Numerical modelling for crushed rock layer thickness of highway embankments in permafrost regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Engineering Geology

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 181-190

  Sun, Binxiang ^a   Yang, Lijun ^a   Liu, Qi ^a   Xu, Xuezu ^a  

^a SHAOXING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cooling effect; Crushed rock layer; Embankment; Permafrost; Qinghai Tibet Highway

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE WARMING; COOLING CAPABILITY; COOLING EFFECTS; CRITICAL THICKNESS; CRUSHED ROCK; CRUSHED ROCK EMBANKMENT; CRUSHED ROCK LAYER; END POINTS; ENHANCED COOLING; FOUNDATION SOILS; GRAIN SIZE; GROUND TEMPERATURE; HIGHWAY EMBANKMENTS; INITIAL POINT; NATURAL CONVECTION COOLING; NATURAL CONVECTION INDEX; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERMAFROST REGION; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; QINGHAI-TIBET HIGHWAYS; RAILWAY EMBANKMENT; SIDE SLOPE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; UPPER BOUNDARY; WINTER MONTHS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBANKMENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; NATURAL CONVECTION; PERMAFROST; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ROCKS;

COOLING; EMBANKMENT; MODELING; MOTORWAY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; THERMAL CONVECTION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77955173089     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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