Accession Number:

AD0725156

Title:

Investigation of the Strength Properties of Frozen Soils. Fiscal Year 1952. Report of Investigations. Volume 1.

Descriptive Note:

Draft rept.

Corporate Author:

ARCTIC CONSTRUCTION AND FROST EFFECTS LAB BOSTON MASS

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1953-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

135.0

Abstract:

The report contains the data obtained during the second consecutive year of investigational laboratory work on the strength properties of frozen soils. It is a continuation and extension of the investigational program initiated in Fiscal Year 1951 and reported fully in SIPRE Report 8, Investigation of Description, Classification, and Strength Properties of Frozen Soils, Fiscal Year 1951, dated June 1952. Author

Descriptors:

• (*SOILS
• FREEZING)
• (*SOIL MECHANICS
• TEST METHODS)
• FLEXURAL STRENGTH
• COMPRESSIVE PROPERTIES
• SHEAR STRESSES
• ELASTIC PROPERTIES
• CLAY
• GRAVEL
• SAND
• SILT
• STATISTICAL DATA

Subject Categories:

• Soil Mechanics
• Snow, Ice and Permafrost

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE