Building Dams in Permafrost Regions (Stroitelstvo Plotiny v Raione Vechnoi Merzlety)

By observations, the author has confirmed the possibility of erecting dams in permafrost regions on loose soils containing much ice and he has shown that the complete freezing of a dam's body with the aid of flowing cold air through (according to a special system built into the dam) occurs quit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Semenov,N. G.
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1974
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
Civil Engineering
*PERMAFROST
*DAMS
USSR
SOILS
FREEZING
CONSTRUCTION
ICE
MELTING
TRANSLATIONS
MOISTURE
Cold weather construction
Ice
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA003319
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA003319
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Summary:By observations, the author has confirmed the possibility of erecting dams in permafrost regions on loose soils containing much ice and he has shown that the complete freezing of a dam's body with the aid of flowing cold air through (according to a special system built into the dam) occurs quite intensively. He details the procedures involved in planning and building the dam in a permafrost region. Draft trans. of Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitelstvo (USSR) n9 p14-15 1967.

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