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Project Number 52
Date of Summary December 31, 1993
Subject Dynamics and Reliability of Compliant Drilling and Production Platforms
Performing Activity National Institute of Standards and Technology
Principal Investigator Dr. Emil Simiu
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Completed
Description Assess the technology for compliant structures and create a basis for understanding and evaluating their behavior and reliability. The study addressed four major areas:

(1) define criteria for load estimation,

(2) investigate the dynamic response of compliant structures,

(3) investigate the behavior of individual structural components for developing inspection techniques, and

(4) develop procedures for estimating structural reliability.
Progress Completed.
Reports
AA File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (56 pages) Simiu, E., Leigh, S. D., Turbulent Wind Effects on Tension Leg Platform Surge, NBS, Building Science Series 151, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, March 1983.
AB File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (121 pages) State-of-the-Art Report on Guyed Towers Platforms, Report by Brown and Root Development, Inc., NBS GCR 83-443, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, September 1983.
AC File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (143 pages) Young, R. A., Coupled Response of Complaint Offshore Platforms, M. S. Thesis, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, October 6, 1983.
AD File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (168 pages) Leonard, J. W., Dynamic Response of Complaint Structures, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, May 23, 1984.
AE File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (30 pages) Morreale, T. A., Gergely, P., Grigoriu, M., Wind-Tunnel Study of Wind Loading on Offshore Oil Platforms, Final Report 83-7, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, December 15, 1983.
AF File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (42 pages) Morreale, T. A., Gergely, P., Grigoriu, M., Wind-Tunnel Study of Wind Loading on a Complaint Offshore Platform, NBS-GCR-84-465, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, March 1984.
AG File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (4 pages) Simiu, E., Carasso, A., Smith, C. E., Tether Deformation and Tension Leg Platform Surge, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Volume 110, No. 6, June 1984.
AH File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (18 pages) Simiu, E., Smith, C. E., Structural Reliability Fundamentals and Their Application to Offshore Structures, NBSIR 84-2921, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, September 1984.
AI File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (62 pages) Grigoriu, M., Alibe, B., Practical Approximations of Peak Wave Forces, NBS-GCR-84-481, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 1984.
AJ File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (7 pages) Grigoriu, M., Extremes of Wave Forces, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Volume 110, No. 12, December 1984.
AK File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (6 pages) Simiu, E., Carasso, A., Interdependence Between Dynamic Surge Motions of Platform and Tethers for a Deep Water TLP, 4th International Conference on Behavior of Offshore Structures, Delft, The Netherlands, July 1-5, 1985.
AL File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (218 pages) Application of Risk Analysis to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations, Proceedings of an International Workshop, NBS Special Publication 695, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, May 1985.
AM File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (11 pages) Young, R. A., Leonard, J. W., Coupled Response of Compliant Offshore Platforms, Eng. Struc., Vol. 7 (2) pp. 74-84, April 1985.
AN File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (64 pages) Grigoriu, M., Alibe, B., Response of Compliant Offshore Platforms to Waves, NBS-GCR-85-501, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, prepared by Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, September 1985.
AO File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (56 pages) Veletsos, A. S., Prasad, A. M., Hahn, G., Fluid-Structure Interaction Effects for Offshore Structures, NBS-GCR-86-519, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, December 1986.
AP File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (293 pages) Cook, G. R., The Lighthill Corrections to the Morrison Equation, Ph.D. Dissertation submitted to the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1987.
AQ File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (12 pages) Carasso, A. S., Simiu, E., Dynamic Characterization of Structures by Pulse Probing and Delonvolution, 29th Structures Structural Dynamics and Material Conference, Paper No. 88-2230, Williamsburg, Virginia, April 1988.
AR File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (10 pages) Simiu, E., Graham, R. C., Hydrodynamic Forces on Vertical Cylinders and the Lighthill Correction, Ocean Engineering, Pergamon Press, Great Britain, 1989.
AS File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (52 pages) Simiu, E., Cook, G. R., Periodical and Chaotic Motions of a Modified Stoker Column: Experimental and Numerical Results, NIST Building Science Series 168, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, February 1990.
AT File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (40 pages) Frey, M., Simiu, E., Noise-Induced Chaos and Phase Space Flux: A Sample Theoretical Study, NISTR 4791, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, March 1992.
AU File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (6 pages) Simiu, E., Frey, M., Noise Modeling and Reliability or Behavior Prediction for Multi-Stable Hydroelastic Systems, Eleventh International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Calgary, Canada, June 7-11, 1992.
AV File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (22 pages) Simiu, E., Cook, G. R., Empirical Fluid-Elastic Models and Chaotic Galloping: A Case Study, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Volume 154, No. 1 pp. 45-66, 1991.
AW File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (8 pages) Frey, M., Simiu, E., Noise Modeling and Reliability of Behavior Prediction for Multi-Stable Hydroelastic Systems , Physica D, 63 pp. 321-340, 1992.
AX Simiu, E., Frey, M., Noise Modeling and Reliability of Behavior Prediction for Multi-stable Hydroelastic Systems, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Book No. H00743 pp. 39-44, 1992. Report unavailable
AY File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (7 pages) Simiu, E., Frey, M., Spectrum of the Stochastically Forced Duffing-Holmes Oscillator, Physics Letters A, Volume 177, No. 3 pp. 199-202, 1993.Simiu, E., Grigoriu, M., Non-Gaussian Noise Effects on Reliability of Multistable Systems, Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers pp. 65-71, 1993.
AZFile in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (24 pages) Frey, M., Simiu, E., Deterministic and Stochastic Chaos, in `Computational Stochastic Mechanics: Theory, Computational Methodology and Application`, Elsevier Applied Science, London.
BA File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (4 pages) Simiu, E., Frey, M., Transitions to Chaos Induced by Additive and Multiplicative Noise, Proceedings of the 7th Toyota Conference titled: `Towards the Harnessing of Chaos`, Amsterdam, October 31- November 4, 1993.
BB File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . (10 pages) Frey, M., Simiu, E., Noise-Induced Transitions to Chaos, Proceedings of the Advanced Research Workshop titled: `Spatio- temporal Patterns in Nonequilibrium Complex Systems, NATO, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 13-17, 1993.
BC Simiu, E., Nonlinear and Chaotic Dynamics: Application to Deep Water Compliant Platforms, Final Report submitted by National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 15, 1993. Report unavailable
 

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