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

这项研究设备赠款用于购买两个冷藏室(8‘x12’和8‘x16’Bally单元)，配备几个冷冻箱、循环浴缸、模具和一个用于制备和测试冰样的干燥系统。冷藏室是一个更大的设备的一部分，该设备将用于材料的本构建模，以表征断裂和连续介质行为。该机构正在进行一项研究方案，在近海和近海的北极和亚热带地区的自然资源开采领域开展项目。研究的重点将集中在冰-力学、冰-结构相互作用和水泥基复合材料的力学方面。

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.