Design and Realization of CSSRC Small Ice Model Basin for Ice-related Fundamental Researches

A small ice model basin (SIMB) has been newly constructed in China Ship Scientific Research Center (CSSRC) and put into use for ice-related fundamental researches such as ice modeling, determination of ice mechanics and investigation on ice-structure interaction, etc. The basin has a dimension of 8m in length, 2m in width and 1m in depth. Numerical simulation was applied to optimize the temperature field and the arrangement of cooling air circulation passage. Columnar saline ice is made from thin sodium chloride solution with an accurately controlled process of pre-cooling, freezing and tempering, which incorporates with seeding at the beginning and micro bubbling in the operation of freezing. A series of measurements of physical and mechanical properties along with microstructure observations of the resulted model ice have verified the main design aspects well, and, the realization of SIMB can make an effective platform for some basic studies on ice.

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  • Accession Number: 01745149
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Jul 15 2020 9:12AM