The Aalto Ice and Wave Tank in Espoo, Finland, measures 40 by 40 meters and is the world’s largest ice tank by surface area. As of last year, it’s also the only wide ice tank in the world capable of generating multidirectional wave fields alongside sea ice.
Interesting Engineering met Arttu Polojärvi, associate professor of ice mechanics at Aalto University, in March, at the tank itself. He’s spent 20 years here, and there are only five or six facilities like this…
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