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Project Number 40
Date of Summary June 30, 1987
Subject Mechanical Properties of Sea Ice
Performing Activity U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Shell Development Company
Principal Investigator Dr. Gordon F. Cox (CRREL) & Dr. Jim Dorris (Shell) & Dr. J. A. Richter-Menge (CRREL)
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Complete
Description The Minerals Management Service is one of eight participants in a comprehensive ice mechanics study at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). Shell Development is the lead participant, the others are oil companies. This is a theoretical and experimental program to determine the stress-strain relations and failure criteria for multi-year sea ice. Projects Numbers 43 and 50 are adjunct projects to this investigation. The companies require the information to determine the design economics for Arctic concrete structures.
Progress Completed. The proprietary period for the reports has ended.
Reports
AA (263 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Mellor, M., Weeks, W. F., Mechanical Properties of Multi-Year Sea Ice, Phase I, Progress Report No. 1, March 1981, Progress Report No. 2, June 1981, Progress Report No. 3, October 1981, Progress Report No. 4, February 1982, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, CRREL, Hanover, New Hampshire.
AB (29 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Burk, J. D., Multiaxial Testing Ice Mechanical Properties - Beaufort Sea/CRREL Test Program, (461-89052.05), Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas, January 13, 1982.
AC (22 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Mellor, M., Fracture Toughness Measurement for Ice, CRREL Technical Memorandum, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 1981.
AD (179 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Morland, L. W., Mechanical Properties of Sea Ice: Theoretical Phase, Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas, November 1981.
AE (20 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Weeks, W. F., Equations for Determining the Gas and Brine Volumes in Sea Ice Samples, CRREL Report 82-30, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 1982.
AF (11 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Earle, E. N., Morland, L. W., Correlation of Shear Behavior of Ice with Biaxial Stress Response, Seventh International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering Under Arctic Conditions - POAC 83, Helsinki, Finland.
AG (80 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Schulson, E. N., A Material View of Ice, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 15, 1982.
AH (48 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Mellor, M., Bosworth, H. W., Mechanical Properties of Multi-Year Sea Ice, Phase I: Techniques for Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Ice, CRREL Report 84-8, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1984.
AI (116 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Richter, J. A., Weeks, W. F., Mellor, M., Bosworth, H. W., Mechanical Properties of Multi-Year Sea Ice, Phase I: Test Results, CRREL Report 84-9, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1984.
AJ (102 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Richter, J. A., Weeks, W. F., Mellor, M., Mechanical Properties of Multi-Year Sea Ice, Phase II: Test Results, Progress Report No. 1, March 1983, Progress Report No. 2, April 1983, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire.
AK (36 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Dorris, J. F., Classification of Failure Modes for Unconfined Compression Tests of Multi-Year Ridge Ice, Draft Report, Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas.
AL (35 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Dorris, J. F., Austin, J. S., Procedure for Smoothing MPSI Stress Strain Curves, Draft Report, Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas, April 1983.
AM (8 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Weeks, W. F., The Variation of Ice Strength Within and Between Multi-Year Pressure Ridges in the Beaufort Sea, Third International Symposium on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12-17, 1983.
AN (8 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Richter, J. A., Weeks, W. F., Mellor, M., A Summary of the Strength and Modulus of Ice Samples from Multi-Year Pressure Ridges, Third International Symposium on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12-17, 1983.
AO (5 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Richter, J. A.,A Preliminary Examination of the Effects of Structures on the Compressive Strength of Ice Samples from Multi-Year Pressure Ridges, Third International Symposium on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12-17, 1983.
AP (12 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Weeks, W. F., Equations for Determining the Gas and Brine Volumes in Sea-Ice Samples, Journal of Glaciology, Volume 29, No. 102, pp. 306-316, 1983.
AQ (84 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Morland, L. W., Mechanical Properties of Sea Ice: Theoretical Phase, July 1982 - April 1983, Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas, January 1984.
AR (262 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Hausler, F. U., Gerchow, P., Uniaxial and Biaxial Compressive Strength Tests on Sea-Ice Sampled From Pressure Ridges with Appendices A, B, and C, Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas, November 1983.
