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

• 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

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.