Proceedings of the International Workshop/Symposium on Ice Drilling Technology (2nd) Held at Calgary, Alberta, Canada on 30-31 August 1982.

Abstract

Some of the recently developed ice-drilling hardware has been derived and developed from commercial equipment designed for drilling and coring in rock. The exceptions to this are the specially designed hydro-thermal and electro-thermal drills and corers, which have been developed on sound thermodynamic principles. The hydrothermal, or hot water drilling jet method, which is also applicable to drilling in geomaterials other than ice, has met with great success in rapidly penetrating glaciers and shelf ice even at temperatures well below the freezing point.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA156733

Entities

People

  • G. Holdsworth
  • J. H. Rand
  • K. C. Kuivinen

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Drops
  • Gases
  • Geography
  • Geometry
  • Glaciers
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanical Working
  • Mechanics

Readers

  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design