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Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology

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Authors:
  1. Pavel G. Talalay

    1. College of Construction Engineering,, Polar Research Center, Jilin University, Changchun, China

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  • Includes descriptions of all the methods of making holes in snow,
  • firn and ice by mechanical fracture based on more than 500 references, personal
  • communications from the leading ice drilling scientists and personal experience
  • Contains 400 figures, many of them published for the first time
  • Focuses on the field performance of mechanical drilling operations in ice, drilling problems and possible solutions
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Geophysics (SPRINGERGEOPHYS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction to Ice Drilling Technology

    • Pavel G. Talalay
    Pages 1-8

  3. Yearly History of Ice Drilling from Nineteeth to the First Half of Twentieth Century

    • Pavel G. Talalay
    Pages 9-13

  4. Direct-Push Drilling

    • Pavel G. Talalay
    Pages 15-25

  5. Hand- and Power-Driven Portable Drills

    • Pavel G. Talalay
    Pages 27-52

  6. Percussion Drills

    • Pavel G. Talalay
    Pages 53-57

  7. Conventional Machine-Driven Rotary Drill Rigs

    • Pavel G. Talalay
    Pages 59-99

  8. Flexible Drill-Stem Drill Rigs

    • Pavel G. Talalay
    Pages 101-107

  9. Cable-Suspended Electromechanical Auger Drills

    • Pavel G. Talalay
    Pages 109-178

  10. Cable-Suspended Electromechanical Drills with Bottom-Hole Circulation

    • Pavel G. Talalay
    Pages 179-258

  11. Drilling Challenges and Perspectives for Future Development

    • Pavel G. Talalay
    Pages 259-279

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 281-284
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About this book

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

Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Construction Engineering,, Polar Research Center, Jilin University, Changchun, China

    Pavel G. Talalay

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology

  • Authors: Pavel G. Talalay

  • Series Title: Springer Geophysics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0560-2

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Geological Publishing House, Beijing and Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0559-6Published: 25 March 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9193-3Published: 25 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0560-2Published: 16 March 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2364-9119

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-9127

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 284

  • Number of Illustrations: 160 b/w illustrations, 219 illustrations in colour

  • Additional Information: Jointly published with Geological Publishing House, China

  • Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences

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