Electromagnetic emission under uniaxial compression of ice: III. Dynamics and statistics of dislocation avalanches and cracks

Statistical analysis of the plastic deformation steps and fracture of polycrystalline ice has been performed. It is established that an increase in deformation leads to gradual evolution of the statistics of amplitudes of mesoscopic deformation jumps from random (with a Poisson distribution of dislocation avalanche amplitudes) to “critical” (with a power-law distribution), which indicates occurrence of long-range correlations of the dislocation mesodynamics of deformed polycrystalline ice. The state of self-organized criticality at subcritical ice fracture has been revealed from the power-law statistics of the amplitudes of electric pulses and pauses between them, flicker-noise structure, and almost monofractal character of signals.