Conclusions
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When repairing a frozen dam the freezing-through of the newly filled earth must be considered the main measure.
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It is necessary to place low-permeability earth with thorough compaction in the crevasse.
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The site of the crevasse must be equipped with additional temperature and piezometric holes for obtaining data on the soil condition.
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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 5, pp. 24–25, May, 1975.
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Anisimov, V.A., Sorokin, V.A. Repair work on a frozen dam. Hydrotechnical Construction 9, 442–444 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02379715
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