Investigating characteristics of the long-term settlement of railway embankments in warm permafrost areas
Introduction: The embankment in the permafrost zone of the Qinghai–Tibet Railway (QTR) faces the problem of permafrost degradation, especially in the warm and ice-rich permafrost areas. The settlement deformation of the embankment is more serious in these areas. Methods: This study systematically in...
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crfrontiers:10.3389/fenvs.2023.1082354 2024-06-23T07:53:39+00:00 Investigating characteristics of the long-term settlement of railway embankments in warm permafrost areas Xu, Yuezhen Shen, Mingde Zhou, Zhiwei Ma, Wei Li, Guoyu Chen, Dun 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1082354 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1082354/full unknown Frontiers Media SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Frontiers in Environmental Science volume 11 ISSN 2296-665X journal-article 2023 crfrontiers https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1082354 2024-06-04T05:54:55Z Introduction: The embankment in the permafrost zone of the Qinghai–Tibet Railway (QTR) faces the problem of permafrost degradation, especially in the warm and ice-rich permafrost areas. The settlement deformation of the embankment is more serious in these areas. Methods: This study systematically investigates the settlement deformation characteristics during 16 operational years of three types of typical roadbed structures. The traditional embankment (TE), U-shaped crushed-rock embankment (UCRE), and crushed-rock revetment embankment (CRRE) are the roadbed structures. The long-term monitoring ground temperature and deformation data of the embankment section along the QTR in warm permafrost areas from 2005 to 2020 are utilized in analysis. Results and Discussion: This study focuses on the influence law of the roadbed structure form, shady–sunny slope effect, and temperature field change on the settlement of the roadbed. The results indicated that the two types of the crushed-rock embankment (CRE) of the long-term cumulative settlement are less than 50% of the cumulative settlement of the TE, and the impact on controlling the settlement is significant. The annual settlements of the three types of embankment structures are related to the artificial permafrost table (APT) and influenced by cyclical climate change at the regional scale. The annual growth rate of the settlement at the left and right shoulders of the UCRE as a result of the effect of the shady–sunny slope does not vary considerably as the number of operational years increases. The impact of the shady–sunny slope on the CRRE for the various settlements before 2008 was negligible. After 2008, the thermal disturbance to the embankment temperature field induced by the preconstruction and the effect of shady–sunny slopes decreased gradually as the number of operational years increased. In some years of operation, a thawed interlayer in the TE and CRRE greatly affected the embankment settlement acceleration. The settlement growth rate of the TE is related to ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice permafrost Frontiers (Publisher) Frontiers in Environmental Science 11 |
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Introduction: The embankment in the permafrost zone of the Qinghai–Tibet Railway (QTR) faces the problem of permafrost degradation, especially in the warm and ice-rich permafrost areas. The settlement deformation of the embankment is more serious in these areas. Methods: This study systematically investigates the settlement deformation characteristics during 16 operational years of three types of typical roadbed structures. The traditional embankment (TE), U-shaped crushed-rock embankment (UCRE), and crushed-rock revetment embankment (CRRE) are the roadbed structures. The long-term monitoring ground temperature and deformation data of the embankment section along the QTR in warm permafrost areas from 2005 to 2020 are utilized in analysis. Results and Discussion: This study focuses on the influence law of the roadbed structure form, shady–sunny slope effect, and temperature field change on the settlement of the roadbed. The results indicated that the two types of the crushed-rock embankment (CRE) of the long-term cumulative settlement are less than 50% of the cumulative settlement of the TE, and the impact on controlling the settlement is significant. The annual settlements of the three types of embankment structures are related to the artificial permafrost table (APT) and influenced by cyclical climate change at the regional scale. The annual growth rate of the settlement at the left and right shoulders of the UCRE as a result of the effect of the shady–sunny slope does not vary considerably as the number of operational years increases. The impact of the shady–sunny slope on the CRRE for the various settlements before 2008 was negligible. After 2008, the thermal disturbance to the embankment temperature field induced by the preconstruction and the effect of shady–sunny slopes decreased gradually as the number of operational years increased. In some years of operation, a thawed interlayer in the TE and CRRE greatly affected the embankment settlement acceleration. The settlement growth rate of the TE is related to ... |
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Investigating characteristics of the long-term settlement of railway embankments in warm permafrost areas |
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