Abstract: Abstract. The steel lazy-wave riser (SLWR) is a good alternative for deepwater oil and gas exploitation, as its buoyancy section alleviates the top tension and TDP (touchdown point) movements. Although studies exist on ...

Abstract: Marine drilling riser is subject to complicated environmental loads which include top motions due to mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU), wave loads, and current loads. Cyclic dynamic loads will cause severe fatigue ...