Ice Mechanics

Lecture #0 -
Intro

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 Introduction of lecturer
Name: Franz von Bock und Polach
• Head of Institute for Ship Structural Design and Analysis (TUHH)

Studies and Occupational History:

• Studies of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at TU Berlin
• Thesis at BMT Fleet Technology (ice loads on ship hull), Canada Allseas b.v.
• Naval Architect at Allseas bv, The Netherlands (2 years)

• Researcher and Lab. Manager at Aalto University, Finland (8 years).

• PhD Degree from NTNU Trondheim / Aalto University, FIN

(Numerical Modeling of ice)

• Senior Research Engineer / Lab Manager TUHH

• Acting Professor for Ocean Dynamics in a changing climate (UHH) Aalto Univ.

Ice related activities:

- Chair of ITTC Specialist Committee on ice
- Education:
- 3 PhD theses on ship ice interaction / ships in cold climates
- Courses at UHH, TUHH and UNIS

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 Ice Research at TUHH

- Ice mechanics: Experiments on ice loads for numerical simulations

- Marine structures and propellers
- Wave-ice interaction
- Model ice testing

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 Ice Research at TUHH

- Ice mechanics: Experiments on ice loads for numerical simulations

- Marine structures and propellers

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 Goal of the course

• The goal of the course is a basic understanding of material science

and technical mechanics in the context of ice

• You understand the specifics of ice as a material and how it affects

its mechanical behavior

• You will be able to make calculations based on continuum

mechanics

• You get an understanding of the existing gaps in the state of the art
(where your future contribution is needed)

• No exercises, but some “home study assigments”

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 Exam

• Oral exam at the end of the lecture period

(should be done soon after the lectures)

– 7 minutes for a „self chosen“ talk

– 15 - 20 minutes for questions

– Exam soon after the lectures

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 Questionair

Are you familiar with (total number of participants: 13):

- Technical mechanics:
- Support reactions [0]

- Definition of forces, reactions []

- Elastic modulus, Stresses [4]

- Fracture mechanics []
- Ice structure:
- Growth of ice [7]

- Crystal structure [2]

- Wave mechanics:
- Dispersion relationship [2]

- Deep water waves (no Rosby waves etc.) [2]

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 From micro-structure to macro-structure failure

Microstructure, Loading, thermal Ice failure, failure

Properties,…. Impact, …. Type,…

Shestov, A. (2018),

https://www.thestatesman.com

By Kärmäräinen, 1993

Kerr and Palmer (1972)

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 Relevance of ice mechanics

• How do we determine mechanical properties and what are the

uncertainties?
• What parameters are important?
• Can we use other ice properties to determine the strength?

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 Relevance of ice mechanics

• Understanding
failure of ice
and related
consequences

• Ice breaking
ships:

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 Relevance of ice mechanics

• When do waves break ice?

• Can waves travel under ice – how far?

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 Relevance of ice mechanics

• Can we make scaled experiments and fully transfer results to full-scale?

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 Relevance of ice mechanics

• Can machine learning help us to understand ice mechanics?

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 Excursion HSVA ice tank

15.06.2023 at 10:00
Bramfelder Str. 164, 22305 Hamburg

Contacts:
Markus.Ritschel@uni-hamburg.de
Andrea Haase (haase@hsva.de)

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https://hydralab.eu/facilities--instruments/facilities-in-hydralab/Ice-research-facilities/Large-Ice-Model-Basin/
 Topics of the course

1) Introduction and scope

2) Characteristics of different ice features
3) Ice formation processes at land and sea
4) Microstructural effects of different ice structures on mechanical loading
5) Introduction to technical mechanics
6) Mechanical failure of ice and mechanical testing
a. Introduction of important mechanical models
b. Rheology of ice
c. Compressive loading
d. Tensile and flexural loading
e. Large scale fracture of polar ice sheets
7) Scaling, physical and numerical modeling
8) Wave ice interaction

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 Goals, literature, misc.
• The goal of the course is a basic understanding of material science and technical mechanics in the context of ice

• At the end of the course you are able to understand this paper:

Timco, G.W. and Weeks, W.F. (2010), “A review of the engineering properties of
sea ice”, Cold Regions Science and Technology, Elsevier B.V., Vol. 60 No. 2,
pp. 107–129.
…and you are able to extend your knowledge from there.

• Supporting literature is:

Schulson, E.M. and Duval, P. (2009), Creep and Fracture of Ice, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, available

• Literature and slides will be uploaded to the TUHH cloud space

https://cloud.tuhh.de/index.php/s/ack4TGxqJo7KxJ2

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 Relevance of ice mechanics
• Large scale failure processes due to mechanical or thermal forcing

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 Hamburg Ice Lab (online soon)

www.hamburgicelab.eu
Promoting ice competence in Hamburg
(HSVA – UHH – TUHH)

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 Hamburg Ice Lab - HSVA

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 Hamburg Ice Lab - UHH

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 Hamburg Ice Lab - TUHH

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