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Extensively updated for the second edition, this handy guide covers the safety engineering of ship-shaped offshore installations at every stage of design, construction, operation, lifetime healthcare and decommissioning. New sections cover additional types of offshore structures, including offshore power plants, as well as cutting-edge technologies and all the latest advances in the field. The text focuses on minimising accidents and the effects of extreme conditions, with new chapters covering earthquakes, hurricanes and terrorist attacks, as well as traditional types of accidental events such as hull girder collapse, collisions, fires and explosions. This is an invaluable resource for students who will be approaching the subject for the first time as well as practising engineers and researchers.
List of contents
1. Introduction to ship-shaped offshore installations; 2. Structural steel selection and construction; 3. Ocean environmental conditions; 4. Site-specific wave-induced hull girder loads; 5. Serviceability limit states; 6. Fatigue limit states; 7. Ultimate limit states; 8. Accidental limit states; 9. Mooring system engineering; 10. Sloshing impact engineering; 11. Seismic impact engineering; 12. Aircraft impact engineering; 13. Quantitative risk assessment and management; 14. Life-cycle corrosion assessment and management; 15. Lifetime healthcare and safe decommissioning; Appendix 1: Glossary of maritime engineering terms; Appendix 2: Scale definitions of wind, waves and swells; Appendix 3: Sea state data in various ocean regions; Appendix 4: Inverse first-order reliability method for drawing extreme wave contours; Appendix 5: Source listing of the FORTRAN computer program USAS-L; Appendix 6: Source listing of the FORTRAN computer program USAS-S; Index.
About the author
Jeom Kee Paik is Professor of Marine Technology in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, UK, and Director of the International Centre for Advanced Safety Studies (Lloyd's Register Foundation Research Centre of Excellence, www.icass.center).
Summary
Understand the safe engineering of ship-shaped offshore installations at every stage of design, construction, operation, healthcare and decommissioning with this handy guide suited to graduate students as well as designers working in the area. This updated second edition focuses on minimising accidents and the effects of extreme conditions.
