Abstract: Understanding the freezing and thawing processes in porous media such as soils is important, especially in regions experiencing seasonal frost or permafrost. These processes have a wide range of implications as diverse as ...

Abstract: Full-scale thawing experiments, performed on three types of homogenous, initially frozen soils, were carried out during late winter 2011 and repeated in 2012. An auxiliary heat source (hydronic heating) was employed to ...