3D numerical model of snow deformation without failure and its application to cold room mechanical tests

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 3-12

  Navarre, Jean Pierre ^a   Meyssonnier, Jacques ^b   Vagnon, Alexandre ^b  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

3D mechanical model; Slow deformation; Snow

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; DENSIFICATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL TESTING; STRAIN RATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOELASTICITY;

COLD ROOM MECHANICAL TESTS; SLOW DEFORMATION;

SNOW;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DEFORMATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ICE MECHANICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SNOW;

EID: 34548664346     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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