ICEWEAR Program: influences on the ice-induced wear of concrete structures in polar marine environments

• Main Authors: Barker, Anne, Westerveld, Bart, Tulp, Bob, Bruneau, Stephen, Colbourne, Bruce
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IAHR 2022
• Subjects: sea ice; river ice; lake ice; ice-structure interaction; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/object/?id=c524c7c4-1818-4469-ac1a-b0f8607ef4cb; https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/fra/voir/objet/?id=c524c7c4-1818-4469-ac1a-b0f8607ef4cb

ICEWEAR is a five-year research program, seeking to improve knowledge of surface wear and surface friction influences on the ice-induced wear of concrete structures in polar marine environments. Through the program, a variety of research lines have examined these influences, through ice-concrete interaction laboratory testing, investigations of ice-concrete contact physics, wear reduction strategies and modelling and analysis. The ICEWEAR research program adds to previous research programs over the past five decades that have examined ice-concrete contact phenomena. It also goes further by investigating the hybridization of ASTM and other standardized testing procedures/equipment in order to design new, meaningful, robust ice-concrete tests that can be standardized to better-enable the comparison of results across research programs. This paper will present some of the outputs from the first of these lines of research, with examples of the construction, testing and optimization of new equipment for adhesion, friction, wear and impact ice-concrete contact studies. The paper considers the effects of experimental design, and in particular, the influence of time and pressure on the experimental results. Peer reviewed: Yes NRC publication: Yes