Modeling Ice Pressures on Icebreaker Frej

Verify hull strength
Calibrate strain gauges
Calibrate integrated ice load sensor

Iceberg Impact Loading on Offshore Floating Structure

Hull strains & deformation
Verify ice class
Optimize design

Development of RHITA - our high capacity ice strength testing frame; 1MN indentor forces at 0.5m/s

Carriage

Indenter

Pile Response Analysis

Analysis of the pile response and capacity for a subsea wellhead protection structure.

Pipe-soil interaction analysis using numerical and physical (centrifuge) testing to understand the effects of pipe displacement rate.

Deflection, resistance, ultimate capacity analysis for impacts on a well head structure and conductor on the seabed.

Ice keel, seabed gouge, pipeline response modeling.

Wellhead protection structure for ice impacts in the Kara Sea, including displacement and stress analysis for structural grillage and pile design.