Instruments and Methods: The Resistograph and the Compressive Strength of Snow

Open Access

1 January 1968

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Glaciology

Vol. 7 (51) , 499-506
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022143000020682

Abstract

A recent field comparison of snow strength as measured by the snow resistograph and compressive strength as measured by direct loading to failure indicates good agreement in the range 25–400 g/cm².

Keywords

GOOD
G/CM2
AGREEMENT
INSTRUMENTS
RESISTOGRAPH AND COMPRESSIVE
SNOW
DIRECT LOADING