Offshore Structures
- General introduction and classification of various types of offshore platforms
- Introduction to various types of fixed platforms, review of their characteristics and applications
- Introduction to various types of floating platforms, review of their characteristics and applications
- Introduction to the wind phenomenon
- Calculation of wind force acting on structures
- Introduction to ocean currents
- Calculation of current induced forces on structures
- Introduction to ocean waves and wave data analysis
- Determination of the wave theory appropriate to the environment
- Review of linear wave kinematics
- Calculation of wave induced forces on offshore structures
- General introduction to earthquakes and calculation of earthquake-induced forces on structures
- Introduction to design codes for fixed offshore platforms