Moving Loads on Ice Plates
Moving Loads on Ice Plates is a unique study into the effect of vehicles and aircraft travelling across floating ice sheets. It synthesizes in a single volume, with a coherent theme and nomenclature, the diverse literature on the topic, hitherto available only as research journal articles. Chapters on the nature of fresh water ice and sea ice, and on applied continuum mechanics are included, as is a chapter on the subject's venerable history in related areas of engineering and science. The...
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Moving Loads on Ice Plates is a unique study into the effect of vehicles and aircraft travelling across floating ice sheets. It synthesizes in a single volume, with a coherent theme and nomenclature, the diverse literature on the topic, hitherto available only as research journal articles. Chapters on the nature of fresh water ice and sea ice, and on applied continuum mechanics are included, as is a chapter on the subject's venerable history in related areas of engineering and science. The most recent theories and data are discussed in great depth, demonstrating the advanced state of the modelling and experimental field programmes that have taken place. Finally, results are interpreted in the context of engineering questions faced by agencies operating in the polar and subpolar regions. Although the book necessarily contains some graduate level applied mathematics, it is written to allow engineers, physicists and mathematicians to extract the information they need without becoming preoccupied with details. Structural, environmental, civil, and offshore engineers, and groups who support these industries, particularly within the Arctic and Antarctic, will find the book timely and relevant. Booknews Synthesizes and systemizes the most recent theories and data about the effect of vehicles and aircraft travelling across floating ice sheets, for engineers, physicists, and mathematicians, particularly those involved with agencies operating in the polar or subpolar regions. The topics include the nature of fresh-water and sea ice, the application of continuum mechanics, the history of such inquiry, and experiments. The mathematics occasionally transcend the graduate level, though the intent is for scientists to understand the principles without getting bogged down in details. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface1Preamble12Structure and Properties of Ice Plates93Continuum Mechanics474Historical Perspectives695Theoretical Advances1056Experiments Involving Moving Loads1597Implications and Conclusions199Bibliography213Index223
\ BooknewsSynthesizes and systemizes the most recent theories and data about the effect of vehicles and aircraft travelling across floating ice sheets, for engineers, physicists, and mathematicians, particularly those involved with agencies operating in the polar or subpolar regions. The topics include the nature of fresh-water and sea ice, the application of continuum mechanics, the history of such inquiry, and experiments. The mathematics occasionally transcend the graduate level, though the intent is for scientists to understand the principles without getting bogged down in details. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
