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Viscoelastic Modeling of Calving Processes at Antarctic Ice Shelves

  • In this thesis viscoelastic material models are established to investigate the nature of continuous calving processes at Antarctic ice shelves. Physics-based descriptions of calving require appropriate fracture criteria to separate icebergs from the remaining ice shelf. Hence, criteria of the stress, the strain, and the self-similarity criterion are considered within finite-element computations. Crucial parameters in the models to determine the position of calving are the accurate knowledge of the geometry, especially the freeboard height, while the material parameters mainly influence the time span between two successive calving events. The extension to nonlinear material models is necessary to properly analyze the internal forces also for large deformations that occur for longer times of the viscous ice flow.

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Author:Julia Christmann
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-47793
ISBN:978-3-942695-14-5
Series (Serial Number):Forschungsbericht / Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Lehrstuhl für Technische Mechanik (14)
Advisor:Ralf Müller
Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Language of publication:English
Date of Publication (online):2017/08/23
Year of first Publication:2017
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Granting Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Acceptance Date of the Thesis:2017/02/06
Date of the Publication (Server):2017/08/24
Tag:calving; finite element method; ice shelves; viscoelastic modeling
Page Number:X, 133
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Maschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik
DDC-Cassification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
Licence (German):Creative Commons 4.0 - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitung (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)