Settling of Structures on Thawing Ground (Opredelenie Osadok Sooruzhenii na Merzlykh Ottaivayushchikh Gruntakh)

• Main Author: Lapkin, G. I.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Structural Engineering and Building Technology; *FOUNDATIONS(STRUCTURES); *PERMAFROST; THERMAL PROPERTIES; USSR; LOADS(FORCES); DEFORMATION; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; SOILS; COMPRESSIVE PROPERTIES; CONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; HEATING; MELTING; TRANSLATIONS; *FREEZING; *SOILS; SETTLEMENT(STRUCTURAL); FOREIGN REPORTS; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0741057; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0741057

During construction on permafrost the question concerning the amount of forthcoming settlings has unique significance. An estimation of these settlings can be made on the basis of experiments with hot punches. The study examines a procedure for testing with punches. According to this technique, the soil's thawing is envisaged by means of heating the water poured into a test borehole for a depth of 20-30 cm above a sandy filling (20-30 cm) which covers the borehole bottom after the placement of the punch. Heating the water begins after loading the punch with the planned weight. Thawing continues until stabilization of the settlings. Draft trans. of Promyshlennoe Stroitelstvo (USSR) v19 n7/8 p27-29 Jul-Aug 1941.