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.

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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
Introduction to Ice Drilling Technology.- Yearly History of Ice Drilling from 19th to the 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 with Bottom-hole Circulation.- Drilling Challenges and Perspectives for Future Development.