Apply for the 2020 International Winter Course on Ice Mechanics

Held on February 10-17, 2020 at Far Eastern Federal University, the annual winter course provides its participants with knowledge, skills and experience in sea ice science, definition of ice physical-mechanical properties, and use of modern research equipment on the real ice cover and in the ice laboratory.

The course introduces the problems of ice mechanics to the students and provides the experience of operating research equipment in the laboratory and in field conditions. The course includes lectures on basic concepts of ice mechanics and ice interactions with offshore structures and ships, lectures about standards of Russia for the calculation of ice loads on offshore structures, laboratory and field activities in the Laboratory of Ice Research (FEFU) and in the bay near FEFU campus. Prior to the field activities, special lectures introduce the equipment (used for the measurements of characteristics and strength of sea ice, ice hardness measurements by drop ball technique, etc.) to the students.