The effect of permafrost changes on embankment stability along the Qinghai-Xizang Railway

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3321-3328

  Wu, Qingbai ^a   Niu, Fujun ^a   Ma, Wei ^a   Liu, Yongzhi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Deformation; Embankment stability; Permafrost changes; Qinghai Xizang Railway

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EMBANKMENTS; MECHANICAL STABILITY; RAILROADS; THAWING;

EMBANKMENT SETTLEMENT; EMBANKMENT STABILITY; LARGE-SCALE DEFORMATION; PERMAFROST THAWING; QINGHAI-XIZANG RAILWAY; RAILWAY EMBANKMENT; SETTLEMENT DEFORMATION; THERMAL AND MECHANICAL STABILITIES;

PERMAFROST;

DEFORMATION; EMBANKMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; PERMAFROST;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84897440713     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2718-z     Document Type: Article

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