Cutting Sea Ice by Directed Blasting (Opyt Razrusheniya Morskogo lda Napravlennym Vzryovom)

• Main Author: Nikolaev,S. E.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Explosions; (*SEA ICE; CUTTING); EXPLOSION EFFECTS; EXPLOSIVES; UNDERWATER EXPLOSIONS; DEMOLITION; USSR; TRANSLATIONS; Opyt; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0768829; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0768829

The use of directed blasting can prove a very effective means in solving a number of practical problems: the creation in the pripay (fast shore ice) of ice-free channels for the passage of ships with a weak hull, for laying pipes or cable from the ice surface, and so forth. Placing the charges according to a prescribed system and exploding them through brief time intervals in a fixed sequence can assure the directed removal of ice along the given direction. (Author) Draft trans. of Arktichasktii i Antarkticheskii Nauchno-Issledovatelskii Institut. Trudy (USSR) v300 p177-195 1971.