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http://dx.doi.org/10.9711/KTAJ.2016.18.5.401

Effect of pore-water salinity on freezing rate in application of rapid artificial ground freezing to deep subsea tunnel: concentration of laboratory freezing chamber test  

Oh, Mintaek (Seoul Housing & Communities Corporation)
Lee, Dongseop (School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
Son, Young-Jin (SK Engineering & Construction)
Lee, In-Mo (School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
Choi, Hangseok (School of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Korea University)
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Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association / v.18, no.5, 2016 , pp. 401-412 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is extremely difficult to apply conventional grouting methods to subsea tunnelling construction in the high water pressure condition. In such a condition, the rapid artificial freezing method can be an alternative to grouting to form a watertight zone around freezing pipes. For a proper design of the artificial freezing method, the influence of salinity on the freezing process has to be considered. However, there are few domestic tunnel construction that adopted the artificial freezing method, and influential factors on the freezing of the soil are not clearly identified. In this paper, a series of laboratory experiments were performed to identify the physical characteristics of frozen soil. Thermal conductivity of the frozen and unfrozen soil samples was measured through the thermal sensor adopting transient hot-wire method. Moreover, a lab-scale freezing chamber was devised to simulate freezing process of silica sand with consideration of the salinity of pore-water. The temperature in the silica sand sample was measured during the freezing process to evaluate the effect of pore-water salinity on the frozen rate that is one of the key parameters in designing the artificial freezing method in subsea tunnelling. In case of unfrozen soil, the soil samples saturated with fresh water (salinity of 0%) and brine water (salinity of 3.5%) showed a similar value of thermal conductivity. However, the frozen soil sample saturated with brine water led to the thermal conductivity notably higher than that of fresh water, which corresponds to the fact that the freezing rate of brine water was greater than that of fresh water in the freezing chamber test.
Keywords
Rapid artificial ground freezing; Subsea tunnel; Frozen chamber; Heat transfer; Thermal conductivity; Freezing rate; Salinity;
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