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Canada has an overall arctic climate. The Canadian General Standards Board publishes maps of common low temperatures for each region so that oil companies can adapt the diesel fuel accordingly, which they do about ten times per year. This scheme is inherited from the US Standard ASTM D 975 covering winter diesel (see United States ...
An ice road will typically be closed as a result of deterioration of the running or operating surface, before there is any risk of ice cover failure. [4] Surface deterioration can happen when the ice surface becomes too soft, or because of an excessive amount of meltwater on its surface.
The measurement of IRI is required for data provided to the United States Federal Highway Administration, [1] [9] and is covered in several standards from ASTM International: ASTM E1926 - 08, [10] ASTM E1364 - 95(2005), [11] and others. IRI is also used to evaluate new pavement construction, to determine penalties or bonus payments based on ...
The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a 414-mile (666 km) [1] road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway , north of Fairbanks , and ends at Deadhorse (an unincorporated community within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay ) near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields .
The pavement condition index (PCI) is a numerical index between 0 and 100, which is used to indicate the general condition of a pavement section.The PCI is widely used in transportation civil engineering [1] and asset management, and many municipalities use it to measure the performance of their road infrastructure and their levels of service. [2]
ASTM International, formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, is a standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical international standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems and services. Some 12,575 apply globally.
Flooding across Alaska has inundated scores of homes, with several of them knocked from their foundations by large ice chunks, and shut one of the state's few east-west highways down to one lane.
Carlile made their first appearance on The History Channel in a July 2006 documentary called Alaska: Dangerous Territory. [6] When they returned to History in the television series Ice Road Truckers in 2009, they were hauling approximately 30% of all loads bound for Prudhoe Bay. Carlile would be one of the featured companies of the series from ...