Validations
Over the past years, a rich database has been accumulated, including laboratory and field tests data. Most employees of ArcISo AS were directly involved or in charge of the relevant experiments. In the course of developing SAMS, many validations have been carried out to test all the functionalities of SAMS. A few examples can be found below:
Selected Validation Cases
Multi-body Dynamics
For this test:- There is no fracture in ice;
- Paraffin was used to model the rigid ice bodies;
- Rigid body motion was captured.

Multi-leg Structure in a Multi-body Ice Environment


Fixed Structure

Moored Structure

Algorithm Validation

Transit in Broken Ice


The test data can be used to validate a ship-shaped structure's transit in broken ice conditions simulated by SAMS.