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Frozen Subgrade
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Frozen Subgrade

Frozen Subgrade

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Does anyone have any experience with frost in a recently lime stabilized soil. We require proof-rooling of the raod subgrade and frost entered the soil soon after compaction.
The frost appears to have has hardened the soil and we believe the proof-rolling will not be indicative of the true soil properties.  Thanks

RE: Frozen Subgrade

You will have to wait until it thaws.  In Chicago,  we once lime stabilized a clay in Nov when it was freezing and had to wait until the Spring to proof roll it (it held up great).

RE: Frozen Subgrade

You're both right-proofroll won't detect frost and we will have to wait until spring. Most times the stabilized road subgrade puffs up about 1" for every 18" lime-stabilized thickness. Often, the contractor grades an inch low, so that the modified subgrade is at proposed elevation and doesn't require much fine tuning.

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