Essentials of Offshore Structures: Framed and Gravity Platforms
examines the engineering ideas and offshore drilling platforms for
exploration and production. This book offers a clear and acceptable
demonstration of both the theory and application of the relevant
procedures of structural, fluid, and geotechnical mechanics to
offshore structures. It makes available a multitude of "solved
problems" and "sample problems to solve" which give readers a
strong understanding of the analysis and design of steel-framed and
base-supported concrete gravity offshore structures. The book
highlights sensible engineering applications for offshore
structural design, research, and development; it can also be useful
to those working in the design industry.
- The user will have a detailed overview of the various
structures used in the offshore environment and the preliminary
costing factors that will influence their choice for the site.
- Analytical principles emphasized in the book will help the user
to clearly comprehend the various issues that need to be taken into
account in the analysis and design of an offshore structure, using
the API code.
- The book includes extensive worked-out problems and sample
problems for use by the students and instructors, with a Solution
Manual.
- The seabed pile/gravity foundation analyses and design are
clearly outlined with their embedment characteristics and problems
worked out.
- A global description of environmental forces has been given
that includes those due to wave, wind, current, tides, earthquakes,
ice floe/sheet action, and limit ice-load on Arctic
structures.
- The book outlines the various factors that influence the
material choice for offshore structures including fatigue and
corrosion of the platforms in the ocean environment.
Separate chapters detail the factors that influence the pile
embedment and concrete gravity foundation characteristics, material
choice including fatigue and corrosion, estimation of ocean
environmental forces that will be exerted on the offshore
structures, and the analysis fundamentals that the reader needs to
possess. The last two chapters give detailed insights into the
analysis and design of framed and concrete gravity platform
offshore structures using API code procedures. Overall, this book
is a comprehensive presentation of the analysis and design of steel
and concrete offshore structures.
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