Numerical Simulation of Frost Heave in Soils around the Buried Oil Pipeline in Island Talik Permafrost Region

• Published in: Advances in Mechanical Engineering
• Main Authors: Fu, Zaiguo, Yu, Bo, Zhao, Yu, Kawaguchi, Yasuo
• Other Authors: National Natural Science Foundation of China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2014
• Subjects: permafrost
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/714818; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1155/2014/714818; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1155/2014/714818

A systematic method to obtain the freezing characteristics and the amounts of frost heave in the soils around a buried oil pipeline in island talik permafrost region is presented on the basis of the simulation of soil temperature fields and a classic segregated potential frost heave model. The finit...