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All the Possibilities Researched for Ice

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This chapter will give an overview for reinforced ice better known as pykrete. The focus will be on ice as a construction material for different structural applications like large shell structures, towers and ice in a controlled environment with the help of cooling devises.

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Pronk, A. (2021). All the Possibilities Researched for Ice. In: Flexible Forming for Fluid Architecture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71551-9_8

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