A study has been conducted into three different methods for measuring the adhesion force of ice to elastomer coatings. The methods combined different ice formation techniques, either static freezing or accretion of supercooled water as well as different shear force application, either lateral or centrifugal. Six coating thicknesses were tested from 0.1mm to 2mm and it is shown that ice adhesion reduces rapidly up to 0.75mm but there is limited benefit gained from increasing thickness further. All measurement techniques demonstrated the elastomers to be icephobic with shear stress less than 100kPa.
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