Cold Region Engineering

Photos courtesy Ed Grozic, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd.

Massive ground ice, Yamal Peninsula, Russia
High center ice polygons, Yamal Peninsula, Russia. Pattern ground characteristic of ice-rich soil conditions.

Drilling and sampling frozen ground using a CRREL barrel
   
Summer geotechnical drilling program in the Arctic using a chilled brine drilling fluid to retrieve frozen samples.

Ditcher trials in permafrost on Melville Island in Canada's high Arctic. The field trials were conducted to determine the feasibility of ditching frozen ground.
   
Mile 0 of the Trans Alaska Pipeline, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
    

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