scholarly journals The mechanical properties of saline ice under uniaxial compression

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary A. Kuehn ◽  
Erland M. Schulson
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Uniaxial Compression ◽  
Growth Direction ◽  
First Year ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Deformation And Fracture ◽  
Specimen Orientation ◽  
Ductile To Brittle Transition

Understanding the mechanical properties of saline ice is important for engineering design as well as for operations in polar regions. In order to gain understanding of the basic mechanisms of deformation and fracture, laboratory-grown columnar saline ice, representative of first-year sea ice, was tested in uniaxial compression under a variety of conditions of Strain rate (10−7to 10−1s−1), temper-aiure (−40°, −20°, −10° and −5°C) and orientation (loading vertically or horizontally: i.e. parallel or perpendicular to the growth direction). The range of strain rate spanned the ductile-to-brittle transition for every combination of temperature and specimen orientation. The results of over 250 tests are reported. Mechanical properties, failure mode and ice structure are analyzed with respect to the testing conditons. The results show that strength is dependent upon the ice structure, orientation, strain rate and temperature. During loading in the ductile regime the structure is altered (e.g. by recrystallization), whereas in the brittle regime the majority of the structural change is through cracking. The results are compared to results from the literature on both natural sea ice and laboratory-grown saline ice. Where possible, they are interpreted in terms of micromechanica] models.

scholarly journals The mechanical properties of saline ice under uniaxial compression

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary A. Kuehn ◽  
Erland M. Schulson
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Uniaxial Compression ◽  
Growth Direction ◽  
First Year ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Deformation And Fracture ◽  
Specimen Orientation ◽  
Ductile To Brittle Transition

Understanding the mechanical properties of saline ice is important for engineering design as well as for operations in polar regions. In order to gain understanding of the basic mechanisms of deformation and fracture, laboratory-grown columnar saline ice, representative of first-year sea ice, was tested in uniaxial compression under a variety of conditions of Strain rate (10−7 to 10−1 s−1), temper-aiure (−40°, −20°, −10° and −5°C) and orientation (loading vertically or horizontally: i.e. parallel or perpendicular to the growth direction). The range of strain rate spanned the ductile-to-brittle transition for every combination of temperature and specimen orientation. The results of over 250 tests are reported. Mechanical properties, failure mode and ice structure are analyzed with respect to the testing conditons. The results show that strength is dependent upon the ice structure, orientation, strain rate and temperature. During loading in the ductile regime the structure is altered (e.g. by recrystallization), whereas in the brittle regime the majority of the structural change is through cracking. The results are compared to results from the literature on both natural sea ice and laboratory-grown saline ice. Where possible, they are interpreted in terms of micromechanica] models.

Salinity evolution and mechanical properties of snow-loaded multiyear sea ice near an ice shelf

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 821-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Gough ◽  
A.R. Mahoney ◽  
P.J. Langhorne ◽  
T.G. Haskell
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Ice Thickness ◽  
First Year ◽  
Ice Shelf ◽  
Sea Ice Thickness ◽  
Ice Shelves ◽  
Complex Region ◽  
Salinity Profile

AbstractSea ice often forms attached to floating ice shelves. Accumulating snow can depress its freeboard, creating a flooded slush layer that may subsequently freeze to form snow ice, rejecting brine as it freezes. The resulting salinity profile determines the mechanical properties of the sea ice. We provide measurements of snow-loaded, multiyear sea ice from summer to winter. Brine from a slush layer is not completely expelled from the sea ice when the slush refreezes to form snow ice. Measurements of sea ice salinity and temperature indicate that the fate of this brine depends on the permeability of the sea ice below it. The sea ice in this study was also deformed by a nearby ice shelf over eleven years at a strain rate $$--&#x003E;&#x003C;$&#x003E; \dot{{\epsilon}} $$$ = (-8 ± 3) × 10-4 yr-1 (or 3 × 10-11 s-1). From transects of sea ice thickness and structure we estimate an effective Young's modulus at medium scales for sea ice mostly composed of snow ice of 0.1 GPa < E < 0.4 GPa, suggesting that this eleven year old sea ice cover has similar mechanical properties to warm first year sea ice. This is important for the parameterisations needed to simulate multiyear sea ice in the complex region near an ice shelf.

