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
7 - Ultimate Limit States
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
Ultimate limit states (ULS) are one of four types of limit states (described in Section 5.1), and represent a condition in which a particular structural member or an entire structure fails to perform its designated function as a result of progressive collapse due to a loss of structural stiffness and strength caused by buckling, plasticity and fracture (Paik 2018, 2020). If ULS are reached on a ship-shaped offshore installation, catastrophic failures may occur, leading to human casualties, structural collapse and environmental damage.
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- Ship-Shaped Offshore InstallationsDesign, Construction, Operation, Healthcare and Decommissioning, pp. 215 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022