Preliminary study on cooling effect mechanisms of Qinghai-Tibet railway embankment with open crushed-stone side slope in permafrost regions

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 193-201

  Li, Guoyu ^a   Li, Ning ^a,b   Kang, Jiamei ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cooling effect; Embankment with open crushed stone side slope; Heat flow; Qinghai Tibet railway; Temperature field; Velocity field

Indexed keywords

COOLING; EMBANKMENTS; FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT SHIELDING; RAILROADS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

COOLING EFFECT; HEAT FLOW; SOLAR SHADING; TEMPERATURE FIELD; VELOCITY FIELD;

PERMAFROST;

COOLING; EMBANKMENT; HEAT FLOW; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERMAFROST; RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33746896204     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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