《Mechanisms discussion of frost heave and test verifications of moisture migration.》.pdf

目SciencVeouslmnihet6tCp，oII：sWIsuldWeWa5ns．，OcadcrtA,oabcrecr．n,id20R41egoins■ Citation：YuanC，YangCS，ZhangLH，2014．Mechanismsdiscussionoffrostheaveandtestverificationsofmoisturemigration．Sciencesin ColdandAridRegions，6(5)：0447-0454．DOh10．37241SP．J．1226．2014．00447． 1■VleCn1anl●Sm Sn1i●scussi●on oInl^rostIlieaVeand．testveritm‘lcatio‘nsoIn moisturemigration ChangYuan，ChengSongYang ，LianHaiZhang StateKeyLaboratoryofFrozenSoilEngineering,C0ldandAridRegionsEnvironmentalandEngineeringResearchIn- stitute,ChineseAcademyofSciences，Lanzhou，Gansu730000,China Correspondenceto：ChengSongYang，AssociateProfess，ColdandAridRegionsEnvironmentalandEngineeringRe— searchInstitute，ChineseAcademyofSciences．No．320，W estDonggangRoad，Lanzhou，Gansu730000，China．Tel： +86—931—4967423；E—mail：ychsong@lzb．ac．cn Received：March27，2014 Accepted：May24，2014 ABSTRACT Hereinwereviewresearchonthestructureofthefrozenrfingeandoneofitskeycharacteristics(unfrozenwatercontent)， andcompareitscurrentmeasurementmethods，includingpulsednuclearmagneticresonance(NMR)，time—domainre— flectometry(TDR)，calorimetry,thermometry,thesublimationmethod，andCTimagery．Arfeeze—thawcycleexperiment withremoldedsoilwasconductedinsidetoverifythemechanism ofrfostheave，measuringsuchvariablesassoil—water potential，temperautre，watersupplement，andthepositionoftherfeezingrfont．Conclusionsfrom theanalysisofthe experimentdataare：(1)Thesoil—waterpotential，thewatersupplement，andthepositionoftherfeezingrfontvarywith temperature；and(2)thetemperaturegradientinducesthesoil—waterpotential，whichinturnprovidesastabledrivingforce formoisturemigration． Keywords：soil—waterpotential；rfozenrfinge；temperaturegradient；waterm igration 1 Introduction byrfost