Prediction of the Temperature Stability of Dams Built of Local Materials on Permafrost Bases

• Main Authors: Tsytovich,N. A., Ukhova,N. V., Ukhov,S. B.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1974
• Subjects: Civil Engineering; *SOIL DYNAMICS; *PERMAFROST; *DAMS; USSR; THERMAL STABILITY; COLD REGIONS; CONSTRUCTION; TRANSLATIONS; Footings; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA002571; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA002571

Contents: Concerning the construction of dams from local material on permafrost footings; Features in heat exchange in rocks as a material for dams and foundations; Prediction of heat exchange in nonfiltering dams; Practical methods for calculating the temperature fields of frozen dams and their footings; Experimental studies of temperature in regime in models of frozen dams. Draft trans. of mono. Prognoz Temperaturnoi Ustoichivosti Plotin iz Mestnykh Materialov na Vechnomerzlykh Osnovaniyakh, Leningrad, 1972 p4-142.