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This study reveals that a freezing soil can be characterized by two parameters, the segregation-freezing temperature T s and the overall permeability of the frozen fringe Formula: see text. During unsteady heat flow, the variation of these parameters with temperature produces rhythmic ice banding in fine-grained soils. At the onset of steady-state conditions, freezing tests conducted at a fixed warm end temperature showed that T s was independent of the cold side step temperature. In addition, a model is presented that indicates how the overall permeability of the frozen fringe can be calculated without detailed measurements at the scale of the frozen fringe. It is also constant in the tests reported here.
Konrad et al. (Sat,) studied this question.