IUTAM Symposium on Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics
Subtitle: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A., 13-16 June 2000
By: edited by J. P. Dempsey, H. H. Shen
Contributors: Shen, H. H.
Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications -- 94; Solid Mechanics and Its Applications -- 94
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9789048158904; 9789401597357
Subjects: Mechanics; Civil engineering; Distribution (Probability theory); Physics; Vibration
Other titles: Held in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, 13-16 June 2000
Description: This book is the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 2000, and addresses a variety of scaling issues in ice mechanics and ice dynamics, ranging over planetary ice mechanics, ice forces on offshore structures, fracture of ice, friction, constitutive and failure modeling, ice dynamics models, as well as textural and structural transformations in the drifting ice of the polar regions. The 39 articles focus on small and large scales in the study of ice, the failure mechanics of heterogeneous media, and multi-scale statistical physics. Guidance is provided as to the range of applicability of different fracture, constitutive, and ice dynamics models, and attempts are made to link the behavior at smaller scales with successive geophysical scales. This book should be useful to researchers in ice mechanics and ice dynamics, and to those who wish to gain an overview of the subject.
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