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14 SAMCoT • Annual report 2012
Quantifying the Physical Environment
Reliable designs of Arctic offshore and coastal structures require a proper quan-
tification of the physical environment. The relevant properties of ice, soil, water
and other environmental characteristics must be described in a ­mechanical and
statistical sense. This competence represents the backbone of SAMCoT.
The researchers at SAMCoT address these challenges with a combined app­roach
that utilizes experimental, theoretical and numerical techniques. We establish
our starting point through theory and field study; subsequent detailed laboratory
analysis provides us the opportunity to tune our numerical models.