ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Advanced Quantized FRActure MEchanics models of ice and snow for GLObal Warming risk mitigation
Fracture mechanics theories are still incomplete, and this limits our current ability to predict the strength of materials, which is particularly important in civil and mechanical engineering. FRAMEGLOW aims to address this critical knowledge gap in understanding from a fundamental engineering science perspective, by (i) developing a complete fracture mechanics theory, and (ii) using it to solve a critical global problem, i.e. how climate change/global warming will lead -on different size and time scales- to global ice and snow fragilization, and thus (iii) providing important societal benefits (e.g. dynamic avalanche risk maps), potentially saving human lives. After the formulation of a…
From the public funding record at EU CORDIS. Describes the funded project, not the reviews below.