Friction on Snow Surfaces: Part I. Friction on Ski
- 1 January 1943
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Polar Record
- Vol. 4 (25) , 2-7
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400032964
Abstract
The scientific work to account for the sliding properties of snow and ice is not abundant. Osborne Reynolds suggested that a skate slid on ice owing to the lubrication caused by pressure-melting. Bowden and Hughes, after studying the measurements made by the last-named as physicist to our glaciological expedition to the Jungfraujoch in 1938, formed the opinion that this could not alone account for the action of ski sliding upon snow. I had reached a somewhat similar conclusion some years ago after a study of the structure of snow crystals on the surface of snow fields.Keywords
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