Critical slip and time dependence in sea ice friction
Recent research into sea ice friction has focussed on ways to provide a model which maintains much of the clarity and simplicity of Amonton's law, yet also accounts for memory effects. One promising avenue of research has been to adapt the rate- and state- dependent models which are prevalent i...
| Published in: | Cold Regions Science and Technology |
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Elsevier
2013
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| Online Access: | https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/878zx https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/download/0819aa878f84dc1a04851a47568be724a6df24df431846fca18f6d94cf60e223/1967463/2013%20CRST%20Critical%20Slip%20as%20accepted.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2013.03.004 |
| Summary: | Recent research into sea ice friction has focussed on ways to provide a model which maintains much of the clarity and simplicity of Amonton's law, yet also accounts for memory effects. One promising avenue of research has been to adapt the rate- and state- dependent models which are prevalent in rock friction. In such models it is assumed that there is some fixed critical slip displacement, which is effectively a measure of the displacement over which memory effects might be considered important. Here we show experimentally that a fixed critical slip displacement is not a valid assumption in ice friction, whereas a constant critical slip time appears to hold across a range of parameters and scales. As a simple rule of thumb, memory effects persist to a significant level for 10 s. We then discuss the implications of this finding for modelling sea ice friction and for our understanding of friction in general. |
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