FOUNDATIONS AND BASES ON PERPETUALLY FROZEN GROUND

• Main Author: Dokuchaev,V. V.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: Soil Mechanics; Civil Engineering; Structural Engineering and Building Technology; (*FOUNDATIONS(STRUCTURES); ARCTIC REGIONS); PERMAFROST; SOILS; DESIGN; MELTING; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; USSR; TRANSLATIONS; Arctic; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0711909; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0711909

The book sets forth practical methods of designing foundations on perpetually frozen soils. The first chapter contains brief information on the structural properties of frozen soils and ways to use them for bases for buildings, while the second and third chapters deal with methods of designing foundations on bases composed of frozen and thawing soils. (Author) Trans. of mono. Osnovaniya i Fundamenty na Vechnomerzlykh Gruntakh, Leningrad/Moscow, 1963 p1-197.