The possibility of increasing the strength of the ice cover by reinforcing it

The paper notes that the weak development of the road network of the northern territories of our country leads to the need in winter to use the ice cover for the delivery of goods as: winter trucks; ice crossings; cargo-carrying platforms; and sometimes runways for aircraft. Based on the experiments of the negative use of the ice cover for these purposes and a review of the known methods of ice hardening, the relevance of the problem considered in the work increasing the strength of the ice cover by reinforcing it with steel reinforcement and the prospects of such a technology are shown. The results of experiments performed on a specially manufactured test bench on loading ice beams with various degrees of reinforcement with steel reinforcement with transverse loads are presented. On their basis, the possibility of a significant increase in the strength of the ice cover by such reinforcement in comparison with known technologies is shown.