If water gets into a crack in rock and freezes, the pressure of the ice can break the rock open.

如果水进入岩石裂缝，并发生冻结，冰产生的压力能够使岩石裂开。

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For downstream of homogeneous DAMS, damages caused by rain scouring, storm, ice, stream, animal, swelling, and mud crack must be avoided.

均质坝下游护坡的作用是防止雨水冲刷，风浪、冰层和水流作用，动物、冻胀干裂等对坝坡的破坏。

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Based on the consideration of fictitious crack and the cementation force of ice in the frozen soil, the two dimensions model of frozen soil roadbed stability are proposed.

根据车载下冻土路基受力特征，应用虚拟裂纹的概念，并考虑了冻土特有的冰体胶结力作用，提出了路基稳定性的二维模型。

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Crack and ice are also hideously addictive, far beyond the imagination of well-meaning people whose opinions about drugs were shaped by smoking a few spliffs in the 1960s.

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