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Author Chandrasekaran, Srinivasan

Title Design Aids for Offshore Topside Platforms under Special Loads
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (325 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1 Materials and Loads on Topside -- 1.1 Offshore Topside: Loads and Analysis Methods -- 1.2 Geometric Configuration -- 1.3 Materials -- 1.3.1 Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing -- 1.4 Wind and Blast Loads -- 1.5 Impact Load -- 1.6 Modal Analysis -- 1.7 Pushover Analysis -- 1.8 FEED: Basics -- 1.9 Essentials of FEED -- 1.10 Basic Engineering Requirements of FEED -- 1.11 Factors Influencing Design of Topside -- 1.12 Advanced Level in FEED Studies
1.12.1 Plant Design and Model Studies -- 1.13 EPC Execution Planning -- 1.14 Overall FEED Phases -- 1.15 Axial Force-Bending Moment Interaction -- 1.15.1 Properties of Concrete -- 1.16 Mathematical Development of P-M Interaction -- 1.17 Example Studies and Discussions -- 1.18 Fire Load -- 1.19 Classification of Fire -- 1.19.1 Pool Fire -- 1.19.2 Jet Fire -- 1.19.3 Fireball -- 1.19.4 Flash Fire -- 1.20 Steel at Elevated Temperature -- 1.21 Fire Load on Topside -- 1.21.1 Time-Temperature Behavior -- 1.22 Parametric Fire Curve -- Credits -- Exercise -- Chapter 2 Basic Design Guidelines
2.1 Design Methods and Guidelines -- 2.2 Design Loads -- 2.2.1 Dead Loads -- 2.2.2 Live Loads -- 2.3 Design Stages -- 2.3.1 Static In-Place Analysis -- 2.3.2 Load-Out Analysis -- 2.3.3 Lifting Analysis -- 2.3.4 Transportation Analysis -- 2.3.5 Analysis of Miscellaneous Items -- 2.4 Weight Control -- 2.5 Numerical Tools -- 2.6 Design Considerations -- 2.6.1 Design Acceptance Criteria -- 2.7 Design Methods -- 2.8 Plastic Design -- 2.8.1 Shape Factor -- 2.8.2 Depth of Elastic Core -- 2.9 Shape Factors Used in Offshore Topside -- 2.10 Moment-Curvature Relationship -- 2.11 Load Factor
2.12 Stability of the Structural System -- 2.13 Euler's Critical Load -- 2.14 Standard Beam Element, Neglecting Axial Deformation -- 2.14.1 Rotational Coefficients -- 2.15 Stability Functions under Axial Compression -- 2.15.1 Rotation Functions -- 2.15.2 Rotation Functions under Zero Axial Load -- 2.15.3 Rotation Functions under Axial Tensile Load -- 2.15.4 Translation Function under Axial Compressive Load -- 2.16 Lateral Load Functions under Uniformly Distributed Load -- 2.17 Fixed Beam under Tensile Axial Load -- 2.18 Lateral Load Functions for Concentrated Load
2.19 Exercise Problems on Stability Analysis Using MATLABĀ® -- 2.20 Critical Buckling Load -- Chapter 3 Special Design Guidelines -- 3.1 Thin-Walled Sections -- 3.1.1 Torsion in Open, Thin-Walled Section -- 3.2 Buckling -- 3.2.1 Global Buckling Modes -- 3.3 Lateral-Torsional Buckling -- 3.4 Mechanisms behind LTB -- 3.4.1 Torsional Effect -- 3.5 Measurements against LTB -- 3.5.1 Effects of the Point of Application of Load -- 3.5.2 Effects of Lateral Restraint on LTB -- 3.6 Behavior of Real Beam -- 3.6.1 Factors Causing Reduction of Capacity -- 3.7 LTB Design Procedure
Notes Description based upon print version of record
3.7.1 Three-Factor Formula for Mcr
Subject Offshore structures -- Design and construction -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Offshore structures -- Design and construction
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
Author Jain, Arvind Kumar
Shafiq, Nasir
Wahab, M. Mubarak A
ISBN 9781000482140
1000482146