...Junhui Lou; Solomon C. Yim; Annette von Jouanne This study evaluated a multi-catenary spread mooring system design of a mobile ocean test berth for wave energy converters (WECs), the Ocean Sentinel (OS) instrumentation buoy, through dynamic simulation, numerical analysis, and comparison...

...Rodrigo Moretti Kochem; Fabrício Nogueira Correa; Breno Pinheiro Jacob This work proposes a taut-leg deep-water mooring configuration with buoys, designed specifically to allow a quick and easy visual identification of the rupture of any mooring line of the system. This addresses one of the main...

... offshore pipelines pipeline technology risers moorings and cable dynamics vortex-induced vibration Long slender cylindrical structures subject to a sustained fluid flow, such as wind loading on on-land structures, or current loading on underwater structures, can be subject to the phenomenon...

...Marina Leivas Simão; Luis Volnei Sudati Sagrilo; Paulo Maurício Videiro; Mauro Costa de Oliveira; Arvid Naess It is known that the mooring system response of floating production units subjected to environmental loads is nonlinear. Even though wave elevations can be assumed as Gaussian processes...

... July 19, 2017; final manuscript received July 1, 2018; published online August 20, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Yi-Hsiang Yu. 19 07 2017 01 07 2018 Fluid-structure interaction Hydrodynamics Ship motions Risers Cable dynamics Moorings When a cylinder is subjected to an incoming...

..., 2018; published online June 28, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Marcelo R. Martins. 14 10 2017 03 05 2018 Floating Ocean space utilization Wave mechanics Ship motions Risers Cable dynamics Moorings Wave effects Moored production systems Proof . Define an error state, ϑ...

... Risers Vortex-induced vibration Moorings Cable dynamics As shallow water fields on the inner continental shelf regions are progressively developed and exploited, the offshore oil and gas industry has been driven to explore for hydrocarbon reserves in increasing depth conditions...

.... Assoc. Editor: Marcelo R. Martins. 16 08 2017 07 05 2018 Computational mechanics Hydrodynamics Risers Ship motions Risers Cable dynamics Moorings Cable dynamics Towed marine seismic streamer cables are used extensively for exploring the oceans for prospecting oil...

... online May 28, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Theodoro Antoun Netto. 22 01 2018 06 05 2018 Risers Moorings Cable dynamics Deep-sea oil-gas exploitation and production present many challenges, one of them being the design of technically feasible and cost effective riser systems [ 1...

... November 22, 2017; final manuscript received April 22, 2018; published online May 21, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Hans Bihs. 22 11 2017 22 04 2018 Dynamics of structures Risers Wave mechanics Ship motions Moorings Cable dynamics Wave effects Steel catenary risers (SCRs) have...

... (in Chinese). [30] ANSYS, Inc. , 2016 , “ ANSYS Mechanical APDL Contact Technology Guide, Release 17.0. ,” ANSYS Inc., Canonsburg, PA. Offshore pipelines Risers Moorings Cable dynamics Unbonded flexible pipes have been widely used as the offshore industry advances into deeper waters...

... wires, (6) exterior anti-wear tape, (7) exterior tensile armor wires, (8) anti-birdcaging tape, and (9) exterior plastic sheath (Fig. 1 ). Offshore pipelines Risers Structural mechanics Moorings Cable dynamics Foundation 11 07 2015 19 01 2018 Contributed by the Ocean...

... Structural safety System integrity assessment Moorings Cable dynamics Risk analysis Fracture reliability Control Pipelines Reliability engineering is not commonly applied to subsea structures design, more specific in the design of flexible risers, as the deterministic approach drives...

... Soares. 29 06 2015 15 12 2017 Collision Hydrodynamics Dynamics Ship motions Risers Cable dynamics Moorings Ground safety The main dimensions of ships have increased dramatically over the last decades and therefore vessels sail more often in more shallow or confined...

.... 30 06 2016 03 11 2017 Geotechnology Risers Soil-pipeline interaction Moorings Cable dynamics Foundation Offshore situations such as installation of dynamically installed anchors, free-falling penetrometer, and submarine landslides often involve rapid undrained soil flow...

... 04 10 2017 Probabilistic models Ship motions Risers Cable dynamics Moorings Forces Motions Vertical bending moment (VBM) is a key parameter in the structural design of ships. However, its estimation in extreme seas is a difficult task because of the stochastic nature of waves...

...Yiting Wang; Xuefeng Wang; Shengwen Xu; Lei Wang Motion responses of moored very large floating structures (VLFSs) in coastal regions are remarkably influenced by shallow water, seabed topography, and mooring system, which were given particular focus in this paper. A three-dimensional (3D...

... operations of the ship. Computational fluid dynamics Hydrodynamics Ocean waves statistics Ship motions Risers Cable dynamics Moorings 25 08 2016 13 10 2017 Contributed by the Ocean, Offshore, and Arctic Engineering Division of ASME for publication in the J OURNAL OF O...

... the understanding of creep behaviors of HMPE ropes and provide a significant reference for the application of HMPE ropes in mooring engineering. 24 04 2017 30 09 2017 Fig. 7 Creep rate curves of HMPE strands at low loading levels Fig. 8 Creep-rupture curves of HMPE strands at high...

.... 16 10 2016 18 08 2017 Computational fluid dynamics Fluid-structure interaction Offshore pipelines Risers Moorings Cable dynamics Offshore oil and gas production is one of the most important activities of the petroleum industries worldwide. One of the principal devices used...