Ice Mechanics

Download or read book Ice Mechanics for Geophysical and Civil Engineering Applications written by Ryszard Staroszczyk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the concepts and tools of ice mechanics, together with examples of their application in the fields of glaciology, climate research and civil engineering in cold regions. It starts with an account of the most important physical properties of sea and polar ice treated as an anisotropic polycrystalline material, and reviews relevant field observations and experimental measurements. The book focuses on theoretical descriptions of the material behaviour of ice in different stress, deformation and deformation-rate regimes on spatial scales ranging from single ice crystals, those typical in civil engineering applications, up to scales of thousands of kilometres, characteristic of large, grounded polar ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland. In addition, it offers a range of numerical formulations based on either discrete (finite-element, finite-difference and smoothed particle hydrodynamics) methods or asymptotic expansion methods, which have been used by geophysicists, theoretical glaciologists and civil engineers to simulate the behaviour of ice in a number of problems of importance to glaciology and civil engineering, and discusses the results of these simulations. The book is intended for scientists, engineers and graduate students interested in mathematical and numerical modelling of a wide variety of geophysical and civil engineering problems involving natural ice.

Download or read book Mechanics of Thermal Contraction Cracks and Ice-Wedge Polygons in Permafrost written by Arthur H. Lachenbruch and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1962 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ice Mechanics written by Bernard Michel and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the basics of ice mechanics and some of its applications to engineering problems, covering formation and types of ice, mechanical properties of ice, bearing capacity of ice, forces exerted by ice on structures, icebreakers and ice modelling.

Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics written by J.P. Dempsey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume constitutes the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on 'Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics', held in Fairbanks, Alaska from 13th to 16th of June 2000. Ice mechanics deals with essentially intact ice: in this discipline, descriptions of the motion and deformation of Arctic/ Antarctic and river/lake ice call for the development of physically based constitutive and fracture models over an enormous range in scale: 0.01 m - 10 km. Ice dynamics, on the other hand, deals with the movement of broken ice: descriptions of an aggregate of ice floes call for accurate modeling of momentum transfer through the sea/ice system, again over an enormous range in scale: 1 km (floe scale) - 500 km (basin scale). For ice mechanics, the emphasis on lab-scale (0.01 - 0.5 m) research con trasts with applications at the scale of order 1 km (ice-structure interaction, icebreaking); many important upscaling questions remain to be explored.

Download or read book Mechanics of Ice Failure written by Ian Jordaan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring real-world examples and practical methodology, this rigorous text combines mechanical theory with design and modelling.

Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on Physics and Mechanics of Sea Ice written by Jukka Tuhkuri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of the IUTAM Symposium on Physics and Mechanics of Sea Ice which brought together researchers who have made significant contributions in the study of sea ice. The topics include: Fracture of ice, Thermodynamics of sea ice ridges, Global and local ice loads on ships and marine structures, Computational ice engineering and ice mechanics; and Physical and engineering problems related to ice and waves.

Download or read book Mechanical Properties of Multi-year Sea Ice written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: