Krylov State Research Center has opened its new ice test basin today, December 5’14, IAA PortNews journalist reports.
The test basin has been built within the framework of the federal special-purpose programme “Development of civil marine facilities in 2009 – 2016”.
The main purpose of the new basin is to broaden its test options having preserved all the experience of model experiments accumulated before.
The new basin is to be used for a variety of model tests in different ice conditions and with the ice of column or granular structure.
Major parameters of the new basin: working section length – 80 m; width - 10 m; depth - 2 m (20% of the basin’s length are deepened up to 4 m); ice thickness – 10–100 mm; speed of towing carriage – 0.001 – 1.5 m/s; average time needed to freeze on one ice field – 1 - 2 days (depending on ice thickness).
Krylov State Research Center was set up in 1894 as Russia’s first model testing basin in the central part of St. Petersburg. It is a scientific research organization of the national shipbuilding sector focused on conceptual and workshop designs of naval ships, merchant vessels and offshore structures as well as on their operation and disposal.