This Volume constitutes the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on 'Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics', held in Fairbanks, Alaska from 13th to 16th of June 2000. Ice mechanics deals with essentially intact ice: in this discipline, descriptions of the motion and deformation of Arctic/ Antarctic and river/lake ice call for the development of physically based constitutive and fracture models over an enormous range in scale: 0.01 m - 10 km. Ice dynamics, on the other hand, deals with the movement of broken ice: descriptions of an aggregate of ice floes call for accurate modeling of momentum transfer through the sea/ice system, again over an enormous range in scale: 1 km (floe scale) - 500 km (basin scale). For ice mechanics, the emphasis on lab-scale (0.01 - 0.5 m) research con- trasts with applications at the scale of order 1 km (ice-structure interaction, icebreaking); many important upscaling questions remain to be explored.
ISBN: | 9789048158904 |
Publication date: | 6th December 2010 |
Author: | IUTAM Symposium on Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics, J P Dempsey, Hayley H Shen |
Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 484 pages |
Series: | Solid Mechanics and Its Applications |
Genres: |
Engineering: Mechanics of solids Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics) Meteorology and climatology Classical mechanics Civil engineering, surveying and building |