Ice Mechanics for Geophysical and Civil Engineering Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Release date:	2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Ryszard Staroszczyk
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	334
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-003037-7
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Geophysics Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Geological surface processes (geomorphology) > General
LSN:	3-03-003037-7
Barcode:	9783030030377

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