Field-Scale In-Situ Compliance of Arctic First-Year Sea Ice |
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Authors: | R M Adamson J P Dempsey |
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Affiliation: | 1Clough, Harbour & Assoc. LLP, Engrs., Surveyors, Planners & Landscape Archit., 571 South Lake Blvd., Ste. B, Richmond, VA 23236.
2Prof., Dept. of Civ. and Envir. Engrg., Clarkson Univ., Potsdam, NY 13699-5710. E-mail: john@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.
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Abstract: | This paper presents the experimental results and analysis of the creep recovery and cyclic loading crack-opening-displacement measurements recorded on level first-year sea ice at Barrow, Alaska. This was the third of a three-trip program to track the seasonal evolution of the mechanical and physical properties of first-year S2 sea ice. Seven large-scale in-situ experiments were completed covering a size range of 1:30 with the largest test having dimensions of 30 m × 30 m. The creep recovery response from the largest test specimen is examined in this paper to determine the compliance of a precracked square-plate test geometry via a nonlinear viscoelastic∕viscoplastic formulation. This model is then applied to the cyclic loading, and a monotonic ramp to fracture, to quantify its ability to predict the behavior for a variety of loading paths. |
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