Engineering Research Equipment Grant: Low Temperture Materials and Structural Models Testing Facility

这项研究设备拨款用于购买两个冷藏室（8‘x12’和8'x16' Bally单位），其中包括几个冷冻机，循环浴，模具和用于制备和测试冰标本的通风系统。冷藏室是一个更大的设施的一部分，该设施将用于材料的本构建模，以表征断裂和连续行为。该机构正在进行一项研究计划，其中包括从北极和亚北极地区开采离岸和陆上自然资源的项目。主要的研究重点将是冰-力学、冰-结构相互作用和胶凝复合材料的力学。

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.