Author(s): R. J. Hodek; J. O. Doud
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Abstract: Large-scale outdoor laboratory tests of artificially loaded timber piles that had been frozen into an existing floating ice sheet have been reported by Frederking (1), and similar model tests using concrete piles are currently underway at USA CRREL in attempts to better develop the ability to predict the vertical loads which will act on a fixed pile frozen to a floating ice sheet. Full-scale field observations are necessary to provide actual loading rates, and peak loads sustained by the pile. and visual failure patterns in the ice surrounding the pile. This paper describes instrumentation that was developed to measure ice uplift forces acting in the field under natural conditions.
Year: 1975