Research Article
The Variation Mechanism of Thermal Properties of Loess with Different Water Contents during Freezing
Table 2
Initial state variables and thermal properties of soil samples.
| | Specimen | Density (kg/m3) | Water content (%) | Degree of saturation (%) | Thermal conductivity (W/m/K) | Volumetric heat capacity (MJ/m3/k) | Thermal diffusivity (mm2/s) |
| | U1 | 1.320 | 0 | 0 | 0.747 | 0.87 | 0.6505 | | U2 | 1.360 | 3 | 7.70 | 0.866 | 1.122 | 0.7718 | | U3 | 1.426 | 8 | 20.53 | 1.071 | 1.401 | 0.7645 | | U4 | 1.478 | 12 | 30.79 | 1.206 | 1.628 | 0.7408 | | U5 | 1.558 | 18 | 46.19 | 1.498 | 2.051 | 0.7304 |
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