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- 1Effective stress in frozen soils
- 1Freezing soils
- 1Frozen soils
- 1Piezometer
- 1Pore-water pressure
- 1Skempton parameters
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Fall 2012
Knowledge of pore-water pressure is essential to predict the ‘effective stress’ that controls the ‘resistance and deformation’ of a soil and to assess the ‘flow’ of water through it. Flow of water towards the freezing fringe controls the amount of frost heave in freezing soils. Drainage of this...
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