Tension Leg Platform design is a challenging and popular area of research in the offshore oil industry. In order to compete in the International Student Offshore Design Competition (ISODC), a Tension Leg Platform (TLP) was designed. Our TLP design addresses five fundamental areas of technical competency (General Arrangement and Overall Hull/System Design, Weight, Buoyancy and Stability, Global ...

Among compliant platforms, the tension leg platform (TLP) is a hybrid structure. With respect to the horizontal degrees of freedom, it is compliant and behaves like to a floating structure, whereas with respect to the vertical degrees of freedom, it is stiff and resembles a fixed structure and is not allowed to float freely. The greatest potential for reducing costs of a TLP in the short term i...

The present research analyzes the nonlinear fluid–structure interaction (FSI) of free surface waves with large-scale polymer offshore floating photovoltaics (LPOFPV). structure is modeled as a Euler Bernoulli–von Kármán (EBVK) beam coupling water beneath. EBVK theory takes in-plane force into consideration to account for moderately large deflection slopes in LPOFPV. A multi-time-scale perturbat...

Floating breakwaters with a mooring system have been widely applied to protect marine infrastructures (e.g., artificial beach or island, aquaculture farm vessels in harbors) from being destroyed by severe waves. In this paper, an innovative cylindrical dual pontoon-net floating breakwater was developed enhance the wave attenuation capacity. This dual-module constructed as prototype for on-site ...

The orientation and position of hard substrata used to test ecological hypotheses about sessile marine plants and animals have often been based on logistical convenience. Much of our understanding of the ecology of epibiota is based on artificial habitats (particularly the undersides of floating pontoons), despite epibiotic organisms being an important and conspicuous component of natural hard ...

Sediment dynamics and the hydrodynamics of the environment cause the complexity and variability in animal-sediment relationship, both in spatial and temporal. This study is focused on the response of macrobenthic fauna to environmental disturbance caused by fish farming using their trophic structure. Their changes in trophic structure can be used as an indicator of disturbance. Eight control si...

Urban structures in the form of pontoons and pilings represent major coastal habitats for marine organisms and understanding the factors causing abundances of organisms to differ between these and natural habitat has been neglected in the study of coastal ecology. It has been proposed that composition of substrata explain differences previously described between subtidal assemblages of epibiota...