Abstract
Abstract Although the hull shapes of modern ice breaking vessels seem to be quite similar at a first glance, there are significant differences in their ice breaking performance. A significant amount of research effort was spent on investigations of the icebreaking process and the resulting forces. However, little information is available on the correlations between ice floe characteristics, hull shape parameters, ice properties and the ice resistance. Thus, systematic model tests in level ice and pre-sawn ice with four icebreaking ship models of one ship type have been conducted to gain new insight on these correlations. During the tests in level ice under water video records have been taken from below the ship model. Video frames have been analyzed by application of a dedicated image analysis procedure which is mainly based on a number of semiautomatic scripts applied in Matlab®. Results of the analysis are presented and discussed within this paper.
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