Abstract: Over the recent years, following the very rapid increase in the construction and installation of offshore structures, there has been a considerable growth of interest in the assessment of the ...

Abstract: A procedure, developed for predicting the elastic-plastic general axisymmetric collapse of stiffened and unstiffened cylinders, is presented. This permits the formulation of reliable lower bounds ...

Abstract: API RP2A‐LRFD (load and resistance factor design) has recently been approved by the American Petroleum Institute for the design of fixed offshore steel platforms. It is an alternative to the more familiar working stress ...

Abstract: This paper considers the application of the limit state philosophy of structural analysis to pipeline design. General aspects of the philosophy are discussed and the approach to the evaluation ...