Extreme jack-up response: Simulation and nonlinear analysis methods

Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 103-108

  Winterstein, S R ^a   Torhaug, R ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b DNV GL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DYNAMIC LOADS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

HERMITE ANALYTICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS METHODS; RANDOM WAVE LOADS;

JACK-UP RIGS;

EID: 0030146138     PISSN: 08927219     EISSN: 1528896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2828817     Document Type: Article

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