Revised Aircraft Load Curves and Vehicle Ice-Thickness Tables for Annual Ice Sheet Operations Near McMurdo, Antarctica.

• Main Author: Vaudrey,K. D.
• Other Authors: CIVIL ENGINEERING LAB (NAVY) PORT HUENEME CALIF
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1976
• Subjects: Aircraft; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Numerical Mathematics; Mechanics; *AIRCRAFT; *FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; *STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; *SEA ICE; *CURVE FITTING; THICKNESS; MILITARY VEHICLES; MODULUS OF ELASTICITY; ICE; FLEXURAL STRENGTH; TABLES(DATA); NAVAL EQUIPMENT; Heavy equipment; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA024051; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA024051

Updated aircraft load curves and vehicle ice-thickness tables are presented for operations on the sea-ice sheet near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. First, material property research on sea-ice is reviewed to demonstrate the current knowledge of ice-sheet bearing strength. Then the elastic finite eleme...