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• ANNUAL REPORT 2013
The industrial partners in SAMCoT face numerous challenges when deploying into
Arctic conditions. In order to help our partners solve these challenges, SAMCoT has
grouped its applied scientific work into four research areas.
•
Floating Structures in ice
• ice Management
• Fixed Structures in ice
• Coastal Technology
The challenges addressed in these areas include the prediction of loads by ice, the monitoring and
modelling of ice movement, the resilience of built structures to ice and the application
of probabilistic risk analyses.
Addressing these challenges depends in turn on a deep
understanding of primary physical properties that is
correctly done by quantification and modelling. Two further
areas of research focus on this.
• data Collection and Process Modelling
• Material modelling
The first carries out research on topics such as the collection of sea ice
properties and ice loads on coastal structures. This includes the drift of sea
ice and icebergs, metocean data and turbulence in ice adjacent water layers
and is under the heading of
Data Collection and Process Modelling
. The second
area of research is quantifying physical nature to characterize Arctic
materials mathematically as well as modelling ice rubble and frozen soils.
This is carried out under the heading of
Material modelling
.
In all this scientific work, mathematical and numerical modelling is combined with laboratory experiments
and field work. This means that we progress from theory to practice and back again. The scientific work
at SAMCoT thus brings the understanding of the properties of ice from basic research into the potential
application. This enables our industrial partners to be innovative in their current activities in exploration
and development.
Research enabling innovation
– an overview of SAMCoT research