MODEL STUDIES OF STABLE FLOATING PLATFORMS USING THE PDP/8E COMPUTER

The Advanced Ocean Engineering Laboratory (AOEL) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been working on the design and testing of stable floating platforms based upon the FLIP concept. The platforms under study at AOEL have two or more legs, each leg being comparable in size to FLIP, i.e., 300 feet long, 20 feet in diameter full scale. Small models (1/100 scale) are tested in the Scripps wave channel. The heave response was determined for each model, and in some cases the surge, sway, or pitch angle response was also determined.

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  • Special technical report.
• Corporate Authors:

  Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  Advanced Ocean Engineering Laboratory
  La Jolla, CA  United States  92037
• Authors:
  • Bellows, D
• Publication Date: 1973-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 47 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Offshore platforms; Stabilized platforms
• Uncontrolled Terms: Heaving
• Old TRIS Terms: Floating platforms; Heave response
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00071712
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• ISBN: SIO-Ref-73-40
• Report/Paper Numbers: AOEL-53
• Contract Numbers: N00014-69A-0200-6012
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 6 1974 12:00AM