专业英语-Tibet_Railway青藏铁路资料.pptVIP

After six years construction, the?Qinghai–Tibet?Railroad was completed in 2006 and it has been successfully operational for two years. QTR crosses about 632?km of permafrost regions. A large fraction of the permafrost region is warm, ice-rich permafrost, which makes it much more difficult to construct any infrastructure system on it. Permafrost scientists and engineers have utilized the state-of the-art technology to actively cool the permafrost under the railroad embankment and to ensure stability of railroad embankment. For the first time, a crushed rock layer was used to cool the permafr