Overview
- Reviews recent findings in the fields of sea and grounded polar ice modelling
- Discusses the problems of the elastic, viscous, visco-plastic and brittle behaviour of ice on a wide range of spatial scales
- Includes theoretical descriptions and simulations of the material behaviour of ice
Part of the book series: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences (GEPS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents the concepts and tools of ice mechanics, together with examples of their application in the fields of glaciology, climate research and civil engineering in cold regions. It starts with an account of the most important physical properties of sea and polar ice treated as an anisotropic polycrystalline material, and reviews relevant field observations and experimental measurements. The book focuses on theoretical descriptions of the material behaviour of ice in different stress, deformation and deformation-rate regimes on spatial scales ranging from single ice crystals, those typical in civil engineering applications, up to scales of thousands of kilometres, characteristic of large, grounded polar ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland. In addition, it offers a range of numerical formulations based on either discrete (finite-element, finite-difference and smoothed particle hydrodynamics) methods or asymptotic expansion methods, which have been used by geophysicists, theoretical glaciologists and civil engineers to simulate the behaviour of ice in a number of problems of importance to glaciology and civil engineering, and discusses the results of these simulations. The book is intended for scientists, engineers and graduate students interested in mathematical and numerical modelling of a wide variety of geophysical and civil engineering problems involving natural ice.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ice Mechanics for Geophysical and Civil Engineering Applications
Authors: Ryszard Staroszczyk
Series Title: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03038-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03037-7Published: 22 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03038-4Published: 29 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2190-5193
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5207
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 334
Number of Illustrations: 93 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Civil Engineering, Geology, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Climatology