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Volume 92 - January 1988

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The use of reliability techniques to improve structural efficiency

  • The reliability concept as an aid to decision making in offshore engineering

  • M. J. Baker
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 July 2016, p. 8

  • Uncertainties exist at practically all stages of the design and construction process because of incomplete knowledge. Extreme environmental forces on offshore structures are uncertain because of the stochastic nature of the underlying physical phenomena. The actual strength and fatigue characteristics of structures can be predicted only approximately at the design stage and these predictions can be refined only partially by compliance tests during and after fabrication, and then only at high cost.

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The use of reliability techniques to improve structural efficiency

  • The use and potential use of reliability engineering for offshore structures

  • G. A. Mowatt, D. J. Loader, C. H. Arbuthnot
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 July 2016, p. 9

  • This paper presents a review of the current status and potential future use of reliability methods in the design, fabrication and operation of offshore oil production platforms.

    An overview of the traditional design process is presented and key areas where reliability methods have contributed to the development of codes of practice are described. Future applications in the design stage include the optimisation of framing configurations and the treatment of uncertainties in basic design parameters.

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