ICEBREAKERS

The report describes the development and design of icebreakers, discusses methods of calculating their ice performance, design and arrangement features and points out paths toward further improvement. All present Soviet and foreign icebreakers are described, their operating conditions are analyzed, the basic ice performance characteristic of an icebreaker are examined (ice speed to power ratio, ice strength, maneuverability, jamming conditions), and methods of evaluating these qualities, developed by Soviet specialists, are set forth; the design features of the basic machinery and systems of icebreakers are noted; recommendations on their design are presented. A considerable part of the book is devoted to features of the choice of hull shape, main dimensions and power plant. Data on icebreakers hull design and relations for determining the strength dimensions of the framing and plating are presented. (Modified author abstract)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Draft trans. of mono. Ledokoly, Leningrad, 22 Aug 72 287p.
• Corporate Authors:

  U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

  72 Lyme Road
  Hanover, NH  United States  03755-1290
• Authors:
  • Kashtelyan, V I
  • Ryvlin, A Y
  • Faddeev, O V
  • Yagodkin, V Y
• Publication Date: 1973-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 269 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communication systems; Control systems; Design; Hulls; Ice; Icebreakers; Icebreaking; Strength of materials; Translations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ship hulls
• Geographic Terms: Former Soviet Union
• Old TRIS Terms: A; Hull strength; Ice strength; Marine surface propulsion; Ship plates
• Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00051229
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: CRREL-TL-418
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 25 1974 12:00AM