Mechanical Ice Drilling Technology

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.

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 expeditions in Arctic and Antarctica and took part in the drillingoperations of the deepest hole in ice (3769 m) at Vostok Station, Antarctica. Heis the author of about 200 publications and got 2006 International Geneva Salonof Inventions Gold Medal and 2009 International Contest on 3D-Modelling WinnerAward. Since 2009 Prof. Pavel Talalay has been a member of IDDO TechnicalAdvisory Board, University of Wisconsin – Madison.