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Brittle Fracture of Snow

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Physical Aspects of Fracture

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Abstract

Snow is a foam of ice. It shows a brittle to ductile transition (activation energy 0.6eV) as function of strain rate and temperature. Measured values of the fracture toughness KIc in the brittle regime are used in a theory of slab avalanches.

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  1. Institut de Science des Matériaux. Bât. 410, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405, Orsay, France

    H. O. K. Kirchner

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  1. Service de Physique et Chimie des Surfaces et des Interfaces, Direction des Sciences de la Matière, CEA, Saclay, France

    Elisabeth Bouchaud

  2. Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS, Ecole des Mines Paris, France

    Dominique Jeulin

  3. Université Paris 13 and Laboratoire Mécanique des Sols, Structures et Matériaux, Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS, Ecole Centrale Paris, France

    Claude Prioul

  4. Laboratoire Surface du Verre et Interfaces, Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS, St-Gobain, France

    Stéphane Roux

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Kirchner, H.O.K. (2001). Brittle Fracture of Snow. In: Bouchaud, E., Jeulin, D., Prioul, C., Roux, S. (eds) Physical Aspects of Fracture. NATO Science Series, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0656-9_4

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