Ice Engineering - A Heat Sink Method for Subsurface Ice Thickening.

Ice sheets are being used as runways and as roadbeds for aircraft and heavy-haul transportation vehicles in the Arctic and Antarctic. Thin ice often makes operations on the ice sheets costly and dangerous. The Civil Engineering Laboratory has developed methods of freezing seawater at coastal polar l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barthelemy,J. L.
Other Authors: CIVIL ENGINEERING LAB (NAVY) PORT HUENEME CALIF
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1976
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
Air Condition
Heating
Lighting & Ventilating
*ICE FORMATION
*ICE
*HEAT SINKS
POLAR REGIONS
THICKNESS
COASTAL REGIONS
AIR
GROWTH(GENERAL)
FIELD TESTS
HEAT EXCHANGERS
FREEZING
CONSTRUCTION
ENGINEERING
MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION
PLATFORMS
SHEETS
ROADS
CONVECTION(HEAT TRANSFER)
RUNWAYS
SEA WATER
SUBSURFACE
REINFORCING MATERIALS
REFRIGERANTS
RECIRCULATION
*Ice sheets
Antarctic
Arctic
Antarc*
Ice
Ice Sheet
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA028619
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA028619
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Summary:Ice sheets are being used as runways and as roadbeds for aircraft and heavy-haul transportation vehicles in the Arctic and Antarctic. Thin ice often makes operations on the ice sheets costly and dangerous. The Civil Engineering Laboratory has developed methods of freezing seawater at coastal polar locations to thicken natural ice formations into useful platform foundations. This report documents the process of thickening ice by the use of freezing cells to accelerate ice growth on the underside of an ice sheet. The freezing cell described in this report is driven by density differences: liquid above is cooled by the air, and liquid below is warmed by the seawater medium. (Author)

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