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The Correct Explanation for the Heaving of Soils, Plants, and Pavements 1
Author(s) -
Bouyoucos George J.,
McCool M. M.
Publication year - 1928
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1928.00021962002000050008x
Subject(s) - george (robot) , citation , library science , history , computer science , art history
The heaving of soils on freezing is a commonly known phenomenon. Its occurrence is general but varied. Its effects are usually harmful. These harmful effects consist in uprooting cultivated plants, especially seedlings of clover, alfalfa, wheat, oats, etc., and raising up and cracking road pavements. The effects of heaving are very powerful and the injurie s resulting therefrom can be very serious. The usual explanation of heaving is that it is due to the upward expansion of water upon freezing. This explanation according to our recent studies, however, is almost entirely wrong. It is the object of this paper to give what seems to be the correct explanation of the phenomenon, and to present experimental data supporting’it.