Wing crack models of the brittle compressive failure of ice

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-55

  Nixon, Wilfrid A ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

BRITTLE COMPRESSIVE FAILURE; WING CRACK MODELS;

ICE;

BRITTLE COMPRESSIVE FAILURE; ICE FAILURE; MODEL; WING CRACK;

EID: 0029668996     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-232X(95)00005-V     Document Type: Article

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