During more than three years of measurement activities, data evaluation, interpretation, numerical modelling and documentation the STRICE project has achieved large amounts of versatile data and results.

Excerpts of these results are made available to the general public and the interested science and engineering communities through this web site. Please refer to the information and links below to retrieve this information.

However, the main part of the results and data remain confidential property and for exclusive use of the STRICE consortium and partners, who provided considerable amounts of own funds and research grants to achieve the project's goals.

Interested parties from the arctic cold regions and research communities who want to achieve and use more complete results are referred to a specific information section here.

Please download the project's executive summary report for a condensed overview on the final research results and a list of scientific publications resulting from the STRICE project.

A publicly attractive overview on the STRICE project is included in the in the HSVA NewsWave issue no. 2/2002 (pp 6-7) which is also available for downloading here.

The project partners and participants intend to compile more public information than originally required and agreed by the project's research contract, on a public CD-ROM once the consortium has decided on the specific contents. More information on this Extended Public STRICE Data and Report CD is given here.

The partners of the STRICE project have contributed to several international scientific conferences (e.g. IAHR, OMAE, POAC) and published throughout the project's operative phase twelve scientific papers. More publications will come which incorporate results based on the large data sets, models and results gained in the project. A wide range of ongoing research and developments have their roots in STRICE research.

Please refer to the publication section for further details.

One doctoral thesis has already resulted directly from the STRICE project and several others presently in development make use of data acquired in STRICE and apply methods, models or tools developed in the project.

The main event on which the project partners presented and disseminated key results to the science and engineering communities was the

17^th International Conference on Port and Ocean
Engineering under Arctic Conditions - POAC'03

which took place in Trondheim (Norway), June 16-19, 2003.

Read more on POAC'03, participation of STRICE partners and download their publications here.

The publication section of this web site will be updated when applicable. It lists the important theses, publications and information material resulting from the project and also provides re-prints or copies of selected papers for downloading (when allowable). For other papers it contains information on where to find or get them.

The STRICE and NEST projects

The clustering of the STRICE project with the EU-funded Thematic Network NEST - Networking Studies on Ice and Compliant Structures provided excellent opportunities to disseminate STRICE results and, vice-versa, to achieve versatile input from other regions and researchers working on related subjects. Please see the section on the STRICE and NEST projects provided on this web site for further information and download the illustrative presentations given by the partners of both projects at a workshop in Dalian (PR China).

STRICE and the new ISO Arctic Offshore Structures Standard

The results of the STRICE project will have a strong impact on the formulation and implementation of a new ISO Standard for Arctic Offshore Structures. The European Commission funds a project to foster this process. STRICE participants and partners are substantially involved in this process through their engagement in the ISO Technical Panel on Ice (ISO TC67 SC7 TG8 Techn. Panel TP2b_Ice). The results from the STRICE project have significant influence on formulation of this code. This web site informs on related activities and progress with a separate section.

Information and dissemination through the public STRICE project web site

The public section of the STRICE web site will remain the main instrument to provide information on the project including its post-operative phase. It is intended to stay on-line and updated for a considerable period of time. The pages will be supplemented with applicable material and results when they become available to the general public.

STRICE photo galleries

This web site contains two commented photo galleries to illustrate the research work conducted in the STRICE project.

The general STRICE photo gallery depicts illustrative insights in research methods, work procedures, instrumentation and site conditions along with the field work of the STRICE project.

A gallery on the STRICE 2003 campaign provides video scenes and photos of ice conditions, work, and expedition life during the STRICE measurements on the lighthouse Norstrømsgrund in mid February 2003. Level ice thickness up to 0.7 metres was observed during this winter, which is considerably large for sub-arctic regions like the northern Baltic Sea. In this year the strongest ice conditions throughout the six years of full-scale measurements within the LOLEIF and STRICE projects were observed. The large amounts of data are presently processed and evaluated in detail. The 2003 STRICE data provide a very versatile contribution to the extraordinary and unique data sets with ice force and load measurements obtained during these two projects.