..., from suitability of design to construction to operations and maintenance of offshore wind technology. upstream oil & gas labrador offshore newfoundland renewable energy infrastructure climate change air emission ice load water depth wind energy ice environment fabrication...

...OTC-28867-MS Mooring Design and Operation Practice for Floating Units Subject to Ice Loading Alberto Morandi, GustoMSC formerly with American Global Maritime Inc.; Chi-Tat Thomas Kwan, Kwan Engineering Services; John Shelton, Delmar Systems Inc; Aifeng Yao, contributed while under employment...

..., Finland for evaluating the maximum ice loads acting on the Suizhong 36-1 FPSO and Yoke Mooring System. The FPSO hull, yoke mooring system, and floating ice packs were simulated for the full-scale processes in miniature. The FPSO hull and the yoke mooring jacket structure are reduced linearly...

... the unit in position in ice draft under the ice loads of 1.5-2.0m of unbroken drifting ice. The paper presents the results of significant research on the optimization of JBF Arctic design, the results of the seakeeping calculations, model testing in a seakeeping tank, studies of the ice loads, model...

... chukchi sea floating production system feasibility operation upstream oil & gas offshore pipeline island water depth assessment fpso ice island scenario platform consideration subsea facility ice load beaufort sea subsea system OTC 20698 Arctic Offshore Technology Assessment...

... the ice cover and move ice floes to reduce pressure around the hull, and moving the hull by means of its moorings to avoid contact with passing ice masses. nonlinear offshore technology conference mooring system upstream oil & gas otc 19797 ice load nonlinear froude-krylov force...

... require are sparse and uncertain. Designers need to account for low temperature effects on structures and equipment, and also on operations. In designing the hull the quantification of ice loads is problematic especially in environments dominated by thick multi-year ice and those in which icebergs...

... on collaborative efforts with ABS, particularly for application to small-tonnage vessels. polar class rule hull designer iac polar class rule marine transportation application class rule machinery arrv ice load arrangement displacement requirement intake tank operation offshore technology...

... south along the eastern coast. The controlling ice load features are pressure ridges, with keels extending to depths over 30 meters (2,000-yr design value). The design ice load on the 80 meter-wide, vertical-sided structure is about 385 MN. Design wave loads are generated by late summer and fall storms...

... Abstract In order to investigate the interaction between offshore structure and base ground subjected to seismic and ice loads, a substructure on-line dynamic testing system was developed. A dynamic response analysis by computer and a pseudo-dynamic loading test which obtains the restoring...

... Criteria Terra-Nova 11 ice, geotechnical and wave design criteria 12 were used for this study. The WBB specific data were not available at the time of the study. The use of WBB specific criteria in the future may provide additional optimization and savings. For example, probabilistic ice loads derived...

... coefficients, attributing to structural a significant effect, on the magnitude of ice loads and effective pressures. Similarly, a great deal of empirical knowledge of the variation in intensity of dynamic ice loads with different ship hull forms has been generated from the design and development of ice...

... ABSTRACT A finite element computer program for the calculations of ice loads on offshore structures is developed. A brief description of the program is given and the solution techniques used to model general ice-structure interaction problems are discussed. The program is used to calculate...

... the piles) and gravity base shield function as separate structures. The topsides is supported only on the ring of piles. Ice loads are carried entirely on the gravity base shield. The novel elements of the concept are protected by a number of patents. INTRODUCTOIN Numerous structural solutions have...

... ABSTRACT This paper presents a theoretical method for calculation of dynamic loads and average ice forces on sloping structures and ships in ice of uniform thickness. The method is used for estimation of ice loads on inclined structures, resistance of ice transiting vessels and ice force...

... for these conditions is presented. Information on system performance analysis, design, procedures for predicting ice loads on SPM and FPSU and on model test results is included. INTRODUCTION Field Location The SZ 36-1 oil field is located in Liaodong Bay in the eastern part of the Bohai Gulf (Fig. 1). The field...

... ABSTRACT Indentor shape plays an important role in reducing ice load on Arctic offshore structures. Ice forces on single wedge indentors are investigated for crushing failure mode. The maximum indentor wedge angle, ?, of different diameters at diverse ice attack angles, ?, are obtained. using...

... ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of an investigation on the sensitivity of arctic offshore structure weight and construction cost to global and local ice loads. The study considered water depths of 20m, 50m and 150m in the Beaufort Sea. Initial concept development and constructability...

... bed soil conditions. This paper discusses the method to evaluate ice loads on multi-leg structures based on a series of model tests and finite element analyses. Especially efforts were made to find out the formula to evaluate various ice loads acting on the highly inclined legs. Effect of adfreeze...

... ABSTRACT The interaction of a massive ice-resistant bottom-founded offshore structure with a multiyear pressure ridge embedded in and ad frozen to a multiyear ice floe is considered in the paper from a deterministic point of view. For the sake of calculating global ice loading on structures...