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Understanding Thermal Heaving

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The narrator explains that a major concern in climates with harsh winters, such as Minnesota, is thermal heaving. This phenomenon causes the ground to fluctuate up and down due to freezing and thawing cycles. The heat loss from buildings can create a thawed zone of about four feet around the foundation, while the ground further out freezes and thaws, leading to instability. This discussion emphasizes the importance of stable ground conditions around foundations.

Goal: Comprehend the impact of thermal heaving on ground stability.

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so one of the things we have to be conscientious of is thermal heaving and here in Minnesota when we have a foundation underground the the heat from the building itself will keep the ground thawed about four foot out so if this is the building what will happen is a four foot zone out of the building this will always stay warm just from heat loss from the building but once you get outside of that four foot Zone then the frost can set in and this area can fluctuate up and down so at certain times of the year especially during Frost even the winter this will go up and in the spring it'll drop back down so sometimes your grades will look perfectly fine depending on the time of the year that you're looking at it and other times it'll look like it's just a pool capturing it yay Johnny [Music] foreign

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