Variations in the Porosity of Frozen Ground Produced by Thawing (K Metodike Opredeleniya Koeffitsientov Ottaivaniya i Uplotneniya Merzlykh Gruntov)

• Main Author: Shusherina ,E. P.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: Soil Mechanics; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Structural Engineering and Building Technology; (*SOILS; POROSITY); (*SOIL MECHANICS; MELTING); (*FOUNDATIONS(STRUCTURES); DEFORMATION); PRESSURE; SAND; CLAY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TABLES(DATA); PERMAFROST; USSR; *FREEZING; *SOILS; TRANSLATIONS; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0739962; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0739962

The experiments conducted with quartz sand, blanket loam and varved clay fully confirm the theory previously expressed by N.A. Tsytovich concerning the rectilinear dependence between the variation in porosity factor and the value for pressure on soil during thawing. (Author) Draft trans. of Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Institut Merzlotovedeniya. Materialy po Laboratornym Issledovaniyam Merzlykh Gruntov, n1 p118-134 1953.