Possible Settling of Perennially Frozen Loose Deposits in West Siberia during Thawing (Vozmoshnye Osadki pri Profaivanii Mnogelet Nemerzlykh Sibir)

• Main Author: Dubikov,G. I.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Civil Engineering; (*SOILS; DEFORMATION); (*PERMAFROST; SOILS); FOUNDATIONS(STRUCTURES); CONSTRUCTION; ICE; MELTING; FREEZING; MOISTURE; TABLES(DATA); SIBERIA; USSR; TRANSLATIONS; Sibir’; Ice; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0738127; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0738127

In the development of land with perennially frozen friable deposits of great depth, a serious danger is presented by the thermal settlings of buildings erected on high-ice soils. Therefore a knowledge of the amounts of possible settlings permits the builder to form a rough judgment concerning the su...