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4 datasets found

  • A grain-size driven transition in the deformation mechanism in slow snow compression

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    Education, culture and sport

    We conducted consecutive loading-relaxation experiments at low strain rates to study the viscoplastic behavior of the intact ice matrix in snow. The experiments were conducted...

    Last updated: October 10, 2023

    • TXT
    • ZIP
    • ice
    • microstructure
    • slow-snow-compression-experiments
    • snow-mechanics
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Effective, anisotropic elasticity tensor of snow, firn, and bubbly ice

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    Education, culture and sport

    The study aims to determine the effective elastic properties of snow, firn, and bubbly ice based on microstructural quantities. Anisotropy, one of these quantities (the other being...

    Last updated: November 27, 2023

    • ZIP
    • anisotropy
    • crystallographic
    • elasticity
    • fem
    • geometrical
    • microstructure
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Simulation parameters and outputs for a rigorous approach to the specific surface area evolution in snow during temperature gradient metamorphism

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    Education, culture and sport

    In the associated study [1], two time-lapse temperature gradient metamorphism series of three-dimensional micro-computed tomography images of snow (obtained by [2]) have been used...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ODS
    • fem
    • metamorphism
    • microstructure
    • snow
    • time-series
    • x-ray-tomography
  • Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

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    Education, culture and sport

    When snow is compressed with a certain speed, micro-snowquakes are triggered in the porous structure of bonded crystals. The present dataset covers uniaxial compression experiments...

    Last updated: October 30, 2025

    • CSV
    • compression-experiments
    • microstructure
    • snow
    • snow-mechanics
    • x-ray-tomography