Multifunctional combined foundations on permafrost soils

The writers examine the construction of multifunctional combined foundations on permafrost soils, as approved for strengthening the foundation system of an administrative-industrial building in Norilsk. Such foundations make it possible to control the building deformations developed as a result of increase in the pile loads or in the settlements of the piles due to decrease in their bearing capacity when the soil base temperature increases.Translated from Osnovaniya, Fundamenty i Mekhanika Gruntov, No. 5, pp. 26–28, September–October, 1992.