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Major causes of failure and recent measurements of tunnel construction (터널시공 중 붕락발생 원인과 최신 보강기술)

  • Park, Bong-Ki;Hwang, Je-Don;Park, Chi-Myeon;Kim, Sang-Su
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.140-153
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    • 2005
  • During the tunnel construction the major failure mode can be categorized as: tunnel failure just after the tunnel excavation without support, failure after application of shotcrete and finally failure after setting the concrete lining. The failure mode just after the tunnel excavation without support, can be further classified as : bench failure, crown failure, face failure, full face failure, failure due to weak strata and failure due to overburden. Moreover the failure after application of shotcrete is classified as heading face failure, settlement of shotcrete support, local failure of shotcrete lining and invert shotcrete. To find out the major causes of tunnel collapse, the investigation was done in case of the second phase of Seoul subway construction. The investigation results depicted that the major causes of tunnel collapse were due to the weak layer of rock/fault and sudden influx of ground water from the tunnel crown. While the investigation results of the mountain road tunnels construction have shown that the major causes of tunnel failure were inadequate analysis of tunnel face mapping results, intersection of faults and limestone cavities. In this paper some recent measurement in order to mitigate such tunnel collapse are presented

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Tunnel Safety Diagnosis in Near-excavation by In-depth Inspection of Tunnel (기존터널 안전진단 결과를 통한 근접시공 시 터널 안정성 평가)

  • Kim, Seok-Jae;Kim, Min-Seok;Kim, Jun-Chul;Yoo, Young-Il;Oh, Joung-Bae;Oh, Sae-Joon
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.16 no.4 s.63
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    • pp.347-356
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    • 2006
  • We analyzed case studies doing in-depth inspection of tunnel to maintain safety of existing tunnel in constructing new tunnel near to a existing tunnel with single track. Futhermore, We accomplished in-depth inspection of existing tunnel and numerical analysis. We suggested remedies to security safety of existing tunnel. We applied line drilling and pre-large hole boring method not to have an effect on existing tunnel and convinced the safety of existing tunnel from blast-vibration and blast-noise of numerical analysis. We planed to install basset system to measure displacement of existing tunnel according to excavating new tunnel.

Prediction of unconfined compressive strength ahead of tunnel face using measurement-while-drilling data based on hybrid genetic algorithm

  • Liu, Jiankang;Luan, Hengjie;Zhang, Yuanchao;Sakaguchi, Osamu;Jiang, Yujing
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.81-95
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    • 2020
  • Measurement of the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of the rock is critical to assess the quality of the rock mass ahead of a tunnel face. In this study, extensive field studies have been conducted along 3,885 m of the new Nagasaki tunnel in Japan. To predict UCS, a hybrid model of artificial neural network (ANN) based on genetic algorithm (GA) optimization was developed. A total of 1350 datasets, including six parameters of the Measurement-While- Drilling data and the UCS were considered as input and output parameters respectively. The multiple linear regression (MLR) and the ANN were employed to develop contrast models. The results reveal that the developed GA-ANN hybrid model can predict UCS with higher performance than the ANN and MLR models. This study is of great significance for accurately and effectively evaluating the quality of rock masses in tunnel engineering.

Tunnel Sonic Boom Analysis using monopole source modeling (홀극음원 모델링을 이용한 고속전철 터널 충격성 소음해석)

  • Jung W.T.;Yoon T.S.;Lee S.
    • Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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    • autumn
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    • pp.427-432
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    • 1999
  • When a high-speed train enters a tunnel, a compression wave is generated. This wave subsequently emerges from the exit portal of the tunnel, which causes an impulsive noise called 'Sonic boom' or 'micro-pressure wave'. In the present study, new method is presented for prediction of sonic boom noise, especially focusing on the effect of the nose shape of the train on the resultant noise. Acoustic theory for monopole source is used to represent a nose shape of the train in wave equation. Compression wave propagation in tunnel considering tunnel track condition and emission of sonic boom was calculated. The predicted compression waves and impulsive sound waves are compared with recent measurements, and show reasonable agreements.

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Analysis of stress distribution around tunnels by hybridized FSM and DDM considering the influences of joints parameters

  • Nikadat, Nooraddin;Marji, Mohammad Fatehi
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.269-288
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    • 2016
  • The jointed rock mass behavior often plays a major role in the design of underground excavation, and their failures during excavation and in operation, are usually closely related to joints. This research attempts to evaluate the effects of two basic geometric factors influencing tunnel behavior in a jointed rock mass; joints spacing and joints orientation. A hybridized indirect boundary element code known as TFSDDM (Two-dimensional Fictitious Stress Displacement Discontinuity Method) is used to study the stress distribution around the tunnels excavated in jointed rock masses. This numerical analysis revealed that both the dip angle and spacing of joints have important influences on stress distribution on tunnel walls. For example the tensile and compressive tangential stresses at the boundary of the circular tunnel increase by reduction in the joint spacing, and by increase the dip joint angle the tensile stress in the tunnel roof decreases.

