Ice Tank Tests on Ice Rubble Loads Against a Cable-Moored Conical Platform
Publication: Journal of Cold Regions Engineering
Volume 19, Issue 4
Abstract
Presented herein are ice-tank data concerning ice-rubble loads against a moored conical platform. Of prime interest is how rubble-ice loads are influenced by horizontal stiffness of the platform’s mooring system. An important, and heretofore undocumented, feature of rubble loading and clearing around the platform is the accumulation of ice rubble as a false bow, or prow, at the platform’s leading perimeter. The ice-tank data show that, under certain conditions of ice-rubble loading, the lowest stiffness of mooring tested resulted in prow instability and sloughing, which in turn lead to a cyclic pattern of loading, and to rubble congestion around the platform. An outcome of such rubble congestion was a marked increase in the overall rubble-ice load exerted against the platform.
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Journal of Cold Regions Engineering
Volume 19 • Issue 4 • December 2005
Pages: 103 - 116
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© 2005 ASCE.
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Received: Oct 22, 2004
Accepted: Feb 8, 2005
Published online: Dec 1, 2005
Published in print: Dec 2005
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