Abstract: The seasonal variation of unbound material properties is often significant, and water within a pavement structure is a principal cause of pavement deterioration. A small water content increment will result in a significant ...

Abstract: The erosion of cohesive soils poses a significant threat to the stability of earth structures such as roadbeds and earth-filled dams, especially in cold regions. Presently, research on the erodibility of clay mainly focuses ...

Abstract: When a road is constructed, soils within the embankment are often compacted at the optimum water content to achieve the best performance. The postconstruction water content tends to increase with time due to capillary ...

Abstract: The thawing settlement of highway embankments remains an engineering challenges in permafrost regions. Lime-energy-columns (LECs) have the potential to constrain the total amount of such settlement by prethawing the warm ...

Abstract: Beaver Slide is near 177.8 km (110.5 mi) on the Dalton Highway and the road gradient is approximately 11%, built on a hill side. Each year, soft spots, also commonly named as frost boils, were observed starting ...

Abstract: Geotextiles have been widely used in pavement systems for reinforcing base and subgrade layers. However, the capillary break effect minimizes the benefits of reinforcement due to excess pore-water pressure accumulation at ...