Engineering Distresses along the Major Permafrost Engineering on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
Publication: Cold Regions Engineering 2024: Sustainable and Resilient Engineering Solutions for Changing Cold Regions
ABSTRACT
With the global warming, the permafrost on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is degrading significantly, which brings potential threats to the major engineering projects built in or on it, e.g., the Qinghai–Tibet Highway, Qinghai–Tibet Railway, and Xinjiang–Tibet Highway. This study uses advanced survey and statistical methods to reveal the spatial distribution characteristics, development patterns, influencing factors, and formation mechanisms of the damages on the pavement induced by permafrost thawing and freeze–thaw cycles to identify their development process, evolution patterns, and different types of underlying permafrost. This will provide suggestions and guidance to the relevant departments in the decision-making, planning, design, and construction and maintenance of the running or future engineering projects on the QTP.
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Cold Regions Engineering 2024: Sustainable and Resilient Engineering Solutions for Changing Cold Regions
Pages: 60 - 66
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Published online: May 9, 2024
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Cold regions engineering
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Distribution functions
- Engineering fundamentals
- Freeze and thaw
- Frost
- Highway engineering
- Highway transportation
- Infrastructure
- Mathematical functions
- Mathematics
- Permafrost
- Project management
- Spatial distribution
- Traffic engineering
- Traffic management
- Traffic signs
- Transportation engineering
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