A great deal of effort has been directed toward developing reliability based procedures for use in the design of offshore platforms. The emphasis in this study was on the use of design contours and the treatment of uncertainties associated with modeling the environment and variation of structural parameters. A combination of a empirically based environmental model and a numerically based Monte Carlo simulation was used to establish the probabilities of failure conditional on occurrence of particular storms. An example is presented which illustrates the effects of top tension variation in a TLP designed to be deployed in a 750m water depth. A discussion relating the conditional probabilities of failure, the reliability index, and the return periods has been included.
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SNAME 24th American Towing Tank Conference
November 2–3, 1995
College Station, Texas, USA
Behavior of Tendon Models in Random Seas
J. W. van de Lindt;
J. W. van de Lindt
Texas A&M University
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O. R. Rijken
O. R. Rijken
Texas A&M University
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Paper presented at the SNAME 24th American Towing Tank Conference, College Station, Texas, USA, November 1995.
Paper Number:
SNAME-ATTC-1995-020
Published:
November 02 1995
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Niedzwecki , J. M., van de Lindt , J. W., and O. R. Rijken. "Behavior of Tendon Models in Random Seas." Paper presented at the SNAME 24th American Towing Tank Conference, College Station, Texas, USA, November 1995. doi: https://doi.org/10.5957/ATTC-1995-020
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