Naturally Frozen Soils from the Field to the Laboratory

ISCORD 2013 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin A. Still ◽  
Zhaohui (Joey) Yang ◽  
Xiaoxuan Ge ◽  
Anthony Paris
Keyword(s):  
Frozen Soils

Enzymatic activity of strains of bacteria Bacillus subtilis isolated from frozen soils

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
M.P. Scriabina ◽  
◽  
A.M. Stepanova ◽  
N.P. Tarabukina ◽  
M.P. Neustroev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bacillus Subtilis ◽  
Enzymatic Activity ◽  
Frozen Soils

Melting of ice in a porous medium saturated with ice and gas while injecting warm water

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 112-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.Sh. Shagapov ◽  
M.N. Zapivakhina
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Warm Water ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Simplified Models ◽  
Frozen Soils ◽  
Porous Formation

The numerical models for the injection of warm water (in the temperature range from 300 to 340 K) into a cold porous formation are considered. Simplified models describing the processes of heat and mass transfer are proposed. The influence of the parameters determining the initial state of the porous medium, the boundary pressure, temperature and moisture content on the rate of propagation of hydrodynamic and temperature fields in the porous medium is investigated. It has been established that it is economically feasible to melt frozen soils saturated with ice and gas (air) at a sufficiently low temperature of the injected water (about 300 K).

scholarly journals Effects of preferential flow on snowmelt partitioning and groundwater recharge in frozen soils

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 5017-5031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron A. Mohammed ◽  
Igor Pavlovskii ◽  
Edwin E. Cey ◽  
Masaki Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Groundwater Recharge ◽  
Preferential Flow ◽  
Frozen Soil ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Runoff Generation ◽  
Frozen Ground ◽  
Soil Matrix ◽  
Frozen Soils ◽  
Flow Through

Abstract. Snowmelt is a major source of groundwater recharge in cold regions. Throughout many landscapes snowmelt occurs when the ground is still frozen; thus frozen soil processes play an important role in snowmelt routing, and, by extension, the timing and magnitude of recharge. This study investigated the vadose zone dynamics governing snowmelt infiltration and groundwater recharge at three grassland sites in the Canadian Prairies over the winter and spring of 2017. The region is characterized by numerous topographic depressions where the ponding of snowmelt runoff results in focused infiltration and recharge. Water balance estimates showed infiltration was the dominant sink (35 %–85 %) of snowmelt under uplands (i.e. areas outside of depressions), even when the ground was frozen, with soil moisture responses indicating flow through the frozen layer. The refreezing of infiltrated meltwater during winter melt events enhanced runoff generation in subsequent melt events. At one site, time lags of up to 3 d between snow cover depletion on uplands and ponding in depressions demonstrated the role of a shallow subsurface transmission pathway or interflow through frozen soil in routing snowmelt from uplands to depressions. At all sites, depression-focused infiltration and recharge began before complete ground thaw and a significant portion (45 %–100 %) occurred while the ground was partially frozen. Relatively rapid infiltration rates and non-sequential soil moisture and groundwater responses, observed prior to ground thaw, indicated preferential flow through frozen soils. The preferential flow dynamics are attributed to macropore networks within the grassland soils, which allow infiltrated meltwater to bypass portions of the frozen soil matrix and facilitate both the lateral transport of meltwater between topographic positions and groundwater recharge through frozen ground. Both of these flow paths may facilitate preferential mass transport to groundwater.

A creep constitutive model for frozen soils with different contents of coarse grains

2018 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 119-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Hou ◽  
Yuanming Lai ◽  
Enlong Liu ◽  
Huiwu Luo ◽  
Xingyan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Model ◽  
Frozen Soils ◽  
Coarse Grains ◽  
Creep Constitutive Model

Lateral Earth Pressure Coefficient of Soils Subjected to Freeze–Thaw

2017 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Zhao ◽  
Guoqing Zhou ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Wei Jiao ◽  
Jing Yu
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Coefficient ◽  
Earth Pressure ◽  
Retaining Walls ◽  
Saturated Soil ◽  
Frozen Soils ◽  
Freeze Thaw ◽  
Lateral Earth Pressure ◽  
Soil Deposits ◽  
Earth Pressure Coefficient ◽  
Water Saturated

Artificial frozen soils (AFS) have been used widely as temporary retaining walls in strata with soft and water-saturated soil deposits. After excavations, frozen soils thaw, and the lateral earth pressure penetrates through the soils subjected to freeze–thaw, and acts on man-made facilities. Therefore, it is important to investigate the lateral pressure (coefficient) responses of soils subjected to freeze–thaw to perform structure calculations and stability assessments of man-made facilities. A cubical testing apparatus was developed, and tests were performed on susceptible soils under conditions of freezing to a stable thermal gradient and then thawing with a uniform temperature (Fnonuni–Tuni). The experimental results indicated a lack of notable anisotropy for the maximum lateral preconsolidated pressures induced by the specimen’s compaction and freeze–thaw. However, the freeze–thaw led to a decrement of lateral earth pressure coefficient  K0, and  K0 decrement under the horizontal Fnonuni–Tuni was greater than that under the vertical Fnonuni–Tuni. The measured  K0 for normally consolidated and over-consolidated soil specimens exhibited anisotropic characteristics under the vertical Fnonuni–Tuni and horizontal Fnonuni–Tuni treatments. The anisotropies of  K0 under the horizontal Fnonuni–Tuni were greater than that under the vertical Fnonuni–Tuni, and the anisotropies were more noticeable in the unloading path than that in the loading path. These observations have potential significances to the economical and practical design of permanent retaining walls in soft and water-saturated soil deposits.

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