Author(s): Alexander T. Bekker; Olga A. Sabodash; Vladimir I. Seliverstov
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Abstract: The analysis of the offshore environment of the freezing seas showed that in these areas the underwater pipelines and the others buried structures could be damaged with high probability by the drifting ice formations of various origins which directly contacted the bottom in the offshore zone. In this paper the authors analyzed the problems of probabilistic description of ice impacts on the sea bottom and underwater pipelines. The results may be used in order to estimate the normative burial depth of the underwater pipelines in the Arctic seas.
Year: 2008