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https://hdl.handle.net/11681/5991| Title: | Cut-and-cover trenching in snow |
| Authors: | Waterhouse, Robert W. |
| Keywords: | Snow Snow trenches Snow construction Greenland |
| Publisher: | U.S. Army Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Research Establishment. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.) |
| Series/Report no.: | SIPRE report ; 76. |
| Description: | Technical Report Summary: During 1955 and 1956 a technique was developed and tested in Greenland for making snow-arch covered trenches designed for use as subsurface military shelters and communication ways on the Ice Cap. The initial installation consisted of a trench 8 ft wide and 10 ft deep over which an arched snow cover was formed on a removable steel form system. A track-mounted Swiss snow-milling machine driven by a gasoline engine was used in both the trench-cutting and roof forming operations. Five hundred feet of covered trench was formed and instrumented to gage the time deformation and closure rate of the cavity. A sequence of photographs are included to show details of the construction technique. The appendix contains details of the snow forms. |
| Rights: | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/5991 |
| Appears in Collections: | Technical Report |
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| SIPRE-Technical-Report-76.pdf | 8.39 MB | Adobe PDF |  View/Open |