Ice Island Creation, Drift, Recurrences, Mechanical Properties, and Interactions With Arctic Offshore Oil Production Structures

• Main Authors: Sackinger, W. M., Jeffries, M. O., Li, Fucheng, Lu, Mingchi
• Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: University of Alaska Fairbanks. Geophysical Institute. 1991
• Subjects: Surface Waters 020600* > Petroleum > Health & Safety; Progress Report; Document Types; Safety Engineering; Stresses; Offshore Platforms; Islands; Velocity; Strains; Wind; Mechanical Properties; 020300 > Petroleum > Drilling & Production; Seas; Compression Strength; Fluid-Structure Interactions; Icebergs; Engineering; 02 Petroleum; Dimensions; Ice; Thickness; Arctic Ocean; Hazards; Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Milne Ice Shelf; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/6994079; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1196639/

Research and engineering studies on first-year sea ice for over two decades has resulted in the design, construction, and operation of jacket platforms, of artificial islands, and of massive gravity structures which routinely withstand moving sea ice of thickness up to 2 meters. However, the less-co...