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Table of Contents
1 Cover
4 Foreword by Professor Purnendu K. Das
5 Foreword by Dr. Atmanand N.D.
7 Preface
8 1 Common Compliant Platforms 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Tension Leg Platforms 1.3 Guyed Tower and Articulated Tower 1.4 Floating Structures 1.5 Response Control Strategies 1.6 Tuned Mass Dampers 1.7 Response Control of Offshore Structures 1.8 Response Control of TLPs Using TMDs: Experimental Investigations 1.9 Articulated Towers 1.10 Response Control of ATs: Analytical Studies 1.11 Response Control of ATs: Experimental Studies
9 2 Buoyant Leg Storage and Regasification Platforms 2.1 Background Literature 2.2 Experimental Setup 2.3 Experimental Investigations 2.4 Numerical Studies 2.5 Critical Observations 2.6 Stability Analysis of the BLSRP 2.7 Fatigue Analysis of the BLSRP
10 3 New‐Generation Platforms: Offshore Triceratops 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Environmental Loads 3.3 Fatigue Analysis of Tethers 3.4 Response to Regular Waves 3.5 Response to Random Waves 3.6 Response to Combined Actions of Wind, Waves, and Current 3.7 Summary
11 4 Triceratops Under Special Loads 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Continuous Ice Crushing 4.3 Response to Continuous Ice Crushing 4.4 Response to Impact Loads 4.5 Deck Response to Hydrocarbon Fires 4.6 Summary
12 5 Offshore Triceratops: Recent Advanced Applications 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Wind Turbines 5.3 Wind Power 5.4 Evolution of Wind Turbines 5.5 Conceptual Development of the Triceratops‐Based Wind Turbine 5.6 Support Systems for Wind Turbines 5.7 Wind Turbine on a Triceratops 5.8 Response of a Triceratops‐Based Wind Turbine to Waves 5.9 Stiffened Triceratops 5.10 Triceratops with Elliptical Buoyant Legs 5.11 Summary
19 References
20 Index
