A new 122mm electromechanical drill for deep ice-sheet coring (DISC): 2. Mechanical design

• Main Authors: William P. Mason, Er J. Shturmakov, Jay A. Johnson, Scott Haman
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Tower The; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.634.3510; http://www.igsoc.org/annals/47/a47a034.pdf

ABSTRACT. The deep ice-sheet coring (DISC) drill consists of four major mechanical drilling subsystems and four subsystems supporting on-surface activities. The mechanical drilling subsystems are a drill sonde, a drill cable, a tower and a winch. The drill sonde is the down-hole portion of the drill...