Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use This Book
- 1 Overview of Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations
- 2 Front-End Engineering
- 3 Design Principles, Criteria, and Regulations
- 4 Environmental Phenomena and Application to Design
- 5 Serviceability Limit-State Design
- 6 Ultimate Limit-State Design
- 7 Fatigue Limit-State Design
- 8 Accidental Limit-State Design
- 9 Topsides, Mooring, and Export Facilities Design
- 10 Corrosion Assessment and Management
- 11 Inspection and Maintenance
- 12 Tanker Conversion and Decommissioning
- 13 Risk Assessment and Management
- Appendix 1 Terms and Definitions
- Appendix 2 Scale Definitions of Winds, Waves, and Swells
- Appendix 3 Probability of Sea States at Various Ocean Regions
- Appendix 4 Scaling Laws for Physical Model Testing
- Appendix 5 Wind-Tunnel Test Requirements
- Appendix 6 List of Selected Industry Standards
- Index
Appendix 1 - Terms and Definitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use This Book
- 1 Overview of Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations
- 2 Front-End Engineering
- 3 Design Principles, Criteria, and Regulations
- 4 Environmental Phenomena and Application to Design
- 5 Serviceability Limit-State Design
- 6 Ultimate Limit-State Design
- 7 Fatigue Limit-State Design
- 8 Accidental Limit-State Design
- 9 Topsides, Mooring, and Export Facilities Design
- 10 Corrosion Assessment and Management
- 11 Inspection and Maintenance
- 12 Tanker Conversion and Decommissioning
- 13 Risk Assessment and Management
- Appendix 1 Terms and Definitions
- Appendix 2 Scale Definitions of Winds, Waves, and Swells
- Appendix 3 Probability of Sea States at Various Ocean Regions
- Appendix 4 Scaling Laws for Physical Model Testing
- Appendix 5 Wind-Tunnel Test Requirements
- Appendix 6 List of Selected Industry Standards
- Index
Summary
For the purpose of this book, the following terms and definitions are relevant. The terminologies described here generally follow international standards, regulations, recognized guidelines, and handbooks, for example:
API (American Petroleum Institute: http://www.api.org)
HSE (Health and Safety Executive, UK: http://www.hse.gov.uk)
IACS (International Association of Classification Societies: http://www.iacs.org)
IMO (International Maritime Organization: http://www.imo.org)
ISO (International Organization for Standardization: http://www.iso.org)
USCG (U.S. Coast Guard: http://www.uscg.mil)
Handbook of fire and explosion protection engineering principles for oil, gas, chemical, and related facilities, by D. P. Nolan, Noyes Publications, Westwood, NJ, 1996
Abnormal actions: Actions larger than expected or normal actions, for example, rogue or freak waves.
Accident: A circumstance that gives rise to injury, fatality, environmental damage, property damage, production losses, or loss of facility. According to IMO, an accident is an unintended event involving fatality, injury, vessel loss or damage, other property loss or damage, or environmental damage. An accident scenario consists of a specific sequence of events from an initiating event to an undesired consequence. An accident category is a designation of accidents according to their nature, for example, fire, explosion, collisions, and grounding. Examples include the following:
Contact: striking any fixed or floating object, other than those included under “collision”
Collision: striking or being struck by another vessel, regardless of whether under way, anchored, or moored
Fire or explosion: accidents where fire or explosion is the initial event
Loss of structural integrity: structural failure that can result in the ingress of water and/or loss of strength and/or stability
Flooding: the ingress of water that can result in foundering or sinking of the vessel
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- Ship-Shaped Offshore InstallationsDesign, Building, and Operation, pp. 489 - 502Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007