Dr Knut W. Hoyland

Present Position:
Associate Professor Ice mechanics, The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS).

Main scientific interest:
Measurements and simulations of thermo-mechanical properties of sea ice related
to ice forces and ice action on coastal and offshore structures.

Education:
Siv.Ing (Master of Engineering) in 1993 from the Faculty of Marine Technology,
The Norwegian Institute of Technology, NTH (presently NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Dr.Ing (PhD): Measurements and simulations of consolidation in first-year sea ice
ridges and some aspects of mechanical behaviour, 2000, Faculty of Civil and
Environmental engineering, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Some selected papers:

Hoyland, K.V. Ice ridges in the Barents Sea. In Proc of the 18th Int. Conf. on Port and
Ocean Eng. under Arctic Conditions  (POAC), Potsdam, USA, 2: pp. 949-959.
       
Hoyland, K. V. (2002a). Consolidation of first-year sea ice ridges.
Journal of Geophysical research, 107(C6, 10.1029/2000JC000526). 15,1-15,15.
       
Hoyland, K. V. (2002b). Simulations of the consolidation process in first-year sea ice ridges.
Cold Regions Science and Technology, (34). 143-158.

Hoyland, K.V. and Liferov, P. (2005). On the initial phase of consolidation,
Cold Regions Science and Technology (41, 1), pp. 49-59.

Liferov, P. and Hoyland, K. V. (2004). In-situ ice ridge scour tests: experimental set up and basic
results. Cold Regions Science and Technology (40), pp. 97-110.
       
Liferov, P. and Hoyland, K. V. (2003). Ice rubble properties from plane strain tests.
In Proc. of the 17th Int. Conf. on Port and Ocean Eng. under Arctic Conditions (POAC), NTNU,
Trondheim, Norway, 2: pp. 611-621.
       
Moslet, P. O. and Hoyland, K. V. (2004). Sea ice-vertical structure interaction experiment,
Part II: Test results 2003. In Proc. of the 17th Int. Ice Symp. (IAHR), St.Peterburg,
Russia, 1: pp. 17-22.
       
Moslet, P. O. and Hoyland, K. V. (2003). In-situ measurements of ice stresses on Svalbard.
In Proc. of the 17th Int. Conf. on Port and Ocean Eng. Under Arctic Conditions (POAC), NTNU,
Trondheim, Norway, 1: pp. 283-292.
       
Teigen, S.H., Hoyland, K.V and Moslet, P.O. Thermal stresses in first-year sea ice,
Proc of the 18th Int. Conf. on Port and Ocean Eng. under Arctic Conditions  (POAC), Potsdam,
USA, 2: pp. 893-903.

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