Abstract
The freezing behaviour of soil in deep alluvium is one of the important issues in artificial freezing engineering. In this paper, an apparatus was developed for studying the freezing characteristics of soil under high loading conditions and the related test procedures were also suggested. Based on this apparatus, a series of one-dimensional freezing tests were also carried out on silty clay under various loading conditions and pseudo temperature gradients. The results show that all soil samples exhibit compression under high loading conditions, and it consists of four stages in which the strain rate is I) very low, II) rapidly increasing, III) decaying and IV) relatively constant. During freezing tests, the freezing front moves downward rapidly during the initial period, and it tends to be stable after 10h. As the increase of axial load or pseudo temperature gradient, the freezing front moves downward more quickly and lies closer to the warm end at the thermostatic stage. Even under high loading conditions, there is an obvious water redistribution phenomenon, which shows that the water migrated to the frozen part and gathered at the freezing front in the soil sample under the existence of a pseudo temperature gradient.
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