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Source Location and Dataset Incompleteness in Acoustic Emissions from Ice Tank Tests on Ice-Rubble-Ice Friction

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IUTAM Symposium on Physics and Mechanics of Sea Ice

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Abstract

Experiments in rock mechanics conducted in the laboratory have revealed that the generation of elastic waves during micro-fracturing provide a small-scale analogue to seismogenic processes. These elastic waves are called acoustic emissions (AE). In contrast to rock, the seismic behaviour of ice under applied stresses is relatively unstudied and a robust statistical categorisation of acoustic events has not yet been performed. In analogy with experiments from rock mechanics, where it has been proven that statistical laws of seismicity are obeyed in AE events, we aim to characterise seismic activity in ice. This was done by measuring acoustic emissions during ice-rubble-ice friction tests conducted at the HSVA ice tank. Specifically, we studied AE data from two tests which used different rubble geometries: large round and small angular. Using these datasets from we first conduct source location of the AE activity. Secondly, we investigate the possibility of incompleteness in the AE datasets during periods of increased activity. Our results from source location show that the round rubble geometry gave higher acoustic activity at the sliding interfaces. We observe potential incompleteness in both datasets. This analysis has applications in field of seismology as well as in ice mechanics.

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Acknowledgements

The experiment described in this publication was supported by the European Community's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme through the grant to HYDRALAB-PLUS, Contract no. 654110. This project was led by Sally Scourfield, and we would like to thank her for permission to use this data. We would also like to thank the Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA), especially the ice tank crew, for the hospitality, technical and scientific support and the professional execution of the test programme in the Research Infrastructure ARCTECLAB. Thanks to Ben Lishman for useful discussions and recommendations on both the experimental set-up and the analysis, and to Nic Brantut for providing the initial MATLAB code for AE source location. Finally, we would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers, whose comments improved our paper.

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  1. Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, UK

    Katerina Stavrianaki, Mark Shortt & Peter Sammonds

  2. Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, UK

    Katerina Stavrianaki

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Stavrianaki, K., Shortt, M., Sammonds, P. (2022). Source Location and Dataset Incompleteness in Acoustic Emissions from Ice Tank Tests on Ice-Rubble-Ice Friction. In: Tuhkuri, J., Polojärvi, A. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Physics and Mechanics of Sea Ice. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 39. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80439-8_3

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