Winter-time convection in open-graded embankments

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-74

  Goering, Douglas J ^a   Kumar, Pankaj ^a  

^a University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; EMBANKMENT; FOUNDATION SOIL; PERMAFROST; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUBARCTIC REGION;

COLD WEATHER PROBLEMS; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT CONVECTION; ISOTHERMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PERMAFROST; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; VECTORS;

OPEN GRADED EMBANKMENTS; WINTER TIME NATURAL CONVECTION;

EMBANKMENTS;

EID: 0029668630     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-232X(95)00011-Y     Document Type: Article

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