Contents
Préfacé
xi
Contributors
xiii
Acknowledgments
xv
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Structures in the Offshore Environment
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1.1 Historical Perspective, 2
1.2 Platforms, 4
Fixed-Bottom Platforms, 4
Compilant Platforms, 7
Buoyant Platforms, 7
1.3 Moorings, 9
Temporary Anchor Moorings, 9
Platform Pile and Single-Point Moorings, 10
1.4 Pipelines, 11
Sea Floor Pipelines, 11
Vertical Pipelines, 12
1.5 Challenges, 14
Environmental Forces, 14
Structural Materials, 14
Modeling and Analysis, 15
Experimental Evaluations, 15
Référencés, 15
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Structure-Environmental Force Interactions
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2.1 Single Degree of Freedom Structures, 17
2.2 Fluid-Induced Structural Forces, 21
Classical Inviscid Fluid Flow, 21
Real Viscous Fluid Flow, 23
Conservation of Linear Momentum and Flow Superposition, 25
Buoyancy and Gravity, 28
Winds and Currents, 33
2.3 Earthquakes, Ice Impact, and Wave Slamming, 36
Earthquake Forces, 36
Ice Impact Forces, 38
Wave Slamming Forces, 39
2.4 Structural Mass, Damping, and Restreint, 40
Structural Mass and Stiffness, 40
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