... Offshore safety Offshore structures Control Pipelines Offshore reliability Structural reliability of aging offshore steel platforms is decreased due to defects and deterioration over time. Description of corrosion in the corrosive sea environment and its variations over time is highly...

...; final manuscript received May 2, 2018; published online June 28, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Madjid Karimirad. 18 12 2017 02 05 2018 Design of offshore structures Dynamics of structures Floating Offshore structures Structural mechanics Moored production systems Foundation Ships...

...Chee K. Wong; Thomas G. Brown Offshore structures constructed in waters where ice cover is prevalent for several months a year are subjected to ice loading. Some of these structures are conical or sloped-faced in shape, where flexural failure becomes the dominant mode of failure for the ice sheet...

...Zhang Jian; Oleg Gaidai; Junliang Gao This paper presents a generic Monte Carlo-based approach for bivariate extreme response prediction for fixed offshore structures, particularly jacket type. The bivariate analysis of extremes is often poorly understood and generally not adequately considered...

... received January 31, 2018; published online March 14, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Carlos Guedes Soares. 15 04 2017 31 01 2018 Computational mechanics Dynamics of structures Offshore safety Offshore structures Design Pipelines Offshore reliability Offshore platforms play...

... in the J OURNAL OF O FFSHORE M ECHANICS AND A RCTIC E NGINEERING . Manuscript received June 15, 2017; final manuscript received December 14, 2017; published online February 13, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Carlos Guedes Soares. 15 06 2017 14 12 2017 Fatigue Offshore structures Risers...

... 8, 2018. Editor: Lance Manuel. 13 09 2014 07 12 2017 Offshore structures Structural safety Risk analysis Pipelines According to Nielsen and Sørensen [ 1 ], the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs of offshore wind turbines are major contributors to the cost...

... these samples, the viscous behavior of isotropic ice was analyzed from simple compression tests at different temperatures and axial strain rates. Computational mechanics Offshore structures Design Ships in ice 08 02 2017 22 06 2017 Contributed by the Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic...

..., http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.16.1/reference/generated/scipy.optimize.fmin.html Offshore structures Ships in ice The idea of this study originates from the general research on topics related to ice mechanics and Arctic Sea transport [ 1 ]. An often encountered task is the design...

... with the analytical result in Ref. [ 15 ], hence validating the numerical implementation in abaqus . Fig. 17 Comparison between results from the numerical and analytical solution References [1] Ralston , T. D. , 1977 , “ Ice Force Design Considerations for Conical Offshore Structures ,” 4th...

... . Manuscript received November 9, 2016; final manuscript received March 13, 2017; published online May 25, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Xi-Ying Zhang. 09 11 2016 13 03 2017 Coastal engineering Computational mechanics Ocean energy technology Offshore pipelines Offshore structures Pipeline...

... which the breaking load is under-estimated. It is furthermore demonstrated that against sloping structures, the dominant failure mode is that of flexural, except in very limiting cases where it switches to crushing. 1 Corresponding author. Design of offshore structures Offshore structures...

..., the starting point for establishing a maintenance strategy is to determine the criticality of all equipment. This provides a degree of priority for different items of equipment when deciding how the maintenance resources are to be distributed [ 9 ]. Design of offshore structures Offshore safety...

... safety Offshore structures System integrity assessment Offshore reliability Material performance Material applications Ships in ice Technology qualification (TQ) has been employed to perform assessments to verify whether a new technology performs within prespecified functional limits after...

... . Manuscript received October 13, 2015; final manuscript received August 12, 2016; published online October 10, 2016. Assoc. Editor: Søren Ehlers. 13 10 2015 12 08 2016 Design of offshore structures Offshore structures Ships in ice The Confederation Bridge spans across...

... Probabilistic models Offshore structures Structural safety Forces Motions Pipelines Risk analysis Offshore reliability Oil and gas (O&G) operators have been focusing their efforts on exploration and development of Arctic regions in the last several years as traditional fields are rapidly...

...) η i , A = ( 1 − E i ) η i , B (9) MTTF i , A = ( 1 − E i ) MTTF i , B References [1] ISO , 2010 , “ Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries—Arctic Offshore Structures ,” ISO, Geneva, Standard No. ISO 19906. [2...

..., 2016; published online June 17, 2016. Assoc. Editor: Søren Ehlers. 01 12 2015 15 05 2016 Offshore structures Ships in ice Offshore structures located in ice-infested areas have to be designed robust against ice impact. Next to static ice loads, dynamic forces and ice...

... NGINEERING . Manuscript received March 12, 2015; final manuscript received May 5, 2016; published online June 3, 2016. Assoc. Editor: Kazuhiro Iijima. 12 03 2015 05 05 2016 Coastal engineering Computational mechanics Design of offshore structures Offshore safety Offshore structures...

... the same expected accidental loss. Thus, on the whole option 3 was the most optimal layout. More generally, module segregation could significantly enhance the safety inherently especially for an offshore structure where the space is limited and equipment is compact. The distances between modules could...