Book contents
- Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations
- Cambridge Ocean Technology Series
- Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1 Introduction to Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations
- 2 Structural Steel Selection and Construction
- 3 Ocean Environmental Conditions
- 4 Site-Specific Wave-Induced Hull Girder Loads
- 5 Serviceability Limit States
- 6 Fatigue Limit States
- 7 Ultimate Limit States
- 8 Accidental Limit States
- 9 Mooring System Engineering
- 10 Sloshing Impact Engineering
- 11 Seismic Impact Engineering
- 12 Aircraft Impact Engineering
- 13 Quantitative Risk Assessment and Management
- 14 Life-Cycle Corrosion Assessment and Management
- 15 Lifetime Healthcare and Safe Decommissioning
- Book part
- Index
- References
11 - Seismic Impact Engineering
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2022
- Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations
- Cambridge Ocean Technology Series
- Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1 Introduction to Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations
- 2 Structural Steel Selection and Construction
- 3 Ocean Environmental Conditions
- 4 Site-Specific Wave-Induced Hull Girder Loads
- 5 Serviceability Limit States
- 6 Fatigue Limit States
- 7 Ultimate Limit States
- 8 Accidental Limit States
- 9 Mooring System Engineering
- 10 Sloshing Impact Engineering
- 11 Seismic Impact Engineering
- 12 Aircraft Impact Engineering
- 13 Quantitative Risk Assessment and Management
- 14 Life-Cycle Corrosion Assessment and Management
- 15 Lifetime Healthcare and Safe Decommissioning
- Book part
- Index
- References
Summary
Ship-shaped offshore installations that are operated in shallow water (e.g., at depths of 10 m deep or less) are used for various purposes, such as oil terminals, floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs), power plants and bunkering. These usually remain afloat in operation, with a gap between the seabed and the bottom of the hull. In other situations, such as those for ship-shaped offshore power plant facilities containing nuclear reactors, hull bottoms are touched down onto the seabed by using heavy ballasting materials, such as concrete or sand. However, offshore installations are not fixed to the seabed and move under the effects of environmental actions, but may be moored.
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- Ship-Shaped Offshore InstallationsDesign, Construction, Operation, Healthcare and Decommissioning, pp. 327 - 346Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022