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Geological Line Selection in Permafrost Regions

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Permafrost can adversely affect railway projects and can induce major disasters, such as roadbed frost heaving and thawing settlement. This chapter discusses the principles of geological line selection in permafrost regions, the classification of frozen soil and its engineering-geological properties, and the major engineering-geological structures in the permafrost regions along the Qinghai–Tibet Railway.

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  1. China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co., Ltd., Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

    Jincheng Li & Zhengping Liu

  2. School of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

    Wenwu Chen

  3. Key Laboratory of Mechanics on Disaster and Environment in Western China, Ministry of Education, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

    Wenwu Chen

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Li, J., Chen, W., Liu, Z. (2018). Geological Line Selection in Permafrost Regions. In: Geological Line Selection for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55572-9_3

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