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Floating Structures in ice,
Ice Management and Design Philosophy
Ice Management and Design Philosophy
Research Questions in 2012
• Quantifying safety of offshore structures protected by ice management
• Modelling of iceberg drift and towing
Type of Experiments
• Full-scale: ice management and ship manoeuvring experiments, iceberg experi-
ments, e.g. scanning of the 3D geometry, deployment of ice tracking drifters on
icebergs and sea-ice and measurements of sea-currents near drifting icebergs
Location of Experiments
• Barents Sea and Northeast Greenland waters (KV Svalbard + RV Lance +
Oden cruises)
Number of Researchers involved: 5
Floating Structures in Ice
Research Questions in 2012
• Waterline processes during the inter-
action between ice and structures
• The interaction between ice, fluid and
structures
• Accidental collisions between ice
masses and structures
• Sea-ice friction
Type of Experiments
• Full-scale: ice friction experiments,
monitoring floating jetty
• Scale-model: collision experiments ,
ice interaction with sloping structure
experiments
Location of Experiments
• Fjords at Spitsbergen (Norway)
• Barents Sea and Northeast Greenland
waters (KV Svalbard + RV Lance +
Oden cruises)
• Aalto University ice basin (Finland)
• HSVA (Germany)
Number of Researchers involved: 10
Illustration: Bjarne Stenberg