The flow law of ice from measurements in glacier tunnels, laboratory experiments and the Jungfraufirn borehole experiment
- 7 October 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Vol. 219 (1139) , 477-489
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1953.0161
Abstract
The paper attempts to relate four recent sets of measurements on the flow laws of ice: (1) Glen's laboratory compression tests, (2) Gerrard, Perutz & Roch's pipe experiment on the Jungfraufirn, (3) measurements of contraction rate in a tunnel in Skauthoe Glacier by McCall, and (4) measurements of contraction rate in tunnels in the Z'Mutt and Arolla Glaciers reported by Haefeli & Kasser. When they are analyzed within the framework of a general flow theory, satisfactory agreement is found between all these results, with one exception: the reported rate of collapse of the Arolla tunnel is faster than would be given by the present theory. The paper includes the theory of the slow collapse of a cylindrical or a spherical hole in a medium showing non-Newtonian viscosity.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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