2017.04 ~ 2021.06
$330,000 AUD
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), Korea
Sponsor
Budget
Period
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 or other bio-induced materials.
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Erosion tests using modified jet-hole and hydraulic flume equipment.
2017.05 ~ 2020.06
$130,000 AUD
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), Korea
Sponsor
Budget
Period
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
2019.01 ~ 2020.12
$185,000 AUD
Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO)
Sponsor
Budget
Period
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 .