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Title
Stresses in glaciers : methods of calculation / Peter Halfar.
Uniform Title
Spannungen in Gletschern. English
ISBN
9783662660249 (electronic bk.)
3662660245 (electronic bk.)
3662660237
9783662660232
Published
Berlin, Germany : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (221 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-662-66024-9 doi
Call Number
GB2403.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.31/2
Summary
In this book, for the first time, a hitherto unknown general solution of the reliably known stress conditions is presented. This general solution forms a reliable and new starting point to get further in stress calculations than before. In this way, approximately realistic solutions can be found despite a recurring problem: the information deficits that are unavoidable due to the difficulty of exploring glaciers. This issue is demonstrated by the example of stagnating glaciers. For horizontally isotropic homogeneous tabular iceberg models, even mathematically exact unambiguous solutions of all relevant conditions are presented. All calculations use only elementary arithmetic operations, differentiations and integrations. The mathematical fundamentals are presented in detail and explained in many application examples. The integral operators specific to calculations of stresses facilitate the mathematical considerations. The stand-alone text allows the reader to understand what is involved even without considering the formulas. The author Peter Halfar is a theoretical physicist. He also developed a model of the movement of large ice caps (1983), which is still in use today. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 24, 2023).
I Introduction and fundamentals. Introduction
Balance and boundary conditions
Integral operators
Forces and torques on surfaces
Special solutions of balance conditions
Weightless stress tensor fields
II The general solution of balance and boundary conditions. Weightless stress tensor fields with boundary conditions
The general solution of balance and boundary conditions
Models and model selection. III Applications and examples. Land glaciers
Floating glaciers
IV Appendix. Bibliography
Explanation and list of symbols.
