Floating Structures Click on the links below to view project summaries and available reports for completed projects in the following areas: Dynamic Analysis of Floating Structures Year Loads on Tie-Down Systems for Drilling Rigs 2009 Assessment of Drilling & Workover Rig Storm Sea Fastenings on Offshore Floating Platforms During Hurricane Ivan - Phase 1 Analysis Report 2007 Assessment of Drilling & Workover Rig Storm Sea Fastenings on Offshore Floating Platforms During Hurricane Ivan - Phase 1 Data Collection Report 2006 Global Analysis of FPSO and Shuttle Tankers During Side-by-Side Offloading 2006 Numerical Simulation of the Truss Spar "Horn Mountain" using COUPLE 2006 Current Forces on FPSO's - Analysis of towing tests and current tests with a FPSO model 2005 Floating LNG Terminal and LNG Carrier Interactions for Side-by-Side Offloading Operation 2005 Dynamic Analysis Tool for Moored Tanker-Based FPSO's including Large Yaw Motions 2004 Performance and Application of the Modular Acoustic Velocity Sensor (M.A.V.S) for Laboratory Measurements 2004 Responses of a Tanker-Based FPSO to Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico 2004 Spar Vortex-Induced Motions Workshop 2004 Dynamic Analysis of Multiple-Body Floating Platforms Coupled with Mooring Lines and Risers 2003 Hull/Mooring/Riser Coupled Motion Simulations Of Thruster-Assisted Moored Platforms 2003 Investigation of Nonlinear System Identification Techniques 2002 Evaluation of the Dynamic Response of Spar Platforms 2000 Nonlinear Dynamic Response of Large-Diameter Offshore Structures 1997 Nonlinear Dynamic Behavior of Spar Platforms 1996 Seakeeping Performance of Containment Booms in Random Waves and Currents 1996 Hydrodynamic Forces on Truncated Cylinders 1994 Nonlinear Dynamic Behavior of Offshore Structures 1994 Nonlinear Dynamic Response of Tension Leg Platforms 1994 An Educational Software Package For Two-Dimensional Analysis of Deep Water Tension Leg Platforms 1993 Effects of Morison Equation Nonlinearity on Stochastic Dynamics and Fatigue of Offshore Structures 1992 A Knowledge Based Approach to the Design of Tension Leg Platforms 1991 Nonlinear Response of an Articulated Offshore Loading Platform 1990 Hydrodynamic Loading Year Loads due to Extreme Wave Crests 2008 Mitigating Greenwater Damage through Design 2005 Solution Methods of Complex Nonlinear Dynamic Systems in Offshore Engineering 1993 Green's Function for Second-Order Diffraction Potential 1991 Potential Theory for Second-Order Wave Exciting Forces on Arbitrary Three Dimensional Bodies in Finite Depth Water 1991 Numerical Modeling of Bilge Keels Year Prediction of Flows around Ship-shaped Hull Sections in Roll Using an Unsteady Navier-Stokes Solver 2008 FPSO Roll Motions 2005 Inviscid and Viscous 2D Unsteady Flow Solvers Applied to FPSO Hull Roll Motions 2004 Computational Modeling of FPSO Hull Roll Motions and Two-component Marine Propulsion Systems 2002 Risk/Reliability Assessment/Management Year Comparative Risk Analysis of Spar Based FPSO's 2003 Model-the-Model: Validating Analysis Models for Deepwater Structures with Model Tests 2003 Comparative Risk Analysis for Deepwater Production Systems 2001 Comparative Analyses of Theme Structures for Water Depths of 3,000 Feet to 10,000 Feet 2000 FPSOs Present and Future Workshop 2000 Deepwater Mooring and Riser Analytical Capabilities 1998 General Reliability Analysis of a Tension Leg Platform 1995 Wave Mechanics Year Generation and Analysis of Multi-Directional Waves 1999 Hybrid Wave Model and Its Applications 1999 Detection of Deep Water Breaking Waves 1998 Deterministic Decomposition and Prediction of Irregular Ocean Waves 1998 Estimation of Directional Ocean Wave Spectra by Fourier Methods as Enhanced by Simulated Annealing with a MEM Objective Function 1995 Evolutionary Fourier Analysis of Non-Stationary Ocean Wave Data 1995 Application of Optical Remote Sensing to the Measurement of Wave Surface Kinematics 1994 On the Interaction Between Intermediate-Depth Long Waves and Deep-water Short Waves 1994 Development of an Optical Slope-Measuring Device for the Study of Water Waves 1992 Measured and Predicted Deep Water Wave Kinematics in Regular and Irregular Seas 1992 Nonlinear Interaction Between Short and Long Waves-Evolution of Short Crested Waves riding on Long Waves 1990 Software Development for the Measurement of the Wave Kinematics and Procedures for Using Laser Doppler 1990
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