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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.
List of contents
Introductionto Ice Drilling Technology.- Yearly History of Ice Drilling from 19th tothe First Half of 20th 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.
About the author
Dr.
Pavel G. Talalay is Professor of the College of Construction Engineering and
Director of Polar Research Center at Jilin University, Changchun, China. He
earned Drilling Engineer (1984), PhD (1995) and Doc. Eng. (2007) degrees in
exploration engineering from St. Petersburg State Mining Institute, Russia,
where he previously worked as Professor and Chair of the Dept. He has also worked
for Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen University, Denmark) as Guest Researcher (1998-1999).
His research interests are associated with different aspects of drilling
technology in Polar Regions, especially on glaciers and ice sheets. He attended
six field expeditions in Arctic and Antarctica and took part in the drilling
operations of the deepest hole in ice (3769 m) at Vostok Station, Antarctica. He
is the author of about 200 publications and got 2006 International Geneva Salon
of Inventions Gold Medal and 2009 International Contest on 3D-Modelling Winner
Award. Since 2009 Prof. Pavel Talalay has been amember of IDDO Technical
Advisory Board, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
