From the material science point of view, saturated frozen soil is a natural particulate composite, composed of solid grains, ice and unfrozen water. The mechanical behaviour of such a material is strongly affected by the ...

This paper reviews eight geoacoustic models applied to frozen soils: crystal growth models (grain cementing, grain coating, matrix supporting, and pore filling), the weighted equation (WE) model, Zimmerman and King's model ...

This paper gives a summary of some of the main findings of the EU founded project “Creep of geomaterials”, CREEP. CREEP was an Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP) project funded from the 7th Framework Programme ...

Interest in permafrost, or seasonally frozen ground, has been increasing over the last decades. Nearly 24% of the northern hemisphere, is covered with permafrost. Humankind's need for energy and raw materials has pushed ...

The in situ earth pressure coefficient at rest (K0) for clay has been widely discussed in the literature. In engineering practice, the empirical relationships between K0, the overconsolidation ratio (OCR), and the normally ...

This paper addresses the derivation of creep models using the framework of hyper-viscoplasticity. It demonstrates that the formulations widely used already can easily be obtained using the hyper-viscoplastic formalism. ...