Large-scale thermal bending fracture of sea ice plates
A hypothesis that large-scale fracture of sea ice plates in the Arctic could be caused by the release of energy of thermal bending moments due to major temperature changes is advanced and examined. Bending propagation of a through-the-thiclrness crack along the floating plate, with negligible inerti...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.695.711 2023-05-15T14:59:19+02:00 Large-scale thermal bending fracture of sea ice plates Zdenek P. Bazant The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.695.711 http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/bazant/PDFs/Papers/299.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.695.711 http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/bazant/PDFs/Papers/299.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/bazant/PDFs/Papers/299.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T18:37:35Z A hypothesis that large-scale fracture of sea ice plates in the Arctic could be caused by the release of energy of thermal bending moments due to major temperature changes is advanced and examined. Bending propagation of a through-the-thiclrness crack along the floating plate, with negligible inertial forces, is analyzed, asswning the moment field in the plate near the traveling crack front and the fracture process zone to be in a steady state. The analysis uses the plate-bending theory, and the second-order geometric effects of the in-plane normal forces are taken into account. Quasi-elastic behavior is assumed, and creep is treated approximatdy according to the effective modulus method. The calculated temperature difference between the top and bottom of the plate required to produce this kind of fracture is fowid to be well within the range that actually occurs in the Arctic, but this cannot be regarded as a proof of the hypothesis becaU8e of the simplifying assumptions made as well as uncertainties about large-scale fracture properties of sea ice. Further, it is shown that this type of fracture must exhibit a size effect, such that the critical temperature difference decreases in proportion to (plate thickness)-3/8. This might explain why large fractures often form in an intact thick plate rather than only in a thin plate and along lines of weakness. For the case that the in-plane forces are significant, it is shown that beyond a certain critical crack Text Arctic Sea ice Unknown Arctic |
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A hypothesis that large-scale fracture of sea ice plates in the Arctic could be caused by the release of energy of thermal bending moments due to major temperature changes is advanced and examined. Bending propagation of a through-the-thiclrness crack along the floating plate, with negligible inertial forces, is analyzed, asswning the moment field in the plate near the traveling crack front and the fracture process zone to be in a steady state. The analysis uses the plate-bending theory, and the second-order geometric effects of the in-plane normal forces are taken into account. Quasi-elastic behavior is assumed, and creep is treated approximatdy according to the effective modulus method. The calculated temperature difference between the top and bottom of the plate required to produce this kind of fracture is fowid to be well within the range that actually occurs in the Arctic, but this cannot be regarded as a proof of the hypothesis becaU8e of the simplifying assumptions made as well as uncertainties about large-scale fracture properties of sea ice. Further, it is shown that this type of fracture must exhibit a size effect, such that the critical temperature difference decreases in proportion to (plate thickness)-3/8. This might explain why large fractures often form in an intact thick plate rather than only in a thin plate and along lines of weakness. For the case that the in-plane forces are significant, it is shown that beyond a certain critical crack |
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