Ice636: 50:50 ice I mix = 3x P drop f.g. ice:standard ice I

T = 210 K, P = 100 MPa, s = 5 MPa step (1), (3)
T = 210 K, P = 100 MPa, s = 8.2 MPa step (2), (4)
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After deformation. Compare smooth outer surface to bumpy surface of 635--another obvious sign of GSS creep behavior.

Legend: Upper graph of each pair is motor speed V (proportional to edot); lower graph is load (in volts). Translate motor V to edot thus: V0.025 = 2.3e-7/s = 2%/day. Load to stress translation for ice636 is 0.272 MPa/mV, with a ~5 mV zero offset. Horizontal scale is time. 5000≈14 hrs.

     
e=0.246 1324 hrs 1/18/11. End of run. (No idea what that tiny tilt upward in udot is.)
e=0.231 0609 hrs 1/18/11. Note slowly but steadily decreasing V in steps (2) and (4) vs (1) and (3), probably just reflecting constant edot as the sample shortens.
e=0.215 2231 hrs. Another LN warming incident, this one a 4 K rise and back over ~ 2 hrs, so not as bad as the one on 1/15. This one was probably a defective tank. Recovery was smooth, and edot returned to where it was. Details in the log file above.
0.186 1005 hrs. End step (3)
e=0.185 0622 hrs 1/17/11.
e=0.176 2147 hrs
e=0.173 1809 hrs. End step (2). No zero check, drop straight to step (3) stress.
e=0.142 0706 hrs 1/16/11.
e=0.105 1803 hrs. Steady state edot achieved rapidly, n = 2 almost exactly, so even tho 50:50 mix, rheological action looks like pure GSS.
e=0.089 1241 hrs. End step (1). Unloaded force gage check again gives very nice answer, down only 0.2 mV to ~4.5 mV.
  same, coarse scale
e=0.084 0658 hrs 1/15. Mildly serious T incident: Tank change monkey neglected to open the liquid valve on new tank. Caught the error at 2120 hrs, blast LN immediately, piston T topped out at 216.0 K 10 mins later, was back down to 210 K by 2200 hrs, stress returned to original level a few hours after that. Max udot was V0.10; e intervals at left suggest extra strain was about 0.004.
e=0.068 1756 hrs 1/14
e=0.056  
e=0.042 1635 hrs 1/13. End of step (1a). Zero check of s gage is excellent: unloaded value dropped by only 0.3 mV (<0.1 MPa) over 2 days.
e=0.029  
e=0.014 1949 hrs 1/12. Again strain rate falls below 2%/day; increase stress to 5.2 MPa.
e=0.011  
e=0.0083 Strain rate falls below 2%/day; increase stress to 4 MPa.
e=0.0059 1312 hrs
e=0.0046  
e=0.0036

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