Reliability assessment of tension leg platform tethers under nonlinearly coupled loading

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-60

  Sengupta, Bhaskar ^a   Ahmad, Suhail ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; HURRICANE EFFECTS; LOADS (FORCES); MONTE CARLO METHODS; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

NONLINEARLY COUPLED LOADING; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT; TENSION LEG PLATFORM TETHERS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0030189289     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0951-8320(96)00016-6     Document Type: Article

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