Download or read book Constitutive Equations and Fracture Models for Sea Ice written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final report summarizes research on deformation and fracture models for sea ice. In many cases results are compared with those for freshwater ice. Described first is work on modeling of primary creep for relatively short loading histories, studies on the applicability of linear elastic fracture mechanics to polycrystalline freshwater and sea ice, and finally a study on stress-transmission in polycrystals undergoing grain boundary sliding. Next, emphasis is on characterization of time-dependent deformation behavior of ice from short to very long-time behavior. This behavior requires the use of models that account for broad spectrum viscoelasticity. Linear viscoelasticity theory is used first in order to develop an understanding of how single-crystal creep produces broad-spectrum behavior of polycrystals through the mechanical interaction of single crystals. Guided by these results and then nonequilibrium thermodynamic principles, nonlinear viscoelastic constitutive equations are developed that make direct use of creep compliances predicted from the linear theory of polycrystals. While only theoretical work has been done on this grant, experimental data provided by others have been used to verify some of the predictions. Comparison of theory and experiment appears in some of the publications.