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Title: | Some properties of sawdust-snow-ice mixtures |
Authors: | Abele, Gunars |
Keywords: | Snow Roads Pavements Sawdust Additives |
Publisher: | Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.) Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.) |
Series/Report no.: | Special report (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)) ; 60. |
Description: | Special Report Introduction: During World War II, Great Britain seriously considered the construction of a floating airfield composed of a mixture of wood pulp and ice. The discovery by Mark and Hohenstein, of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, that the inclusion of a small percentage of wood pulp greatly improved the mechanical properties of ice, stimulated considerable research in this field (Perutz, 1948). Hanson (1958) made a limited study on the effect of sawdust in ice and snow-ice. His results also showed a significant improvement in the mechanical properties of ice to which sawdust had been added. Preliminary studies on sawdust-snow mixtures were performed at the Keweenaw Field Station and in Greenland with a dual purpose: (1) to determine the increase in the bearing capacity of a processed snow pavement to which sawdust had been added, (2) to observe the skid reducing properties of a sawdust-snow pavement surface. The work on sawdust-snow mixtures so far has been very limited in scope. The primary objective has been to determine methods and direction of such studies. |
Rights: | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/11565 |
Appears in Collections: | Special Report |