This research was supported in part by Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research(A,16H02360)and(B,17H03307)from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS)KAKENHI.
Damage caused by frost heave leads to costly maintenance in cold regions, like Hokkaido, Japan. Therefore, thestudy of the frost mechanism with experimental and numerical methods has been of great interest. Numerousmo...
Transport structures built throughout the period from 1960 to 1980 in permafrost regions based on the principle of permafrost preservation are subject to deformations.In many cases,the reason is a gradual change in te...
Frost susceptibility is a concept widely used in cold region geotechnical design, to quantify the capacity of a soil in generating frost heave and frost damage. The laboratory test used to verify frost susceptibility ...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31870479,31570498,and 41801045);the Key Foreign Cooperation Projects of the Bureau of International Cooperation of Chinese Academy of Sciences(131B62KYSB20160014)
Microbes inhabiting the desert respond sensitively to environmental changes and may be an indicator for changes in the desert ecosystem.Hypolithic microbial communities in the desert play a vital role in ecosystem pro...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41271080 and No.41701060);the funding of the State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering(No.SKLFSE-ZT-17)
Ultrasonic detection technology is of great significance in the detection and evaluation of physical and mechanical properties of frozen soil, but wave propagation characteristics in frozen soil are unclear. Based on ...
supported by "the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities" (Grant No. 2015B25014);"the Practical Innovation Program for Postgraduate Students of Jiangsu Province, China" (Grant No. SJZZ15_0058);funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) (Grant No. 3014–SYS1401);the organizing committee of "XI International Symposium on Permafrost Engineering (Magadan, Russia, Sept. 5-8, 2017)" for giving the opportunity to exchange this study
Expansive soils located in cold regions can easily endure the action of frost heaving and cyclic freezing–thawing. Cracking can also occur in expansive clayey soils under freeze–thaw cycles, of which little attentio...
An analysis of the reasons for the displacements of long-term embankments maintained on permafrost soils indicates that they mainly occur due to plastic deformations in the layer of seasonal freezing and thawing;there...
supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41671069,No.41630636);Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering(SKLFSE-ZT-31)
The freezing-thawing deformation behaviors of consolidated soils under high pressure have been investigated in a high-pressure-low-temperature (HPLT) Kq consolidation apparatus with a small strain sensor. The tests...
supported by Japanese Ministry of Agriculture,Forestry and Fisheries
The solutions of boundary value problems involving strain-softening material property contain serious difficulties from both modeling of strain-localization and a viewpoint of numerical procedure. Mesh size-dependent ...
supported by the scientific research test of China Railway Corporation(Z2013-038);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51208320 and 51178281);the Key Subject of China Railway Corporation(Nos.2014G003-F and 2014G005)
Recent years have seen a large number of high-speed railways built and will be built in seasonal frozen soil regions ot China. Although high-speed railways are characterized by being fast, comfortable and safe, higher...