ADFREEZE STRENGTH OF FRESH AND SEA ICE BONDED TO STEEL PILES

Tests were conducted at the University of Alaska Anchorage Cold Room Facility to measure the short-term adfreeze strength of fresh and sea ice bonded to a steel tube. An 8.9 centimeter diameter steel tube was frozen into a centimeter thick layer of ice. The tube was then loaded axially under a specially designed frame until failure at the ice-steel interface occurred. Failure of the ice-steel interface was achieved within two to eleven seconds after load application had begun. The ice salinity was varied from 0 to 30 ppt. Ice temperatures were adjusted from 0 deg C to -52 deg C. A total of 37 tests were conducted over this range of temperatures and salinities. Adfreeze strengths measured during this test series ranged from 0.1 MPa to 1.6 MPa. The adfreeze strengths increased as the ice salt content and temperature decreased.

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  Geophysical Institute

  Alaska University
  Fairbanks, AK  United States  99701
• Authors:
  • Nelson, W G
  • Phukan, A
• Publication Date: 1988-6

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 19-23
• Serial:
  • Northern Engineer
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Geophysical Institute
  • ISSN: 0029-3083

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adhesive bond strength; Bonding; Ice; Seawater; Steel; Support piles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Steel piling
• Old TRIS Terms: Adfreeze bonds
• Subject Areas: Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; I26: Water Run-off - Freeze-thaw;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00484692
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 30 1989 12:00AM