
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    • pp.157-164
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    • 1994
  • Finite element analysis of material deformation is successfully utilized to understand metal forming processes such as forging, extrusion and deep drawing. However, such analysis involves contact problems; a free node touches a die surface and a contact node slips along the die surface. In the present investigation, appropriate contact algorithms were developed assuming that a three dimensional surface can be divided into bilinear patches and that nodal velocities are linear during an incremental time. The algorithms were coded into a computer program and tested for a simple surface. Comparison of the test result with that obtained from a commercial code is presented and discussed.

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The Effects of Surface Shear Viscosity and Surface Tension on a Columnar Vortex Interacting with a Free Surface (자유표면과 반응하는 수직와류에 대한 표면점성계수와 표면장력의 영향)

  • Kim Kyung-Hoon;Sohn Kwon;Kim Seok-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 2005
  • Vertices terminating at free surface have been investigated extensively. Most of investigations, however, are focused on surface parallel vortices and little has been known about surface normal vortex or columnar vortex. Visualized experimental results utilizing LIF technique are discussed fur the purpose of characterization of columnar vortex interacting with a clean and a contaminated free surfaces and a solid body interface in the present investigation. The results reveal that surface tension changes due to surface contamination although bulk viscosity remains constant and eventually the behavior of a columnar vortex interacting with a contaminated free surface and a solid body interface are totally different from the clean free surface case.

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