Research Article
The Effect of Fines and Temperature on the Mode I Fracture Characteristics of the Frozen Sand
Table 2
Summary of the water contents and dry unit weight of the specimens.
| Temperature (°C) | Fine contents (%) | Water contents by weight (%) | Dry unit weight (kN/m3) |
| −5 | 0 | 19.71 | 15.16 | 5 | 20.55 | 15.41 | 10 | 19.66 | 15.73 | 15 | 20.15 | 15.61 |
| −10 | 0 | 20.54 | 15.13 | 5 | 20.10 | 15.58 | 10 | 20.19 | 15.57 | 15 | 21.09 | 15.71 |
| −15 | 0 | 20.13 | 15.22 | 5 | 20.79 | 15.38 | 10 | 20.22 | 15.73 | 15 | 20.72 | 15.73 |
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