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Reinforcement percentage effects on bending strength of soil-ice mixtures. W.A. Nixon and L.J. Weber. J. Cold Regions Engng., ASCE, September 1995, 9(3), 152--163.
Attention is drawn to the high cost of transporting traditional construction materials to remote Arctic locations. This need can be reduced by the use of ice-soil mixtures. The effect has been studied of percentage reinforcement of sand on the simple bend strength of soil-ice composite beams. The beams were loaded in bending, at a crosshead displacement rate of 50 mm/min. and at a temperature of -5 degrees C---all samples failed in a brittle manner. The bending strength increased with increasing reinforcement. This behaviour is explained by a simple model, extending the work of the strength model proposed by Nixon and Weber, to take into account the effect of percentage reinforcement. 20 refs.
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Keywords: Arctic Environment
Subjects: Construction Materials, Environment, Construction, Oil and gas, Oil
