Iutam Symposia

Session I: Creep And Viscoelasticity.- Creep and Rupture in Relation to Field Experiments.- The Use of Tertiary Creep Rates in Ice at High Strains in Compression and Shear.- Creep and Settlement of Ice Structures - A Case History.- Creep Constitutive Equations for Polycrystalline Ice and Effect of Microcracking.- Kinetics of Microcracking and Dilatation in Polycrystalline Ice.- Chairman's Remarks.- Session II: Fracture.- Fracture Mechanics Models of Ice-Structure Interaction.- The Fracture Toughness of Ice.- The Study of Fracture Toughness of Bohai Sea Ice.- The Tensile and Compressive Fracture of Ice.- Session III: Damage And Compressive Fracture.- Models for the Deformation Behavior of Viscoelastic Media with Distributed Damage and Their Applicability to Ice.- Microfracture and The Compressive Failure of Polycrystalline Ice.- Some Questions on Ice and Ice Cover Fracture in Compression.- Seasonal Compressive Strength of Beaufort Sea Ice Sheets.- Processes of Deformation and Fracture of Ice in Compression.- A Plasticity Model for the Crushing of Ice.- Strength and Failure Modes of Pure Ice and Multi-Year Sea Ice Under Triaxial Loading.- Sea Ice Under Complex Stress States: Constitutive Modelling and Testing.- Session IV: Friction And Broken Ice Masses.- Mechanisms of Ice Friction.- Crushing Friction Experiments on Freshwater Ice.- Do Cracks Reduce Thermal Ice Stresses?.- Session V: Design Methodologies.- Statistical Analysis of Ice Forces.- Probabilistic Determination of Iceberg Collision Design Loads for Floating Production Vessels.- The Selection of Design Ice Loads and Design Ice Features For Fixed Offshore Structures in the Beaufort Sea.- Structural Risk Model of Arctic Shipping.- Probabilistic Ice Forces on Offshore Structures.- Chairman's Remarks.- Session VI: Ice-Structure Interaction.- Ice Interaction with Structures.- Adjusting Local Stiffness for Improving Dynamic Ice-Structure Interaction of Bohai Jackets.- Theoretical Modelling of Ice-Structure Interaction.- Ice-Structure Interaction During Indentation Tests.- Structure Geometry and Ice Interaction.- Dynamics of Continuous Icebreaking by an Icebreaker Hull.- Impact Ice Pressure: More Questions than Answers.- A Method of Scaling for Ship-Ice Model Tests.- Chairman's Remarks.- Contribution to General Discussions.