Comparative Analysis of the U.S.S.R. Construction Codes and the U.S. Army Technical Manual for Design of Foundations on Permafrost,

Abstract

A comparative study was made of design criteria and analytical methods for footings and pile foundations on permafrost employed in U.S.S.R. Design Code SNiP II-18-76 (1977) and U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Special Report 80-34. The absence of adequate constitutive equations for frozen soils and of rigorous solutions of the boundary problems has made it necessary to incorporate (explicity or implicity) various safety factors in the foundation analyses. From the review it is concluded that the principal difference between these practices is in the assessment and application of appropriate values of safety factors, which leads to a substantial discrepancy in the dimensions and cost of footings and pile foundations in permafrost.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA116234

Entities

People

  • Anatoly M. Fish

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buildings And Structures
  • Cold Regions
  • Constitutive Equations
  • Construction
  • Design Criteria
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Equations
  • Field Tests
  • Laboratory Tests
  • Law
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Regions
  • Safety Factor
  • Soils
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design