Acknowledgments
I am grateful to those who hâve made this édition possible: to Robert E.
Sandstrom for his contributions to Chapter 1; to Academie Press, Inc., for
permission to use parts of Chapter 1, first published in the Encyclopedia of
Physical Science and Technology, III, 2001; and to Gary Orgill and David M.
Wilson who performed many of the calculations for the sample problems.
I especially acknowledge the patience and careful scholarship of the two
guest contributors: Bruce J. Muga for Chapters 3 and 6 on fluid mechanics,
and Lymon C. Reese for Chapter 11 on soil mechanics. Only by including the
mechanics of fluids and soils can realistic analyses of offshore structures be made.
JAMES F. WILSON
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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I am grateful to those who hâve made this édition possible: to Robert E.
Sandstrom for his contributions to Chapter 1; to Academie Press, Inc., for
permission to use parts of Chapter 1, first published in the Encyclopedia of
Physical Science and Technology, III, 2001; and to Gary Orgill and David M.
Wilson who performed many of the calculations for the sample problems.
I especially acknowledge the patience and careful scholarship of the two
guest contributors: Bruce J. Muga for Chapters 3 and 6 on fluid mechanics,
and Lymon C. Reese for Chapter 11 on soil mechanics. Only by including the
mechanics of fluids and soils can realistic analyses of offshore structures be made.
JAMES F. WILSON
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
xv