Experimental Analysis of Frost Susceptibilityfor Remolded Clayey Loess
XU Jian,NIU Fu jun,NIU Yong hong,LIN Zhan ju and XU Zhi ying
DOI:10.11835/j.issn.1674-4764.2010.01.006
Received July 06, 2009,Revised , Accepted , Available online July 01, 2015
Volume ,2010,Pages 24-30
- Abstract
A typical clayey loess obtained along the Shenyang Ha’erbin Express Railway was taken as a case study. The effect of non saturated water content, temperature, freezing rate, supplying water condition and freezing thawing circulation on the frost susceptibility of soil were investigated with freezing and thawing experiments. It was shown that in the closed system, the frost heaving ratio of unsaturated soil increased with water content increasing and eventually reached a stable value. And for the soil samples with low water content, the frozen heave rate increased with the decrease of temperature. While for the samples with relatively higher water content, the frozen heave rate decreased with the increase of temperature. As regards the open system, the frost heaving ratio increased with a growing gradient as the freezing rate decreased. Water feeding made the frost heave amount increase significantly, while less with the increase of water content. The frost heave deformation showed exponential decline trend with the increase the frequency of freezing and thawing for soil with low dry density, while exponential increase for the soil with high dry density.