Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology [Paperback]

This book provides a review of mechanical ice drillingtechnology, including the design, parameters, and performance of various toolsand drills for making holes in snow, firn and ice. The material presents the historicaldevelopment of ice drilling tools and devices from the first experience takenplace more than 170 years ago to the present day and focuses on the modernvision of ice drilling technology. It is illustrated with numerous pictures, many of them published for the first time. This book is intended for specialistsin ice core sciences, drilling engineers, glaciologists, and can be useful forhigh-school students and other readers who are very interested in engineeringand cold regions technology.

Introductionto Ice Drilling Technology.- Yearly History of Ice Drilling from 19^th tothe First Half of 20^th Century .- Direct-Push Drilling.- Hand- and Power-driven Portable drills.- Percussion Drills.- Conventional Machine-driven Rotary Drill Rigs .- Flexible drill-stem Drill rigs.- Cable-suspended Electromechanical Auger Drills.- Cable-suspended Electromechanical Drills withBottom-hole Circulation.- Drilling Challenges and Perspectives for FutureDevelopment. Dr.Pavel G. Talalay is Professor of the College of Construction Engineering andDirector of Polar Research Center at Jilin University, Changchun, China. Heearned Drilling Engineer (1984), PhD (1995) and Doc. Eng. (2007) degrees inexploration engineering from St. Petersburg State Mining Institute, Russia,where he previously worked as Professor and Chair of the Dept. He has also workedfor Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen University, Denmark) as Guest Researcher (1998-1999).His research interests are associated with different aspects of drillingtechnology in Polar Regions, especially on glaciers and ice sheets. He attendedsix field exlC$