STABILIZED FLOATING PLATFORMS

A floating platform is disclosed for supporting nuclear reactors and the like at selected offshore sites. The platform is provided with a stabilizer mechanism which significantly reduces the effects of wave action upon the platform and which comprises a pair of relatively small floats attached by rigid booms to the platform at locations spaced therefrom for reducing wave pitch, acceleration, and the resonance period of the wave. (ERA citation 02:030657)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This Government-owned invention available for U.S. licensing and, possibly, for foreign licensing. Copy of patent available Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D.C. 20231 $0.50.
• Corporate Authors:

  Energy Research and Development Administration

  20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Thomas, D G
• Publication Date: 1975-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 6 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Damping (Engineering); Force; Nuclear power plants; Offshore drilling platforms; Offshore oil industry; Offshore platforms; Offshore power plants; Pitch (Dynamics); Rolling; Ship motion; Soil stabilization; Stabilized platforms; Waves
• Uncontrolled Terms: Attenuation; Stabilization; Wave forces
• Old TRIS Terms: Roll damping
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Geotechnology; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00166247
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: PAT-APPL-571 444 Patent
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM