FROST INVESTIGATIONS 1949-1950. INTERIM REPORT OF COLD ROOM STUDIES

Cold room studies of frost action in soils are being performed by the Frost Effects Laboratory, Corps of Engineers, New England Division for the Airfields Branch, Office, Chief of Engineers, as part of a continuing program of frost investigations aimed toward establishing and improving design and ev...

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Other Authors: ARCTIC CONSTRUCTION AND FROST EFFECTS LAB BOSTON MA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1950
Subjects:
Soil Mechanics
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*PERMAFROST
*TEST FACILITIES
FREEZING
MELTING
PHOTOGRAPHS
REPORTS
SAMPLING
SOILS
STATISTICAL DATA
TEST EQUIPMENT
TEST METHODS
THERMOCOUPLES
TESTS
*FREEZING
*SOILS
Ice
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0712624
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0712624
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Summary:Cold room studies of frost action in soils are being performed by the Frost Effects Laboratory, Corps of Engineers, New England Division for the Airfields Branch, Office, Chief of Engineers, as part of a continuing program of frost investigations aimed toward establishing and improving design and evaluation criteria for roads, highways and airfield runways constructed on soils which are subject to seasonal freezing and thawing. The present laboratory studies are being made chiefly to determine the quantitative effects of individual factors which influence ice segregation in soils, such as gradation, per cent finer than 0.02 mm., per cent rock content, permeability, capillarity, proximity of water supply, density, and the initial degree of saturation in a closed system. Data from studies completed up to 15 June 1950 are presented in this interim report.

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