Ice Engineering

Managing Ice Risk

Since the mid-1970s, C-CORE has helped industries implement new technologies to manage the risks associated with operating in ice environments. Our ice engineers contribute to the design and operation of a variety of installations in ice environments - particularly in the oil and gas, pipeline, fishery and aquaculture sectors. We provide engineering research and development in risk analysis, finite element and numerical analysis, field studies and ice laboratory testing.

Technical Focus

With private and public sector project experience in all regions of the arctic and subarctic, our expertise is concentrated in four key areas:

• Ice management and detection: facilitating safe and efficient operations in ice or iceberg environments
• Ice risk: investigating uncertainties associated with marine structures, seabed installations and pipelines in ice-prone waters
• Ice conditions: monitoring pack ice, icebergs and atmospheric ice
• Ice loading: determining the impact forces of icebergs and sea ice loads on structures

Technical Resources

C-CORE's highly trained and experienced staff has the benefit of additional intellectual capital through our collaborative partnerships with industry, institutes and universities. As well, we have superior specialized facilities, including cold rooms and refrigerated centrifuge capability.