Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1465-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1465-2017
Research article
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28 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 28 Jun 2017

Numerical homogenization of the viscoplastic behavior of snow based on X-ray tomography images

Antoine Wautier, Christian Geindreau, and Frédéric Flin

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AR by Antoine Wautier on behalf of the Authors (16 Mar 2017)  Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (20 Apr 2017) by Martin Schneebeli
RR by Andrew Hansen (09 May 2017)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (16 May 2017) by Martin Schneebeli
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Short summary
The results shown in the present paper consist in predicting the overall viscous behavior of snow from the sole knowledge of the microstructure and the ice viscous behavior. This is done thanks to multi-scale modeling techniques and an original approach is used to handle the nonlinearity of the ice behavior. An application of the developed formulation can be found in the simulation of the densification of the snowpack in order to enhance avalanche risk forecasting.