COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING MONOGRAPH 3, SECTION A2a: METHODS OF BUILDING ON PERMANENT SNOWFIELDS,

Abstract

The monograph describes the development of building in, on, and of, snow, beginning with the Eskimo snowhouse for temporary shelter, and leading to permanent installations like 6500-ton steel structures above the snow surface, and a large subsurface encampment maintained with the help of a nuclear reactor. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0681889

Entities

People

  • Malcolm Miller

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cold Regions
  • Determinants (Mathematics)
  • Engineering
  • Nuclear Reactors
  • Regions
  • Snow
  • Snowfields

Readers

  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies