Office/Division Program
TAP
Project Number
601
Research Initiation Date (Award Date)
Research Performing Organization
Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)
Research Principal Investigator
Drs. Sypros Kinnas and John Tassoulas
Research Contracting Agency
Description
The objective was to study factors affecting soil and pipeline deformation below scouring ice ridges in the Arctic environment. The study provided:
detailed characterization of moving ice-ridge morphology on the basis of available observations and measurement reports,
response simulations of ice-ridge-soil-pipeline systems by means of computational-fluid-dynamics representations and finite-element models that capture flow and deformation in porous media, and
development of recommendations regarding the minimum required burial depth for pipeline protection from scouring ice ridges.
Latest progress update
Project ended in July 2009 with delivery of final report.