Dynamic Ice-Structure Interaction During Continuous Crushing

• Main Author: Maattanen,Mauri
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1983
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Structural Engineering and Building Technology; Mechanics; *INTERACTIONS; *LOADS(FORCES); *ICE; *PILE STRUCTURES; VELOCITY; STABILITY; VIBRATION; STATIC LOADS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; THEORY; DAMPING; TEST METHODS; MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION; BUCKLING; DATA ACQUISITION; TABLES(DATA); DOPING; VALUE; STANDARD DEVIATION; FORCE(MECHANICS); CRUSHING; UREA; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA126349; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA126349

This report presents the results of dynamic ice-structure interaction model tests conducted at the CRREL Ice Engineering Facility. A flexible, single-pile, bottom-founded offshore structure was simulated by a test pile with about a one-to-ten scale ratio. Urea (instead of sodium chloride) was used as dopant to scale down the ice properties, resulting in good model ice properties. Six ice fields were frozen and 18 tests carried out. In all cases distinctive dynamic ice structure interaction vibrations appeared, from which abundant data were collected. In tests with linear ice velocity sweep, sawtooth-shaped ice force fluctuations occurred first. With increasing velocity the natural modes of the test pile were excited, and shifts from one mode to another occurred. The maximum ice force values appeared mostly with low loading rates, but high forces appeared random'y at high ice velocities. As a general trend, ice force maximums, averages and standard deviations decreased with increasing ice velocities. The aspect ratio effect of the ice force in continuous crushing follows the same dependence as in static loadings. The frequency of observed ice forces is strongly dominated by the natural modes of the structure. Dynamically unstable natural modes tend to make the developing ice force frequencies the same as the natural frequencies. Otherwise the resulting frequency depends directly on structural stiffness and ice velocity and inversely on the ice force range. During vibrations the displacement rates of the structure overcome the velocity of ice, making low loading rates and hence high ice forces possible. During crushing, ice induces both positive and negative damping.