The Structure and Tensile Behavior of First-Year Sea Ice and Laboratory-Grown Saline Ice

1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Kuehn ◽  
R. W. Lee ◽  
W. A. Nixon ◽  
E. M. Schulson
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Vertical Direction ◽  
Tensile Tests ◽  
Growth Direction ◽  
First Year ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
Vertical Orientation ◽  
Brittle Behavior ◽  
Horizontal Orientation

Tensile tests have been performed on first-year sea ice and on laboratory-grown saline ice at −10° C and at two strain rates, 10−3 s−1 and 10−7 s−1. The first-year sea ice was collected from the Beaufort Sea in April of 1983 and November of 1984. The laboratory-grown saline ice was grown unidirectionally downward by means of a cooling plate on an insulated tank. The ice was loaded both parallel (vertical orientation) and perpendicular (horizontal orientation) to its growth direction. The results showed brittle behavior at the higher rate for both orientations, but ductile behavior at the lower rate for the horizontally loaded ice. At both strain rates, both the tangent modulus and the tensile strength are significantly higher along the vertical direction. The structure and mechanical properties of the laboratory-grown ice were similar to those of the first-year sea ice, indicating that the laboratory ice is a covenient and economical material for studying the mechanical properties of columnar saline ice.

scholarly journals Enhanced tropospheric BrO over Antarctic sea ice in mid winter observed by MAX-DOAS on board the research vessel Polarstern

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 3129-3142 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Wagner ◽  
O. Ibrahim ◽  
R. Sinreich ◽  
U. Frieß ◽  
R. von Glasow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Vertical Mixing ◽  
Satellite Observations ◽  
Research Vessel ◽  
Optical Absorption Spectroscopy ◽  
Back Trajectory ◽  
First Year ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Near Surface

Abstract. We present Multi AXis-Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) observations of tropospheric BrO carried out on board the German research vessel Polarstern during the Antarctic winter 2006. Polarstern entered the area of first year sea ice around Antarctica on 24 June 2006 and stayed within this area until 15 August 2006. For the period when the ship cruised inside the first year sea ice belt, enhanced BrO concentrations were almost continuously observed. Outside the first year sea ice belt, typically low BrO concentrations were found. Based on back trajectory calculations we find a positive correlation between the observed BrO differential slant column densities (ΔSCDs) and the duration for which the air masses had been in contact with the sea ice surface prior to the measurement. While we can not completely rule out that in several cases the highest BrO concentrations might be located close to the ground, our observations indicate that the maximum BrO concentrations might typically exist in a (possibly extended) layer around the upper edge of the boundary layer. Besides the effect of a decreasing pH of sea salt aerosol with altitude and therefore an increase of BrO with height, this finding might be also related to vertical mixing of air from the free troposphere with the boundary layer, probably caused by convection over the warm ocean surface at polynyas and cracks in the ice. Strong vertical gradients of BrO and O3 could also explain why we found enhanced BrO levels almost continuously for the observations within the sea ice. Based on our estimated BrO profiles we derive BrO mixing ratios of several ten ppt, which is slightly higher than many existing observations. Our observations indicate that enhanced BrO concentrations around Antarctica exist about one month earlier than observed by satellite instruments. From detailed radiative transfer simulations we find that MAX-DOAS observations are up to about one order of magnitude more sensitive to near-surface BrO than satellite observations. In contrast to satellite observations the MAX-DOAS sensitivity hardly decreases for large solar zenith angles and is almost independent from the ground albedo. Thus this technique is very well suited for observations in polar regions close to the solar terminator. For large periods of our measurements the solar elevation was very low or even below the horizon. For such conditions, most reactive Br-compounds might exist as Br2 molecules and ozone destruction and the removal of reactive bromine compounds might be substantially reduced.

scholarly journals Investigation of the Mechanical Properties of St. Lawrence River Ice

1971 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. W. Gold ◽  
A. S. Krausz
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Yield Stress ◽  
Power Law ◽  
River Ice ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Strain Behavior ◽  
Brittle Transition ◽  
Ductile To Brittle Transition ◽  
St Lawrence River

Observations are reported on the stress–strain behavior at −9.5 ± 0.5 °C of four types of ice obtained from the St. Lawrence River. The ice was subject to nominal rates of strain covering the range 2.1 × 10−5 min−1 to 5.8 × 10−2 min−1. A ductile-to-brittle transition was observed for strain rate of about 10−2 min−1. In the ductile range the four types had an upper yield stress that increased with strain rate according to a power law.

