Abstract: After development of the theory in the part I paper, systems of up to 300 nonlinear equations are solved in this paper by the Levenberg-Marquardt optimization algorithm. The maximum load is reached when the circumferential ...

Abstract: The paper analyzes the vertical penetration of a small object through a floating sea ice plate. The analysis takes into account the fact that the bending cracks reach only through part of the ice plate thickness and have ...