COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. PART II. PHYSICAL SCIENCE. SECTION B. THE PHYSICS AND MECHANICS OF SNOW AS A MATERIAL

Abstract

Snow is a porous. permeable aggregate of ice grains. The grains can be predominantly single crystals or close groupings of several crystals. The pores are filled with air and water vapor. In wet snow the grains are coated with liquid water. The characteristic property of snow is its inherent thermodynamic instability. Consequently most of the interesting physical parameters inevitably change with time. This process of change is called snow metamorphism.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0287052

Entities

People

  • Daisuke Kuroiwa
  • Henri Bader

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Creep
  • Crystal Lattices
  • Crystal Structure
  • Dielectric Properties
  • Elastic Properties
  • Energy Transfer
  • Glaciers
  • Grain Size
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Latent Heat
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanical Working
  • Mechanics
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Specific Gravity

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