Investigation and calculation of frost heave considering specific boundary conditions of ground freezing

传统的冻胀实验室试验是通过从样品的顶部向底部冻结圆柱形土样来执行的(参看。道路建设)。与这些试验不同的是，在市中心建设工程中应用的地面冻结通常是从土体内部开始的，并朝着相反的方向向土层扩展。这首先会导致孔隙水体积膨胀9%，此外，对于对霜冻敏感的土壤，还会形成冰透镜，导致地表额外的土壤隆起。到目前为止，还没有考虑向上冻结方向的调查。因此，在这些条件下冰透镜的形成是未知的。在冻胀计算中，必须考虑冻结过程中复杂的物理过程。这就需要建立一个模拟模型，重点研究孔隙-热-水-力耦合现象。本项目的目的是确定和描述水平冻结管冻结引起的冻胀敏感土体的冻胀行为。这项研究项目的一部分是冻胀试验，与常规试验不同的是，它模拟了向地表冻结的方向。冰透镜的形成发生在冻结区上方，在那里流向霜线的水不仅受到上升的真空的影响，还受到重力的影响。与冻结方向向下的试验不同，冻土的隆起方向与水流方向相反。实验测试证实了这对冰透镜的形成有多大的影响。通过这些试验，研究了土壤样品中水分的时空分布。在参数研究的范围内，将确定相关参数的影响。此外，还将进行标准的冻胀试验，以比较产生的冻胀和形成的冰透镜，以便区分由于冻结方向的不同。此外，还将建立一个多相数值模型来模拟不同物理效应的冻胀，并在确定的初始条件和边界条件下进行模拟。建立了基于多孔介质理论(TPM)的多相模型，并用相场法(PFM)模拟了多孔介质中冰的形成和从孔隙水到冰的相变。TPM-PFM模型考虑了由于冰的形成而减少或阻止的孔隙流体流动，以及固体骨架在从水到冰的相变过程中由于体积增加而产生的有限变形。利用冻胀试验对计算上、下冻结过程的数值模型进行了标定和验证。

Conventional frost heave laboratory tests are performed by freezing a cylindrical soil sample from the top towards the bottom of the sample (cf. road construction). In contrast to these tests, the ground freezing applied in inner-city construction projects usually starts from inside the soil mass and grows in the opposite direction towards the soil surface. This causes at first a 9 % volume expansion of the pore water, and in addition for frost susceptible soils, the formation of ice lenses which results in additional soil heave at the surface. Until now there are no investigations which consider the upward freezing direction. Thus, the formation of ice lenses under these conditions is unknown. For the calculation of frost heave, the complex physical processes during freezing must be taken into account. This requires a simulation model, which focuses on the poro-thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling phenomena.The aim of this project is to determine and describe the frost heave behavior of frost susceptible soils caused by ground freezing with horizontal freezing pipes. Part of this research project are frost heave tests which simulate, different to conventional tests, a freezing direction towards the top ground surface. The formation of ice lenses occur above the frozen zone where the water flow towards the frost line is affected not only by the arising vacuum but also by gravitation. In contrast to tests with a downwards freezing direction, the heave direction of the frozen soil occurs in the opposite direction of the water flow. The experimental tests verify how far this influences the formation of the ice lenses. With these tests, the temporal and spatial distribution of water in the soil sample is investigated. Within the scope of a parameter study the influence of relevant parameters will be determined. In addition, standard frost heave test will be carried out to compare the resulting heaves as well as the formed ice lenses in order to carve out differences due to the freezing direction. Furthermore, a numerical multiphase model will be developed to simulate the frost heave with the various physical effects and under defined initial and boundary conditions. A theory of porous media (TPM) based multiphase model is formulated and extended with the phase field method (PFM) to model ice formation and phase change from pore water to ice in porous media. The TPM-PFM model considers the flow of the pore fluid reduced or prevented as a result of ice formation as well as the finite deformations of the solid skeleton due to an volume increase during the phase transition from water to ice. The frost heave tests are used to calibrate and validate the numerical model to calculate freezing processes with upwards and downwards freezing.