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concentrated at the contact points between the particles, relatively low moisture content<br />

is sufficient to markedly increase the stiffness. Due to the viscose properties <strong>of</strong> ice, the<br />

strengthening effect is apparently stronger the shorter the loading time and the lower the<br />

material temperature.<br />

On the regions <strong>of</strong> seasonal frost, the annual temperature changes have many<br />

unfavourable effects on the mechanical <strong>behaviour</strong> <strong>of</strong> the unbound coarse-grained<br />

materials (see Section 6.6). However, it should be noted that the effects are not caused<br />

by the temperature or temperature changes as such but changes in the state <strong>of</strong> the<br />

material as well as environmental circumstances produced by the freezing and frost<br />

action.<br />

If granular materials are fully saturated when they freeze, they can at least in principle<br />

loosen due to the freezing expansion <strong>of</strong> water. As the freeze melts in the spring,<br />

permanent deformations may be developed in the loosened layer as the material is<br />

recompacted by the traffic loading (Kolisoja 1997).<br />

If uneven frost heave occurs, large local shear strains that loosen the materials can<br />

result. Moreover, when the heave recovers unevenly during the thawing period, shear<br />

strains are also produced.

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