Abstract:To study the dynamic characteristics of frozen clay, uniaxial step loading tests were carried out at different temperatures (-0.6, -1.0, -1.5℃) and different frequencies (0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0 Hz). The results showed that the influence of temperature and loading frequency on the dynamic stiffness, damping property, and residual strain characteristics of soil becomes increasingly apparent with increasing dynamic strain amplitude. The backbone curves linearly change, and at constant dynamic strain amplitude, the dynamic stiffness increases as the temperature decreases and the frequency increases. The damping ratio increases first and then decreases gradually with increasing dynamic strain amplitude, and slightly increases at the end of loading. With the same dynamic strain amplitude, the damping ratio decreases with decreasing temperature and increasing frequency. The residual strain linearly increases with the number of cycles under the same load; the higher the loading grade, the faster the residual strain grows. At different temperatures and frequencies, dεpd/dt increases with increasing dynamic strain amplitude, and at constant dynamic strain amplitude, dεpd/dt increases with increasing temperature and decreasing frequency.