EVALUATION OF WEAR IN COMPLIANT TOWER PILE SYSTEMS

One of the technical issues that must be addressed for compliant towers is the wear that may occur due to the relative motion between the piles and pile guides. This paper presents a method for adapting accepted analytical procedures for wear of mechanical systems and applying them to compliant towers and other offshore structures. This method is used for the Compliant Concrete Tower in North Sea fatigue conditions to show that wear is expected to occur, but can be limited by proper material selection and design and construction detailing.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • "OTC '89", 21st Annual Offshore Technology Conference held Houston May 1-4 1989, Vol. 1, p.311 [10 pp., 5 ref., 1 tab., 8 fig.]
• Authors:
  • Johnson, G S
  • Hasle, A E
  • Figgers, R F
• Conference:
  • "OTC '89", 21st Annual Offshore Technology Conference
  • Location: Houston Texas, United States
  • Date: 1989-5-1 to 1989-5-4
• Publication Date: 1989

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Wear
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00695644
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM