On The Flow and Fracture of Sea Ice: The Transition from an Anisotropic Continuum to a Granular Medium

Abstract

The long-term goals are to understand the physical processes underlying the inelastic deformation of sheets of first-year sea ice, with the aim of improving sea ice models. The objectives are to understand the transition from continuum-like brittle compressive failure to granular-like sliding along sliplines/shear faults, and to formulate the sliding condition in terms of a physically-based failure criterion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2000
Accession Number
ADA609733

Entities

People

  • Erland M. Schulson

Organizations

  • Dartmouth College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Biaxial Stresses
  • Data Acquisition
  • Engineering
  • Glaciers
  • Grain Boundaries
  • Ice
  • Ice Mechanics
  • Information Operations
  • Mechanics
  • Observation
  • Scaling Laws
  • Sea Ice
  • Shear Stresses
  • Stresses
  • Transitions
  • Video Recording

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies