Ice Engineering
Our team at NHC includes seasoned experts with extensive experience in assessing ice-related challenges for engineering projects and environmental assessments. Our capabilities span both field and office environments, encompassing instrumentation for measuring and monitoring ice properties, cutting-edge software for numerical modeling of river ice dynamics, and state-of-the-art hydraulic laboratory and cold chamber facilities for physical modeling of ice-related issues.
Services Provided
- Field observation and measurement
- Numerical modeling
- Determining design levels, thicknesses and strengths
- Assessing ice forces on structures
- Developing measures to eliminate or mitigate ice problems
- Determining safe ice thicknesses
- Physical modeling