WAVE LOADING ON OFFSHORE STRUCTURES-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Research aimed at helping designers of offshore structures, with special attention to large monolithic structures being developed for North Sea operation, is being carried out in Ship Division, NPL. An account of a first phase of this work covering the development and validation of a diffraction theory computer program and some systematic commutations for various monolithic shapes has already been published. This paper reports recent work including extensive comparisons between theory and experiment and experience in the use of the program both for research and for commercial application to practical design problems.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper from Symposium on Ocean Engineering Nov. 1974. Set of 12 papers (130 pages) $30.00.
• Corporate Authors:

  Royal Institution of Naval Architects, England

  10 Upper Belgrave Street
  London SW1X 8BQ,   England 
• Authors:
  • Hogben, N
  • OSBORNE, J
  • Standing, R G
• Publication Date: 1975

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design; Feasibility analysis; Fluid dynamics; Force; Loads; Offshore structures; Water waves; Waves
• Old TRIS Terms: Fluid loading effects; Wave forces on structures; Wave loads
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00129243
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Royal Institution of Naval Architects, England
• Report/Paper Numbers: Paper No. 3
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 19 1976 12:00AM