Author(s): N. K. Vasiliev
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Abstract: The need to bring different building materials to the remote cold regions makes construction in these regions more difficult and rather expensive. The need to have such materials can be reduced by the use o f ice composites. This paper considers the various methods of ice reinforcement and creation of ice composites. The classificat ion of the various methods of ice reinforcement and the results of studying ice strengthened by disperse and fibrous reinforcement are presented. Also the method of ice reinforcement with cryotropic gel format ion is described. The analyt ical relat ionships for determining the strength of ice reinforced with short length fibres are derived. The tests show that the shear strength and ant ifiltrat ion properties of ice-so il composites created by the method of cryotropic gel formation are rather high even after thawing.
Year: 2010