RECOMMENDED PRACTICE FOR COMBATTING ICE JAMS

Contents: Field observations of ice jams and data analysis; Artificial weakening of ice; Mechanical destruction of ice; Artificial ice jams and straightening of channels; Using airplanes to prevent and destroy ice jams; Prevention and destruction of ice jams with explosives; Passage of ice through hydraulic structures during construction and use of hydroelectric stations without ice jam formation; Hydraulic and thermal regulation of water bodies and currents to prevent and combat ice jams.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Draft trans. of mono. Metodicheskie Ukazaniya po Borbe s Zatorami i Zazhorami l'da, Leningrad, 1970 p1-151.
• Corporate Authors:

  U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

  72 Lyme Road
  Hanover, NH  United States  03755-1290
• Authors:
  • Sinotin, V I
• Publication Date: 1973-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 109 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Chemicals; Control; Dams; Explosives; Floods; Forecasting; Ice; Ice formations; Ice phenomena; Ice prevention; Icebreakers; Icebreaking; Loss and damage; Rivers; Thermal properties
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ice breakup; Ice jams
• Old TRIS Terms: A
• Subject Areas: Hydraulics and Hydrology; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00051763
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: CRREL-TL400
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 25 1974 12:00AM