WATER PERMEABILITY OF FROZEN SAND (O Vodopronitsaemosti Merzlogo Peska)

• Main Author: Komarov ,V. D.
• Other Authors: SNOW ICE AND PERMAFROST RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT WILMETTE ILL
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1961
• Subjects: Soil Mechanics; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*SOILS; MOISTURE); FREEZING; TEMPERATURE; ABSORPTION; SAND; TEST METHODS; USSR; *FREEZING; *SOILS; GROUND WATER; TRANSLATIONS; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0701177; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0701177

The total amount of water and ice in frozen sand several hours after the test always remained considerably higher than the capillary moisture capacity of unfrozen sand. This is not without interest because one can easily imagine a process of considerable supersaturation of frozen sand as a result of alternating freezing and thawing. (Author) Trans. of Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Institut Merzlotovedeniya. Materialy po Laboratornym Issledovaniyam Merzlykh Gruntov, n3 p142-148 1957. Also available as TT-61-19831.