An experimental study on the reduction method of earth pressure acting on the cut-and-cover tunnel lining (개착식 터널의 라이닝에 작용하는 토압경감대책에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Sang-Yoon;Im, Jong-Chul;Park, Lee-Keun;Bautista, Ferdinand E.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2004.03b
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    • pp.952-957
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    • 2004
  • Cut and Cover Method is generally used in shallow tunnels and tunnel entrances with thin soil cover. In this type of cons0truction, backfilling is considered to be the most important process. In this process even though the backfill material is thoroughly compacted, compaction and self-weight due to vehicular vibration and pressure exerted by the soil cause the backfill material to undergo self-compression which leads to settlement. The settlement of the backfill material subjects the tunnel lining under excessive earth pressure which cause cracking and deformation. In the model test performed installation of geotextile on the sides and top of the tunnel was able to reduce the earth pressure acting on the tunnel lining.

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Roof collapse of shallow tunnel in layered Hoek-Brown rock media

  • Yang, X.L.;Li, K.F.
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.867-877
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    • 2016
  • Collapse shape of tunnel roof in layered Hoek-Brown rock media is investigated within the framework of upper bound theorem. The traditional collapse mechanism for homogeneous stratum is no longer suitable for the present analysis of roof stability, and it would be necessary to propose a curve failure mode to describe the velocity discontinuity surface in layered media. What is discussed in the paper is that the failure mechanism of tunnel roofs, consisting of two different functions, is proposed for layered rock media. Then it is employed to investigate the impending roof failure. Based on the nonlinear Hoek-Brown failure criterion, the collapse volume of roof blocks are derived with the upper bound theorem and variational principle. Numerical calculations and parametric analysis are carried out to illustrate the effects of different parameters on the shape of failure mechanism, which is of overriding significance to the stability analysis of tunnel roof in layered rock media.

A Study on the Characteristics of Air flow Fields with Velocity Uniformity in a Wind Tunnel (풍동장치 내 공기 유동장과 속도 균일도 특성에 대한 분석)

  • Han, Seok Jong;Lee, Sang Ho;Lee, Jae Gyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.59-64
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    • 2018
  • Numerical simulations were carried out to analyze the flow characteristics of the wind tunnel. Flow field characteristics with velocity uniformity at the test sections are largely affected by inlet conditions of air flow rate and temperature. Axial average velocity of the flow field inside the test area was almost linearly decreased by 0.026% each 1m. The uniformity distributions of axial velocity showed the highest reduction rate of about 24% between nozzle outlets 1 ~ 2m. In addition, average velocity and the uniformity are increased with air temperature in the wind tunnel due to density variation. The results of this paper are expected to be useful for the basic design of wind tunnel and to be used for efficient design.

A novel liquefaction prediction framework for seismically-excited tunnel lining

  • Shafiei, Payam;Azadi, Mohammad;Razzaghi, Mehran Seyed
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.401-419
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    • 2022
  • A novel hybrid extreme machine learning-multiverse optimizer (ELM-MVO) framework is proposed to predict the liquefaction phenomenon in seismically excited tunnel lining inside the sand lens. The MVO is applied to optimize the input weights and biases of the ELM algorithm to improve its efficiency. The tunnel located inside the liquefied sand lens is also evaluated under various near- and far-field earthquakes. The results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method to predict the liquefaction event against the conventional extreme machine learning (ELM) and artificial neural network (ANN) algorithms. The outcomes also indicate that the possibility of liquefaction in sand lenses under far-field seismic excitations is much less than the near-field excitations, even with a small magnitude. Hence, tunnels designed in geographical areas where seismic excitations are more likely to be generated in the near area should be specially prepared. The sand lens around the tunnel also has larger settlements due to liquefaction.

A NEMO Tunnel Maintenance Scheme for Roaming Mobile Routers to IPv4 Networks through Tunnel Agent (모바일 라우터의 IPv4 네트워크 이동시 Tunnel Agent를 통한 NEMO Tunnel 유지 방안)

  • Kim, Jin-Ho;Hong, Choong-Seon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.259-261
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    • 2005
  • 현재 이동성을 지원하는 Mobile IPv4와 Mobile IPv6 프로토콜은 서로 다른 버전의 네트워크에서는 호환이 불가능하게 설계되어있다. Mobile IPv6 프로토콜에서 확장되어 네트워크 이동성까지 지원되는 Network Mobility(NEMO) 프로토콜 역시 IPv6 네트워크 내에서만 이동성이 보장된다. 그러나 앞으로의 인터넷은 IPv4와 IPv6 네트워크가 상당기간 공존할 것으로 예상되기 때문에 두 버전의 네트워크 사이에 이동성이 자연스럽게 지원되는 방안이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 다른 버전의 네트워크 사이에 NEMO 프로토콜에 대해 이동성을 지원하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 우리는 Mobile Router(MR)가 IPv4 네트워크로 이동을 한 경우에도 Tunnel Agent(TA)를 통해 NEMO Tunnel을 유지함으로써 이동성을 관리할 수 있는 새로운 메커니즘을 제시한다.

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