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A Phenomenological Constitutive Equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

R.C. Lile*
Affiliation:
Department of Meteorology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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Abstract

Type
Abstracts of Papers on Recent Work Presented at the Symposium
Copyright
Copyright © International Glaciological Society 1989

When the Sinha equation is constrained to describe laboratory ice in uniaxial compression, it degenerates to the Andrade form, a modification of which is shown to offer a good fit to data extending into the tertiary creep stage.