THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ICE

• Main Author: VOITKOVSKII, K. F.
• Other Authors: AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY BOSTON MA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1962
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Properties of Metals and Alloys; *MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; *ICE; STRESSES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; SHEAR STRESSES; TRANSLATIONS; VISCOSITY; CREEP; IMPURITIES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRUCTURES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; USSR; DOCUMENTS; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0284777; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0284777

ICE IS WIDELY USED AS A CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL FOR ICE STOREHOUSES, ICE CAUSEWAYS AND THE LIKE AND FOR ICE CROSSINGS AND ICE ROADS. Further, it is used to combat aridity. Studies of the physical and mechanical properties of ice were made and extensive data appeared in the special literature, but it is difficult to make practical use of this information because the quantitative parameters of the mechanical properties show large discrepancies. For example, the ultimate compressive strength of ice found by testing ice samples may vary by a factor of ten or more. Data on the plastic properties of ice reveal greater discrepancies. The need has arisen to analyze and generalize these data, to attempt to explain the reasons for the large discrepancies in the various parameters, to establish the laws of their change and to find the most reliable characteristics of the mechanical properties. The present report is devoted to the solution of these problems. It is based on a generalization of the data in the literature on the properties of ice and on the experimental work of the author on studies of the plastic properties of ice.