Transportation Infrastructures in Cold Regions
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2022) | Viewed by 2083
Special Issue Editors
Interests: frozen soil mechnics; cold regions engineering; adaption mehtos
Interests: interaction between soil and structure
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In cold regions, design, construction, and maintenance of transportation infrastructure face severe challenges due to harsh climate and freezing and thawing processes within the foundation soils. The coupled hydro-thermomechanical process in freezing and thawing foundation soils can result in severe damage to roadway and railway structures, including embankments, culverts, slopes, tunnels, and bridges, which significantly increases their maintenance costs and decreases their service life. For the design of engineering mitigation and adaption methods, understanding thermal and moisture regimes and their seasonal variations within foundation soils, slopes, and the surrounding rocks of tunnels is of immense importance. In recent years, an increasing amount of research focusing on the hydro-thermomechanical process in roadways and railways has been conducted with the quick development of transportation infrastructure in cold regions.
The proposed Special Issue will cover all areas related to the hydro-thermomechanical process of transportation infrastructure in cold regions, e.g., heat transfer, moisture migration, deformations, and damages of embankment, culverts, slopes, linings, and pile foundations, as well as adoption methods. Research methods including field observations, numerical simulations, and theoretical analyses are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Yanhu Mu
Dr. Pengfei He
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heat transfer
- moisture regime
- deformations
- damages
- adoption methods
- transportation infrastructure
- cold regions
