Field and numerical studies of an arctic highway embankment compacted with frozen fill over permafrost
Highway embankments in arctic regions are constructed during winter because 1) of ease in moving fill materials, 2) to preserve the permafrost, and 3) to minimize environmental impact. This means that the fill is often frozen during compaction. There is uncertainty about the performance of embankmen...
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ftunivmanitoba:oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/33818 2023-06-18T03:38:49+02:00 Field and numerical studies of an arctic highway embankment compacted with frozen fill over permafrost Piamsalee, Aron Alfaro, Marolo (Civil Engineering) Arenson, Lukas (Civil Engineering) Doré, Guy (Civil Engineering) Zhang, Qiang (Biosystems Engineering) 2019-04-02T23:43:41Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1993/33818 eng eng Harvard http://hdl.handle.net/1993/33818 open access Arctic Highway Embankment Frozen Soil Compaction Permafrost Geotechnical Thermal Modelling master thesis 2019 ftunivmanitoba 2023-06-04T17:37:46Z Highway embankments in arctic regions are constructed during winter because 1) of ease in moving fill materials, 2) to preserve the permafrost, and 3) to minimize environmental impact. This means that the fill is often frozen during compaction. There is uncertainty about the performance of embankments in arctic regions that are compacted with fill that is initially frozen and then experiences natural thawing during subsequent summers. This study will look into the performance of a highway embankment test section in the newly-constructed Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Numerical modeling of the embankment temperatures and deformations were calibrated with measurements from the field instrumentation over the first thawing season. The calibrated numerical models were used to investigate important factors affecting the performance of the embankment during and shortly after construction. May 2019 Master Thesis Arctic Inuvik Northwest Territories permafrost Tuktoyaktuk MSpace at the University of Manitoba Arctic Canada Inuvik ENVELOPE(-133.610,-133.610,68.341,68.341) Northwest Territories Tuktoyaktuk ENVELOPE(-133.006,-133.006,69.425,69.425) |
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Highway embankments in arctic regions are constructed during winter because 1) of ease in moving fill materials, 2) to preserve the permafrost, and 3) to minimize environmental impact. This means that the fill is often frozen during compaction. There is uncertainty about the performance of embankments in arctic regions that are compacted with fill that is initially frozen and then experiences natural thawing during subsequent summers. This study will look into the performance of a highway embankment test section in the newly-constructed Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Numerical modeling of the embankment temperatures and deformations were calibrated with measurements from the field instrumentation over the first thawing season. The calibrated numerical models were used to investigate important factors affecting the performance of the embankment during and shortly after construction. May 2019 |
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Alfaro, Marolo (Civil Engineering) Arenson, Lukas (Civil Engineering) Doré, Guy (Civil Engineering) Zhang, Qiang (Biosystems Engineering) |
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Field and numerical studies of an arctic highway embankment compacted with frozen fill over permafrost |
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Field and numerical studies of an arctic highway embankment compacted with frozen fill over permafrost |
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Field and numerical studies of an arctic highway embankment compacted with frozen fill over permafrost |
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Field and numerical studies of an arctic highway embankment compacted with frozen fill over permafrost |
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Field and numerical studies of an arctic highway embankment compacted with frozen fill over permafrost |
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field and numerical studies of an arctic highway embankment compacted with frozen fill over permafrost |
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2019 |
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ENVELOPE(-133.610,-133.610,68.341,68.341) ENVELOPE(-133.006,-133.006,69.425,69.425) |
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Arctic Canada Inuvik Northwest Territories Tuktoyaktuk |
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Arctic Canada Inuvik Northwest Territories Tuktoyaktuk |
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Arctic Inuvik Northwest Territories permafrost Tuktoyaktuk |
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Arctic Inuvik Northwest Territories permafrost Tuktoyaktuk |
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