A New Foundation Countermeasure in West Antarctica Peninsula Area

Abstract:

Because of the extremely adverse climate environment and construction conditions, the previous buildings in each South Pole Station in west Antarctica area turned up a series of foundational morbidities. I had been to Antarctica as a member of the 21st Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition Team in 2004, in charge of a program about building suitability. This paper recommended the geological conditions, the subterraneous temperature field and the emerged foundational morbidity in West Antarctica Peninsula Area, eventually expounded a new foundation measure.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 204-208)
• Pages: 838-841
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.204-208.838
• Online since: October 2012
• Authors: Wei Ming Xiang, Peng Jiang, Xian Chang Zheng
• Keywords: Foundation Countermeasures, Geological Evaluation, West Antarctica Peninsula

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