Currently, hot-water drill systems are actively used to observe ocean cavities under ice shelves, detect the effects of climate change on glaciers, retrieve sub-ice seabed samples, study the internal ice structure with video imaging, log temperatures...
Thermal ice drilling technology is extensively used in drilling operations such as temperature measurement holes and subglacial water environment investigations in Antarctica owing to its advantages of compactness, light weight, and ease of operation...
To control settlement deformation in permafrost regions, new piles are constructed for remediation. However, the construction of new piles inevitably causes thermal disturbance to the existing pile foundations. A three-dimensional quarter-model of a...
The interface between soil and concrete in cold climates has a significant effect on the structural integrity of embedded structures, including piles, liners, and others. In this study, a novel temperature control system was employed to conduct direc...
This study introduced the Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique into the axial tensile and compression tests of ice materials. The surface strain distribution measured by DIC was compared with experimental phenomena to verify the accuracy of DIC...
In the cold belt area, the icing phenomenon often appears on the airport pavement, which affects the safety of aircraft take-off and landing. Microwave deicing technology can effectively solve this practical problem and has many advantages. Taking mi...
A fixed-odds contract on short-horizon price direction has a positive expected value only when its win probability exceeds the break-even rate implied by the payout ratio. A deployable predictor must also produce signals at a sufficiently stable rate...
Affected by global warming, permafrost thawing in Northeast China promotes issues including highway subgrade instability and settlement. The traditional design concept based on protecting permafrost is unsuitable for regional highway construction. Ba...
Coring sediments in subglacial aquatic environments offers unique opportunities for research on paleo-environments and paleo-climates because it can provide data from periods even earlier than ice cores, as well as the overlying ice histories, intera...