The brittle compressive failure of fresh-water columnar ice loaded biaxially

Acta Materialia

Volumn 52, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 5723-5735

  Iliescu, Daniel ^a   Schulson, Erland M ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; COMPRESSION TESTING; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; INDENTATION; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CRACK NUCLEATION; ENGINEERING-SCALE INDENTATION; HERTZIAN CRACKING;

ICE;

EID: 4744352941     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2004.07.027     Document Type: Article

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