ADVANCED MARINE STRUCTURES

Nowadays, the process of developing the marine structures is slowly moving into the deep offshore areas, and the main reason for that is a continuously growing demand for the offshore exploration of oil and gas. the designers of the marine structures are trying to discover a need to re-check the fundamental technical concepts since they anticipate the behavior of marine structures to the increased depths of the water.

The present publication aims to provide a simplified and easily understandable approach to this subject and explain the basic and advanced concepts of marine structure design; the author has also tried to outline the different stages of the analysis and design of various marine structures. The content of the volume has been worked out from the perspective of structural engineering; the author is mainly focusing on the marine structures built for the offshore exploration, ultimate load design, fracture, fatigue, environmental loads etc.

He is also offering the readers finely detailed technical descriptions of different types of forms together with the functions and limitations of the offshore units. The text part of the volume incorporates several examples illustrating the use of various numerical, experimental and analytical studies...