Earth’s Cryosphere, 2018, Vol. XXII, No. 1, p. 13-18
ON THE NATURE OF MECHANOCALORICAL EFFECT IN FROZEN SOILS UNDER UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION
S.S. Volokhov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geology, Department of Geocryology, 1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia; volokhov@geol.msu.ru
The paper provides the results of experimental verification of the author’s earlier hypothesis about the crack formation playing a major role in the appearance of mechanocalorical effect in the frozen soils, which is underpinned by the data obtained.
Frozen soil, ice, uniaxial compression, mechanocalorical effect, crack formation