Simulation of ship-ice collision dynamics.

• Main Author: Phillips, Loyd D.
• Other Authors: Tanaka, Hiroshi
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 1994
• Subjects: Engineering; Civil; Arctic; Lagrange; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9860; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-8000

The Canadian government has committed substantial research funds towards improving guidelines for the structural design of commercial ships operating in northern waterways. Of particular concern is the threat to survivability presented by head-on collision with multi-year ice or fragments of iceberg...