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Project Number 196
Date of Summary March 31, 1995
Subject Sea Ice Scaling Effects
Performing Activity Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator Dr. S. Shyam Sunder
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Completed
Description Develop physically based constitutive models that are computationally refined and are able to achieve a fundamental understanding of the many concurrently operating mechanisms governing the effects of scale on ice-ice and ice- structure interaction processes. The project focuses on long-term research objectives to develop a rational theory for explaining the very large-scale effects observed in the ice pressures generated on structures during ice structure interactive events.
Progress Completed. Reports are copyrighted.

Reports
AA Elvin, Alex A., Sunder, S. Shyam, Microcracking Due to Grain Boundary Sliding in Polycrystalline Ice Under Uniaxial Compression, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, March, 1995.
AB Elvin, Alex A., Number of Grains Required to Homogenize Elastic Properties of Polycrystalline Ice, Reprinted from Mechanics of Materials- An International Journal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August, 1995.
AC Elvin, Alex A., Several Aspects of Polycrystalline Ice Behavior Based on Micromechanical Modeling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June, 1996.

 

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