The history of railway construction in permafrost zones in Russia, USA, Canada and China has extended more than 100 years. Nonetheless, no one has ever been able to build a railway track not subject to deformation caused by subsidence resulting from ice-rich subgrade soils thawing. This paper presents data on the roadbed state in the Zabaikalye and the Qinghai-Tibetan Railways as well as the Baikal-Amur Mainline. It also covers the possibility of roadbed stability maintenance using methods based on the reduction of the mean annual ground temperature and roadbed preservation in a permafrost state by means of the natural cooling and heating factors ratio regulation resulting in a reduction of the heat generation in the roadbed and the adjoining area accompanied by an increase of heat consumption. The research results on the Qinghai-Tibetan Railway and the East-Siberian Railway are given.


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    Title :

    Geocryological Problems of Railroads on Permafrost


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    10th International Symposium on Cold Regions Development ; 2013 ; Anchorage, Alaska, United States


    Published in:

    ISCORD 2013 ; 191-203


    Publication date :

    2013-06-04




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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