FROST ACTION PREDICTIVE TECHNIQUES: AN OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH RESULTS

A 6-year research program has materially advanced the state of knowledge regarding frost heave and thaw weakening affecting roads and airfield pavements. The investigations included development of computer models, testing and data collection at field pavement test sites, and validation of the laboratory procedures and computer models aganist field data. Specific advances include development of a new freezing test to assess the frost susceptibility of soil; development and validation of a mathematical model serving to predict frost heave and thaw consolidation; development of a laboratory test procedure to determine the resilient modulus of frozen, thawed, and recovering granular soils; and conceptualizaion and testing of a technique for combining the frost heave and thaw consolidation model, the laboratory resilient modulus test, and a pavement response model to predict the nonlinear resilient modulus of granular soils and base course materials as variables in time and space.

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• Authors:
  • Johnson, T C
  • Berg, R L
  • DiMillio, A
• Publication Date: 1986

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 147-161
• Monograph Title: Geotechnical engineering
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1089
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Consolidation; Freezing; Frost heaving; Frost susceptibility; Granular soils; Mathematical models; Modulus of resilience; Soil tests; Soils; State of the art studies; Strength of materials; Test procedures; Thaw
• Uncontrolled Terms: Soil consolidation
• Old TRIS Terms: Frost heave
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; I42: Soil Mechanics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00471864
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309041090
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jul 31 1988 12:00AM