Abstract
In snowy country, a compaction process of snow has been demanded for performing efficient snow removal and disposal work. For achieving the work, a design of large pressure vessel is demanded in order to perform high speed compression of the snow and ice. This report aims to investigate the radial pressure generated during the high speed compression of ice pieces for obtaining a fundamental data to design a large pressure vessel. In the investigation, ice pieces were compressed by an axial formation pressure pz for pz = 0.0 to 5.0 MPa, and the radial pressure pr during the compression test was evaluated. It was found that the ice column having D = 80 mm diameter, H = 80 mm height and density of ρ = 0.84 g·cm-3 was obtained at pz = 5.0 MPa. And, the maximum radial pressure pr_max reached about 60 % of the axial formation pressure pz.
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