Information letter

SIBERIAN BRANCH OF
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
LAVRENTYEV INSTITUTE OF HYDRODYNAM-ICS
NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY

ALL-RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
"POLAR MECHANICS – 2012"

June 2 – 9, 2012
Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russia

The conference is devoted to discussion of actual prob-lems in the area of polar industrial mechanics, determi-nation of high-priority scientific and engineering devel-opment directions, and establishing connections be-tween involved scientific, engineering, and business companies. The importance of the topic is explained by modern industrial demands of North territories devel-opment. The objectives include: interaction of floating constructions and ice-class vessels with ice; mining in the Arctic shelf; oil and gas mining and transportation, geological prospecting and exploration under low-temperature conditions.

Main topics

• Interactions of ice, including movable ice cov-er, with floating and fixed structures (structures defor-mations, interaction with waves, dynamics of floating objects in ice fields);
• Pipelines transportation of hydrocarbons, influ-ence of temperature on the transportation processes (formation of solid and mixed phases due to admixtures, paraffin deposits etc.);
• Geological prospecting in Arctic regions, seis-mic waves propagation in layered media with inclusions of ice, opportunities for seismic prospecting from the ice surface;
• Mechanics of ice and frozen soil, mechanical properties of ice, utilization of ice as a constructing ma-terial. Properties of permafrost, defrosting and its influ-ence on constructions.