Effect of an Ice Cover Frozen to the Cylindrical Supports of Offshore Oil Well Platforms Subjected to Water Level Fluctuations

The following article, translated from the Russian, describes an apparatus for carrying out field experiments on ice adhesion to vertical piles and presents the results of one typical test. There is a brief discussion of how this test result compares with the recommendations of the current Soviet standard.SOMMAIRE FRANCAIS A SUIVREPeer reviewed: NoNRC publication: Ye