Increased interest in oil and gas exploration, and shipping in the arctic has highlighted the need to better understand impact forces between ice and steel structures, and to improve the tools that are used to design ships and offshore structures for year-round Arctic operations.

Sustainable Technology for Polar Ships and Structures(STePS2) at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland,Canada, is a five-year project focused on these objectives. Currently in their fourth year working on the project, the STePS2 team has conducted hydrodynamic ice-ship hull interaction tests and a range of static and dynamic experiments that collide 1-meter-diameter ice cones with steel structures at speeds up to 6 meters per second.

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