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http://dx.doi.org/10.12814/jkgss.2013.12.2.013

The Frost Heaving Susceptibility Evaluation of Subgrade Soils Using Laboratory Freezing System  

Shin, Eun Chul (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Incheon National University)
Ryu, Byung Hyun (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Incheon National University)
Park, Jeong Jun (Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Incheon National University)
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Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society / v.12, no.2, 2013 , pp. 13-23 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Korean Peninsula is considered as a seasonal frozen area that is thawed in the spring and frozen in the winter. The influence of fines of the frost susceptibility of subgrade soils were established by laboratory freezing tests simulating closely the thermal conditions in the field. During the winter season, the climate is heavily influenced by the cold and dry continental high pressure. Because of siberian air mass, the temperature of January is $-6{\sim}-7^{\circ}C$ on average. This chilly weather generate the frost heaving by freezing the moisture of soil and damage potential of the geotechnical structure. In the freezing soil, the ice lenses increase the freeze portion of soil by absorbing the ground water with capillary action. However, the capillary characteristics differ from the sort of soil on the state of freezing condition. In this study, ten soil samples are prepared. The basic physical property tests were performed by following the Korean Industrial Standard and the soil specimens were classified by the Unified Soil Classification System (USCS). These classified soils are used to perform the laboratory opened systems freezing test in order to determine the frost heaving characteristics of soils such as unfrozen water content, heaving amount, and freezing depth.
Keywords
Frost susceptibility; Heave amount; Unfrozen water content; Freezing depth; Laboratory freezing test;
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