Snow Road Construction Technique by Layered Compaction of Snowblower Processed Snow.

• Main Authors: Thomas,M. W., Vaudrey,K. D.
• Other Authors: NAVAL CIVIL ENGINEERING LAB PORT HUENEME CALIF
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Civil Engineering; (*SNOW; COMPACTING); (*ROADS; SNOW); SNOW VEHICLES; TRAFFICABILITY; BLOWERS; TRACTORS; TOWED VEHICLES; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; COLD WEATHER CONSTRUCTION; Antarctic; McMurdo Station; Williams Field; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0767637; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0767637

Elevated high-strength snow roads are constructed over the deep snowfields in Antarctica between McMurdo Station and the Williams Field complex to move cargo and personnel in rubber-tired vehicles. The purpose of this experiment was to simplify the existing techniques developed by the Naval Civil En...