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Project Number 231
Date of Summary March 31, 1997
Subject Sea Ice Mechanics Workshop
Performing Activity Northwest Research Associates, Inc.
Principal Investigator Dr. Max D. Coon
Contracting Agency Office of Naval Research
Estimated Completion Complete
Description This is a Joint Industry Project (JIP) with eight oil companies as participants. The objective was to conduct an international workshop on sea ice mechanics and ice modeling. The workshop focused on the current state of practice and future research needs relative to offshore oil and gas facilities. The workshop also reviewed the results of the Office of Naval Research Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative (SIMI). A significant amount of new Arctic field data and modeling results are now available as a result of the SIMI program. The kinds of data that were reviewed during the workshop include: sea ice stress; ice motion; ice thickness distribution and keel depth; ice and keel strengths, ice friction coefficients, Arctic weather, ocean currents, ice dynamics and thermodynamics, ice constitutive laws; ice failure mechanisms; and ice fractures.
Progress Complete. The workshop was held on April 25 - 28, 1995 in Anchorage, AK.

Reports
AA (314 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Proceedings of the Sea Ice Mechanics and Arctic Modeling Workshop, April 25 - 28, 1995, Anchorage, AK, Vol. 1, submitted by Northwest Research Associates, Inc., 1995.
AB (340 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Proceedings of the Sea Ice Mechanics and Arctic Modeling Workshop, April 25 - 28, 1995, Anchorage, AK, Vol. 2, submitted by Northwest Research Associates, Inc., 1995.

 

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