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Floating Structures

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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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