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The paper provides a short review on the behavior of glacier ice from the beginnings in the 17th century via the formulation of a flow law in the fifties of the forgoing century up to the present. It is based in part on the recent extended review by Hutter and Gross [1], but has been supplemented by additional aspects. It focuses on the macroscopic constitutive description in the framework of classical continuum mechanics while micromechanical aspects are only touched in passing.
I’ve known Peter Wriggers personally since the late 1980s. Our relationship became particularly intense after he was appointed to the TU Darmstadt in 1990. At the Institute of Mechanics, Wriggers and I formed a joint working group, in which there was a climate, both scientifically and personally, that can hardly be imagined better. The joint activities as textbook authors go back to this time. Our relationships as colleagues, authors and friends survived his move to Hannover in 1998 uninfluenced and they will undoubtedly continue in the future. The special relationship with the Mechanics in Darmstadt is underlined by the honorary doctorate that my university awarded him in 2015.
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Regarding Riwlin see remark in [1].
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Gross, D. (2022). Remarks on the History of Glacier Research and the Flow Law of Ice. In: Aldakheel, F., Hudobivnik, B., Soleimani, M., Wessels, H., Weißenfels, C., Marino, M. (eds) Current Trends and Open Problems in Computational Mechanics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87312-7_15
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