The 2015 LRF Distinguished Lecture in Safety & Reliability Engineering - Breaking ice: the challenge of building structures in ice-infested waters
Date: November 5, 2015
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Venue: King's Conference Centre
Speaker: Dr Dougal Goodman OBE FREng, Chief Executive, The Foundation for Science and Technology
Off the coast of Alaska, Canada and Russia structures have been and will be built for oil and gas exploration and production, for port facilities and other purposes. There are many uncertainties in estimating the design load for such structures. For example, an artificial island built to provide a base for oil production facilities may have a lifetime of fifty years and during this period will experience a wide range of ice conditions – stationary fast ice in the winter subject to wind loading putting pressure on the structure, smaller ice floes moving with the wind in the spring break-up or multi-year sea ice or iceberg fragments driven by currents striking the structure. What are the factors that determine the design load for such a structure and how can their probability distributions be estimated? The lecture will be illustrated with stunning images of the Arctic and Antarctic.
Admission is free, however booking is required. Please book here.
Further information can be found on the University of Aberdeen website.