Accession Number:

AD0769719

Title:

Experimental Method of Classifying Soils According to the Extent to Which They Break up on Freezing (Methode Experimentale de Classment des Sols Selon leur Degre de Gelivite),

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H

Personal Author(s):

• Aguirre-Puente,J.
• Dupas,A.
• Philippe,A.

Report Date:

1973-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

25.0

Abstract:

A method is discussed for classifying soils, according to the extent they break up on freezing. This method, based upon a test of swelling upon freezing, permits relative classification of different soils with respect to one another according to a parameter which is the slope of the straight line curve of swelling as a function of the square root of the frost index. An experimental installation was developed for this purpose, with which relative classification of eight soils covering a wide range in their extent of breaking up on freezing was accomplished.

Descriptors:

• (*Soil classification
• Experimental data)
• Soils
• Soil dynamics
• Freezing
• Thawing
• Heat transfer
• Mass transfer
• France
• Translations

Subject Categories:

• Soil Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE