scholarly journals Cyclic strengthening of lake ice

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Andrii Murdza ◽  
Aleksey Marchenko ◽  
Erland M. Schulson ◽  
Carl E. Renshaw

Abstract Further to systematic experiments on the flexural strength of laboratory-grown, fresh water ice loaded cyclically, this paper describes results from new experiments of the same kind on lake ice harvested in Svalbard. The experiments were conducted at −12 °C, 0.1 Hz frequency and outer-fiber stress in the range from ~ 0.1 to ~ 0.7 MPa. The results suggest that the flexural strength increases linearly with stress amplitude, similar to the behavior of laboratory-grown ice.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrii Murdza ◽  
Erland M. Schulson ◽  
Carl E. Renshaw

Abstract. New systematic experiments reveal that the flexural strength of saline S2 columnar-grained ice loaded normal to the columns can be increased upon cyclic loading by about a factor of 1.5. The experiments were conducted using reversed cyclic loading over ranges of frequencies from 0.1 to 0.6 Hz and at a temperature of −10 ºC on saline ice of two salinities: 3.0±0.9 and 5.9±0.6 ‰. Acoustic emission hit rate during cycling increases with an increase of stress amplitude of cycling. Flexural strength of saline ice of 3.0±0.9 ‰ salinity appears to increase linearly with increasing stress amplitude, similar to the behavior of laboratory-grown freshwater ice (Murdza et al., 2020c) and to the behavior of lake ice (Murdza et al., 2020a). The flexural strength of saline ice of 5.9±0.6 ‰ depends on the vertical location of the sample within the thickness of an ice puck; i.e., the strength of the upper layers, which have a lower brine content, was found to be as high as three times that of lower layers. Flexural strength is governed by tensile strength which appears to be controlled by crack nucleation. Cyclic strengthening is attributed to the development of an internal back stress that opposes the applied stress and originates possibly from dislocation pileups. The fatigue life of saline ice is erratic.


1962 ◽  
Vol 4 (33) ◽  
pp. 319-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Knight

AbstractDiscussions of possible causes of preferred crystal orientations in fresh-water ice are presented, with data on ice orientations from several Arctic lakes. Evidently, initial ice orientations are determined by wind conditions. Orientation selection during growth at the bottom of the ice also takes place, but in the lake ice examined it is apparently largely unsystematic. Constitutional supercooling can cause c-axis-horizontal orientations, but it is not of sufficient magnitude in the lakes examined to have much effect. Striations are locally significant but erratic.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 2415-2428
Author(s):  
Andrii Murdza ◽  
Erland M. Schulson ◽  
Carl E. Renshaw

Abstract. New systematic experiments reveal that the flexural strength of saline S2 columnar-grained ice loaded normal to the columns can be increased upon cyclic loading by about a factor of 1.5. The experiments were conducted using reversed cyclic loading over ranges of frequencies from 0.1 to 0.6 Hz and at a temperature of −10 ∘C on saline ice of two salinities: 3.0 ± 0.9 and 5.9 ± 0.6 ‰. Acoustic emission hit rate during cycling increases with an increase in stress amplitude of cycling. Flexural strength of saline ice of 3.0 ± 0.9 ‰ salinity appears to increase linearly with increasing stress amplitude, similar to the behavior of laboratory-grown freshwater ice (Murdza et al., 2020b) and to the behavior of lake ice (Murdza et al., 2021). The flexural strength of saline ice of 5.9 ± 0.6 ‰ depends on the vertical location of the sample within the thickness of an ice puck; i.e., the strength of the upper layers, which have a lower brine content, was found to be as high as 3 times that of lower layers. The fatigue life of saline ice is erratic. Cyclic strengthening is attributed to the development of an internal back stress that opposes the applied stress and possibly originates from dislocation pileups.


1962 ◽  
Vol 4 (33) ◽  
pp. 319-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Knight

Abstract Discussions of possible causes of preferred crystal orientations in fresh-water ice are presented, with data on ice orientations from several Arctic lakes. Evidently, initial ice orientations are determined by wind conditions. Orientation selection during growth at the bottom of the ice also takes place, but in the lake ice examined it is apparently largely unsystematic. Constitutional supercooling can cause c-axis-horizontal orientations, but it is not of sufficient magnitude in the lakes examined to have much effect. Striations are locally significant but erratic.


1962 ◽  
Vol 4 (31) ◽  
pp. 25-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. F. Weeks

AbstractTo resolve some of the factors causing strength variation in natural sea ice, fresh water and five different NaCl–H2O solutions were frozen in a tank designed to simulate the one-dimensional cooling of natural bodies of water. The resulting ice was structurally similar to lake and sea ice. The salinity of the salt ice varied from 1‰ to 22‰. Tables of brine volumes and densities were computed for these salinities in the temperature range 0° to −35° C. The ring-tensile strength σ of fresh-water ice was found to be essentially temperature independent from −10° to −30°C., with an average value of 29.6±8.5 kg./cm.2at −10° C. The strength of salt ice at temperatures above the eutectic point (–21.2° C.) significantly decreases with brine volumev;. The σ–axis intercept of this line is comparable to the a values determined for fresh ice indicating that there is little, if any, difference in stress concentration between sea and lake ice as a result of the presence of brine pockets. The strength of ice containing NaCl.2H2O is slightly less than the strength of freshwater ice and is independent of the volume of solid salt and the ice temperature. No evidence was found for the existence of either phase or geometric hysteresis in NaCl ice. The strength of ice at sub-eutectic temperatures, however, is decreased appreciably if the ice has been subjected to temperatures above the eutectic point; this is the result of the redistribution of brine during the warm-temperature period. Short-term cooling produces an appreciable (20 per cent) decrease in strength, in fresh-water and NaCl.2H2O ice. The present results are compared with tests on natural sea ice and it is suggested that the strength of freshwater ice is a limit which is approached but not exceeded by cold sea ice and that the reinforcement of brine pockets by Na2SO4.10H2O is either lacking or much less than previously assumed.


1994 ◽  
Vol 40 (134) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
R.E. Gagnon

AbstractA stainless-steel platen, with a centrally located pressure sensor on the front face, has been used to crush mono-crystalline, bubble-free fresh-water ice samples. Two electrical conductors, located on the face of the pressure sensor, were connected to a bridge circuit so that the presence of liquid between the two conductors could be detected and its thickness measured. Video records of the ice/ steel contact zone during crushing were obtained by mounting samples on a thick Plexiglas plate which permitted viewing through the specimen to the ice/steel interface. Total load and pressure records exhibited a sawtooth pattern due to the compliance of the ice and the testing apparatus, and spalling of ice from the contact zone. When the region of contact was in the vicinity of the pressure transducer, liquid was detected and peaks occurred in the liquid sensor output when load drops occurred. Contact between the platen and the ice consisted of low pressure zones of highly damaged crushed and/or refrozen ice, opaque in appearance, and transparent, high-pressure regions of relatively undamaged ice. Upper limits for the liquid-layer thickness on the high-pressure undamaged ice were ~3 µm on the ascending sides of the sawteeth in the load records and ~ 21 µ on the sharp descending sides.


1962 ◽  
Vol 4 (31) ◽  
pp. 134 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Loewe
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1994 ◽  
Vol 40 (136) ◽  
pp. 566-568
Author(s):  
G. A. Kuehn ◽  
E. M. Schulson

AbstractExperiments have shown that tensile ductility of about 5% or more can be imparted to columnar, saline ice by pre-compressing the material by about 3.5%. This effect is similar to that observed in granular, fresh-water ice and is attributed to the operation of both dislocation creep and diffusion creep within that part of the matrix which recrystallized during the pre-compressive deformation.


1961 ◽  
Vol 3 (30) ◽  
pp. 1051-1052
Author(s):  
F. Loewe

AbstractMelting at the bottom of floating ice shelves may represent an important item in the mass economy of ice sheets. Some earlier studies of the behaviour of fresh-water ice in sea-water at a temperature below 0° C. are quoted.


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