Ice Mechanics

Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology (SAMCoT)

October 5, 2020/in Arctic Technology, Completed Research Projects, Ice Mechanics /by chiliaaron

Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology (SAMCoT)

SAMCoT was a centre for research-based innovation, established by the Research Council of Norway. The research activities in SAMCoT were carried out by the host institution NTNU together with UNIS, SINTEF and 14 other partners.

SAMCoT Objectives:

To provide the research based knowledge necessary in order forthe industry to develop Arctic technology for the energy sector in particular and for society as a whole.
To specifically address the implications of the presence of ice and permafrost, as well as to produce knowledge that will ensure sustainable and safe exploration, exploitation, and transport from and within the vulnerable Arctic region.
To provide the foundation for further development of environmentally adapted coastal infrastructure.

UNIS professor Aleksey Marchenko was leader of the WP 1: “Collection & analysis of field data and properties”.

Safety of Industrial Development and Transportation Routes in the Arctic, 2015–2019 (SITRA)

October 5, 2020/in Arctic Technology, Completed Research Projects, Ice Mechanics /by chiliaaron

Safety of Industrial Development and Transportation Routes in the Arctic, 2015–2019 (SITRA)

SITRA was funded by Norwegian Centre for International cooperation in Education (SIU) via the High North Programme for 2015–2019. This SMIDA sister project expanded the collaboration in the field of Arctic Technology overseas.

UNIS and Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada) were the main partners. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), NTNU (Norway), University of Alaska Fairbanks (USA) and Dartmouth College (USA) were co-partners

UNIS professor Aleksey Marchenko was project leader of SITRA.

Experiments on waves in oil and ice, 2014–2016 (WAVES)

October 6, 2020/in Applied Oceanography, Arctic Technology, Completed Research Projects /by chiliaaron

Experiments on waves in oil and ice, 2014–2016 (WAVES)

WAVES was hosted by the University of Oslo (UiO) and funded by the Research Council of Norway.
The project provided experimental data from the laboratory and the field, to be used to validate existing theories pertaining to wave damping caused by flexible surface covers (due to elastic surface films, oil slicks or grease ice), wave dependent fluxes of momentum and energy, wave-induced currents in the presence of flexible surface covers, for example the wave-induced drift of oil slicks or the streaming beneath sea ice caused by incoming swell.

Project leader was professor Atle Jensen (UiO). UNIS professor Aleksey Marchenko led the UNIS group.

Field studies and modelling of sea state, drift ice, ice actions and methods of icebergs management on the Arctic shelf, 2015–2017 (FIMA)

November 25, 2020/in Arctic Technology, Completed Research Projects, Ice Mechanics /by chiliaaron

Field studies and modelling of sea state, drift ice, ice actions and methods of icebergs management on the Arctic shelf, 2015–2017 (FIMA)

FIMA was hosted by UNIS and funded by the Research Council of Norway through the NORRUSS program (Russia and the High North/Arctic). NTNU, VNIIGAZ GASPROM and the State Oceanographic Institute (Moscow) were project partners.

Objectives:
Investigation and quantifying of physical environment in the regions of offshore development and navigational activity on the Arctic shelf; contribution to estimates of physical environmental actions on offshore structures and a reduced risk level related to operating offshore in the High North; strengthening of long-term research cooperation with leading research institutions in Russia involved in the industrial development in the High North.

UNIS professor Aleksey Marchenko was FIMA project leader.

Completed research projects