The sea ice is idealized as an elastic-brittle material. When an ice sheet moves toward a structure, the dynamic in-teraction between ice and the structure is analyzed by the DDA (Discontinuous Deformation Analysis) approach, wherethe ice sheet and the structure are considered as assemblages of blocky masses. This has the advantages that the wholeprocess of collision between the ice and structure can be shown visually with a series of pictures. Meanwhile, the dynamicresponse of the structure at each time step after the bumping of the ice against the structure is calculated. And with theaid of inverse analysis developed by the authors, the time history of the resultant ice force exerting on the structure isevaluated. A numerical example shows that the proposed approach is suitable to the simulation of the ice-breaking processand reasonable result of ice force acting on the structure can be obtained.