CURRENT PROJECTS
Development of Repair and Reinforcement for Deteriorated Levee with Nature-Based Solutions
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Investigating new hybrid-biological materials to repair and reinforce the deteriorated levee.
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Develop a new construction method to reinforce weak spots in the deteriorated levee.
Period
2024.05 ~ 2028.12
Budget
1,450,000,000 KRW
Sponsor
Korea Environmental Industry&Technology Institute (KEITI)
Development of a new hybrid-biological soil treatment technology for low-carbon/sustainable land use and climate change related geohazard mitigation
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Develop a new biological soil treatment method by combining biopolymer-based soil treatment (BPST) and
enzyme-induced calcite precipitation (EICP) techniques -
Implement the new combined biological soil treatment technology to geohazard mitigation practices
Period
2022.09 ~ 2026.02
Budget
682,300,000 KRW
Sponsor
National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea
PAST PROJECTS
Investigation of a new geo-material to improve the thermal conductivity of backfills around underground power cables
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Investigating new low carbon emitting materials to enhance the thermal conductivity of soil
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Implement the new geo-material for subsurface power cable backfills
Period
2022.03 ~ 2023.10
Budget
150,000,000 KRW
Sponsor
Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO)
Ground electric conductivity database development considering ground condition variation
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Soil electrical resistivity assessment from micro-to-macro scales
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Considering in-situ ground environment conditions (e.g. moisture content, relative density, organic contents) variation
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Establishment of comprehensive ground electric conductivity database for AI-based regression and prediction
Period
2022.01 ~ 2024.06
Budget
120,000,000 KRW
Sponsor
Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO)
Biopolymer-based soil treatment (BPST) for post-wildfire site erosion control
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Characterization of the soil property variation affected by surface burnt during wildfires
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Implementation of BPST to mitigate surface soil erosion after wildfires
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BPST application to promote site recovery of burnt wildfire sites
Period
2020.10 ~ 2023.09
Budget
60,000,000 KRW
Sponsor
Ajou University (Start-up grant for New Academics)
Development of biopolymer-based excavation slurry material for machine tunneling
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Development of a new environmentally-friendly bio-based slurry material to be used for TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) excavation practices.
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Laboratory investigations on physical and chemical properties of biopolymers and biopolymer-soil mixutres .
Period
2019.01 ~ 2021.12
Budget
$185,000 AUD
Sponsor
Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO)
Rapid improvement of levee structures
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Development of a new environmentally-friendly construction material and its application methods to rapidly improve and strength and control the hydraulic conductivity of earthen (soil) levee structures.
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Development of the new construction material is going to be proceeded by using microbial biopolymers.
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Erosion tests using modified jet-hole and hydraulic flume equipment.
Period
2017.04 ~ 2020.12
Budget
$330,000 AUD
Sponsor
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), Korea
Development of non-cement biopolymer-based rapid ground improvement method for vertical tunnel excavation
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Development of a non-cement / biopolymer based grouting material.
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Hydraulic conductivity of biopolymer-injected soils with effective stress and pore pressure variations
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Evaluation of injection efficiency and ground/bio-grout/structure interactions
Period
2017.05 ~ 2020.06
Budget
$130,000 AUD
Sponsor
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), Korea