Abstract: Open-ended tubular columns may buckle globally as Euler columns due to the action of internal fluid pressure even while they are in tension along their entire length. Hydraulic columns, marine ...

Abstract: The method of LargE Admissible Perturbations (LEAP) solves redesign problems of complex structures without trial and error or repetitive finite element analyses. Code RESTRUCT (Redesign of STRUCTures) ...

Abstract: Columns, marine risers, pipelines, hydraulic columns, and legs of tension leg platforms can be modeled for customary Euler buckling analysis by a single model which, in its most general form, ...

Abstract: Complete expressions are derived for the inertia forces and moments acting on a small body in a six-degree-of-freedom motion in a three-dimensional unsteady flow in an unbounded ideal fluid. ...

Abstract: The p erturbation a pproach to r eliability (PAR) is a powerful methodology for reliability analysis and design of large structures. Its main features are: F1) PAR provides the exact global ...

Abstract: The optimal design of marine risers used for drilling and production of oil in offshore operations is studied. The optimization problem is formulated on a two-dimensional model for bending of ...

Abstract: Marine risers are modeled as thin-walled, slender, extensible or inextensible, tubular beams subject to nonlinear three-dimensional hydrodynamic loads of interactive nature, torsion and distributed ...

Abstract: Analytical expressions of the bifurcation boundaries exhibited by turret mooring systems (TMS), and expressions that define the morphogeneses occurring across boundaries are developed. These expressions ...

Abstract: Spread mooring systems (SMS) may experience large-amplitude oscillations in the horizontal plane due to slow-drift loads. In the literature, this phenomenon is attributed to resonance. In this ...