Author(s): J. Noponen; M. Maattanen
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Abstract: We consider a uniform land fast ice field which is able to expand IOwards open water. Against the offshore structures which are located at the edge of the ice field significant ice load during thermal expansion will develop. Thermal ice load ridges occur typically in spring, when the solar radiation and the air temperature rise are the greatest. This is logical, because the two main arguments which induce the ice load are the thickness of the ice cover and the thermally driven ice velocity. The ice load can be calculated by conventional methods when the structure, the quality of the ice and the local ice velocity is known.
Year: 1994