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• ANNUAL REPORT 2013
Beam tests
Based on the data from in situ experiments with canti-
lever floating ice beams performed in the Svalbard
fjords, in the Barents Sea and on lake ice, the depend-
ence of flexural strength from liquid brine volume
content was determined in a wide range depending on
the brine content (red line in Figure 20). Limit values
of the flexural strength for fresh ice were measured to
be about 500 kPa. This is much lower than limit values
a) b)
Figure 21. Standard test with fixed ends beam (a) and Sodhi’s scenario of the beam failure (b).
a) b)
Figure 22. Scheme of the test with fixed end beams performed with indenter (a). Beam failure observed in the experiments
with fresh water ice (b).
Figure 20. In-situ experiments with cantilever floating ice beam and dependencies of ice flexural strength from liquid brine
content (Karulina et al., 2013).