FRICTIONAL RESISTANCE TO A SHIP'S PASSAGE THROUGH CONVERGING ICE

The report describes a numerical method for calculating the frictional resistance encountered by a vessel navigating in a converging ice field.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with Bedford Institute, Dartmouth (Nova Scotia), Atlantic Oceanographic Laboratory. Originally published in Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, V23 N4, p284, Dec 70.
• Corporate Authors:

  Defence Research Establishment, Ottawa

  Ottawa, ONo,   Canada 
• Authors:
  • Keys, J
  • SMITH, S D
• Publication Date: 0

Media Info

• Pagination: 1 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Hulls; Ice; Icebreaking; Resistance (Mechanics); Shear stress; Skin resistance
• Old TRIS Terms: Hull shear stress; Ice resistance
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Materials; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00024853
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DREO-TN-71-4
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 4 1972 12:00AM