... offshore platform ice load Action from floating ice sheets is the dominant environmental load to offshore structures in cold regions. Since the ice-breaking cone was adopted as the method to reduce ice load on the structures in 1960s, many analytical and experimental methods had been developed...

...Gang Li; Dayong Zhang; Qianjin Yue In China, the oil and natural gas resources in Bohai Bay are mainly marginal oil fields, which freeze in the winter. It is necessary to build both ice-resistant and economical offshore platforms. However, risk is involved in the design, construction, utilization...