Author(s): F. G. Bercha
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Abstract: Statistical approaches are considered to include all methods of mathematical modelling of random phenomena. Such techniques have been utilized significantly for over two decades in ice mechanics. The principal techniques of mathematical modelling are subdivided into those involving applications of classical statistics, those involving probabilistic analysis, and ones involving simulation. Following a brief review of the methodology per se, notable applications in ice mechanics are summarized for each of the categories of techniques. These applications include statistical characterization of ice kinematic and mechanical data, probabilistic analysis of ice-structure interactions, and simulation of ice systems and their interactions with the environment and with industrial offshore operations. It is concluded that statistical methods of the type described indeed have played a significant role in ice mechanics and continue to develop with new requirements predicated by the proliferation of industrial activity in frontier regions.
Year: 1984