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5 - Plastic deformation of the ice single crystal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2010

Erland M. Schulson  and
Paul Duval
Erland M. Schulson
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Paul Duval
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
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Single crystals undergo plastic deformation as soon as there is a component of shear stress on the basal plane. Basal slip is observed for shear stresses in the basal plane lower than 0.02 MPa (Chevy,2005). Evidence of easy basal slip was first shown by McConnel (1891) and confirmed by many authors (Glen and Perutz, 1954; Griggs and Coles, 1954; Steinemann, 1954; Readey and Kingery, 1964; Higashi, 1967; Montagnat and Duval, 2004; see Weertman, 1973, for a review). A clear illustration of basal slip was obtained by Nakaya (1958) by performing bending experiments. Traces of the basal slip lines were made clearly visible by shadow photography (Fig. 5.1). Though some prismatic glide is observed for orientations close to those that inhibit basal slip, no clear observation of any deformation is reported in crystals loaded along the [0001] direction, which inhibits both basal and prismatic slip.

Basal slip takes place from the motion of basal dislocations with the Burgers' vector (Hobbs, 1974). The macroscopic slip direction corresponds to the maximum shear direction in the basal plane (Glen and Perutz, 1954). The slip direction is therefore always close to the direction of the maximum shear stress. From Kamb (1961), the failure to detect a slip direction in ice is explained by the fact that slip can occur in the three possible glide directions on the basal plane with a value of the stress exponent, which relates strain rate to stress, between 1 and 3.

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Creep and Fracture of Ice , pp. 77 - 100
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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