Lecture 22: Mod-01 Lec-21 Offshore Structures - III

Lecture Details:
Elements of Ocean Engineering by Dr. Ashoke Bhar, Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
Course Description :
Contents:
Physical Oceanography
� Description of World
� Oceans, currents, salinity, ocean floor characteristics
� Metocean Engineering
� wind, wave and current loads on offshore structures
� Types of Platforms
� Jackets, TLPs, Semisubmersibles, Jack-ups, Concrete Gravity
� Floating Platforms
� Sizing, stability, structural design of TLPs, semisubmersibles
� Fixed Offshore structures
� Sizing and layout, structural design of Jackets, Breakwaters and Seawalls
� Design of Offshore Pipelines
� Hydrostatic, hydrodynamic analysis and structural design
� Buoys and Mooring systems
� mooring configurations, advantages and disadvantages
� Ocean mining and energy systems
� description and systems
� Safety of offshore structures
� reliability and risk assessment, failure modes