Ice abrasion testing of HP concrete for offshore structures
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Offshore structures can be exposed to drifting sea ice. The wear (abrasion) of the concrete surface caused by the mechanical contact between ice and concrete is in the order of 0.1–1 mm per year. The concrete-ice abrasion laboratory at NTNU, and results of our recent research of the laboratory simulation of concrete-ice abrasion showed average abrasion depths of 0.01–0.35 mm for high-performance concrete after 3 kilometres of sliding ice, a severe-mild wear-transition, that abrasion is related to cutting of peaks, formation of valleys and aggregate protrusion by wear of ITZ. Keywords: Concrete, abrasion, ice, experiment.