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Anderson Peccin da Silva, Andrea Diambra, Dimitris Karamitros and Shiao Huey Chow
This paper presents a new macro-element modelling framework for plate anchors which enables the effect of pore water pressure changes and the related evolution of soil strength during the process of cyclic loading and consolidation to be captured. The pr...
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Chun Bao Li, Mingsheng Chen and Joonmo Choung
It is essential to design a reasonable mooring line length that ensures quasi-static responses of moored floating structures are within an acceptable level, and that reduces the cost of mooring lines in the overall project. Quasi-static responses include...
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Yapo Wang, Lixian Zhang, Constantine Michailides, Ling Wan and Wei Shi
Due to the energy crisis and greenhouse effect, offshore renewable energy is attracting increasing attention worldwide. Various offshore renewable energy systems, such as floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs), and wave energy converters (WECs), have be...
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Zhen Cui, Zong-fu Fu, Wen-hong Dai and Zheng-qing Lai
The implementation of floating structures has increased with the construction of new sluices for flood control. The overturning moment of floating structure and its influencing factors are the important parameters that determine the structural safety. It...
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Zhen Cui, Zong-fu Fu, Wen-hong Dai and Zheng-qing Lai
The implementation of floating structures has increased with the construction of new sluices for flood control. The overturning moment of floating structure and its influencing factors are the important parameters that determine the structural safety. It...
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Wanan Sheng, Evdokia Tapoglou, Xiandong Ma, C. James Taylor, Robert Dorrell, Daniel R. Parsons and George Aggidis
The study of wave-structure interactions involving nonlinear forces would often make use of the popular hybrid frequency?time domain method. In the hybrid method, the frequency-domain analysis could firstly provide the reliable and accurate dynamic param...
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Decao Yin, Elizabeth Passano, Fengjian Jiang, Halvor Lie, Jie Wu, Naiquan Ye, Svein Sævik and Bernt J. Leira
The motivation for this study is the fast development of floating offshore wind energy and the immature methodology and engineering practice related to predictions of vortex-induced motions (VIM). Benefiting from the oil and gas industry, in the past sev...
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Cheng-Tsung Chen, Jaw-Fang Lee and Chun-Han Lo
In contrast to either considering structures with full degrees of freedom but with wave force on mooring lines neglected or with wave scattering and radiation neglected, in this paper, a new analytic solution is presented for wave interaction with moored...
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Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Cole Chesterton, Harrison Obed Butler, Facheng Wang and Jianqiao Ye
Due to the demand for oil production in varying water depth regions, the advantage of flexible buoyant conduits has led to an increase in bonded marine hoses for fluid transfer and (un)loading operations. The fluid transfer system for bonded marine hoses...
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Yan Li, Yaolong Li, Zhimin Zhao, Yougang Tang, Haoran Li, Yijian Zhang and Yinan Hu
At present, dry wellheads are usually adopted on small-storage TLP and SPAR platforms to develop offshore oil and gas because of the robust hydrodynamic performance under severe-wind seas. On the other hand, FPSO and FDPSO platforms that have a larger st...
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Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Ahmed Reda, Harrison Obed Butler, Idris Ahmed Ja?e and Chen An
Diverse forms of offshore oil and gas structures are utilized for a wide range of purposes and in varying water depths. They are designed for unique environments and water depths around the world. The applications of these offshore structures require dif...
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Chiemela Victor Amaechi, Ahmed Reda, Harrison Obed Butler, Idris Ahmed Ja?e and Chen An
Offshore structures exist in a variety of forms, and they are used for a variety of functions in varied sea depths. These structures are tailored for certain environments and sea depths. Different actions for suitable equipment selection, platform type d...
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Lifen Hu, Ming Zhang, Zhi-Ming Yuan, Hongxia Zheng and Wenbin Lv
Floating structures have become a major part of offshore structure communities as offshore engineering moves from shallow waters to deeper ones. Floating installation ships or platforms are widely used in these engineering operations. Unexpected wave-ind...
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Lei Sun, Xing-Quan Yang, Shu-Xia Bu, Wen-Tao Zheng, Yu-Xiang Ma and Zi-Lu Jiao
A variety of floating structures at sea play a vital role in the exploitation and utilization of marine resources. The study about interactions between waves and structures is necessary for the impact of the harsh marine environment on the motion and ser...
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Wenbo Pan, Cheng Cui and Meng He
A freak wave is a spike in a random wave series and hence the local characteristics in the time-domain are of key importance. When freak waves act on moored floating structures, the dynamic responses of the structures in the time and frequency domains ch...
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Charise Cutajar, Tonio Sant, Robert N. Farrugia and Daniel Buhagiar
Floating breakwaters have recently been generating increasing interest as a vital means to provide shelter and protect the ever-increasing number of structures deployed at sea. Notwithstanding the novel ideas being put forward, to date, floating breakwat...
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Yuguo Liu, Kai Xia, Botong Wang, Ji Le, Yanqing Ma and Mingli Zhang
Rapid advancements in construction technologies have accelerated the development of complex and deep underground structures, raising concerns about the impact of groundwater on structures, particularly anti-floating measures. Traditional tensioned anchor...
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Xiaoyun Zhang, Xiaoan Zhang, Jiangang Xu, Li Yang and Gao Song
In the actual operation of urban rail transit (URT), the vibrations of steel-spring floating-slab tracks (SSFSTs) are amplified, and the track structure has strong low-frequency acoustic radiation; therefore, it is necessary to study the acoustic radiati...
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Chi Zhang and Allan R. Magee
This paper investigates the effectiveness of floating breakwaters consisting of two barges (L-shape), three barges (U-shape), four barges (barge frame), and conventional single floating breakwater. The floating breakwaters of different spatial layouts ha...
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Minseo Jang, Yunwoo Lee, Deokhee Won, Young-Jong Kang and Seungjun Kim
Owing to the structural characteristics of floating-type structures, they can be effectively applied to overcome the limitation of conventional long-span bridges in deep water. Unlike cable-supported bridges with fixed towers, floating cable-supported br...
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