AS (29 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Richter-Menge, J. A., Mechanical Properties of Multi-Year Sea Ice Triaxial Tests, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 1984.
AT (158 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Richter-Menge, J. A., Weeks, W. F., Mellor, M., Bosworth, H., Durell, G., Perron, P., Mechanical Properties of Multi-Year Sea Ice, Phase II: Test Results, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 1984.
AU (8 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Thermal Expansion of Saline Ice, Journal of Glaciology, Volume 26, No. 103, pp 425-432, 1983.
AV (27 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Richter-Menge, J. A., Tensile Strength of Multi- Year Pressure Ridge Ice Samples, Proc. 4th Int'l Symposium on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Dallas, Texas, Feb. 1985.
AW (16 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Richter-Menge, J. A., Structure, Salinity, and Density of Multi-Year Pressure Ridges, Proceedings, Fourth International Symposium on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Dallas, Texas, February 1985.
AX (13 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Richter-Menge, J. A., Triaxial Compression Testing of Ice, Proceedings, ASCE Arctic 85 Conference, San Francisco, California, March 25-27, 1985.
AY (12 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Richter-Menge, J. A., Cox, G. F. N., The Effect of Sample Orientation on the Compression Strength of Multi-Year Pressure Ridge Ice Samples, Proceedings, ASCE Arctic 85 Conference, San Francisco, California, December 11, 1984
AZ (130 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Sengupta, P., Mechanical Properties of Sea Ice - Statistical Data Analysis, Technical Progress Report WRC 149-84, Westhollow Research Center, Houston, Texas, October 1984.
BA (6 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Weeks, W. F., The Variation of Ice Strength Within and Between Multi-Year Pressure Ridges in the Beaufort Sea, Journal of Energy Resources Technology, ASME, Volume 107, pp. 167-172, June 1985.
BB (40 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Dorris, J. F., Classification of Failure Modes for Unconfined Compression Tests of Multi-Year Ridge Ice, Technical Information Record BRC-1285, Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas, July 1985.
BC (62 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Richter-Menge, J. A., Cox, G. F. N., Perron, N., The Mechanical Properties of Multi-Year Sea Ice, Phase I: Ice Structure Analysis, Draft Report, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire.
BD (31 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Richter-Menge, J. A., Confined Compressive Strength of Multi-Year Pressure Ridge Sea Ice Samples, Fifth International Symposium on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, August 1985.
BE (92 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Cox, G. F. N., Richter-Menge, J. A., Weeks, W. F., Bosworth, H., Perron, N., Mellor, M., Durell, G., Mechanical Properties of Multi-Year Sea Ice, Phase II: Test Results, CRREL Report 85-16, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 1985.
BF (498 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Dorris, J. F., Austin, J. S., The Uniaxial Mechanical Response of Multi-Year Ridge Ice, Volume I - Summary Report, Volume II - Appendix A, Volume III - Appendix B, Volume IV - Appendix C, Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas, October 1985.
BG (58 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Dorris, J. F., A One Dimensional Viscoelastic Model for Ice, Technical Information Record, BRC-1451, Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas, July 1986.
BH (76 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Morland, L. W., Mechanical Properties of Sea Ice, Phase II: Theoretical Investigation, Technical Progress Report, BRC-104-85, Shell Development Company, Houston, Texas, September 1986.
BI (66 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Richter-Menge, J. A., Perron, N., The Mechanical Properties of Multi-Year Sea Ice, Phase II: Ice Structure Analysis, Draft Report, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 1986.
BL (12 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Richter-Menge, J. A., Cox, G. F. N., Confined Compressive Strength of Multi-Year Pressure Ridge Sea Ice Samples, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 1987.
BM (21 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Hausler, F. U., Earle, E. N., Gerchow, P., Uniaxial and Biaxial Compressive Strength of Ice Sampled from Multi-Year Pressure Ridges, POAC 87, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, August 1987.
BN (38 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Richter-Menge, J. A., Cox, G. F. N., Perron, N., Mechanical Properties of Multi-Year Sea Ice, Phase I: Ice Structure Analysis, CRREL Report 87-3, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 1987.
 

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