River And Lake Ice Engineering

River ice affects most streams in the northern hemisphere for several months each winter and is often responsible for severe floods and infrastructure damage. Consequently, an understanding of river ice processes and hydraulics is essential for civil engineers who are involved in designing engineering works in and around natural streams. This book offers knowledge and advice on river ice process and hydraulics and is designed to be both an educational tool for civil engineers having no previous knowledge of river ice, as well as a handbook for practitioners seeking specific techniques for monitoring and analysis of rivers affected by ice.

Manual giving guidance for the planning, design, construction, and operation and maintenance of ice control and ice suppression measures for Corps of Engineers projects. Discusses ice formation processes, physical properties and potential solutions to associated problems.

This book exposes practitioners and students to the theory and application of river and lake ice processes to gain a better understanding of these processes for modelling and forecasting. It focuses on the following processes of the surface water ice: freeze-up, ice cover thickening, ice cover breakup and ice jamming. The reader will receive a fundamental understanding of the physical processes of each component and how they are applied in monitoring and modelling ice covers during the winter season and forecasting ice floods. Exercises accompany each component to reinforce the theoretical principles learned. These exercises will also expose the reader to different tools to process data, such a space-borne remote sensing imagery for ice cover classification. A thread supporting numerical modelling of river ice and lake ice processes runs through the book.

This manual presents guidance for the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of ice control and ice suppression measures. All Corps of Engineer projects subjected to freezing temperatures have ice problems such as: ice buildup on lock walls, hydropower intakes, and lock approaches; accumulation in navigation channels; ice passage over spillways that scours the downstream channel; and ice damage to shore structures and shoreline, etc. The Army Corps of Engineers experience in ice engineering is applicable to much civilian civil engineering, and ice control measures should be considered for both new and existing projects to improve their operation and safety in cold regions. This manual discusses ice formation processes, physical properties and potential solutions to associated problems.

Introductory technical guidance for professional engineers and construction managers interested in ice engineering. Here is what is discussed: 1. FUNDAMENTALS 2. FORCE ON STRUCTURES 3. BEARING CAPACITY 4. ICE JAM MITIGATION.