Historical Perspectives in Frost Heave Research: The Early Works of S. Taber and G. Beskow

Abstract

This report contains a historical perspective of frost heave research conducted in North America and Europe since the early 1900s, and, in the interest of making some classic works on the mechanics of frost heave available in one document, Stephen Taber's two papers entitled Frost Heaving (1929) and The Mechanics of Frost Heaving (1930) published in the Journal of Geology, and J.O. Osterberg's translation of Gunnar Beskow's monograph, Soil Freezing and Frost Heaving with Special Attention to Roads and Railroads (1935).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA247424

Entities

People

  • Mark J. Hardenberg
  • Patrick B. Black

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Construction
  • Equations Of State
  • Groundwater
  • Heat Energy
  • Isotherms
  • Latent Heat
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Soil Science
  • Tensile Strength
  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Thermodynamics
  • Transitions
  • Water Resources
  • Water Supplies

Readers

  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.