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Cold
Regions and High Altitude Projects
EMC SQUARED System
applications can be highly effective in strengthening
aggregate materials and treating their moisture
and frost susceptibility, so that they retain their
full strength in wet and freeze-thaw cycling as
well as dry conditions. In cold climate locations,
the ability to resist moisture infiltration becomes
twice as important as the presence of free water
within the untreated aggregate layer leaves the
layer subject to damage during the freeze-thaw cycles
typical of fall and spring weather conditions. Effective
stabilization of aggregate materials in cold regions
is a dramatic testimonial to the EMC SQUARED System
as these are worst case situations. The reports
for the projects located in Alaska, Minnesota, North
Dakota, and mountainous areas in Arkansas, Arizona,
Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas address
the performance of the EMC SQUARED System stabilization
treatments in Cold Region locations with frequent
freeze-thaw cycles.
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Canadian
Success Story
Soil
Stabilization Projects in Cold Regions / High Altitude Locations
New
Mexico
Interstate 40 |
North
Dakota
Mountrail County |
Colorado
Fort Carson |
New
Mexico & Texas
Fort Bliss |
Stabilization
of Aggregate and Full Depth Reclamation Materials in Cold
Regions / High Altitude Locations
Alaska
Pipeline Haul Road |
New
Mexico & Texas
Fort Bliss |
Arkansas
National Forest Service |
Minnesota
Lake of the Woods County |
New
Mexico
Interstate 40 Full Depth Reclamation |
Arizona
and Utah
Bureau of Land Management |
Arizona
National Forest Service |
New
Mexico Mescalero
Apache Nation |
Treatment
of Moisture and Frost Susceptible Aggregate Materials –
Case and Laboratory Studies
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An EMC SQUARED
Stabilized Aggregate can deliver benefits beyond providing
a strengthened and stable aggregate layer that is resistant
to seasonal weakening. By effectively treating the moisture
and frost susceptibility of an aggregate material, an EMC
SQUARED Stabilized Aggregate acts as a moisture barrier
and a capillary barrier, cutting off the soils in the native
subgrade or embankment below the EMC SQUARED Stabilized
Aggregate layer from the atmospheric effects above. In the
case of aggregate materials that were not stabilized with
the EMC SQUARED System treatment, these atmospheric effects
would otherwise be saturating the aggregate materials with
rainfall or suctioning moisture upward from groundwater
during desiccating weather conditions via capillary action,
capillary action that would be moving moisture upward through
the soils and aggregate base or aggregate surface course
materials. By cutting off atmospheric effects, the EMC SQUARED
Stabilized Aggregate acts as a moisture barrier/capillary
barrier in the pavement structural section. Capillary action
no longer suctions moisture upward through subgrade and
embankment soils to endanger their stability during seasonal
freeze-thaw cycles. This is the additional benefit, the
MULTIPLIER EFFECT. The EMC SQUARED System stabilizer technology
is a uniquely effective tool for building greater resiliency
into our highway and civil infrastructure.
Stabilization
of Soils, Aggregates, and Full Depth Reclamation in Cold
Regions / High Altitude Locations
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Federal
Agency Projects |
New
Mexico
City of Gallup |
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