Introduction When it comes to a fast, non-intrusive, complete and meaningful inspection of an offshore pipeline in-line inspection (ILI) has been the method of choice for several decades now. However, not all pipelines, piping or other tubular structures can be inspected with in-line inspection tools (pigs). The method is usually limited to looping flow lines or export pipelines, specifically d...

marine industry requires continued development of new technologies in order to produce oil. an essential requirement in design is to be able to compare experimental data from prototype structures with predicted information from a corresponding analytical finite element model. in this study, structural model updating may be defined as the fit of an existing analytical model in the light of measu...

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The across-shelf structures of the ocean circulation and the associated sea surface height (SSH) variability are examined on the west Florida shelf (WFS) for the 3-yr interval from September 1998 to December 2001. Five sets of characteristic circulation patterns are extracted from 2-day, low-pass-filtered data using the self-organizing map: extreme upwelling and downwelling structures with stro...

Most Codes such as API and BSI recommend Morison’s equation to estimate hydrodynamic forces on offshore structures. Significant differences exist among these Codes due to using different methods of analysis and estimation of force coefficients. In this paper, data from full scale tests have been used to evaluate random waves and uniform current actions on the smooth piles.&#10 Four time an...

In the present research, data extracted from the stress analysis of 46 finite element models, verified using test results obtained from an experimental investigation, were used to study the effect of geometrical parameters on the chord-side stress concentration factors (SCFs) of central and outer braces in uniplanar tubular KT-joints of offshore structures subjected to four different types of i...

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most codes such as api and bsi recommend morison’s equation to estimate hydrodynamic forces on offshore structures. significant differences exist among these codes due to using different methods of analysis and estimation of force coefficients. in this paper, data from full scale tests have been used to evaluate random waves and uniform current actions on the smooth piles. four time and frequen...

Most Codes such as API and BSI recommend Morison’s equation to estimate hydrodynamic forces on offshore structures. Significant differences exist among these Codes due to using different methods of analysis and estimation of force coefficients. In this paper, data from full scale tests have been used to evaluate random waves and uniform current actions on the smooth piles. Four time and ...