Factors Influencing Development of Longitudinal Profile Deformations of the Roadbed in the Permafrost Zone

The seasonal temperature and humidity regime of the road foundation in the active layer of soil largely determines the reliability and safety of the automobile road use. The aim of this article is a quantitative assessment of the influence of variation in ice content in the active layer of the road foundation soil in the permafrost area on the depth of seasonal soil thawing. Analytical solutions of one-phase flat Stefan problem at varying ice content along the coordinate were obtained. The solution is in the dimensionless form as a Fourier function based on Stefan number and dimensionless simplexes. The dependence of ice content change on the distance was assumed to be linear. Calculations using the obtained formulas were conducted, comparing against formulas assuming that ice content is a constant. It was determined at which ice content gradient averaging the ice content does not lead to an error greater than permitted in engineering practice in determination of the thawing depth. The results of variant calculations are presented as 2D and 3D charts to assess the influence of the initial ice content in the soil and the degree of its variation over the period of road use on the thawing depth of road foundation.

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The Depth of the Zone of Thermal Influence of Highways

Galkin¹

2022

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The thermal regime of road surface and basements is an important factor determining their reliable and safe operation in the cryolithozone. The aim of the research was to quantify the possibility of replacing the layered environment of the road's soil base with an equivalent homogeneous soil with an average coefficient of thermal conductivity when calculating the depth of the road's thermal influence zone. Two methods of averaging the thermophysical properties of a layered medium are considered: weighted average and arithmetic average. Dependences are obtained for determining the degree of deviation of the properties and thicknesses of the layers of the soil base, in which both methods are acceptable for engineering calculations. As an example, the two-layer medium of the road base is considered. For the analysis, the classical formula of the depth of thermal influence was used, obtained from the solution by the integral method of the one-dimensional equation of unsteady thermal conductivity. Simple engineering formulas are given for the relative error in determining the values of the depth of thermal influence when using an equivalent layer of pavement in calculations. A concrete example of calculating the depth of the zone of thermal influence in the two-layer soil of the road base is considered. The equation of the functional relationship between the parameters characterizing the degree of deviation of the thickness and thermophysical properties of individual layers from each other is obtained, which provides an error in the calculations of the depth of the zone of thermal influence less than the permissible value. The results of numerical calculations are presented in the form of 2D and 2D graphs, which allow us to visually assess the influence of the range of changes in the values of the thermal conductivity coefficients of individual soil layers on the legality of using various methods of constructing an equivalent single-layer road foundation structure.

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Factors Influencing Development of Longitudinal Profile Deformations of the Roadbed in the Permafrost Zone

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Depth of Thermal Influence of Automobile Roads

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The Depth of the Zone of Thermal Influence of Highways

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