Development of Methods for Determining Ice Pressure on Bridge Piers in the USSR

• Main Author: Korzhavin,K. N.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Civil Engineering; (*BRIDGES; LOADS(FORCES)); (*ICE; BRIDGES); DEFORMATION; PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; SIBERIA; USSR; TRANSLATIONS; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0741855; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0741855

Contents: Functioning of bridge piers during ice drift period; Extent to which problem has been studied; Evaluating the role of a structure's sloped edge; Evaluating the mechanical properties of ice during ice motion; Regioning of USSR territory according to strength of spring ice; Certain additional suggestions on allowing for the dynamic pressure of ice, included in instructions SN 76-66; Evaluating the effect of dynamic pressure of blocking and jamming masses on structures; The development of methods for determing the dynamic pressure of ice on bridge piers in the USSR. Draft trans. of Institut Inzhenerov Zheleznodorozhnogo Transporta, Novosibirsk. Trudy (USSR) n79 p3-18 1968.