Abstract:Thaw consolidation of frozen ground is one of the main causes for settlement of foundations in cold regions engineering. This paper firstly derived an improved von Wolffersdorff hypoplastic model by incorporating an internal state variable S to represent the cohesive forces of frozen soils. Then the principle of effective stress was enhanced by introducing a new expression of the Bishop Factor based on the water retention curves of fine sand. As for the migration of water during thaw consolidation, a modified … Show more
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