1988年7月26——28日在英国诺丁汉大学召开发第五届国际土冻结学术讨论会(ISGE88),中国、英国、美国、加拿大、西德、日本、苏联及芬兰等19个国家的112位代表出席了会议。我国兰州冰川冻土研究所、内蒙古水利科学研究所及煤炭系统共1O位代表参加了该会。会上宣读了42篇论文,并就人工冻结技术应用中的基础研究及工程实践经验和教训进行了讨论。这些论文均被搜集于本 July 1988 - July 28 at the University of Nottingham held the Fifth International Symposium on Frozen Earth (ISGE88), China, Britain, the United States, Canada, West Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union and Finland, 19 countries 112 Representatives attended the meeting. China Lanzhou Institute of glaciology and frozen soil, Inner Mongolia Institute of Water Resources and coal system a total of 1O representatives attended the meeting. 42 papers were read out at the meeting, and the basic research and engineering practices and lessons learned in the application of artificial freezing technology were discussed. These papers are collected in this