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Friction on Snow Surfaces: Part I. Friction on Ski

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

G. Seligman
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The scientific work to account for the sliding properties of snow and ice is not abundant. Osborne Reynolds suggested that a skate slid on ice owing to the lubrication caused by pressure-melting. Bowden and Hughes, after studying the measurements made by the last-named as physicist to our glaciological expedition to the Jungfraujoch in 1938, formed the opinion that this could not alone account for the action of ski sliding upon snow. I had reached a somewhat similar conclusion some years ago after a study of the structure of snow crystals on the surface of snow fields.

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Polar Record , Volume 4 , Issue 25 , January 1943 , pp. 2 - 7
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1943

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page 2 note 1 Papers on Mechanical and Physical Subjects, Cambridge, 1901, p. 734.Google Scholar

page 2 note 2 “The Mechanism of Sliding on Ice and Snow”, Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, Series A, No. 949, Vol. 172, 08 1939, pp. 280–298.Google Scholar

page 2 note 3 Seligman, G., Snow Structure and Ski Fields, London, 1936, p. 156.Google Scholar

page 3 note 1 Nansen, F., Furthest North, London, 1898, Vol. 2, p. 68Google Scholar, writes: “ …one of the sledges with wooden runners was finished…and we found that it was considerably easier to haul than a similar sledge running on nickel-plate. The difference was so great that it was at least half as hard again to draw the sledge on the nickel runners as on the tarred maple runners.”

page 4 note 1 I have recently learned that Mr C. S. Wright had previously made this suggestion in the light of his experience with the Scott Expedition of 1910–13.

page 4 note 2 Koch, J. P. and Wegener, A., “Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse…”, Meddelelser om Grenland, Bd. 75, Copenhagen, 1930, p. 356.Google Scholar

page 6 note 1 Seligman, op. cit., Chaps, vii and viii.