Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1-1997

Publication Title

Journal of Glaciology

Department

Thayer School of Engineering

Abstract

Experiments on plate-like specimens have established that across-column cracks from within S2 (columnar) salt-water ice when compressed uniaxially along a direction inclined to the long axis of the grains. Wing cracks initiate from the across-column cracks and lengthen into axial splits when the ice is rapidly deformed; correspondingly; the macroscopic behavior changes from ductile to brittle. The across-column cracking is attributed to grain-boundary sliding, and the splitting to the suppression of crack-tip creep.

DOI

10.1017/S0022143000034997

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