Estimation of Ice Loads Using Mechanics of Ice Failure in Compression
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Abstract
Abstract In the calculation of ice loads, reliance is generally placed on analysis of empirical data. The main reason for this is that the complex behaviour of ice under stress makes it difficult to use calculations based on mechanics directly in design. Ice is extremely brittle and prone to fracture, and develops areas of very high compression and confinement during compressive failure, which result in substantial changes in the microstructure and behaviour of the material. These are termed highpressure zones. Progress in the analysis of ice failure using advanced methods of mechanics is reported. This has included studies aimed at understanding the behaviour of high-pressure zones. All work includes analysis of time-dependent effects, essential for a proper analysis of ice failure. The paper includes a discussion of the role of fracture and the development of high-pressure zones. Fracture processes are understood but the randomness of the flaw structure of ice in the field suggests that there is a strong variation in magnitude and position of high-pressure zones. This is supported by observations in the field on vessels operating in ice. The analysis of high-pressure zones is outlined; these produce the high local pressures of great importance in design. As noted, very high pressures occur at the centre of the zones on small areas, of the order of 70 to 100 MPa, accompanied by very high confinement and shear. The response of the ice is profoundly altered under these conditions, as compared to virgin ice. Methods of damage mechanics have been used successfully to analyze the failure of high-pressure zones, and a distinct failure load has been obtained. The methods of mechanics require a non-classical approach that recognizes changes of material behaviour with time. A scaling rule related to the mechanics allows modelling on a smaller scale in the laboratory. Fracture events make the process of interaction highly variable in time. In the view of the writers of the present work, full time domain simulation of the process of interaction is not possible. A reasonable way to move forward is to combine the progress in high-pressure zone analysis with empirical analyses of high-pressure zone areal density and intensity.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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