Offshore Mechanics

Offshore Mechanics
Author: Madjid Karimirad
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018-05-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119216621

Covers theoretical concepts in offshore mechanics with consideration to new applications, including offshore wind farms, ocean energy devices, aquaculture, floating bridges, and submerged tunnels This comprehensive book covers important aspects of the required analysis and design of offshore structures and systems and the fundamental background material for offshore engineering. Whereas most of the books currently available in the field use traditional oil, gas, and ship industry examples in order to explain the fundamentals in offshore mechanics, this book uses more recent applications, including recent fixed-bottom and floating offshore platforms, ocean energy structures and systems such as wind turbines, wave energy converters, tidal turbines and hybrid marine platforms. Offshore Mechanics covers traditional and more recent methodologies used in offshore structure modelling (including SPH and hydroelasticity models). It also examines numerical techniques, including computational fluid dynamics and finite element method. Additionally, the book features easy-to-understand exercises and examples. Provides a comprehensive treatment for the case of recent applications in offshore mechanics for researchers and engineers Presents the subject of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element methods (FEM) along with the high fidelity numerical analysis of recent applications in offshore mechanics Offers insight into the philosophy and power of numerical simulations and an understanding of the mathematical nature of the fluid and structural dynamics with focus on offshore mechanic applications Offshore Mechanics: Structural and Fluid Dynamics for Recent Applications is an important book for graduate and senior undergraduate students in offshore engineering and for offshore engineers and researchers in the offshore industry.

Mechanics of Offshore Pipelines

Mechanics of Offshore Pipelines
Author: Stelios Kyriakides
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2007-07-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080551408

Offshore oil and gas production was conducted throughout the entire 20th century, but the industry's modern importance and vibrancy did not start until the early 1970s, when the North Sea became a major producer. Since then, the expansion of the offshore oil industry has been continuous and rapid. Pipelines, and more generally long tubular structures, are major oil and gas industry tools used in exploration, drilling, production, and transmission. Installing and operating tubular structures in deep waters places unique demands on them. Technical challenges within the field have spawned significant research and development efforts in a broad range of areas.Volume I addresses problems of buckling and collapse of long inelastic cylinders under various loads encountered in the offshore arena. Several of the solutions are also directly applicable to land pipelines. The approach of Mechanics of Offshore Pipelines is problem oriented. The background of each problem and scenario are first outlined and each discussion finishes with design recommendations.* New and classical problems addressed - investigated through a combination of experiments and analysis* Each chapter deals with a specific mechanical problem that is analyzed independently* The fundamental nature of the problems makes them also applicable to other fields, including tubular components in nuclear reactors and power plants, aerospace structures, automotive and civil engineering structures, naval vehicles and structures

Proceedings of the Fourth International Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Symposium

Proceedings of the Fourth International Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Symposium
Author: Jin S. Chung
Publisher:
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1985
Genre: Arctic regions
ISBN:

170 papers from 20 countries under the headings: Deepwater structures; Advances in offshore structure construction techniques and operations; Wave-structure-soil interactions; Fatigue and structural mechanics; Offshore loading and control; Riser mechanics and mooring systems; Submarine pipelines; Ocean energy.

Nonlinear Dynamics of Compliant Offshore Structures

Nonlinear Dynamics of Compliant Offshore Structures
Author: Patrick Bar-Avi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351428241

This monograph provides a general background to the modelling of a special class of offshore structures known as compliant structures. External forcing is resisted by buoyancy and tension forces which increase when the structure is slightly offset from its equilibrium. The technical development given in this book is presented in such a way as to highlight the adaptability of the modelling, and the reader is shown how the techniques described can be applied to a variety of different offshore structures.

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Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 3685
Release:
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ISBN: 0080962319

Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
Author: Frank Lees
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 3685
Release: 2012-11-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0123977827

Safety in the process industries is critical for those who work with chemicals and hazardous substances or processes. The field of loss prevention is, and continues to be, of supreme importance to countless companies, municipalities and governments around the world, and Lees' is a detailed reference to defending against hazards. Recognized as the standard work for chemical and process engineering safety professionals, it provides the most complete collection of information on the theory, practice, design elements, equipment, regulations and laws covering the field of process safety. An entire library of alternative books (and cross-referencing systems) would be needed to replace or improve upon it, but everything of importance to safety professionals, engineers and managers can be found in this all-encompassing three volume reference instead. - The process safety encyclopedia, trusted worldwide for over 30 years - Now available in print and online, to aid searchability and portability - Over 3,600 print pages cover the full scope of process safety and loss prevention, compiling theory, practice, standards, legislation, case studies and lessons learned in one resource as opposed to multiple sources

Advances in Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems

Advances in Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems
Author: Dan M. Frangopol
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2005-12-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780415399012

This volume contains thirty-one papers presented at the Twelfth Scientific Meeting of the IFIP Working Group on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems which took place in Aalborg, Denmark, from May 22-25, 2005. The Working Group Conference was organized by the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 7.5 of the Technical Committee on Modelling and Optimization. The purpose of the Working Group is to promote modern structural system reliability and optimization theory and its applications, to stimulate research, development and application of structural system reliability and optimization theory, to assist and advance research and development in these fields, to further the dissemination and exchange of information on reliability and optimization of structural systems, and to encourage education in structural system reliability and optimization theory.