Brittle compressive failure of ice: proportional straining vs proportional loading

2006 ◽  
Vol 52 (177) ◽  
pp. 248-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.M. Schulson ◽  
D. Iliescu
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
First Year ◽  
Compressive Failure ◽  
Proportional Loading ◽  
Freshwater Ice

AbstractProportional straining experiments have been performed on columnar-grained S2 freshwater ice biaxially compressed across the columns at –10°C at a strain rate of (4.5 ± 1.5) × 10–3 s–1. The results are compared with those obtained earlier (Iliescu and Schulson, 2004) from the same kind of material deformed to terminal failure under the same conditions, but through proportional loading. The exercise shows that the biaxial strength is practically independent of the path taken, at least under low confinement where Coulombic shear faulting limits terminal failure. First-year sea ice is expected to exhibit the same behavior.

scholarly journals Mechanical Properties of First Year Sea Ice in Saroma Lagoon

1985 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 278-280
Author(s):  
Hisao Matsushita ◽  
Nobuyoshi Yashima
Keyword(s):  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Test Specimen ◽  
Bending Strength ◽  
Growth Direction ◽  
Cross Sectional Area ◽  
First Year ◽  
Sectional Area ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Cross

This paper deals with compressive strength vs temperature characteristics (-40 ºC to -2ºC), size effect (cross-sectional area of test specimen) and probability distribution of compressive strength and fracture toughness KIC (corresponding to notch effect in bending strength), of first year sea ice sampled from Saroma Lagoon. The main experimental results are as follows. (1) Temperature dependent compressive fracture modes: at temperatures of -20 ºC to 0ºC, crush fracture is dominant, and at temperatures of -40 ºC to -20 C, brittle fracture is dominant. (2) The larger the cross-sectional area of a test specimen, the lower the compressive strength becomes. It is inferred that the number of weak spots increases with increase in the cross-sectional area of the test piece, which thus becomes more susceptible to fracture. (3) The scatter of compressive strength can be approximated by a normal distribution curve. (4) The KIC values of sea ice are below 10 kg/cm2cm, though they change slightly depending on the dimensions of test pieces, the relative angle between crystal growth direction and load direction, environmental condition (air or water), and testing method.

scholarly journals Seasonality of halogen deposition in polar snow and ice

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 8185-8207 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Spolaor ◽  
P. Vallelonga ◽  
J. Gabrieli ◽  
T. Martma ◽  
M. P. Björkman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Atmospheric Chemistry ◽  
Salt Content ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
First Year ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Biological Communities ◽  
Polar Snow ◽  
Snow And Ice

Abstract. The atmospheric chemistry of iodine and bromine in polar regions is of interest due to the key role of halogens in many atmospheric processes, particularly tropospheric ozone destruction. Bromine is emitted from the open ocean but is enriched above first-year sea ice during springtime bromine explosion events, whereas iodine is emitted from biological communities hosted by sea ice. It has been previously demonstrated that bromine and iodine are present in Antarctic ice over glacial-interglacial cycles. Here we investigate seasonal variability of bromine and iodine in polar snow and ice, to evaluate their emission, transport and deposition in Antarctica and the Arctic and better understand potential links to sea ice. We find that bromine enrichment (relative to sea salt content) and iodine concentrations in polar ice do vary seasonally in Arctic snow and Antarctic ice and we relate such variability to satellite-based observations of tropospheric halogen concentrations. Peaks of bromine enrichment in Arctic snow and Antarctic ice occur in spring and summer, when sunlight is present. Iodine concentrations are largest in winter Antarctic ice strata, contrary to contemporary observations of summer maxima in iodine emissions.

Molecular Dynamics Study on Uniaxial Compression Transformation of Magnesium Alloy

NANO ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 2150118
Author(s):  
Qianhua Yang ◽  
Chun Xue ◽  
Zhibing Chu ◽  
Yugui Li ◽  
Lifeng Ma
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Molecular Dynamics ◽  
Phase Transformation ◽  
Magnesium Alloy ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Uniaxial Compression ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Transformation Mechanism ◽  
Different Temperatures

As a new method of calculating materials, molecular dynamics simulation can effectively reproduce the mechanical behavior of materials at the atomic level. In this paper, through the construction of the AZ31 magnesium alloy model, the uniaxial compression deformation of magnesium alloy at different temperatures and strain rate is simulated by molecular dynamics method, the mechanical properties and microstructure changes of magnesium alloy are analyzed, the phase transformation mechanism of magnesium alloy under uniaxial compression is revealed, and the effects of temperature and strain rate on the phase transformation of magnesium alloy are explored at the nanometer scale. It provides a theoretical basis and necessary basic knowledge for the design and development of Mg-based nanostructured alloys with excellent mechanical properties.

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