This research equipment grant is to procure two cold rooms (8'x12' and 8'x16' Bally units) with several freezers, circulating baths, molds, and a de-airing system for preparing and testing ice specimens. The cold rooms are part of a much larger facility which will be used for constitutive modeling of materials to characterize both fracture and continuum behavior. A research program is underway in this institution with projects in the area of natural resource extraction from Artic and Sub-artic regions both off shore and on shore. Primary emphasis of the research will be on ice-mechanic, ice-structure interaction, and mechanics of cementitious composites.
