永久冻土区公路建设技术的发展英语论文.pdf

Science in China Series E: Technological Sciences © 2009 SCIENCE IN CHINA PRESS Development of highway constructing technology in the permafrost region on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau 1† 1,2† 1 1 WANG ShuangJie , CHEN JianBing , ZHANG JinZhao , LI ZhuLong 1 Key Laboratory of Road Engineering for Cold Region, First Highway Survey and Design Institute of China, Xi’an 710075, China; 2 State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, CAREERI, Chinese Academy of Sciencer, Lanzhou 730000, China The Qinghai-Tibet Highway passes through the Qinghai-Tibet plateau hinterland from north to south, from Kunlun Mountain to Tanggula Mountain. The average altitude is above 4500 m and permafrost covers more than 700 km length of area with high elevation and high temperature. The climate of the plateau is capricious and the surroundings along the road are bad, where the mean annual atmosphere temperature is −2 to −7℃ and the oxygen content is inadequate, which is less than 50% of the sea level, 2 while the solar radiation is higher than 3600 kJ/m . The basic characteristics of the plateau surround- ings are the permafrost, coldness with litter oxygen, and fragile ecosystem. As the air temperature warms all over the world, the permafrost on the plateau responds quickly. The average temperature of permafrost is up by 0.2―0.3℃ in recent 20 years, and the island-permafrost dwindles with a high rate, and the high temperature permafrost degrades quickly, and the temperature of the low temperature permafrost incre