Creep of Floating Ice Sheets, Computer Calculations

Download or read book Creep of Floating Ice Sheets, Computer Calculations written by D. H. Garbaccio and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a digital computer calculations were made of the deformations and bending moments in a floating ice sheet. The ice behavior was described by a linear viscoelastic model consisting of a Maxwell and a Voigt element in series. Loading with circular symmetry uniformly distributed was applied to a plate of finite thickness described by Reissner theory. The effect of superposed loads describing aircraft landing gear was considered. Calculations were also made for a linearized approximation to the problem of a thin sheet described by a power creep law. The method was only partially successful because the time span of applicability was short. (Author).