Hazards regarding to freezing-thawing and climatic data of cold months

Abstract

Freezing of the soil ground of the foundation of constructions and buildings is the challenging task in general construction. There are a lot of factors which influence to the freezing soil process such as properties of soil, climatic conditions, underground water location and so on. This paper presents one factor such as climatic data, especially average negative temperature. Many graphs give important information and source of design regarding to freezing problem. All of the mentioned above climatic information can be used to determine the depth of freezing. Due to what such frost-hazardous properties as frost heaving and heaving force can be determined by empirical methods. It is also possible to analyze the ground base and assess the stability of the ground foundation of foundations.