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EPSRC Reference: GR/J22122/01
Title: STATS MODEL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS FOR RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF FLOATING & COMPLIANT OFFSHORE SYSTEMS
Principal Investigator: Incecik, Professor A
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Department: Naval Architecture & Marine Eng
Organisation: University of Glasgow
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 December 1993 Ends: 31 March 1996 Value (£): 39,133
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Civil Engineering Materials
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1. To help improve the design criteria for floating and compliant system (to increase safety whilst avoiding excessive expenditure resulting from over specification) by providing an environmental imput to reliability analysis. 2. To produce joint probability distributions for non collinear wind, wave and current for a data rich sea area. 3. To extrapolate these results to other sea areas. (1) A literature review will be undertaken to identify the forms of directional analysis that will be of use. (2) The environmental data requirements will be specified. (3) Literature on the physics of directionality will be reviewed to identify possible relationships between environmental parameters. (4) Data rich areas will be analysed to produce joint frequency distributions, autocorrelations and correlations of the key wind, wave and current parameters and their crucial combinations. (5) More data will be obtained by fitting an appropriate probabilit distribution to the frequency data. The resultant environmental model will be encoded in a PC based program. (6) The environmental model will be used to provide the environmental input for full motion and structures analyses. Analyses that do not consider directionality will be used as a comparison. This will provide a useful test of the practicality of the model and will be a key experiment in determining the importance of directionality in engineering analyses.
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