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Kun Zhang, Pengbo Chang, Jianxi Ren, Zheng Liu and Ke Wang
The fractured rock mass in the western cold region is affected by freezing and thawing disasters and is prone to local damage and fracture along the fissures? ends. The fatigue damage induced by repeated frost heave and traffic loads seriously endangers ...
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Mingxing Cao, Yimin Zhang and Tianfei Hu
This study aimed to investigate the practical applications of a ground source heat pump (GSHP) system for heating applications in embankment engineering. A special direct-expansion GSHP (DE-GSHP) was designed and manufactured, and its performance was exp...
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Dong-Su Park, Mun-Beom Shin, Woo-Jin Park and Young-Kyo Seo
Seasonal frost or permafrost soils may encounter frost heave or thaw settlement resulting from atmospheric temperature changes and/or heat emanating from the resource-carrying pipeline. Notably, these soil movements can damage the pipeline. Thus, various...
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Renjie Teng, Xin Gu, Xiaozhou Xia and Qing Zhang
This work presents a comprehensive coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical model to explore the frost heave mechanism of the concrete-lined canal under a freeze?thaw environment. Unlike previous models that regard concrete as a homogeneous material, this model ...
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Xianghui Kong, Shuai Cui, Gaoqiang Wang, Wenjun Hu, Yunpeng Liang and Zhibin Zhang
To explore the damage evolution law of cement-stabilized weathered sand under the action of freeze?thaw cycles, relevant experimental research was carried out on stabilized weathered sand with a cement content of 3%, including unconfined compressive stre...
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Alan W. Rempel and Alexandra R. Rempel
Earth-based building materials are increasingly valued in green design for their low embodied energy, humidity-buffering ability, and thermal stability. These materials perform well in warm dry climates, but greater understanding of long-term durability ...
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