Creep and fracture of warm columnar freshwater ice
27 May 2021
The authors study the creep and fracture behavior of 3 m × 6 m floating edge-cracked rectangular plates of warm columnar freshwater S2 ice under creep/cyclic-recovery loading and monotonic loading to fracture. Under the testing conditions, the ice response was elastic–viscoplastic; no significant viscoelasticity or major recovery was detected. There was no clear effect of the creep/cyclic loading on the fracture properties: failure load and crack opening displacements at crack growth initiation.
The press release by Aalto University can be found at: https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/warm-ice-may-fracture-differently-than-cold-ice
Creep and fracture of warm columnar freshwater ice
The Cryosphere, 15, 2401–2413, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2401-2021, 2021
Contact: Iman E. Gharamti (iman.elgharamti@aalto.fi)
