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PREDICTION OF FIELD FROST HEAVE USING THE SEGREGATION POTENTIAL THEORY

1988; Volume: 1988; Issue: 400 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2208/jscej.1988.400_253

1882-7187

Makoto Fukuda, Shoji Ogawa, Takeshi KAMEI,

Soil and Unsaturated Flow

In cold and snowy areas, road pavement is greately damaged by frost heave in the ground.This paper describes the measurement results of temperature, underground temperature, frost heaving, and soil profile obtained by field investigations (e. g. pit cutting and boring survey) at an elevation of 1750m in the Kita Yatsugatake Tateshina lava plateau.This study led to the conclusion that fairly accurate estimates of frost heave in the field can be obtained through the use of the Segregation Potential Theory by Konrad and Morgenstern. In addition, the soil profile at the site was recorded.