ISSN: 1945-7545
CODEN: GTJODJ
Page Count: 2

Drilling and Sampling Frozen Fine-Grained Soils

Horvath, JS
Project engineermember of ASTM, Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Inc., New York, NY

Johnson, FW
Project engineermember of ASTM, Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Chicago, IL

Abstract

A frozen, moderately plastic clay with a few lenses of shell fragments and sand was successfully sampled using a Denison sampler with a plastic liner. Chilled diesel fuel was used as the drilling fluid. Improvements to this approach are suggested.

Keywords:
double-tube core samplers, drill holes, frozen soils, soil samplers, undisturbed samples, density tests

Paper ID: GTJ10823J
DOI: 10.1520/GTJ10823J
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